While broken down on the side of a road near Chuckatuck, Virgina Alvin Blount heard singing coming from a run down shack at the end of a dusty driveway. Practicing inside on cardboard boxes and cheap guitars were the Townsend brothers, Jake, Ricky, and Jack, and two cousins. Eventually, all six brothers would join the group, though none of their five sisters would take the Janet or Latoya path. Led by bassist Jack, and named so for his eldest status, Jack & the Mods real talent lay with nine-year-old brother Jake.

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