Jack McKeon
August 15, 2025 @ 7:00PM — 9:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
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Jack McKeon Nashville Singer/ Songwriter
A Nashville-based singer-songwriter with an honest, plainspoken vocal, an eclectic-roots sound and a knack for bringing crystalline characters to life, Jack McKeon harbors a deep love for the written word. First inspired by literary musical icons from Hank Williams and Guy Clark to Tom T. Hall and John Hartford, McKeon arrived in Nashville in 2021 and has since established a reputation for his own message-driven lyricism - a value which shows up in its full sonic serenity on his 2024 album debut, Talking to Strangers.
In 2024, Talking to Strangers was featured in Saving Country Music, the Nashville Scene, and was named one of the best albums of the year by the Bluegrass Situation. McKeon placed 2nd at the Songwriter Serenade contest in Schulenburg, Texas and was a finalist at the Kerrville Folk Festival's prestigious New Folk contest.
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From Saving Country Music: There are performers, entertainers, and singers who write songs. And then there are songwriters. Jack McKeon is a songwriter, and his elevated command of the craft calls for the calibration of your heart and mind to be open and accepting of advanced concepts on the deeper meaning of life usually reserved for the most talented and revered of the songwriting discipline. Think Jason Isbell, John Moreland, Guy Clark-type territory.
From Bluegrass Situation: In the vein of country songwriters with bluegrass careers – or bluegrass songwriters with country careers (think Shawn Camp, Tom T. Hall, John Prine, Darrell Scott) – Jack McKeon’s debut album, Talking To Strangers, isn’t just bluegrass, but it certainly tracks as first class ‘grassy, down home, front porch music. McKeon is inaugurating his catalog of recorded works demonstrating that his songs and his voice can be shapeshifters, at home on Music Row and on bluegrass stages and radio, both.
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