About Jacob Haller
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Jacob Haller has been a fixture of the Rhode Island music scene for well over a decade, and has been nominated for 'Best Singer/Songwriter' in the Providence Phoenix and 'Best New Act' in Motif Magazine. In 2011, his song 'The Ballad of Anne Hutchinson' was one of those selected to be played in 'Singing About Providence', a show celebrating Providence's 375th anniversary put on by HEAR In Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Songwriters Association.
He has to date released six CDs: 2024's 'Totally Awkward', 2015's Cabin Fever, 2014's Time To Break Up The Band, 2011's Circumstantial Evidence and Covers EP, and 2009's Mistaken Identity, as well as a collection of mostly jug band tunes with Lauren Monroe and Richard Haller titled 'Good Old Wagon' in 2024.
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Praise for Jacob Haller
"Jacob Haller does music as though he were the secret love-child of Warren Zevon and Burl Ives, and while this is impossible, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't let that stop him. Nor should you let it stop you. Enjoy the music!" -- Jeffrey Channing Wells, "Skin Horse" co-author
"Providence musician Jacob Haller is as unique as his lyrics are clever." -- Annie Messier, Providence Daily Dose, May 10, 2012
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"Jacob Haller knows how to play to a crowd." -- Ted Hayes, The Sakonnet Times, January 17, 2012
"I can picture Jacob at the front of a classroom making a bunch of kids bop along while learning about a controversial heresy trial." -- Heather Rose, December 1, 2011
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"If B.B. King and Weird Al Yankovic had a child, well...they probably wouldn't admit to it. But it would definitely be Jacob Haller!" -- Eddie Delta, Co-Host of The Blues Record podcast
"Jacob Haller is not only a talented musician and songwriter, he's also a talented songwriter and musician." -- Harper Johnson, Co-Host of The Blues Record podcast
"Haller ranges with hints of Leon Redbone, Greg Brown and Paul Geremia, smoothly pulling out lines that are as catchy as a smile. The tunes themselves never try too hard. They are just fresh and somewhat jolly sounding." -- Jonathan Cook, Turley Publications, October 27, 2009
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"No one spins a tale more uniquely than Jacob Haller." -- Chris Conti, The Providence Phoenix, November 15, 2011
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"Jacob Haller's lyrics are edgey, current, and most amusing, revealing a man so personable, bright, and talented, any knitter would love to share a knitting sit-in right beside him." -- Sharon Watterson, Providence Knitting Examiner, December 30, 2009
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"Music is dumb! I only like music that Uncle Jake sings!" -- my four-year-old niece Harriett, November 19, 2011
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