Greg Jacobs

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Gregory "Greg" Lynn Jacobs (born August 21, 1954 in Oklahoma ) is an American country and folk musician .

life and career

Jacobs spent his youth in Choctaw , a suburb of Oklahoma City . He later moved to Stillwater , where Red Dirt music was created at that time with artists such as Bob Childers , Jimmy LaFave , Tom Skinner and the Red Dirt Rangers . At the same time, the career of the young Garth Brooks started there .

After a few years in Stillwater, he went to Kentucky , but still met other musicians on the Red Dirt scene regularly in Nashville . His interim plans to settle himself in Nashville, however, failed. He also performed once a year in Stillwater at a reunion show with greats like LaFave or Kevin Welch . Eventually he returned to Oklahoma.

In 1994 and 1996 he recorded two albums, which were only sold during performances and were not available on the open market. In 1997 he then recorded South of Muskogee Town , which was first released by a small independent label and then re-released by the slightly larger Binky Records , for which other artists on the scene also worked. Like the follow-up album Look At Love , it was released in 1999. In the early 2000s he published his last studio project to date, Reclining With Age .

In recent years he has also increasingly worked with the younger generation of Red Dirt musicians, including The Departed and Jason Boland & the Stragglers . In 2011 he released the live album Lucky .

Jacobs works full-time as a history teacher and owns a ranch.

Music genre

The musical role models of Jacobs' youth were mainly John Prine and Bob Dylan . He plays a genre mix of country , folk , blues and rock that is typical of the Red Dirt scene .

Discography

  • 1999: South of Muskogee Town
  • 1999: Look at Love
  • 2003: Reclining With Age
  • 2011: Lucky (live)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GREGORY LYNN JACOBS. oklavoters.com, archived from the original on October 13, 2013 ; accessed on March 7, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ Greg L Jacobs , peoplefinders.com, accessed March 7, 2014 (English)
  3. ↑ EI Hillin: Singer / songwriters set to take stage at OMHOF , muskogeephoenix.com, February 5, 2014, accessed on February 22, 2014 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, Greg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobs, Gregory Lynn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country and folk musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Oklahoma