Jacques Labouchere

Jacques Labouchere is unquestionably a pioneer of true Americana in Scandinavia. His work ethic combined with an impressive body of live performances set him apart from his indie contemporaries. Perhaps more poignantly his empathetic songwriting of heart-wrenching and compassionate life-stories mark him as the last of a dying breed of artists in the current music industry where a photo of someone is worth more than a musician reaching out to connect emotionally with his audience. Jacques can confidently claim to have done the latter.

Swedish-American, forever travelling troubadour, Jacques Labouchere recently released his upcoming 4th album, “CONNECTING FLIGHTS”, on Friday June 25th, 2021! This flight was delayed due to unforeseen circumstances we all struggled through, but while weathering that storm was supported with 4 single releases in advance of it’s release. They are as follows in order of their release dates “Lost Goals”, “Baggage”, “Like California”, & “? In D”. Jacques Labouchere has opened for acts such as Arlo Guthrie, Quilt (members of Woods & Olden Yolk), This Frontier Needs Heroes, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Daniel Norgren, Den Stora Vilan and José Gonzalez (Junip). He has toured extensively playing 100's of gigs and festivals in Sweden, Norway, Denmark the UK , Holland, Germany, Spain, Switzerland,Italy, and USA. Germany has taken to him and since January 2016 Labouchere has toured the country five times and will tour support this album release with another tour of Europe as soon as it is possible to make those connecting flights again!

Latest release: "Connecting Flights" on

Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/jlabouchere/sets/connecting-flights/s-nnRmhFfwycG?si=95e5d9c0f1db45b19f997d3a9addad72

Spotify link to album: https://open.spotify.com/album/7GNadfKfoLVViITQi5gPNj?si=mjD7WldQSxOJ8Vjt9Dx6Hw

Website: https://www.jacqueslabouchere.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JacquesLabouchere

Bandcamp: https://jacqueslabouchere.bandcamp.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1IpoxUYdtHX9B5BQUIrntJ?si=60tLOmVlRxS_4dbvSkCRQg&dl_branch=1

Apple Music: ‎Jacques Labouchere on Apple Music

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacques_labouchere

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JacquesLabouchere

Raised on the U.S. East Coast and a born wanderer, Jacques took his guitar with him through the Appalachians, Connecticut, Boston and Washington DC before moving to London in his youth and then finally Gothenburg, Sweden where he settled down and started a family. As an emboldened flâneur Jacques was schooled in the bitter reality of always being a stranger. Often alienated by language and struggling to find work, he constantly and maniacally played the streets daily to make ends meet, such was once also the case in Gothenburg: before well-known local musicians approached him wanting to make music together.

Labouchere has long been a proud contributor to his local music scene and community, offering his veteran advice to less experienced Swedish artists and giving them a platform for touring and releasing music abroad. In spring 2006, following the independent release of his début album, Jacques toured Sweden, Denmark and the UK with an ever-evolving line-up of some of Gothenburg’s best local musicians. It was during this period that Jacques developed a faster, louder and more effervescent approach than the softer pop, psych and folk ballads of his first album.

In 2010 Jacques signed with Popjinx Records, then a sister label of Lojinx Records, to release his sophomore album: “Bi-polar Baby Strollers”. Jacques was invited to perform at Gothenburg’s International Film Festival in 2011 sharing the bill with local Jose Gonzalez’s band Junip, and accompanied by Den Stora Vilan’s
Thomas Frank and Christian Dyresjö on stage. This constellation was the latest and most enduring line-up aiding Jacques in building up a new repertoire and co-producing what would be Jacques’ now imminent 3rd release.

Over this writing period of the last three years, he has accumulated an impressive catalogue of circa 40 songs. Moreover, the success of his work has proved to be intense but a highly productive period for Jacques where the quality, content and honesty of his live performances has really begun to shine. It is noteworthy that he has independently booked all of his shows, which include 3 tours of the UK, and several stays in NYC and Brooklyn where he held 2 weekly residencies. Immediately before embarking on his most recent trip to NYC, he received an invitation to open up for Arlo Guthrie at a sold out show in Gothenburg.

Jacques, once signed to UK label Popjinx (a subsidiary of Lojinx Records), continues to
release his music independently and has done so since the release of his 2 nd album “Bipolar Baby
Strollers” released nearly 12 years to this date. Over the course of 15 years, Jacques has released
4 full length albums, numerous singles, and toured throughout the US and EU. His most recent
overseas adventure was his appearance was at the internationally renowned folk music festival,
Folk Alliance, in Kansas City, Missouri for which he received a grant from Konstnärsnämden to
make the journey there. He was welcomed to perform there in a room there hosted by fellow
songwriter Brad Lauretti, aka This Frontier Needs Heroes, for The Stetson Kennedy Foundation.
During the course of the 5-day event he helped Brad to spread awareness about the life and
works of Stetson Kennedy who was a close friend to folk legend Woody Guthrie and about a
songwriter’s residency at Beluthahatchee, Florida where Stetson resided.