Jake Cox
An unstoppable freight train, Jake Cox is St. Augustine’s premier outlaw blues and backwoods country songwriter whose slide and fingerstyle guitar has earned him accolades throughout the city.
The magnetic Jake Cox, a well-known staple musician of St. Augustine, Florida always brings his downhome roots and charismatic charm to the stage in every performance. The epitome of the outlaw country and Mississippi blues sound, Jake's old-time traditional influences blended with his deep Appalachian ancestral bonds and dynamic originality make him one of the craftiest songwriters of his time.
With a genuine and heartfelt presence, Jake Cox is as charming as a cool glass of water on a hot summer day.With a genuine and heartfelt presence, Jake Cox is as charming as a cool glass of water on a hot summer day.. His stage presence is one of charisma, strength, and an overall good time. In Jake's original music one can hear traces of Doc Watson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, El Burnside, and even Black Sabbath in Jake's backwoods outlaw blues style of playing. Listening to Jake Cox feels like one is sitting on a swampland front porch, waiting for the sun to set and the fire to light.
