Free Music Friday: Jackson Randolph
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – For this week’s Free Music Friday, Jackson Randolph joined First News at Four, with the band consisting of Jackson Randolph and Cason Sledge.
Randolph has been playing music since he was young, and he continued to play as he got older. Currently he hosts Open Mic Night every Wednesday at the Palace Theater in Bryan.
“I started playing at church when I was, you know, little and grew up doing that and found a love for it and found some open mics. When I was growing up in 15 or 16 years old or so and started playing out in the scene,” he said.
Sledge had a similar experience, with his father being a musician and encouraging him to pursue music.
“I kind of started off because my dad was a drummer. He built a little music room for us, and he had a guitar set in there all the time, and one day I kind of decided to pick it up and took off from there,” he said.
The song the band performed, Fake I.D., Randolph wrote about two weeks after he moved to College Station.
“It was just kind of about the last summer I had with my buddies before we all moved away. And you know, we just we wanted to have the best time we could and the short amount of time we had left with each other. So that was kind of what that was about,” he said.
You can watch the full performance above, and the interview below.
Randolph’s album, Empty Promises Volume 2, is available here.
You can find more of Randolph’s music here.
