Jared James Nichols (USA)

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Jared James Nichols - Old Glory & The Wild Revival (2014)













Year : 2014
Style : Blues Rock , Guitar instrumentals
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 161 mb

Bio:

You can't teach the blues. It's not something that can be codified in music books or learned on YouTube. It goes much deeper than that and it comes from the inside. It's about the way the guitar strings are bent and the sound gets transmuted directly from a player's soul. It's simple at the end of the day. Either you've got it, or you don't. JARED JAMES NICHOLS has definitely got it. The Wisconsin-born, Los Angeles-based singer, writer and guitarist's new EP Old Glory & The Wild Revival channels blues grit and gusto through bombastic arena-size rock 'n' roll. It's raw, raucous and righteously real. As soon as he got his first guitar at 14-years-old, the stage immediately called to Jared. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he grew up minutes away from The Alpine Valley Resort—where Stevie Ray Vaughan performed his last show. However, no divine coincidence could truly foreshadow just how adept at the six-string he would eventually become. He personally traces the beginning of his story back to a blues jam that his mother brought him to. "Two weeks after I got an electric guitar, I was on stage with all of these old cats from Chicago playing the blues," he recalls with a smile. "The music immediately resonated with me. It was all about the feeling and the soul behind it. None of these guys were music nerds. They were true blues guys playing what they felt. That power and reality struck a chord in me." Soon, he found himself practicing for twelve hours every day. Hitting up the local jams, he ended up sharing the stage with legends including Buddy Guy, "Honeyboy" Edwards, and "Big Jim" Johnson as well as opening for Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Derek Trucks. By his 21st birthday, he had logged over 500 gigs. After a short stint at Berklee School of Music in Boston, he headed out to Los Angeles where he garnered numerous accolades at the world-renowned Musicians Institute, winning the 2010 Jerry Horton guitar contest, the 2011 Les Paul tribute contest, and the 2011 "Outstanding Guitarist" award. 2012 saw him release his debut EP, Live at the Viper Room, gaining the notice of both Guitar World and Guitar Player and inking a deal with Sony/MTV's Hype Music Publishing. However, everything simply laid the groundwork for Old Glory & The Wild Revival. Teaming up with Aerosmith engineer Warren Huart, Jared began working on the five-song set in early 2013. Honing his voice as a guitarist, songs like the first single "Let It Go" speak through a delta-style soul with the right amount of rock bravado. "That one is a blues rock song about love and give and take," he reveals. "It's got its own style and it opens the door to what I'm doing". Elsewhere on the EP, "Blackfoot" charges forward with a riff as sharp as a tomahawk and a whole lot of spirit punctuated by Jessica Childress of The Voice's backing harmonies. "In Wisconsin, I was surrounded by Indian reservations and culture," he continues. "I'd do casino and reservation tours as a kid. When I wrote the song, I was reading about all of these badass tribes. I love that spirit and vibe inherent in Native American culture. The Blackfoot were truly bad motherfuckers. That lick is what I feel their culture represented." On stage, it truly comes to life. Jared's presence becomes amplified with guitar in hand. Audiences have experienced that everywhere from his performances at NAMM and SXSW to the iconic Sturgis Buffalo Chip Festival where he will play alongside ZZ Top and Kid Rock and the Harley-Davidson 110th Anniversary in Milwaukee this summer. Ultimately, he lives up to that idea of Revival in the EP's title. "I want people to get excited," he concludes. "I want them to feel like anything is possible in this music. I want them to know great blues rock exists. If I can give someone the same inspiration I was blessed with, I've done something right."

Album:

When I’m not working hard at Rock n Reel mansions I like to take little road trips with the family, but more often than not we can never decide on which album to listen to that will satisfy all of us. Whilst I’m happy to sit back n chill to the latest offering from Cannibal Corpse or Meshuggah, my wife and daughter aren’t so keen. Weirdo’s. Now thanks to the latest release from Jared James Nichols, we can all travel under the same roof.If I’m completely honest, the opening track Playin’ For Keeps didn’t really do much for me. Sure, it had some good ideas but it failed to really wow me. There’s no denying that Nichols shows off his playing competence with ease, but it just passed me by without really making any impact. All that was laid to rest though, as the slow brooding blues licks of Let You Go kicks in my mind was almost instantly changed. This track has the riffs, the catchy chorus and most of all, it has soul. Bucket loads of it.Can You Feel It? is next and the pace has noticeably increased with a foot-tapping bluesy shuffle. Nichols owns it vocally and if by the end of this track you’re not singing along, then you must be dead inside. Now Or Never is a stripped-back raw blues affair, consisting of nothing much more than Nichols, an acoustic guitar and a bass-drum/hi-hat keeping time. It works amazingly and really gives the album an authentic old time blues feel.This album continues to deliver an abundance of soulful blues soaked riffage on each track, with the production balancing the mix of instrumentation flawlessly. Jared James Nichols really nails the raspy blues vocal, it doesn’t sound forced or misplaced at any time throughout the album. The variety of tempos and contrast of rockier/ballad tracks really keeps the listener drawn in for its entirety and that’s where I feel a lot of blues albums usually suffer, they just become about how technical the guitar playing can be instead of giving the listener an assortment of varied textures to enjoy.As far as blues albums go, this is a very strong release and only let down slightly by a couple of weaker tracks nearer the end of the album. Whilst the cover version of Robert Johnsons Come On In My Kitchen was a good choice to close the album, I think the Keb Mo version is a little more poignant. That aside, this is a top-notch release and Jared James Nichols has some serious song-writing skills to offer. If you’re a fan of skilled blues playing and songs with plenty of substance then check this one out.

Line-Up:

Jared James Nichols (vocals, guitars)
Erik Sandin (bass)
Dennis Holm (drums)

Tracklist:

01. Playing For Keeps (5:33)
02. Let You Go (4:19)
03. Can You Feel It? (3:33)
04. Now Or Never (3:05)
05. All Your Pain (3:32)
06. Get Down (2:21)
07. Sometimes... (5:18)
08. Blackfoot (4:24)
09. Take My Hand (5:15)
10. Come On In My Kitchen (2:36)

+ Video "Never My Life" (Live Video)



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Jared James Nichols - Old Glory & The Wild Revival (2014) (Listenable Records Edition 2015)













Year : 2014 (Listenable Records Edition 2015)
Style : Blues Rock , Guitar instrumentals
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 161 mb

Bio:

You can't teach the blues. It's not something that can be codified in music books or learned on YouTube. It goes much deeper than that and it comes from the inside. It's about the way the guitar strings are bent and the sound gets transmuted directly from a player's soul. It's simple at the end of the day. Either you've got it, or you don't. JARED JAMES NICHOLS has definitely got it. The Wisconsin-born, Los Angeles-based singer, writer and guitarist's new EP Old Glory & The Wild Revival channels blues grit and gusto through bombastic arena-size rock 'n' roll. It's raw, raucous and righteously real. As soon as he got his first guitar at 14-years-old, the stage immediately called to Jared. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he grew up minutes away from The Alpine Valley Resort—where Stevie Ray Vaughan performed his last show. However, no divine coincidence could truly foreshadow just how adept at the six-string he would eventually become. He personally traces the beginning of his story back to a blues jam that his mother brought him to. "Two weeks after I got an electric guitar, I was on stage with all of these old cats from Chicago playing the blues," he recalls with a smile. "The music immediately resonated with me. It was all about the feeling and the soul behind it. None of these guys were music nerds. They were true blues guys playing what they felt. That power and reality struck a chord in me." Soon, he found himself practicing for twelve hours every day. Hitting up the local jams, he ended up sharing the stage with legends including Buddy Guy, "Honeyboy" Edwards, and "Big Jim" Johnson as well as opening for Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Derek Trucks. By his 21st birthday, he had logged over 500 gigs. After a short stint at Berklee School of Music in Boston, he headed out to Los Angeles where he garnered numerous accolades at the world-renowned Musicians Institute, winning the 2010 Jerry Horton guitar contest, the 2011 Les Paul tribute contest, and the 2011 "Outstanding Guitarist" award. 2012 saw him release his debut EP, Live at the Viper Room, gaining the notice of both Guitar World and Guitar Player and inking a deal with Sony/MTV's Hype Music Publishing. However, everything simply laid the groundwork for Old Glory & The Wild Revival. Teaming up with Aerosmith engineer Warren Huart, Jared began working on the five-song set in early 2013. Honing his voice as a guitarist, songs like the first single "Let It Go" speak through a delta-style soul with the right amount of rock bravado. "That one is a blues rock song about love and give and take," he reveals. "It's got its own style and it opens the door to what I'm doing". Elsewhere on the EP, "Blackfoot" charges forward with a riff as sharp as a tomahawk and a whole lot of spirit punctuated by Jessica Childress of The Voice's backing harmonies. "In Wisconsin, I was surrounded by Indian reservations and culture," he continues. "I'd do casino and reservation tours as a kid. When I wrote the song, I was reading about all of these badass tribes. I love that spirit and vibe inherent in Native American culture. The Blackfoot were truly bad motherfuckers. That lick is what I feel their culture represented." On stage, it truly comes to life. Jared's presence becomes amplified with guitar in hand. Audiences have experienced that everywhere from his performances at NAMM and SXSW to the iconic Sturgis Buffalo Chip Festival where he will play alongside ZZ Top and Kid Rock and the Harley-Davidson 110th Anniversary in Milwaukee this summer. Ultimately, he lives up to that idea of Revival in the EP's title. "I want people to get excited," he concludes. "I want them to feel like anything is possible in this music. I want them to know great blues rock exists. If I can give someone the same inspiration I was blessed with, I've done something right."

Album:

In our releases guitarist / vocalist Jared James Nichols their first album “Old Glory and The Wild Revival” produced by Eddie Kramer (Led Zeppelin, Triumph, Kiss, Ace Frehley).As a musician who has played as a guest to LYNYRD SKYNYRD in the past, it’s possible to get an idea of the ballpark JARED JAMES NICHOLS plays in. But under no circumstances should you let that dictate your opinion on this music, as from “Old Glory and the Wild Revival” alone it is clear that the man is a fantastic musician in his own right, and if you come here looking for criticism then you won’t find much.Right from the outset, “Playing for Keeps” shows off his style of music and incredible talent and control over it. The genre is described as Blues/Rock, which is immediately clear as the best parts of both are present. The feeling and soul of Blues is melded so seamlessly with the Rock ‘n’ Roll that it’s impossible not to admire each song as the sum of its parts; the structure and composition of nearly all of them is enough to make any music-lover gush. The first track changes tempo frequently, stops and starts in all the right places, and demonstrates a mastery over the instruments that persists throughout the album.

Line-Up:

Jared James Nichols (vocals, guitars)
Erik Sandin (bass)
Dennis Holm (drums)

Tracklist:

01. Playin' For Keeps (5:18)
02. Crazy (4:36)
03. Let You Go (4:17)
04. Can You Feel It (3:30)
05. Now Or Never (3:01)
06. Haywire (4:08)
07. All Your Pain (3:28)
08. Get Down (2:18)
09. Sometimes (5:14)
10. Blackfoot (4:21)
11. Take My Hand (5:12)
12. Come In My Kitchen (2:34)
13. You Won't Last (Live At The Viper Room) (3:11) (Bonus Track)
14. Playin' For Keeps (Live At The Viper Room) (6:55) (Bonus Track)

+ Video "Never My Life" (Live Video)



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Jared James Nichols - Black Magic (2017)













Year : 2017
Style : Hard Rock , Blues Rock , Guitar instrumentals
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 161 mb

Bio:

You can't teach the blues. It's not something that can be codified in music books or learned on YouTube. It goes much deeper than that and it comes from the inside. It's about the way the guitar strings are bent and the sound gets transmuted directly from a player's soul. It's simple at the end of the day. Either you've got it, or you don't. JARED JAMES NICHOLS has definitely got it. The Wisconsin-born, Los Angeles-based singer, writer and guitarist's new EP Old Glory & The Wild Revival channels blues grit and gusto through bombastic arena-size rock 'n' roll. It's raw, raucous and righteously real. As soon as he got his first guitar at 14-years-old, the stage immediately called to Jared. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he grew up minutes away from The Alpine Valley Resort—where Stevie Ray Vaughan performed his last show. However, no divine coincidence could truly foreshadow just how adept at the six-string he would eventually become. He personally traces the beginning of his story back to a blues jam that his mother brought him to. "Two weeks after I got an electric guitar, I was on stage with all of these old cats from Chicago playing the blues," he recalls with a smile. "The music immediately resonated with me. It was all about the feeling and the soul behind it. None of these guys were music nerds. They were true blues guys playing what they felt. That power and reality struck a chord in me." Soon, he found himself practicing for twelve hours every day. Hitting up the local jams, he ended up sharing the stage with legends including Buddy Guy, "Honeyboy" Edwards, and "Big Jim" Johnson as well as opening for Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Derek Trucks. By his 21st birthday, he had logged over 500 gigs. After a short stint at Berklee School of Music in Boston, he headed out to Los Angeles where he garnered numerous accolades at the world-renowned Musicians Institute, winning the 2010 Jerry Horton guitar contest, the 2011 Les Paul tribute contest, and the 2011 "Outstanding Guitarist" award. 2012 saw him release his debut EP, Live at the Viper Room, gaining the notice of both Guitar World and Guitar Player and inking a deal with Sony/MTV's Hype Music Publishing. However, everything simply laid the groundwork for Old Glory & The Wild Revival. Teaming up with Aerosmith engineer Warren Huart, Jared began working on the five-song set in early 2013. Honing his voice as a guitarist, songs like the first single "Let It Go" speak through a delta-style soul with the right amount of rock bravado. "That one is a blues rock song about love and give and take," he reveals. "It's got its own style and it opens the door to what I'm doing". Elsewhere on the EP, "Blackfoot" charges forward with a riff as sharp as a tomahawk and a whole lot of spirit punctuated by Jessica Childress of The Voice's backing harmonies. "In Wisconsin, I was surrounded by Indian reservations and culture," he continues. "I'd do casino and reservation tours as a kid. When I wrote the song, I was reading about all of these badass tribes. I love that spirit and vibe inherent in Native American culture. The Blackfoot were truly bad motherfuckers. That lick is what I feel their culture represented." On stage, it truly comes to life. Jared's presence becomes amplified with guitar in hand. Audiences have experienced that everywhere from his performances at NAMM and SXSW to the iconic Sturgis Buffalo Chip Festival where he will play alongside ZZ Top and Kid Rock and the Harley-Davidson 110th Anniversary in Milwaukee this summer. Ultimately, he lives up to that idea of Revival in the EP's title. "I want people to get excited," he concludes. "I want them to feel like anything is possible in this music. I want them to know great blues rock exists. If I can give someone the same inspiration I was blessed with, I've done something right."

Album:

Wisconsin-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and guitarist, Jared James Nichols, returns with his new album Black Magic which is the follow up to 2015’s debut album Old Glory & The Wild Revival.Black Magic features 10 tracks and will be released by Listenable Records on Friday 27th October. All tracks on the new album were recorded at The Boneyard in Boston as well as Johnny Depp’s home studio in Los Angeles and produced and co-written by Tony Perry and Jared James Nichols.Over the past four years Jared has built up a solid reputation as a stunning heavy edged blues rock act and stage beast, having shared stages with the likes of ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Zaak Wylde, Glenn Hughes, Walter Trout, Blue Oyster Cult, UFO and Saxon.All those tours were executed within a short period of time in support of his highly acclaimed debut album Old Glory & The Wild Revival. Jared has quickly reached international status and has continued to deliver crashing propulsive blues tones with soulfully insane guitar solos. It’s raw, raucous, and righteously real.“Last Chance is easily the hardest-hitting song I’ve ever wrote,” says Jared. “I completely let it all hang out and went wild. Even the guitar solo is off the wall, blazing fast, and absolutely crazy. I needed to set the bar high for the new record and come out with a bang.”

Line-Up:

Jared James Nichols - vocals, guitar
Erik Sandin - bass, vocals
Dennis Holm - drums

Tracklist:

01. Last Chance
02. The Gun
03. Don't Be Scared
04. Honey Fogive Me
05. Home
06. Got To Have You
07. End Of Time
08. Run
09. Keep Your Name On Mama
10. What Love
11. Don't Be Scared (Live At Hellfest 2017) (Bonus Track)
12. Last Chance (Live At Hellfest 2017) (Bonus Track)
13. Don't You Try (Bonus Track)



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Jared James Nichols - Jared James Nichols (2023)











Year : 2023
Style : Hard Rock , Blues Rock , Guitar instrumentals
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 121 mb

Bio:

You can't teach the blues. It's not something that can be codified in music books or learned on YouTube. It goes much deeper than that and it comes from the inside. It's about the way the guitar strings are bent and the sound gets transmuted directly from a player's soul. It's simple at the end of the day. Either you've got it, or you don't. JARED JAMES NICHOLS has definitely got it. The Wisconsin-born, Los Angeles-based singer, writer and guitarist's new EP Old Glory & The Wild Revival channels blues grit and gusto through bombastic arena-size rock 'n' roll. It's raw, raucous and righteously real. As soon as he got his first guitar at 14-years-old, the stage immediately called to Jared. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he grew up minutes away from The Alpine Valley Resort—where Stevie Ray Vaughan performed his last show. However, no divine coincidence could truly foreshadow just how adept at the six-string he would eventually become. He personally traces the beginning of his story back to a blues jam that his mother brought him to. "Two weeks after I got an electric guitar, I was on stage with all of these old cats from Chicago playing the blues," he recalls with a smile. "The music immediately resonated with me. It was all about the feeling and the soul behind it. None of these guys were music nerds. They were true blues guys playing what they felt. That power and reality struck a chord in me." Soon, he found himself practicing for twelve hours every day. Hitting up the local jams, he ended up sharing the stage with legends including Buddy Guy, "Honeyboy" Edwards, and "Big Jim" Johnson as well as opening for Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Derek Trucks. By his 21st birthday, he had logged over 500 gigs. After a short stint at Berklee School of Music in Boston, he headed out to Los Angeles where he garnered numerous accolades at the world-renowned Musicians Institute, winning the 2010 Jerry Horton guitar contest, the 2011 Les Paul tribute contest, and the 2011 "Outstanding Guitarist" award. 2012 saw him release his debut EP, Live at the Viper Room, gaining the notice of both Guitar World and Guitar Player and inking a deal with Sony/MTV's Hype Music Publishing. However, everything simply laid the groundwork for Old Glory & The Wild Revival. Teaming up with Aerosmith engineer Warren Huart, Jared began working on the five-song set in early 2013. Honing his voice as a guitarist, songs like the first single "Let It Go" speak through a delta-style soul with the right amount of rock bravado. "That one is a blues rock song about love and give and take," he reveals. "It's got its own style and it opens the door to what I'm doing". Elsewhere on the EP, "Blackfoot" charges forward with a riff as sharp as a tomahawk and a whole lot of spirit punctuated by Jessica Childress of The Voice's backing harmonies. "In Wisconsin, I was surrounded by Indian reservations and culture," he continues. "I'd do casino and reservation tours as a kid. When I wrote the song, I was reading about all of these badass tribes. I love that spirit and vibe inherent in Native American culture. The Blackfoot were truly bad motherfuckers. That lick is what I feel their culture represented." On stage, it truly comes to life. Jared's presence becomes amplified with guitar in hand. Audiences have experienced that everywhere from his performances at NAMM and SXSW to the iconic Sturgis Buffalo Chip Festival where he will play alongside ZZ Top and Kid Rock and the Harley-Davidson 110th Anniversary in Milwaukee this summer. Ultimately, he lives up to that idea of Revival in the EP's title. "I want people to get excited," he concludes. "I want them to feel like anything is possible in this music. I want them to know great blues rock exists. If I can give someone the same inspiration I was blessed with, I've done something right."

Album:

After years of blood, sweat and bluespower I am beyond thrilled to announce my upcoming full length record! Note for note and line for line I poured my heart into this collection of songs. Recorded live to tape with an appetite to rock, I am so proud of this beast of an album.It’s a good start to a new year (Happy New Year folks) when your first review is for a new album by a blues rock guitarist you’ve been following for a few years.That guitarist is Jared James Nichols, who returns with a self titled new album via Black Hill Records. With it being nearly six years since his last album, ‘Black Magic‘, I was intrigued to hear if there was going to be any sort of change to his characteristic sound.The answer is yes & no. The no means his recognisable sound and style remains, the yes is that the production has certainly improved. Not that his previous releases have sounded bad, but to my lugholes the sound is crisper, with a wider soundstage which is exactly what’s needed for Jared’s style of blues rock, Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Slash, Rival Sons) has certainly worked his magic, producing, engineering, and mixing this album.This is not laid back, tobacco spitting time. This is frenetic, fast paced, attention grabbing music, for those of you who’ve seen him play live will know exactly what I mean. The energy Jared exudes from those live performances is always going to be difficult to reproduce in a recorded format, but here you have an album that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and leans into your face to enquire if you’re ready to party!Without a doubt, one of the tracks I heard ahead of the album, the energetic ‘Hard Wired‘, which came about after a jam session with fellow guitarists Tyler Bryant and Graham Whitford, is one of my favourites from the album, as is the raucous ‘Hallelujah‘, which won’t fit some blues rock fans ‘genre mould’, but is right on the money for me being someone who much prefers the dirty end of the whole blues rock thing.While I certainly enjoyed ‘Jared James Nichols‘ on the first couple of listens, it was with repeated listening that the album took on it’s true form. There is such a maturity and sense of growth to the song writing and playing, hopefully this album will help propel Jared to the next level or higher.Highly recommended.

Line-Up:

Jared James Nichols - vocals, guitar
Erik Sandin - bass, vocals
Dennis Holm - drums

Tracklist:

01. My Delusion
02. Easy Come, Easy Go
03. Down the Drain
04. Hard Wired
05. Bad Roots
06. Skin ‘n Bone
07. Long Way Home
08. Shadow Dancer
09. Good Time Girl
10. Hallelujah
11. Saint or Fool
12. Out of Time




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Jared James Nichols - Louder Than Fate (2026)











Year : 2026
Style : Hard Rock , Blues Rock , Guitar instrumentals
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 101 mb

Bio:

You can't teach the blues. It's not something that can be codified in music books or learned on YouTube. It goes much deeper than that and it comes from the inside. It's about the way the guitar strings are bent and the sound gets transmuted directly from a player's soul. It's simple at the end of the day. Either you've got it, or you don't. JARED JAMES NICHOLS has definitely got it. The Wisconsin-born, Los Angeles-based singer, writer and guitarist's new EP Old Glory & The Wild Revival channels blues grit and gusto through bombastic arena-size rock 'n' roll. It's raw, raucous and righteously real. As soon as he got his first guitar at 14-years-old, the stage immediately called to Jared. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he grew up minutes away from The Alpine Valley Resort—where Stevie Ray Vaughan performed his last show. However, no divine coincidence could truly foreshadow just how adept at the six-string he would eventually become. He personally traces the beginning of his story back to a blues jam that his mother brought him to. "Two weeks after I got an electric guitar, I was on stage with all of these old cats from Chicago playing the blues," he recalls with a smile. "The music immediately resonated with me. It was all about the feeling and the soul behind it. None of these guys were music nerds. They were true blues guys playing what they felt. That power and reality struck a chord in me." Soon, he found himself practicing for twelve hours every day. Hitting up the local jams, he ended up sharing the stage with legends including Buddy Guy, "Honeyboy" Edwards, and "Big Jim" Johnson as well as opening for Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Derek Trucks. By his 21st birthday, he had logged over 500 gigs. After a short stint at Berklee School of Music in Boston, he headed out to Los Angeles where he garnered numerous accolades at the world-renowned Musicians Institute, winning the 2010 Jerry Horton guitar contest, the 2011 Les Paul tribute contest, and the 2011 "Outstanding Guitarist" award. 2012 saw him release his debut EP, Live at the Viper Room, gaining the notice of both Guitar World and Guitar Player and inking a deal with Sony/MTV's Hype Music Publishing. However, everything simply laid the groundwork for Old Glory & The Wild Revival. Teaming up with Aerosmith engineer Warren Huart, Jared began working on the five-song set in early 2013. Honing his voice as a guitarist, songs like the first single "Let It Go" speak through a delta-style soul with the right amount of rock bravado. "That one is a blues rock song about love and give and take," he reveals. "It's got its own style and it opens the door to what I'm doing". Elsewhere on the EP, "Blackfoot" charges forward with a riff as sharp as a tomahawk and a whole lot of spirit punctuated by Jessica Childress of The Voice's backing harmonies. "In Wisconsin, I was surrounded by Indian reservations and culture," he continues. "I'd do casino and reservation tours as a kid. When I wrote the song, I was reading about all of these badass tribes. I love that spirit and vibe inherent in Native American culture. The Blackfoot were truly bad motherfuckers. That lick is what I feel their culture represented." On stage, it truly comes to life. Jared's presence becomes amplified with guitar in hand. Audiences have experienced that everywhere from his performances at NAMM and SXSW to the iconic Sturgis Buffalo Chip Festival where he will play alongside ZZ Top and Kid Rock and the Harley-Davidson 110th Anniversary in Milwaukee this summer. Ultimately, he lives up to that idea of Revival in the EP's title. "I want people to get excited," he concludes. "I want them to feel like anything is possible in this music. I want them to know great blues rock exists. If I can give someone the same inspiration I was blessed with, I've done something right."

Album:

"Louder Than Fate" finds Jared James Nichols delivering his most commanding statement yet, a blues‑fueled hard rock record driven by grit, soul and sheer conviction. Produced and mixed by Jay Ruston, the album strikes a fierce balance between muscular riffs, searing solos and emotionally charged vocals, all wrapped in a punchy, contemporary sound. Nichols moves confidently between heavy anthems and more atmospheric moments, with tracks like “Bending Or Breaking” and “Killing Time” adding cinematic depth. Already hailed as one of rock’s most electrifying guitarists, Nichols channels that fire into a record that feels bold, honest and unmistakably his.

Line-Up:

Jared James Nichols - vocals, guitar
Erik Sandin - bass, vocals
Dennis Holm - drums

Tracklist:

01. Let's Go
02. Ghost
03. Way Back
04. Bending Or Breaking
05. Killing Time
06. Dust N' Bones
07. Show Me
08. Looks Like That Felt Good
09. Runnin' Hot
10. Pretend




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