27 Years Old

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BIOGRAPHY

"...And you've got Green Apples. Which may turn out to be the most self-assured, confident, musically satisfying, self-released debut record you'll ever hear."
-songsillinois

"Jackson's mischievous brand of country folk epitomizes the sound of a bedroom artist slogging through countless late nights of broken picks and longneck-induced noodlings. Green Apples may have cost half a year's wages, but every dollar is put to good use."
-The Nashville Scene

..." a person would not only have to dream big but also have a lot of luck to live the life of Jon Jackson. He’s singer-songwriter by day, Vanderbilt nurse by night. Now he’s added the title of congressional hopeful to his résumé. But let’s start with his first job."
-Harpeth Hall Quad


"The idea was to be transparent, but a lot of people just thought I was an idiot."
-Vanderbilt House Organ

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Country, Folk

PUBLISHING COMPANY

bluechatmusic (BMI), I own my own publishing

Contact

Publishing: jon@trailerparkjackson.com
Booking: jon@trailerparkjackson.com
Administrative: jon@trailerparkjackson.com

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

banjo / bass / dobro / drums / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / mandolin / percussion / piano / upright bass / violin / vocals

INFLUENCES

John Prine Lucinda Williams Gillian Welch The Magnetic Fields Nine Inch Nails The Beastie Boys

DAY JOB

RN

I AM INTERESTED IN

in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,