Joshua Jake Owen and his fraternal twin brother Jarrod were born in Vero Beach, Florida this day in 1981. The brothers regularly participated in a variety of sports. Jake eventually took up golf, and began pursuing a career as a professional golfer, winning his first tournament at fifteen. After graduating from Vero Beach High School, they attended Florida State University. A wakeboarding accident which resulted in reconstructive surgery left Jake unable to continue playing the sport. While recovering from his injuries, he borrowed a neighbors guitar and began to teach himself how to play it. After seeing a guitarist perform at a campus bar, he asked the bars owner if he could play a gig there. Eventually, he became a regular at the bar, and soon took up writing his own material as well. He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, making his first stop at a bank to open a savings account; after telling the bank teller that he was a singer and songwriter, the teller then asked if he had any recordings available. He gave her a CD of his work, which she sent to the Warner/Chappell Music publishing company. Although Warner/Chappell did not sign him to a contract, Jake Owen eventually met the record producer and songwriter Jimmy Ritchey. They, along with songwriter Chuck Jones, wrote a song titled Ghosts, which they had intended for Kenny Chesney. Chesney, ultimately, did not record Ghosts, although it drew the attention of Sony BMG Nashville executives, who signed Jake to their RCA Records label in 2005. Per their suggestion, Owen changed his first name to Jake, so as to avoid confusion with Josh Turner and Josh Gracin. In early 2006, Jake Owen released his debut single, titled Yee Haw. He describes the song (an up-tempo party anthem in which the narrator expresses his enjoyment with a cry of yee haw) as being written to make people have a good time. It peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and served as the lead-off single on his debut album, Startin with Me. Released on July 25, 2006, the album featured 11 tracks, all co-written by him and his producer. Among them were his own recording of Ghosts and a duet with Randy Owen (no relation) of Alabama entitled You Can Thank Dixie. After the albums release, Jake Owen was signed as an opening act for acts such as Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood---the rest is as they say, HISTORY. Happy Birthday Jake, youre on The Journey Of Your Life, try to keep Wide Awake, leave the Apple Pie Moonshine alone while youre Settin The World On Fire and if you go fishing while Beachin today, Im sure therell be a story about.....
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:53:33 +0000
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