Jake Walden

Thought of the day...the symphony of blues before me...September 17, 2008 When I left the house, it was all I could do but to curl into a ball and wallow in the ache I couldn't shed from my skin. For five days I could barely eat, barely sleep, barely keep my sanity...

When I played Rockwood this summer, I had the most special show of my life. I felt alive and the room was full of something you can't manufacture. This venue is intimate wit...

This is my first hometown show in Petaluma, opening for legendary Greg Brown. I can't tell you how special this is for me and I hope you will be there. Order tickets early a...

After a long break of summer, of life and new creation, so much has changed, there is so much to say. I know it isn't easy to take the risk to come out, but I can promise you ...

Hi Everyone - It's Chip, Jake's manager. I'm posting to let you all know that we're having a party for Jake in LA tonight, Wednesday, July 23rd at 8 PM...

this week while i was in nyc i got the pleasure to sit with Frank Sinatra's granddaughter and to be a part of her show on siriusly sinatra. tune in tonight to hear me perform 2 songs - the line and New York, New York by Frank. it's on Sirius channel 75 TONIGHT 10-12 pm eastern, 7-10 pm pacific...

As I sit here full of life and possibility, i rediscovered this song. I am posting it for a couple days. Here is my little blurb/insight into the creation of the song which will live on my page along with the rest...

I just sat at the piano in my manic creative state working on some new songs..well at least one that could be something special...

sometimes life is good....just good, all around. For a time everything kind of comes together in that way you can only describe as a feeling, and you feel alive, and excited, and maybe just happy. Today I feel that way...

Sometimes change is unsaid..... I do believe that we must see the world as imperfect while allowing the colors of it to unfold before us with untainted eyes. Each day is new, even as sometimes it feels like many before. Yet those days before are gone, and possibilities only lay in the now...

This is an excerpt from a journal I kind of kept while backpacking across Europe the summer of my 20th year.....We had arrived in San Sebastian, Spain...one of the most beautiful and inspiring places I have found....maybe it was the company, or the time....the hope and freedom....or maybe it...

I can still picture myself, this is almost seven years ago now, laying in the grass of the campus of UC Irvine. My best friend and fellow traveler of the world, a great love of mine in retrospect had dropped me off at that place a week before...

It’s amazing what can happen when we open ourselves to truth, to that which makes us who we are and like no other. I am not sure about a lot of things, but I do know that I believe that each and every one of us is doing the best we can with what we know...

"Maybe someday when we’re old and gray, and all is said and done; On a hill beneath our giving tree with all our fallen colored leaves Of where we’ve come and where we’ve gone......

We’re all in this life together, alone. -Lily Tomlin- March 28, 2008....be you, Peace, Ja

Annabella, Yesterday morning I packed my backpack, made a cup of coffee as the dawn sky was forming, then I drove myself to an airport, ran to the terminal with bleery eyes and flew up here to Oakland to see you...

I never really share the journey of hollywood and trying to make it in the music business with you all...I tend to stick with the creative and philosophic part of it...

Sorry I didn’t have a thought yesterday.....yesterday for the first time in a while was simply about LIFE, I had a day of life and living in the moment, of movement and presence and people and music and slowly feeling alive again...

Though I am struggling lately to feel whole, joy, well......I remember what my Mom has said to me time and time again......these are my thoughts based on her thoughts....Moms are wise.... "Sometimes you just have to go through the motions...