Artist description Southern singer-songwriter piano player with an unusual voice and an unusual take on the world.

Music Style Piano-driven Pop/Rock

Musical Influences Bowie,Elton John,Beatles,Louis Prima,Queen

Similar Artists Tom Waits,David Bowie,Victoria Williams, John Lennon

Artist History Born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma but now makes his home in Nashville. McFadden is a noted keyboardist for such acts as The Mavericks, Owsley, Sixpence None the Richer, Jill Sobule and Amy Grant to name a few and show his diversity. Always maintaining his own solo career.

Group Members Solo Artist

Instruments Piano, Organ, Accordion, various keyboards

Albums Stand and Cast A Shadow (Reptile) 1986, This Girl (Plug) 1999

Press Reviews If Jerry Dale McFadden didn't exist, David Lynch would have to invent him. Perhaps best-known as touring keyboardist/court jester for the Mavericks, McFadden bares a decidedly more disturbed/disturbing side on his solo albums, which overflow with psychosexual meanderings and out-of-kilter glam-country shadings that sound like jukebox selections from a roadhouse into which even the baddies in Deliverance wouldn't venture. There's an eerie beauty to what McFadden does-accentuated by his unearthly singing voice, which splits the difference between Victoria Williams and a helium-filled Captain Beefheart. When he spills that voice between the cracks of elegantly wasted backing concocted by acolytes plucked from the ranks of the Cheap Trick fan club, Wilco, and the Mavericks, McFadden practically drenches listeners in the emotional backwash. During

Location Nashville, TN - USA

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