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About Me

Snakebeard Jackson is...your old shoes and worn out hat, your last cigarette and life on the tracks, your hometown, your heros, your happy regrets, your mother, your brother, and still drinkin’ uncle, his empty bottles, your empty bottles, your bottom’s up and your lack of love, giving you hope, loaning you smokes, sharing a bed and stealing the sheets, stealing your food and cleaning the plates, a lot of the truth, most of your lies, keeping the salt from all of your eyes, growing up, being sold, all of the stories you tell when you’re old, the trainwreck the shipwreck and all of the smoke, all of the thoughts you thought were your own.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/11/2005
Band Website: http://www.snakebeardjackson.com
Band Members: Joey Fokken -Guitar, Vocals---Sean McFarland -Guitar, Vocals---Travis Jamison -Stand Up Bass---Matt McFarland -Drums, Percussion---Josh Rieck -Mandolin, Vocals---Jesse Wilkens -Washboard, Percussion---Charles Anderson -Mandolin on "The Burl" and "Snakebeard EP"
Influences: The Stones, Tom Waits, Morphine, Hank Williams, Hank III, Johnny Cash, Social Distortion, The Band, Bob Dylan, Bill Monroe, Guy Davis, John Hammond, The Beatles, Chuck E. Weiss, John Hartford, Del McCoury
Sounds Like: Thank you Sioux Falls for the great support!!! Pics from our Sioux Falls CD Release show at the VFW, 1.30.09
Record Label: we are looking...

My Blog

Snakebeard Studio Jam 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtjSIXf6hNA
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:31:00 GMT

HALLOWEEN @ SF VFW

The best party on Halloween night will be at the Sioux Falls VFW on South Minnesota Avenue. We are stoked to be on the bill with Solution, Burlap the Wolf King and the Smoke & Mirrors Band, we all...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Last call

Performances are over. Last call. House lights on, stage lights off. The PA is packed and waiting for the 27 hour drive home just like the rest of us. Somehow I am in the woods...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:39:00 GMT

Oregon, Mountains, Kush

Ahhhhh, day 9. After over a week on tour I'm finally washing cloths! There is kind of a smell that accrues over the course of a week of playing music in the same couple shirts. Especially when you wea...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:12:00 GMT

Camping on the Columbia

In comparison to Jesse's poetic entries, I have little to report, and not nearly in his sense of prose. The bulk of our Sunday consisted of driving. Nine hours, give or take. The conversations of the ...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:11:00 GMT

Missoula

Missoula is a great town. A beautiful river, incredible mountains, great restaurants, and good people. Matt, Josh, and I were the first ones to get there, the rest of the guys stayed up no...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:08:00 GMT

Bozeman to Missoula

We left Spearfish with weary heads and wagon trained across the arid sagebrush country of Wyoming, entering Montana from the south. An ominous storm loomed over the city of Bozeman as we approached. F...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:24:00 GMT

Spearfish

This town seems to bring out the best in us. We've played what most of us agree are some of our best shows in this town. Is it the stage? Does playing on an actual back porch loosen ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:24:00 GMT

Tour out West and other dates announced!

Check out the just announced dates on our tour out the grand Pacific! We also have many new local SoDak dates added. Keep checking our MySpace and our website (www.snakebeardjackson.com) f...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:19:00 GMT

Saturday in the Park and Newton Hills Hoedown!!!

Snakebeard Jackson is proud to open up Saturday in the Park festival in Sioux City at noon on Saturday, July 5th. This is a great midwest music tradition and we invite you all down I-29 to join ...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:04:00 GMT