Who The Hell Are The Bootstrap Boys?

Though they’re no strangers to real hard work, hard times, and hard living, The Bootstrap Boys are really aiming to create a western fantasy to transport their listeners to another time, place, and dimension where cowboys are still king.

Smooth crooning front-man, Big Jake Bootstrap, a man of considerable size as well as years of experience in entertainment, instantly evokes a memory of the “camera cowboys” of yester-year with the imposing, john-wayne like figure that earned him his nickname and his husky baritone voice. It’s all about the show, but it’s not only for show. His songs are true and honest in the tradition of country music as it was interpreted by Hank Williams, Jake’s Biggest influence.

There’s just something a little different about This little band of Nashville outsiders rambling all over hell’s half acre in a beat up chevy Motorhome affectionately dubbed “The Delta Dawn”. Maybe it’s being from the Midwest that brings in a heavily Prine-inspired flavor to big Jake’s songwriting or maybe it’s the fact that all four Bootstrap Boys have been playing in bands in every single genre except Country & Western for the last two decades, or maybe it’s the influence of Michigan’s collective uncle Bob Seger that just won’t let them shake that little bit of Motor City Rock & Roll.

Whatever it is, there’s something special in the sauce that makes folks fall in love with these Bootstrap Boys.

Though they’ve never had a single problem with it, Their motto is “Keep Country Queer” and if folks can’t handle that, they need not come out to the show.

Lineup:

Big Jake Bootstrap - Songwriter, Guitar, Vocals

Nick Bootstrap - Guitar, Vocals

Jeff Bootstrap - Drums, Banjo, Vocals

Jonny Bootstrap - Bass, Vocals

Press Quotes

“The Bootstrap Boys make Country music ripe for scoring a late 70’s car chase and Saturday nights at the bar movies. Films like Smokey and the Bandit or Every Which Way but Loose had Country Rock heavy soundtracks, music reminiscent of what Michigan band The Bootstrap Boys are doing on Hungry and Sober.” - Brian Liggett, The Alternate Root

“Existing in the same world that Waylon inhabited: unfiltered and tangible country rock that has attitude yet keeps your foot tapping.” — Glide Magazine

“The Bootstrap Boys will take you back to Nashville in 1972. Who knew we could have the Deep South this far north?”— Quinn Matthews, Midtown GR

“This Michigan band conjure an authentic brand of country music, polished and well recorded.”— Music Connection Magazine

Notable Achievements

WYCE Artist of the Year 2024

WYCE Roots/Americana Album of the YEar ‘Hungry & Sober’ 2024

Bluegrass Situation Alumni 2023

WYCE Roots/Americana Album of the YEar ‘New Beginnings’ 2022

WYCE Roots/Americana Album of the Year ‘Between the Hat & the Boots’ 2020

WHeatland Music Festival Alumni 2017

The Amazing Honky Tonk Roadshow

 

Contact

Goldie J Stilson | Letter S Records

Phone: 616-560-3554 | Email: lilmama@thebootstrapboys.com