JACK EDWARDS
Sat 22nd Apr 2017 at 7:30pm-Sat 22nd Apr 2017 at 11:00pm
Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
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JACK EDWARDS
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Andy Doonan
Martha Phillips
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Jack Edwards is a singer, songwriter and proud Yorkshireman.
From a humble town with a rich history and steeped in folklore, Jack’s music is inevitably edged by the world in which he grew up in, many observations and events of daily life appearing in early songs such as ‘Coaltown’:
It’s endless conversations down a telephone line
It’s remembering where I’m from, how we crawled out of the mines.
There’s some wise-guy on the corner trying to hustle me for change
“It comes soon enough,” I said “You don’t have to wait”.
Jack was primarily a guitar player. Performing on his local gig circuit since the age of fifteen, he stood out from his peers with his love of ‘old’ guitar music from bands/artists such as Thin Lizzy, Eric Clapton, Wishbone Ash and Deep Purple. His Dad was kind enough to take him along to see these bands play (if they were alive and well), and his love for the guitar has never faded since.
Jack completed five years of study at Leeds College Of Music, where he fell in love with the blues and honed his songwriting skills.
Jack recorded a debut album ‘Never Surrender’ in the Summer of 2012, and it was released in November 2012. Following this, the ‘Death Defying’ EP was released in October 2013. Two years later saw the release of the more raw and muscular ‘Love and Luck’ EP, that is definitely Jack’s best musical work to date.
Jack approaches 2017 with renewed determination and passion, after successfully recovering from a Total-Thyroidectomy operation that threatened to take his singing voice forever. This operation was absolutely necessary to battle a long-standing illness, as were the months of intensive vocal rehabilitation over the Spring and Summer of 2016.
If anything, Jack’s songwriting and performing is honest and sincere. There’s a touch of the ‘old-school’ to his music, with the attitude of someone who is always looking to move forward.
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