Jake La Botz

Jake La Botz taps into the spooky Americana undercurrents of Tom Waits and turns it into something cleaner and leaner, relying on weathered blues changes and a smokey after-hours atmosphere. La Botz's is a simpler singer, too, lacking the gravelly growl of Waits and his casual delivery can help camouflage the eccentric characters and stories on his albums, traits that came to a head on 2022's Hair on Fire. Moving to Chicago as a small child with his father, a truck driver, union organizer, and journalist, La Botz discovered vintage blues and hillbilly music at the library as ...