‘Fragrant Flowers‘ is the opening cut of Stephen Jacques’ latest album “Pioneers and Fragrant Flowers”, which is a concept album about covering the 19th-century Western migration, frontier wagon train plight, gunfights, saloons, Native American reality, miscreants, and gorgeous American countryside. It’s his thirteenth album, and for this release, Jacques has been working with Jason Narducy, who produced and played bass, Acoustic, and Electric Guitars.
Stephen Jacques lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, but his family hails from New Orleans and New York. His Italian grandfather was a multi-instrumentalist during the roaring 20s, and his aunt on the French side of his family was a fabulous blues singer. His music was influenced by great rock and punk bands heard throughout the mid-Atlantic in his 20s and 30s, as well as by a good friend — a Beatles fan — who introduced him to his first chords on an acoustic guitar at age 16.
