Jackie Greene 2002 Gone Wanderin'

Genre: Folk-Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:45:25
Size: 103,81 MB



With an unforced comfort unusual among new, young artists on small indie labels, 21-year-old Jackie Greene offered an impressive batch of above-average Americana roots rock on this 2002 release. There's a world-weariness to his songs that might not seem fully earned given his age. But he sounds like he's feeling the emotions authentically enough, with a voice that blends country, rock, folk, and a bit of blues with as much ease as his music does. There's some early Dylan in that mix, and like Dylan, he plays both guitar and harmonica. But he seems like he's having more fun and passion than most budding artists following that path, even if the lyrics talk of hard traveling, dead ends, and hard-luck stories peopled by characters redeemed by their fortitude.

In that sense, he can sometimes sound a little like a sweeter-voiced Bruce Springsteen, though one plugged closer to folk sources than Springsteen is. A cut like "Down in the Valley Woe" gets close to the kind of old-time-rooted folk music you might have heard by some of the better early-'60s folk revivalists and singer/songwriters. Yet when he fills out his music with a bigger ensemble, songs like "Cry Yourself Dry" sound much like vintage material by the Band. Like a lot of artists who have generated ballpark comparisons to the aforementioned musicians, Greene had some work to do to establish himself as an original talent on par with those legends. But this was a good start, more assured and enjoyable than plenty of early 21st century Americana-indie rock artists with bigger reputations. (Richie Unterberger)


Tracklist:

01 - Gone Wanderin' 02:56

02 - Tell Me Mama, Tell Me Right 02:37

03 - Travelin' Song 03:58

04 - Mexican Girl 04:03

05 - Down In The Valley Woe 04:23

06 - Cry Yourself Dry 04:28

07 - By The Side Of The Road, Dressed To Kill 04:19

08 - Freeport Boulevard 03:17

09 - Judgement Day 02:53

10 - Gracie 04:34

11 - Maria, Maria (It's A Sin To Tell A Lie) 02:49

12 - The Ballad Of Sleepy John 05:08





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Jackie Greene 2001 Rusty Nails

Genre: Rock
Rate: 259 kbps VBR / 44100
Time: 01:00:17
Size: 111,87 MB



Jackie Greene's talent as a singer/songwriter is already the stuff of legend here in the Sacramento area. He has the talent and the energy to go right to the top, and this album proves it in spades. From hard-driving blues numbers like "The Lord Mistreats Me" and funky honky-tonk like "Georgia" to intimate, lyrical songs like "Falling Back" and incisive, hard-edged observations of life like "Blue Sky," Jackie is both master musician and mature (beyond his 22 years) songwriter. There is not a single weak song on the album. (drathgeb5545)


Tracklist:

01 - Pale Blue Monday 06:00

02 - Santa Fe Girl 05:20

03 - The Lord Mistreats Me 03:42

04 - Georgia 04:12

05 - Passin' On The Blues 04:33

06 - Blue Sky 04:33

07 - Gettin' By 05:32

08 - The Rusty Nail 03:47

09 - Waiting For The Whistle 05:08

10 - Falling Back 04:04

11 - Never Satisfied 03:40

12 - What I Know 03:28

13 - Freeport Boulevard 06:18





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Jackie Greene 2004 Sweet Somewhere Bound

Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Rate: 196 kbps VBR / 44100
Time: 01:06:23
Size: 93,26 MB



Review by Richie Unterberger

Jackie Greene continued to expand his base as one of the more interesting new roots-based singer/songwriters of the early 2000s on Sweet Somewhere Bound, although the compositions were of varying quality. Certainly the best of them were satisfying, and had a wider range than many similar artists working in similar territory. His vocals had a lived-in earthiness, and his arrangements blended folk, roots rock, country, Americana, and bit of the blues without particularly favoring any certain combination.

The lyrical themes do tread on some of the same areas common to singer/songwriters of the style: restless urges to escape the mundane grind he sees his community settling into, story-songs and character sketches about troubled souls, and a lament for a death of someone close to him ("Emily's in Heaven"). The Bob Dylan comparisons that have come up in some coverage of his work are still here, particularly in his spontaneous yet accomplished harmonica work, but not so overwhelmingly that Greene's own persona is subsumed. He really whoops it up in the jovial prison song "About Cell Block #9" -- one of the set's highlights -- but for the most part it's a more contemplative record, concerned about the state of things but not quite discouraged. Some of those songs skirt the more routine clichés of weary-gazing roots music, but "Miss Madeline (3 Ways to Love Her)" in particular is haunting enough to rise above such pitfalls.



Tracklist:

01 - About Cell Block #9 03:47

02 - Honey I Been Thinking About You 04:48

03 - Sweet Somewhere Bound 04:59

04 - A Thing Called Rain 04:35

05 - Alice On The Rooftop 04:55

06 - Seven Jealous Sisters 04:12

07 - Emily's In Heaven 05:29

08 - Miss Madeline (3 Ways To Love Her) 05:39

09 - I Don't Care About My Baby 04:09

10 - Write A Letter Home 04:50

11 - Sad To Say Goodbye 04:55

12 - Everything To Me 06:09

13 - Don't Mind Me, I'm Only Dying Slow 07:56





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Jackie Greene - Sal Valentino & Friends 2003 Positively 12th & K (A Bob Dylan Tribute)

Genre: Blues
Rate: 224 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 01:03:54
Size: 102,37 MB



Review by Richie Unterberger

On two separate nights in August 2002 and January 2003, several singer/songwriters and musicians in the local scene gathered at Marilyn's on 12th & K Streets in Sacramento, CA to pay tribute to Bob Dylan. Highlights from those two evenings are assembled on this 13-song CD, Positively 12th and K: A Bob Dylan Tribute which, though billed to Jackie Greene/Sal Valentino & Friends, is more of a various-artists compilation. Beau Brummels fans should note that Valentino sings lead on just four of the tracks; singer/songwriter Greene takes lead on four others, with the Jackie Greene Band serving as the backing group for nine of the cuts. Lesser-known singers Mick Martin, Sherman Baker, Lew Fratis, and Billy Harper, Jr. serve as the vocal frontmen on the remainder of the program. These are good musicians doing energetic, straightforward covers of an assortment of Dylan tunes both celebrated ("Subterranean Homesick Blues," "Isis," "It's All over Now, Baby Blue," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "All Along the Watchtower," "I Shall Be Released") and more obscure ("Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?," "Not Dark Yet," "Everything Is Broken").

It sounds like everyone on-stage and in the audience had a jovial time, but as an audio document, it's less exciting than it must have been to be there, for obvious reasons. The existence of not just the more exciting Bob Dylan originals, but also many other more exciting and imaginative Dylan covers over the preceding 40 years, doesn't put this high on the list for those seeking interesting or novel reworkings of the Dylan canon.



Tracklist:

01 - Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:30

02 - Isis 06:13

03 - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You 03:01

04 - Highway 61 Revisited 04:25

05 - It's All Over Now Baby Blue 05:24

06 - Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window 04:24

07 - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 04:03

08 - Not Dark Yet 05:34

09 - Everything Is Broken 04:01

10 - Lonesome Day Blues 07:51

11 - Most Of The Time 05:17

12 - All Along The Watchtower 03:58

13 - I Shall Be Released 06:13





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