{"id":93452,"date":"2018-05-08T10:32:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93452"},"modified":"2018-05-08T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:32:23","slug":"entertainment-pure-simple-jack-grace-band-at-the-nelson-odeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93452","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment, pure & simple: Jack Grace Band at the Nelson Odeon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Entertainment, pure & simple: Jack Grace Band at the Nelson Odeon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jack Grace just doesn\u2019t fit in. Jerry Lee Lewis once remarked, \u201cHe\u2019s like that Cash kid, but good,\u201d yet Jack also plays enough rock and throws in original Bossa numbers to add to the confusion. He has spent more time on the road than off it since 1992.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been most recently known as a country musician, but that designation belies the myriad of influences that shape his sound. It began with an obsession with the Beatles, and as a teenager, he wore out his Zeppelin records like so many of us. Later, when he discovered Neil Young, he wore those discs out too. His first band, Steak, had a Zappa-inspired sound, he was told, when he was barely aware of the iconic figure who couldn\u2019t be bothered to stick to a single formula. Fitting. Later, after discovering he had a baritone eerily reminiscent of the great Johnny Cash, he added some steel to the mix and suddenly everyone was calling him country.<\/p>\n

Five previous releases and tracks featured in the films \u201cSuper Troopers\u201d and \u201cBeer Fest\u201d have garnered both a growing following and a steady hum of praise. His debut, Introducing the Songs of Jack Grace, was an acoustic affair, which many mistook as country. \u201cFine, call it country if you want,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cWhat you label it doesn\u2019t mean all that much to me.\u201d What mattered? There were new rules to be broken. His most recent release,\u00a0Drinking Songs for Lovers<\/em>, had some fine country numbers, but he added mariachi horns to give them a Latin flavor, inspired by his yearly pilgrimage to Tulum, Mexico, where he likes to write songs on the beach. His previous outing was a country concept album called\u00a0The Martini Cowboy<\/em>, featuring in a bossa nova number with lap steel front and center.<\/p>\n

Join us this\u00a0Friday, May 11 at 8:00pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(doors open at\u00a07:30<\/span><\/span>).\u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0for tickets and more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entertainment, pure & simple: Jack Grace Band at the Nelson Odeon Jack Grace just doesn\u2019t fit in. Jerry Lee Lewis once remarked, \u201cHe\u2019s like that Cash kid, but good,\u201d yet Jack also plays enough rock and throws in original Bossa numbers to add to the confusion. He has spent more time on the road than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-oji","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed-1-1.jpg?fit=400%2C266&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}