{"id":183,"date":"2023-04-02T15:57:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/?p=183"},"modified":"2023-04-03T00:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T04:29:31","slug":"kara-jacksons-mournful-joyful-unapologetic-guitar-ass-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/kara-jacksons-mournful-joyful-unapologetic-guitar-ass-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara Jackson\u2019s Mournful, Joyful, Unapologetic Guitar-Ass Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1000\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 2000 \/ 1000;\" width=\"2000\" controls src=\"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Kara-Jackson-1-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">In this Rising interview, the singer-songwriter talks about flying in the face of racism, why it\u2019s good to be petty, and her artfully honest debut album.<br>By Britt Julious<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Photography by Christian K. Lee<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Kara Jackson\u2019s humbly epic song \u201cno fun\/party,\u201d she mixes piercing personal reflections with writerly metaphors involving elephant tusks and dancing dragons, all atop her own spare guitar playing. Wistful strings simmer to the surface at points, intensifying the spotlight on Jackson\u2019s plainly heartfelt delivery. It\u2019s the kind of song that makes you instantly stop what you\u2019re doing and pay attention, a disarmingly direct report of one\u2019s loneliest thoughts and feelings. \u201cEvery person that I\u2019ve dated\/Tells me I\u2019m intimidating,\u201d she sings, plaintively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Jackson I spend time with one February afternoon in her hometown of Oak Park, Illinois\u2014the one who shows me their elementary school and reminisces about the Spoken Word Club and invites me into her parents\u2019 backyard\u2014is the very opposite of intimidating. She is congenial, funny, and bright in dazzling green eyeshadow to match a shimmery two-piece look that makes her pop out from the suburban surroundings. She is a person who\u2019s willing to speak\u2014and sing\u2014frankly about the heavy stuff, like self-doubt and grief, and about the dickheads of the world with the same sharp insight. She cites influences like Nina Simone, Beyonce\u0301, Neil Young, Brandy, Jim Croce, and Charley Pride in equal measure. The 23-year-old\u2019s range is evident through her forthcoming debut full-length, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?, an audacious blend of folk and country that finds the one-time National Youth Poet Laureate channeling her precise prose to song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Rising interview, the singer-songwriter talks about flying in the face of racism, why it\u2019s good to be petty, and her artfully honest debut album.By Britt Julious Photography by Christian K. 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