Wednesday, August 26, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
WALLACE: Artist
has found his new
home in Sisters
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while he was growing up, and
Wallace aspired to be a musi-
cian himself.
When he was around
age 8 or 9, his father bought
him and his brother a cheap
acoustic guitar and if they
learned basic chords on that
one, they could play his nicer
instruments.
“I started being able to
play really well and very early
on, writing became ingrained
in me as well,” Wallace told
The Nugget.
In 2004, his family moved
their home base from North
Carolina to Fort Worth,
Texas, where they served as
xican
missionaries on the Mexican
border for three years.
“After that experience
and seeing so much in
that area, I was about to
go into high school and
that is when my songwrit-
ing really took a turn and I
est
had this drive to be the best
that I could,” he said.
ning
Wallace grew up listening
usic
to primarily Christian music
d on
and writing music based
ed to
scripture. Wallace wanted
branch out to his own song-
writing style and write about
his life experiences and have
n.
his songs be truly his own.
“It became less of a wor-
ship style and more toward
journalistic stories and expe-
riences,” he said.
Wallace had joined a song-
writing group where every
February, members of the
annual event write songs for
the entire month and see who
comes up with the most songs
for the month.
“This experience really
gave me a lot of confidence
and positive reinforcement
during my formative singer-
songwriter time,” he said.
Shortly after February
with a new booklet of songs
in hand, Wallace holed up in
a cabin in Austin, near the
Llano River, and wrote the
first single he released in
2018, “Orange Haze.”
Shortly after the release of
that single, Wallace recorded
his first EP in Fort Worth
titled, “Where the River
Meets the Ocean.” During
the process of writing this
EP, Wallace had taken a
road trip from Texas up to
the Columbia River Gorge
and Oregon Coast with his
brother.
“I had a spiritual moment
while standing on a rock on
the Oregon Coast looking out
on the ocean and I started the
writing process for the rest of
the EP,” said Wallace.
The title for the EP came
from a connection to where
he wrote the first song, along
the river in Austin, all the
way to the ocean where he
finished the writing of the
songs.
Wallace said: “It was a sort
of metaphor for the journey
from the desert to the ocean
in the process and it
was something my Mom had
said to me and it clicked.”
Wallace¾s song, <Capture
Me,” off that EP is the song
that he said “is the essence of
that EP about the journey to
find a home.”
In 2019, Wallace released
another EP titled “Arrows.”
Also, in 2019, Wallace
decided he wanted a change
of scenery in his living situ-
ation. He had been keen on
moving to Nashville for many
years, but it never worked out.
He had vaguely heard about
Central Oregon and talked
it over with his family and
decided to move up to Oregon.
“It was a sort of arbitrary
decision and I was tired of
being on the road after tour-
ing with some groups and
with my own music,” said
Wallace.
During one of his camp-
trip up near Mt. Hood
ing trips
in 2017 with friends, inspi-
ration struck Wallace again
insp
— inspiration
for his latest
single “Wanderer.”
single,
“I was watching the
camp
campfire late at night and
the chorus melody for
the song came me and I
was constantly humming
it u under my breath to
rem
remember it,” he said.
After returning, he
fi
finished writing out
th
the song and decided
PHOTO PROVIDED
Jacob Everett Wallace sings stories and asks questions.
to save it for a single release
in August. Wallace calls it the
»August song¾ because every
part of the song was written,
constructed and recorded and
then released in the month of
August — last year and this
year.
“A lot of the song is speak-
ing about my experiences
based in Oregon and this one
comes out of that,” he said.
He said in a blog post on the
single: <What I didn¾t know
at the time was how prescient
it would be for me and how
my journey would unfold. An
anthem born in the stillness
and quiet would roar when I
needed it most.”
Wanderer was recorded in
Nashville and mixed and final-
ized with Raymond Shelley
at Sisters Sound Studio.
The cover art for the song
was commissioned with local
Sisters artist, Raina Verhey.
Wallace is putting down
roots in Sisters and hopes
to cultivate his songwrit-
ing philosophy: “Find your
vulnerability.”
“ Wa n d e r e r ” w i l l b e
released on Friday, August 28,
on all major music platforms.
To learn more about Jacob
Everett Wallace, visit www.
jacobeverettwallace.com.
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