Whiskey In The Jar
A little piece of Nashville came to London earlier this month as Jarvis Cocker, Ellie Goulding and Richard Hawley joined forces with Duane Eddy for an evening of boot stompin’ homage to Jack Daniels
Olaf Tyaransen, 03 Nov 2010
Paaarty on! Another year, another star-studded birthday bash for a long-dead icon of that wonderful stuff they call whiskey..
Yes indeed. The good folks at Jack Daniel’s have been throwing birthday celebrations for their namesake founder for almost a decade now, featuring the likes of Flaming Lips, Hugh Cornwell, Roisin Murphy, Tim Murphy, Patti Smith, Frank Black and Juliette Lewis. Nowadays, Jack Daniel’s tends towards studied cool, creating once-off unusual musical matches. Last year saw Brett Anderson, John McClure and Carl Barat playing alongside The Silver Cornet Band. This year’s celebrations took place on October 7 and found a trio of UK stars – velveteen crooner Richard Hawley, former Pulp frontman turned acclaimed DJ Jarvis Cocker and pop star of the moment Ellie Goulding – joining forces with legendary Tennessee guitarist Duane Eddy at the Clapham Grand in London.
Hot Press was privileged to attend the rehearsals for the gig the previous day, but what happens in rehearsals stays in rehearsals. So to the upstairs bar of the Clapham Grand, where Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and Duane Eddy held a press conference with a roomful of journalists and TV/radio crews (a tired and emotional Ellie Goulding literally fled from the room when she saw the size of the press posse).
Here are some of the highlights...
RICHARD HAWLEY: “It’s a great honour for me and Jarvis to be here. We love Duane’s music. The first record I ever got given by my dad was a copy of Yep!, which had ‘Three-30 Blues’ on it. And my dad said to me, ‘If you can be half as good as that, you’ll be ok’. So it’s great to be sat here with Duane now.”
DUANE EDDY: “He ended up ten times as good!”
RH: “Duane’s got a special talent. He’s the hardest curry eater I’ve ever met. I took him out to this curry house in Sheffield, and I couldn’t believe it.”
JARVIS COCKER: “Often when you play, when you write songs and stuff like that, you might say to someone, ‘It needs a bit here – do a Duane Eddy bit’ or something. It’s like the shorthand of songwriting. It’s amazing to think that before he made that sound, it didn’t exist. That’s quite a thing. From a guitar-playing point of view, he really moved things on. Without a doubt, Duane’s influence was as massive as Bo Diddley’s or Chuck Berry’s.”
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