Music by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

John Lennon Songwriting Contest grand prize winner

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist

Sammy Award winner for Best Americana

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers plays kinetic folk rock, combining vivid imagery and storytelling with masterful band-in-a-box guitar playing.

“JPR may be the quintessential acoustic singer-songwriter,” as NYS Music put it, “but he colors with a full palette of folk, rock, blues, and soul.” NPR’s Ann Powers calls Rodgers an “acoustic guitar master.”

He performs solo, with the duo Pepper and Sassafras, and with a full acoustic band featuring Wendy Sassafras Ramsay (Starting Off Red) on flute, clarinet, accordion, vocals); Josh Dekaney (Mary Fahl) on a one-of-a-kind hybrid percussion kit; and John Dancks (the Cadleys) on upright bass.

Rodgers’ most recent releases are the single “Hippie Hair (for the First Time)” and the all-original set Live and Listening.

He also leads Dead to the Core, a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians celebrating the Grateful Dead.

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“There is something about Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers’ voice that sounds like he’s singing only to you. The musicians he surrounds himself with create a unique musical alchemy that supports Rodgers’ vision of the songs and one another.”

— John Tierney