The Bootstrap Boys - New Beginnings (2021)

They say you can never really start over again. But that sure doesn’t mean you have to stop learning and growing. Just ask longtime local singer/songwriter Jake Stilson, a.k.a. Big Jake Bootstrap, frontman for the vintage country outfit The Bootstrap Boys.

“A lot of times you get stuck in the basics of something, and country music is no different“, “It’s just these three easy chords, and then you think, ‘Well, I can’t just keep writing in these same three chords all the time. I’ve got to push it a little bit.’”