Barnato
225 N 170th St, Omaha, NE
Sat
September 17, 2022
8:00 pm
CDT
(6:00 pm DOORS)
JEREMY McCOMB
Good things come to those who wait, but luck favors the bold. And for Jeremy McComb, the balance comes natural. A country-rock storyteller epitomizing “been there and done that,” McComb has explored nearly every facet of the entertainment industry, all on his own terms. From radio programming to tour managing Larry the Cable Guy, releasing four albums, growing an international fanbase and hitting the Billboard charts, he’s written songs for projects selling over 6 Million copies … including a Grammy-nominated soundtrack (Blue Collar Comedy Tour – One for the Road). Newly signed with Average Joes Entertainment, McComb is back with an all-new album and the beginning of a new creative chapter – the bold steps following years of DIY diligence. “I look around, and I always dreamed of living the life that I’m living right now,” McComb says. “Everybody talks about the 10,000 hours of mastering a craft, and I’m closer to 40,000. But over the last few years everything I’ve learned has started connecting. We got the coals of the fire going, and now we’re pouring a big ol’ can of gasoline on it.” Proudly independent in both spirit and style, McComb was born in Idaho as a sixth-generation musician. Music is in his DNA, and there’s never been anything else he wanted to do – but he’s a distinct branch on the family tree. Obsessed with artists who share a gift for storytelling (and little else), he found inspiration in everything from Jim Croce to Tom Petty, and now bridges the canyons between country, rock and folk. These days McComb spends over 200 days a year on tour, just as happy in a honky tonk as an amphitheater and backed by a band of spirit-brothers. Wrapping each song in context and electrifying frontier-rock energy, his nightly connection with fans develops faster than a Polaroid, and he calls life on the road his first love. But with his adventurous new album, he brings the show to fans. Born largely from a tour of Sweden and a fateful writing session in the home of literary icon Leo Tolstoy (author of War and Peace), the project happened by “accident” … and is now reenergizing McComb’s career. “It was one of those things where I finally got right in my head,” he explains. “I quit drinking a few years back, got healthy and added a lot of life philosophy to what I do. It’s just living better than I’ve ever lived, feeling better than I’ve ever felt, and doing all those things put me in such a good place it opened up a whole creative realm for me. We ended up in Leo Tolstoy’s house overlooking the Baltic Sea outside Stockholm, writing on a granite rock for five days, and that’s where the record came from.” Sensing something special, McComb returned home to Nashville and immediately hit the studio, capturing the results with producer Nick Gibbens. A close group of friends and the same healthy vibe that inspired the project joined them, and it ended up being more invigorating than anything before. “It’s kind of a genre-less approach, but I think the main vein is storytelling,” he says. “My whole career has been built on jumping through windows as they open, so we just started jumping through windows and seeing where it took us.