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“On the road Again,” eight-year-old Jeremy McComb had no idea what he was singing when his dad, Bob McComb, pulled him on stage for the first time nor could he have known that a classic Willie Nelson song would prove to be so prophetic as his life played out over the next 18 years.
At a rather young age Jeremy was already aware of the imagery of songs and the power of lyrics in terms of the emotions they’re capable of evoking not only in listeners, but also the truth they oftentimes bare for the songwriter.
“Even as a teenager I was more about what was this guy feeling when he wrote this,” Jeremy explains. “That’s what would hit me.” So with the legendary Kris Kristofferson, Jim Croce and The Marshall Tucker band as his benchmarks he quickly became enthralled in his writing and likeminded story tellers such as Chris Knight, Jack Ingram and Todd Snider.
Jeremy grew up along the Eastern Washington/North Idaho border, It’s a rather picturesque blue-collar town of barely 17,000 it remains a sleepy little place where there still isn’t a whole hell of a lot to do. “People up there say it’s a great place to retire,” admits Jeremy, “It’s small, real small.”
Jeremy’s father saw to it that while he played six nights a week for a living that he brought his son into the music scene where Jeremy spent his nights sleeping behind his Father’s Guitar amp. So, needless to say, it wasn’t much of surprise to anyone in the Inland Northwest that by the time Jeremy was eight years old he was spending more time in the honky-tonks then in the classroom with kids his own age.
“I don’t know if I realized it at the time,” Jeremy recalls, “but I always knew exactly what I wanted to do. I never really wanted to be anything else.”
By the time Jeremy was seventeen he was playing with Regional touring acts, At Twenty-one he fronted an extremely popular Honky-tonk band “Trace County” and Worked as a music director and afternoon DJ for radio station KIX 96 in Spokane Washington, which would lead him to a not-so-chance encounter With Comedian Larry the Cable guy that led to a Tour manager job in 2004 at the age of twenty-three.
“It’s very, very backdoor,” that’s the simple explanation Jeremy has for his current situation. “If it wasn’t for Larry then I wouldn’t have a career. I’d still be playing with my big band in a little pond trying to find my way.” While Touring with Larry, Jeremy’s music made big impressions with J.P. Williams (CEO Parallel Entertainment/Shaler Global a management/Publishing firm responsible for Jeff Foxworthy, Larry, Bill Engvall and many others).
Before he knew it Jeremy was on his way to Spartanburg, South Carolina to record what would become his Parallel Records Debut. The record is produced alongside Grammy winning, “Marshall Tucker” band Founder Paul T. Riddle.
All in all, His debut album is best described as a series of three and four-minute stories that conjure up images, mini movies if you will, and first and foremost as a songwriter Jeremy is most concerned with storytelling. And to say the least, he undoubtedly has a fascinating story to share.
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