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REALLYMUSICRADIO presents
JAKE ARMERDING
When a kid grows up in Massachusetts, you'd think he'd be safe from stuff like bluegrass music. Fortunately for his audiences, this wasn't the case for Compass Records recording artist Jake Armerding. Thanks to a mandolinist father who spent his weekends touring the region with newgrass group Northern Lights, Jake was doomed from the start. He began violin lessons at four, joined Northern Lights at 13, and released his own album of original, folk-and-bluegrass material while still a teenager.
By all self-released standards, Cagèd Bird was a success. Armerding sold 2500 copies out of his trunk, and captured the Best New Artist award at WUMB 91.9fm Boston. The next three years saw dozens of performances around New England, collaborations on stage with such artists as David Wilcox, Peter Rowan and Charlie Peacock, and that old singer-songwriter cliché, a move to Nashville.
The album also caught the attention of Alison Brown, a pioneer banjoist and co-founder (with husband Garry West) of Nashville-based indie Compass Records. Upon learning Armerding was completing a sophomore album, she and West approached Jake about releasing the project. Armerding signed with Compass in early 2003 and his first national release, Jake Armerding, hit the shelves in April.
Finding Nashville "a bit flat," Armerding had already returned to Boston in the fall of 2002. He now divides his time between touring, writing songs, jamming with buddies around town, quoting movies and correcting his friends' grammar. He currently performs on fiddle, mandolin, guitar and vocals, with his dad, Northern Lights frontman Taylor Armerding, on mandolin and high lonesome vocals, and Corey DiMario on upright bass.
Jake's website
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