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Flint Eastwood is the evolution of the creative side of Detroit-based multi-talented artist Jax Anderson. Flint Eastwood is what happens when
friends and family gather in the forgotten spaces of an embattled city and are left to create with no rules, no boundaries, and nothing holding
them back. Jax's endless creativity is a byproduct of growing up in a talented family.
Her father was one of ten kids, each of whom played guitar and sang. Her oldest brother, Sam, played in punk bands, and Jax spent her
teenage years learning the value of passion and acceptance at DIY shows. As she got ...read more
Flint Eastwood is the evolution of the creative side of Detroit-based multi-talented artist Jax Anderson. Flint Eastwood is what happens when
friends and family gather in the forgotten spaces of an embattled city and are left to create with no rules, no boundaries, and nothing holding
them back. Jax's endless creativity is a byproduct of growing up in a talented family.
Her father was one of ten kids, each of whom played guitar and sang. Her oldest brother, Sam, played in punk bands, and Jax spent her
teenage years learning the value of passion and acceptance at DIY shows. As she got older, her other brother (and Flint Eastwood
collaborator and producer) Seth started playing in bands throughout the Detroit garage rock scene. Their dad worked as a curb address
painter to pay the bills once the housing crash made his job as a mortgage broker invalid. During this time, Jax and her brothers went door to
door, passing out flyers advertising her father's services, through some of the toughest residential neighborhoods in Detroit. These struggles
helped form the vision that drives Flint Eastwood: to give everyone listening (whether live or on record) a momentary escape from the
problems we all have.
Between helping around the house, Jax spent her days in her family's Detroit-area home, without cable and internet, teaching herself to play
her father's 12-string Taylor guitar that he left for them in the living room. It was also during this time that her mother's love for Motown
music began to influence Jax's knack for the theatrics and power of the Detroit sound, as Mom played records from The Temptations, the
Jackson Five, and Earth Wind & Fire.
Once old enough to break out on her own, Jax briefly moved to a small German tourist town in rural Georgia, where the only station in town
played solely pop and country. There, she fell in love with the hooks and harmonies that define American pop music. Later, she moved with
Seth to Los Angeles, to mainly focus on writing for licensing opportunities and playing small clubs and house parties around town. While in LA,
Jax developed a love for film, hopping on tour with bands every chance she could get as a self-taught videographer. Her experiences on the
West Coast still influence Jax's push to make her musical endeavors into well-rounded multimedia presentations (mixing music with theatrical
lighting, video projection, and costumes).
Upon returning home to Detroit at the very beginning of the much-maligned city's recent resurgence, Jax's explosive and endearing
personality on stage became the driving force behind Flint Eastwood. But through it all, it was the songs that were always the focus. « hide |
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