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Tobias Jesso Jr. Recruited His Gardener for a New Solo Album
“I really didn’t like him at first.”
In 2013, two years before he helped Adele write one of her biggest songs, Tobias Jesso Jr. was in his childhood bedroom in Vancouver uploading a self-recorded demo to YouTube. While that process had its share of hiccups, Jesso’s profile continued to rise, with critics eager to hype up someone working in the tradition of ’70s singer-songwriters like Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman. There was an almost mythological narrative around Goon when it came out, which was: You burned out as a songwriter, got hit by a car, went through a breakup, learned your mom had cancer, and then moved back home to Vancouver, where an album just came out of you.
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