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Jake La Botz
Roots Music / Blues / Garage

The Midnight Songster



LOS ANGELES, California
United States

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Member Since7/13/2004
Band Websitewww.jakelabotz.com
Band MembersNEW CD "I'M A CROW" AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE...!!!
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4th ANNUAL TATTOO ACROSS AMERICA TOUR. Artwork by ANTHEM TATTOO www.anthemtattoo.com

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FLIPBOOK STYLE MUSIC VIDEO FOR HARD TO LOVE WHAT YOU KILL



TRAILER FOR UPCOMING WILL FERRELL/ADAM MCKAY PRODUCED FILM FEATURING JAKE: "FULLY LOADED" dir. Shira Piven

Fully Loaded Teaser from Paula Killen on Vimeo.

NEW SOLO ALBUM OUT NOW AT CDBABY.COM!!!

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Photo by Nicole Weingart: www.nicoleweingart.com

CLICK BELOW TO LISTEN/BUY SONGS FROM RAMBO: "TINY" AND "THE WISHING WELL"

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JAKE LA BOTZ: Graveyard Jones
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NEW RAMBO BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE INTERVIEW WITH JAKE



MORE RAMBO BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE FEATURING JAKE



RAMBO PRESS RELEASE PHOTO FROM LIONSGATE...RAMBO AND MERCS (Jake 2nd from left)
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MUSICAL PERFORMANCE VIDEO FROM THE 1ST TATTOO TOUR

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Jake and Gill Montie in Beaumont.

For more info go to the Tattoo Across America Tour myspace page: www.myspace.com/tattooacrossamericatour
or visit www.jakelabotz.com

InfluencesHank Williams, Howling Wolf, Mance Lipscomb, Blind Boy Fuller, Skip James, Tommy Johnson, Milarepa, Guitar Nubbit, Merle Travis, Carl Gustav Jung, Perfessah Longhair, The Sensational Nightengales, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Maxwell St. Jimmy Davis, Jesus Christ, Homesick James, Bob Dylan, The Seeds, Charley Patton, Pops Staples and the Staple Singers, George Jones, Iggy and the Stooges, Dyke and the Blazers, James Carr, Walter Davis, Dr Isaiah Ross, Shoobie, Freddie Scott, The DIxie Hummingbirds, The Harmonizing Four, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Mississippi Fred McDOwell, John Jacob Niles, Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, Orquestra Baobob, Morehei Ueshiba (O'Sensei), Sleepy John Estes, Frank Stokes, The Beatles, Ishman Bracey, Nelson Algren, Rev. Kensho Furuya, Lightning Hopkins, Dr. Reggie Ray, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, Houndog Taylor, ...many many mmany many....



JAKE AND MENTOR HONEYBOY EDWARDS

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Sounds LikeTHREE SCARY MERCS!!!
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...AND EVEN SCARIER!!!!
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Record LabelCharnel Ground Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jan 3 2010 10:00P
Liquid Kitty Los Angeles
Jan 22 2010 9:00P
Jiggers Bar San Antonio, Texas
Jan 23 2010 8:00P
Jovita’s Austin, Texas
Jan 24 2010 8:00P
Rikki Bailey’s Garage Art Studio Longview, Texas
Feb 5 2010 8:00P
Uptown Custom and Classic Tattoo New Orleans
Feb 6 2010 7:00P
Lagniappe CustomTattoos Slidell, Louisiana
Feb 10 2010 9:00P
Durty Nelly’s Irish Pub (sponsored by Anthem Tattoo) Gainesville, Florida
Feb 11 2010 9:00P
The Boneyard (sponsored by Doc Dog’s LV Tattoo Co.) Tampa, Florida

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   About Jake La Botz


Jake La Botz was conceived while his parents listened to a record by Texas bluesman and sharecropper Mance Lipscomb. He moved to Chicago when he was a toddler with his father, a truck driver and union organizer as well as a journalist. La Botz says that his dad was the only white reporter at the black newspaper, the Chicago Daily Defender.

As a boy, he was exposed to different cultures and ideas, from the political meetings held at his home to hanging out in his melting pot Uptown neighborhood. Driven by an artistic lust La Botz took to traveling around the city when he was 8 or 9 and ushered at local theatres to be close to the stage and see plays for free. As an adolescent, he discovered the library where he listened to blues and hillbilly records or soaked up the romantic adventure stories of writers like Nelson Algren, Jack London, Louis Ferdinand Celine, B. Traven, and the Beats.

His heart set on acting, Jake made it into a fine arts program at a Chicago public high school and majored in drama for one year before he discovered punk rock. "The punk scene was a natural place for a misfit kid to end up in the 80's. I identified with the emotional rawness of the music and got a feeling of belonging somewhere. I later got that same feeling hanging around with the old bluesmen."

After dropping out of school at 15 he began to hit the road "I stole a car made it as far as Colorado one trip, ended up living under a bridge in Trinidad, CO for a few days and then into Denver for a bit..." La Botz moved around the country hanging out at punk shows, hobo camps and libraries and working such "memorable" jobs as roofing in subzero wintertime Chicago, boilermaking at the worlds largest oil refinery (in Gary, IN), writing obits for a local paper, and has been the only English speaking employee of every factory he ever worked at. In the midst of all this he began banging on a guitar...

Whenever back in Chicago, he spent his Sunday mornings hanging around and occasionally busking at the famed Southside flea market on Maxwell Street where bluesmen like Muddy Waters and Little Walter cut their teeth. There, he got to know the reigning bluesman on the scene, Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis who was to become a close friend and mentor. Still a teenager at the time, he would sneak into clubs to hear other blues legends such as Homesick James and Honeyboy Edwards, who he later spent a great deal of time with both on and off the stage. With the encouragement of his mentors, Jake began to play professionally. He worked the bars, streets and train tunnels of Chicago. Sporadically, he would venture back out on the highways, making roadtrips to the Mississippi Delta and other parts of the South where he played on the streets and in local juke-joints. La Botz continued to wander the country's backroads and byways with an occasional trip to Europe. In 1996 he wound up in downtown L.A. playing at Al's Bar once a week in exchange for a room in the SRO hotel upstairs.

His steady stream of performances at 'hipster' bars, blues clubs, and tattoo parlors resulted in attention from the independent film world and an improbable acting career began to unfold. His most significant role, as of late, is playing the mercenary "Tombstone" alongside Sylvester Stallone in the most recent edition of the Rambo series. In another noteworthy performance Jake portrays a blues singing convict "Jesse" in the prison film Animal Factory directed by respected actor Steve Buscemi working with such notables Willem Dafoe and Mickey Rourke.

He also attracted the attention of former Guns 'N' Roses guitarist Slash who asked Jake to audition for the supergroup Velvet Revolver. While that didn't pan out, he did play guitar for a couple of years at the Greater Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in South Central Los Angeles.

For the last four years Jake has become known for his Tattoo Across America Tour where he performs at tattoo shops.

"Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth. --Jerry Stahl (author of Permanent Midnight)

"Jake is the modern day Hank Williams." --Steve Buscemi (Actor-Director)

"sadder than hell balladry, razor sharp testifying, storied takes on loneliness, beatnik-on-the-Mexican-border music, coffeehouse chic. This is music from a deep well, a blues with country, folk and sharply observed lyrics... as affecting as a shot of overproof rum on a hot day." Tattoo Magazine

DISCOGRAPHY:

I'm a Crow - Charnel Ground Records (2009)
Sing This To Yourself - Charnel Ground Records (2008)
Graveyard Jones - Charnel Ground Records (2006)
All Soul And No Money - Joseph Street Records (2004)
Used To Be - Utel Records (2002)
The Original Soundtrack To My Nightmare - Spinout Records (2000)

FILM APPEARANCES:

Fully Loaded directed by Shira Piven
Sinners and Saints directed by William Kaufman
Rambo directed by Sylvester Stallone
Animal Factory directed by Steve Buscemi
Lonesome Jim directed by Steve Buscemi
Ghost World directed by Terry Zwygoff
Thirteen Moons directed by Alexander Rockwell
The Grey directed by Shane Taylor
One Night With You directed by Joe D'Augustine

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HILLGRASS BLUEBILLY HEADQUARTERS ATX

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Dec 13 2009 6:00 PM

Hey Jake La Botz - are you ready for the invasion of Hillgrass Bluebilly in Austin for 2010? Support your local "dirtyfoots" & support Hillgrass Bluebilly LIVE events.





We have some January events for you to attend:

Jake LaBotz & Ramsay Midwood team up as Hillgrass Bluebilly Presents: Earthy, Rugged, Gritty & Soulful on Saturday January 23rd @ Jovita's

and

Friday January 29th @ BEERLAND - Hillgrass Bluebilly Presents: Wille Heath Neal w/ the Boomswagglers



Also, our debut album on Hillgrass Bluebilly Records - HIRAM & HUDDIE, has been nominated for "BEST CONCEPT ALBUM" for the 2009 Independant Music Awards featuring Scott H. Biram, Possessed by Paul James, Wayne Hancock & other well-known artists we all love & enjoy.....



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Dog of the Moon

Dog of the Moon



Dec 12 2009 6:30 PM

Fantastic show last night and thanks for signing my souvenir guitar.... You should be in the big time soon, and if not, there's definitely a serious problem with the way music's going. You're songs speak straight from the heart and you're going around singing your confessions of the soul to anybody that will truly listen. Whatever "it" is, you've got "it"! Enough gushing, just come back soon!!!!
HILLGRASS BLUEBILLY PHX

HILLGRASS BLUEBILLY PHX



Dec 12 2009 12:32 AM

Rogue West Bar

12/11/2009 9:00 PM at JAKE LABOTZ, W/ BECKY LEE AND DRUNKFOOT
3593 W NORTHERN, PHOENIX, 85051
Cost: 4.00




maj@13

Maj Whatever



Dec 9 2009 7:26 PM

Thx for your friendship! hope to see you soon in Holland.
Wishing U well....
X Maj
Dog of the Moon

Dog of the Moon



Dec 6 2009 5:51 PM

I'm counting on you to be in Phoenix this Friday night. Love the music, man, and keep on truckin! It's not often that I gush about modern musicians, but I think you're the shittizzle!!!!
Dafni

Dafni



Dec 6 2009 2:21 AM

A Tribute to Tony Gilkyson
at the Cinema Bar
3967 Sepulveda Blvd
Sunday, December 6

featuring (in alphabetical order):

Amilia K Spicer
Bliss Bowen
Brian Whelan
Carl Byron
Cliff Wagner
Dafni
Dan Janisch
Danny McGough
Dave Raven
David Serby
Edie Murphy
Greg DaPonte
Gwendolyn
Jake Labotz
Jeremiah
Kip Boardman
Mark Heffington
Nicole Gordon
Paul Lacques / Rob Waller
Rich McCulley
Rick Shea
Rob Douglas
Ryan Hedgecock
Sarah Stanley
Syd Straw
Vicki Hill



with MC Chris Morris
Proceeds to the Wyoming Outdoor Council
Metro Cafe will be selling food on the back patio.

Music will start at 7 pm sharp, but be sure to
get there early to grab some food and mingle before the show.
Tribute To Tony Gilkyson
carol g

carol g



Nov 27 2009 6:25 AM


 

JAKE,
IT IS A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU, AND THANK YOU FOR
YOUR FRIENDSHIP, YOU ARE MOST TALENTED, AND
SINCERELY HOPE TO KEEP INTOUCH...I INVITE YOU
TO VIEW MY PHOTOS, ONE IS JUST ABOVE THIS MESSAGE,
AND HOPE YOU ENJOY THEM...
HOPING TO HEAR FROM YOU,
WARMLY, CAROL
                     ******
Tom

Tom



Nov 27 2009 6:23 AM

Jake man I just wanted to say I'm just getting into your tunes and i really dig em' man, keep it up brotha.
Ourmusic4you

Come join us Robert Sebree



Nov 26 2009 8:32 PM

Happy Thanksgiving Jake...Tell Tiny Hello. Robert
Josie Little

Josie Little



Nov 26 2009 2:33 AM

Gonna try my best to do so... Right now the answer is yes!
Josie Little

Josie Little



Nov 25 2009 12:47 AM

i had no idea you'd be at the southgate house...i love that place!
Livin' the Blues

Livin' the Blues



Nov 24 2009 12:15 AM

Great stuff. Peace.
Jj

Jj



Nov 18 2009 6:07 AM

are you kidding me ?! thank yóu !
Muddy Roots Music

Nashville Muddy Roots



Nov 12 2009 6:24 AM

The festival is May 28,29,30 2010 in Cookeville TN.  I can book you any time in Nashville.
Muddy Roots Music

Nashville Muddy Roots



Nov 11 2009 7:25 PM

Ya ready to rock Nashville? I also want you for the Muddy Roots Music Festival.
Pat Peray

Pat Mr. Black



Nov 11 2009 7:25 PM

It was very nice to meet you again and so good to hear you play in Switzerland. Three great shows !!!

And never forget what is the 1st cause of death for dogs in Switzerland : CHOCOLATE

Big hug
from Sabrina, Linda Lou & Pat
Johanna

Johanna Van Drunick



Nov 7 2009 2:18 PM

hope you and get home safely. great to see you both. x
PHIL KYLE/MagnumOpus/M.O.H.C

Phil Kyle



Oct 21 2009 11:17 PM

i would take the train from Nantes to Paris on the TGV fast train...the take the Euro star from Paris to London.you'll actually be in a tunnel under the English cahnnel for about 25 minutes and next thing you come out in the UK...pretty awesome.
gets you right in the center of town.
That way is probably the quickest. and easiest.
Let me know if you need anything else buddy!
Looking forward to it!!
Philo
PHIL KYLE/MagnumOpus/M.O.H.C

Phil Kyle



Oct 21 2009 1:35 PM

hey bud yeah man looking forward to it!!!!
Gonna have some fun been almost a year!!
You could Fly From Nantes airport bud!!
Into London then catch a train down to Brighton.
Be the best easiest way for ya.

Cant wait to hang out man!!
Phil
Nicole

Nicole Lacourt



Oct 19 2009 2:56 PM

Great show in Groningen!
Damn good coffee @ Koster ... ... isn't it?

XXX, Nic
Michael-Ann

Michael-Ann



Oct 18 2009 9:24 AM

I do SO love your music!
FELIPE (Nueva cancion/New Song)

FELIPE (Nueva cancion/New Song)



Oct 13 2009 9:11 AM

HEY YOU ARE GOOD BROH GREETINGS FROM VENEZUELA
Sara

Sara



Oct 12 2009 6:02 PM

Loving the music.  Hope you are ok and having a good start to the week!XXXXXX
De Hûnekop

De Hûnekop



Oct 4 2009 9:28 PM

we open for you the 17th.. can't fucking wait! i'll behave a little better this time..
Muddy Roots Music

Nashville Muddy Roots



Oct 4 2009 12:34 AM

Hit me up when you know you will be in town so I leave it open.
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