Episode 63 · · 06:47
I was recently apporached by someone to record Depeche Mode's song "Somebody" in the style of Blake Shelton to be sung at his wedding. Visit jakehaws.com for more details.
Episode 62 · · 08:36
My attempt to write something in a Bossa Nova style. Influenced by the Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz track, "The Girl From Ipanema." Visit jakehaws.com for more.
Episode 61 · · 36:35
For this episode, I'm joined by a special guest, acoustic guitarist Camille Nelson. We talked about how she got started making music and she shares some of the stories behind the son...
Episode 60 · · 04:39
When my wife and I first married, we started a tradition of recording Christmas songs every year. Sometimes it's just one song and other years, we've recorded as many as five. We've ...
Episode 59 · · 13:19
In this episode, I highlight my favorite music of the year including songs from Dr. Dog, Dan Auerbach, Jeff Tweedy, Asgeir, Mac Demarco, LCD Soundsystem, Iron & Wine, Morning Telepor...
Episode 58 · · 11:22
For this week's episode, I break apart a folky bluegrass tune of mine about a fictional kidnapping. Music influenced by Tapes 'n Tapes. Visit jakehaws.com for lyrics and free downlo...
Episode 57 · · 06:51
For this episode, I remixed a track by Bleachers called "Don't Take The Money." Bleachers is the project of Jack Antonoff. He is also a member of the band Fun and has written songs f...
Episode 26 · · 06:29
Today in Utah, we are celebrating Pioneer Day, which marks the day when Brigham Young and Mormon pioneers first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. To commemorate the occasion, I'm goin...
Episode 25 · · 47:38
For this week's episode, I'm joined by a guest collaborator, film composer and good friend of mine, Micah Dahl Anderson. The topic we randomly drew was "Write a song about a movie th...
Episode 24 · · 31:10
This week, I'm sharing a live recording from my old band, Declaration. This is from 11 years ago recorded at a club I owned at the time called Muse Music. For this show, we were open...
Episode 53 · · 05:42
This one is an oldie written when I was around 15 years old. I was going for an R.E.M. feel and I think I achieved that with the guitar part, which mimics Peter Buck's picking style....
Episode 52 · · 08:39
Here's a brand new song I recently submitted to a contest put on by the podcast Song Exploder and a website called Splice. Basically, Splice is a subscription site which contains a l...
Episode 51 · · 04:02
For this week's episode, I was was digging through some of my old tapes and found this instrumental piano piece I wrote back when I was around 14. I believe it might even be the very...
Episode 50 · · 06:45
This week marks the 50th Episode for me of doing this podcast. I started it about a year and a half ago and It's been a lot of fun so I'm excited for the many more episodes to come. ...
Episode 49 · · 06:02
Today’s episode is a song from my “50 songs in 50 weeks” series. This is one of my first songs I ever wrote, written back when I was 14. It's about a time when I went to a school da...
Episode 48 · · 09:11
This week, I'm sharing a track called "Elephant In The Room" from my upcoming album, which should be out this fall. Most of the time when I write songs, I start off by playing somet...
Episode 47 · · 10:26
For this week's episode, I break apart a song from my “50 songs in 50 weeks” series. This one was written back in high school. I originally planned on playing it with my band at the...
Episode 46 · · 08:55
This week, I'm sharing some music and sounds from a film project I recently worked on. This was a collaboration with my friend, Archie Crisanto. You long term listeners may remember ...
Episode 45 · · 08:53
Today’s episode is about the title track from one of my albums called Ocean recorded back in 2002.First, I'll started with the influence. At the time, I was into a Seattle indie band...
Episode 44 · · 04:01
Since Easter was this last Sunday, I thought I would share something I dug up from my time as a missionary. This is a recording of my mission companion, Elder Brad Chaston, and mysel...
Episode 43 · · 28:55
For this week's episode, I'm sharing live recordings from a concert I played last year at ABGs in Provo, Utah with my Beatles cover duo, The Fab Folk. All together, it was a really l...
Episode 42 · · 13:33
This week's song is called "Scarlet Letter," which was released by my band Declaration on our 2006 album, Panic Button. This was originally written during my senior year of high sch...
Episode 41 · · 32:15
Today I have a special guest: Oscar Olaya. He's a rapper from New York City who now lives in Utah. We discuss his own journey of making music and play some tracks from his new EP. We...
Episode 40 · · 08:59
Pitchfork.com does a feature on their website called "5-10-15-20" where an artist talks about what they were listening to and influenced by during different ages in their life starti...
Episode 39 · · 08:50
With St. Patrick's Day right around the corner, I thought it was a good time to share some Irish style music I've recorded. A little back, I was asked to write some music for a video...
Episode 38 · · 08:30
Today’s episode is a song from my “50 songs in 50 weeks” series called "What Can I Say". I recorded it in 2012 but it was actually written around 1999 while I was in high school. The...
Episode 37 · · 34:39
This week on the show, I'm excited to have as my first guest, a very good friend of mine, Archie Crisanto. We recently got together and challenged ourselves to write and record a son...
Episode 36 · · 03:43
Today’s episode is an guitar instrumental. I actually wrote this one way back in high school. Over th years, I've tried to come up with some words for it but I was never satisfied wi...
Episode 35 · · 08:16
Today's episode is my cover of Weezer's Across the Sea. In 1996, Weezer released Pinkerton, their follow-up to the successful blue album. They went for a much rawer sound this time i...
Episode 34 · · 05:28
This week's song is influenced by a band called The Black Heart Procession. I first heard them when I was a freshman in college and one of my room mates showed them to me. They have ...