Quoting his short, less-serious bio:
Jack Shields is a songwriter, guitarist, and producer from a forested corner of Connecticut. Blending and bending the genres of rock, hip-hop, and folk, he continues to blah blah blah...
Quoting his longer, more serious bio:
Songwriter and frontman Jack Shields is, perhaps more so than others, a man of heritage. A childhood in California and an adolescence in Connecticut left him a man of two coasts, with two wells of musical influence from which to draw. His new project finds him switching effortlessly between a Poppier Indie Rock, as boundless as the amber western landscapes that inspired it, and a more dextrous Folk, in the style of The Band. Modest Mouse-like in the former, Shields’ music boasts a Brockian edge, with a similar country lilt -- the listener might easily imagine Shields propped on a westward wagon, guitar aloft, strumming a trail song en route to a house party in the Hollywood Hills, or just as easily a Thoreauvian bard in the Bon Iver fashion, sauntering about the New England woods and hibernating in a subterranean studio. Written in the sunbathed vistas of California and recorded in the dusky pinewoods of Connecticut, Shields stitches an American folk tapestry that is difficult to overlook.
“Ghost” by Jack Shields
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