Jacob Smigel

From folk musician-- to ER doctor-- and back again. Recorded with Providence, RI's own Deer Tick, "If I Were Me" is a reaffirming of my priorities, an experiment in being true to myself, and a trial in keeping artistic expression at the forefront of my life— and it happened just in time!!

-Jacob Smigel “How do we keep the things that happen to us close,” sings Jacob Smigel, “and in the retelling not wear them out, like a human jukebox full of broken records?” That’s a pertinent question on our hyper-connected planet, and it’s good to have curious characters like Smigel trying to make sense of the reams of information whizzing past us. He’s folded interests like medicine and entomology (he did a stint in med school and co-authored a published academic paper on pill bugs) and a fascination with found sound (he’s released one compilation culled from thrift-store cassettes containing love letters, answering machine messages, diary entries and more) into gentle songs that seem to tumble out of his head fully formed. - Stephen Trageser, Nashville Cream, March 22nd, 2016