From Montclair to Memphis -- Jersey Kid Finds a Home Amid the Sweet Soul Music of the South

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At a glance, Jake Rabinbach doesn't exactly make you think of Memphis soul. With his scruffy beard and curled locks, he conjures the image of a young Bruce Springsteen or a midperiod Bob Dylan rather than Otis Redding or Al Green. But Rabinbach's overriding passion for Memphis' musical traditions brought him from the East Coast to the Mid-South.

"It's not some accident that every single band or artist that was important to me lived or recorded in a tiny little radius in Memphis," says Rabinbach. "It just seemed impossible that this wasn't a special place."

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From Montclair to Memphis -- Jersey Kid Finds a Home Amid the Sweet Soul Music of the South

It's been a year since Rabinbach decided to find out just

how special Memphis is. Last June, he and his girlfriend/ filmmaker Eileen Meyer pulled up their stakes in New York City and headed South. Since then, Rabinbach has built a solid following for his R&B/roots outfit Jump Back Jake. On Monday, the group will wrap ...

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