Jack Wilson

Jack Wilson has shared stages with The Neville Brothers, Sera Cahoone, Patrice Pike, The Moondoggies, Damien Jurado, Elliott Brood, The Maldives, and The Weary Boys. It has been good times! good times!



Jack goes between Austin and Seattle. He likes to feed people tacos. He likes Jameson while he's on stage. He would like to drink Jameson on your stage.



The new self-titled record is a collection of songs written while riding a bicycle from Austin, Texas to Charleston, South Carolina.



CDs are available at Sonic Boom Records, iTunes, Amazon, and on CDBaby.com.



PRESS:



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"I first heard Wilson's music a few years back when he was opening for Sera Cahoone. and I quickly became enamored with his sentimental and rocking approach to the narrative folk song tradition.Whether he's playing solo or with a sizable band that includes horns (like on his latest release), Wilson sticks to what matters most to the song. He now divides his time between Austin and Seattle, and his music sounds about equal parts Texas and Washington."



-Kim Ruehl, NO DEPRESSION, August 2010



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The latest album from this Seattle-via-Austin singer-songwriter is an impressive set of ‘70s-influenced country-rock and folk reminiscent of Neil Young and The Band, with the songs ranging from energetic, soul-tinged rockers to spare, intimate ballads. Wilson’s evolved into a first-rate songwriter, and his plaintive vocals have never sounded stronger."



Don Yates, KEXP Radio, Seattle, May 2010



"Jack Wilson has the kind of heartfelt, wizened voice that lots of country-folk men have: It's a warm, pull-up-a-barstool-and-I'll-tell-you-a-story-of-heartbreak-my-friend kind of a voice. Lots of musicians coast on that kind of voice, writing songs about how their true love has hair like shafts of wheat but not anymore because she is dead or some silly shit like that. But Wilson ventures out into the fringes of country to push at expectations in a tremendously satisfying way. He out-and-out croons, for instance, on "Out of Bed," stretching his voice in a way that, say, Bonnie "Prince" Billy would never dare to risk. And Wilson writes some straight-up romantic duets, too; he's not afraid to drop the pretense and craft a love song that works."



Paul Constant, THE STRANGER, October 2009



"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



"Jack is the Butch Cassidy of his generation"



-Sean Miller, Central Co-op Employee



"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