Most recent fan mail 
by rapster  1/17/2006 
 
NEW SCHOOL... OLD SCHOOL... 
KING of the BLUES SCHOOL... jake what you make... what we take... how you can make our hearts ache... make us cry... make us want to try... before we die... to say it once like you... from deep within... to realize we can't always win... and that's why the blues were made... put's everything else in the shade... all the feeling you put in... time and time again... proud to be your friend... your song will never end... we'll never break even though we bend... our pain you help us mend... the blues is pains best friend...
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by whiteboy slim  1/7/2006 
 
Far Out  
Wow, this is an amazingly cool song. If you want to show some young punk what the REAL music of the late sixties was all about, this is the real thing.

The textures, the layers, the tone evokes the era, (even the almost subliminal hints of fifties rockbilly that was always present in the Haight Ashbury sound). There a little Dead, a little Quicksilver (maybe a lot of Quicksilver), even a little Steve Miller (when the man could actually make real music).

You, my man, are truly one of the most amazing slide players I've ever heard. One of my major dreams is to share the stage with you one day
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by Global Trancemission  10/8/2005 
 
Reach Out reaches a new high !  
What a great song and performance from the King of Slide.
There has already been a lot said about this track so I will just add my small contibution.
This is really ground breaking stuff here as Jake is now developing his own totally unique style. There is no longer any need to look for influences in this track because the end product is just so smooth and sweet that you just end up wanting more of this artists work regardless of who you may think it sound's like.
The song has good lyrics too and the whole performance of this track is excellent.
The production on this track is much improved from Jake's earlier tracks and the multi tracked slide guitars are so sweet and blend together so well.
Jake's vocals are really well suited to this style and he really seems to be defining a new style of crossover bluesrock here.
Altogether an excellent track that goes straight onto my Faves list and should go on your too !!!
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depth   
 
 i'm so jealous of you man, if there was a time and place i'd have loved to live then it would have been in san francisco in the 60s. I hear about Height Ashbury all the time thanks to the references in zappa's music and i'd have loved to experience it...onto the song however. This is real nice, it's deep and a little dark also....your vocals get right inside your head, you really listen to every word your singing, the blues style guitar with the gentle slides is real nice, got a hazy, smoky feel to it....just like height ashbury in the 60s i suppose.....it has moments in this that reminds me of the doors and as this track goes on, the more spellbinding it becomes. That's a great pciture by the way, for the song art. Heh, is russian style dancing required for this song...i feel a definite rusky infuence on the guitar style in a passage just before it slips back to slide guitar. This is a psychedelic epic, really deep and soul searching and dare i say, perfect for listening to joint in hand...just like now ;)

great stuff man, onto my 3 listen.
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