Jack Johnson (musician)
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| Birth name | Jack Hody Johnson |
| Born | May 18, 1975 |
| Origin | North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii, United States |
| Genre(s) | Acoustic Alternative rock Soft Rock Pop rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, Musician, Filmmaker, Surfer, Record Label owner |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, ukulele, piano |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Label(s) | Everloving/Brushfire/Universal |
| Website | www.jackjohnsonmusic.com |
Jack Hody Johnson (born May 18, 1975)[1] is an American singer-songwriter, musician, filmmaker,[2] and surfer, known for his work in the soft rock genre. He achieved commercial success after the release of his debut album, Brushfire Fairytales in 2001. He has since released four more albums and a number of EPs.
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[edit] Early life
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Johnson was born and raised on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. The son of famous surfer Jeff Johnson, he naturally took an interest in the sport, along with his best friend Ben Schomer. He began surfing and skating at the age of 5 under the tutelage of his father's best friends, Alex Conel and Sumner Bukoski. At 17 he became the youngest invitee to make the surfing finals at the Pipeline Masters on Oahu's north shore.He was eventually disqualified after failing to catch three waves. One week later, however, his brief stint as a professional surfer ended when he suffered a surfing accident at Pipeline. He needed almost 150 stitches.[3] [4] He stated about the accident, "I like to joke that I hit my head so hard that that's why I'm so mellow, but I think it did mellow me out."[4]
[edit] College and music career
Jack Johnson began to write love songs. Johnson's songwriting influences growing up include Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Ben Harper, Fugazi, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Chris Burright and the Burden, Jimmy Buffett, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Sublime, Gulliver Alcoran and A Tribe Called Quest.
Johnson graduated from Kahuku High School on the North Shore of Oahu. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he began to develop his passion for music. He graduated with a degree in film. His first breakthrough came after he befriended G. Love on a day of surfing. G. Love would later record Johnson's song “Rodeo Clowns” for his 1999 album Philadelphonic. Johnson sang and played on the track, and it became the first single from the album. His four-track demo soon caught the ears of Ben Harper's producer and right-hand man, J. P. Plunier, who worked with Johnson on his debut album Brushfire Fairytales in early 2001 with Harper and his Weissenborn lap steel guitar making a guest appearance. Johnson also played rhythm guitar for the party band Soil while he attended UC Santa Barbara.[3]
A chronicle of Johnson's 2008 European tour will be released as En Concert, a CD/DVD package on August 25, according to DirectCurrentMusic.com. [1] The DVD comes via En Concert, a documentary film directed by Brushfire Records co-founder Emmett Malloy.
[edit] Personal life
Johnson founded the Kokua Hawaii Foundation in 2003. The foundation is dedicated to teaching the importance of caring for the planet to Hawaii's youth in schools like Sunset Beach Elementary School. By enabling schools to run field trips, gardening education, and nutrition programs, the Kokua Foundation is helping to create an environmentally conscious generation[5]
According to TreeHugger Jack Johnson was awarded "Best Tree Hugger" (for musicians under 50).[6]
[edit] Band members
Jack Johnson's band is composed of:
- Jack Johnson - Vocals, Guitar
- Adam Topol - Drums, Percussion
- Merlo Podlewski - Bass Guitar
- Zach Gill - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- 2001 - Brushfire Fairytales (RIAA: Platinum[7])
- 2003 - On and On (RIAA: Platinum[8])
- 2005 - In Between Dreams (RIAA: 2x Platinum[9])
- 2008 - Sleep Through the Static (RIAA: Platinum[10])
[edit] Soundtracks and EPs
- 2000 Thicker than Water
- 2001 Out Cold
- 2002 September Sessions Pirate Looks At 40 and F-Stop Blues
- 2005 Some Live Songs EP
- 2005 Sprout
- 2006 Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George (RIAA: Platinum[11])
- 2006 A Brokedown Melody Let It Be Sung and Home
- 2007 I'm Not There – Bob Dylan's "Medley: Mama, You've Been on My Mind/A Fraction of Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie"
- 2008 Sleep Through the Static: Remixed (Remix album)
[edit] Virtual albums & EPs
- 2004 iTunes Originals - Jack Johnson
- 2005 Sessions@AOL — EP
[edit] Compilations
- 1999 G. Love & Special Sauce's Philadelphonic – "Rodeo Clowns"
- 2002 Hear Music Volume 7: Waking - "Fortunate Fool"
- 2004 G. Love & Special Sauce's The Hustle – "Give It to You"
- 2004 Donavon Frankenreiter's self titled album – "Free"
- 2004 Handsome Boy Modeling School's "White People" – "Breakdown"
- 2005 Look at All the Love We Found – "Badfish"/"Boss DJ"
- 2005 The Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business – "Gone Going"
- 2005 Animal Liberation Orchestra's Fly Between Falls – "Girl I Wanna Lay You Down"
- 2006 G. Love & Special Sauce's Lemonade – "Rainbow"
- 2006 Buena Vista Social Club's Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba – "Better Together"
- 2006 The Acoustic Album - "Breakdown"
- 2007 Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur – John Lennon's "Imagine"...
- 2007 Stockings By the Fire - "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
- 2008 This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday - "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" & "Someday at Christmas"
[edit] Unofficial bootlegs
- B.O.A.T.
- Lullabies
- J.O.A.T.
- J.I.T.B.
- T.R.I.P.1
- T.R.I.P.2
- J.O.T.C.
- Live On 94/7 FM
[edit] Concert DVDs
- 2005 - Live in Japan
- 2005 - A Weekend at the Greek (RIAA: Platinum[12])
- 2009 - En Concert
[edit] Chart performance
[edit] Albums
| Year | Title | Label | Chart Positions | |||||||||
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| US | UK[13][14] | NZ | AU | CA | NL | DE | AT | CH | FR | |||
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34 | 25 | 1 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2003 |
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3 | 30 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 88 | 50 | 62 | 94 |
| 2005 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 46 |
| 2006 |
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1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 42 |
| 2008 |
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1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
[edit] Singles
| Year | Title | Chart Positions[15][16][17][18] | Album | |||||||||||
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| US | US Mod | US AC | UK | NZ | AU | CA | NL | DE | AT | CH | FR | |||
| 2002 | "Flake" | 73 | 22 | 1[19] | — | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Brushfire Fairytales |
| 2003 | "The Horizon Has Been Defeated" | — | 31 | 28 | — | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | On and On |
| 2004 | "Taylor" | — | — | — | — | 33 | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2005 | "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" | 66 | 25 | 18 | — | 25 | 24 | — | 67 | 82 | 51 | — | — | In Between Dreams |
| "Good People" | — | 29 | — | 50 | 25 | — | — | 92 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Breakdown" | — | 40 | — | 73 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" (UK re-release) |
— | — | — | 65 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2006 | "Better Together" | — | — | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Upside Down" | 38 | 25 | 9 | 30 | 22 | — | 9 | 56 | 54 | 36 | — | — | Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George | |
| "Talk of the Town" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 96 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2007 | "Imagine" | 90 | — | — | — | — | — | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur |
| "If I Had Eyes" | 47 | 7 | 17[20] | 60 | 33 | — | 11 | 60 | 73 | 37 | 30 | — | Sleep Through the Static | |
| 2008 | "Hope" | — | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Go On" (Radio single only) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Note: The archive of the Canadian singles chart (downloads) dates back only to 2006 and the archive of the Canadian album chart dates back to 2005.
[edit] "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" re-issue
The single, "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" only became a chart hit in the United Kingdom after the re-release climbed into the Top 10 following Jack Johnson's exposure on the 2006 BRIT Awards on ITV1. The single climbed to hit status a week before the release of "Better Together". Both the original release and indeed the re-issue had failed to chart until this point.
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- "A friend of mine was trying to get this girl named Michelle," said Johnson, "and I tried to write a song that would help him have a laugh at himself because he was spending so much time trying to get her and it obviously wasn't leading anywhere. That was one just to cheer up a friend."[21]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ e-hawaii.com
- ^ JackJohnsonMusic.com
- ^ a b Jack Johnson Interviews
- ^ a b Cover Story: Jack Johnson - The Dude Abides : Rolling Stone
- ^ The Kokua Hawaii Foundation, short documentary, explore.org.
- ^ http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/04/best-of-green-culture-and-celebrity.php?page=21
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 266. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ Everyhit.com - accessed May 2009
- ^ Chart positions in the U.S. and in Canada
- ^ Chart positions in Australia, New Zealand and some European countries
- ^ Chart positions in the UK and in Germany
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wvfrxqukldde~T51 US Modern Rock and Adult Top 40 Chart positions
- ^ Top 40 Adult Recurrents
- ^ Hot Adult Top 40 Recurrents
- ^ Johnson hits the road, sharing his 'Dreams' - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
[edit] External links
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Jack Johnson |
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- Official site
- Jack Johnson at MySpace
- Jack Johnson discography at MusicBrainz
- Live recordings by Jack Johnson at the Internet Archive
- Jack Johnson on Fretbase
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