Jack Johnson's To The Sea Lyrics

Jack Johnson Concert Set List Santa Monica Pier Gig

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Jack Johnson Set List Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica

Where: the beach at Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA, USA

When: May 24, 2010

Why: Chance for Big Jack to preach about saving the planet and to have a good time.

The real reason this show is free," Jack Johnson told the intimate crowd gathered on the Santa Monica pier on Monday night, "is because we haven't played in a month."

Johnson’s set list:

You And Your Heart (lyrics)

If I Had Eyes

Upside Down

Flake

The Joker (Steve Miller Band cover)

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

?????

To the Sea (lyrics)

Do You Remember

Bubble Toes

Wasting Time

From the Clouds

Breakdown

Banana Pancakes

Same Girl

Staple It Together

Mellow Wood (Bob Marley cover)

Inaudible Melodies

Good People

Better Together

Can anyone help with the missing song? Chur

Clean the beach, hear Jack sing.....

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More details here

Who is Wolfgang Bloch and why is his art being used in To the Sea?

2010-05-10T20:32:00.000-07:00

Who is Wolfgang Bloch and why is his art being used in To the Sea?

"Jack Johnson chose to include a Wolfgang Bloch painting from his own personal collection as the center spread of his new To The Sea album artwork. Wolfgang Bloch, one of Jack’s favorite artists, was born and raised in the vibrant Latin American culture of Guayaquil, Ecuador.

At a young age, Bloch discovererd the joy of surfing along Ecuador’s secluded beaches and, in the process, the coastal scenery that would forever serve as his primary source of inspiration."

Given Jack Johnson's interest in surfing and the content of his new album, it seems like a good match!

Get a glimpse of To The Sea's title track

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Click the youtube video below to get a glimpse of Jack recording the title track of his new album, To The Sea, due out June 1st. Keep visiting JackJohnsonMusic.com in the coming weeks to see more behind the scenes video shorts by Emmett Malloy.

Nice to see Jack riffing again!

To the Sea Lyrics

Production duties on To The Sea

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Jack Johnson's fifth studio album, "To The Sea," has been mastered at Bernie Grundman's with Brushfire Records' GM Josh Nicotra and recording engineer/co-producer Robert Carranza in session with mastering engineer Bernie Grundman.

Jack with Robert Carranza

The new album was co-produced by Johnson, his bandmates bassist Merlo Podlewski, keyboardist Zach Gill, and drummer Adam Topol, and Johnson's longtime engineer Robert Carranza. "To The Sea" was recorded at Johnson's two solar-powered studios: The Mango Tree in Hawaii and the Solar Powered Plastic Plant in Los Angeles.

The album will be released on June 1, 2010, on Johnson's label, Brushfire Records.

A European tour is scheduled for June 16 to July 4, followed by a US tour from July through October.

Check out the video of the first single You and Your Heart and the lyrics over here.

You and Your Heart video released by JJ

2010-04-21T17:38:00.000-07:00

The video for Jack Johnson’s new single “You and Your Heart” has debuted to the world at large yesterday. It was directed by Jack himself, and filmed in Hawaii. Check the vid out here. Surf's up!

You can also check it out on Jack’s brand new YouTube channel.

Jack, Zach and Adam stopped by Iheartradio and recorded this great acoustic version of “You and Your Heart”. Check it out here.

Anyone have the feeling this song is going to be a smash? Watch it below:

Want to sea Jack Johnson live on his tour of North America?

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Want to sea Jack Johnson live on his tour of North America?

Tickets for Jack Johnson’s To The Sea tour go on sale today, April 10th, at 10am in most mar

Check out lyrics to Monarchy of Roses from the I'm With You Album

kets (with the exception of Vancouver, BC, which went on sale on April 9th, Somerset, WI at 11am on April 10th, and Berkeley, CA at 10am April 11th). Jack will be joined on stage by friends G. Love (solo acoustic) and ALO on the July and August US dates. In October, G. Love & Special Sauce and Zee Avi will open, except on October 6th in Berkeley, and October 14th in Santa Barbara, where the openers will be ALO and Zee Avi.

Links to purchase tickets are on the event pages for each show on the Tour Page. Please be aware that the only legitimate ticket sellers for this tour are Ticketmaster,Smithtix (Salt Lake City only) and Ticketfly (Columbia, MD). The Music Today presale ends today at 5pm, as do all of the radio presales. In order to insure that fans have access to some of the best tickets, a portion of the tickets sold byTicketmaster to this year’s tour will be paperless tickets. These require the cardholder who purchased the tickets to be present to swipe their credit card at the gate. To find out more about Paperless tickets, click here.

As part of your ticket purchase, you will have the opportunity to preorder Jack’s new CD To The Sea for $15 (shipping and handling included in the US). The ticket seller will send you a unique code, which when redeemed will allow you to instantly download one new song from the album (the single, “You And Your Heart”). The CD will be shipped to you to arrive on the release date (June 1st). You will also receive a link to download a digital copy of the CD on release date.

Tickets are still available to some shows on the June/July tour through Europe. A second show has been added on June 24th in Paris. Details can be found on the Jack Johnson Tour Page.

Only the Ocean Lyrics Jack Johnson

2010-04-03T17:59:00.000-07:00

Only the Ocean Lyrics Jack Johnson

Only the Ocean is featured on Jack Johnson's album To the Sea.

Lyrics:

After all this time

After all of this season

After your own decision to go to the water for a reason

It's only the ocean and you

And all of this lines

Will all be erased soon

They'll go out with the tide

And come back with the waves

It's only the ocean and you

You don't want

You don't wait

You don't love but you don't hate

You just roll over me

And you pull me in

And this work is done

And this cold is dry

When this world's too much

It will be only the ocean and me

When this sales go off

Mountanis fade away

Stars come back

I'm finaly free

It's only the ocean and me

You don't want

You don't wait

You don't love but you don't hate

You just roll over me

And you pull me in

And you pull me in

You don't want

You don't wait

You don't love but you don't hate

You just roll right over me

And you pull me in

And you pull me in...

You just roll over me

And you pull me in

Check out the lyrics to Johnson's You and Your Heart

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Anything But the Truth Lyrics Jack Johnson

2010-04-03T17:58:00.000-07:00

Anything But the Truth Lyrics Jack Johnson

Anything But the Truth is featured on Jack Johnson's album To the Sea.

Lyrics:

If they tell me that the bees

Don't make honey anymore

Then what am I supposed to tell you

And if they tell me that the ocean

Is tired of her shores

Then tell me

What am I supposed to tell you

When I can't tell you anything

But the truth

When I can't tell you anything

But the truth

What happens to an eagle's nest in a storm

How does the mama

Keep the baby warm

What if the wind

Is telling us that its time

And what if we're not ready to fly

I can't tell you anything

But the truth

I can't tell you anything

But the truth

Tree tops they touch the ground

In the morning walk with no sound

Hear no birds, hear no planes

Through the mud, feel the clay

Build it up, make it sing

But I can't tell you anything

But the truth

Buth I can't tell you anything

But the truth

What is this place

Who am I

Why did we come here

I don't know I don't know

But I don't know

That we're meant to know

I don't know I don't know

But I don't know

That we're meant to know

Check out the lyrics to Johnson's You and Your Heart

Pictures of People Taking Pictures Lyrics Jack Johnson

2010-04-03T17:57:00.000-07:00

Pictures of People Taking Pictures Lyrics Jack Johnson

Pictures of People Taking Pictures is featured on Jack Johnson's album To the Sea.

Lyrics:

Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking pictures

I pictured us at the end of time
Holding up a camera to our eyes
I took a picture of you took a picture of me
In the back ground of the picture
Was water running to the sea

So I pictured us standing there
Staying away from time
Watching it like a river
As it slowly washes by

And now
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking pictures
And now
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking pictures

The feed back loop
Is closing in so tight
Surrounding ourselves
With satellites

But I picture us standing there
Staying away from time
Just watching it like a river
As it slowly washes by

And now
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking
Pictures of people taking pictures.........
I pictured us at the end of time
Taking pictures of nothing

Check out the lyrics to Johnson's You and Your Heart

My Little Girl Lyrics Jack Johnson

2010-04-03T17:56:00.000-07:00

My Little Girl Lyrics Jack Johnson

My Little Girl is featured on Jack Johnson's album To the Sea. It's a sweet love song to Jack's baby daughter.

Download the track here or get the entire album from Amazon.

Lyrics:

Hey little girl ,you might not know this song.

This is not the kind of song that you can sing along.

Hey little girl maybe some day.

At least thats what all the good people will say

Hey little girl, you've gone and stole my heart and made it your own

You stole my heart and made it your own.

Hey little girl black and white and right and wrong.

Only live inside a song i will sing to you.

You don't ever have to feel lonely you will never lose any tears.

You don't have to feel any sadness when you look back on the years.

How can I look you in the eyes and tell you such big lies?

The best I can do is try to show you how to love with no fear.

My little girl.

You've gone and stole my heart and made it your own you stole my heart and made it your own.

Check out the lyrics to Johnson's You and Your Heart

The Upsetter Lyrics Jack Johnson

2010-04-03T17:54:00.002-07:00

The Upsetter Lyrics Jack Johnson

The Upsetter is featured on Jack Johnson's album To the Sea.

Lyrics:

Some will say
This place is wrong
These hands are fast
This face is long
Just stop upsetting yourself
Upsetting your thoughts
Upsetting this world
That you're standing on

These plans are torn
These feet are cold
This shield is worn
This peace was stolen
Stop upsetting yourself
Upsetting your thoughts
Upsetting this world
That you're standing on
These problems they breathe
Their fire is real
The coins that they keep
You cannot steal
Even when you're asleep
They'll be here still
Breathing out or in

Some will say this place is gone
These roads are steep
And much too long
These plans are cheap
My feet are cold
Cut the knot
These coins are golden
Some will say this place is gone
These roads are steep
And much too long
These plans are cheap
My feet are cold
Cut the knot
These coins are golden
Just stop upsetting yourself
Upsetting your thoughts
Upsetting this world
That you're standing on
These problems they breathe
Their fire is real
The coins that they keep
You cannot steal
Even when you're asleep
They'll be here still
Breathing out or in

Check out the lyrics to Johnson's You and Your Heart or maybe the lyrics to My Little Girl

Turn Your Love Lyrics Jack Johnson

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Turn Your Love Lyrics Jack Johnson

Turn Your Love is featured on Jack Johnson's album To the Sea.

Lyrics:

I don't want you to go
I don't want you to go

But it's time to turn your love
Give it back [x2]
Give it back...

I don't want you to know
Let's not go sleep tonight
It's not that it goes too fast
It's just that it goes at all

And it's time to turn your love
Give it back [x3]
Give it back...

Why should I be sad when I'm just you? ?
Why should I be sad? Baby, I'm with you [x2]
Baby, I'm with you...

And it's time to turn your love
Give it back [x3]
Give it back...

Give it back, give it back, give it back...

Check out the lyrics to Johnson's You and Your Heart or why not No Good With Faces

From the Clouds Lyrics Jack Johnson

2010-04-03T17:53:00.000-07:00

From the Clouds Lyrics Jack Johnson

From the Clouds is featured on Jack Johnson's album To the Sea which you can buy here: To the Sea

Lyrics:

Oh, you're such a pretty thing, I'll take you and I'll make you all mine.

I will steal you from this patient world that'll chase us, it could never take you back.
[Chorus]
We could watch it from the clouds
We can't stop it anyhow, it's not ours.
We could watch it from the clouds
We can't stop it anyhow, it's not ours.
It's not ours.

And I know you know me well enough to know I'm lucky to have you.
But all this just the little things, the words that I should tell you all the time.
You're so sweet to me when you beat me in doubles solitaire.
You're so sweet to me in a world that's not always fair.
[Chorus]
We could watch it from the clouds
We can't stop it anyhow, it's not ours.
We could watch it from the clouds
We can't stop it anyhow, it's not ours.

More that you feel
More your little heart will ache.
Love's the only thing that carries on
It's the only thing this world can't take.
This love is ours.
This love is ours.
This love is oooohoohoohoohoo x 2

Check out the lyrics to Johnson's You and Your Heart

When I Look Up Lyrics Jack Johnson

2010-04-03T17:52:00.000-07:00

When I Look Up Lyrics Jack Johnson

When I look up is featured on Jack Johnson's album To the Sea.

Lyrics:

When I look up at the stars

As I walk in the night

Down the street by my house

It feels good

When I look up at the stars

As I walk in the night

Down the street by my house

It feels good

The light from the moon

Is afraid of the ground

So it falls behind spaces

And hides behind clouds

When I look up at the clouds

As they move through the night

With the wind

As I walk down the street

The light from the moon

Is afraid of the ground

So I step on the shadows

Of my own feet

Check out the lyrics to Johnson's You and Your Heart

No Good With Faces Jack Johnson Lyrics

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No Good With Faces Jack Johnson Lyrics

No Good With Faces is a the second track on Jack Johnson's album To the Sea.

Lyrics:

No good with faces
Check out the lyrics to Johnson's You and Your Heart

And I'm bad with names

Gave me directions

But it's all the same

I'm lost

I'm too tired to try

Street lamps are broken

Black the way I came

Who broke the moonlight

Watch it wax and wane

I'm lost

I'm too tired to try

Let's not get ahead of ourselves now

There's no need for rain

Its our own parade

Let's not be afraid of our reflections

Its not only you

You're looking at now

Road signs were stolen

Left here holding this flame

Who stole my patience

Who stole my way

I'm lost

I'm too tired to try

Let's not get ahead of ourselves now

There's no need for rain

Its our own parade

Let's not be afraid of our reflections

Its not only you

You're looking at now

Let's not get ahead of ourselves now

There's no need for rain

Its our own parade

Let's not be afraid of our reflections

Its not only you

You're looking at now

Who you looking at now

Who you looking at now

No good with faces

And I'm bad with names

Gave me directions

But it's all the same

I'm lost

I'm too tired to try

Here's the track listing for Jack Johnson's To the Sea album

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Here's the track listing for Jack Johnson's To the Sea album

1. You and Your Heart
2. No Good With Faces
3. At or With Me
4. When I Look Up
5. From The Clouds
6. Turn Your Love
7. The Upsetter
8. To The Sea
9. My Little Girl
10. Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology
11. Pictures of People Taking Pictures
12. Anything But The Truth
13. Only The Ocean

Track listing was found at Amazon:

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Lyrics Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology Jack Johnson

2010-04-03T03:17:00.000-07:00

Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology

Lyrics by Jack Johnson from the To the Sea album.

Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology:

Everybody is made of clay
That's what they used to say
Until the truth stepped on us all
Now everything that was big is small
We're just little crying robots
Program me
I wanna win the race
I wanna find the place
Where the king
Locked up the princess
Jump the fence
And drink a little bit of...

Red wine, mistakes, apologies
Red wine, headaches, mythology

Now who is the king of the sky
Jupiter says oh me oh my oh why
Is the game always changing
I've been through some strangeness
what's the matter
Is the feast not fat enough
Up the ladder with your feet
Reaching with your hands
You can feel it and dream it
I know you want to believe it
Just steal it
Take a piece of the sun
And drink some...

Red wine, mistakes, apologies
Red wine, headaches, mythology

Now everybody's in the play
At least that's what the script
Told me to say
It said:
Shadows cut across the hero's face
He falls from grace
Until a little bird sang:
The truth is never ending
We're just here pretending
Let's all laugh so that we don't cry
Let's all life our glasses up to the sky
For some...

Red wine, mistakes, apologies
Red wine, headaches, mythology

Check out the lyrics to Pictures of People Taking Pictures

I look Up lyrics Jack Johnson

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I look up lyrics Jack Johnson

I look up lyrics Jack Johnson

I look up lyrics Jack Johnson

I look up lyrics Jack Johnson

Album Cover Art: To the Sea

2010-04-02T21:30:00.000-07:00

Here's the cover art to Jack Johnson's 5th album, To the Sea which features the first single, You and Your Heart.

Jack Johnson's official website also released this statement on who to pre order To the Sea:

Be one of the first to order To The Sea! On Tuesday, April 6th, you will have the opportunity to pre-order the album from either here on the website, or on iTunes. We will be offering some exciting limited edition fan packs during the pre-order, and both iTunes and our store will allow you to download the single when you pre-order the album. Check back here on the site on April 6th for more details!

To The Sea Tour Poster

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Here's Jack Johnson's To The Sea Tour Poster:

Source: Jackjohnsonmusic

At or With Me lyrics Jack Johnson

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At or With Me lyrics Jack Johnson

"At or With Me," can be described as a buzzing, punching number recorded which Jack Johnson said was recorded in 'one take, one time' for the To the Sea album.

At or With Me lyrics

Are they laughing at or with me?

Aww, baby, those are such great shoes

I think that I'm so happy now

And I think this is a bitter you

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, ooooh

Are they laughing at or with me?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oooh

Why can't we just say what we mean?

People are just trying to fit in

But is this something telling you?

You can't just anyone in this town

Aww, baby, those are such great shoes

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oooh

Are they laughing at or with me?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oooh

Why can't we just say what we mean?

Don't put your money where your mouth is, baby

We don't wanna see you choke

Nobody's choking around here anymore

Nobody's broken any high score

No dancing shoes will touch this dusty floors

For such a long, long time

For such a long, long time

For such a long time

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oooh

Are they laughing at or with me?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oooh

Why can't we just say what we mean?

Ooh, ooh, ooh, oooh x 4

Check out the lyrics to Jack Johnson's You and Your Heart

To the Sea Lyrics Jack Johnson

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To the Sea Lyrics Jack Johnson

To the Sea is the title track to Mr Johnson's fifth studio album. The song's lyrics feature a reference to a father leading his son to the sea, with the water representing the subconscious. As a whole, the album is about trying to go beneath the surface and understand yourself. Johnson said the theme is about "both me as a son of my own father and me looking down at my kids. I'm 34, right at this transition of still feeling like a child sometimes, but other times feeling like a father, and finding the father in myself. It's all about those things."

To the Sea Lyrics

Bring on your hunters
Let them bring their dogs
It's me that you wanted
I've been right here all along
Right here all along
You better bring your buckets
We've got some dreams to drain
I'll be at the bottom
I've been right here waiting so long
Just waiting so long
Dreams to drain
Put them in a cage
Unlock the pain
And I'll be here waiting
You fell asleep with the key
All your walls
Mean nothing to me
I know you'll come back
To set us free
Run my dear son
Until we get to the trees
And then keep on going all the way
We've got to get right down to the sea
We've got to get to the sea
Oh my dear son
We've got to get to the sea
But don't you touch the water
Don't you barely breathe
And if you see yourself
Looking back at you
You're going to have to leave
You're going to have to leave
I don't want you to go
But you've got to leave
Dreams to drain
Put them in a cage
Unlock the pain
And I'll be here waiting
You fell asleep with the key
All your walls
Mean nothing to me
I know you'll come back
You're going to set us free
I don't want you to go
But you've got to leave
You can always come to me
I'll give you what you need
Run my dear son
We've got to get to the sea

Check out the lyrics to the first single off the album, You and Your Heart

You and Your Heart Lyrics Jack Johnson

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You and Your Heart Lyrics by Jack Johnson

You and Your Heart is the first single off Jack Johnson's fifth studio album, To The Sea.

Jack said the song started off "with this guitar riff that I had around for a while, actually had it on the last record, and we liked it, but we didn't have any words for it yet, nothing came natural, so I didn't use it,"

He also explained where the lyrics came from and what they are getting at:

"And at some point, some of the books I was reading started leading me in a certain direction, kind of like this broken king character. That area you get in sometimes, where you stop trusting your heart and you start thinking too much about logic and this and that. So it's basically about that separation that can happen between the self and the heart and trying to trust your heart again."

You and Your Heart Lyrics:

Watch you when you say

What you are

When you say, when you blame everyone

Broken king

What you change the frame

I’ll watch you when you

Take your aim

Chorus:

But you, and your heart

Should it feel so far apart

You can’t chose what you take

Why you got to, break it, make it feel so hard?

Verse:

Lay there in the streetlight broken glass pieces reflected pieces of the sun

But not the flame

You could

People could be passing by

You what you don’t like because life is so easy, it’s just so easy

Second Chorus:

But you, and your heart

Should it feel so far apart

You can’t chose what you take

Why you got to, break it, make it feel so hard?

Oh you, and your heart

Should it feel so far apart?

You can’t chose what you take

Why you got to, break it, make it feel so hard?

Bridge / Solo thing

You dropped so many lives in the sand

Lost your fingers, nails on you hand

How you gonna scratch it in back there?

You hope that the tide will take our lives away

Take all our lives away

Hope the tide could

Take our lives away

(Lyrics could to with some tidy up, especially the first verse - any helpers out there?)

Jack Talks to the Sea

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Shortly after Jackson announced his new album, To the Sea, he did some initial promo work - check out the following interview he did with MTV.

"The album is called To the Sea. I guess it's a reference to a father leading his son to the sea, with the water representing the subconscious. So it's about trying to go beneath the surface and understand yourself,"

"I have three kids ... so the album is about that. It's both me as a son of my own father and me looking down at my kids. I'm 34, right at this transition of still feeling like a child sometimes, but other times feeling like a father, and finding the father in myself. It's all about those things."

To the Sea was recorded in just three weeks in Johnson's Mango Tree Studios, Sea is meant to capture the man and his band as they're supposed to be heard: live and loose. It was mainly committed to tape in one room, with minimal use of overdubs, and an increased focus on letting the instruments bleed into one another. It is very much the sound of a band setting up in a room and just playing.

"We don't need much time. Just four guys in the band, we try to get it live as much as we can, keep as much of it with the bleeds in it," Johnson smiled. "Three weeks is about as long as we could spend, because we tend to start overthinking things if we go longer than that. We're a pretty small band, with pretty simple songs."

Sea is scheduled to hit stores June 1, and the first single from the record — a tune called "You and Your Heart" — will debut on radio next month.

"[That song] started off with this guitar riff that I had around for a while, actually had it on the last record, and we liked it, but we didn't have any words for it yet, nothing came natural, so I didn't use it," Johnson said. "And at some point, some of the books I was reading started leading me in a certain direction, kind of like this broken king character. That area you get in sometimes, where you stop trusting your heart and you start thinking too much about logic and this and that. So it's basically about that separation that can happen between the self and the heart and trying to trust your heart again."

Other standouts include the title track (which Johnson said was written "in, like, 10 or 15 minutes") and "At or With Me," a buzzing, punching number recorded "in one take, one time." And while the whole idea of working fast and loose isn't exactly a new one, Johnson's reason for doing so might be. After all, he was making it in Oahu.

"You know, the studio doesn't have any windows in it, and it's kind of this closed-off space," he said. "We went in there to work. But it's also the kind of place you want to spend as little time as possible in. You wanna go outside. Or, at least, I did."

Jack Johnson Glastonbury Set List 2010

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Jack Johnson Glastonbury Set List 2010

Jack played a massive set in front of thousands of the giddy Glastonbury crowd. Pity he wasn't as good as U2's Glasto set list! Jack's set did however feature plenty of tracks from his new album To the Sea which kept the punters pretty happy.

Johnson's Glasto Set:

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Who is Jack Johnson?

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Who is Jack Johnson?

Johnson was born and raised on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. The son of well-known surfer Jeff Johnson, he took an interest in the sport. He began surfing at the age of 5. At 17, he became the youngest invitee to make the surfing finals at the Pipeline Masters on Oahu's north shore. One week later, however, his brief stint as a professional surfer ended when he suffered a surfing accident at the Pipeline that put over 150 stitches in his forehead and knocked a few of his teeth out.

Johnson's professional career began after befriending G. Love on a day of surfing. G. Love would later record Johnson's song "Rodeo Clowns" for his 1999 album Philadelphonic. Johnson sang and played on the track, and it became the first single from the album.

Johnson then co-directed Thicker Than Water, a documentary surf film released in 2000. He also composed the accompanying soundtrack.

Johnson's four-track music demo soon caught the ear of Ben Harper's producer, J. P. Plunier, who worked with Johnson on his debut album Brushfire Fairytales in early 2001 with Harper and his Weissenborn lap steel guitar making a guest appearance. The album also featured guest vocals from Sam Beam of Iron & Wine on the track "It's All Understood". Brushfire Fairytales was released on February 1, 2001.

In 2002, Jack Johnson, along with his wife Kim and friend Emmett Malloy, created Brushfire Records (originally as The Moonshine Conspiracy Records) to release soundtracks for surf films made by The Moonshine Conspiracy (now Woodshed Films), of which Johnson was a part.

Johnson went back into the studio with Adam Topol (drums, percussion) and Merlo Podlewski (bass), who played on Brushfire Fairytales, to record his second full-length album On and On. It was the first album to be recorded at Johnson's Mango Tree Studio in Johnson's home town of North Shore, Oahu, and the first to be released through The Moonshine Conspiracy Records. On and On was released on May 6, 2003. Johnson credits most of his inspiration for this album from childhood friend Andrew Brown

In October 2004, Johnson returned to the Mango Tree Studio with Topol and Podlewski along with Zach Gill (of Animal Liberation Orchestra) playing accordian, melodica and piano, to record his follow-up to 2003's On and On. In Between Dreams was released on March 1, 2005.

Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George is a soundtrack album by Jack Johnson, released on February 7, 2006. The album also features Adam Topol, Ben Harper, G. Love, Kawika Kahiapo, Matt Costa, Merlo Podlewski and Zach Gill. It was the first soundtrack to make it to number 1 since the Bad Boys II soundtrack in August 2003 and was the first soundtrack for an animated film to top the Billboard 200 since the Pocahontas soundtrack in July 1995.

Johnson enlisted J.P. Plunier to produce his fourth full-length studio album, Sleep Through the Static. It was recorded using 100% solar energy at the Solar-Powered Plastic Plant studio in Los Angeles. The album featured Gill (keys), Podlewski (bass) and Topol (drums, percussion). Sleep Through the Static was released on February 1, 2008 and was followed by a world tour.

On 1 February 2010, Johnson's official website announced that his fifth studio album (To the Sea) was in the recording process at the Mango Tree Studio, with a planned worldwide release during the first week of June 2010.

What about some U2 lyrics by Bono?