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    Jade Jackson

    Jul 05, 2019 3 minutes
    Words Jonathan Horsley
    “I FEEL LIKE OLDER SONGWRITING AND OLD COUNTRY REALLY HAVE GOOD IMAGERY”

    Jade Jackson is brought to you today by coffee, lots of coffee. The Californian country singer is sitting in the très chic Hoi Polloi brasserie that sits under London’s painfully hip Ace Hotel. She’s holding a napkin and an ice cube, trying to remove some chewing gum off her trousers, and is right now having a glass of water to restore equilibrium. Disorientation and caffeine dependence is, an album that in many respects speaks for itself. Jackson puts a vibrant rock spin on her sound but she is a storyteller in the great country tradition, most comfortable when exploring the unclaimed territory between all that’s bittersweet and the importance of being resolute.

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