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Jack Logan
12+ albums
mississippifolkacousticindiequirky
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Jack Logan (born in Greenville, MI, on 8 February 1959) is an American singer-songwriter. As well as solo albums, Logan has recorded as Jack Logan and Liquor Cabinet, Jack Logan & Bob Kimbell, and Jack Logan & Scott Baxendale. Logan's first recordings were as vocalist for Lava Treatment. The band released "Lake Eerie" in 1987. His first solo release was "Bulk", 42 songs from the approximately 600 Logan had recorded lo-fi from 1979 to 1993. Written and recorded in his rural Georgia home in a town called Winder (some 40 miles northeast of Atlanta), Logan and his drinking buddies spent more than a decade writing songs and recording them in various garages, barns, and the kitchens and the living room of Logan's house. They worked during the evenings and weekends, mainly for their own amusement, never trying to land a record contract. Logan and friends all maintained day jobs (Logan repaired swimming pool pumps, while best friend Kelly Keneipp refurbished old refrigerators), and their only connection to the public consisted of performances every now and then at local hangouts. Then in the early 1990s, after amassing more than 600 recorded songs, Logan sent them to a producer, Peter Jesperson, just to see what would happen. When Jesperson, Logan's later manager and producer, received the demo, he listened with amazement. "He's one of the best songwriters anywhere on the planet--period," Jesperson assured Jon Bream in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. After a portion of the songs
