Jill Jack

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Jill Jack at Molly Malone’s: high energy, woman-centered , heart aching country rock. By Patrick O’Heffernan

November 18, 2015

  (Los Angeles)  I never miss a Jill Jack show in Los Angeles if I can help it, which is why I made sure I got a front table at the legendary Molly Malone’s this weekend because I knew that this was the last night of her tour and it was now or never.  Being an early bird paid off.  As she always does, Jill Jack electrified the room with her unique high energy, woman-centered , heart aching country rock and I had the best seat in the house.   Jack’s Los Angeles band –  Jim Burkard on lead guitar, Bill Warnick on drums, the amazing Jonathan Swartz on  mandolin (who was recruited that afternoon and blew us away with his fabulous talent), and Chris Colovas from Detroit on bass – created a sound that was perfect for Jack’s unique voice.  The band became a single living creature of music that rocked and swayed and drummed and riffed and poured forth some of the sweetest, most  blood moving sound I have heard in hallowed hall [Read More]

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Sunflower Girl: Jill Jack is a the top of her game. By Patrick O’Heffernan

May 24, 2014

By Patrick O’Heffernan, Host,  Music FridayLive!  A wide-ranging, tightly crafted, deeply personal, pleasure-center-stimulating gift from one of the country’s most talented musical artists. I first saw Jill Jack at a club in Hollywood and she electrified the room with her unique high energy, woman-centered, heart aching country rock.  Jill Jack is amazing, awesome, fabulous and any other adjectives you can come up with for a talent that puts on a show that blows the stage away with musical fireworks.  So I got a copy of her most recent album, Sunflower Girl, to see if she is as good in the studio as she is on stage.  The answer is a definitive yes. Jill Jack and her band have opened for some of the greats of country– Bob Seger, John Waite, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, Dan Fogelberg, Marshall Crenshaw, Chris Issak, and Loretta Lynn. She has played to sellout crowds at SXSW , the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, The Bluebird Cafe and  New York’s The Living Room  among others.  There is even a PBS documentary about her scheduled for broadcast later this year. [Read More]