Posts Tagged ‘Jon Jackson’

New stop motion video by/from Jon Jackson

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

There is a small group of people in Chicago who saw Jon Jackson perform one night at our house concert that are now lifelong fans. I know for a fact his CD, Green Apples, is the most played disc in any number of suburban minivans. Even our kids have the bug. In fact when my 4 year old heard the song in the video playing from another room today he asked: “Which one is this? The one where the guy loves the girl and isn’t loved back?” Sadly, yes I said.

So that’s out of the way. But I’m still floored that he produced this video. Mostly by himself, Jon Jackson has been laboring over this stop motion video since December. It’s a labor of love for his song “Untitled”.


Untitled from Jon Jackson on Vimeo.

Two new videos from Jon “Trailerpark” Jackson

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Jon Jackson wrote the other day with news of more uploaded video’s. And I swear him sitting in his trailer somewhere on the outkirts of Nashville is somehow better that each and every overproduced video I’ve seen on the web or CMT for God’s sake. I’m thrilled he put up “Green Apples” but also excited to hear his ode to the Waffle House girl song, “Excuse Me”, for the first time.

His debut record Green Apples is a Songs:Illinois must-buy recommendation here (do we even have that!?).

P.S. John will be playing the latest incarnation of the Songs:Illinois House Concert series on June 6 along with Joe Pug from Chicago and Michael Fracasso all the way from Austin, Tx. If you’d like to come email me here – cbonnell@gmail.com.

“Excuse Me”

“Green Apples”