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"We're ultimately all alone, we fall in love, we die and without music the road would never bend. To save us from ourselves the Gods are kind enough, once in a while, to send a messenger of such startling originality that life is transformed from being merely bearable to simply divine. Jackie Marshall is such a soul. Hers is a music that enriches one's life, broadens one's soul, and speaks to the heart. A song from Jackie Marshall is the play of the divine writ large upon the sensibilities of the world. She's effing fabulous and far and away the best female singer and songwriter I have heard in Australia."
Sam Cutler Rolling Stones tour-manager ’69, Grateful Dead co-manager, and advisor to Janis Joplin.
Jackie Marshall is an innovative emerging Australian singer-songwriter. Described as “that rare thing: an Aussie original” (The Weekend Australian), in the last year she has supported such diverse acts the like of Emiliana Torrini, (UK/Iceland) Francoiz Breut (Belgium), Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set, The Boat People, Mick Thomas (Weddings Parties Anything), The Re-Mains, and many more; with her extraordinarily diverse yet cohesive live show crossing country, folk, blues, jazz and experimental music boundaries at every turn.
Attracting diverse audiences with airplay on Australian national broadcaster Triple J, ABC radio and community stations up and down the eastern states of Australia, Jackie is fast becoming one-to-watch in Australia’s adult contemporary music stakes.
"If you consider yourself an Australian music connoisseur, taste-maker, trend-picker, lover, whatever - for goodness sakes do yourself a favour and just listen to anything Jackie Marshall releases. She is a delightfully inventive 'something else...', and if someone can tell us what that is, I'd like to invite them over for dinner".
ARIA award-winner Clare Bowditch
“…one of the most exciting and original debuts in recent Australian music.” The Canberra Times
Jackie’s live shows are winning over new fans wherever she travels, and with reviews like this it’s easy to understand why:
"For once, it’s excellent to see so many punters here early to catch the set of local songstress Jackie Marshall. Her unrelenting, contagious enthusiasm fills the entire room while her special blend of off-kilter country/blues/folk is stridently impressive. Backed by a remarkable band and falling somewhere uniquely between Lucinda Williams and Janis Joplin, Marshall commands your attention and affections while tickling your musical taste buds all at the same time."
Ben Preece, TimeOff, reviewing opening set for Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set at The Zoo, Brisbane July 29th
But it’s not just great live reviews and endorsements from industry indie heavyweights that’s causing a buzz around the emerging artist: Jackie’s songwriting has garnered some serious industry attention of late. Shortlisted for the 2006 APRA Professional Development Awards, Jackie is also a current finalist in the Qmusic QSong Awards and was recently announced runner-up in Melbourne’s cutthroat PBSfm Festival Of Song Competition, as the only solo act to make the finals.
"Reminiscent of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks" (Daniel Poncet, myjazzychild, France), Jackie Marshall's debut release FIGHT n’FLIGHT (Television/MRA) is an intrepid 40-minute-long 8 track affair, involving 9 musicians performing idiosyncratically with little arrangement instruction, straight from the heart of Marshall's seriously crafted material.
Recorded chiefly between a Northern NSW wooden farmhouse and a hundred year-old Queenslander behind Brisbane's XXXX brewery, the album successfully melds a pastoral atmosphere with the grit and desperation of the bar-room floor, Marshall's voice carousing each track with her knowing and insouciant “warm and quirky without sounding affected” (The Weekend Australian) tone.
Jackie’s debut recording FIGHT n’FLIGHT features some of the country’s finest emerging musical talents, including Ben Tolliday (Trinkets, The Golden Circles) on cello, electric bass, backing vocals and guitar loops; Chris Pickering (The Boat People, The Horse You Rode In On) on steel string guitar, mandolin and backing vocals, Jo Lack (Trinkets, Churchill Fellow '06) on violin and backing vocals, Anthony Aggs (AfroDizziAct) on wurlitzer, Paul Hankinson (Brisbane Cabaret) on wurlitzer, piano, standing organ and squeezebox, Eugene Romanuik (Appian Way) on double bass, Richard Johnston (Trinkets, Speedstar) on percussion, and Shaun Butcher (The Re-Mains) on banjo. Both singles "You Want What I Got" and "Not That Kind'v Girl" have received airplay on Triple J.
In addition to her music, Jackie is an accomplished fine artist whose design work features heavily in her promotional material; her debut CD is a selfdesigned pop-up diorama cartoon book featuring detailed lyrics book and liner-notes-to-the-artist written by popular Weekend Australian Magazine astrologer Mystic Medusa. Jackie Marshall Website:
http://www.jackiemarshall.com |
