One of the bright new voices in modern Americana is Jake Neuman & The Jaybirds, whose debut EP, Little Bitty Town, comes out on July 14th.
But Rock & Roll Globe has an early taste of the music from this 25-year-old singer-songwriter with one of the set’s best tunes in “Say What You Mean,” which we are proud to share with our readers today on the site.
“At the time of writing this song, I was definitely going through a lot,” Neuman tells us about the song’s premise. “I realized that the people that I had surrounded myself with my entire life were not who they pretended to be. Moving away from that circle of people was earth-shattering, but it taught me to value those who ‘Say What You Mean,’ if you will.”
“Say What You Mean,” along with the rest of the EP, springs from Neuman’s survival of a near-fatal brain hemorrhage, in where music served as his lifeline during a lengthy recovery.
“I was really trying to find an escape from what seemed like an inescapable situation, so I dove head-first into music,” he explains. “Artists such as Koe Wetzel, Jason Isbell, and, of course, good Ol Timmy Tyler Childers were on repeat in that trailer I was living in. They became subconscious influences when writing this song.”