GROOVYACOUSTICSOUL
(also check out the discs Living Room and Distil on CDBaby)
The Groovy Acoustic Soul movement took its name in 1992, when Grateful Dead piano player, Bruce Hornsby, asked Jason Luckett, "what kind of music do you do?" He'd ju [+]GROOVYACOUSTICSOUL
(also check out the discs Living Room and Distil on CDBaby)
The Groovy Acoustic Soul movement took its name in 1992, when Grateful Dead piano player, Bruce Hornsby, asked Jason Luckett, "what kind of music do you do?" He'd just given up his electric guitar to get ready for a wander to Europe so he replied, "Groovy Acoustic Soul." Which Bruce twisted into "GAS music." Not quite as descriptive, but the awful mutation by a rock star solidified Jason's moniker.
Jason describes Groovy Acoustic Soul as "music you'd make in the back room of your parents' house...if your parents were Joni Mitchell and Marvin Gaye."
The Southern California singer/songwriter was born in Hawaii, with roots in Mississippi and Maine, USA. If that seems a navigational conundrum, his music clarifies. He brings stories from all stops with residual suburban angst... and a healthy dose of urban consciousness.
It begins with Jason's jazz loving father placing the infant in front of the stereo speakers to see if he'll dance. Eight years later his passion finds focus in an after school program at the Westside Jewish Community Center, listening to his counselor sing folk and rock songs.
Feeling isolated by a move later that year from multicultural Los Angeles to homogenous Irvine, Jason finds a book on Woody Guthrie and begins writing his own songs. This inspires the boy to lug an amp to school to play recess gigs for the kids.
Not much has changed. He continues to take his music out of the bedroom to US and European clubs and colleges. And he takes it to the kids-the inner city teens that he mentors in Los Angeles when not out supporting his CDs. He also puts his music out through film, theater and TV scores.
Four independent releases precede his new disc, "arrogance procrastination fear humility."
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Why "arrogance, procrastination, fear, humility?"
It's a cycle I and a lot of people go through all the time and also I think culturally as a nation we go through this cycle, too. It seemed really prescient as I started making this album in September of '01.
On a personal level, I feel a lot has been gifted to me and I can take that for granted. Then I start to doubt myself, think that I ha
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