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Jack Wilson

About Me


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 enoughand nothing is too much to bear,Where you've been is good and goneall 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

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/28/2005
Band Members:
The Wife Stealers :
Rev. Jeremy Summer, Jason Williams, Shenandoah Davis, Sean Bendickson, Adam Borkowski
New blood and extended family include
Ava Cole, Gregor Lothian, Joe Rayhbuck, Chris Zasche
BOOKING - email John Stuart at [email protected]
Influences: The Band, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson
Sounds Like:
Full Length Record (April 2008)...AMERICA'S NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT.
Click to purchase off CDBaby.com
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

"Pop's Song" : Lyrics

"Pop's Song"the waters lie in silent waitall black and blue and broodingI found some cracked and trangled twineto bind my person loosly the floor is churning, never levelI'm thinking of our landI'll p...
Posted by on Sat, 02 May 2009 03:55:00 GMT

Black Hills Fiction: Lyrics

"black hills fiction"part i - dakota tribesmanwe all ate good last summer and fallbut in winter we had nothing at allprairie waves and buffalo out in the fields'til the Yankees started mining those hi...
Posted by on Sat, 02 May 2009 03:50:00 GMT

Bike Trip: Check! To do: Brooklyn, Kerrville, Seattle homecoming

Hey y'allIt's been a while, but I just wanted to check in. The bike trip is finished...if you haven't been keeping up on Seattle Sound's website, you should check it out here. As for the rest of the t...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:04:00 GMT

The Sunset Tavern residency & beyond...(schoolbuses, bikes, and southern flavor)

The Sunset Tavern residency & beyond...(schoolbuses, bikes, and southern flavor)Hey folks,As many of you know, we've started a residency at the Sunset Tavern. What is a residency you ask? Well in most...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:59:00 GMT

what’s your folk music radio station?

Hey yall,I'm planning on taking a little cruise back down through the Southwest to Austin and on up to NYC. I'd really like to play a bunch of radio stations between Seattle and Austin, then ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:00 GMT

Seattle Sound Review

Hey there folks...Just in case you haven't heard yet, we had an album review published in this month's Seattle Sound Magazine. (3 of 4 stars!)  It can found on their website...www.seattlesoundmag...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:49:00 GMT

love from SOUND seattle...Life’s a Movie is ’Song of the Day’

http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/06/lifes-a-movie-by-jack -wilson-and-the-wife-stealers/
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:12:00 GMT

CD available @ SONIC BOOM and online...(UPDATE-record on iTunes)

**update** record now available on iTunes.Hey folks,it's been a long two months but we've finally shit out this brain child of a record and I have to say that I'm really pleased with what we produced....
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:41:00 GMT

Shenandoah is ’Band of the Week’ in THE STRANGER!

Got to give respects to the lady yall...Shenandoah Davis breaks into the Stranger!http://www. thestranger. com/seattle/Content?oid=552548&msLove,j
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:24:00 GMT

Album is finished.

After the craziest whirlwind of recording, mixing, and mastering, on the smallest timetable we all thought possible, the Wife Stealers’ record "America’s National Entertainment" is finito,...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:20:00 GMT