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“He is just one of these guys who is in his own class. A great singer and guitar player.”
- Jorma Kaukonen
“His acoustic and electric guitar work is crisp and driven, and his voice can rise to a soulful pitch or fall quietly in sync with a loping beat. His imagery-rich tales - well, it’s not hard to imagine some of them being covered by the likes of John Hammond Jr. or Boz Scaggs. . .”- Washington Post
A personal note: I met David Jacobs-Strain 24 years ago, when he was a 16 year old acoustic blues prodigy. The maturity he has gained in the intervening years has resulted in his becoming one of the finest singer-songwriters around, while retaining and growing his stellar picking and slide guitar chops. His musical cohort, Bob Beach, with his literally decades of experience has added a whole new dimension that is not to be missed. - Everett, Rainshadow Recording
Read on…
David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach are a multigenerational, bicoastal duo who have been performing together since 2010. They currently perform between 70 and 100 shows a year on both east and west coasts, delighting and bewildering roots music lovers.
David Jacob-Strain is a striking slide guitar player and song poet from Eugene, Oregon. His deep love of blues and roots music is evident in every one of the songs he writes. He studied masters like Robert Johnson, Taj Mahal and Jackson Browne, but plays his own sound, his own song, with a virtuosity that is uniquely his. David began playing on street corners and at farmers markets as a teenager, and bought his first steel guitar with the quarters he saved up. Before he dropped out of Stanford to play full time, he had already appeared at festivals across the country, often billed as a blues prodigy, but he had to fight to avoid being a novelty act: “I wanted to tell new stories, it just wasn’t enough to relive the feelings in other people’s music.”
David Jacobs-Strain has appeared at Merlefest, Telluride Blues Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly, Bumbershoot, and Blues to Bop in Switzerland. On the road, he’s shared the stage with Lucinda Williams, Boz Scaggs (more than 60 shows), Etta James, The Doobie Brothers, George Thorogood, Robert Earle Keen, Todd Snider, Taj Mahal, Janis Ian, Tommy Emmanuel, Bob Weir, T-Bone Burnett, and Del McCoury.
Bob Beach plays harmonica with calm fierceness. A mouth-harp maestro who swaggers into a solo like The Marlboro Man, then quietly leaves the set while the rest of us wonder what just happened and how such a tiny instrument could possibly sound like that. Bob has been a working professional musician for more than 40 years bringing harmonica, flute, and vocals to a broad scope of genres.
A native Philadelphian, Bob relocated to Western PA after high school and worked in bands and musical projects from 1976 to 1997 while based in Pittsburgh. As a sideman, he has recorded or performed with acts such as; Ollabelle, Langhorne Slim, The Avett Brothers, Pat Wictor, Beaucoup Blue, Fruit and many more. Bob was also a sound engineer at The World Café Live music venue for 15 years. Bob Beach is a working musician who carved out his own career on his own terms, raised a daughter, stayed married 40 years, and is still playing for the love of it. The heart of it. The fun of it.
Together, David and Bob play unrestrained and from the heart. They are calm. Poised. The crowd has no idea what they are in for next.“Have you ever seen anything like this before?” Wait. Just wait until you see them live.
UPCOMING CONCERTS - Advance Tickets Online at http://rainshadowtickets.com
10/10/26 Live in the Studio Series: David Jacobs-Strain & Bob Beach
10/18/26 Live in the Studio Series: Reed Foehl
10/27/26 Tannahill Weavers @ The Palindrome
11/02/26 Live in the Studio Series: My Darling Clementine
11/07/26 Live in the Studio Series: Baobab Trio (Will Dudley - Koura, Michael Shay - Cello, Steve Skolnick - Perc)
11/17/26 Live in the Studio Series: Jonas Myers, Sammy J Watson & Connor Forsyth
11/20/26 Live in the Studio Series: Sturtz Duo
03/25/27 Live in the Studio Series: Kaki King
04/11/27 Live in the Studio Series: Luke Winslow-King
04/17/27 Live in the Studio Series: Johanna Warren
05/15/27 Live in the Studio Series: Claude Bourbon
05/20/27 Live in the Studio Series: Tony McManus
THANK YOU AND OUR SPONSORS FOR SUPPORTING LIVE MUSIC: NICOLE BLASUCCI of COLDWELL BANKER BEST HOMES, A TOUCH OF DUTCH, CORVUS CRAFTS, EAGLEMOUNT WINERY | CIDERY, 91.9 KPTZ.
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