Jake Ian is a guitarist/singer songwriter hailing from Warspite, Alberta, a small farming hamlet of 48 people located 100 km north east of Edmonton; often referred to as the arm pit of Alberta. All geography aside, Jake began his music career in High School starting the legendary Edmonton punk rock act, PiND, in which he was the lead guitarist, lead vocalist and chief songwriter.
Two years ago Jake decided to journey down a foreign path, longing to take his songwriting to a new level. Armed with an acoustic guitar and a love for such artists as John Prine and Tom Waits, he began writing and performing alternative folk songs; songs of love, lonliness, longing and despair.
His songs contain an air of urgency and his performing conveys a certain passion that carries his beautiful yet sombre melodies to the ears of his listeners. Able to pick a guitar and blow a harmonica with best of them, Jake Ian brings an edginess from his punk rock roots that is often lacking in folk music.
Jake will be releasing his debut album, “Sunset Estates” on July 4th of 2008. Sunset Estates was the name of the trailer court in which he spent the last two years living. The environment was very conducive to writing according to Ian, and he is looking forward to releasing the album and touring in support of it
Yes we are all doing well, we're headin out to NXNE next week gonna see some bands and hopefully be playing, got put on standby so hopefully something opens up. Regardless should be a good trip so looking forward to it. Should be better than our trips to Edmonton, it's like everytime we try and play a gig up there the other band cancels or somthin ha ha. Anyway nice meeting you, are you coming down again anytime soon?
Rouge Lounge tomorrow... uhh, i mean tonite. You missed out on some good romanian gypsy/tango music last night.. Haha, I heard of some lame party where these two guys drank beer all morning and pissed out the window... not to mention trying to record drunken music and autism documentaries... what a bunch of hosers.
hey jake, thanks for the buddy-ship... are you in edmonton this saturday? i'm playing at the WCMA's October 18th, at 12 AM at The Hydeaway All Ages Art Space. If you're in the area, don't miss out, and be sure to invite your friends too! Admission is $10, or free with a WCMA wristband.
.. Hi there Jake Ian first of all we'd like to say thanks for being our myspace pal. We wanted to make sure you knew the reason incase we suddenly vanish off of your friends list. The movement we've started for indie artists has grown significantly and consumes all of our time these days. We seldom sign into our myspace account and this is making several people believe that we are ignoring them. We are not ignoring anyone, we wanted everyone to know that. What we're doing has become so busy we just don't have the time for myspace any longer, so in all honesty we are probably going to just close our myspace account.
Many people wanted to use us in the future so if you were one of those people you can click the link below to visit our profile which wlil provide you with more information and also give you the link to our website! I wish you the best of luck in your music career. Thanks again for being our myspace pal.
Good stuff, Jake! Best wishes (we're gonna be in Edmonton this Saturday at the Haven Social Club on Stony Plain Road if you're looking for something to do) Happy Wednesday!
MAN you caught onto that banjo quite quickly! I'll be done working weekends in two weeks, we should try and line up a jam sometime then... Until next time and thanks for talking me into playing, I'm glad I came up for the show.
Hey bud... guess I'm gonna convert this page to a music page... won't have time to run an open studio in the new year so I'll send you your tracks we did... also, Matt and I figured out a good name for the new project... check it! Can't wait to have a jam... lookin' into PA for new space.
DUDE! Awesome times last night.... wow. We gotta get another show lined up, I'm definately up for doing another set. I'll have to lay low on the Brewhouse Pilsener though... but MAN, I don't feel hungover the slightest bit! I'm telling you man... Brewhouse is the shit.
'been listening to the demos... stoked for Saturday. I haven't had any time to run through anything due to the move and weekend in banff, so not sure about doing a short set.... Maybe 2-3 quickies if there's time but I wouldn't want to slaughter "Dirty Knees".... how's "My Reckoning Song" coming? You gonna do 'er up?
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