If you mentioned Bob Dylan to a class of 16 year olds a minority may perhaps recognise the name and associate it as being boring or old music. Young folk singer Jake Bugg isn't any ordinary teenager. Brought up passionately inspired by the likes of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, it’s refreshing to hear a mellow country tone in is singing. Growing up surrounded by a generation obsessed with senseless, overrated pop music, who would have thought he is a 17 year old boy from Clifton estate in Nottingham?
Take a moment to buckle up for his debut album Lightning Bolt that takes you on a trip down memory lane. Initially it’s like listening to a wise man effortlessly expressing his heartbreak, loneliness and troubled past with nothing but a pipe and a rusty guitar. Nevertheless Bugg is quite the opposite, tales of his experiences coming of age pulse through his song writing.
Despite his country, swinging sixties tone, Bugg still manages to stay relevant to the rest of his generation. His song ‘Two Fingers’ is a maturing, troubled teenager putting two fingers up to yesterday when he reminisces on his experiences hanging around the Clifton council estate with his mates, a bottle of white lightening, popping pills and smoking a joint. Pushing his Clifton experiences aside, he obtains more romantic tracks on the album including ‘Some Place’. You can hear the agony in Bugg’s lyrics and practically hear the sound of his heart being ripped to shreds whilst he sings “I’ll be down on my knees begging you.”
It is just the beginning of Bugg’s career and already he has performed on stage with The Stone Roses and Noel Gallagher two of his favourite artists. It is a challenge to match similar modern artists with Bugg especially artist’s still only 18 years of age. His music is a gift wrapped in nostalgia, discovered from Glastonbury festival in the 1960’s. Although screaming teenage girls have taken a high interest in acoustic acts, such as Ed Sheeran, there is undoubtedly a gap in the market for Bugg’s intriguing story telling.
If you mentioned Bob Dylan to a class of 16 year olds a minority may perhaps recognise the name and associate it as being boring or old music. Young folk singer Jake Bugg isn't any ordinary teenager. Brought up passionately inspired by the likes of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, it’s refreshing to hear a mellow country tone in is singing. Growing up surrounded by a generation obsessed with senseless, overrated pop music, who would have thought he is a 17 year old boy from Clifton estate in Nottingham?
Take a moment to buckle up for his debut album Lightning Bolt that takes you on a trip down memory lane. Initially it’s like listening to a wise man effortlessly expressing his heartbreak, loneliness and troubled past with nothing but a pipe and a rusty guitar. Nevertheless Bugg is quite the opposite, tales of his experiences coming of age pulse through his song writing.
Despite his country, swinging sixties tone, Bugg still manages to stay relevant to the rest of his generation. His song ‘Two Fingers’ is a maturing, troubled teenager putting two fingers up to yesterday when he reminisces on his experiences hanging around the Clifton council estate with his mates, a bottle of white lightening, popping pills and smoking a joint. Pushing his Clifton experiences aside, he obtains more romantic tracks on the album including ‘Some Place’. You can hear the agony in Bugg’s lyrics and practically hear the sound of his heart being ripped to shreds whilst he sings “I’ll be down on my knees begging you.”
It is just the beginning of Bugg’s career and already he has performed on stage with The Stone Roses and Noel Gallagher two of his favourite artists. It is a challenge to match similar modern artists with Bugg especially artist’s still only 18 years of age. His music is a gift wrapped in nostalgia, discovered from Glastonbury festival in the 1960’s. Although screaming teenage girls have taken a high interest in acoustic acts, such as Ed Sheeran, there is undoubtedly a gap in the market for Bugg’s intriguing story telling.
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