LISTEN: Jenner Fox Offers Picturesque Folk Winner On “Biggest Rock”

Jenner Fox is folk singer-songwriter-storyteller-second-generation-river-guide. Fox followed the family river trade, and recorded his self-titled debut album in 2015 to sell to his rafting clients. Four records later, Jenner calls Sisters, Oregon home, and travels from show to show on a cargo bike whenever possible, guiding whitewater rivers all over the world, teaching music camps, and searching for stories.

Check out, “Biggest Rock” – the picturesque new folk ballad from Jenner Fox. The debut track from his forthcoming sophomore release, here the Oregon based singer-songwriter finds comfort in soft intentionality of inflection. With his comforting vibrato and light touch to the six string, Jenner sways through a rich world if soothing violin lines and pedal steel shading. “The Biggest Rock” is sentimental, exposed and lush indie folk akin to the world inhabited by Gregory Alan Isakov and Cat Stevens.

“It’s a story about growing up, the things we make significant, and the confusion of sexuality and identity. With the help of producer, Lawson White, we surrounded the song with some of Nashville’s finest acoustic musicians (including Brittany Haas and Chris “Critter” Eldridge), playing quietly in a room, really listening and breathing together. The song was born in the mountainous country of Bhutan where I worked as a river guide for two years. One day after work, some school kids “adopted” me and hiked me through their rice fields to show me, with pride, “the biggest rock” in their village. It stuck, and made me think about being 12 years old,” says Fox.