Search - Jill Jack :: Moon and the Morning After

12-time Detroit Music Award Winner Jill Jack releases her sixth and most focused album to date, Moon and the Morning After. Combining the vintage feel of the Patsy Cline era with rough guitars, Jill's vocals on 'Moon' recall Natalie Merchant, and shes been compared to contemporaries Sheryl Crow and Lucinda Williams, as well as country icon Emmylou Harris. The album takes many turns, from the swooning country lilt of Do I Dare? to the Motown-influenced bass of Drink the Dust. At times it rolls along the gravel roads of folk and Detroit rock n roll. Produced by Nolan Mendenhall, Moon is colored with bits of upright bass, pedal steel guitars and mandolins a departure from the pure guitar-driven sounds that marked Jills prior work. The album shows Jacks progression as a songwriter...the intuitive sensitivity of her songwriting is often compared to Woody Guthrie and even John Mellencamp. Her genre-jumping sound doesn't slide easily into any one format and keeps her free to write and sing what she wants, the way she wants, to create her own sound. "I am a folk artist and I'm proud of that. But I hope people will listen to my music and hear that I can do more than just a good folk song. I can go from singing a sweet ballad to rockin' the place out.