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Jackie
Bristow
Profile
It’s
a long way from Gore, New Zealand to sharing a
stage with the likes of Madeleine Peyroux, Art
Garfunkel and Daniel Lanois. It all sounds pretty
exciting and exotic in former Gore musician Jackie
Bristow’s world.
“I’m
living the dream, but it’s not easy. It’s
not an easy dream.” She says. Bristow discovered
singing in the St Mary’s School choir when
she was 8, and by the time she was 14 she was
touring the South Island with her sister, Katrina
as the Bristow Sisters. She hasn’t stopped
since. After a decade spent touring the United
States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this
singer-songwriter has earned her spurs. Her sweet
melodies and hypnotic tones have US critics heralding
her as one of New Zealand’s most talented
musical exports.
“I’ve
done a lot of traveling over the last six or seven
years. I love it. I don’t think I’ll
ever stop, really, “ she says. Jackie moved
to Los Angeles in 2005 to record Crazy Love. She
immediately surrounded herself with the cream
of producers and musicians in the country. Produced
by LA-based Helik Hadar (mixer/engineer for Madeleine
Peyroux, Joni Mitchell, Rufus Wainwright), and
Mark Howard (Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Marianne
Faithfull, Sheryl Crow), Crazy Love, which includes
Bristow’s latest single The World Is Turning,
is a hauntingly beautiful collection of new material
showcasing Jackie’s alluring vocal ability
and song-writing smarts.
”Bristow
is a singer-songwriter with a penchant for sweet
melodies and hypnotic tones. She counts Patty
Griffin and Crowded House as favourites, and her
style incorporates a bit of both, blending Neil
Finn’s airy pop smarts with Griffin’s
emotional directness and vibrancy. Bristow’s
low soprano is seductive and soulful; she never
presses or wails, but instead lets her voice deliver
her probing, slice-of-life songs in laced silk.”
– Michael McCall, Nashville Scene, May 10th
‘07.
Crazy
Love includes Australia's finest guitarist Mark
Punch (Renee Geyer) along with international luminaries
Larry Klein (bass - Joni Mitchell, Peter Gabriel),
Tim Pierce (guitar - Tom Petty, Tracy Chapman,
Rod Stewart), Brian MacLeod (drums ˆ Sheryl
Crow), Zak Rae (keys - Alanis Morissette, Macy
Gray), Jay Bellarose (drummer - Melissa Etheridge,
Madeleine Peyroux), Daryl Johnson (bass - Rolling
Stones, Bob Dylan, Emmy Lou Harris), Michael Chaves
(guitar - John Mayer, Sarah McLachlan), Larry
Goldings (keyboard ˆ James Taylor), Don Heffington
(drums - Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams).
Jackie’s
regular Los Angeles band includes Jeff Young,
member of Steely Dan’s and Jackson’s
Browne’s band, and her drummer Mauricio
Lewak also plays with Jackson Browne and Melissa
Etheridge. That’s life as a respected musician
in Hollywood.
Having
first moved to Australia in the mid-nineties,
Jackie recorded her debut Thirsty (Mushroom /
Liberation). Since then, Bristow has built up
an enviable live reputation. She recently performed
at the Canadian Music Festival in Toronto, a sell-out
Australian tour with Daniel Lanois, and has also
performed with Art Garfunkel, Madeleine Peyroux,
Renee Geyer, Bic Runga, Mark Seymour, The Whitlams,
The Badloves, and British band Capercaille.
“It
didn’t take long, sitting there in Hollywood’s
Hotel Café, a great venue for singer-songwriters,
to realize that Jackie Bristow was special.”
Desert Highway Magazine
2007
has seen Jackie secure exposure for her music
in store across 7,000 Starbucks locations in the
USA, as well as New Zealand and Australia, and
she can be seen on the brand new instore screens
throughout New York and Seattle and through the
highlighted show Contemporary Grind.
Bristow’s
songs have featured on hit Australian television
shows The Secret Life Of Us and Home And Away,
and in 2004 her song Carry Me Away featured in
the Australian movie Go Big.
In
2005, Jackie won the Tourism Australia Song For
Australia Competition for their international
campaign to promote Australia to the world. Her
winning track, This is Australia, was used in
consumer and trade promotions worldwide. Back
in New Zealand, two tracks from Crazy Love have
been play-listed on Air New Zealand flights, and
two have featured on the hit New Zealand television
show Outrageous Fortune (Credit:
Jackie Bristow official website)
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