Stevie Jackson

Infobox musical artist
Name = Stevie Jackson
Background = solo_singer

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Img_capt = Stevie Jackson playing guitar
Alias = Stevie Reverb
Action Jackson
Jacko
[ [http://www.belleandsebastian.com/bandbios.php?MemberName=Stevie Belle & Sebastian ] ]
Born = birth date and age|1969|1|16
Origin = Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Death =
Genre = Indie pop
Occupation = Musician
Instrument = Guitar
Vocals

Associated_acts = Belle & Sebastian
The Moondials

Stevie Jackson, born January 16, 1969, in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Scottish musician and songwriter. He plays lead guitar and sings in the Glasgow-based indie band Belle & Sebastian.Jackson's guitar playing is very distinctively retrogressive and melodic, with a heavy use of reverb and minimal effects. He has, in the past, been nicknamed 'Reverb' or 'Stevie Reverb' due to his use of the said effect.

Prior to joining the group, Jackson was a member of the now-defunct The Moondials, a band that released a single on Electric Honey, a label that would later issue Belle & Sebastian's first album, "Tigermilk". The Moondials experience was a pleasant one for Jackson, and it took a great deal of work for nominal Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch to convince him to join his group. At the time, Murdoch was playing the open mic circuit in Glasgow as a solo act, and it was at one of these performances -- at The Halt Bar -- that Jackson first saw Murdoch play.

In the beginning, the band existed mostly as an outlet for Murdoch's songwriting. Since the band's third album, "The Boy With The Arab Strap", other members have begun to contribute, Stevie Jackson chief amongst them. All of the band's subsequent full-lengths have featured compositions by Jackson, and he wrote the band's 2001 single "Jonathan David" as well as "To Be Myself Completely" for 2006's "The Life Pursuit". His songs are noticeably different from Murdoch's compositions--they tend to be shorter and less introspective, opting for catchy 1960s-style pop more often that the folky melancholia that defined Belle & Sebastian's early releases.

Belle & Sebastian songs written by Stevie Jackson

*"Seymour Stein" (from "The Boy with the Arab Strap")
*"Chickfactor" (from "The Boy with the Arab Strap")
*"The Wrong Girl" (from "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant")
*"Jonathan David" (from "Jonathan David" single)
*"Wandering Alone" (from "Storytelling")
*"Roy Walker" (from "Dear Catastrophe Waitress")
*"Step Into My Office, Baby" (from "Dear Catastrophe Waitress") (co-writer)
*"I Believe in Travellin' Light" (from "I'm a Cuckoo" single)
*"To Be Myself Completely" (from "The Life Pursuit")
*"Song for Sunshine" (from "The Life Pursuit") (co-writer)
*"I Took a Long Hard Look" (from "Funny Little Frog" single)
*"Mr Richard" (from "The Blues are Still Blue" single)
*"Long Black Scarf" (from "White Collar Boy" single)

Trivia

* Contributed the song "Good Time" to the compilation "Caroline Now!: The Songs of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys"
* He played harmonica on "Song For The Troubadour" by the German band The Happy Couple
* He played guitar on "Thank You Baby" by V-Twin

References