Jason Eklund

Vocalist, songwriter, harmonica participant, pianist, guitarist and banjo participant Jason Eklund didn’t start out being a folk vocalist, however in a hardcore punk-rock music group whilst in senior high school in southern Illinois. After three semesters learning play at Eastern Illinois School, the youthful Eklund made a decision to live — not only sing about — the life span of a vacationing folk vocalist. Acquiring his cue from folk heroes like Woody Guthrie, he still left Illinois and lay out for Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he proved helpful being a busker, playing for guidelines. But after selecting Pete Seeger’s house address within a banjo education book, he composed towards the folk vocalist and afterwards hitched a trip to Seeger’s house in upstate NY. Thankfully for Eklund, there is plenty of function to be achieved around Seeger’s rustic home and lawn, and Seeger and his wife, who’ve a long background of supporting attempting singer-songwriters, had taken him in. After proceeding back again to Illinois for some time, Eklund was out once again searching for gigs and playing on road corners. The past due founder of Traveling Fish Information, Bruce Kaplan, was therefore impressed by Eklund’s road performance through the 1992 Chicago Blues Festival that he provided the youthful singer-songwriter a offer. Eklund’s Flying Seafood debut, Jason Eklund, was documented in Boulder, Colorado and released in 1993. Backing music artists included Nick Forster in the Sizzling hot Rize bluegrass music group and pianist Scott Kirby. His best influences had been Bob Dylan, Howlin’ Wolf, Elvis Presley and lots of Woody Guthrie. His follow-up, 1995’s Shed Causeway, also for Soaring Fish Information (now owned from the Rounder Information Group), is a far more fleshed-out affair, with plenty of Texas-based music artists associated him. Both of Eklund’s albums are multi-genre affairs, artful mixes of blues, early rock and roll & roll, nation, and original tracks that appear to be traditional folk tracks. Eklund, ever the vagabond, is constantly on the tour. He released a cooperation with fellow folk vocalist Roger Johnson in 1997, A Streamliner’s Duet, for the Vermont-based Gadfly Information.