Refusing the ‘confessional’ tag and unafraid to break songwriting rules, the Chicago musician has written one of the most acclaimed debut albums of the year
. It was once the case for Kara Jackson’s idol Joni Mitchell and it is now the case for Jackson herself. “I push back against this idea that what I’m doing is diaristic,” she says, suspicious of the gendered framing. “A lot of women are pigeonholed by this idea that they’re confessing.talks a lot about that. She’s like: ‘I don’t just draw something in my journal and sing it. I construct verses.’”
Born and raised in Chicago, Jackson got her first guitar for her 11th birthday and learned to play piano: “My mom had a rule that we had to play piano before we left the house at 18.” Raised on Jim Croce and Charley Pride, Jackson fell in love with folk music as a child. “Folk has a big history of political commentary,” says the 23-year-old. “My mom works for a labour union so I learned a lot of my favourite folk songs from protesting with her. Pete Seeger [and others].
Jackson’s refusal to follow the crowd extends to her face mask: “I’d rather be alone and correct than together and wrong.” She’s been vocal on X about mask-wearing and preventing the spread of Covid-19. “People are missing the basic fact that we’re not invincible. [I’ve been] listening to marginalised people, disabled people and immunocompromised people who say: ‘If you get disabled from this shit, it’s not going to be a walk in the park.
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