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Steve Wong, Times-News correspondent
The JackTown Ramblers are four guys who have fun with bluegrass with a twist of swing and gypsy jazz. The regional band will play from 3-6 p.m. Saturday at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards in Hendersonville.
I noticed that your band has played in Hendo several times lately. But the band is based in Marion. What brings you to Hendo these days?
We love playing in the Hendersonville and Asheville areas. There are a lot of great music venues, wineries, etc. to play in that area, and we seem to have a pretty good following.
We frequent a couple of really nice wineries and a cider place in Hendersonville Point Lookout Vineyards being one of them and Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards being another… (and) Appalachian Ridge Artisan Hard Cider, which is a beautiful venue as well.
The Shelby Middle School student worked to learn a chord or two.
Now with the stage name of Pistol Hill he travels the country performing around 250 shows a year in venues the size of Dragonfly Wine Market to stages like the Don Gibson Theater.
He credits his Shelby roots in helping to navigate a career in music.
“It was an easy scene to grow up in,” Hill said.
Many musicians started their music careers imitating their favorite bands, Hill, on the other hand, began writing his kind of music.
“I was trying to learn songs from Matchbox 20. I was into the punk-rock music at the time, and I just could not get the chords,” Hill said remembering his rocky start. “I decided to write my own (songs). I wrote 200 or 300, and they were all absolutely terrible.”