Jace Everett

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Bad things
  UK 49 October 31, 2009 (8 weeks)
Jace Everett

Jace Everett (born May 27, 1972 in Evansville , Indiana ) is an American singer-songwriter , composer and bandleader of alternative country .

Career

Jace Everett grew up in Texas. In his youth he sang and played in a church band and he was interested in both gospel and country music. He studied at Belmont University in Nashville , then roamed the States with a cover band, married, and eventually settled in Texas again.

When his marriage fell apart, he returned to Nashville, where he quickly got a contract with Major Sony . His debut album titled Jace Everett appeared in 2006. While his album quite unsuccessfully had had Josh Turner with the song Your Man , was with whom he co-authored a number-one hit in the country charts.

After the own failure, a label change followed and a year later the next album, which was again hardly noticed. Finally, in 2009, the album Red Revelations was released again on a new label . Everett remained commercially unsuccessful in the USA, but in England he achieved success in the charts with Bad Things . The song is the title track of the television series True Blood .

On January 24, 2016, Deutschlandfunk broadcast a one-hour musician portrait of Jace Everett's musical career in the series "Rock et Cetera", in which he expressed his experiences and perspectives.

Everett lives as a rock musician in Nashville, Tennessee.

Discography

Albums

  • Jace Everett (2006)
  • Old New Borrowed Blues (2007)
  • Red Revelations (2009)
  • Mr. Good Times (2011)
  • Terra Rosa (2013)

Singles

  • That's the Kind of Love I'm In (2005)
  • Bad Things (2005)
  • Nowhere in the Neighborhood (2006)
  • Everything I Want (2006)
  • Bad Things (2009)
  • Good Times (2011)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. Chart sources: UK
  2. ^ ASCAP, BMI Honor Josh Turner and Writers of "Your Man" , CMT (Author: Edward Morris), March 20, 2006
  3. The Texan singer Jace Everett Between gospel, country and socialism