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A new year will bring new music from
The Jacob Darrow Band. “My main goal
for 2020 is to release an EP,” says Darrow,
guitarist and vocalist. “I’ve got the first
single recorded... So that will probably
be out very early 2020 and then some
other music to follow.”
The EP will be the first from the Alabama-
based band, which formed in November
2016 when a few guys started playing
together on campus at Auburn University.
Over the next couple of years, the band
branched out to other cities including
Montgomery, Birmingham, Jacksonville,
Anniston, and Huntsville.
“Music put us all through college, you
know, it paid for our textbooks and paid
our rent and all that kind of stuff, so it was
good,” Darrow explains. Since graduating,
Darrow has been playing mainly solo
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acoustic shows, but says the full band will
be playing more in the new year.
While the band plays a blend of funk, rock,
and upbeat blues. Darrow says the “new EP
is more southern rock, even a little towards
country a little bit.”
Darrow credits The Dirty Guv’nahs as an
inspiration for his band saying, “They were
all students at the University of Tennessee
in Knoxville, and I love their music. It’s
kind of the same like southern rock, blues
influence.” Other influences on Darrow
include John Mayer for his guitar mastery
and Jason Isbell for songwriting.
Darrow’s history with a six-string goes back
to age 12 or 13 and memories shared with
his granddad. “Neither one of my parents
play music, but my granddad did. So he
kind of wanted to get me started on that
and see if it took, and it did.”
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