Jake Gray

Ah yes, one of the band’s most favorite phrases. The boys had been smokin’. We were playing in Oak Ridge, and we had just finished a song and the whole bar erupted with applause. And then the manager came over. “Hey, would you mind turning it down a bit?” Talk about a lack of awareness. Your whole establishment just demonstrated that they were having an amazing time, and you thought, “You know what we need? Less of… this.” So, we did. A little. But wow, what a mood killer. Bu

Marcus Aurelius was 51 when he went to Carnuntum, what is now modern day Lower Austria near the village of Petronell-Carnuntum, on the...

I have run into some artists that struggle with this. I’m not going to lie; this is sometimes me as well. “The song is never finished”,...

Let me open by saying that creatives are some of my favorite people. They are, by definition… creative. They make the art. They bring...

I was in the Air Force, and I thought that I should spend a few minutes on the joys of the military – my goals therein, and how the whole...

For those of you that follow me on the YouTubes (or Rumble, because, YouTube sucks) know that I spent a year+ doing a thing called...

Gifts from the universe, that's what my friend Josh Van Wey called it. When you're working on a song and it comes to you, unbidden, and...

This song came to be from three things: - A happenstance conversation with Mike Gill - A twitter challenge to write a...

This song started its life as a request for a wedding song for my niece Kristen. She wanted something personal for us to play for the...

Most of the time, (as discussed in Jake's Guide to Songwriting) when I write a song it is either because I’ve decided to put lyrics to an...