Tonite! Friday October 7th

Jack Wilson and John Elliot


John Elliot

7-9:30pm, Lincoln Street Theater

Press on Jack Wilson
Willamette Week, (Portland, Oregon) Show preview 7.12.11

"Jack Wilson divides his time between Seattle and Austin, and you can definitely hear those geographical touchstones at the heart of his mournful yarns, garnished with just the right amount of celestial-minded pop." - Hannah Levin

Review for Jack Wilson from Austin Sound

"...Trying to fit a folk musician into a bar band isn’t easy. Neither is trying to put country rock into a folk album, but Wilson finds a neutrality among his influences that allows him to pull it off. He is a studied songwriter that has some really good tunes and his debut solo work sets the bar high for his first individual effort outside of the confines of the Wife Stealers. Through moments of bar rockers about druggies and relationships and lucid, melancholy gems about the same, Jack Wilson — and his wanderer — find solid ground"

Review for Jack Wilson from KEXP.org Seattle

" The latest album from this Seattle-via-Austin singer-songwriter is an impressive set of ‘70s-influenced country-rock and folk reminiscent of Neil Young and The Band, with the songs ranging from energetic, soul-tinged rockers to spare, intimate ballads. Wilson’s evolved into a first-rate songwriter, and his plaintive vocals have never sounded stronger." -DON SLACK

Review for Jack Wilson from Sound on the Sound (blog), Seattle

"Jack Wilson wants to show you things. His new self titled record is a picture show; snapshots of americana through the eyes of this Austin/Seattle songwriter who has decidedly found his voice through the sometimes muddy genre labels of folk/country, ostensibly americana. With songs like the opening track “Valhalla”, Wilson starts out slow but with a certain, deliberate, momentum. It’s opening sounds of footsteps on gravel and a rainstorm in the background give way to reverb guitars and wispy horns that are scattered beautifully all across the album. Within “Valhalla” lies the outline of a record that is at one time traditional in it’s approach and at the same time from the hip. It starts out slow. A folk record with something lying just beneath the surface...Weaving between [the band] and a more stripped down solo sound, Jack Wilson makes his way through songs that show influence as well as a independent grasp of the music that he wants to make. A portrait of a songwriter, a slide show of a road trip through the heart of an ever changing landscape, of americana music itself."
-BRADY SPOUSE

Up and Coming, The Stranger, Seattle

Jack Wilson has the kind of heartfelt, wizened voi...
"Jack Wilson has the kind of heartfelt, wizened voice that lots of country-folk men have: It's a warm, pull-up-a-barstool-and-I'll-tell-you-a-story-of-heartbreak-my-friend kind of a voice. Lots of musicians coast on that kind of voice, writing songs about how their true love has hair like shafts of wheat but not anymore because she is dead or some silly shit like that. But Wilson ventures out into the fringes of country to push at expectations in a tremendously satisfying way. He out-and-out croons, for instance, on "Out of Bed," stretching his voice in a way that, say, Bonnie "Prince" Billy would never dare to risk. And Wilson writes some straight-up romantic duets, too; he's not afraid to drop the pretense and craft a love song that works." PAUL CONSTANT

Sunset Tavern residency concert review, Three Imaginary Girls.com

"i went into the jack wilson & co. set on monday night with expectations defined and met: heartbreak and fistfights, simultaneous ... circa seeing them open for elliott brood last month at the tractor. they're firmly lodged for me somewhere between indie rock and americana, the space needle and a dusty front porch somewhere in the midwest. you know... wurlitzers and well-worn guitars. it was the last night of their october residency at the sunset, and they brought it. brought. it."

Tickets are $10-$20 sliding fee scale

Jack Wilson and John Elliot

$10-$20 sliding fee scale

Tickets may also be purchased in advance by stopping by the 24 Lincoln Street office, Mon-Fri, 9am to 4pm, or by mailing a check (made out to Lincoln Street Center) to:

Lincoln Street Center
PO Box 1631
Rockland, ME 04841