JACKANORY#2
Documenting the rise and fall of Naughty Jack Possibly the UK's first rockstar dobro player
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Welcome to my latest offering of junk mail...

RADIO SESSION THIS SUNDAY NIGHT. ON TALKSPORT?
We at Wang Dang Doodle towers are still trying to make sense of it ourselves, but if TalkSport (1089/1053AM National) want a break from football know-it-alls for half an hour to hear what Naughty Jack has got to say for himself, then so be it. The session will consist of 4 tracks played live and an interview, just after 11.30pm on Sunday 16th March. It's on James Whale's show or maybe George Galloway...
http://www2.talksport.net/shows/schedule.asp?day=SUNDAY

NAUGHTY JACK BOOKED FOR BLISSFIELDS AND THE SECRET GARDEN PARTY If you're still choosing which fields to get wasted in this summer, consider joining us at Blissfields in Winchester on Sunday 6th July 2008, and The Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire on Sunday 27th July 2008.
http://www.blissfields.co.uk/
http://www.secretgardenparty.com/

YOUR FREEBIE MP3 - WHISKEY SONG
Thanks for reading. Here's a free MP3, it'll only be up for a few days so download it while it's fresh and juicy. Right-click (or apple-click) and "Save Target As..." to download.
http://www.naughtyjack.com/downloads/NaughtyJack-GoodTimes-WhiskeySong.mp3

ALSO...
- Video for "Naughty Jack's Blues" filmed live at the Borderline last month http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjvDyBZekY
- Album "Good Times" out April 14th on Wang Dang Doodle
- Website http://www.naughtyjack.com

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Naughty Jack's debut album is due for release on Wang Dang Doodle on 14 April 2008.



"Naughty Jack ... this years Seasick Steve" - Blues Matters



"Simplistically beautiful, honestly gritty, silkily workmanlike, 'Good Times' by Naughty Jack is a thing of absolute pleasure to just sit and enjoy - superb!!" - Toxic Pete


With all the warmth and honesty one might expect from a preacher's son, Naughty Jack's first offering is brimming with sweet, bluesy dobro licks and worldly inflections.

"If I made compilation of the tracks that inspired me to write each song, it would be my favourite record. And I think that's how it should be." contemplates Adam in an attempt to map out the origins of Good Times. "There'd be some Tom Waits, The Band and Townes Van Zandt set alongside Hawaiian guitarist, Sol Hoopii and New Orleans pianist, Professor Longhair, definitely some Howlin' Wolf and a gospel song by Nina Simone."

The title track, Good Times, lays out Naughty Jack's manifesto for the album -

"I know where you're going to be / In the sunshine talking with me / Still sitting around when the sun goes down / Pour another drink and raise our glasses to the Good Times"

Naughty Jack chose not to become a preacher like his father (and father before him). Instead, he fixed upon the life of an itinerant musician. Along his travels, he has played as part of a Venezuelan Waltz band, a traditional Trinidadian "Parang" Christmas band, and is a familiar face at all night sessions in some of the smallest pubs in the world, on the west coast of Ireland. He even managed to pick himself up an Irish/Trinidadian wife somewhere along the road.

He was forced to bid a hasty farewell to his much-loved guitar, when it met its splintery end at the hot embrace of a concertina elbow on an Amsterdam tram. A staunch atheist, he took it as an omen; turning his back on the guitar, he bought himself dobro from the states as his new travelling companion. People have been asking him why he plays with the guitar lying down on his lap ever since.

Naughty Jack has served his apprenticeship as a performer and entertainer well; he has headlined top-secret Cambridgeshire festival "Farmageddon" (recently featured in the Guardian) since its conception in 2003. It was here that Adam Morley was first christened Naughty Jack, and whilst the location of the festival is closely guarded, some clues may be found in the song Dr Tom's Farm. He has recently performed (accompanying fellow artists) at the Shepherd's Bush Empire and the Tartan Heart festival as well as live on Charlie Gillet's BBC radio show.