The Hello and welcome to So the Jerkeron's songwriting episode 99. We teet on the precipice of the century my friends.

The very brink. Brink, precipice, whatever you want to call it, we are teetering on it.

Joining us today is an Anglo-Italian singer-songwriter whose impassioned vocal

style and heartfelt confessional lyrical approach have seen him rise to

international prominence over the last few years. His most recent album, The

heavily autobiography, Sleep No More, was released in November 2016,

debuting at number six in the UK album charts. We're very pleased to welcome the splendid

Jack Savaretti to the show. It's quite interesting actually that Jack is viewed as a relatively new artist because he's spent over a decade in the music business, isn't he?

Yeah, that's right and he has five albums to his credits. He's paid his dues as they say.

Anyway, Jack was in town performing at the

Liverpool Philharmonic and was kind enough to sit down and chat with us backstage just prior to his

show. You can hear what went down in a few minutes following this brief bio.

Jack Savaretti was born in London in 1983 to an Italian father and an English mother.

He moved with his family to Switzerland when he was eight and attended an international school over there. He gravitated towards poetry as a teenager and didn't start writing songs until he was around 16. That was around the same time he took up the guitar. He was influenced by the likes of Simon and Garfunkel, Crosby Stills and Nash, Bob Dylan,

Joan Baez and Chris Christopherson, among others. I think we can assume he likes the acoustic

guitar.

I've always admired your homes like powers of deduction.

Disheartened by his initial songwriting efforts and following a move to the US,

Jack attended the film school in LA and then another back in London but found he was still drawn to song

writing. Through a chance meeting he was signed up by his first manager and released his debut album

Between the Minds in 2007 which was champion by Radio 2. A second album, Harder than Easy, followed in 2009,

but by now Jack had become dissatisfied with the direction in which his career was heading

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