Who is
Thunder Jackson?

“My biggest problem with the identity thing is I think everybody just gets sucked into a face before they listen to music, “ said Kyle Bradley, our answer to “Who is Thunder Jackson?”

“I’ve looked at people and…you already judge what’s coming out. I just think it’s cool to listen to music and create your own image of how it is.”

Before I sat down to chat with Kyle at his hometown gig in Oklahoma City, all I knew about Thunder Jackson was that no one really knew who he was. His tune “Guilty Party” had been dancing around in my head after hearing it on friend’s Spotify playlist while driving around a tiny town in England. Fast forward a few months and I see a promo post for a Thunder Jackson show in OKC. Without skipping a beat, the perplexed and quizzical voice from the beginning of his debut track asking “What exactly is a Thunder Jackson?” played in my mind.

I searched the internet for more information who Thunder Jackson is, but I didn’t come up with much. Article after article taught me that “Guilty Party” was one hell of a debut that came together after a guy from Oklahoma City and a guy from Cardiff met in a taxi- and that was it. The track went viral in 2017 and even after the fame, the popularity, and the success was right there, all Thunder Jackson gave us was a phone number and a scribbled out face.

You’ll find that these thoughts, conceived as songs and characteristics of Kyle Bradley’s mysterious musical persona, are what gives Thunder Jackson his sound and relatability- and why Thunder Jackson and that infamous question have been floating around the pop scene.