Jamie Lin Wilson Announces New Album “Jumping Over Rocks”
Texas music singer, songwriter, spirit animal, and general badass woman Jamie Lin Wilson has announced her latest album Jumping Over Rocks slated to be released on October 26th. Her follow up to 2015’s Holidays and Wedding Rings, it comes at a time when Texas music is looking for headliner-caliber women, and looking in the direction of Jamie Lin from her magnetic stage presence, years of service in the scene, and songwriting that has turned legendary in Texas/Red Dirt circles.
Jumping Over Rocks includes a host of Texas music talent contributing to the project in both the songwriting and performance department. Aside from a recording of Guy Clark’s “Instant Coffee Blues” with guest vocals by Jack Ingram, all the songs on Jumping Over Rocks are co-written by Wilson, with half of them being solo writes. The album also includes Wilson’s co-write with Evan Felker of the Turnpike Troubadours on “Oklahoma Stars”—a song Turnpike cut themselves on their latest record A Long Way From Your Heart.
Other songwriting collaborators include Jack Ingram on the opening song “Faithful and True,” Mike Ethan Messick on the first single “The Being Gone,” and Brian Wright on “In A Wink.” Jumping Over Rocks was recorded at Arlyn Studios in Austin, with guitarist Charlie Sexton, along with Richard Millsap, Trevor Nealon, Cody Angel, and Courtney Patton contributing. The title of the record is taken from the song “Death and Life,” which is an epic that took Wilson a total of four years to write.
Ahead of the release, Jamie Lin Wilson has made available “The Being Gone,” which listeners can very much relate to Jamie Lin Wilson’s real life. As a mother of three, she often has to come and go on crazy schedules to make her music career work, and this pushing and pulling of priorities comes through in the writing and performance.
TRACK LIST:
- “Faithful & True” (Wilson, Jack Ingram)
- “The Being Gone” (Wilson, Mike Ethan Messick)
- “Oklahoma Stars” (Wilson, Evan Felker)
- “Eyes for You” (Wilson)
- “Everybody’s Moving Slow” (Wilson)
- “Instant Coffee Blues” (featuring Jack Ingram) (Guy Clark)
- “Death & Life” (Wilson)
- “Run” (Wilson)
- “In a Wink” (Wilson, Brian Wright)
- “If I Told You” (Wilson)
August 1, 2018 @ 7:14 pm
Courtney Patton is everywhere
August 2, 2018 @ 5:53 am
Did you see any of the videos of the two of them on Facebook as they were touring Minnesota? Good, funny conversations and some great cover performances.
August 2, 2018 @ 12:57 pm
I didn’t. Thanks for the heads up
August 1, 2018 @ 7:23 pm
I like that song a lot. It’s got a nice groove.
August 1, 2018 @ 8:05 pm
I saw Jamie Lin open for American Aquarium this past January in Raleigh at AA’s Roadtrip to Raleigh. She’s the real deal. She made a fan out of this Carolina boy.
August 1, 2018 @ 9:08 pm
Jamie Lin Wilson is as good as it gets. Authentic songwriting, great singing, and very in tune with the history and roots of country music (check out some of her classic covers on YouTube). This new song, “The Being Gone,” kind of reminds me of an Emmylou track during her “Red Dirt Girl” period…
August 1, 2018 @ 9:28 pm
I didn’t like the sound of the instrumentation on that song at all. Except for the drums it sounded like the whole thing was recorded underwater. I don’t know if it was the use of too much reverb or what. It was distracting.
August 1, 2018 @ 9:38 pm
See my post above. Kind of reminds me of a Daniel Lanois produced song. I remember some people loved that Emmylou was working with him, and some people hated it. I was kind of in the middle. Not really a “classic” country sound, but unique and atmospheric in its own way. It grew on me after awhile…
August 1, 2018 @ 9:49 pm
Well, I just checked, and Lanois protege Malcolm Burn technically produced “Red Dirt Girl,” not Lanois. But Lanois did produce “Wrecking Ball,” which got Emmylou started down that atmospheric folk path. Same idea…
August 2, 2018 @ 5:47 am
Oh, it was definitely a continuation of the Wrecking Ball type sound. Also, it was the first time, I think, that she wrote or co-wrote just about all the songs. I liked that album a lot (didn’t like the next one as much) and saw her on the Red Dirt Girl tour at the Warner Theatre in DC with the Spyboy band backing her. Got to hear Buddy Miller rip it up on lead guitar, especially on Deeper Well from Wrecking Ball. Also, that’s the show that introduced to the great Patty Griffin. Bought a quality Red Dirt Girl t-shirt that is still holding up 18 years later. So it was a great night.
August 2, 2018 @ 7:36 am
That’s a concert I really, really, would liked to have seen live. On a new years eve, about twenty years ago the Swedish national TV broadcast a concert with her and the spyboys. But that’s not the same thing…
“Wrecking Ball” and “Roses In The Snow” is my two favorite albums with her.
August 2, 2018 @ 10:27 am
Jack, I saw the same tour at the Keswick Theatre near Philadelphia and have the same memories. First time seeing Patty Griffin, and Buddy Miller indeed let loose and ripped it up. Good times.
August 2, 2018 @ 8:36 am
Not to hijack a thread for self-promotion, but ….
The Lingering Influence of Emmylou’s “Wrecking Ball”
https://savingcountrymusic.com/the-lingering-influence-of-emmylous-wrecking-ball/
August 2, 2018 @ 4:13 am
Her voice is really something else, some guy here posted a link to this video about two years ago and since when I’ve watched hundreds of videos. But this is still my favorite….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymkqKAaJq_0
I do hope her voice hasn’t been drowned by to much reverb or to loud instrumentation.
August 2, 2018 @ 4:37 am
Her voice, her guitar, her front porch with a Lyle Lovett song. If you can watch and listen to this, and still not realize on a visceral level all that is wrong with today’s popular “country music”, I feel sorry for you.
August 2, 2018 @ 5:51 am
Pretty sure that was me. I know I shared it once here. Her performance of tjhat great song “does something to my heart,” as my Irish mother would say. Just watched it again and I have to say, I got a little misty.
August 2, 2018 @ 7:04 am
Yes it was you…Thanks again. 🙂
August 2, 2018 @ 6:15 am
No brainer. Will pre-order. I love, love, love Holidays and Wedding Rings, which I picked up along with her Dirty Blonde Hair EP (also excellent) when I saw her open for Scott Miller at Jammin Java up here in NoVA. I love Scott Miller and have now seen him a few times at Jammin Java, but on that particular night, seeing that she was opening for him was the kick in the pants that I needed to go that night, as I had seen a live performance of hers featured here.
August 2, 2018 @ 6:20 am
Sarah Shook needs to take lessons from her on being a girl.
August 2, 2018 @ 6:51 am
Is that what she needs to do, old man? You need a filter. Badly.
August 2, 2018 @ 7:01 am
LOL- my filter, in this instance, is personal preference in music and persona- and if you’re lucky, punk, you’ll live as long as I have and maintain your filter- LOL- but, be prepared, not everyone will like it.
August 2, 2018 @ 7:48 am
Now that’s deep.
I saw your comment about how Sarah Shook needed to smile more, which was priceless, but at least that was on an article about her. And here you again, on article having nothing to do with her, making another old fart, chauvinistic comment about her.
And I’m not that much younger than you. Same generation, I think.
August 2, 2018 @ 10:55 am
No, I’m not a chauvinist- don’t start that shit. Pejorative commentary is low life.
Old fart.Yes. 70, and damn proud of it and not only do I have a right to my opinion(s), I am entitled to my own opinion(s)-
Speaking of which I see my post with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCmWwLtXFJU
didn’t post so I’ll post it here- and if that’s okay with you IMO the best girl in the business who has received absolutely 0 recognition from this site.
August 2, 2018 @ 12:30 pm
OK, buddy. A MAN saying that a woman needs to take lessons in being a girl isn’t being sexist at all. No doubt you are an expert on the topic.
August 2, 2018 @ 1:45 pm
Jack Williams, I’d like to hug you. With a smile!
August 2, 2018 @ 6:54 am
I think Sarah Shook is great the way she is.
August 2, 2018 @ 7:17 am
The music world is big enough for both Sarah Shook and Jamie Lin Wilson. Both are bad ass ladies in my book.
August 2, 2018 @ 7:36 am
Somebody teach this amoeba how to be a man.
August 2, 2018 @ 8:29 am
You’re an idiot.
August 2, 2018 @ 9:29 am
Sarah Shook needs to listen to you like she needs another hole in her head…
August 2, 2018 @ 11:42 am
Maybe just singing lessons.
August 2, 2018 @ 6:21 am
I wish she would make some up tempo songs. I like her lyrics and voice but most of her stuff puts me to sleep. Hope this album is a bit different than her last.
August 2, 2018 @ 8:31 pm
Yes. She looks like and is reviewed like an artist I’d dig. But I can’t handle the vox. I think I might be more forgiving to male vocalists, but I can’t help it…
August 2, 2018 @ 7:18 am
This is one to definitely look forward to! I can’t wait!
August 2, 2018 @ 7:34 am
Pretty good easy listening.
August 2, 2018 @ 7:59 am
looking forward to this one. More women like her and less like Maren Morris and Kelsea Ballerini, women in country music might actually stand a chance some day.
August 2, 2018 @ 9:37 am
Good point. One of the reasons the effort to restore more women in country music is failing is because many of the wrong women are being pushed by the media. The media hypes certain women simply because they’re women, or because of their politics or personalities instead of paying attention to who is resonating among listeners, who’s put the effort out to build grassroots support where sustainability can spring from, and what truly has the capability of busting through to bigger things. Jamie Line Wilson, Sarah Shook, Dori Freeman, Catilyn Smith, and others show real, capable results and determination. These are the women we need to be pushing to the top, not pop stars parading as country artists, or women the media loves simply because they share their politics.
August 5, 2018 @ 4:18 pm
Whole lotta truth there, Trig.
Used to be that record companies cast a wide net, with all types on offer. Now we have narrow-minded globalists running things who only see one color: some sort of insane hospital mauve.
Why can’t Lyle Lovett organize a good studio and label and get r done?
August 2, 2018 @ 8:17 am
Well, she just gained one more new fan! Great song, and grabbed her previous album.
August 2, 2018 @ 8:52 am
Can’t wait for this new album. I’ll be getting a signed copy along with some acoustic demos as I joined in the crowd-funding for this one on Pledge Music. Should also have the album before the release date. Loving the new song.
August 2, 2018 @ 8:56 am
In my opinion the absolute best female country music artist. Her last album was outstanding, and I’m looking forward to this next one. Her voice is genuine she puts out just good Texas style country music.
August 2, 2018 @ 10:01 am
Best girl in the business right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCmWwLtXFJU
August 2, 2018 @ 10:06 am
Can we at least stop referring to these women as “girls”? Jamie Lin Wilson and Sarah Shook are mothers for crying out loud.
August 2, 2018 @ 10:57 am
Maybe this person is gender fluid? Can we stop assuming their gender and not refer to the artist as her or she? Zer is more appropriate.
August 2, 2018 @ 11:09 am
Oh get off it. Just making a point that referring to a 30-something woman with three kids as “girl” seems like a misuse of the term. I’m not forcing transgender bathrooms down your throat.
August 2, 2018 @ 11:25 am
You sound ridiculous.
People refer to women as girls all the time regardless of age or the number of offspring they have. I mean, where do you live? It’s not meant to be disparaging. You sound like those crazy people telling how someone should refer to another person.
It’s like if my buddy ask where his wife is at and we’re on vacation. I will sometimes respond, “oh the girls are at the tiki bar” (meaning his wife, my girlfriend, and my other friends wife are at the bar in the straw hut) Doesn’t matter if his wife is 25 or 55 years old or if she has 0 kids or 10 kids.
You must be the life of the party at social events.
August 2, 2018 @ 12:02 pm
Was just making a suggestion. Your impulsive, reactionary over-response is no different than Sarah Shook fans twisting off because they misconstrued I gave all the credit for her success to men. Generally speaking, girls are thought to be adolescent of age, while women are thought to be mature of age. This has been established for hundreds of years. If you want to continue to refer to women as girls, go right ahead. But it unnecessarily weakens whatever point you’re trying to make, whether you think that’s stupid or not.
August 2, 2018 @ 12:34 pm
“Was just making a suggestion. Your impulsive, reactionary over-response is no different than Sarah Sh…blah blah I don’t know or care about Sarah Shook”
Well I’m just making a suggestion that you stop suggesting to people to stop calling women, girls. It’s not a big deal.
“Generally speaking, girls are thought to be adolescent of age, while women are thought to be mature of age. This has been established for hundreds of years.”
Are you really explaining to me the difference between a woman and a girl?
“If you want to continue to refer to women as girls, go right ahead. But it unnecessarily weakens whatever point you’re trying to make, whether you think that’s stupid or not.”
No it doesn’t and that’s preposterous.
August 2, 2018 @ 12:42 pm
I am 36 years old, divorced, have three kids, bought my own piece of land, and a good career I’ve fought hard for. I have taken a long, hard road to become a woman and prefer to be called so, and technically, any female over 18 should be referenced as such. It doesn’t really get my goad if someone refers to a woman as “girl,” but it makes me feel that whoever is calling me that is about to ask me to put my feet up on his dash and crack open a light beer.
Anyways, if folks are ok calling Jamie Lin Wilson and Sarah Shook “girls,” we should also be ok calling Cody Jinks and Sturgill Simpson “boys.”
August 2, 2018 @ 2:38 pm
“but it makes me feel that whoever is calling me that is about to ask me to put my feet up on his dash and crack open a light beer.”
Yea that sounds really, really terrible.
August 3, 2018 @ 10:10 am
Trigger why don’t you just block his posts that are so derogatory?! He’s pretty much hijacked the article on a great Texas female artist.
August 6, 2018 @ 4:49 pm
“Anyways, if folks are ok calling Jamie Lin Wilson and Sarah Shook “girls,” we should also be ok calling Cody Jinks and Sturgill Simpson “boys.””
It would be silly to call them “boys” but totally normal to call them “guys”, right? Isn’t that kinda the same? I mean, I think “girl” in this context means something like “female guy”, not “(very) young female”.
August 2, 2018 @ 11:11 am
No I won’t- I call my daughters-in-law, (one is a Mother), their mothers, my ex wife, all my female acquaintances (around 30-35 or so total) girl and not a one of them is “offended”. I will not be PC hemmed in- for crying out loud- female = girl. Mother = female = girl, like it or not they are. Merriam-Webster says it’s sometimes offensive- tough shit. A spade is a shovel AND a suit in a deck of cards, but sometimes “taken” offensively = perspective and “my” perspective is as stated. Maybe “old lady” (when married, or some smart ass jerk-off kid mouthing off) would be better, right?!
August 2, 2018 @ 1:11 pm
That’s a compelling argument. You have me convinced. I’m going to adopt your philosophy, and I don’t care who gets offended. Thanks, boy.
August 2, 2018 @ 1:11 pm
There’s a little ol’ thing I like to call context. I’d say calling women in your family or even a group of female friends you know girls or “the girls” is not quite the same as calling a grown woman you don’t even know a girl, but knock yourself out. As you keep telling us, you have rights.
Still not a single word about the music of Jamie Lin Wilson from you.
August 2, 2018 @ 1:21 pm
There’s a little thing called opinion and I will state mine as I see fit, girl.
female = girl. Mother = female = girl, like it or not they are. Merriam-Webster says it’s sometimes offensive- tough shit. A spade is a shovel AND a suit in a deck of cards, but sometimes “taken” offensively = perspective and “my” perspective is as stated.
You worry about your own backyard then you can worry others-
August 2, 2018 @ 3:22 pm
DJ
And I’ll state my opinion that you sound incredibly mysoginistic.
August 2, 2018 @ 1:26 pm
Anyways, if folks are ok calling Jamie Lin Wilson and Sarah Shook “girls,” we should also be ok calling Cody Jinks and Sturgill Simpson “boys.”
LOL- knock yourself out.
And if you put your feet on the dash of my truck you can get out and walk- girl or boy.
August 2, 2018 @ 1:39 pm
Far as I am concerned, she is the best female artist out there by a long way. The Emmylou comparison is apt in a way that no matter who JLW sings with, she always adds to song, never takes over but always complements the song.
I loved Holidays and wedding rings, and dug back through her old stuff like the Trishas and the gougers, all showed so much of the promise to come.
August 2, 2018 @ 8:37 pm
This sounded really good. Not sure how or why I overlooked her in the past but just listened to two excellent songs by her.
August 3, 2018 @ 11:09 am
Looking forward to this one. Jamie Lin is one of the best things about Texas Music right now, along with her collaborator Mike Ethan Messick. Everyone needs to check out his latest one, as well, “How Close We Came.”
August 4, 2018 @ 12:22 pm
The bittersweet “The Being Gone” makes my heart and brain happy because this is what country music for grown-ups sounds like. Lyrics, melody, vocals, sound production stuff–they all make a song that has weight or gravitas or some quality reminiscent of the songs from 30+ years ago in which the narrator has an adult problem with no black/white answers and he/she confronts it in a dignified way. You go, girl/woman! 😉
August 4, 2018 @ 5:46 pm
I’m a fan. The long reverb on the vocal is wrong, but everything else (clavinet?) sounds pretty fresh. I wish she’d loosen up her vocal rhythm, let down her hair a little. She can do tough old Texas bird like the business, but does anyone else want to hear her irrationally in love — or at least trying to avoid it?
August 6, 2018 @ 7:24 am
The Being Gone is a very promising first single, a really beautiful track.