Jacob's Trouble Reunites!

It's true! We have been in talks about a possible one-shot reunion show in Atlanta for several months now. Now it looks like it will be at least a two-shot deal. JT will perform Friday June 15 at 1:00 PM at AtlantaFest '07 and then, the following night,Saturday June 16, we will be performing a full 2 hour show at an as-yet-undisclosed location. If all goes well, we are planning to record that show, mix it down and release our first ever live CD later this year or in early '08. This is particularly exciting for us as we have always wanted to do a live record properly. Add to it the excitement of the first new JT CD since 1998's Sampler Pak extravaganza and well, we're smiling bigger than Mister Rogers when the trolley rolls up!

Also, we will soon be launching our own website for the first time. We will still maintain this blog as well as the MySpace.com page. But it will be the Troublemakers' first stop for all things JT. I'll be back with more details as they happen.

Until then, thanks for being the faithful fans that you are!

Rooty-toot-toot!

"Something Good Happens" video

This was our one and only music video. Frontline Music Group, our label at that time, flew us out to LA right before Icthus '92 (April) and put us in a room and told us to jump around. We were hoping for something resembling a good ol' romp from a Monkees' episode but it fell a little short of that, I think. Anyway, in typical Frontline fashion, "Something Good Happens" was released a s a single to radio that summer, and then in the fall, after the single had died and nobody cared, they finally released the video. It showed up on a couple of obscure TV shows but pretty much disappeared into obscurity immediately.

It was packaged along with a lot of old, out-of-date Christian music videos and given the completely idiotic title, "The Best Christian Videos We've Ever Seen" with JT as the host band. A more accurate title would've been "The Worst Christian Videos We've NEVER Seen" because we hadn't even seen our own video at that time, much less the other videos on the program. One would surmise from watching this tape that either we hadn't seen many Christian music videos or we had horrible taste.

When we recorded our next record, 1993's Jacob's Trouble, we told Frontline we had some ideas for our next video. They said,"There's not going to be another video." When we asked why they said that there just wasn't an outlet for Christian music videos that made the cost worthwhile. So that's why there is only one JT music video.

And here it is in all its glory. Silly? Yes. Funny? Maybe. But it is what it is and there ya go.