How much do you know about the "Master of Slide Guitar" Jack Broadbent?

Mar 20

Mar 20 How much do you know about the "Master of Slide Guitar" Jack Broadbent?

Noted for his unorthodox slide guitar performance style, Jack Broadbent took a very different path to discover his musical voice. A career musician himself, his father introduced Jack to the drums at an early age. Soon he was performing live in his father’s band and from there he struck out on his own to start busking on the streets of the London, later branching out into Europe.

It was there, on the streets of Amsterdam in 2014, that he was recorded by a passerby showcasing what is now known as his signature slide guitar style. 327K views later and Broadbent found himself touring on the international circuit.

Soon he was opening for Ronnie Wood of the The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tony Joe White, and was featured at the Montreux Jazz Festival where he was described as "The new master of the slide guitar."

All of this, and Jack Broadbent is barely getting started. What might surprise you is that the next step in his sound took place in Quebec as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While he was stranded in Quebec, Broadbent determined that he was going to record an acoustic recording, but what resulted was a very different sound.

"We started playing some of the more rock 'n' roll stuff I had, and we couldn't deny that there was a kind of vibe happening,” says Broadbent. “We built on those grooves and ended up with the rock 'n' roll record I've been wanting to make for a long time." In an impressive piece of long-distance collaboration, his father, Mick Broadbent, added the bass guitar performances in England, as the partial recording was electronically transmitted back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.

The resulting album Ride, has been hailed as showcasing “his remarkable and almost unrivalled talent on the slide guitar” by Louder than War and “a simmering, spicy jambalaya of boogie, rock, and blues” by Rock and Blues Muse.