JACKIE TICE
CSPS debut | Jackie Tice’s recent CD, Second Skin, makes full use of her award-winning performing and songwriting skills. Produced by 2005 Grammy Award-winner Bill Miller, it includes Jamey Haddad (Paul Simon) on percussion and Pete Cummings (Johnny Cash, Willy Nelson) on electric guitar. "Jackie is not in a box," says Miller. "She writes songs with messages ... hers is a voice that needs to be heard."
A Kerrville New Folk Award-winner, Jackie Tice co-mingles her Native American and old European roots to create her own lyrical and musical style, with subjects as diverse as the lives of Magdalene women, Shakespearian love and the call of coyotes. Her songs have been praised as "modern day classics ... capturing instances of universal recognition and appeal." "I love your songs," Lucinda Williams said to Jackie backstage at the Kerrville Festival.
Tice was raised in a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, steel mill town, growing up with six brothers and sisters and acquiring enough songwriting fodder to last a lifetime. Today she has four albums to her credit and a collection of rave reviews from major music media in the US, Australia, Italy and Canada.
In 2002, Tice produced an acoustic collection of songs inspired by her oil paintings, entitled In These Bones, which, alongside the Doc Watson/David Holt collection, Legacy, was recently nominated as Best Traditional Folk Album by the grassroots JPF Music Awards. Tice's song “Domestic Delinquent,” was included in the 2002 Random House publication, “Life's a Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor,” an anthology of humorous short stories, poetry, songs and cartoons alongside writing by Gloria Steinem, Erma Bombeck and others.
Her festival and club dates have included appearances with Christine Lavin, Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, John Gorka, Garnet Rogers, Susan Werner and others. Performing everywhere from Club Passim to the Bluebird Café, Jackie Tice is increasingly recognized as an important voice among American songwriters.
Thu Feb 7 | 8 pm
CSPS | 1103 Third St SE | Cedar Rapids
$12 advance | $15 day of show