Today's guest is the wonderfully honest Jake Minch - a seriously special songwriter and a proper artist's artist, the kind other musicians can't stop sharing.
We get into all sorts of value on this show - how to spot the "parasites" whose advice comes with an agenda, the importance of staying honest, plus why you can smell it when someone walks into a session wanting something...
JAKE MINCH INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/jakeminch/
OUR INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/helpingmusicianspod/
Episode Features:
- Why keeping a "horribly honest" journal might be the most useful career tool a young artist has
- How listeners can smell when they're being sold to, and why over-explaining your songs on TikTok kills them
- What making his first album with Tony Berg taught Jake about staying curious ("the smartest people you know know nothing")
- How to tell gut instinct from the little devil on your shoulder when the advice starts flying
- Why walking into a session wanting something is the quickest way to ruin it, and when to go get lunch instead
- The three tests every Jake Minch song has to pass before it comes out
- How Jake wrote about the heaviest thing in his life for himself first, not for an audience
- Why the golden buzzer sob story era is "tired" and what honest songwriting sounds like instead
- Why a really good day usually means a mid show, and the post-show crash nobody warns you about
- Why Jake would rather "assume he's poor and submerge in art" than read his own press
