Jack Hardy

 Any plans for a JH night here in Ireland on the 11/12 March?

 Translation: we think of you, Jack, in these first days of Spring ...

 Táthar ag cuimhneamh ort, a Jack, laethanta seo thús an earraigh ... 

Hi Jack, so sad to hear of your passing away. You have been a great source of inspiration to me and an example as a songwriter ever since I heard your songs for the first time.
Unfortunately I have never had the chance to see and hear you live in concert. You will live on in your songs.
Jens from Munich

Rest in peace, Jack. If I may I'd like to share a few thoughts about Jack, thoughts which are probably familiar to many who knew him. I met Jack when I lived in NYC in the early 1990s, and volunteered at Fast Folk Musical Magazine. I also attended a few of the songwriting circles that Jack hosted at his apartment. I'd always secretly hoped that Jack would tap one of my songs as worthy of inclusion in the magazine, and whenever I had one that I deemed "serious" enough or clever enough I would think: "This is the one that will do it." But in the end the one that got his attention was one I didn't think much of at first, called "Simple Song." (And it was.) Jack actually suggested to me that I make the third verse more of a bridge music-wise, to break up the monotony of the tune. And I still remember traveling out to a studio in Rockaway to record it, with Jack graciously joining in for the backing vocals. We'd sent rough demos to the musicians who would be joining in, as, in the "Fast Folk" tradition, several songs were to be recorded in one mammoth session. It was the first time I'd ever been in a recording studio, and as I paced around in an outer room and the engineer moved microphones into place, the musicians ran through some tunes. "What is that tune?" I thought as my ear caught on to what they were playing. "I'm sure I've heard that one before." Soon enough I realized that they were playing my song! When my turn came I stepped into the studio with my guitar, we all agreed on how we were going to start and finish the tune, and then the engineer called for us to do a "run through." I started strumming and went through the whole tune. And when he finished it was Jack who said, "Well, it's not going to get any better than that." And that's the only take we did. He was probably right, too. After all, if they'd told me that I was doing a "serious" take, I would have most certainly gotten nervous and screwed it up! I last saw Jack a few years ago, when I had the pleasure of hosting him as my overnight guest as he was passing through town. We enjoyed Vietnamese food, a few beers, and spirited conversation before he, in the true folk tradition, "crashed" on my couch for the night, and then headed on down the road to his next gig. Some time later I penned a song called "Downhill," and I remember thinking, just as I was working my way through the last few twists and turns of the tune and the lyric: "Now this is a song I wouldn't mind singing at Jack's place." For me, and for quite a few other songwriters, I would suspect, that is the standard we aspired to.

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