biographical info
Hailing from rural Claremont, Ontario and making his home in Toronto, Jack Marks released his debut album “Two of Everything” in 2009. It received radio play on CBC
programs The Drive and Deep Roots, was featured in The Globe and Mail’s Essential Tracks column, was a Hot Box featured album for Alberta’s public radio institution CKUA, achieved album of the week on Radio Blueprint in the Netherlands, and rose to number twenty-two on the Euro-Americana Chart. It also earned him a 2010 CFMA nomination for Emerging Folk Artist of the Year. His follow up, 2010’s “Lost Wages” also received national and international radio play and garnered praise in a variety publications. Since then, Marks has toured extensively both as a
solo artist and with his band Lost Wages playing shows and festivals in Holland, Germany, Los
Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and across Canada. At present, Marks is set to release his third
studio album titled “Blues Like These" and embark on a cross Canada tour.
January, 2013
lineup
Jack Marks Vocals - Guitar
influences
John Prine
Bob Dylan
Tom Waits
Randy Newman
Lhasa de Sela