Jake Owen - Palm Trees & Palm Readers - Jake Owen: Live in Los Angeles '2024

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. LAX (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
02. The One That Got Away (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
03. Anywhere With You (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
04. Yee Haw (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
05. Alone With You / Stand By Me (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
06. The Grass Is Always Greener (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
07. Catch a Cold One (Live from the Wiltern Theatre) 
08. Down to the Honky Tonk (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
09. On the Boat Again (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
10. Sure Feels Right (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
11. Days of Gold (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
12. Homemade (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
13. Don't Rock the Jukebox (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
14. Beachin' (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
15. I Was Jack (You Were Diane) (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
16. Longhaired Redneck (feat. Tyler Booth) (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
17. Best Thing Since Backroads (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
18. 8 Second Ride (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
19. Miss You (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
20. American Country Love Song (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
21. Come Monday (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
22. Made for You (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
23. The Blues Man (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)
24. Barefoot Blue Jean Night (Live from the Wiltern Theatre)

Jake Owen is one of the stalwart figures of bro-county, the cheerful good-time
music that dominated mainstream country radio during much of the 2010s. Owen
emerged before this phenomenon, having his first success in the latter half of
the 2000s with such straight-ahead contemporary country songs as "Yee Haw" and
"Don't Think I Can't Love You." Owen found his groove in 2011 with Barefoot Blue
Jean Night, an album where he brightened his sound, accentuated melody, and
ramped up his rhythms, a shift in style and attitude that gave him four
successive number one Billboard Country Airplay hits: "Barefoot Blue Jean Night,
"Alone with You," "The One That Got Away," and "Anywhere with You." The top of
the charts became familiar territory for Owen, a place he remained even after
the bro-country era faded, racking up three Billboard Country Airplay number
ones at the end of the 2010s with "I Was Jack (You Were Diane)," "Homemade," and
"Made for You." Owen's success carried into the next decade with 2021's "Best
Thing Since Backroads" and 2022's "Up There Down Here," which he followed with
the 2023 album Loose Cannon.

A native of Vero Beach, Florida, Owen and his fraternal twin Jarrod grew up in
the Florida sun playing sports like baseball and football before Jake turned to
golf and Jarrod to tennis. They continued their respective sports as students at
Florida State University, until a water-skiing accident resulted in
reconstructive surgery for Jake. Off the golf team and struggling with
depression, he borrowed a neighbor's guitar and passed the time teaching himself
to play by listening to childhood favorites like Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard,
Vern Gosdin, and Keith Whitley. 

Inexperienced but ambitious, and possessing a smooth baritone, Owen was soon to
be found playing country covers in campus bars for free beer and a few bucks.
Growing tired of covers, he began penning his own songs, which were met with a
positive response. This motivated him even more to follow his new dream of
becoming a singer, eventually causing him to skip out on his remaining college
classes -- only nine credit hours remained on his English and political science
degree -- and head to Nashville. He constantly wrote songs in his Bellevue
apartment, and a chance lunch meeting found producer Jimmy Ritchey (Clay Walker,
Mark Chesnutt) befriending the young musician. For over a year, the two wrote
songs together, including a track called "Ghost" (also co-written by Chuck
Jones) that Kenny Chesney almost wound up recording -- the track would later be
included on Owen's own album. 

Eventually, his friendship with Ritchey led to a meeting with Sony/BMG Nashville
and resulted in a record contract for the determined 24-year-old, who already
had his album basically finished. His debut, Startin' with Me, appeared in
summer 2006 on RCA, spearheaded by the single "Yee Haw." As the song climbed
higher in the charts, Owen supported the record on the road by opening for Kenny
Chesney. In 2007, the title track ballad became the album's second single,
reaching number six and spending a whopping 35-plus weeks on the Billboard
country chart. "Don't Think I Can't Love You" appeared in the summer of 2008,
heralding the release of his second full-length, Easy Does It, in February of
2009. Easy Does It spawned a number two hit in "Don't Think I Can't Love You,"
and "Eight Second Ride" peaked at number 11 in early 2010. 

He delivered his third album, Barefoot Blue Jean Night, in the summer of 2011.
Barefoot Blue Jean Night was his biggest hit to date, launching number one
country singles in its title track and "Alone with You." As the summer of 2012
wound to its end, he released the Endless Summer EP; the collection of four new
songs came out that September. Owen returned in December of 2013 with his fourth
studio album, the Joey Moi-produced Days of Gold; it was preceded by its title
track lead single, which only reached 19 on the charts. The album's next single,
"Beachin'," did much better, reaching number one on Billboard's country chart
and earning a platinum certification; "What We Ain't Got" closed out the album's
cycle by making it to 19.

Owen started to unveil new material in the summer of 2015 with "Real Life," a
single that went to 17 on Billboard. This single didn't appear on Owen's fifth
full-length album but his next single, "American Country Love Song," came out in
early 2016 and provided the anchor for American Love, which arrived in July of
that year. Two further singles -- "If He Ain't Gonna Love You" and "Good
Company," which both reached the lower rungs of Billboard's Country Airplay Top
40 -- followed before the album's cycle closed. In November 2017, Owen's first
five albums were sampled on Greatest Hits, which also featured two new songs. 

Owen released "I Was Jack (You Were Diane)," which interpolated John Cougar
Mellencamp's hit "Jack & Diane," in March 2018. As his first single for his new
label Big Loud, "I Was Jack (You Were Diane)" made it to number one on
Billboard's Country Airplay chart, followed by a number seven placement for
"Down to the Honky Tonk," the second single from Greetings From...Jake, a
full-length album released in April 2019. "Homemade" and "Made for You" wrapped
up the Greetings From...Jake album cycle in 2020 by both hitting number one. At
the end of the year, Owen released "Christmas Spirits," a seasonal duet with
Parmalee.

In 2021, Owen made a cameo on the Walker Hayes single "Country Stuff" before
releasing his own single, "Best Thing Since Backroads." After another non-album
single, "Up There Down Here," he kicked off his next album cycle with "On the
Boat Again," the lead single from Loose Cannon. Produced by Joey Moi, the album
was designed to showcase Nashville's deep bench of professional songwriters; it
featured writing credits from Brent Cobb, Luke Laird, Ashley Gorley, and Devin
Dawson, among others.



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