Jake Armerding

Singer and songwriter Jake Armerding draws on a wealth of influences in his music — contemporary folk, progressive bluegrass, classic folk-rock of the '60s, and singer/songwriters of the '70s and '80s — but he prefers to classify his music in a simple fashion: good. "We're going for good," he says. "Good is our sole criterion." Jake Armerding was born in Massachusetts, where his father, Taylor Armerding, was a noted journalist and musician who played for several years with the progressive bluegrass band Northern Lights. Jake picked up a guitar when he was a boy, and by the time he was 14 he was good enough to sit in with Northern Lights on-stage. Jake also learned mandolin and violin and started writing songs, and while studying English at Wheaton College, a Christian college in Illinois, he found time to record an album, 1999's Caged Bird, which he distributed himself. Caged Bird sold out its initial pressing of 1,000 copies through positive press and word of mouth, and earned him the "Best New Artist of 2000" award from Boston's WUMB-FM. After graduating, Jake relocated to Nashville in hopes of shifting his musical career into high gear; while he didn't care for life in music city and soon returned to Boston, he stayed just long enough to score a contract with the noted independent label Compass Records, which released his self-titled second album in 2003. Four years later, after he'd established a strong following on the Massachusetts folk scene, Jake self-released his third disc, Walking on the World, in the spring of 2007.

Style musical : Traditional Country, Bluegrass, Contemporary Folk, Contemporary Bluegrass

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DISCOGRAPHY

Albums

04/1999	CD JAKE ARMERDING (US)	CAGED BIRD - Rome / Ithaca / Company Town / Place I Know / Never Mind / Color You In / Jessica / Belong To Me / (Don't Be My) Anything Today / Caged Bird / Loner / Lullaby In E Minor
04/2003	CD COMPASS 4354 (US)	JAKE ARMERDING - Destiny's Flight / Ithaca / Peace Of Mind (Lost In Back Bay) / You Took Me In / Never Mind / Adonai / Unsaveable / Little Boy Blue (North Of North Dakota) / The Ballad Of Sorrow And Joy / Too Many People / The Girl I Left Behind Me
2007	CD ? (US)	WALKING ON THE WORLD - Walking On The World / Hole In The Sky (Mandolin Man) / Falling In / Flirting / The Fleece / Keep The River On Your Right / Assassination Blues / What I Mind / Regulation Blues / Critical Eye / My House
06/2009	CD STICK SHIFT ? (US)	HER - Up On The Rim / Song Of Solomon / $2 Kite / Wave Of Your Hand / Porto, PT / Harry/Sally / I Came Upon Some Love Today / Dying Light / Summer Of My Life / The Weight Of You / The Coastline
2013	CD NOT ON LABEL ? (US)	Cosmos In The Chaos - Favorite Person / S.D.G. / My Right Mind / Why Have You Forsaken Me? / Catchy Paul & Dreamy John / Blessed Are The Poor / Tower Of Babel / Dear America / Mayday / Uncontrol / Away We Go