Biography

Boogie Jake
Real name: Matthew Jacobs
Effective period / Period of releases: 1959
Blues singer and guitarist, born 2 August 1927 in Marksville, La., USA; died 6 December 2013 in New Orleans, La., USA.Recorded in J.D. Miller's Crowley, La., studio in 1957 (unissued at the time) and for Minit in Baton Rouge in 1959. Workout outside music 1961-1974, making appearances at the San Francisco Blues Festival in 1974 and 1977, a home-produced single released on Blues Connoisseur in 1977.