City Canyons artist, Jacki B. lives in the country. Not some farm skirting a red dirt country road, nor a small town nestled along a long ribbon of two-lane blacktop, nor a ranch banking under a southern sun. Nor does Jacki hail from Memphis or Nashville. Yet she calls all those places home, because, as everyone knows, home is where the heart is.
So, Jersey girl Jacki B. sings country---alt country with a little western flair and a mulligan’s stew of other influences. Country with a difference. That difference is reflected in her haunting City Canyons debut single, "Burning Star". While other country singers have heralded the adventures and misadventures of their cowboys, their desperados both romantically, in many a whiskey and tear-soaked ballad, and dramatically, in songs like "El Paso" and "Pancho and Lefty", Jacki sings of another kind of cowboy, a dying astronaut sending a last love song spiraling down from the heavens to his earth angel. Jacki’s voice, the soaring lap steel guitar and the vibrant earthy mandolin of "Burning Star" bring vividly alive the tale of the last True West and it’s perishing but intrepid hero, a hero more romantic than any juke-box Romeo and braver and more tragic than any man that ever strapped a big-iron on his hip.
HER BIO: Growing up in a small shore town in south Jersey, there was not much advancement in the performing arts field. SO, as soon as I could, I packed up my bags and headed for the "Big Apple" to pursue my passion. I studied performing arts at "The American Musical and Dramatic Academy". Then I went on to perform Off Broadway, Cabaret Acts, I became a singer in a five girl pop group "The Applez" and would be a featured/back up singer for various bands throughout NYC. I was beginning to live my dream though I always heard the siren of country music and dreams of Nashville calling, ever louder. But unfortunately, I had the starving artist syndrome and was forced to move back to my hometown, which was no longer home to me. Having to live the so called "normal life" I adapted but had lost a part of myself not being able to live the life of an artist. In 2007, opportunity came knockin’. I found my old NY band manager via the internet. Now, 7 yrs later, he has his own successful indie label "City Canyons Records". After a few meetings, I became an alt-country artist with CCR. For now, I am still living in south Jersey, so I have been commuting for rehearsals/recordings. Although the back and forth has been hectic, it has been well worth it. Especially being able to present to you my first single with CCR, "Burning Star"!!
