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Jack Common's Anthem
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Member Since	3/2/2007
Band Website	www.jezlowe.com
Band Members	JEZ LOWE - Vocals, guitar, cittern PHIL BEER - Slide guitar, guitar, violin, dobro, vocals KATE BRAMLEY - Violin, vocals DAVID DE LA HAYE - Bass, vocals JENNA - Vocals STEVE KNIGHTLEY - Guitar, cuattro, vocals ANDY MAY - Piano, tin whistle, vocals DAVE McKEOWAN - Clarinet
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Record Label	Tantobie Records
Type of Label	Indie

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About Jack Common's Anthem

JEZ LOWE – JACK COMMON’S ANTHEM Tantobie Records TRCD 09 The North East meets the South West, as acclaimed County Durham songwriter Jez Lowe calls on Devon’s top folk duo Show of Hands to assist him with his 14th collection of original songs, and his first solo album since 1988. Producer Steve Knightley steers Jez through eleven new songs, including three from Jez’s contributions to last year’s acclaimed BBC series The Radio Ballads, with assistance from The Bad Pennies (Kate Bramley on violin and vocals, Andy May on piano and tin whistle and David de la Haye on bass guitar) plus recording engineer Phil Beer on slide guitar and violin, Jenna on vocals, and Dave McKeown on clarinet. Jez’s Radio Ballads role as wordsmith and musician, interpreting the lives and attitudes of the working men and women of Northern Britain, is further explored in this set of songs, harking back to his own family roots in Ireland and in the coal-mining community of East Durham. The cover photographs show Jez back in the streets where he grew up, recognisable to many of us from the hit movie “Billy Elliott”, which was filmed in this very location, and the story of which mirrors closely the overall concept of this album – the conflict between the artist and his working class beginnings, whether applied to Billy Elliott, to Jez Lowe or to Jack Common, the hero of this collection of songs. Jack Common was a writer and novelist from Newcastle Upon Tyne, who’s most celebrated work “Kiddar’s Luck” portrays the adventures of a boy growing up in North East England in the early 20th Century. Jack Common himself went on to work and write in London, forming a strong bond, artistically and personally, with the writer George Orwell, but never gaining the latter’s fame or success. He ended his life in obscurity in the late 1960’s but enjoys a cult following among many political and social commentators to this day. In the two songs that “bookend” this album, Jez guides the character known as Jack Common back to his roots and observes the changes that perhaps he would observe as North East England, and the whole world moves into a new century.

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CHRIS EDMONDSON	Jun 1 2009 6:07 AM Many thanks for the common connection JCA. Life here in the very last geographic bastion of South West Australia is no doubt only a few globe-lines short of a polar opposite to your life in the North East...... Ah...but when the funds don't afford me a physical visit, a spare half-hour affords me a visit via a good listen... Safe travels to you all. Cheers & regards, Chris.E.
BxDxF - SEEKING LABEL	Nov 25 2008 9:19 PM THX for the add! Myspace Release: 01.01. 09!
DUBLIN ROCK Online Now!	Jun 3 2008 6:11 PM Love your olde english folk music Jack. Welcome aboard
Songstuff	May 1 2008 8:38 PM Hi Jez. Thanks for the add. Listening to your stuff is a real pleasure! I'm enjoying it immensely.
CFest2008	Nov 13 2007 12:20 PM Thanks for the add Jack. Have you checked out Ray Jackson's new band The Gathering who are playing Northumbria University on November 24th with special guest Bill Mitchell? It's also a great opportunity to raise money for and awareness of Cystic Fibrosis! Please forward to anyone who may be interested, Cheers, Chris.
Albion Heart	May 23 2007 8:26 PM Hello there Jez, Lovely to read about your new CD and hear some of your brilliant songs from it too. We really enjoyed the ones you did for the new Radio Ballads last year. A very warm 'Welcome Aboard' and it's a real pleasure to have you on our page. Sam & Lizzie

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