Slide) is an exceptional blues and slide guitar player. He can write songs that evoke true blues styles and traditions in each and every aspect. There are some real stompin blues tunes too in his catalog that sound every bit like the classics the rest of his songs do but that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Now, when I say Jake's been 'at it' it's really a massive understatement. This man has jammed with the likes of Freddy King, Rossand Roland Kirk, Janis Joplin, Peter Greene, Taj Mahal, Jerry Garcia, Dusty Hill, Cpuntry joe McDonald, Sam Hokins, Bukka White, Johnny Winter, Berry Melton, Boz Scaggs, Steve Miller, Tracy Nelson, Powell St. John, Elvin Bishop, and Mike Bloomfield to name but a few! The thing is, these artists have had the pleasure of jamming with Jake!
Blues Following Me is a self made 2004 Jake album that captures the man's skills and talents as a songwriter, singer, player, in a way that leaves you astonished from the moment the Play button is pressed. Southern blues with trinklings and sprinkings of Chicago blues just about sums up the general theme for this masterpiece but to be honest, that perception would be slightly unfair becasue there's a lot of the artist's heart in here. aAny bluesman of this calibre would tell you that it's not an easy thing to achieve but let's get the album playing and go from there.. Jake's been 'at it' since he was thirteen years old and since then he's been involved in the business of writing, performing, and playing 'from the heart - making music the best it can be' all over the States in particular. As a guitarist, he's a difficult act to beat; there's some exquisite picking combined with the most astonishing slide phrases you're ever likely to hear from the genre that lead us to R&B and Rock n Roll.
Slide) is an exceptional blues and slide guitar player. He can write songs that evoke true blues styles and traditions in each and every aspect. There are some real stompin blues tunes too in his catalog that sound every bit like the classics the rest of his songs do but that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Now, when I say Jake's been 'at it' it's really a massive understatement. This man has jammed with the likes of Freddy King, Rossand Roland Kirk, Janis Joplin, Peter Greene, Taj Mahal, Jerry Garcia, Dusty Hill, Cpuntry joe McDonald, Sam Hokins, Bukka White, Johnny Winter, Berry Melton, Boz Scaggs, Steve Miller, Tracy Nelson, Powell St. John, Elvin Bishop, and Mike Bloomfield to name but a few! The thing is, these artists have had the pleasure of jamming with Jake!
Blues Following Me is a self made 2004 Jake album that captures the man's skills and talents as a songwriter, singer, player, in a way that leaves you astonished from the moment the Play button is pressed. Southern blues with trinklings and sprinkings of Chicago blues just about sums up the general theme for this masterpiece but to be honest, that perception would be slightly unfair becasue there's a lot of the artist's heart in here. aAny bluesman of this calibre would tell you that it's not an easy thing to achieve but let's get the album playing and go from there..