The 75th edition of Local Spins on WYCE boasted an performance by The Bootstrap Boys, tracks from a host of Jammie Award nominees and new music from Rip VanRipper and Reviving the Era.
Country Chums: The Bootstrap Boys (Photo/David Specht)
It just seems like Jake Stilson was destined to sing vintage-styled country music and form a country band.
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In Studio X: The Bootstrap Boys during Local Spins on WYCE.
He wrote his first country song when he was 16, but it wasn’t until he formed The Bootstrap Boys last year that the Grand Rapids singer-songwriter finally pulled the trigger on his outlaw country passion.
“Country music is a good genre for story-telling,” said Stilson, who hopes the band will release a follow-up recording to its “Country Songs for Sale” EP later this year as well as tour the country in their band RV, affectionately dubbed Delta Dawn.
“I’ve been getting a lot of, ‘Jake you should have done this sooner. You sound like you’re in your element.’ It took quite a sojourn for me to make my way back around to playing country music again and to come to grips with that being OK.”
PODCAST: Local Spins on WYCE with The Bootstrap Boys
The band — Stilson, drummer Jon Pataky, guitarist Nick Alexander and bassist Josh McBryde (aka, Big Jake, Jonny, Nicky and Clyde Bootstrap) — uncorked a pair of its entertaining country tunes in Studio X during this week’s Local Spins on WYCE show. Listen to the full podcast of the show here, with a video of the band’s performance of a new song, “A Little Bit of You,” below.
They’ll be performing at the Jammie Awards at The Intersection on Feb. 19, Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill on Feb. 20 and joining Valentiger for the Local Spins Wednesdays show at SpeakEZ Lounge on March 2.
The Feb. 12 edition of Local Spins on WYCE also featured the debut of new songs by Grand Rapids rock bands Reviving the Era and Rip VanRipper, as well as tracks from May Erlewine, Don Middlebrook, Rick Chyme & Nixon, Jesse Ray & The Carolina Catfish, The Legal Immigrants, Scott Pellegrom and Vincent Hayes.
VIDEO: The Bootstrap Boys, “A Little Bit of You” (Local Spins on WYCE)
Video by David Specht
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