Australian artist Jackie Marshall spent her early teens sneaking into 90s Indy Rock gigs and teaching herself to play a borrowed guitar by deciphering Bob Dylan charts of songs she'd never heard in real life.

Still in her teens when she concurrently discovered writers the likes of Bruce Chatwin, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins and Kurt Vonnegut, Jackie wasted no time in deciding to hit the road for a life of real hitch-hikin' adventure.

Thereafter she added Beat era Jazz and 60s era Rock and Folk to her musical tastes and started writing songs.

Weary from the road one year, she shacked up in a dilapidated Queenslander behind the XXXX brewery in Brisbane with alt country aficionado and musician-in-his-own-right Chris Pickering, his little brother Vinnie, and Vesna Zornik the Slovenian super diva; during which time she caught a whiff of the tail of all this new-country malarky, not to mention an incessant barrage of fermenting hops.

She released her Australian Music Prize shortlisted debut album FIGHT n'FLIGHT, to national critical acclaim late in 2006, and an official career in genre-defiant writing, performing and recording of songs was born.

An incorrigible journeywoman, Jackie has finally found time to make a new album. LADIE'S LUCK will be released in Australia in 2010. "Too Somebody" is its first single, recorded in Queensland's premier new independent recording studio THE ARK, and produced by FIGHT n'FLIGHT producer BEN TOLLIDAY, with the mysterious and venerable BLACK ALLES BAND.

And so it goes...

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[MEDIA QUOTES]

“a left-field legend in the making” [Rhythms Magazine]

"that rare thing: an Aussie original" [The Weekend Australian]

“Holy crap! Jackie has one of the most incredible voices of all time. Sounds like she draws it through her feet from deep within the earth and lets it rip like a volcano spewing passionate chunks of wisdom and poetry!” Mijo The Great (Triple J Unearthed user)

“one of the most exciting and original debuts in recent Australian music.” [The Canberra Times] (regarding Fight n’Flight)

"by all accounts, a live force to be reckoned with" [The Weekend Australian]

“(Jackie's) husky, smooth, sensual voice and laid back, bluesy music about pain and pretty men make even the most ambivalent audience member melt in their seat. Marshall almost hides the true power of her voice, which enhances her performance’s mystery and intrigue." [Australian Stage Online]