Nashville's Viral Indie Duo Jake & Shelby
3/31/202620 min
About our guests Jake and Shelby
Jake & Shelby write songs about love in all its forms: falling in, falling out, chasing it, questioning it, and learning to let go. Their music blends the intimacy of heartfelt storytelling with the pull of hook-driven pop, layering rich harmonies over a sound that feels both organic and elevated.
The duo began by sharing simple acoustic covers online, and what started as a creative experiment quickly turned into a global following. Today, they have surpassed 18 million streams and 1.6 million followers across all socials, with fans drawn to their emotional...
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First 90 secondsDarrell Craig Harris0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to Music Matters Podcast with Darryl Craig Harris talking about all things music with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
Darrell Craig Harris· Host0:15
Jake and Shelby, how you guys doing?
Jake· Guest0:22
Good.
Shelby· Guest0:23
Good. How are you?
Darrell Craig Harris· Host0:24
I'm very good. So you guys are really interesting. You're a duo based in Nashville.
Jake· Guest0:29
Yeah.
Darrell Craig Harris· Host0:30
I guess you would say indie pop, but, but it's really kind of more than that. You have a new single, Shut Up And Kiss Me, but that's actually a re-record of a previous release. Um, really great song. And you have your last album, or actually it was your debut album, Learning To Love, came out last year. So tell me how you guys are doing. It sounds like you're very busy.
Jake· Guest0:48
Oh, yeah. [laughs] We, uh... I mean, we're doing good. It's been such a pleasure to be getting to do music. This is a dream for us. And so d- uh, Learning To Love was, like, our first full record, full, full-length record. Um, so that... And it was also, like, our first, like, I guess our first album trying to do, like, full production stuff. So- Mm ... it was really fun kind of finding a sound that was, like, different from the acoustic thing, 'cause that's how we started, doing a lot of just acoustic stuff. Um, so yeah, it was really fun to make that. And then now we're, like, in the stage of, like, let's go and release some acoustic versions of the record, because we also love the acoustic thing. So yeah, we're doing good though.
Shelby· Guest1:29
Yeah.
Jake· Guest1:29
It's been fun.