Jarrod Dickenson

TICKETS:    Jarrod Dickenson Sat May 24th 2025 8pm-10pm – Wrecking Ball Arts Centre

If Jarrod Dickenson’s third studio album, BIG TALK sounds like a mighty
roar of defiance, that’s not a design choice or a marketing decision.
The big Texan is settling scores all over town and he means every
f*cking word. So what happened in the years since the release of
Dickenson’s soulful sophomore long-player, Ready the Horses, to have
turned this honey-voiced southern gentleman into a brawler? After a
major label deal-gone-bad threatened to choke off his career and Covid
complications left him with a life-long medical condition Dickenson
would have certainly been forgiven for retreating to his Nashville home
to lick wounds and maybe write a collection of introspective self-pity
anthems. Instead, the hardships and infuriation of recent years have
only added steel to the resolve of an artist already willing to do it
the hard way, prepared to stand in the face of a music business that
shows dwindling regard for the brand of artistry that first inspired him
to pick up a guitar and sing for his life. This album represents
Dickenson’s most direct and uncompromising body of song writing to date,
and his decision to occupy the producer’s chair has injected BIG TALK
with a drive and coherence that compliments the muscle of its material.

Dickenson now exists as a fiercely independent artist, a look that suits
him well and allows his creativity to follow whatever path it damn well
pleases.