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LISTEN/PURCHASE & SHARE: BabyJake – Rude, Crude, and Uncouth LP
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LISTEN & SHARE: BabyJake – Rude, Crude, and Uncouth Singles
“Year 25” / “Better Days” / “Mexico Bring Me My Queen” / “Tampa, FLA” / “Sweetheart From Arkansas”
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Nashville-based singer-songwriter BabyJake is currently in the midst of a new musical era, described via the following formula: 1 Jake, 1 guitar, and a bucket of paint. Today, he puts a stamp on this era with the arrival of his third full-length LP entitled Rude, Crude, and Uncouth (out now via all DSPs)
With this new record— introduced with recent releases “Sweetheart From Arkansas,” “Tampa, FLA,” “Mexico Bring Me My Queen,” and “Better Days” — BabyJake returns to his roots in folk music (his primary means of processing emotions), and abandons any regard for what is wanted or expected from him, instead making music for the love of music alone. This record encapsulates and puts on display a new side of Jake that isn’t exactly “new.” He also accompanies the record’s release today with a final single, “Year 25,” alongside a video for it.
Speaking on his new album and its thematic/sonic inspiration, Jake wrote the following:
“Most people don’t know this about me, but folk music was the very beginning and writing, to this day, has and always will be my primary way to process and express emotions. I guess you could say that’s what ‘got me into’ music. 1 Jake, 1 guitar, and a bucket of paint is all it took. Rude, Crude, and Uncouth is the first time since 2016 that I’ve been able to strip it all back again. I took a step back from the noise, from the industry, and from anyone who thought they knew what the world wanted from me. Because that’s not what music is about in my eyes. It was never about the success or the fame or the idea of being a rockstar. No, music is expression, music is balance, music is a bunch of colors thrown at the wall somehow made out to be a beautiful sunset. I’m back there now. I’m making music for the love of music & nothing else. This album is pure. The bare bones. My thoughts, my feelings, my experiences, my faults…I’m giving you all of Jake Herring, good and bad…Because that’s what music is about for me: 1 Jake, 1 guitar, and a bucket of paint…That’s how it all starts. And this time around, how it ends.”
Listen to BabyJake’s newest LP Rude, Crude, and Uncouth now. Stay tuned for more new music, coming soon.
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