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Born and raised in the Austin music tradition, Jack has earned accolades in his hometown scene. Before moving to the great Northwest in October of 2006, Jack was invited to open for for the Neville Brothers Band.
Since leaving the South, Wilson has shared stages with Sera Cahoone (Sub-Pop), The Moondoggies (hardly art), Damien Jurado (Secretly Canadian), Elliott Brood, The Maldives (Mt. Fuji) , and The Weary Boys, helping to form Seattle's burgeoning folk rock scene.
In the words of the late, great Townes Van Zandt, "Everything is not enough
and nothing is too much to bear,
Where you've been is good and gone
all you keep is the getting there."
PRESS QUOTES :
"I went into the Jack Wilson & Co. set on Monday night with expectations defined and met: heartbreak and fistfights, simultaneous ... circa seeing them open for Elliott Brood last month at the Tractor. They're firmly lodged for me somewhere between indie rock and Americana, the Space Needle and a dusty front porch somewhere in the midwest. You know... Wurlitzers and well-worn guitars. It was the last night of their October residency at the Sunset, and they brought it. Brought. It."
-Three Imaginary Girls, October 2008
"The sound of true Americana"
-SeattleSubSonic.com, September 2008
"On a winter night like any given winter night- mid-week, rain and unseasonably warm temperatures- the Tractor Tavern is hosting another pack of roots bands. For four hours, the hipsters and suburbanites rub shoulders and beers bonding over music. Molly Rose with her sweet voice and poetic imagery, starts the night, followed by Jack Wilson & the Wife Stealers, whose songs are part Dylan, part Hank Williams Sr. Each band employs acoustic guitars over electrics, rhythmic strums and flatpicking dynamics instead of heavy drumming and hollering. Heads bob and shake to songs about rural scenery, the sonic swell of a good solid fiddle solo, and two voices in harmony. It's all starting to look like what could be called the New Seattle Sound."
-Kim Ruehl, SOUND Magazine, March 2008
"jack wilson carries the torch that Townes Van Zandt left burning..."
-Brian Barr, Seattle Weekly, December 2007
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