“For Richard and me this has been seven years in the making,” says lead singer and front man Jonathan Jackson of his band, Enation. “Doing this has been a vision since I was fourteen years old.”  

Jonathan Jackson and Richard Lee Jackson are two of the most respected, well known actors in Hollywood. Their film and television careers have given them the opportunity to work along side some of the biggest names in the business, including Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jim Caviezel, Calista Flockhart, and Sir Ben Kingsley, among many others. They have been featured in worldwide syndicated magazines such as People, Teen People, Movieline, TV Guide, and Newsweek.

So what does this have to do with Enation?

“A lot of people ask us what our passion is, if we’d have to choose one,” says drummer Richard Lee. “The answer is, we believe they go together. Music and filmmaking to us have the same aim…to tell stories, to move you or entertain you. They go hand in hand.”

It seems Enation is already holding hands with the film community, as the bands first single, Ride, is the theme song to the new Stephen King thriller Riding the Bullet, which stars Jonathan Jackson (due out Oct. 15th).

Jonathan and Richard formed Enation after they had played together for seven years, playing concerts and selling records independently. The beginnings of Enation started taking shape when they invited their friends Daniel Sweatt and Amber Sweeney to play some gigs with them over four years ago. “We had been playing with two of our good friends, Dan Sweatt (guitar) and Amber Sweeney (bass and vocals) for a couple years, not knowing where it would take us” Richard Lee says. “When the chemistry just kept growing between us, and we all felt this bond, Jonathan and I felt like it was time for us to make it official.”

They asked Daniel and Amber to become part of the band, but Enation wasn’t complete until the final member of the band was in place -- their good friend Michael Galeotti (piano and keys).

“Michael had always had a servants heart towards us. He’d help us out at our gigs, carry equipment. Just be a brother to us,” Richard Lee says. “When we saw Michael’s heart to be involved like that, it just felt like, ‘wow, he’s already in on this’.”

Their record, Identity Theft, is a twelve song rock album that displays in vivid color why this is a band to be reckoned with. The seven plus years of dreaming came down to 14 months of grueling studio work. “We were pushed to the brink on this,” Jonathan says. “This record was 14 months in the making, in between projects. We kept re-working it until it was right. If it was good, it wasn’t good enough. It had to be great. We put our whole lives in this record.”  

It seems to have worked. Identity Theft explodes with passion, dealing with the loss of identity in the heart of a world that is falling to pieces. “This is a rock record,” says Jonathan. “There’s no pop in here. There’s no irony. It’s honest and desperate, and seeking. It’s got its hands up, and it’s searching for answers.”