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Jackie

by Georgie Fisher

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When I first started jamming 'Jackie' with my band, the sound of it reminded me of 'Across 110th Street' by Bobby Womack. A song about crossing the physical racial divide in Harlem in the late 60s. It was featured in the opening credits to Quentin Tarantinos's 'Jackie Brown', hence my song's title. The lyrics for 'Jackie' were written later, they talk about homelessness in our societies, and how we often treat people on the streets without respect.

After the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis on May 25th 2020 protests against systemic racism spread across the globe. Together with these protests the important conversation about the music industry culturally appropriating black music and exploiting black artists instead of recognising them was sparked once more.

I think these conversations are important to have. It is something I have been thinking about a lot because I am influenced by soul and blues, music that originated in black America. Jackie is kinda retro/soul, exactly one of the styles in question. Am I culturally appropriating by making that kind of music? I wrestled with it a lot, I thought about abandoning the release altogether.

I had a whole ‘social media plan’ leading up to the release date which I did completely abandon. It suddenly felt ridiculous to me, promoting a single just like normal amongst everything that was going on. I ultimately decided to release 'Jackie' and donate 100% of bandcamp sales to Grandmothers Against Removal NSW, a charity back home in Australia.

GMAR is a grassroots group led by Aboriginal grandmothers, fighting the ongoing removal of Aboriginal children from their families. You can follow them on facebook and even donate to them directly.

www.facebook.com/GMAR.GrandmothersAgainstRemovals/

donate.mycause.com.au/charity/37188?fbclid=IwAR24gHhAJ5Vup5QMzPmOnCZId2OKfHXRiObumpYdeNcrqPJE4WmjCOMGHtM

Please buy this single for as much as you can afford to give, your money will end up in the pockets of Aboriginal women with great work to do.

Thank you for listening.

lyrics

I bet you weren’t always
Like this
You’ve seen better days
I could guess
How you slipped through
Maybe if I learned the truth
I’d see some of myself in you

What lays behind you
What lead you here to
Fight your demons alone
Are you a brother
Or somebody’s mother
I want you to know,
I see you
I see you

We work hard
For the money
We won’t part
With it easily
It’s mine and you’re a stranger
We say it’s justified
We say we know what our money will buy and decline

We just freak out
Walk on by
Do all we can
Not to catch your eye
Deep down we know it’s wrong
We just keep on walking along
As though your life doesn’t matter at all

What business is it of mine
We think it’s up to us to decide
What you should be doing with your lives
You’re drowning in dust
But in money we trust

Something deep inside you has broken
We can’t even spare you a moment
We believe we’d never be like you
Drowning in dust
Cause in money we trust

credits

released June 5, 2020
released June 06, 2020
Recorded at Low Swing Studios Berlin 2017
Written by Georgie Fisher/Tomás Peralta/Stephanie Grace
Guitar - Harry Charles
Keyboards - Armin Hempel
Bass - Tomás Peralta
Drums - Jens Baumann
Mixed and Mastered by Matthias Millhoff

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Georgie Fisher Sydney, Australia

GEORGIE FISHER’s unique style is characterised by rhythmic guitar playing and a voice that sounds like whiskey and tobacco dipped in honey. Steeped in blues and soul music, Georgie’s grooves and rhythms will get your feet moving and timbre of her extraordinary voice will give you goosebumps.
Based in Berlin and Sydney, Georgie performs regularly across the globe.
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