Blues man, Punk, Hollywood actor - Jake La Botz came up the right-proper fucking hard way: A teen renegade on the streets of Chicago, dabbling in a mixture of antisocial activities (from car theft to jabbing up his own rudimentary tattoos) exploring the juke joints of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta as a street singer, finding kinship with some of the last of the pre-war era bluesmen like David “Honeyboy” Edwards, “Homesick” James and “Maxwell Street” Jimmy Davis and becoming an actor alongside names like Steve Buscemi, Sylvester Stallone or Danny Trejo.
His story seems entirely too cinematic to be true and you gotta witness him live to experience the deep-welled music that gets in your bones and rides you for days.
For the first time in Aachen he’ll perform with a backing band featuring Bernie Batke from Smokestack Lightnin'!!