Ingram returns with Rounder
Ingram recently completed recording his debut for the label, "Midnight Motel," and eighth overall. The CD will be out in June and is his first since his 2009 smash "Big Drums & High Hopes."
"Midnight Motel" was produced by fellow singer-songwriter Jon Randall, and features a studio band including guitarist Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan, Arc Angels), drummer Chad Cromwell (Neil Young, Dire Straits), bassist Robert Kearns and keyboardist Bukka Allen from Ingram's Beat Up Ford Band.
Rounder Label Group COO Cliff O'Sullivan said, "Jack Ingram speaks from his heart, whether on a stage or in the studio. 'Midnight Motel' is a return to the kind of raw songs and performances that made Jack fans from the early days of his career in Ft. Worth and all over Texas before becoming a nationally known artist in the past decade. We're thrilled to have him join the Rounder Label Group family."
Ingram will preview material from the new CD at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin next week. Ingram will also take part in a live taping of the tribute show "The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson" on March 16 at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. Ingram will also headline appearances at Spencer Theater in Alto, N.M. on March 12 and City Winery Nashville, March 28.
More news for Jack Ingram
- 02/28/24: Ingram, Randall, McBride join Texas Music Hall
- 04/29/21: Lambert, Randall, Ingram plan film on "The Marfa Tapes"
- 03/05/21: Lambert, Ingram, Randall to release 15 songs
- 03/04/21: Lambert, Ingram, Randall team up for surprise recording
- 10/26/10: Ingram checks into Acoustic Motel (tour)
- 04/08/10: Ingram readies Early Show gig
- 01/26/10: Jack Ingram goes Free
- 08/27/09: Ingram gets with the sauce
CD reviews for Jack Ingram
Jack Ingram tells a crazy story about the inspiration for "Blaine's Ferris Wheel" at the end of another song, "I Feel Like Drinking Tonight." It's one of a few places where Ingram can be heard just talking. In part, this story concerns a time when Ingram was asked to open for the late Merle Haggard. But as great a storyteller Ingram is, he's even a better songwriter and "I Feel Like Drinking Tonight" ranks right up there with all those great Haggard drinking songs. ...
Jack Ingram spent much of the '90s polishing his star in the organic, stripped-down Texas music scene before leaving it behind for the allure (and chance for a larger career) that comes with Nashville's pop-country sound. Ingram's music has become sleeker, with drums and electric guitar thrown to the forefront in true Nashville style, but even that can't hide his slightly rugged vocals.
A bitter, darker version of honky-tonk rocker Barbie Doll was released on his 1999 album "Hey You. ...
Before slapping the sellout tag on Jack Ingram for recording Hinder's poppy power ballad "Lips of an Angel" or chalking it up to a new record company's desperate move to make its star male sound hip and contemporary, give it a listen. Like Ingram says in the liner notes, a good song is a good song.
Problem is, if it becomes his trademark song, much like Mark Chesnutt just can't shake "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" despite everything else he's done, ...
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