Jacob Tyler Wolfgang
to the moon, kid

Des Moines, IA musician Jacob Tyler Wolfgang is a husband, father, songwriter and frontman of Wolfgang, a Midwest-Rock band whose thick-skinned, wind-blown roots run as deep as their newly-coined genre imply. It’s been a long road that has lead Wolfgang to this point; from 2002-2005, Jacob got his first taste of band life while holding down bass lines for indie rock elitists The Last Broadcast. Jacob has seen marriage, homeownership and most recently, fatherhood, mark off the time since he started performing his own work as a solo artist in 2006.

2007 saw the release of the Bless our Burning Heart EP and the beginnings of grinding out hundreds of self-booked and self-promoted solo performances throughout the Midwest and East Coast in its support. Jacob has opened for Bon Iver, Sleeping at Last, KaiserCartel, Andy Zipf, The Willowz, Trevor Hall, Jon McLaughlin, and Ari Hest. This resume comes with no small effort for an artist with almost no career support in an interne

Downriver

Wolfgang
to the moon, kid

Des Moines, IA musician Jacob Tyler Wolfgang is a husband, father, songwriter and frontman of Wolfgang, a Midwest-Rock band whose thick-skinned, wind-blown roots run as deep as their newly-coined genre imply. It’s been a long road that has lead Wolfgang to this point; from 2002-2005, Jacob got his first taste of band life while holding down bass lines for indie rock elitists The Last Broadcast. Jacob has seen marriage, homeownership and most recently, fatherhood, mark off the time since he started performing his own work as a solo artist in 2006.

2007 saw the release of the Bless our Burning Heart EP and the beginnings of grinding out hundreds of self-booked and self-promoted solo performances throughout the Midwest and East Coast in its support. Jacob has opened for Bon Iver, Sleeping at Last, KaiserCartel, Andy Zipf, The Willowz, Trevor Hall, Jon McLaughlin, and Ari Hest. This resume comes with no small effort for an artist with almost no career support in an interne

Wandering Heart

to the moon, kid

Wolfgang
to the moon, kid

Des Moines, IA musician Jacob Tyler Wolfgang is a husband, father, songwriter and frontman of Wolfgang, a Midwest-Rock band whose thick-skinned, wind-blown roots run as deep as their newly-coined genre imply. It’s been a long road that has lead Wolfgang to this point; from 2002-2005, Jacob got his first taste of band life while holding down bass lines for indie rock elitists The Last Broadcast. Jacob has seen marriage, homeownership and most recently, fatherhood, mark off the time since he started performing his own work as a solo artist in 2006.

2007 saw the release of the Bless our Burning Heart EP and the beginnings of grinding out hundreds of self-booked and self-promoted solo performances throughout the Midwest and East Coast in its support. Jacob has opened for Bon Iver, Sleeping at Last, KaiserCartel, Andy Zipf, The Willowz, Trevor Hall, Jon McLaughlin, and Ari Hest. This résumé comes with no small effort for an artist with almost no career support in an internet age diluted by social networking sites where anyone with an artist profile can claim to be as much.

“I think touring kind of separates the boys from the men,” said Wolfgang in a 2009 interview. “I’m going to be doing this the rest of my life and this helps solidify that in my mind.”

Recorded entirely in Des Moines, Iowa at Midday Studios and engineered by Logan Christian, the debut full-length effort entitled "to the moon, kid" is a collaboration with some of the heaviest of heavyweights in the Des Moines local music scene. Scott Yoshimura, Dustin Smith, Nick Leo, Jordan Mayland, Eric Moffitt, Danny Heggen, Becca Smith and Scott Gratton all lend their talents to this project which promises to engage fans of Wilco, Elliott Smith and My Morning Jacket alike with creative songsmanship and lush arrangements.

Jacob also brought in Chicagoland's own Ryan Connor Germain to round out the record. Ryan delivered the type of ambient lead guitar that made him quasi-famous as Wolfgang’s band mate in The Last Broadcast. His unmistakable guitar work is infectious and its impression can transform an entire album.

Traversing from up-tempo alt rock numbers to steadier acoustic folk pacing, Jacob dubs his genre rollercoaster "Midwest Rock". Unlike the stripped down Bless EP, all the bells and whistles are present and accounted for on "to the moon, kid". However, Wolfgang assures us that it's still first and foremost honest-to-goodness, straightforward songwriting from the heart and guts of America. "to the moon, kid" is scheduled for release in Summer 2011.

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