UpHill Productions
2005
Moon And The Morning After
About This Album
Hopefully this is the one that gets people to sit up, take notice, and get on their feet clapping. Jill Jack is one of those canny and original singer/songwriters who has quietly built herself a following in her home state of Michigan, and amassed a recorded catalog of uncommon depth, passion, and vision. Moon and the Morning After contains 12 gritty new tracks that feature a host of Detroit's and Ann Arbor's elite studio hands, from drummer Ron Pangborn and acoustic string wizard David Mosher to Billy Brandt, Roscoe Gordon (who engineered the set as well as played on it), Nolan Mendenhall (who also acted as producer), Bobby Lewis, and Greg C. Brown, to name a few. But it's Jack's songs that lay the ground for the magic to begin. This is a tougher set than has come to be expected from her. She's written a slew of deeply moving and candid ballads for this collection, including the shatteringly beautiful opener "Find My Way Home" and the closer "Fallen," which bookends the album; but in between lie country, R&B, and straight-up rock & roll songs that are tough, literate, and emotionally searing. There's the funky, edgy strut of "Drink the Dust"; the rootsy, modern-day rockabilly paean to Elvis in "Getting' on in Memphis"; the sweet country stroll of "Do I Dare," with a lovely Mosher mandolin backdrop that stands in stark opposition to the clean, razor slash of honesty and confessional passion in the lyric.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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