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Jack Grace Band
The Nelson Odeon
Nelson, NY
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Jack Grace Band
Jack Grace is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist hailing from Brooklyn, NY. Simple enough, unless you happen to happen to work in the music business. The entertainment world loves a label: character actor, avant garde painter, fill-in-the-blank musician. Jack writes for himself and plays for others. Simple.

He's been most recently known as a country musician, but that designation belies the myriad of influences that shape his sound. It began with an obsession with the Beatles, and as a teenager, he wore out his Zeppelin records like so many of us. Later, when he discovered Neil Young, he wore those discs out too. His first band, Steak, had a Zappa-inspired sound, he was told, when he was barely aware of the iconic figure who couldn't be bothered to stick to a single formula. Fitting. Later, after discovering he had a baritone eerily reminiscent of the great Johnny Cash, he added some steel to the mix and suddenly everyone was calling him country.

Five previous releases and tracks featured in the films "Super Troopers" and "Beer Fest" have garnered both a growing following and a steady hum of praise. His debut, Introducing the Songs of Jack Grace, was an acoustic affair, which many mistook as country. "Fine, call it country if you want," he said at the time. "What you label it doesn't mean all that much to me." What mattered? There were new rules to be broken. His most recent release, Drinking Songs for Lovers, had some fine country numbers, but he added mariachi horns to give them a Latin flavor, inspired by his yearly pilgrimage to Tulum, Mexico, where he likes to write songs on the beach. His previous outing was a country concept album called The Martini Cowboy, featuring in a bossa nova number with lap steel front and center.

It worked.

His band rocks too hard to be country. It always has. And the band members come from all walks of life: jazz, rock, country and, well, other. Bassist, vocalist, and wife Daria (Melomane, Pre-war Ponies) keeps the rhythm going with the rotating drummers, Russ Meissner, Jason "J-Bird" Bowman and Bruce Martin (Tom Tom Club).

"If you don't laugh and cry at the same you better check your pulse. You might be disgracefully dead."  James Reaney, London Free Press (London, ON)

Location

The Nelson Odeon (View)
4035 Nelson Rd.
Nelson, NY 13035
United States

Categories

Arts > Performance

Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: Sunken Meadows Ltd.
On BPT Since: Nov 19, 2013
 
The Nelson Odeon


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