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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See upcoming workshops & dates.
Jenner leads songwriting workshops, camps, and individual sessions with songwriters from middle school to retirement, and first timers to life-timers.
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Since 2019, Jenner and his band have teamed up with bike company Xtracycle for bike tours in CA, OR, and New England.
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2023 Songwriter Serenade 2nd Place
2023 First Fed Songwriting Contest Winner
2022 Al Johnson Performing Songwriting Competition Finalist
2022 Folk Alliance International Official Showcase
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“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.
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"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