Jake Simmons
Can’t Be Saved EP
Lower Peninsula / Kerosene Machine; 2010
I was first exposed to the music of Jake Simmons when I reviewed the self-titled debut EP from Dead Scene Radio. That record exuded traditional bar-rock influences aplenty, and did so without sounding too boring or hackneyed. This time around, Simmons has put together a solo project he’s called the Can’t Be Saved EP, and he’s taken those his former outfit’s beer-swilling aesthetic and coupled it to some lonesome folk and raggedy blue-eyed soul to achieve a pleasantly raw feel.
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