Jacob Furr is an award-winning songwriter, multi
instrumentalist, collaborator, and genre fluid artist from Fort
Worth, Texas. His work blends West Coast folk with the dusty
expanses of West Texas, and explores themes and stories of
love, loss, grief, and recovery. He has toured the US since
2014. Furr has opened for Peter Case, James McMurty, Kelly
Willis, Shovels and Rope, and Over The Rhine, among others.
Though Furr’s most significant work is a three album cycle over
10 years about the loss of his wife to brain cancer in 2013, His
songwriting paints pictures of thunderstorms on the Llano
Estacado, cemeteries of lost life boat sailors in California, and
the intimate feelings and details of recovery and healing. All of
these stories and themes are blended into songs that range
from towering electric anthems of lost stars, to intimate, solo
work that recalls Bert Jansch and early Joh Ritter.
Furr has long been a strong advocate of independent DIY
music. He won the Bluelight Live Songwriting Competition in
2015, Fort Worth Weekly Best Songwriter and Best Folk Artist
2015/2023, and is a founding member of Hear Fort Worth, as
well as being major supporter of music programming and
entrepreneur incubator, Amplify817, with The Fort Worth Public
Library.
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