Jackie Marshall

LABEL: SUGARRUSH Records

Australian artist Jackie Marshall spent her early teens sneaking into 90s Indy Rock gigs and teaching herself to play a borrowed guitar by deciphering Bob Dylan charts of songs she'd never heard in real life.

Still in her teens when concurrently discovering writers the likes of Bruce Chatwin, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins and Kurt Vonnegut, Jackie wasted no time in deciding to hit the road for a life of real hitch-hikin' adventure.

Thereafter she added Beat era Jazz and 60s era Rock and Folk to her musical tastes and started writing songs.

Weary from the road one year, she shacked up in a dilapidated Queenslander behind the XXXX brewery in Brisbane with alt country officionado and musician-in-his-own-right Chris Pickering, his kid brother Vinnie, and Vesna Zornik the Slovenian super diva; during which time she caught a whiff of the tail of all this new-country malarky, not to mention an incessant barrage of fermenting hops.

She released her Australian Music Prize shortlisted debut album FIGHT n'FLIGHT, to national critical acclaim late in 2006, and an official career in genre-defiant writing, performing and recording of songs was born.

Renowned for her gutsy but tender vocal style (which Jackie has jokingly referred to as ‘Dolly Parton meets Patti Smith’), Jackie was hand-picked by Missy Higgins to support her on the sold-out QLD leg of her 2007 “On A Clear Night” tour as part of the Australian national youth broadcaster Triple J’s Unearthed series. Jackie also performed for iconic QLD concert series Women In Voice at the QLD Performing Arts Centre and featured on SBS Television’s much-loved ‘RocKwiz’ dueting with Australian music legend Colin Hay.

An incorrigible journeywoman, Jackie has finally found time to make a rockin’ new album. LADIES' LUCK will be released in Australia in April 2010. "Too Somebody" is its first single, recorded in Queensland's premier new independent recording studio THE ARK, and produced by FIGHT n'FLIGHT producer BEN TOLLIDAY, with the mysterious and venerable BLACK ALLES BAND.

The album is slated for physical release in Australia through Vitamin Records and digitally worldwide through SUGARRUSH.

And so it goes...

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