JACKYL Announce VIP Sturgis Trip Giveaway; 30th Anniversary Collection Due In August With Three New Songs
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2022 marks the 30th anniversary of Jackyl’s self-titled debut album, which spawned five hit singles: “I Stand Alone”, “The Lumberjack”, “Down On Me”, “Dirty Little Mind”, and “When Will It Rain”. To celebrate this momentous occasion, the band has planned something truly special. Speaking exclusively to BraveWords scribe Aaron Small, Jackyl frontman Jesse James Dupree opens up about an incredible contest.
“I wanted to share with you that we’re giving away… it just so happens that the night we play in Sturgis for our annual show at the Full Throttle Saloon, this year – August 11th – happens to be 30 years to the day that our first album dropped. We didn’t plan that. We play on the Thursday night of the Rally every single year, and it just so happened that it actually fell right on August 11th this year. We were like, holy sh*t! Not only are we playing, and celebrating the 30th, we’re giving somebody a chance to win a trip. We’ll give them a camper. They get to stay at the Full Throttle Saloon. I’ll put some Jesse James Bourbon in there. We’ll give them some travel money to get there, and of course VIPs for the show. They can win the trip by going to Jackyl.com and becoming a member of The Chainsaw Mafia. Or you can download The Chainsaw Mafia App.”
The 30th anniversary festivities don’t end there as a new Best-Of will be released this summer. “The album is dropping on August 11th. It’s called Jackyl 30 – Coming In Hot, and it’s got three brand new tracks on it,” reveals Jesse. “It’s got some songs off of Relentless, When Moonshine And Dynamite Collide, and Best In Show; it’s kind of a greatest hits. On the 25th anniversary, we leaned heavy on the first couple of albums, but we’ve got some cool stuff coming, and we’re going to put this out. We’re just now getting behind ‘Get All Up In It’, and the streaming numbers are really strong. We’re keeping our fingers crossed everybody will keep connecting with it. Wait ‘til you hear the next single; it’s a damn straight-up rocker. We’ll be ready to kick that one out too. Each of the three new songs draw on our influences. In fact, the next single’s a whole other space. I almost wanted to call the damn thing ‘Influences’, cause it’s got so much.”
Jesse peels back the layers of the aforementioned new single and video, “Get All Up In It (Another Round Of Mother Funker)”. “You know what? It’s fun! And in the truest sense, it’s just a song that, for me, pulls on all of my influences. There’s elements of so much that I grew up loving, especially that ‘70s groove stuff and the soul singers – ‘I’m gonna tell your Momma on you’. All that kind of stuff. It’s still Jackyl. It’s got that edge, and the sexual overtones, all that stuff – but in such a retro, fun way. That’s what we enjoyed about it, and we hope that people who are listening to it enjoy it. I mean, there’s always going to be naysayers, what can you do about that?”
“At 30 years of our career, if you can’t laugh at your own expense, and really be honest about what drives you and what you love… if people don’t get that… I generally find that the people that don’t understand what it’s about just to celebrate the fundamentals of rock ‘n roll – when Elvis Presley was gyrating his hip, or The Beatles were singing ‘Love Me Do’ and shaking their mop tops – nobody was thinking that music needed to cure cancer. It wasn’t about that. Music was just stimulating your glands – that’s the basis of what rock ‘n roll’s supposed to be about. A release to get away from busting your ass. These people that are obsessed with hearing some cookie-cutter, cookie monster sings stuff… it’s great. I like some of that stuff too, but God damn, every now and then can you just lighten up and have some fun? Does everything have to be like the apocalypse? Again, we’re just celebrating those fundamentals and loving what we’re doing.”
“We had just as much fun making the video as we did recording the song. When we did the video, we’d been on the road for a couple of weeks or so. We left out of Fort Myers after a great show down there. We woke up at the Sound Stage in Atlanta, got off the bus, went to work, and ended up with that video. It’s definitely not just same as it ever was. Everybody can see that we pulled off some cool influences, but it’s still Jackyl. I don’t think anybody can say we’re trying to be something we’re not. But again, right alongside that, we’re just showing our colors, and I’m proud of it. It’s a good summer song!”
(Source: www.bravewords.com)
