Jake Brown

Award-winning Music biographer Jake Brown has written 43 published books since 2001, featuring many authorized collaborations with some of rock's biggest artists, including 2013 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Heart (with Ann and Nancy Wilson), living guitar legend Joe Satriani , heavy metal pioneers Motorhead (with Lemmy Kilmister), late hip hop icon Tupac Shakur (with the estate), country music legends Merle Haggard & Freddy Powers, legendary R&B/Hip Hop producer Teddy Riley, Country Rap...See more

Award-winning Music biographer Jake Brown has written 43 published books since 2001, featuring many authorized collaborations with some of rock's biggest artists, including 2013 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Heart (with Ann and Nancy Wilson), living guitar legend Joe Satriani , heavy metal pioneers Motorhead (with Lemmy Kilmister), late hip hop icon Tupac Shakur (with the estate), country music legends Merle Haggard & Freddy Powers, legendary R&B/Hip Hop producer Teddy Riley, Country Rap star Big Smo , celebrated Rock drummer Kenny Aronoff , late Funk pioneer Rick James , superstar country music anthology ' Nashville Songwriter (featuring interviews with Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, etc)' and the all-star rock producers anthology ' Behind the Boards' and the forthcoming first-of-its kind ' Beyond the Beats' Rock & Roll drummer and ' Hip Hop Hits' rap producers anthologies among many others. Brown regularly writes for the prestigious TAPE OP Magazine and has also appeared as the featured biographer of record on Fuse TV's Live Through This series and Bloomberg TV's Game Changers series, and received national press in CBS News, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone Magazine, USA Today, MTV.com, Guitar World Magazine, Billboard, Parade Magazine, Country Weekly, Fox News, Yahoo News, etc. In 2012, Brown won the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards in the category of Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. See less