Description
Across his rollicking new LP Big Jefe, Jack Blocker fully embraces the rough-edged Americana spirit that’s called to him from the start. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter muses on nights out drinking, making mistakes, and life on the road across the project’s eleven tracks. Blocker didn’t set out to make a concept album. During his first winter in Nashville, he started writing a new tune over a few pours of whiskey – one that made him chuckle and feel excited about songwriting again. The song became “Big Jefe,” Blocker’s first ever single that tells the tale of a reckless, drunken miscreant named Jefe, released in 2023. He started dreaming up a world around that story, inspired in part by Willie Nelson’s 1975 concept album Red Headed Stranger, as well as country singer-songwriters like Marty Robbins and Townes Van Zandt.
Produced by Patrick Lyons (Colter Wall, Noeline Hofmann), Big Jefe is about transformation. It’s a story about a drifter – a broke drunkard searching for purpose. Drawn into the drug trade out of perceived necessity, he chases opportunity and transforms a struggle for survival into an unlikely rise to power as Big Jefe.
Tracklist:
- Tucson
- Stag
- Wallow with the Hogs
- Talking Greyhound Blues
- Ain't Gonna Sell (Something I Wouldn't Do Myself)
- I Can Get You High
- Brand New Name
- Christian Girl
- Good Hearted Woman
- When The River Runs Dry
- Big Jefe
UPC: 732388039487
Label: Elbow Grease
Release Date: 11.6.26
Format: Vinyl
![the album cover for Jack Blocker - Big Jefe [Cherry Bomb]](http://tumbleweedsct.com/cdn/shop/files/418467323359_1000.jpg?v=1788470558)
![the album cover for Jack Blocker - Big Jefe [Cherry Bomb]](http://tumbleweedsct.com/cdn/shop/files/418467323359_1000.jpg?crop=center&height=430&v=1788470558&width=310)