Jackie Greene & The Mother Hips

Fri Oct 10, 2025        6pm - All Ages

• Venue Website:

  https://barrelhousebrewing.com/music-and-events#amphitheater

• Artist Website:

  https://www.jackiegreene.com/

• Support Website:

  https://www.motherhips.com/
  

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JACKIE GREENE:

Americana and roots singer-songwriter Jackie Greene is a jack-of-all-trades, and an artist who
can croon over soulful piano ballads as much as he can shred a bluesy guitar solo (like he did as
the lead guitarist for The Black Crowes in 2013). A road warrior and musician’s musician,
Greene’s new EP ‘The Modern Lives – Vol 2’ (out October 2018 on Blue Rose Music) finds him at
a new chapter in his life: his first months of fatherhood, time off his relentless touring circuit,
and a cross-country move from Brooklyn to his birthplace of Northern California.
This new collection of six original songs is a thematic extension of ‘The Modern Lives – Vol 1’ EP
(released in 2017 on Blue Rose Music), imbued with a Brooklyn basement DIY feel and ethos. He
is a student of American music, transfixed upon its progression through time, as well as how
regional sounds fit in a contemporary context. Whereas ‘Vol 1’ saw Greene experiment with the
Delta blues as a canvas for his examinations of modern society, ‘Vol 2’ sees Greene embrace the
sounds of the bluegrass and folk tapes of his youth.

Lead single “Crazy Comes Easy” showcases Greene’s dynamic, multi-instrumental range as he
plays slide guitar, organ, bass, and percussion, the guitar licks an appreciative nod to his time in
The Black Crowes. Meanwhile, “Good Old Bad Times” highlights Greene as the songwriter as he
rattles off lines like “How can somebody find a future? / If they ain’t got a foothold in the past?”
while taking a critical eye to the idea of nostalgia. Piano ballad “Victim Of The Crime” was one of
Jackie’s oldest demos up until the feel of these sessions gave him the tools to finish a song that,
in his words, was written for his wife before she was his wife. While the title possesses a kind of
melodrama, the song itself is tender and heartfelt as he details love’s trials and tribulations.
Greene partnered with Academy Award-nominated “king of indie animation” Bill Plympton for a
series of music videos for ‘The Modern Lives – Vol 1’ that would eventually become an animated
short film titled ‘The Modern Lives’. The film is currently making the rounds at film festivals
where it has already won the Jury Award at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, TX, and the Grand
Remi Award / Best in Show at WorldFest in Houstin, TX. The short is also being exhibited at the
71st Festival de Cannes/Court Metrage, Melbourne International Animation Festival, and ASIFA-
East Festival, amongst others.

THE MOTHER HIPS:

San Francisco, CA: The Mother Hips are back with a new album, When We Disappear, a compelling new studio album set for release January 27, 2023 on Blue Rose. Based in Northern California, the Hips headed to New Mexico, spending time at Ghost Ranch before settling in at Jono Manson’s Kitchen Sink studio in Sante Fe in late 2021 for the sessions. Self-produced, When We Disappear features nine new tracks co-written by co-founders Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono — a collection of lit-psych rock songs Inspired by psychology and literature — as well as a raw, garagey cover of Buffy St. Marie’s 1964 addiction song “Codine.”

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “one of the Bay Area’s most beloved live outfits,” The Mother Hips’ headline and festival performances have became the stuff of legend, finding them sharing stages with everyone from Johnny Cash and Wilco to Lucinda Williams and The Black Crowes. Rolling Stone called the band “divinely inspired,” while Pitchfork praised their “rootsy mix of 70’s rock and power pop,” and The New Yorker lauded their ability to “sing it sweet and play it dirty.”