There’s an alchemy 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 absurdity of a toothless refrigerator technician reminds you to say “I love you.”
Jenner Fox is a Bellingham, WA based internationally touring songwriter who has built his reputation on poignant and humorous storytelling with a voice that carries equal measures of vulnerability and conviction. Grammy-nominated producer Cookie Marenco praised his debut album, writing: “Jenner combines the lyricism of Joni Mitchell and the commentary of Neil Young to represent the next generation of singer-songwriters.”
Fox’s most recent LP, Anything, showcases the rare chemistry of the band that now bears his name. Atwood Magazine described the record as: “A soul-stirring, spirit-settling album worth savoring from start to finish… there’s a quiet magic in the way the band plays together — in how each instrument listens, breathes, and responds.”
The Jenner Fox Band arrives 9-albums into Fox’s career, following The Moon That Moves the Sea (2024), his collaborative LP with guitarist Jeremy Elliott. Though Anything marks their official debut as a band, this crew of longtime friends and collaborators has been honing their sound together for years. Their music carries the warmth of deep trust and friendship — a togetherness that can be heard in every harmony and every note.
“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.
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The Bellingham, Washington-based group — comprised of singer/songwriter Jenner Fox, guitarist Jeremy Elliott, lap steel and dobro player Benji Nagel, bassists Aaron Moore and Mark Karwan, and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Guest.
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Released their debut effort as a duo in 2024, “The Moon That Moves The Sea.”
“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.
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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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"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 Songwriter Serenade 2nd Place
2023 First Fed Songwriting Contest Winner
2022 Al Johnson Performing Songwriting Competition Finalist
2022 Folk Alliance International Official Showcase