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Comes A Time: Jill Jack's Songwriter Sessions
By Stewart Francke DETROIT (YN) - Jill Jack is one of my longest held and best friendships in music. She sang with me in the early 90s, when both of us were taking the first broad, uncertain steps toward solo careers. Since then we've worked together not infrequently, been proud parents of kids at the same school (not parents of the same child, but hey it’s all a blur), and been friends and fans of each other's work. We essentially have the same job, principal songwriter in a large band bearing our own name, which makes you de facto bandleader, conceptual visionary, reluctant employer, and automatic arbiter of musician's complaints and frets. So we've had a lot of vocational issues to talk through and laugh about through the years.
If you're reading this anywhere in Michigan, you're likely aware that Jill needs no further explanation. She's won, like two thousand Detroit Music Awards (actually 24 and counting), and has built an audience based on eclectic, intense and genuine live performances. Genuine is the defining term here. I've known few performers with less conflict between who they are on stage and off than Jill Jack. You get all of her in a performance, and then some.
Jill has also released several lovely cd's in the past that fall loosely in the alt-country ca
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The Detroit Ideal, Incarnate-"A Christmas in Detroit Story"
By Stewart Francke DETROIT (YN) - It was one of those moments you can't plan, an event you can't count on. Rarely do you get to see the things you believe in actually come to life before you in walking, talking human form. You don't often get to see those fragile and ephemeral tenets that guide you, those vaporous words behind living a life that counts toward something.
I've been lucky enough to be included in this tremendous project called Christmas In Detroit, the third installment in the Brothers Pastoria' musical and spiritual statement about Detroit. I didn't want to just contribute a re-make of a Christmas standard, so I asked Brian Pastoria about a song of mine called "Faith In Faith Itself," which I'd written but not yet finished recording. There seemed to be this dimension to the project. Skeleton Crew had already completed a lovely song called "Faith," and in these times, we all need to hang on
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