About Jamestown Revival
Jamestown Revival on Tour
If you’re going to a Jamestown Revival show, you better be prepared to participate. Harmony is at the core of Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay’s Southern-rockin’ Americana outfit, and if you’ve heard their 2018 concert recording, Live From Largo at the Coronet Theatre, you’ll know that their repertoire presents ample opportunities to sing and clap along. Expect rousing renditions of the band’s signature tracks - like the country-rock anthem “California (Cast Iron Soul)” and the tense, foot-stomping showstopper “Crazy World (Judgement Day)” - along with dips into a deep well of covers that includes the Jackson Browne/Nico standard “These Days” and the Steve Young-penned Eagles favorite “Seven Bridges Road.”
Jamestown Revival Background
Though they formed in 2011, the roots of Jamestown Revival extend back a good decade before that, when childhood friends Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay started jamming together as teenagers growing up in the town of Magnolia, Texas. Their official union would be delayed somewhat by Clay’s ascendant solo career, which earned the aspiring singer-songwriter a development deal with Atlantic Records in 2007. But he’d find greater success once he and Chance relocated to Austin to start Jamestown Revival - a reference to Jamestown, Virginia (one of the first settlements in the United States), and FM-radio icons Creedence Clearwater Revival. That band name served as the perfect advertisement for the new group’s sound - old-school Americana delivered with a classic-rock kick and dipped in Chance and Clay’s honeyed harmonies. Over the course of their first three albums - 2014’s Utah, 2016’s The Education of a Wandering Man, and 2019’s San Isabel - Jamestown Revival grew both in size and scope, with a six-piece lineup equally adept at gritty roadhouse rockers and atmospheric, desert-dusted ballads. But while stuck at home in 2020, Jamestown Revival got back to their duo roots with a mellow acoustic EP, A Field Guide to Loneliness, and a stunning, pitch-perfect cover of the Crosby, Stills & Nash classic “Helplessly Hoping.”
