 We are a duet. Both formally as a noun, and colloquially as a verb. This band (John Heart Jackie) was birthed from a single conversation. A conversation about the duet. About the simple and subtle power that comes from one female voice and one male voice, sparingly backed by subtle musical arrangements. We hope to create songs that are universally beautiful; songs that may find their home in the space where people dream, where people fall in love, where people grieve, where people get lost. Songs that live under the veil of what is good, with the hope that a truly beautiful song can speak to any and everyone. That, with two voices, we can write and perform songs that make it easier to be human. We've recorded a small catalog of songs: first, three songs written by others, shared only with close friends. Next, a handful of our own in the form of an EP (Woman & Money EP), recorded in a shed where the learning curve was steep; voices, merely hinting at what they could be. Then a full-length album (We Are Gold Mounds), built on this duet and greatly inspired by Jennie's childhood home--an 80-acre vineyard in Dundee--where we wrote and recorded. If you listen closely you can hear the rain and the birds and the creaky hallway doors. A single (Siren Song) followed, written in a park, and recorded in a bathroom. Now we are back to the song of another, by Prince (When You Were Mine). We've performed these songs all over the American West. Some day we will sing them in Paris, in New York, in Berlin, in Montreal, and in your living room. Many duets have preceded us--Harris/Parsons, Gainsbourg/Birkin, Welch/Rawlings--many will follow. But for now, every song, every photograph, every collage, every letter, every video, every part of this project is yours, to use it for what you need. And so what does it mean to be a duet? We are still learning. But this is what we've come up with thus far. Enjoy, |
 
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