There is something that happens inside a good song. A tootsie roll can take you back to your elementary school playground; a list of baby names becomes a prayer; the voice of a toothless refrigerator man reminds you to say “I love you.”  Jenner Fox tells the stories of people and places with unparalleled compassion and respect.  His artful tone, poetry, and fluency on his guitar do something only the brave ones do: let us in. 

Jenner comes from a family of river guides. He followed the family river trade and recorded his debut album to make some extra money selling CDs on the boat ramp after rafting trips. Five albums later, a decade of cutting his teeth on the river and road, Jenner is a storyteller, a peanut butter purist, a cargo bike advocate, a Pacific NorthWesterner, and that rare kind of songwriter with the ability to, “Gather up what we see as common as crab apples and polish them into shiny orbs. To give himself and let us see ourselves.” – Sheridan Press.

Currently based in Bellingham, Washington, the internationally touring troubadour has called many places his home: California, Connecticut, rural Chile, Texas, Oregon, and now Washington.

“Jenner Fox is the rare artist who comes along and doesn’t sound like anybody else. His lyrics paint a vivid picture of our most intimate and profound emotions even when delivered with a nod or a smile. Any day he releases a new album is an exciting day.” - Jive Radio

 

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    Jenner leads songwriting workshops, camps, and individual sessions with songwriters from middle school to retirement, and first timers to life-timers.

  • “Jenner combines the lyricism of Joni Mitchell and the commentary of Neil Young to represent the next generation of singer-songwriters.” – Grammy nominated producer, Cookie Marenco

    “I think the world of his songs. He’s not just good for on a river, he’s DAMN good” – Grammy finalist for best song, Mike Posner. (Remarked after Jenner guided pop icon’s river trip on Chile’s Futaleufú river in 2018).

    “I was immediately taken with Jenner's writing and stage presence and I thought to myself, if the famed Oregon writer, Brian Doyle, had been a musician, this is exactly what he'd sound like. There’s a spirit of whimsy in Jenner’s writing that bleeds into religion, humor and the ability to capture life's absurdities” – Garett Brennan

    "I’m still processing all of the incredible music heard and connections made at my third NERFA this past weekend... in my 3 years at the conference, Jenner Fox is by far my favorite new artist I’ve discovered there! He’s an insanely talented songwriter!" Jess Phaneuf Music Director at mvyradio MA

    “Jenner is a storyteller. His music is full of love, compassion and curiosity. The characters are relatable because they’re real folks. His stories are sincere and draw you in because they’re your stories. His songs make it clear that he is a true listener and observer of the world around him, and will have you laughing one minute and crying the next, engaged with wide eyes and bated breath from start to finish.” – Producer Lawson White (Lake Street Dive, Twenty One Pilots).

    “Jenner is a modern original who is deeply rooted in tradition, and that tension makes him an urgently needed voice in today's songwriting.” – Mike Errico, Author “Music, Lyrics, and Life”

    "Fox's artful craft – his transitions from song to song, place to place, thought to thought – do something only the brave ones do: let us in." - DC Metro Arts

    “He's doing something that's ancient, he has the talent of bringing people in, so it's not just a one man show on Spotify, it's an interaction sort of like Woody Guthrie or Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, or Utah Phillips, someone who's a Pied Piper through the world.” – Koto Radio Telluride

    “From the very onset, Jenner Fox's whimsical serenade or dream or 'wish to the Gods above' called "Buffalo" nearly charmed the pants off me.” – American Pancake

    “Fox’s songs are thoughtfully crafted: gentle but substantive, spilling over with characters and storylines, and relentlessly catchy.” – Bend Bulletin

  • “A stunning album that should make many a sleeper “Best of 2024” list.” – Glide Magazine

    “This album, with just the two guitars and vocals, is evocative and revelatory…reminiscent of children’s books much loved by adults.” – Americana UK

    “The Moon That Moves The Sea” is the debut duo release from Jenner Fox & Jeremy Elliott. It was recorded among the cedars, rain, and golden retrievers of Bell Creek Studio in Bellingham, WA. All songs were performed live in real-time – no overdubs, no underdubs, four days sitting across from each other surrounded by acoustic guitars and cups of tea. 

    “This a close-up record. A record to be sat with and savored, a painterly sonic portrait of the small moments that take up an outsized place in our sweetest memories. Infused with gentle humanity, bittersweet and beautiful, “The Moon That Moves The Sea” is a perfect companion to those stolen moments of quiet reflection.” – Tiny Human PR

    Jeremy Elliott is a multi-genre spanning guitarist, composer, producer, and songwriter currently residing in Bellingham, WA. He hails from the guitar mecca of Macon Georgia, and brings a wealth of blues, rock, bluegrass, country, and West African elements into his unique style of virtuoso. His ambient textures, melodic leads, and masterful compositions stand brilliantly on their own, yet add to any musical collaboration beautifully.

    Fox and Elliott collaborated on various touring and studio projects for years before formally assembling for an experimental cargo bicycle tour in 2020. It clicked. They shared a sensibility for deep listening, space, humor, and 50-mile bike days. Thousands of pedal-powered miles later, they are brothers in every way that counts. “The Moon That Moves The Sea” rolls on steadily, shining bright as a testament to profound beauty of the everyday.

  • In 2019 a friend introduced Jenner to cargo bicycles: “Three years ago, my career as a van touring musician well underway, I rode my friend Jackson’s converted Xtracycle cargo bike for the first time in Massachusetts. He called it his “pickup truck.” It was smooth and maneuverable, and he assured me that a guitar and personal gear would fit easily. I returned a year later, strapped the guitar on, and toured by bicycle for three days through New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut. I remember I broke a chain between towns somewhere in New Hampshire. With no tools and very little “handiness,” I walked the bike and gear a few miles back to the closest town and asked around for help. I met strangers, I had to interact with them, we shared laughs. Eventually someone pointed me toward the local car mechanic notorious for cycling. After a generous dose of New England affection (shit giving), he fixed the chain and sent me off with his personal grease stained bike multi-tool to keep. Getting up on stage the next night, 90 miles of New England roads and trails later, I had a story to tell, something to give, and I was hooked.” –The Long Way, Xtracycle.com. 

    Since 2019, Jenner and his band have teamed up with bike company Xtracycle for bike tours in CA, OR, and New England.

  • "They stopped replacing the sign to Good Luck Road | Cause everyone kept taking it home." The songs give voice to the small Wyoming town of Dayton where Fox lived and listened and wrote in 2019 and 2021.

    Upon arriving in Dayton for the first time, Fox attended a community meeting in which a local policeman was outlining a new program to defend against school shootings (A.L.I.C.E.) "There was no air in the room. It was hunting season in Wyoming. I couldn’t believe the acronym was really "Alice". That night I went home and started writing – "I remember I remember when we were boys | And dad would take us out before class | And we'd hold guns and laugh and shoot squirrels and dirt | And I never once thought that bullets were to hurt other people.""

    The album is a dreamy collage of a corner of America. It features field recordings, voices from the town, and songs that drift into one another taking the listener by the hand as a picture begins to form. It's a concept album in that the intentional song order from front to back is the experience. As Fox writes in the liner notes, "Look inside, you’ll find a story, scratched off by a penny. A small town, a parent, a child, two wheels, four wheels, life begun, life lost, a fishing pole, an unmade bed.”

    Layered vocal harmonies, deep ringing piano chords, mallets on drum heads, all out electric guitar rock builds, quiet finger picked ballads, perhaps folk rock, perhaps indie, perhaps whatever we call the alchemy that happens when musicians sit in a room together and try to honor a simple song. Fox assembled an all star cast of Pacific Northwest based musicians arranged in a circle in an airplane hangar in Sisters OR around engineer Keith Banning's world class collection of vintage microphones. The rhythm section features La Pine based Jefferey Ingraham on drums (Merle Haggard & Kris Kirstoferson), Sisters local Justin Veloso (Jools Holland) also on percussion, Mark Karwan on Bass,  Beth Wood and R.O. Shapiro on harmony vocals, and Bellingham’s Polecat duo Jeremy Elliott and Aaron Guest on keyboards and electric guitar. "We sat in a room together, rehearsed, and arranged the songs for a week while the tape was rolling. Sometimes the first rehearsal take became the final product, and other times we worked and reworked over the course of the next year. I got musicians I really  admire together and bet on the magic of playing all together, every mistake and every beautiful moment captured."cription

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    2023 First Fed Songwriting Contest Winner

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    2022 Folk Alliance International Official Showcase