Bluesy Americana Concert
Pi Jacobs in Concert
Saturday, November 23, 2024, 7:00 PM
$20 General Admission -
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$22 Door
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Roots-rock swagger & storytelling soul
Pi Jacobs draws inspiration from her unconventional upbringing in “The Land of Weed and Wine” aka Northern California. Blending roots-rock swagger and storytelling soul, her music has drawn comparisons to Tom Waits, Dolly Parton, and Lucinda Williams. She has been heard on NPR, DittyTV, Austin Music TV, Americana Highways, American Songwriter Magazine, and regularly on tastemakers KCSN, WFUV and stations across the nation.
Pi’s new album Soldier On, an album that shines brighter light on Pi's bluesy interpretation of American roots music. It's her tenth release, and it captures a longtime songwriter at the peak of her powers, delivering stories of resilience and endurance while a hotshot band kicks up plenty of dust behind her. Co-produced with two-time Grammy nominee Eric Corne, Soldier On finds Pi looking inward, balancing some of her most personal songwriting to date with full-band performances that were largely tracked live. The result is the best of both worlds: a rawly autobiographical album punctuated by groove and grit, caught halfway between the intimacy of Pi's writing and the collaborative chemistry of her stripped-down band.
One of the threads running throughout Pi's entire career has been her appreciation for good grooves, and Soldier On honors that longtime love. Raised on California country songs, blues standards, soul classics, and Laurel Canyon folksongs, she began playing bass at 15 years old and even studied the instrument in college, earning a double major in bass and vocal performance.
After relocating to New York, Pi mixed acoustic guitar and hip-hop loops on her 2001 debut, Irrational. A move to back to California several years later brought her back to her musical roots, and albums like Urbanicana found her assimilating country influences and southern rock textures into her music. During the decade's final stretch, she became a big fan of the TV program Justified - particularly the show's theme song, “Long Hard Times to Come,” which mixed hip-hop percussion with country instrumentation. That sound inspired the arrangements on her 2020 release,
That sense of balance is another one of Pi Jacobs' magic tricks. Throughout the 21st century, she has straddled the dividing line between genres, creating her own Americana sound along the way. She's an artist in perpetual motion, evolving her music with each album, chasing her muse into unexplored territory and creating a soundtrack for the ongoing journey. With Soldier On, she continues the exploration.
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