Record of the Month Curator

I still remember the first time I met Jack – back in Nashville as a sophomore in college when he had salmon pink colored hair. I got to watch him play house shows in backyards, garages, and living rooms. People would fall in love with him and the way he spun emotions and stories into words… and those words would bring up all sorts of feelings for everyone in the room. He loves his friends and supporting them. So many of Jack’s friends throughout the years were involved in the making of JVC… he loves to uplift his people and show everyone how talented they are.

The first time I heard “Rattlesnake” was in a living room when I was twenty. I heard “Green” and “Piñata” on my back porch while Jack was staying with me while I was living in the Valley. I heard “Go Home, Danny” for the first time in a garage in 2019… I asked Jack for the piece of paper he wrote down his sets on that night… he draws little doodles for each song and it’s hanging on my wall.

I’m so grateful to be a fan of someone who I can say is one of the truest friends anyone could have. Our Nashville community has always been in awe of him and we’ve always believed in him. Jack creates an environment of warmth and belonging – our sweet little Pisces man. He’s always been the one I never tire of listening to. The one I never doubt will make something so brutally honest… but in a really really really pretty way. His songs are the soundtrack to my 20s.

He’s taught me the power in the painstaking labor over your art. He’s a perfectionist – but he never loses the raw emotion. It’s because he cares and loves what he does. He’s a story-teller & this album sucks you into his world & makes you not want to be spit back out.