Singer-Songwriter Cris Jacobs to Release His New Album One of These Days on April 26th

Press Release

Source: Kari Estrin Mgt/Consulting & Radio Promo

While there is no lack of great songs that honor love, acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitarist, Cris Jacobs, offers a heartfelt and unique perspective on marriage and committed relationships on his lively new track “Lifetime To Go,” featuring Lee Ann Womack.

The song appears on his first album in five years, One Of These Days that will be released on April 26^th on Soundly Music.

“Cris Jacobs is an enigma. The question is always ‘why is this guy not more famous?’ Searing guitar, incredible heartfelt songwriting, genre-defying vocals, and an incredibly positive vibe and outlook; here’s really none better than Cris Jacobs.“ – The Bluegrass Situation

“Admirable and arguably underappreciated.” – Parklife DC

“An adventurous musical spirit that is powered by Jacobs thoughtful songwriting and buoyed with an intelligent spirituality.” – Americana UK

All relationships require continuous effort to sustain and grow, even great ones. It is too easy to get caught up in the challenges of the moment or misfires of the past while forgetting about all that has been built together.

Jacobs imparts optimistic wisdom that there are so many unread chapters yet to come in the continuous evolution of a long-term commitment.

Click HERE to listen to “Lifetime To Go” 

As we go through physical, emotional, professional, and familial changes, that include loss, failure, and a multitude of mistakes, he reminds us that we need to slow down and exercise love and patience, because we do indeed have a lifetime to go, together.

Well I know it ain’t quite the same
As the day you took my name
Winds of time tried to burn out the flame, didn’t they babe

Still got lifetime go, I can still see your face like a diamond in the dark
Still got lifetime go, I will meet you again, and again for the first time wherever you are

Sweetheart of mine, don’t count the days
Dead on the vine, but all the ways
That we still got a lifetime full of changes,

darling let’s turn the pages slow, we still got lifetime to go

One Of These Days contains 11 songs, penned by Jacobs, that feature his vivid storytelling, contemplative lyrics and thoughtful observations. His music is a seamless blend of folk, blues, gospel and bluegrass with modern tones. Jacobs brought in some special artists-friends to take part in the recording, including The Infamous Stringdusters (Travis Book, Andy Falco, Jeremy Garrett, Andy Hall and Chris Pandolfi), who serve as the backing band, with Lee Ann Womack, Billy Strings, Lindsay Lou, Sam Bush, The McCrary Sisters and Jerry Douglas, who produced the album.

Cris Jacobs is set to make his Grand Ole Opry debut on April 27^th.

Pre-Order/Pre-Save One Of These Days HERE

Track Card

1. Heavy Water (4:16) Upbeat bluegrass barn burner about an impending flood. I revived this song of mine that I had recorded years ago, but gave it a bluegrass feel. I wanted something on this record to showcase everyone’s stellar picking ability, which they certainly did.
2. Wild Roses and Dirt (4:33) A beautiful and dark mid-tempo song with impressionistic lyrical vignettes. I wanted to express a feeling about the contradiction between the depths to which we go for things we truly love, but how fragile and fleeting life is in the end. It was the first song I wrote, and the first we recorded, for this album.
3. Poor Davey (5:16) Dark, upbeat Appalachian inspired sounding song featuring Billy Strings on vocals and guitar. This song was written in real time while following a story that was unfolding in my hometown of Baltimore about a boy who was on the run after his parents called the police on him. As I researched the story, I discovered that he lived in the same house where a boy had murdered his entire family years before.
4. Work Song (3:29) Mid-tempo fingerpicking song with beautiful vocal harmonies. I love the genre of work songs, prison labor songs, field hollers…songs born out of necessity to get folks through the day while working hard, monotonous labor. I find it so powerful that music was created when all other freedoms seemed to be taken away from them other than their ability to still sing to pass their time away.
5. One of These Days (4:40) Upbeat bluegrass song with Sam Bush on mandolin. A song about a constant longing for some sort of perpetually elusive payoff from all of the work and heartache that goes into life. I wonder if it indeed will come, or if a general feeling of longing is just part of the human condition.
6. Queen of the Avenue (3:58) Bluesy, funky, gospel flavored song featuring McCrary Sisters on vocals and Sam Bush on mandolin. This song is based on a few of the colorful characters from a Baltimore neighborhood I once lived in, which was once the place that displaced Appalachian coal miners settled when the mines shut down to work in factories. By the time I lived there, it had gentrified, but there was still the bloodline of that generation who now resorted to other means of making money, like selling drugs.
7. Lifetime to Go (4:19) Upbeat but tender bluegrass song featuring Lee Ann Womack on harmonies. Accepting new chapters in a relationship not as regret of what was past, but looking forward. Embracing the changes and evolution. Lee Ann Womack sang so beautifully on this one.
8. Daughter Daughter (3:25) A dark, bluesy prayer featuring only my cigar box guitar and vocal, and Jerry Douglas on lap steel. A desperate plea from the fear of raising daughters in a country of mass shootings, where children aren’t afforded the same privilege of innocence that they should have, and that they have to be aware of the horrors of the world too young.
9. Cold Cold Walls (3:28) Bluesy gospel song with McCrary Sisters on harmony vocals. A song that askes those people who choose evil and dishonestly how they are able to reckon their actions when the lights go down and they are all alone with themselves and no one left to lie to.
10. Pimloco (4:57) A fast, galloping horse race song played on my cigar box guitar. I wrote this one as a story of a guy who’s luck runs out at Pimlico, the famous Baltimore race track where they run the Preakness. I played a cigar box on the track and was inspired by a Bukka White type feel.
11. Everybody’s Lost – 00:04:19 – a tender mid-tempo bluegrass song with beautiful acoustic guitar playing and harmonies Another one about that ambiguous feeling of longing and unsettledness that most people feel. I think it is part of our nature to feel this way, and it helps to recognize it and accept that everyone else feels it too.

Cris Jacobs 2024 Tour Dates

Apr 2 – Syracuse, NY – The Westcott Theater

Apr 3 – Buffalo, NY – Electric City

Apr 4 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom & Tavern

Apr 5 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall

Apr 6 – Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Brewery

Apr 26 – Baltimore, MD – The Recher
Apr 27 – Nashville, TN – Grand Ole Opry

May 4 – Albright, WV – The Cheat River Festival

May 7 – Durham, NC – Carolina Theatre ^^

May 8 – Richmond, VA – Dominion Energy Center ^^

May 9-10 – Gettysburg, PA – Majestic Theater ^^

May 11 – Newton, NJ – The Newton Theatre ^^

May 12  – Westhampton Beach, NY – Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center ^^

May 14 – Lebanon, NH – Lebanon Opera House ^

May 15 – New London, CT – Garde Arts Center ^

May 16 – Lexington, MA – Cary Hall ^^

May 17 – Albany, NY – The Egg ^^

May 18 – Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre ^^

May 19 – Mckees Rocks, PA – Roxian Theatre ^^

May 21 – Buffalo, NY – Asbury Hall ^^

May 31 – Eureka Springs, AR – Eureka Springs Blues Weekend

June 14 – Jim Thorpe, PA – The Mauch Chunk Opera House

June 15 – Waynesboro, VA – The Foundry

June 16 – Charleston, WV – Mountain Stage

July 5-6 – Quincy, CA – High Sierra Music Festival

July 20 – Snowshoe, WV – 4848 Festival

July 7 – Portland, OR – Waterfront Blues Festival

July 20 – Snowshoe, WV – 4848 Festival

Sept 27-28 – Sisters, OR – Sisters Folk Festival

* w/ The Lone Bellow

# w/ Kitchen Dwellers

^^ w/ Tommy Emmanuel

“ w/The Infamous Stringdusters

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