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Born in Indiana but raised in Texas, singer/songwriter Jace Everett spent his formative years playing bass and singing in his church youth group. Enamored by both gospel music and the works of country artists like Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, Everett – despite taking a stab at collegiate life at Belmont University in Nashville – seemed destined for the music business. After quitting school, he toured the world in a pop cover band, eventually getting married and fathering a child before moving back to Texas. A series of odd jobs followed (ditchdigger, photographer, truck washer, waiter, etc.), as well as a divorce, eventually leading the frustrated musician back to Nashville. Within a year of his return, and after a few false starts, Everett landed a major-label record deal with Sony Nashville. Produced by Mark Wright and Greg Droman, his eponymous debut record arrived in 2005. The album received a boost in publicity one year later, when "Bad Things" became the theme song of the HBO series True Blood.

– biography by James Christopher Monger, allmusic.com

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Jace Everett - Selftitled Album (2006)
EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 270 MB | Full Scans - 56 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 88 MB
Label: Sony BMG Music Entertainment | Running time: 38:49 minutes | Cat. # 676759-2

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On his self-titled 2006 debut, Jace Everett – a native of Indiana who moved to the Lone Star State when he was a kid – swaggers and growls whenever he's not sincerely belting out power ballads, two traits that serve him well. His vocals are assured, and there's a sleek, muscular feel to Jace Everett that makes it one of the more testosterone-fueled contemporary country albums in recent memory, yet it often is on the verge of being too sleek. The guitars are big, the drums cavernous, and it's all wrapped up in a glossy production that doesn't have much grit to its sound –- so it's to Everett's substantial credit that he makes this album sound tougher than other records of its kind. He pours soul into his performances, which carries him through the songs that are designed for the radio, such as the opening pair of "Everything I Want" and "That's the Kind of Love I'm In." Once those two songs are through, the albums starts to get into Everett originals with the sultry rockabilly boogie of "Bad Things," which might ape Chris Isaak's "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing," but turns it into something less menacing and a little rowdier. After that, Jace Everett retains its clean, polished sound but the music gets more interesting, as he tears through the rollicking barroom anthem "I Gotta Have It" before easing into Bobby Houck and Radney Foster's bittersweet ballad "Half of My Mistakes," which all leads up to a second half comprised of original material. Musically, his tunes – most co-written with Stephany Delray, plus a couple of other collaborators – aren't that far removed from what came on the first half of the record, but they avoid the soaring, deliberate choruses of the professionally written opening pair and have as much earnest soul as his vocals. This is particularly true on the ballads at the end of the record where he decides to show some vulnerability on the sentimental but not saccharine nostalgia of "Nowhere in the Neighborhood" and "Between a Father and Son," where Everett's muscular vocals and direct lyrics keep these songs from seeming drippy. It also helps that Everett balances songs like these with slyly rocking songs like "A Little Less Lonely," since it helps give the record both variety and momentum, illustrating that Everett sounds as comfortable with harder country as he does with the commercial stuff. And what makes this such a thoroughly winning debut is that it walks the line between these two extremes with ease. Some may still wish that Jace Everett had a production as varied and soulful as Jace Everett the writer and musician, but there's no denying that this first album showcases a contemporary country singer and songwriter of considerable potential.

– Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic com

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Jace Everett - Old New Borrowed Blues (2007)
EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 214 MB | Full Scans - 51 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 88 MB
Label: Fullfill LLC / The Music Coalition | Running time: 39:32 minutes | Cat. # ARFULCD-63

Collection of old & new material from the young Nashville fave. This acoustic set, recorded live in a studio, it's not all polished up and smooth and processed music. Features the hit single, 'Bad Things,' which was also included on his now out-of-print debut album, and has recently gained acclaim as the theme song for the HBO vampire series, True Blood.

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Jace Everett - Red Revelations (2009)
EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 315 MB | Full Scans - 52 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 106 MB
Label: Weston Boys / Hump Head Records | Running time: 46:59 minutes | Cat. # HUMP 073

The title Red Revelations vaguely suggests a truth written in blood…or True Blood, which is a better fit for Jace Everett, whose career was stalled before Alan Ball picked his “Bad Things” as the theme song for HBO’s vampire soap opera True Blood. That was the swampiest song on a very good eponymous 2006 debut that spent perhaps more time than it should have catering to mainstream country radio, but three years later, he’s not only free of a major label, he has an audience that wants more of that swampy, bluesy mojo, and so he does on his third album, Red Revelations. This is his first record since True Blood, and he smartly plays to its teasingly dark rockabilly swagger and also adds the song to the middle of the album, which is fine because it fits better here than on Jace Everett. Here, Everett sheds any elements of a crossover country crooner and fashions himself as an heir of sorts to Chris Isaak's retro-rock, only he’s not as well-manicured and lacks a consuming devotion to Roy Orbison. He’s a little grittier and bluesier, not so much that Red Revelations could be mistaken for a transmission from a backwoods juke joint, but enough to give the record a bit of an authentic kick. Plus, it helps that Everett is both a good writer and has an expert ear for material, something that makes Red Revelations more than an exercise in sound; rather, it's more a cracking, late-night rock & roll record.

– Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic com

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Jace Everett - Mr. Good Times (2011)
EAC-FLAC with CUE & LOG - 330 MB | Full Scans - 44 MB | MP3 CBR 320 Kbps - 110 MB
Label: Hump Head Records | Running time: 48:30 minutes | Cat. # HUMP 105

Swamp blues-rocker Jace Everett returns with a brand new album following up on 2009's "Red Revelations". Known for his song "Bad Things" which is the theme for the HBO series True Blood, his latest effort; "Mr. Good Times" is filled to the brim with Jace's gritty roots-fusion songs.