Jace Everett byr på en herlig blanding av sugende blues, svingende rockabilly og fengende sørstatsrock, ispedd noen countrytakter. Alt bundet sammen av hans mørke stemme, breddfull av soul og sørstatsvisdom. Stilen er ikke veldig ulik Chris Isaak, men her er også hint fra Nick Cave og andre mørkemenn.
Jace Everett ble løftet opp fra det anonyme sjiktet da Alan Ball valgte en låt fra hans debutalbum til å bli temasangen i den kritikerroste HBO serien «True Blood». Megahiten «Bad Things» er nå å regne som en kultsang, og denne gav ham blant annet Grammy nominasjon i 2010 i klassen Best Soundtrack.
Everett er kjent som en meget bra liveartist, og den tidligere predikanten vet hvilke knapper han skal trykke på for å få med seg publikum. Så det er bare å glede seg til han kommer til Svalbard, og selvfølgelig får også publikum på Dark Season Blues servert seige, sørstatshete og sexy «Bad Things».
Everett er født i Evansville, Indiana. På grunn av farens jobb flyttet familien mye rundt da han var liten, før han til slutt bosatte seg i Nashville, Tennessee. Everett startet med å spille musikk i kirken og holdt konserter på skolen. [pullquote_right][fancy_link link=»http://www.abcnyheter.no/kultur/plateanmeldelser/091031/vampyr-moter-varulv» target=»blank»]»Det går lenge mellom hver gang et så overbevisende talent bare melder seg fra det store intet.» [/fancy_link][/pullquote_right]– Jeg ble veldig tidlig interessert i musikk. Allerede fra jeg var 3 år gammel sang og lyttet jeg mye til musikk. Jeg vet egentlig ikke hvorfor, jeg har bare alltid elsket musikk mer enn alt annet.
All flyttingen som ung førte til at Everett fikk inspirasjon fra mange ulike musikksjangrer. Han har vært innom band innen rock, soul, reggae og country. – Men nå tar jeg alt og putter det inn i ett band, og lar musikken min være noe av alle de tingene.
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Jace Everett
– Mr. Good Times- 2011
In 2009 Jace Everett went global. Fast on the heels of season 1 of “True Blood” (the number one rated HBO smash featuring Everett’s swampy “Bad Things” as the theme song) Jace put out his biggest record to date; “Red Revelations” (Weston Boys Entertainment/Wrasse Records). An album brimming with attitude, guitar twang, and dark sensuality, “Red Revelations” took Everett from Nashville to Norway, London to Melbourne, and all across the United States. By the Spring of 2011, five of the tracks off “Red Revelations” had been licensed in film and TV. All of this from an independent artist on a boutique label.
The story is of course all about “Bad Things”. Or is it? Certainly “True Blood” and it’s award winning intro sequence with “Bad Things” opened a lot of doors for Everett. But an open door isn’t of much use if you can’t walk through it.
“I think the key for me was to make sure the world knew there was a hell of a lot more to me than “Bad Things”. I love the song and the “True Blood” intro is incredible. But I have a lot more to my music than just that.”, says Everett. And “Red Revelations” proved that in spades. From the Link Wray inspired rock and roll of “Possession” to the hauntingly psychedelic “Slip Away”, the 2009 record doesn’t let up in intensity.
Still, in the increasingly bizarre world of pop culture and the quickly shrinking music business, it’s always a case of, “What have you done for me lately?”.
“Well, I think the new album “Mr. Good Times” raises the bar even higher. Months before the record is out we already have film and TV folks wanting the new music!”, Jace says. And indeed the new album is yet another twist in the never-a-dull-moment career of a truly unique artist. Crossing styles and genres not just from song to song, but creating some sort of hybrid beast that distills the craft of Nashville song writing with the energy and sensibility of rock and roll, all while taking production nods from such disparate places as Brian Eno, Chuck Prophet, George Martin, and whomever else Everett might have stumbled upon looking for the magic.
“You know I write country songs, rock songs, instrumental stuff. Really whatever comes to me. This whole need for genres and labels has become so passe. There’s two kinds of music; what I like and what I don’t like.”, Everett laughs. “I like confusing the styles. That’s how you create new things. By breaking old things down and rebuilding them”.
Co-produced by Everett, Brad Jones (Josh Rouse, Butterfly Boucher, Matthew Sweet, Chuck Prophet) and Greg Droman (Fleetwood Mac, Joe Walsh, Gary Allan, Chris Knight) the album is a brand new animal.
“Mr. Good Times” (Weston Boys Entertainment/Wrasse Records) moves away from some of the swampier sounds and incorporates some new elements heretofore unheard in Everett’s music. “I got really interested in the keyboard again. It became a bit of a game; if I wrote on piano, we’d record on guitar, if I wrote on guitar, we’d use more keyboards. It was just a way to trick myself. You can get caught in a lot of ruts if you don’t mix it up.”
After winning 4 BMI awards in the past 5 years, having radio hits from Nashville to Norway, and getting so many songs used in film and TV, you’d think Everett would be happy to sit at home and keep doing the same thing. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? But, Jace Everett is an artist. “If I were a more clever man, I’d stick to writing the same few songs over and over. In the hope that lightning would strike again and again. But I just can’t bring myself to do it. I need to create something…. new. It’s a disease.”, Everett says, only half-jokingly.
Who knows where “Mr. Good Times” will find himself in 2012. One thing is for sure, it will be moving forward. Looking for a sound, searching for a song, digging for a lyric. And having a damn good time doing it.