“I don’t like to go to concerts, even if they are really talented people I look up to, if it becomes just a recital. “I like to give the audience some of what they want, but I’m a firm believer in giving them what they need-even if they don’t know they need it,” he says. Since Mad Men isn’t a musical, Jackson had to put together the show based on both his own passion for the material and his desire to create a memorable production that reveals more of who he is. My dad always had Elvis and Roy Orbison playing. “I was obsessed with Chet Baker and that vibe. “I think it started in high school when my teacher said ‘You were born in the wrong era because your voice was suited for the American songbook of the 1950s,'” Jackson says. This throwback approach was the first we thing discussed. This Saturday he’ll be singing Music of the Mad Men Era in his solo concert debut at Disney Hall.
He later appeared in a revival of Finian’s Rainbow, a show that first appeared on Broadway in the late 1940s. He first came to fame in All Shook Up, a musical using Elvis Presley’s songs.
Whenever he comes back, this is a set to grow on.There’s something about the decades well before his birth that keep hovering over Cheyenne Jackson. That said, nobody but the guy with his name on the cover could have done any of these tunes. The Elton John-assisted “Stan” from the 2001 Grammys is a bonus, but the new songs, including the Nate Dogg throwaway “Shake That” and the butt-stoopid “Fack,” aren’t essential. You can quibble with the selection when it comes to the nonhits, but Curtain Call is a solid summary of Eminem’s transformation from hip-hop prankster with delicious anti-social tendencies (“My Name Is”) to caring father with melodramatic tendencies and self-serious rock star with stardom tendencies (“The Way I Am”), not to mention his subsequent recycling of those roles (“Mockingbird,” “When I’m Gone”). This inevitable hits package raises an obvious question: Are three so-so new songs, decent sequencing and a track commemorating a surreal TV moment enough to make you buy thirteen (great) songs all over again? Hard to say, but now that Marshall Mathers seems close to retiring, it’s hard to hate on a CD with unforgettable jolts of energy like “Lose Yourself,” “The Way I Am” and “Stan,” hands-down the most hair-raising pop song of this millennium.
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