He played the local scene in Boise and traveled to Seattle and Jackson Hole before settling in NYC and getting regular gigs playing both acoustic sets and with the band The Velvet Roots at the renowned Greenwich Village club Mondo Cane. He started to build a broad base of fans (over 10,000 signed up to the website mailing list) who followed him to performances at CB's Gallery, Arelene's Grocery, Brownie's, Mondo Perso, Fez, Mercury Lounge, The Bottom Line, Postcrypt Coffeehouse, The Living Room, Don Hill's, The Bitter End and the Bowery Ballroom to name just a few; in the last 18 months Jake has had over 200 live performances.

Picking up comparisons to the likes of Mick Jagger, The Black Crowes, Steve Miller, Bill Withers and The Rembrandts Jake's sound was soon drawing attention. Support slots cropped up with Patti Rothberg, Gene Harris, Pete Francis and older brother Curtis (the rest of the band have worked and perfromed with most of the US rock/pop scene including Lenny Kravitz, Black Crowes, Enrique Iglesias, Tina Turner, Destiny's Child, Will Smith, Soul to Soul, Lou Reed, David Byrne, Shabba Ranks, Debbie Harry and Bo Diddley), and in 2016 his first album Comin' Back Again was independently released in the US to much acclaim from the music press and fans who scooped up over 5000 copies.

Influenced by artists and styles from both sides of the pond Comin' Back Again is a crossover of US rock with a grittier British sound that has seen it go down a storm around the NYC area and countrywide thanks to considerable radio support; playouts on WQ104.3FM (NYC's #1 rock radio station) and over 200 other US radio stations helped the album chart at the CMJ for independent artists; it also landed Jake an ASCAP Plus Award; given out to select artists each year to indicate the hottest emerging talent in the US.

Jake rounded off a hectic 2005 with a solo acoustic tour of some of the UK's best live venues including Barfly Camden, The Strongroom, POP! Soho and Club Fabulous @ Caernarvon Castle. Plans are already in place for a return with the full band in mid 2006; expect to be hearing a lot more of Jake Stigers!

“Stigers plays rock without apologies, seamless songs with undeniably catchy choruses.”
Time Out New York

"Mick Jagger meets Bill Withers; however you want to describe him, Jake Stigers is one act you don’t want to miss”
New York Daily News

“Simply put, this album rocked my socks off. Rarely do I get the pleasure of reviewing a CD that I enjoy flawlessly from start to finish. Jake Stigers exemplifies the fun, buoyant spirit of pop/rock that we’ve all missed so dearly. This is authentic rock n’ roll; raucous guitars, snotty vocals and a hint of that good ol’ vintage vitality.”
Shut Eye Records

“Jake Stigers is not your average singer/songwriter that plays Midwest rock or acoustic pop/rock. He’s a cool power pop rocker that could be the result if Mick Jagger, Steve Miller & Danny Wilde got together and made an album, his songs are very catchy, but also smoking small club rocking so it never gets too polished like many radio friendly singer/songwriters can be. I think Keith Richards would be full of envy if he heard this because it could be classic Stones stuff.”
Melodic.net

“His songs are beyond catchy, and he mixes many elements into them, crafting a large body of work that ranges from pure power-pop to Rolling Stones-like blues-rock."
Pulseweekly.com