Mark Jukich

Acoustic Guitar on:
That's How She Seems
Weightless
Where Does the Ice Go?

Mark Jukich started playing music in the Panama Canal Zone serving the US Air Force, where he met a guitar picker from Nashville named Charlie Smith "Charlie colored my taste in music right from the start". Mark has played acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, and bass on stage at various times but now focuses on the acoustic guitar (flat picking style) and the mandolin. Mark is a native son to Duluth and has called it his home throughout his travels. Continued Below..

Bill's Notes: Although you can't tell from the picture (hint, hint, Mark, send me a picture), Mark and I were, at one point, often mistaken for each other. Finally we met and realized that we weren't long lost twins. It helped that I shaved my Jukich mustache and traded in my glasses for contacts. Musically, I re-met Mark where I met Ted Heinonen, the now legendary country/bluegrass jam at Duluth's Sir Benedict's Tavern on the Lake. We play together often, usually on Wednesdays, where Mark puts up with the chiding of Jim Grussendorf on Banjo who, about 10 times a night says, after one of Marks fluid leads on guitar or mandolin, "Pretty good for an insurance guy!!", knowing full well that Mark is in mortgage lending. Mark just smiles and keeps playing.... REAL good.

Bio Continued ... Mark played at an open stage in Santa Barbara California in 1973 trying to get discovered. "Stage fright took control and I walked out completely humiliated, and with a new determination to succeed musically". He lived in Nashville with his friend Charlie after the military and got to meet many of the thousands of great players around town and see many top acts and jam with some of the best. "It was great fun but the money ran out too soon". Currently Mark lives just outside of Duluth and spends much of his time at his cabin North of the city, where he finds time to write songs and short stories and enjoy fishing sunsets and Picking by the campfire, under the magic of the Milky Way. Look for his first CD to be released in the fall of 2002.