April 2001

Just before her sophomore year of high school, while bummed and grounded for “borrowing”/crashing her dad’s car, Jacky picked up guitar and almost immediately started writing songs. Only a year later, she recorded her first acoustic record with The Hounds’singer John Hunter. Hunter headlined Jacky’s first show at Hard Rock Café in Chicago, where they sold all 72 of the CDs they burned at home.