Jed Zimmerman’s newest release “Shedlight” will be available on September 3, 2013! Check out the teaser video to preview some of the tracks.

Or, preview and pre-order the record on I-Tunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shedlight/id691182360

Available for digital download September 3, 2013!

Madjack Records is proud to announce the release of Jed Zimmerman’s new recording titled “Shedlight”. The songwriting here reflects the varied life experiences one encounters during years of traveling, living and playing music in starkly diverse locations. For several years, Jed resided in Memphis, TN, all the while soaking up the city’s eclectic blend of musical influences. He and fellow Memphis songwriter Keith Sykes began working together and eventually Jed landed in Texas where he met the likes of Guy Clark, Joe Ely,  Rodney Crowell and the ever present spirit of Townes Van Zandt. His songwriting continued to grow along the way. Jed spent considerable time in Taos, NM as well, drawing on its beauty, and its landscape poetry, leading to songs like Shedlight’s “Texas New Mexico Line”. During this period, Jed also married a beautiful girl and they now have two children. So of course, the depth of the songwriting increased accordingly, as Jed dabbled from life’s evolving palette.

Given Zimmerman’s background, when it came time to record Shedlight, it made perfect sense to collaborate with Texas’ Walt Wilkins of Mystiqueros fame. Walt produced the Shedlight sessions in Texas with a host of the area’s finest musicians including (Dick Gimble, Jimmy Davis, Corby Shaulb, Ray Rodriguez and harmonies by Tina Mitchell Wilkins .) After the main tracks were recorded in Texas, Walt and Jed sent the music to Memphis’ world famous Sun Studios where horns (Jim Spake, Scott Thompson) and background vocals (Kait Lawson, Susan Marshall) were added.The result is a collection of songs that beautifully blend a multitude of influences.

In the 1970’s, on the classic country album “Wanted! The Outlaws”, with Willie and Waylon and Jessie Colter, Tom Paul Glaser sings “T for Texas, T for Tennessee”. In 2013, Jed’s music continues this geographical marriage. While Tennessee boys Davy Crockett and Sam Houston once shed blood in Texas, Jed Zimmerman humbly opts to “Shedlight”

MADJACK artists Jed Zimmerman, Delta Joe Sanders, and Mark Edgar Stuart at Keith Sykes 2013 songwriter convention in Hot Springs Arkansas. Check out some of their music here:

Jed Zimmerman:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/write-now/id332626436?uo=4

Delta Joe Sanders:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/working-without-a-net/id569262449?uo=4

Mark Edgar Stuart:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blues-for-lou/id605851876?uo=4

The Memphis Dawls will begin work this summer with producer Jeff Powell on a record of all new material to be released on MADJACK Records. Check out the Memphis Dawls and stay tuned for more news about the release.

https://www.facebook.com/TheMemphisDawls?fref=ts

Check out the newly premiered video for Mark Edgar Stuart’s “Remote Control” from his 2013 release, “Blues For Lou.”

Mark Stuart – Remote Control from New School Media on Vimeo.

Kait Lawson was featured this week on CMT.com! CMT Edge debuted the second single from Kait’s release Until We Drown, called “Memphis.”

Check out the article here and listen to “Memphis” here:

http://www.cmtedge.com/2013/02/27/kait-lawson-serenades-her-memphis-hometown/

Listen to Kait’s album Until We Drown:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/until-we-drown/id561782533?uo=4

MADJACK Records is proud to announce the release of Mark Edgar Stuart’s debut release, “Blues For Lou.” Available now!

Born in southern Arkansas, Mark Edgar Stuart moved to Memphis over twenty years ago to expand his musical education and has been an immutable presence on the city’s music scene ever since. For most of his career, Stuart was the consummate sideman playing bass with Alvin Youngblood Hart, Cory Branan, John Paul Keith, Jack Oblivian, The Pawtuckets, Secret Service, and Vending Machine among others. In recent years, after successfully battling through an extensive illness and also enduring the loss of his cherished father, Mark began writing. The result is the twelve song recording “Blues for Lou”. If you think you might enjoy hearing the Grim Reaper smacked down with infectious honesty and humor, then this is the record for you. Stuart conjures a combination of precious memories and fire-forged understanding allowing him to bring to the listener a truly unique sonic experience…all with a wry smile and a humble heart. The Eternal Footman never stood a chance.

I-Tunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blues-for-lou/id605851876?uo=4

 
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Amazon:

https://www.facebook.com/MadjackRecords/app_208195102528120

MADJACK artist Kait Lawson was featured today on americansongwriter.com. The article is about a track called “Place In The Ground” on Kait’s debut album Until We Drown. Kait talks about what inspired the lyrics to her song.

Check out the article here:

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2013/01/kait-lawson-contemplates-a-place-in-the-ground/

On Sunday, December 9, 2012, MADJACK Records will be celebrating the release of John Kilzer’s latest record, “Seven.”

The show will at Neil’s Music Room, 5727 Quince, in Memphis at 7PM. Joining John on stage will be Harry Peel, Sam Shoup, Steve Selvidge, and other special guests. The opening acts are fellow MADJACK artists, Kait Lawson and Delta Joe Sanders, both of which have new releases on MADJACK. This is a free show.

Please join us for a night of great music, and help us celebrate this release!

Delta Joe Sanders “Working Without a Net” is available worldwide today!

Available on Amazon

And on ITunes 

MADJACK Records is proud to announce the release of Delta Joe Sander’s “Working Without a Net.” Recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis, this twelve song set springs from a mind as fertile as the alluvial soils of the southern Mississippi valley. The songs then migrate northward to the “Windswept Plains of Memphis” where nothing is still-born; where foiled side trips to Branson, Missouri and Oxford, Mississippi can only be rescued by dreams of a Sedona sunrise. But it is clear that the women, the strong Memphis women, the ones with the dark hair and Choctaw cheekbones, and wearing “That Dress”, hold sway over this bluesman’s heart.

Raised on a plantation in Desoto County Mississippi, Delta Joe Sanders has been a regular on the Memphis music scene for the past thirty years. From the church house to the outhouse, the Whisky A-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip to the Sugar Ditch Social Club in Tunica County, he plays every venue. A consummate storyteller, Joe sometimes uses common blues themes to spin his yarns. Songs of lost love, liquor, and bad behavior fill his repertoire. Some are romantic odes colored with southern imagery…often with a skewed nostalgic bent, not unlike Faulkner and Estelle.

A regular on the Keith Sykes song writer showcase, Delta Joe has performed along side Nashville notables Marshall Chapman, Richard Leigh, Roger Cook, Buzz Cason, Gary Nicholson, Ralph Murphy, and Alex Harvey to name a few. Legendary Bluff City Blues singer Reba Russell has cut many of Delta Joe’s songs.