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Jackie Greene

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Fresh off the heels of his amazing Infinity Hall Live taping, Jackie Greene coming to our Norfolk stage!! Jackie is amazing and is blowing away audiences coast to coast. Jon Pareles of The New York Times had this to say about the singer, songwriter, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, “Jackie Greene could be the Prince of Americana. That’s capital P, and not because Mr. Greene favors the color purple but for some musical parallels.”

Jackie has toured nationally with Gov't Mule, Los Lobos, Mark Knopfler, B.B. King, Phil Lesh, Ratdog, Huey Lewis, Susan Tedeschi, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy and has played major U.S. festivals, including All Good, Gathering of the Vibes, Mountain Jam, Grateful Garcia Gathering, Newport Jazz, Newport Folk, South by Southwest, Wakarusa, Winnipeg Folk, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Rothbury. He has performed with Levon Helm at several Midnight Rambles.

Jackie Greene

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Jackie Greene has been chasing his muse ever since his teenage years, when he released his critically acclaimed independent debut, signed his first record deal and began a lifetime of touring that would see him supporting the likes of BB King, Mark Knopfler, Susan Tedeschi, and Taj Mahal, in addition to gracing festival stages from Bonnaroo to Outside Lands. The New York Times hailed his "spiritual balladry," Bob Weir anointed him the "cowboy poet" of Americana and blues, and the San Francisco Chronicle raved that he has "a natural and intuitive connection with… just about any musical instrument."

While Greene's songwriting chops were more than enough to place him in a league of his own (NPR's World Café raved that his "sound seems at once achingly intimate, surprisingly energetic and unburdened by adherence to genre"), Greene also emerged as a singular singer and guitarist, prompting Rolling Stone to praise his "honeyed tenor" and name him among "the most notable guitarists from the next generation of six-string legends." Between studio albums and his own tours, Greene took up prestigious gigs playing with Phil Lesh & Friends, The Black Crowes, Levon Helm, and Trigger Hippy, his supergroup with Joan Osborne.

"As artists and writers, I think we're all just sort of amalgamations of what we listen to and what we do," Greene says of his omnivorous approach to music. "You play with The Black Crowes or Phil Lesh for a year, and it's inevitable that some of that's going to sort of rub off on you. And I'm grateful for that," he adds with a laugh, "because as it turns out, I really love their music."

Jackie recently entered into a partnership with Blue Rose Music, a venture that allows him to record and release music with greater artistic freedom than a traditional label allows. The first release for Blue Rose, the EP, The Modern Lives – Vol 1,  was released in 2017 and accompanied by a music video that was animated by the king of indie animation, Bill Plympton.  The Modern Lives – Vol 2 along with an animated short film will follow in 2018.

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