Jackyl ’s first release was Jackyl in 1992, a record which went on to sell sold more than 2.1 million copies. As Dupree told Alex Richter of Rocknet, “We want to get up there with Metallica and Aerosmith. Jackyl rates higher on the raunch-o-meter than most of their Southern forebears however, evident in their list of influences which spans the greats of heavy metal as well astheir ambition. The band is part of a Southern powerhouse lineage that extends back to Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers. Jackyl worked with AC/DC ’s frontman Brian Johnson on the single “Locked and Loaded, ” the firsttime a member of AC/DC had collaborated with another band.įounded in 1990, Jackyl is comprised of vocalist Jesse James Dupree from Georgia, drummer Chris Worley and guitarists Jeff Worley and Jimmy Stiff from South Carolina, and bassist Tom Bettini from Tennessee. Their second release, Push Comes To Shove, was awarded a gold record, the band appeared on the Beavis & Butthead soundtrack which went platinum, and their recording Woodstock ’94, also went gold. ” The record remains one of the most consistently selling rock releases of the 1990s. The band ’s debut album, Jackyl, sold more than 1.2 million copies, due in parttothe inclusion of achainsaw solo on the single “The Lumberjack. Marry heavy metal raunch to the traditional Southern rock boogie, and the baby will look something like Jackyl.
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