On April twenty fifth, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jake Clemons will launch his new single “Cease the Wars,” a poignant, heartfelt monitor that provides the optimistic counter of a shared new golden age the place we are able to all agree to maneuver ahead collectively. The tune was recorded reside by The Jake Clemons Band at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, and combined by Grammy Award winner Robert Orton (Woman Gaga, Mumford and Sons) and can be obtainable for streaming on all digital shops.
“In my writing course of, I like to have a look at issues as they’re in actuality. We’re all related. We’re all brothers and sisters. We’ve got one Earth, one place for all of us to reside and make issues work — and we don’t need to battle. On the finish of the day, we may all reside for this greater objective of caring for one another and for the place we reside. We will change that insatiable starvation to tear issues down and as an alternative construct our connections to be stronger and reinforce the great thing about who we’re,” stated Jake.
“I imagine in making a musical providing that speaks on a religious stage, and never simply addressing the popularity of an issue. My hope is that ‘Cease the Wars’ connects with as many individuals as doable. I need this tune to resonate with individuals in a method that compels them to connect their emotions to the mental side of it and motivates them to reply on a human stage. On the finish of the day, I imagine within the mild.”
“Like most of my songs, ‘Cease the Wars’ speaks to the human situation, and probably the most tragic a part of it’s that it’s always related, stated Jake Clemons. “We’ve been watching over time how these dividing traces are at all times being positioned as ‘us versus them’ and the divide has simply been always pushed deeper and deeper and deeper. So, I wrote this tune from the angle of the human situation of fixed wrestle that ranges from home fights and arguments with neighbors to politics and dropping bombs. Why does it maintain occurring?
No stranger to worldwide audiences and the methods of the world at massive, Clemons will as soon as once more be heading out on the highway with The Jake Clemons Band, acting at Shorty Fest at Tipitinas in New Orleans on April twenty eighth, earlier than starting a stadium tour with Bruce Springsteen and The E Road Band for 16 exhibits in Europe between Might and July, 2025. Upon return from Europe Jake will carry out at The Minnesota Yacht Membership Pageant in St. Paul MN on July nineteenth earlier than asserting extra exhibits.
Jake Clemons’ huge array of musical endeavors over the previous decade has made him a globally acquainted determine. He has toured the world performing his personal music with The Jake Clemons Band and has spent the final 13 years as tenor and baritone sax participant with Bruce Springsteen’s E Road Band, additionally showing on Springsteen’s 2020 album Letter to You and the companion Apple TV documentary.
Jake Clemons has recorded and carried out with The Killers, Eddie Vedder, Glen Hansard, Tom Morello, Prophets of Rage, Roger Waters, US Ladies, Arkells, and Grouplove (amongst others). He might be seen on the Disney/ABC presentation of the 2023 Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame ceremony, performing as a part of the George Michael induction earlier than enjoying the U.S. Nationwide Anthem in entrance of 65,000 for the worldwide broadcast of the NHL Stadium Collection Stay from MetLife Stadium New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers sport in February 2024.
His earlier releases embrace the Embracing Gentle EP, Worry and Love (which reached #25 on the Billboard Americana charts), and his most up-to-date full LP launch Eyes on the Horizon, the place he as soon as once more created a brand new chapter, this time taking it a step additional by including his voice to these looking for to search out readability in an advanced world and increasing each his musical imaginative and prescient and philosophical perspective. Referring to Eyes on the Horizon, Jake says: “We at all times have to hold that hope with us, we’ve to make use of it to look in the direction of the horizon.”
On June nineteenth, 2024, Jake launched each the one and music video for “Born Like Me,” (that includes Allison Russell and Tom Morello) to commemorate Juneteenth. Of “Born Like Me,” Jake says: “’Born Like Me’ as each a tune and a music video is considered one of my most deep reaching creative efforts thus far. The tune was written at a time when the turmoil of the unjust executions of our American brothers and sisters have been being captured on digicam and highlighted amongst a large media backdrop. The tales of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s final moments among the many residing drew me in to recount the harshness of their earthly departures. This was occurring to the parents ‘born like me.’”
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