Jake Speed & The Freddies

  • Local
  • country
  • folk
  • blues
  • ragtime

Jake Speed & the Freddies are a four-piece American folk, country blues, and ragtime band made out of flat top guitar, tenor guitar, mandolin, and upright bass (plus harmonica, kazoo, washboard, and watering can). The Freddies traditionalist approach has won them the respect of fellow musicians, music lovers, and even critics. The readers of CityBeat Magazine voted them Best Local Musicians in 2004. The listeners of WNKU FM 89.7 voted The Freddies second album, Cincinnati Legends of

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