Bill Jackson - Guitar/Vocals
Peter Fidler - Dobro/Lap Steel/Mandolin/Guitar
Ruth Hazleton - Clawhammer Banjo/Guitar/Vocals
Check out this FRESH video of Bill Jackson and the Acoustic Orchestra at their first U.S. show in Los Angeles, CA on Sept. 4, 2008:
Contact: Label/Distribution: Sound Vault Records - http://www.soundvault.com.au All Inquiries: Bill Jackson - billjacksonmusic@yahoo.com.au U.S. Management/Bookings: Mary Sack Management - musicsack@comcast.net
Influences
Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker, Guy Clark, The Rolling Stones, Townes Van Zandt and other "usual" suspects.
The First 45" or 33" I Bought: THE EASYBEATS- "Sorry"
The First Concert I Ever Attended: THE ROLLING STONES at Kooyong in Melbourne
Necessary Desert Island Disc: "Highway 61 Revisited" by BOB DYLAN
Currently LIstening To: KACEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON - "Rattlin' Bones"
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys: TOWNES VAN ZANDT / BOB DYLAN / GUY CLARK
Recent Performances include: US Tour Sept 2008 (LA, Austin & Nashville)
Port Fairy Festival - Victoria, AUSTRALIA (2008) National Folk Fest - Canberra, , AUSTRALIA (2008) Tamworth Country Music Festival - NSW, AUSTRALIA (2008) Cygnet Festival - Tasmania, AUSTRALIA (2008) Mossvale Festival - Victoria, AUSTRALIA (2007) Meeniyan Hall - Victoria, AUSTRALIA (2007)
Bill Jackson's "STEEL + BONE" WON the RADIO PRESENTERS ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2008 from FOLK ALLIANCE AUSTRALIA! Click the official letter image above to read more.
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ABOUT BILL JACKSON:
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Bill Jackson is “Australia’s Lyle Lovett,” said music promoter Andrew Pattison at the 2008 National Folk Festival in Canberra, Australia. Jackson has also been described as “a storyteller-social commentator who writes about common and shared experiences from the anthemic ‘Bring ‘Em on Home’ to the gritty ‘You Evil Bitch Morphine’ to the autobiographical ‘Long Way from Water’,” on his forthcoming Soundvault Records album Steel + Bone to be released in June 2008.
Based in Melbourne, Australia, alt.Country/Roots singer-songwriter Bill Jackson has been crafting his vivid stories from the fringes of Melbourne’s music scene and beyond in various recording & touring configurations for more than twenty years.
Having lived in the States for a short while in the early stages of his career, Jackson gained a lot of professional experience and hard knocks in Nashville, TN and Austin, TX before moving on to experience a life in Andalucia and London. Eventually, he returned to his origins in Australia.
An original member of the Melbourne collective Urban Nomads from 1992 through 2002 on the Double Diamond label, Jackson co-wrote and recorded four albums with the group, which also featured collaborative work with Vikki Simpson (The Waifs), Sharin Anderson (Lola’s Delight) and George Butrumlis (Zydeco Jump).
Jackson enjoyed commercial success with composer Mark McSherry and artist David Bridie in the late 90s while producing/writing an historical double album - Every Heart Beats True - of interviews and original songs for The Melbourne Football Club, which sold in excess of 5,000 copies in Australia through EMI Records. In 2003, Jackson tapped McSherry to record The Hurting Sessions.
Jackson continued to develop his new sound with producer Marcel Yammouni (Vanessa Amorosi Band) and released the acclaimed Diggin’ the Roots album in late 2006 with independent Melbourne label/distributor Soundvault Records. The album is full of rich self-revealing stories with riffs that stick, and was awarded brilliant reviews and extensive radio airplay both in Australia and overseas. That success brought Jackson invitations to play the legendary Meeniyan Hall with The Backsliders, and the seminal Mossvale Festival with Eric Bibb.
In 2007, Jackson grew his live presentation to include The Acoustic Orchestra – his trio, featuring Peter Fidler on Dobro/Lap Steel/Mandolin/Guitar and Ruth Hazleton on Clawhammer Banjo/Guitar/Vocals. He ventured back in to the studio with producer-guru Marcel Yammouni to record his third solo album, Steel + Bone. The new recording prominently features Fidler & Hazleton, and reveals Jackson’s return to his Country-fringe roots with spare arrangements, darkly-drawn images and lyrics that cut through the many thematic layers of love, war and passion for life.
Blitzing the 2008 Australia festival season with performances at the prestigious Port Fairy Folk Festival (2008), Tamworth Country Music Festival (2008) and National Folk Festival in Canberra (2008), Jackson continues to tour regionally and officially released his new Steel + Bone CD in Australia in mid-2008.
Jackson was invited to showcase at the Roots Music Association Radio and Music Conference (originally scheduled for June 2008 in San Antonio, TX), which sparked a mini-U.S. tour with performances, TV appearances, and co-writing sessions in Nashville, TN (during the Americana Music Association Festival); Austin, TX; and Los Angeles, CA.
The NEW album - STEEL + BONE - was launched in Melbourne in June 2008!
Hi Bill, thanks for the friend request. Loved your style - I'm trying to learn the Banjo at the moment but with not much luck. Everyone else seems to be able to just pick it up and make it sound right.
Anyway,
if you're ever up Braidwood/Canberra/Bateman's Bay way, pop in for a jam!
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Thanks Bill. Good to be among your Space friends and I hope to catch up with you at a gig sometime. I've been playing your Steel n Bones cd over the weekend while working on the home renovations. Ooroo Trev. (tj:)
Dropping in to say hello Bill it was great to meet up with you and Ruth, I had a goodtime down there,hope to catch up again somwhere down the road, till then best wishes to you both.
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