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Stevie Jackson | |
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Background information | |
Also known as | Stevie Reverb Action Jackson Jacko [1] |
Born | 16 January 1969 |
Origin | Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland |
Genres | Indie pop |
Occupation | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Guitar Vocals Harmonica |
Stephen Thomas Jackson [2] (born 16 January 1969) is a Scottish musician and songwriter. He plays lead guitar and sings in the Glasgow-based indie band Belle and Sebastian.
Jackson's early musical influences include Madness, ABBA, OMD, Depeche Mode and ABC, with his first album purchase being The Police's Reggatta de Blanc (1979). [3] Prior to joining Belle & Sebastian, he was a member of the Moondials, a band that released a single on Electric Honey, a label that would later issue Belle & Sebastian's first album, Tigermilk . The Moondials experience was a pleasant one for Jackson, and it took a great deal of work for nominal Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch to convince him to join his group. At the time, Murdoch was playing the open mic circuit in Glasgow as a solo act, and it was at one of these performances, at The Halt Bar, that Jackson first saw Murdoch play.
In the beginning, Belle & Sebastian existed mostly as an outlet for Murdoch's songwriting. Since the band's third album, The Boy With The Arab Strap , other members have begun to contribute, Jackson chief amongst them. All of the band's subsequent full-lengths have featured compositions by Jackson, and he wrote the band's 2001 single "Jonathan David" as well as "To Be Myself Completely" for 2006's The Life Pursuit .
In 2012 Jackson, accompanied by members of the Glasgow band The Wellgreen, recorded a version of George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby" for a fundraising cd titled "Super Hits Of The Seventies" for US radio station WFMU. Jackson has undertaken several collaborative works with Roy Moller. [4] [5] [6]
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