Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay grew up together in Texas, where they began making music together at 15. Growing up listening to a steady stream of Texas singer-songwriters, the pair were well prepared to carry on the Texas troubadour tradition.
Naming their band Jamestown Revival, a tribute to the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia and Creedence Clearwater Revival, the band came together after each had established themselves as solo performers regionally. To record their debut album, the duo retreated to the Wasatch Mountains of Utah to record direct to 2-track tape. The pair trace their breakthrough as a band to their move to L.A. and its influence on their songs. Chance says, “I think we stepped our game up as songwriters when we got here.”
After two years of pandemic-driven solitude, Jamestown Revival saw the time as right for a different type of album, realized on their new release Young Man. While many bands would respond with a loud new record, they chose to step back and craft what’s billed as their “quietest” record yet.
Returning to Texas to record in Fort Worth, Chance says “There’s just maybe a hint more of a country and sort of folk traditions.” Also unique is that this is the first Jamestown Revival album to not include any electric guitar. Where previously the band could rely on a guitar solo to flesh out a song, this time they drew on different options. Excluding electric guitar helped push the pair to create dynamic in other ways. It helped them to do things that weren’t so predictable.
