Thunder Jackson and The ‘Love Sick Doctor’

Oklahoma-born Kyle Bradley, better known as Thunder Jackson, is a rising star in the music industry. He emerged one day back in 2017 with a unique sound that blends rock, electro-pop, and a whole other host of cool influences, chief among them being Bradley’s own father, who was a part-time Elvis impersonator who inspired the young Thunder-To-Be with an ear for timelessness and a bespoke love of performance.

In his late teens, Bradley moved to Los Angeles, where he met Welsh producer and songwriter Pete Lawrie Winfield in a fateful shared taxi ride. After hearing Bradley sing, Winfield invited him to his basement studio, and the two quickly became roommates and allies in music and creation. The chemistry between the two creatives is undeniable, Jackson is currently at over 250k monthly global streaming listeners, with 5 tracks from his debut earning a cumulative 25M global streams to date.

Thunder’s latest rumble comes at the hands of a new live-performance music video for his psychedelic ode to love “Love Sick Doctor”, his most popular song to date with over 1.4 million streams. Jackson says the song was the quickest to write for his album. He adds that the lyrics came to him during an epiphany when he “finally realized what true love means to me. It doesn’t have to feel a certain way. It’s inherent. It’s universal.” Something that thematically rhymes with the purported results of many psychedelic experiences -something Jackson isn’t actually advocating for here, he’s merely borrowing some of the vernacular.

While “Love Sick Doctor” was already a fan favorite, the most notable spike in interest came after Jackson’s energetic performances in Denver and Los Angeles with alt-pop superstar Chet Faker.

“When you peel back the layers, it’s about how love always wins. People seem to deeply respond to that belief. The world is full of a lot of hate. This is an ode to love and hope overcoming all.” -Thunder Jackson

Jackson says that the “most beautiful moment” of “Love Sick Doctor” is a cameo by his father in a vocal snippet inspired by Dennis Hopper’s character in the film “Apocalypse Now.” “My dad is such a larger-than-life figure, himself, so it made perfect sense for him to play the lovesick doctor in the song. He is my everything, my best friend. We’re so interlinked. He has always been the voice of reason in my life.”

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