"It seemed to appeal to people as something that was both visually and musically exciting. "What interested me was being able to hold down a groove and do some gymnastics to incorporate solos and subtle bass lines."īroadbent's slide guitar playing evolved from the busking he did during his early 20s. "Being a drummer, I tried to develop a very rhythmic approach to my guitar playing," Broadbent recalls. Broadbent gravitated to guitar around the same time as he became interested in song writing. His father would take Broadbent to open mic nights as a youth, and by his early teens he was playing drums in his dad's bands. "I fell in love with music at a young age," he says, informed by the steady diet of music played around the house. His earliest influence, his father, Mick Broadbent, plays bass on RIDE and is a well-established musician, including a tenure with Bram Tchaikovsky. "I'm really getting a sense now that this idea of genre and where you fit in is not as important as it used to be - which I think is good."īroadbent grew up in rural Lincolnshire, England. "I think there's a lot of variety on my records. As someone who is as connected to the quality of his relationships with people as he is to the quality of his music, rest assured he considers that a compliment. On each album, Jack Broadbent is used to people saying, "Oh, this is a departure from your previous stuff." That's something the British-born singer, songwriter and guitarist has heard to varying degrees, over the course of his six albums to date, and is certainly fitting of his latest release, RIDE.