Quincy Einstein is his stage name but I know him as Jackson… and Jackson is a young man who I feel a kinship to in music and friendship. His background in live performance is as long as his discography…. A kind-hearted soul who uses music as a way to navigate the thoughts and feelings we experience along the way in this thing called life.

I personally got to know him from when he would busk across the street from Georgetown Records on the corner of Airport Way, in Georgetown, a gritty, diesel filled, urban neighborhood in South Seattle, which my friends and I called home for years. There was a window of time where this community offered so much love for art and music, that we all never wanted to leave. Jackson was just one of the many wonderful people who I was lucky enough to get to know in those memorable years.

Seattle is where he got his start but he has busked in Portland, LA, San Diego, Austin, Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis (Tennessee and Alabama), Athens, Georgia and where he currently resides… Stillwater, Oklahoma.

His music floats between bluesy romps and sweet melodic ditties. Some of his past releases have literally been therapy for Jackson. I only know this because he said so much. But this collection of songs comes from a different frame of reference. He calls these recordings love songs for mother nature. In his words, “This album is, as a whole, a love letter to the world around me. To the beauty of mother nature, to the kindness and love that our fellow humans can show us.” 

released December 17, 2024

This is the tape release page – Lithic Records
You can find more music from the artist if you follow this link:
quincyeinstein.bandcamp.com/album/shatter