Jake Taylor
Musician · Van Buren, Arkansas
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Songwriter
Jake Taylor was an Arkansas-born country singer and songwriter who spent the late 1930s and 1940s as a regular on Wheeling’s WWVA Jamboree. He is co-credited with fellow WWVA cast member Harry “Big Slim” McAuliffe on “There Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone,” introduced by Cowboy Copas in 1945 and later carried into the bluegrass canon by Lester Flatt and Mac Wiseman, Jimmy Martin, and Tony Rice.
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- Born in Van Buren, Arkansas.
- Worked the WWVA Original Jamboree in Wheeling, West Virginia, through the late 1930s and 1940s as a singer and bandleader.
- Co-wrote “There Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone” with Harry C. McAuliffe (Big Slim, the Lone Cowboy), a WWVA castmate.
- Cowboy Copas cut the song’s first commercial version on King Records in 1945.
- The song crossed into bluegrass via Lester Flatt and Mac Wiseman’s duet recording and a Jimmy Martin cover, and was later read into the modern repertoire by Tony Rice on his 1993 album Tony Rice Plays and Sings Bluegrass.
