Jake Shane played his first concert in 2004 in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois and has been gigging ever since. He left the Midwest in 2008 to move to Nashville, where he received a degree in Philosophy, worked for John Prine\u2019s Oh Boy Records and composed the songs to his first album, Ancient Fire (2012). This debut album combines the folk, blues and americana Jake grew up listening to with lyrics that drew inspiration from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
\nIn The Fall of 2012, Jake moved to Spain. While becoming fluent in Spanish he absorbed himself in Madrid\u2019s flamenco scene, learned about the flamenco tradition, wrote reviews for the popular flamenco website chalaura.com and taught himself flamenco guitar. In 2014, his translation of Pablo San Nicasio\u2019s book, Contra las cuerdas (Strings Attached) was published by Oscar Herrero Ediciones. This work is the largest published collection of interviews of contemporary flamenco guitarists.
\nThe musical work resulting from this period was Evening Sounds (2015), an album steeped in flamenco guitar with a neat blend of americana and folk, combined with lyrics drawn from personal experiences in Spain.
\nAfter Jake\u2019s time in Spain, he moved back to the U.S., but didn\u2019t stay in one place for long. Between 2015 and 2017 he found himself living in Nashville, Florida, New York, Washington D.C., and New Mexico. He spent months hitchhiking through Mexico with his brother, traveled to Cuba, Israel, back to Spain, and drove across the U.S. a few times. All the while, Jake was steadily composing songs for his next record.
\nMuch of the writing for his third album, Water To Land (2018), was finished in an isolated adobe house one winter in the high desert of New Mexico. After Jake\u2019s definitive return to Madrid, he recorded Water To Land in the summer of 2018, in Moba Studios with producer Sergio Molina. Most of the album was recorded live, in three days, with a band of Englishmen.
\nJake has toured the U.S., Spain, Portugal, Italy and Germany extensively and will also visit Scandinavia and Benelux in 2019. His fourth album is scheduled for release in September 2019.
\nHe is known for his lyricism, vivid voice and expert guitar playing which masterfully blends Americana, pre-war blues and flamenco techniques to create a captivating sound. His intensely visual lyrics meld the holy with the mundane and demonstrate a sophisticated level of poetics that set him apart from the songwriters of his generation. It is no wonder Jake has drawn regular comparisons to Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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