Jack "Applejack" Walroth: Music Biography

Applejack is a veteran freelance San Francisco singer, musician, songwriter, and music publisher, whose career has remained somewhat below the radar, even though it has included longstanding associations with many better known musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Recent credits: Co-authored lyrics on two songs on Boz Scaggs CD, "Dig". Played harmonica on "Quicksand: Songs of Kermit Lynch" CD, featuring Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Jon Cleary, plus several stints with the Boz Scaggs Rhythm and Blues tour. Within the past several years, has developed an expandable solo /duo / trio ensemble to play local venues in an acoustic or semi-acoustic format, featuring a diverse repertory of originals, jazz, eclectic, and alternative sounds.

Applejack spent his formative years in Chicago, came of age during an exciting era and plunged deeply into the amazing blues world existing there due to the ongoing mass migration of talented southern blues musicians to Chicago, especially after World War II. This milieu provided him a rich and irreplaceable firsthand experience.

He is a founding member of the Blues Power band, usually heard weekly at the Saloon in San Francisco. He has shared stage and / or recording studio with Bonnie Raitt, Earl King, Annie Samson, Zigaboo Modeliste, Jules Broussard, Ned Boynton, Merle Saunders, Sam Lay, Luther Tucker, Michael Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, B.B. King, Barry Goldberg, Nick Gravenites, Steve Freund, and Harvey Mandel, among others.