DATE:  10/07/07

NAME: Jake LaBotz

INSTRUMENT(s): Vocals/Guitar

CURRENT RELEASE: ‘Graveyard Jones’

WEBSITE: www.jakelabotz.com

1. Biggest Influence(s)?
Mance Lipscomb
Blind Boy Fuller
Tommy Johnson
Skip James
Blind Willie Johnson
Mississippi John Hurt
Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis
Hank Williams
The Sensational Nightingales
Pops Staples and the Staple Singers
Frank Stokes  

2. Favourite records/tracks old or new?
Mance Lipscomb 'Texas Songster' Album
Iggy and the Stooges 'Raw Power' Album
Howard Tate 'Get It While You Can' Album
Guitar Nubbit 'Georgia Chain Gang' Song
Sensational Nightingales 'Burying Ground' Song  

3. What would you be if not a musician?
I'm also an actor (look for me in the new Rambo movie coming out next year)...so maybe I'd be doing more of that...or writing books of fiction.

4. Career high point so far?
Playing with my mentors Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, Honeyboy Edwards and Homesick James in Chicago when I was coming up.   

5. Perfect night off?   
Every night's a night off...thats why I quit swinging a hammer back in '93. Music is work...but I digs it.

6. Most recent CD in your CD player?  
Ted Taylor (fantastic soul and gospel singer ...from the Mighty Clouds of Joy) Greatest Hits from the Jewel/Paula label.

7. Favourite book/film?
'Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism' by Chogyam Trungpa

8. Whiskey - Jack or Jim?
Had to shoot 'em both down...this town wasn't big enough for the three of us.