A mainstay of the local music scene is trading D.C. for Australia
Jack was born in San Francisco and spent his early years in Berkeley. When he was 10, his professor father got a job at Tulane and the family moved to New Orleans., was ascholar and amateur drummer. He showed Jack around a drum kit and steeped him in jazz and blues. Being around the music of New Orleans was like “filling a reservoir,” Jack said.
Eventually, Jack started playing with bands that required he dip into that rootsy reservoir. In 1994, he joined Too Much Fun, providing the bottom end with bassist“It was amazing,” Jack said of his time in Too Much Fun. “You’d never experience something like this today. In the early ’90s, every Tuesday Kirchen was at Whitey’s, every Wednesday at Tornado Alley, every Thursday at the Sunset Grille. And every Friday we were at BWI flying to wherever. Then on Monday we’d fly back.
It was at one of those road shows that he met Suzannah, whose country vocal group, Git, was touring the States and opened a few shows for Kirchen.“There was kind of this sparky thing between us. But nothing was going to happen, honestly,” Jack said. Jack had just gotten married, and Suzannah was in a relationship with the man who would soon become her husband.When the pandemic hit and gigs dried up — along with the carpentry that was his day job — Jack started posting videos of himself performing at home. Suzannah saw those, liked them, commented on them, messaged Jack. An online courtship began between the two now-single friends.In January, Suzannah flew here to see Jack for the first time in 20 years.
What’s been especially hard, though, is a prolonged estrangement from his 21-year-old daughter. In case she should see this column, he asked me to include a message to her: “Jack’s last shows with the Rhodes Tavern Troubadours are July 13 and 14 at VFW Post 350 in Takoma Park. His farewell to the Thrillbillys is July 23 at JV’s in Falls Church.“I’ll be a zombie from jet lag,” he said, “but it’s straight country so I should be fine.
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