Back for another round
Jackson Holte
Livingston, MT · 1971 Martin D-18
“Is there still our sign in the North Fork? Some record of our little lives? Are the East hills still blackened at daybreak, but brimming with light?”
Jackson Holte is a musician, writer, and mule packer. In 2025 he won the Wyoming Singer-Songwriter Competition and the Montana Quarterly's Big Snowy Prize for creative non-fiction. His first solo record, Sky Blues, is cinematic folk music — a loosely autobiographical concept album about what Marilynne Robinson called "the attentive quiet at the center of Western life" and Tom Edwards called "the hush of the land."
The record
On file
- Hometown
- Livingston, MT
- Instrument
- 1971 Martin D-18
- Influences
- Townes Van Zandt, James McMurtry, Leonard Cohen
- Signature song
- East Hills
- First performance
- A high school talent show
- Biggest achievement
- His 2025 record, Sky Blues
- Dream collab
- Heath Johnson
- Fun fact
- He can make Minute Rice in 58 seconds.
For press & bookers
In the round
Invitational record
2026Third annual InvitationalDowntown Spearfish
2024Inaugural InvitationalDowntown Spearfish
The call sheet