Jake Owen's gift of song
Country music star Jake Owen plays for fans via social media, keeping the human connection in these days of social distancing.
It wasn’t your typical country superstar live performance — Jake Owen unshowered, sitting in a small room in his garage, with his guitar and a cup of coffee, about to sing for fans into a cellphone.
“This is me, social distancing,” Owen said the other night via video on Twitter as he played music (his own songs, covers of Merle Haggard and Jimmy Buffett), flashed his bare feet when someone asked if he was wearing shoes (“Shoeless Jake”), and showed off his beloved old truck (“my pride and joy”).
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