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  ABOUT ‘1965’: LINER NOTES
  1965 was the year of my musical awakening, coinciding with what some would describe as a watershed and revolutionary year in music. Everyone got a licence to write, inspired by the creative output of artists like The Byrds, Dylan, The Stones, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, the Bakersfield and Nashville sounds, Motown – the list goes on. Pop became Rock and Roll and accelerated the drive for personal freedom. My life would never be the same as I launched into my first chords on guitar. I also started writing not long after that and here I am…
  ‘I had a dream last night it was the strangest thing
  Chapter by chapter it drew me in
  New York city 1965
  With beatniks and hipsters in a West Side dive’
  Songs and writing - different children, same kin. Sometimes it takes a muse, sometimes it takes a drink or a moment or forever. Most of the time it just takes hard thinking and hoping that the magic will arrive and that it pleases you. That last song you wrote. It always feels like your last but deep down inside you just keep writing. It’s what you do.
  Ten new songs – simple little folk songs but the layers will go as deep as you are willing to peel them back. Most are new and most are collaborations with Ross Jackson and Kerryn Tolhurst. Ah Ross the lyricist. Kerryn pushing me into landscapes I had never imagined and the reason this record sounds different and why each song sounds different to the one before it - why you can maybe live more inside these tunes than inside anything else I’ve ever done before - karma, love, war, aging, promises, brotherhood, cold beds, lost love, traveling and so on.
  
  And then there are the sounds of the beautiful musicians Kerryn called on for this record who each gave some part of their soul to these songs. And then the jigsaw puzzle finally becomes an image. And then you give that image to the world and hope, like every parent, that it finds its own community and love. I love this record and I hope you do as well. In so many ways I have come the full circle since 1965 – Bill Jackson (2023)
  
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