★★★★★
Jackie Greene, the California wunderkind hailed as both the latest "new Dylan" and Americana's answer to Prince, takes such hype head-on with Giving Up The Ghost, produced by Los Lobos' Steve Berlin. The multi-instrumentalist Greene adroitly maneuvers the crannies of blues, folk, rock and soul with an impressive songwriting toolbox that uses a wide palette to express his simple, but not simplistic, tales...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Jackie Greene isn't exactly a household name here, but that could be about to change. His first live shows in the UK will not only launch his new album, American Myth, but if justice has anything to do with it, will bring him very quickly into the public eye as a singer-songwriter of immense talent.The 25-year-old from Sacramento, California sounds so polished that his gamin looks come as a shock...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Track Listing: Shaky Ground; Stranger In Sand; Medicine; Grindstone; A Moment of Temporary Color; Spooky Tina; 1961; Take Me Back In Time; The Holy Land; Till The Light Comes...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-07-09
★★★★★
The New York Times has dubbed Jackie Green "the Prince of Americana". Greene's similarities to the Purple One are rather numerous: both are tiny and adorable, if somewhat unlikely, heartthrobs whose music is an unclassifiable amalgam of numerous styles. Oh yeah, they're both talented as hell too.
At age 27, Giving Up the Ghost is Jackie Greene's fifth album, giving him more experience than musicians decades his senior...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
★★★★★
The New York Times has dubbed Jackie Green "the Prince of Americana". Greene's similarities to the Purple One are rather numerous: both are tiny and adorable, if somewhat unlikely, heartthrobs whose music is an unclassifiable amalgam of numerous styles. Oh yeah, they're both talented as hell too.
At age 27, Giving Up the Ghost is Jackie Greene's fifth album, giving him more experience than musicians decades his senior...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-08-03
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