Jade Jackson - Gilded (Anti-) 2017
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Jade Jackson had a lot of time to work on her craft. Growing up in a house that didn’t have space for a television or a computer and internet, Jackson spent her days writing and playing. Years later Social Distortion’s Mike Ness becomes her mentor and produces her debut album. Through a strict diet of Lucinda Williams’s Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, Gilded is born and in its curves details some of the same passion, honesty, and weird coherence. Her raspy-throated voice and stories might be impressive, but the way she strings it all together and keeps connecting the dots, even if they seem worlds apart, make Gilded an astounding debut that will make you tremble.