Jake Armerding

Singer and songwriter Jake Armerding draws on a wealth of influences in his music -- contemporary folk, progressive bluegrass, classic folk-rock of the '60s, and singer/songwriters of the '70s and '80s -- but he prefers to classify his music in a simple fashion: good. "We're going for good," he says. "Good is our sole criterion." Jake Armerding was born in Massachusetts, where his father, Taylor Armerding, was a noted journalist and musician who played for several years with the progressive bluegrass band Northern Lights. Jake picked up a guitar when he was a boy, and by the t...