KXT 91.7 Presents Jacob Metcalf with special guests Jackson Scribner and Ceci Ceci
While Metcalf's debut album Fjord (2016) was tracked in half a dozen recording studios and completed with the help of 36 musician friends, Monitors was, by necessity, conceived and recorded primarily in isolation from the small bedroom studio where Metcalf rehearses his songs.
Metcalf invited a few friends to lend their talents but kept the decorations minimal. To fill out the arrangements Metcalf for the first time played trumpet, plucked violins and bowed cellos, even picking up vibraphone and contributing pedal steel guitar to round out the record.
The nonet batch of songs also features well-placed electric guitars patched through fuzz pedals, and overdrive slide breaks doused in canyon reverb and slapback delay. A few vintage synthesizers make appearances too. It's all new terrain for the artist. "Anything is possible," laughs Metcalf. And indeed it is.
Jackson Scribner
Raised in rural Melissa, Texas, Jackson Scribner grew up obsessed with music from an early age. He learned guitar when he was only nine and spent countless hours playing alongside his Dad and brothers at family gatherings. Being that the virtuosic player is only twenty four years old, that doesn’t feel all that long ago. Only in the last three to four years has Jackson put lyrics to his skillful instrumentals, making their timeless appeal all the more prodigious.
Jackson’s precocity — melodic and poetic — pierces sparse folk-rock arrangements, and in turn, a listener’s heart. With emotional precision, he roars and rattles out familiar tales of life so beautifully unspecial: "Me and you left when you were sixteen / Hair so wild when you look at me / Take your wheels across the county line / Thousand miles away to that downtown diner / Watch you rise..."
Jackson along with his brother Levi Scribner (also a critically acclaimed singer songwriter in his own right) perform mostly as a duo, entwining their harmonious voices and intricate guitar playing. Notably, Jackson has supported acts like Dan Layus (Augustana,) Abraham Alexander, and Israel Nash.in and around the States as well as in Europe, where's they've played twice at Sweden's Rootsy Fest and the duo just returned home from their third trip across the pond, playing in France alongside Dylan Leblanc at The Eldorado Festival outside Paris.
Jackson Scribner’s debut album Jackson Scribner was released in 2021 on State Fair Records. His much anticipated sophomore record is set to be released in early 2025 along with a track co-written with Dan Layus.
