How I Feel

from 1965 by Bill Jackson

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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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How I Feel

When Cook came ashore in that funny hat
He raised the Union Jack and that was that
The flood washed away what the fire destroyed
A collision was coming that we couldn’t avoid

On a Brighton beach in amongst the trees
Gordon loaded his gun and set himself free
Under the hood was a big eight he just loved that car
Black and white leather trim like Waylon’s guitar

They don’t know how I feel they don’t know where I’ve been
They don’t know if I’m real they don’t know who I’ve seen
When they come early morning bending street signs
Making me feel ugly and messing with my mind

The hard sun beat down on an occupied land
He had died by that railroad being built by Japan
And when the crying was dry and the sorrow began
Nothing was left but a scar on the land

And in the Antarctic blizzard the hungry dogs cried
In the wind and the white where everything died
Well he needed to be loved so he took a chance
And asked her out to the Saturday night dance

They don’t know how I feel they don’t know where I’ve been
They don’t know if I’m real they don’t know who I’ve seen
When they come early morning bending street signs
Making me feel ugly and messing with my mind

Six miles out of town on the rail line bend
He ran with a lantern that spelt the gang’s end
Just outside of Albury on the borderline
Into New South Wales where he’d spent some time

And when the compass swung east into the rising sun
The troop ship ploughed into World War One
Fourteen miles to the east at the Greta homestead
She sat there mourning the hanging of Ned

They don’t know how I feel they don’t know where I’ve been
They don’t know if I’m real they don’t know who I’ve seen
When they come early morning bending street signs
Making me feel ugly and messing with my mind

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from 1965, released October 14, 2023
4. HOW I FEEL (B.Jackson/K.Tolhurst/R.Jackson)
Bill Jackson – Vocals/Acoustic Guitar/Backing Vocals
Kerryn Tolhurst – Electric Guitar
Chris Copping – Hammond Organ
John Flanagan, Rory Boast – Backing Vocals
John Bois - Bass
Scotty Martin - Drums

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Bill Jackson Melbourne, Australia

'His songs are gritty and real and come at you like a hammer, ringin' in the mornin'. Take it or leave it, he's telling it straight up' (Shane Howard)

' Take a chance and listen to some Roots Music that cuts across Borders...' (Keith Glass)

‘We heard Bill Jackson for the first time at the Unpaved Sessions earlier in the year and he’s up there with Paul Kelly’ (The Melbourne Folk Club) ... more

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