Heavy Feather (formerly Jackpot City)

About Me

Heavy Feather formerly Jackpot City combines crunchy chainsaw guitar rock with lush vocal harmonies and diverse instrumentation creating a unique sound. Before forming, the members of Heavy Feather already had impressive musical resumes. Mamie Fike played with the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies and Asa Nisa Masa, which were both produced by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe. Kathy Kirbo is formerly of Greenhouse and Purr, which was produced by R.E.M.'s Mike Mills. Kelly Noonan played with Wet and Billy James (also produced by Mike Mills) and Ian Werden also plays with Dodd Ferrell and High Caliber. Shortly after forming, the band's catchy array of songs was noticed by Widespread Panic bassist, Dave Schools, who went on to produce their first demo.Their first full length record, out Spring of 2009, produced by the band and Ben Mize (formerly of the Counting Crows), Dave Schools of Widespread Panic and engineered by Ben Holst, Kyle Spence of Tom Collins and Harvey Milk, and Andy Baker. With lots of Athens friends sitting in such as Dave Barbe (Sugar), John Neff (Drive By Truckers), etc. with Dave Schools and Ben Mize playing on some tracks.Look for songs by Heavy Feather featured in the soon-to-be-released movies, "Say Yes Quickly" by Haxan Films and "Shutter" by Southlan Films.What they're saying about Heavy Feather :Jackpot City featured on OnlineAthens.com: Give me shelter benefit showAthena Magazine article featuring Kathy Kirbo: Woman Who Rocks"Super-melodic, hard rockin' pop music. Big Star meets the Pretenders meets the Kinks!" -Ballard Lesemann, Flagpole Magazine"These eclectic femmes put together an impressive sound with nice harmonies and killer guitar riffs...While they rule the local rock roost, their songs stretch from an incredible number of genres and times."-Richard Stenger, CNN Interactive"Solid rocking music from four experienced musicians." -Jeff W. Walker, MTV Online"Jackpot City is a shiny section of Athens, GA. Their music takes you tumbling down a winding road to get to the gold."- T. Anderson, Performer Magazine"That's the real mojo working for this band; all three frontwomen can sing and harmonize, so the vocal blending is as cativating as the rock and roll behind it."-Aaron Parrett, Flagpole Magazine

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Member Since: 12/7/2005
Band Members: Kelly Noonan, Mamie Fike, Kathy Kirbo, Ian Werden, Bryan Howard, Ben Mize sometimes
Influences: Check out the trailer for Southlan Films latest movie, "Shutter" featuring Jackpot City's song, "Stranger". The soundtrack is being put together by Ben Friedman (Cigar Store Indians). Thanks Ben!SHUDDER Music Video / Teaser VERSION 2

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Record Label: Fundamental
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Photos from Georgia Theatre with Sonny Ortiz sitting in

Here's a few photos from last Friday's show at the Georgia Theatre.Heavy Feather w/ Dan Orchik on drums and Sonny Ortiz from Widespread Panic sitting in for the set.i
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 21:50:00 GMT

Come out to Bloodkin & Friends- a benefit for True Love Canine Rescue

http://www.widespreadpanic.com/news_story.php?id=477Bloodkin and Friends a Benefit For True Love Canine Rescue featuring: Heavy Feather, Todd Nance (Widespread Panic), Sunny Ortiz, (Widespread Panic...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 12:15:00 GMT

New Live Photos from REM CD Release Party & Press

We just posted some new JPC/Heavy Feather photos from the REM CD Release party ( Perfect Circle) at the 40 Watt we played in celebration of the 25 Anniversary of Murmur. Go to the link belo...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:31:00 GMT

Oops! Deleted all our comments for the last 6 months.

Oops! Take no offense if we deleted your comment. Didn't mean it! Really.
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:49:00 GMT

JPC this Friday at the Melting Point w/ MGB

Catch JPC this Friday July 25th at the Melting Point with our pals the Michael Guthrie Band! Just back from their UK tour. Show starts early!!!!!!!! Doors at 6pm. Show at 8: 30pm C...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:23:00 GMT

Athfest this weekend!

JPC will be playing at Tasty World at 10pm Saturday June 21st for Athfest. There are a lot of great bands playing, so don't miss it! Check out our new songs we just posted, too.
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:54:00 GMT

Upcoming Shows

Jackpot City has a few shows coming up: Saturday, February 16th at the Caledonia Lounge (Athens, GA) w/ Lona for Lona's CD Release party. Wednesday, February 27th at the 40 Watt (Athens, GA) ...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:59:00 GMT

ALL NEW SONGS!

Come on over to our space and check out our new songs. That's right ALL new. There's a rock one, a pop one, Kountry en, and an artsy nunmber for you cool cats.Don't forget to write!
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:01:00 GMT

JPC Song on Neil Young's Living w/ War site

Just came to our attention that JPC's political song, "Great American Sellout" is posted on Neil Young's Protest site: http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html Check it out and if you click...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:11:00 GMT

Show Review, "This isn't your mommy's Go-Go's"

First up was a rock quartet called Jackpot City. The first thing that I noticed (being a guy and all) was that all four members were women. Usually this gets me a bit skeptical. I find that gir...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:42:00 GMT