musician · storyteller

Jobe Shores

Folk from Chandlerville

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RECORDINGS

Music

Virginia
Virginia
Middle of Nowhere Music · 2026
New
Roadside Cheesecake
Roadside Cheesecake
Middle of Nowhere Music · 2025
Album
Drinking for Three
Drinking for Three
Middle of Nowhere Music · 2024
Single
Here and There
Here and There
Middle of Nowhere Music · 2023
Single
BOBTGATO
Blacked Out Between the Garden and the Orchard
Gumtown Studios · 2016
Album
Take 2
Take 2
Gumtown Studios · 2015
Album
Jobe Shores
Jobe Shores
Gumtown Studios · 2014
Album
Live at Duke and Joannie's
Live at Duke & Joannie's
Chandlerville, IL · 2014
Live Album
Recorded live · February 13, 2014
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AS READ

Press

Jobe's songs probably play particularly well in Cass and Mason counties. The audience gets the references.They know about Gumtown.
They know Jobe's grandma.
They know about the man who lived in the hills above town.Actually, you could say what Jobe is doing is the musical version of what I do.

— Dave Bakke, State Journal-Register

THE STORY

About

Jobe Shores is a folk songwriter born and raised in Chandlerville, IL writing and performing for nearly twenty years in the tradition of John Prine and Todd Snider. His songs are about things that actually happened: people he knows, places that exist, moments that don't make the news but probably should.Middle of Nowhere Music produced his video for "Here and There," which has over 25,000 views on YouTube.
He has opened for The Mountain Sprout, Black Lillies, and Them Dirty Roses.Booking:
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