After a long and seasoned career as a bassist and sideman to many, clocking up an impressive list of albums and international tours along the way, Bill Jacobi has more recently been settling into the North Coast life style, embracing the roll of singer songwriter, solo performer and one-man band.

As a solo artist, Bill uses foot percussion, lap slide dobro, open tuned guitars and banjo, with a combination of finger picking and bassline driven rhythm, that snakes and rattles around songs both evocative and passionate. The result is a repertoire of up-beat and engaging material that runs the gamut from folk to funk to hillbilly stomp and beyond.
With years of experience behind him, Bill has proved himself to be a captivating performer, moving effortlessly between soulful and intimate interpretations to foot stomping crowd shakers.

As a songwriter, Bill’s songs emanate a strong sense of the groove and are laden with a down to earth honesty and humour. Songs that are an eclectic amalgamation of swamp/roots, alternative county and hillbilly funk; that somehow manage to look back at a wealth of musical tradition, have a good poke around and then turn and run the other way.

Having established itself early as a way of life, music has taken Bill all over Australia; to Ireland, London, New Zealand, Malaysia and Vietnam; and on numerous tours of the European Continent. Still often seen playing bass with Floyd Vincent and the Temple Dogs (www.floydvincent.com) or fronting his duo Rogue Elements (www.reverbnation.com/rogueelements2), over the years Bill has toured and recorded with a long list of ground breaking Australian artists including Goanna, Shane Howard, Neil Murray, The Warumpi Band and The Stiff Gins; to name but a few.