Rusty Jackson

I'm old school - I think there should be a "Title cut" on every album and that the title of that song should also be the theme of the album.  Right after I finished the "Never too Late" album, I…

I wrote this song in 2014. I recorded it in December of 2017 and I put it on this album because all of the influences that are listed in this song are the inspirations that helped me develop my own…

This is a really personal song. When my wife was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer in March of 2016, we were devastated.  The next day she asked me "if I die, do you think you will re-marry?"  I said…

I noticed that the audiences that seem to like my original music is usually made up of old rednecks and hippies (of all ages).  So I got to thinking about that and I realized that there are some interesting things…

I wrote this song right after I had just finished reading Waylon Jennings Biography.  So I think this song sounds a bit like a Waylon song.  I had an experience with an audience where I felt like they didn't give…

This silly song started with me having to use the facilities at Walmart.  No, it was not on aisle 4, it was in the men's room.  I had this thought afterwards wondering if "crapping" in Walmart might be a metaphor…

I wrote this song in 2014 - right after I started playing country music again.  This song was sort of a test - I wanted to see if I could still write a country song ( I hadn't done it…

It occurred to me one day that authors often build metaphors into a story and that it seems like maybe God puts metaphors in our lives too.  The more that I thought about it, the more I realized that it…

I started writing this song just a few weeks after my wife passed - I wrote the first half, then I set it aside because I didn't think I would be able to sing it at that time - it…

The long version of this story is at https://rustyjackson.com/tour  Here is the short version - When I lost my wife to pancreatic cancer, I knew that I needed to do something to stop myself from sinking.  I decided to pick…

I wrote this song in October 2017.  The initial idea came from my niece who once told me that there was nothing to do in Idaho.  After I got the chorus, I started thinking about how people in Spokane and…

Most of the story is right there in the lyrics, but I should add that when this happened, my parents thought I had been in an accident or something.  They had called the police and the hospitals because it just…

When I got ready to record the "Never too Late" album, it was just 6 months after I lost my wife to cancer.  I started to think about our life together and really how much she meant to me.  I…

When I was growing up I was really shy.  I had a friend named Chuck that was very similar to me in many ways, but he wasn't so shy :D  We became best friends and when we were in high…

Johnny Cash was everywhere when I was growing up. We had albums, he was on the radio, TV, movies!  It's fair to say that I wanted to be like Johnny Cash and I do a lot of his songs.  This…

I heard a news story about people who broke up with their boyfriend/girlfriend by simply changing their status on Facebook and I thought that was sad but funny.  So I wrote this song to describe what that might feel like.

Since 2014 I've been playing with a cover band called "The Spokane River Band".  We've played all over the greater Spokane area and as far as Eureka Montana and Moses Lake Washington.  I wanted to write a song called "Spokane…

This song is about the most unselfish man I ever knew - my dad.  In 2016 I volunteered to bring some entertainment to the local American Cancer Society Relay for Life.  I decided to gather some songwriters that had written…

I wrote this song in 2013.  Originally, the song was about depression.  I had heard that Winston Churchill suffered with occasional bouts of depression and that when he was having a bad day he would say "the black dog showed…

I was watching the Jim Gaffigan TV show/series that was on TV Land for one season.  This episode was about Jim understanding what his "call" in life was.  I won't go into it all but it was funny.  At the…