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What You Give to Me-All Proceeds Will Be Donated to Red Dirt Relief Fund 3:25

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Say What's On Your Mind 3:13

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Giakob Lee (it’s pronounced Jacob) writes music that sounds like someone telling secrets to a friend. The singer-songwriter from Cushing, Okla., by way of Oklahoma City, never intended to share his music publicly, but after experiencing a series of traumas—a horrific episode of workplace violence, the loss of his beloved dog, a devastating earthquake, and a divorce—the songs emerged as a way to motivate, encourage, lament and grieve through the struggles that followed.

“My songs are my journal” he says. “My grandmother has told me my entire life, ‘Giakob, you have to keep going, no matter what; you just have to keep going.’ The music has helped me find my way through the darkest time in my life; it’s my response. It’s what I needed to hear in those moments or say out loud, even if it was just to the walls in my empty house.”

Themes of redemption, time and the importance of others run throughout Giakob Lee’s music, and because of his experiences, the music cuts directly to the big points. As one lyric asks, “Is it okay we have to learn this way?” The sense of uncertainty and coming back to life are prominent, and the lyrics struggle honestly to grasp the chaos of life unmoored. While the music can often be melancholy, as in the beautiful break-up lyric, “I miss the way you talk to me when I’m wrong,” the overall thrust of his music is hopeful and reverent, a voice of gratitude from someone who has found the strength to “just keep going.”

Currently, Giakob Lee is playing venues around his native Oklahoma, and in the studio working on his first album, Too Often, which is due in early 2019. As for the composition of the new album, it will follow from the same sense of self-rescue that animates his writing and his shows. As he puts it: “It’s time for me to share this; it’s something that I have always known was in me. It is my art. It makes me feel creative, and I find so much of my voice in my music, not just my words. I hope it isn’t just heard, but that it is felt by those who listen.”

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Giakob Lee Live on KTUL's Good Morning Tulsa for Red Dirt Relief Giving Tunesday

Red Dirt Relief Fund's Giving Tunes Day

In the spirit of Giving Tuesday, the largest international day of giving, Red Dirt Relief Fund is proud to collaborate with musicians across the state to bring live tunes to fans on Facebook in a campaign called #GivingTunesday on November 27, 2018. We will be featured live, with music from Giakob Lee, on KTUL's Good Day Tulsa Monday, November 26, 2018 to help bring light to our cause.

Fans are encouraged to LIKE the participating musicians’ Facebook pages in advance so they’ll be notified when musicians GO LIVE.

Cody Canada and the Departed
Kaitlin Butts
And Then There Were Two
Ben Brock Music
Branjae Music
Bryce A Dicus & The Mercenaries
Carter Sampson
Christopher A. Blevins
Chris Lee Becker Music
Chuck Dunlap
Dan Siebert
Dylan Stewart
Erin O'Dowd
Gene Williams
Giakob Lee
Jake Flint
Jake Marlin
Jimmy Ray Taylor & The Dirtboxwailers
Joe Baxter
Joe Mack
John M Cooper
John Williams
Katie Williams/Artist
Larry Spears
Mark Chamberlain
summerland (Nadia Piotrowsky)
Steelwind
Terry Buffalo Ware & Gregg Standridge
T.z. Wright
Zac Wenzel
Plus more added daily!

Each live tune session will include a link to donate to Red Dirt Relief Fund at paypal.me/rdrf. Paypal and Facebook will be matching up to $7 million in donations this Giving Tuesday. RDRF has provided more than $100,000 to Oklahoma musicians in crisis since it was founded in 2012.

#GivingTuesday unites countries around the world by sharing our capacity to care for and empower one another. Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday harnesses the potential of social media and the generosity of people around the world to bring about real change in their communities; it provides a platform for them to encourage the donation of time, resources and talents to address local challenges. It also brings together the collective power of a unique blend of partners— nonprofits, civic organizations, businesses and corporations, as well as families and individuals—to encourage and amplify small acts of kindness.

Giakob Lee Featured The Corridor Magazine

November 2018 Edition of the Corridor Magazine, Featuring Giakob Lee

Giakob Lee Nominated for Tulsa Music Awards

Cool news everyone! To my great surprise, I received a message letting me know I have been nominated for Tulsa Music Awards Solo Artist of the Year, and the Red Dirt Artist of the Year. This is just the first step in the process. Voting takes place on November 1st through November 30 to narrow down the finalist in each of these categories. All of the categories are overrun with the incredible talent we have here in Oklahoma. I am honored to be considered. Help me and throw me vote if you find time at https://www.tulsamusicawards.com/.