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- Around 10 years ago, Souther moved to Nashville, bought a farm, and has been steadily taking steps back into the public eye with a few jazz-inflected records. While he’s still a bit of a recluse (“I just bought the farm because I don’t like neighbors,” he says.), he’s been having a very big year.
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Nov 5, 2014 · The ‘80s were a time of “MTV dominance,” as singer-songwriter JD Souther, puts it, so why not take the opportunity to take a vacation. That’s what Souther did.
Oct 10, 2018 · This is the true story of two 20th century American music pioneers — a pair of young and hungry desperados in the making who, in their mutual quest to become top-shelf modern-day songwriters, played no small role in forging the template for the then-burgeoning country rock genre.
May 19, 2016 · Souther took a two-decade break from recording a few years later. He moved to Nashville, married and divorced, and released an unexpectedly jazz-inspired comeback, “If the World Was You,” in 2008.
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There's a certain freedom that comes with a solo performance that allows for any number of spontaneous decisions. But as Souther says, it also makes him work a little harder. "I don’t have the fantastic Chris Walters on piano to just let him take these gorgeous, Gershwinesque solos," Souther says. "It’s really all on me. And since I’m not that kind...
He tries to treat it like an evening at the theater with a perhaps unlikely source of inspiration. “The best evening I ever spent in the theater was with Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain show," he says. "It’s a one-man show. He’s been doing it for 30 years. I’ve seen it maybe eight, nine times. And the way he’s able to connect with 1,000 people while just...
It hasn't always been this way, Souther drawing the audience deeper into his performance with accompanying anecdotes. “There were years on the road where I didn’t talk at all between songs, just because I didn’t want to,” Souther says. “Some of it was stubbornness. Some of it was just wanting to keep everything that goes from the bandstand out to t...
Souther's latest release, 2015's "Tenderness," found the singer exploring his earlier source of inspiration – the Great American Songbook. "The ‘Tenderness’ record probably reflects more the music I heard when I was small,” he says. “The soundtrack in my household was classical and opera and Sinatra. And Sinatra. And Sinatra. Which means a lot of G...
Given his lifelong affection for jazz, it may seem odd that Souther found himself so deeply immersed in the heart of the '70s country-rock community. "Part of it was just environmental," Souther says. "Everybody around us was playing acoustic guitar and trying to write songs. So I went home to Texas and got an acoustic guitar from my dad's music st...
When:7:30 p.m. Friday, June 7, and Saturday, June 8. Where:Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix. Admission:$48.50-$53.50. Details: 480-478-6000, themim.org.
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- Pop Music Critic
Mar 24, 2016 · And now, thanks to Omnivore Records and label head/reissue co-producer Cheryl Pawelski, we get to revisit Souther’s own recorded canon with the triple-threat CD reissuing of his first three heretofore hard-to-find solo albums: John David Souther (1972), Black Rose (1976), and Home by Dawn (1984).
Oct 30, 2012 · Around 10 years ago, Souther moved to Nashville, bought a farm, and has been steadily taking steps back into the public eye with a few jazz-inflected records.
May 27, 2015 · JD Souther is not known for being a front man; yet on May 9th, he took center stage at a packed Café Carlyle, to celebrate the release of his newest album, Tenderness. Souther is best known...
