NextThreeDays: Event Display

The Jordan Hull Band
Venue: Frank's @ 622 North, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, October 6, 2012
Time: 10:00 PM - 01:30 AM
Event Types: Music
Cost: $5.00
Description:
Frank's welcomes The Jordan Hull Band to the stage on Saturday, October 6th.

With a true respect and appreciation for the giant footprints of his forebears, Nashville-based Jordan Hull has ambitious goals that all point towards filling those shoes in his own fashion. Seldom do you find a 22 year old who traces his musical lineage to the great master Son House. “I learned about Bob Dylan; that lead me to investigate Woody Guthrie, then Leadbelly, then Son House,” he says of his personal musical exploration. “When I was three or four, I was obsessed with Elvis,” says the Dayton, Ohio native. “I would do impressions, collect anything about Elvis I could get my hands on. My grandma bought me a low-end Harmony acoustic and, though I never learned to play it until years later, I’d still beat the hell out of that thing, screaming ‘You ain't nothin' but a hound dog’.”

His initial willingness to belt out Elvis tunes notwithstanding, music wasn’t Jordan’s first love growing up. “Even though I heard my father playing records by guys like Van Morrison and Neil Young, I always thought I would be writing books when I grew up. I didn't get into music until I landed in my rebellious teens. I spent so much time grounded in my room during high school, music was the salvation. Songs help you through any pains, the pains of growing up, in my case. I had the blues real bad most of my growing up.” Unlike most kids who are feeling the blues of adolescence and teen rebelliousness, Jordan applied himself to learning and studying the traditions and immersed himself in the art of those who came before him. A voracious student of everyone from Leadbelly to Led Zeppelin, Kerouac to Cormac McCarthy, Pablo Picasso to Paul Klee, Jordan-- despite his youth and relative inexperience-- has sought to understand the elemental truths that underscore the work of the masters and transparently integrate those precepts into his own compositions.

For more information, visit: http://jordanhull.com/

For more information on Frank's/622 North, visit: http://www.622north.com or call: 540-951-1022.