Thursday, August 13, 2009

'True Blood' fame propels Everett into spotlight

Our friend, the wonderful Jace Everett will be in Iowa this Friday!

Nashville has a tradition of producing musicians who are, well, not traditional, and yet they find success in the music industry. The names Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Steve Earle come to mind. Jace Everett, 37, hopes that he can become one of them, but if not, he can live with that too.

"I spent most of my life burning bridges," Everett said via phone from his home in Texas. "I am just not interested in trying to be part of the mainstream by changing who I am to fit into it."

Everett feels a special kinship with Nelson, whose album "Red-headed Stranger" was what turned him on to music. "He crosses all the musical borders and unwittingly I have followed that track."

Everett did brush shoulders with the mainstream in 2005 with the recording of his eponymous solo effort, but it left a bad taste in his mouth. "There was a lot of compromise on that album," Everett said.

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3 comments:

Rita said...

Ho! i would love to have Jace come to
Gadsden,Al.we have an event in June
called River Fest he would so good.

" Dallas " said...

You can totally tweet him and he will answer you -invite him!

He called in to the radio show a few weeks ago

Rita said...

Thanks i'll have to pass it along
to the people that handles that type of thing.