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For Music´s Sake
JACE EVERETT
Nashville, US
"Ladies and Gentlemen,
Jace Everett has entered the building"
It took music savvy Allan Ball in 2008, to re-discover Jace Everett´s Bad Things, which he cleverly used as the theme for the opening title sequence of his internationally acclaimed fantasy-vampire-drama series True Blood, for the rest of the world to find out about this American musical jewel.
A flawless singer, a creative songwriter and an accomplished bass player and guitarist, Jace Everett was born in the 70´s in Evansville, Indiana, but was raised in Texas. It was in Nashville though where he had a second chance at a music career.
It has not been a "smooth sailing" for Mr. Everett and we think that it is thanks to this that his music is so powerful with raw human emotion. He is REAL. This, nowadays so elusive quality in other artists, is what makes him both familiar and at the same time so refreshing.
His last album, titled Red Revelations, shows that his creative genius is free of any labels and yet each of its tracks sounds like a very personal memory or desire that an extraordinary diverse following seem to share.
Songs like the wickedly sensual Possession, the uplifting More to Life, the deadly romantic Damned if I Do (Want You), the inspiring Slip Away, the painfully delicious Burn for You or the hips shaker Lean into the Wind make up, along the wonderful rest, an astounding collection of original killer tunes that somehow seem to belong to the puzzle of everybody´s soul.
Ladies and Gentleman, Jace Everett “has entered the building” and we can assure you that he is not leaving it any time soon.
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Jace Everett * RED REVELATIONS album,
picture by David McClister
Purchase album directly:
www.jaceeverett.com
Jace Everett, picture by David McClister
Jace Everett with The Leeves,
picture by Richard Lupo
Find out more about The Leeves on Myspace:
www.myspace.com/theleveesmusic
Jace Everett with The Leeves,
picture by Richard Lupo
Find out more about The Leeves on Myspace:
www.myspace.com/theleveesmusic
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1. MDM_ You know that our favorite album of yours is the last one out, Red Revelations, your third released album. However, your second album, Old New Borrowed Blues, offers a broad selection of some beautiful and heartfelt traditional blues and country songs too, like Between a Father and a Son. We are quite curious to know whether, back in your childhood, your family encouraged you to follow this path or doing music was something you had to kind of masquerade as being just a hobby:
1. JACE_ I was really fortunate to have amazing parents. Thankfully, I still have them both! They encouraged my music from day one up through today. Neither of them are musical, but they both are huge fans of music and film. Especially my father, who by his own admission is "tone deaf". They poured countless hours and dollars into my music and I truly wouldn't have had the courage to see it through without them.
2. MDM_ Your influences range from gospel to country music, from blues to rockabilly and we know your taste is as eclectic as to add some hip-hop into the mixture but if you had to choose one artist or band, from any time, past or present, that most resonates with you, both at a personal and at a musical level, who would that be and why?:
2. JACE_ Well, it was Willie Nelson and his "Red Headed Stranger" album that really started me down the path. But, as I grew up devoutly religious, I spent my early teen years listening to "Christian Rock". The only "secular" band that was deemed kosher by my peer group (not my parents I might add, they weren't as dogmatic as I) was U2. I became a big fan of theirs in the late '80's. As my faith broke down it seemed theirs did too. "Achtung Baby" came out in 1991. I was 19 years old and it totally freaked me out. That album is what opened my eyes to music as a whole. How different genres and styles could be interpolated into something new. Willie and U2 are my two favorites. You can't make me pick just one! That's why my "career" is so all over the place. I really do love any music that is passionate and intelligent.
3. MDM_ You were a dad quite early in your twenties and at some point gave up pursuing your music career. How did you restore your faith in your dreams and thus have another brave go at this choice of career?:
3. JACE_ I don't know that my faith in my dreams was restored until the past 4 or 5 years. I went back to music because my life was so fucked up (by my own hand primarily) that I had no place else to turn. It wasn't so much an act of faith, but of desperation. Again, the people around me-family, friends, my son- have always had more faith in me than I have. Not to sound maudlin, but they are what restored my self-confidence.
4. MDM_ You landed two major record deals within little time of being back in Nashville. Do you believe in destiny and luck or are you more of an “I make my own destiny” person?:
4. JACE_ That's a damn good question. Have you been reading Calvin and Locke? (ha!) I believe in both. Luck happens. But an individual needs to be prepared when those doors open. You can't usually force a door open. There are, of course, exceptions to that! Regardless, you gotta have your act together when those doors open. How they open is immaterial if you can't walk through on your own power.
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