Jake Sheppard - Midwest Marlin (2024)

Midwest Marlin is the first studio album by Jake Sheppard. Born from the love and angst in his own life, and continual calamity of the world around us, the album is a tapestry of the voices, characters and scenes which resist confining themselves to a single narrative thread, and attempt to put their finger on something large, obsequious, and distinctly American. Sheppard strives to give voice to that which sits unsettled and squirming in himself, and walks that peculiar path laid out by the likes of John Prine, Randy Newman, and David Berman; a funny kind of heart-sick.