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Artist
Lynn Jackson
12+ albums
acousticalternative rockamerican
about
Since 2004 I’ve released an album a year,” singer– songwriter Lynn Jackson elaborates of her profile. “The joy in all this for me is, mostly, the songwriting. That’s the part I’m most passionate about. I don’t really sit down to specifically write songs. I rehearse quite a bit though and often the song ideas just come and I try to capture them and work them out before they escape me.” Jackson’s near staggering productivity betrays her modesty cause not just any hack can bang out an album a year. Her last,2007’s Restless Days, revealed a songwriter who had matured into something special: an author capable of touching the hearts of many with simple stories about everyman. Saints and sinners, drunks and singers. It’s that careful observation of the human spirit that lent her country–folk it’s weight. After three albums spent studiously crafting her charming Alison Krauss–esque style,and dissecting the human condition, Jackson is taking a bit of a different approach with her newest long–player, Soft Stars. “Sweet Relief and Restless Days were albums more in the folk–roots tradition which is a sound I love,” she says. “But this time around I wanted to try something different. Those earlier albums were heavily based around my acoustic guitar so even though I write on the guitar, I decided to try as much as possible to take guitar out of the picture, or at least give it a lesser role. “There are still a number of story songs on Soft Stars. For instance, ‘4th of July’ is a murder bal
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