Names:pseud. Jackie Greene (1 documents) example document: Jackie Greene Chris Nelson 1980-Oakridge High School Yearbook 1997 in Salinas, California|Salinas , California , and developed an interest in music at an early age, starting with the piano . At 14, he began to play guitar and within a short time, was able to sit in with local bar band s. As he got older, he began Composer|composing his own songs. He recorded in a makeshift garage recording studio|studio , burning his own CDs and selling them everywhere he could. Using the money he saved, Greene was eventually able to record and release his first full-length album, RustyNails (album)|Rusty Nails , on his own.
After graduating from Oak Ridge High School (El Dorado Hills, California)|Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, California , Greene moved to Sacramento , where he began performing regularly. Marty DeAnda, owner of local label DIG Music , noticed Greene at an open-mic session in 2001 and signed him as the label's first artist. In late 2002, Greene released his first album with DIG, '' Gone Wanderin' , which won the California Music Award for the Best Blues/Roots Album in 2003 and remained on the national Americana (music)|Americana charts for over a year. In 2004, Greene released his third album, Sweet Somewhere Bound , and began receiving radio play for singles like "Honey I Been Thinking About You".
Greene has toured nationally with B.B. King , Phil Lesh , Ratdog , Huey Lewis , Susan Tedeschi , Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal , and Buddy Guy , and has played major U.S. festivals, including All Good Music Festival|All Good , Gathering of the Vibes , Mountain Jam (festival)|Mountain Jam , Grateful Garcia Gathering , Newport Jazz Festival|Newport Jazz , Newport Folk Festival|Newport Folk , South by Southwest , Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival|Wakarusa , Winnipeg Folk Festival|Winnipeg Folk , Bonnaroo , Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival|Outside Lands , and Rothbury Festival|Rothbury .
In early 2005, he signed with a major record label , Verve Forecast . Sweet Somewhere Bound was reissued that year, followed by a new release, American Myth , in March 2006.cite web|url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p545062/biography|pure_url=yes|title=Biography: Jackie Greene|last=Torreano|first=Bradley|publisher= All Media Guide|AMG |accessdate=16 May 2010 The following year, Greene joined Phil Lesh and Friends , the Grateful Dead bassist's ensemble dedicated to the interpretation of the Dead's extensive song book. Other members of the band at the time included John Molo , Larry Campbell (musician)|Larry Campbell and Steve Molitz . Also in 2005 his song "I Will Never Let Go" was used in the soundtrack for the movie Brokeback Mountain (soundtrack)|Brokeback Mountain which was also released on the Verve label.
Meanwhile, Greene continued to pursue solo efforts, releasing Giving Up the Ghost on 429 Records in April 2008, and made his second visit to '' Late Night With Conan O'Brien '' in June 2008, performing "Like A Ball & Chain". Another song from the album, "I Don't Live in a Dream", was featured on episodes of the NBC television series Life (NBC TV series)|Life in November 2008 and American Broadcasting Company|ABC 's Private Practice (TV series)|Private Practice in March 2009.
In October through November 2009, Jackie Greene played a series of shows with Gov't Mule , culminating at the end of the tour on Halloween at the Tower Theater (Upper Darby, Pennsylvania)|Tower Theater in Upper Darby , during which Jackie played and sang through an entire set of Rolling Stones songs with Gov't Mule . http://www.mule.net/from_the_road/
Greene is currently a member of Trigger Hippy along with Joan Osborne , Steve Gorman , Audley Freed , and Nick Govrik .
http://www.jackiegreene.com/ Official website — jackiegreene.com
http://www.myspace.com/jackiegreene Jackie Greene on MySpace
http://www.phillesh.net/ phillesh.net
http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl? show_code=mu& air_date=7/4/05& tmplt_type=show Live Performance on the Music Exchange from July 4, 2005
http://www.archive.org/details/JackieGreene Jackie Greene collection at the Internet Archive 's live music archive
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