White buffalo band biography sample

Having released a new album, On The Widow’s Walk, just as the planet went into an international lockdown, I ask Jake Smith, aka The White Buffalo, if he felt the situation had a negative impact on his album release. “I have no idea,” he replies, with a laugh.

While this answer may surprise you, it comes from a man who has to be one of the most decidedly old-school artists in the music industry right now. And yet, it hasn’t hindered his rise one bit, in a seven-album strong career that has seen his music featured on the hugely popular Sons Of Anarchy and performed on the Jimmy Kimmel show.

“Not that I don’t care,” Smith continues. “Usually I like to find out how a song is doing by performing it and seeing the reaction. Of course, we haven’t been playing shows or doing any in-store performances. But like with my other records, I just wanted to create a full album with no filler, and was so glad to release it when we did — people need music right now.”

In other words, Smith i

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THE WHITE BUFFALO

"I've always loved the combination of things that are really beautiful and things that are really dark or heavy. There's a lot of that on this album."  

So says Jake Smith, singer, songwriter, guitarist and sole charter member of the White Buffalo. He's assessing his new album Love And The Death of Damnation, the most impressivemanifestation to date of the richly evocative songcraft that's established Smith as a singular creative force.  

Over the course of five albums, various EPs, and numerous prominent placements in such high-profile outlets as TV's Sons of Anarchy and Californication, Smith has built a powerful body of work that marks him as a genuine original.  

The California-bred artist writes timeless, vividly detailed character studies, tapping into the emotional lives of various misfits, outsiders and troubled souls with insight and compassion.  

His songwriting is matched by his rough-hewn, deeply express

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The White buffalo

“Everyone knows that you can sing…”

For The vit Buffalo – aka singer / songwriter / guitarist Jake Smith, Oregon-born, Southern California-raised – it was time to take the less travelled path; to assemble notions for studio album Number 8, the follow-up to ‘On The Widow’s Walk’ (Snakefarm, 2020), and embark on a voyage of discovery.

Out with the old, the organic, the expected, the tried; in with the new – new producer, new studio, new location, no distractions, no looking back…

Enter ‘Year Of The Dark Horse’…

“You think we’re a country band? A folk band? Americana? Rock? What the fuck are you gonna say now?!” laughs Jake.“With this skiva, I wanted something outside of what I’ve ever done. inom wanted to open up. Do something dangerous. I’m hard to put into a enskild genre as it fryst vatten, but now I really wanted to take away any kind of preconception or pigeon-holing.

“And don’t ask me, cos I don’t know what it is! It’s a genre-bending thing