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When Jack Ingram won the 2008 Academy of Country Music award for “Best New Male Vocalist,” thousands of people in the audience had to be smiling to themselves about that whole “new” thing. They knew the thirty-something, steel-eyed veteran accepting that trophy on that stage in Vegas had been rocking roadhouses, theaters and stadiums relentlessly since 1997, that he’d been celebrated by critics and fans of hard-core country music for more than a decade, and that as a Texas-born songwriter and performer, he’d been on the short list of next generation artists who could fill the boots of Lone Star legends like Willie and Waylon and the boys.

But the award did mean that Ingram, after trials and setbacks that would have buckled other artists, had at last matched the commercial success he’d always wanted with the integrity on which he’d always insisted. So he told the crowd with no small measure of pride and triumph that night that “big dreams and high hopes” can come true.

Now, as if to validate and amplify that truth, Ingram remains in the forefront of country music with the album Big Dreams & High Hopes, the seventh studio disc of his career and his third for Nashville maverick indie label Big Machine Records. Its eleven tracks range through the many facets of Ingram’s unique take on country music and songwriting. There’s the textured and contemplative “Seeing Stars” sung in ethereal tandem with Patty Griffin. You’ll find a couple of superb roots rocking country songs Jack wrote with compadre and mentor Radney Foster. And you’ve probably already heard the swimming hole party anthem “Barefoot and Crazy” which quickly became a radio smash and a soundtrack for the hot summer of 2009.

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08/02/2010 - Jack Ingram Keeps His Songwriting Tools Sharpened - Read More
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Average Rating : 0              Total Reviews: 327


Jack Ingram  03/20/2007            
texasmom
I love the new album and have pre-ordered several. Can't wait for the arrival. I am so thrilled by the success that Jack is experiencing right now and I don't feel he has sold out at all. I have been one the fans that have been around since the very beginning. I do miss the small intimate shows that we used to attend with him, but we are all human with a need to experiment, try new things and reach for the stars. I hope he flies high for a long long time.
Jack Ingram  03/20/2007            
moteltan
Jealousy is an interesting thing. In reading these reviews, I sense a great deal of it. We all want to be part of some exclusive group, don't we? "Texas Music" fans... the hallowed membership. Our Clan knows Townes, Wall, JJW, REK, Wills, Ramsey, Earle, Ray Wylie, Lovett, Pat, Cory, Roger, Red Dirt, Willie, and the list goes on. As long as those acts stay "ours", we're pretty keen, ourselves, huh? We’ve got our ears to the ground and we are tuned-in and elite! But let the secret get out, let a whole nation discover someone's talent and then our fan-pool is somehow diluted and we're not as cool to be in it. I mean, how cool is it to like someone everyone else likes? Never mind the dude's music or its merit relative to the global body of work that spans all time, fad, and genre boundaries. Naw, just keep him small, and keep him mine. Jack's not consecrated. He's not yours. He's not Texas's. He's his own man and he knows what the F he's doing--"Nashville" doesn’t make Jack do anything. He took a big chunk of Texas with him for 14 years and beat Nashville over the head with it to no avail. Then it dawned on him... Waylon was the narrator for the cheesiest sellout-show on television for 5 years. The Bakersfield sound went on to host Hee Haw. Willie did movies, crapped out Stardust, and recorded with anyone who had a remote chance of bringing in a hit. JJW does frat shows and wears a smile in front of an audience he absolutely loathes. Hell--you can't come close to finding someone who didn't have to compromise their art in the name of commerce at least once in their career. You want great Texas music? Make it yourself. I'll email you the formula--it's pretty g-damn simple. Or go listen to that decaying lot of unoriginal big fishes in a small pond and watch as they go broke and get sick with no health insurance, all the while dreaming that they had the talent to get a song up to number 1 in the country (they are already hits, a-hole). Me--I'll be sticking to the practice of listening to good music--Texas or otherwise. If you are tired of the Texas pep-rallies, you'll dig this. If not, this record ain't fer you. But there's luckily plenty of derivative weeds still out there making Texas Music who sprang from Jack's flower, so rejoice. Why is this album significant? A million people are going to buy an album with a fantastic song-portrait of west Texas called Great Divide. A million people are about to accidentally buy an album with a heart-wrenching love-soaked tune from a father to his daughter, Ava Adell. A million people are about to unwittingly stumble upon a father’s fantastic advice and hopes for his newborn son in the tune Make A Wish. Oh... they’ll be buying for the radio hits, but they’ll walk away unknowingly inoculated with true Texas gut. And that makes them a better set of ears, a set more receptive to some of the other good music out here. When Jack rises, everyone from Pat to Keen to Creager to you-name-it also rises. Exposure---that’s all you need to become a fan of this music, and Ingram's bringing it to a well-deserved genre.
Jack Ingram  03/20/2007            
Kyle
Finally The Great Divide is on a CD, ive been waiting for this song for about 4 years now. Thats all I can see good about this album though.
Jack Ingram  03/19/2007            
mj
Jack used to be awesome but now he is a nashville rat and should not be considered texas music any longer. He now looks like a pop star and masterson made the wright descision.
Jack Ingram  03/11/2007            
Michael
All right, "Good Music"/"Disappointment"/"Red Raider". You've had your say, now stop flooding the reviews. Some of us are actually looking forward to this record. Also, I think Masterson may disagree with your take on his opinion. Vehemently.
Jack Ingram  03/11/2007            
I like Good Music
"Lips of an Angel"? He just committed musicians suicide by covering a recent hit by a teenage rock band. Even his guitar player (Chris Masterson) thinks he sold out and is quiting Jack to join some real musicians (Son Volt). If you like original sound its time to move on and let Nashville take this guy away.
Jack Ingram  03/10/2007            
Disappointment
Why did he put 2 songs from his previous album on this album? Only 12 songs total and half of them he didn't write. Sounds like a watered down Nashville sound and he doesn't even sound like his old self. I wouldn't pay money for this. Download the disappointment if you really want to hear it.
Jack Ingram  03/07/2007            
TexFan
To the knucklehead who commented "He will come crying home to Texas soon, hopefully" -- get over yourself. I've heard Jack's new album. I don't love the stuff he didn't write, but the stuff he did write is probably the best stuff he's ever done. And the rest is a lot better than most stuff on country radio and, frankly, no worse than a lot of what passes for "good" Texas/Red Dirt fare. People crying "sell out," ask yourselves this: how would it not be selling out if he just kept playing the same places, to the same crowds, for the rest of his life for fear of what his "diehard" Texas "fans" would think if he dared try something different, or dared to try and get his music out as many people as possible? Maybe that's not selling out. It's worse. It's called playing it safe. The other fans here talking about "Great Divide" being a great song are right — it's one of his best. And a hell of a lot more people are gonna get to hear that song because he "sold out" than if he just stayed in Texas and sang to the choir.
Jack Ingram  03/07/2007            
Randy damnit
Dude, get off his back. He picked up a few songs that he didn't write to get on the map. The Great Divide is a song he wrote and has been performing for a really long time (since before Wherever You Are), and I have been waiting on it to be on a studio album since the first time I heard it. It's vintage Jack. Give this one a chance, people.
Jack Ingram  03/06/2007            
Red Raider
Proud to know that another carbon-copy music label found another Texas singer and is now exploiting him and his talent. I wish that Jack could be famous for the songs he wrote, not for the ones he didn't. But hey, who could blame him for selling out, he paid his dues for 15 years and has kids to feed. I will cherish the old stuff and the old Jack. He will come crying home to Texas soon, hopefully.
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