The Pollocks

Artist Information

Biography

The Pollocks



In the summer of 1997, I met Maryline in San Antonio, TX. She had made the journey from France to visit a close friend, and found herself at a Seven Mary Three show after hearing "Cumbersome” on the radio. A long distance love story began.
I left Seven Mary Three in 1999 and set out to re-discover myself as a songwriter. Living in France, armed with a 4-track recorder, a microphone, and a guitar, I began writing lyrics and teaching myself to sing. After moving to Charlottesville, VA, I began to record a few songs in the home studios of various friends, growing progressively more comfortable with my voice and my songwriting.
In 2007, Maryline and I began working on a series of albums, the first titled "Last Tender Leaves" and the second titled "Pardon The Witches." I bought some equipment from friends and from strangers on the Internet, and we started recording the two albums in our basement. Sixteen tracks. Two microphones and a drum machine.
Lyrically, the songs are about the levels that one sinks, or rises to when she/he realizes that something beautiful in their lives has been replaced by its memory. Musically, they are composed of deceptively simple melodies with sparse arrangements, built around the classic skeleton of American rock music- drums, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keys/organs.
I would describe 'Last Tender Leaves' and 'Pardon The Witches' as empty rooms inside broken homes, love's lost light, a holiday beach in the heart of winter, revenge, regret, quiet desperation, a honeymoon barrel going over the falls. Maryline took the picture of the sunset for the Pardon The Witches album cover, after a violent storm blew through and left the sky clean.
“Wine Diamonds” is the title of our third album. The bare bones of these songs were recorded with live drums (Nathan West) and bass (David Bartok) in one day, and Maryline and I overdubbed the rest of the tracks in our basement. This album marks a change in the sound and the sentiment of our music; the songs are more up-tempo in general, and the lyrical content tends to be hopeful that, even though the world is a scary place, a state of grace is within reach.

Instrumentation

Jason Pollock (lead vocals & guitars)
Maryline Pollock (backing vocals)

Discography

Last Tender Leaves
Pardon The Witches
Wine Diamonds

Audio

• Before I'm Free
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• Here With Her
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• Red Lights Coming
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• Call My Name
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• Kiss
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• I Have Lost Touch With The World
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Lyrics

• Before I'm Free
• Here With Her
• Red Lights Coming
• Call My Name
• Kiss
• I Have Lost Touch With The World

Video

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Press

• Our first review [+ Show ]
  

  I was going to call you today, but since I have this e-mail, I'll relay the message in writing. We l...I was going to call you today, but since I have this e-mail, I'll relay the message in writing. We listened to your CD twice on the trip to Maggie's, and I listened to it coming in to work this morning. I think the CD is really, really great, and I wouldn't just tell you that if I didn't really think it. I loved every single song, unlike most CDs I've listened to, and was bowled over by how great the music, lyrics, and your singing are. It's a very impressive group of songs that actually gave me goose bumps I found them so appealing. I knew you were incredibly talented, but I'd forgotten how much over the time you haven't been performing, and now I'm very excited that you're going to be performing again, and we'll have the honor of not only listening to you live, but being able to say "That's my boy!" Congratulations for putting together such a beautiful CD.

Setlist

Two to three, one hour sets.

Original material from our two records. Covers include: Hey Bulldog (Beatles), Sweet Mama Janisse (Taj Mahal), I"m A Ram (Al Green), Torn & Frayed (Rolling Stones), Can't Judge A Book (Bo Diddley), Rock n' Roll (V. Underground), etc.

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