Jackie Shane

[David Meikle]

CD on Numero in October.

What a voice, what a character, what a backing group.

To complicate matters she used to be a he.

Looking forward to this release.

[Roburt]

As David said, Jackie Shane is about to become the next old soul star that Numero shine the light on via their new release (2 x LP, 2 x CD + digi package).

Jackie burst onto the US scene in the early 60's and recorded from 62 plus toured a lot. He started out in Nashville (his home town) but moved about quite a bit. He soon hooked up with the Frank Motley Band. At one stage the ensemble was up in Boston and cut tracks for Skippy White (1964), but they soon relocated to Toronto in Canada. Jackie settled down there, played lots of gigs in the city (& in Montreal), came out & recorded some more. His last recordings seem to have been for Paragon around 1970 and after that he drifted into obscurity. He eventually moved back to Nashville and became something of a recluse.

But is old records were well resepected & so folk kept trying to track him down. This eventually led to him being rediscovered in Nashville where he has been interviewed as part of the Numero project.

So he's about to be re-introduced to music fans, not before time too.  

Edited August 24, 2017 by Roburt

[Roburt]

Some of the bits produced on Jackie over recent years ....

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/searching-for-jackie-shane-rbs-lost-transgender-superstar/article35057998/

https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/d3p7jv/this-is-2020-vision-straight-up

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/jackie-shane-transgender-soul-singer-numero-group/

He also had a chapter all about himself in a book about gay life in Toronto back in the day (see extract below .... 

https://queermusicheritage.com/drag-shane.html

 

 

Edited August 24, 2017 by Roburt