Native ATX guitar-slinger jackievenson brings her supersonic boom to SXSW.
With the Before Times now verging on hazy, long-gone nostalgia, two years this month of COVID-19 reset most entertainers. Jackie Venson proved no exception. Only where most musicians postponed releases, the native ATX guitar slinger, multi-instrumentalist, and oftentimes solo show woman dropped two studio LPs of soul-pop/blues rock.“These last two years have been crazy with seriously huge, huge growth for me.
In 2020, native guitar quasar Gary Clark Jr. swept the Austin Music Awards with contemporary blues cruise. Last year, those honors passed to Venson, who took home Musician of the Year, Album of the Year for, and Best Livestreaming Artist. She graciously left Band of the Year to the Black Pumas.taping, while wearing a dress adorned with the names of Black casualties to police violence, continued to raise her profile.
“It’s so weird that we’re in the craziest world, but then my albums are home runs, out of the park,” she wonders from a space three times bigger than her last apartment. “No other release can even compare to the amount of streams and sales I had on [“And it’s not like I didn’t always work this hard. Y’all have been here, shit. Hard, hard eight years. Hard all over the world. This happened after I’d been putting all this stuff on the internet and getting online experience.
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