Tour in support of New Album "On Your Sleeve"
Recorded over seven days and featuring interpretations of classic singer-songwriters
Tom Waits and
Neil Young, contemporary greats such as
The Hold Steady and
The Kills, punk icons
The Ramones and
The Clash,
Lou Reed and even a
Sam Cooke standard – Jesse tips his hat to a small collection of writers that inform his unique musical identity and appeal. As a performing songwriter, Jesse appreciated the challenge of covering unique melodies not of his own design. Or, as Jesse puts it: “seven days of crazy fun, trying on other peoples’ clothes in my own apartment…” From hearing
Jim Croce’s ‘Operator’ as a boy on a long car journey; chancing upon
The Kills’ second album in an independent record store while touring the UK, pondering upon the “real, big love” that lies at the heart of classics like
‘Wonderful World’ and obsessing with the dark lyrics of
Elton John’s ‘Harmony’, music is everything to Jesse Malin, and live sets have long been punctuated with his reworking of others’ material.
On Your Sleeve then, is the blossoming of an idea that has gnawed at Jesse for a few years now, and one that sees him paying back “all those songs that hit me at certain points in my life and never stopped”.