And the Hello everyone and welcome to So Diyaker on song rating.

Joining us today on the show was an English singer-songwriter,

once dubbed the East Midlands Bob Dylan,

who first turned heads with his folk skiffle troubadour stylings

as a 17-year-old back in 2011.

In September of this year he released his fourth studio

album in just five years, the excellent heart that strain.

Recorded in Nashville with some of Music City's finest veteran session musicians, the album is an altogether gentler more

roomative set than his previous work, demonstrating just how much this artist has developed

as a songwriter and singer in such a short time. We are delighted to welcome the brilliant Jake Bug to the show.

We met with Jake at a hotel in Labrook Grove in London on a very rainy afternoon at the end of August,

just two days before the new album's release and found him to be a very

down-to-earth, relaxed, easy-going chat, didn't we?

We did indeed.

I really enjoyed meeting him.

You can hear the interview in a few minutes, but did you really think we'd let that happen

without was telling you a little bit about

him first? Of course not. Jake was born in Nottingham, England in 1994 and grew up on the

working class Clifton Council Estate. He began playing guitar age 12 at the encouragement of an uncle who brought an acoustic round to the house.

Our guest took to it quickly and although inspired by the likes of Don McClain, Donovan, the Beatles, Johnny Cash and the Everly Brothers developed his own unique, super-rhythmic playing style.

He briefly switched to bass to join a cousin's band when he was 15 and also enrolled on a

music technology course around the same time but dropped out a year

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