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Artist
Jacob Davis
12+ albums
country
about
When he was fifteen years old, Jacob Davis picked up a guitar and started singing in his Shreveport, Louisiana bedroom. But it wasn’t until an open mic night during his junior year of college that he would ever perform on a stage. Davis, in his own words, was “raised on 90’s country music.” His father owns a local furniture business, and his mother, a nurse, played the piano in their church. While she introduced him to music “from Frank Sinatra to Faith Hill,” his father taught him to play “Folsom Prison” on guitar. He left home to study geology at LSU with plans for an oil industry career. After graduating with a degree in environmental science, he spent a year working for an oil and gas company. “I knew about a month into that job that I didn’t need to be doing it. I hated it at times, but it wasn’t just that. I knew at that time in my life that I needed to be playing music.” So he quit and decided to make the move to Nashville. “I was 23 years old, and I knew if I didn’t do it then, I wouldn’t. Music was everything.” After a few initial introductions in town, he met with Ascap’s Robert Filhart, who immediately asked for more songs. “You know as soon as you meet him that there’s something very special about him,” Filhart says. “I decided that we would work together to get him a deal within six months.” Filhart gave him the simple instruction to “go write great songs.” Together, they shopped guitar vocals around town. Just thirty minutes after a meeting wi
