Frankfort, MI-raised songwriter Jay Webber has a percussive acoustic guitar style that adds urgency and power to his music. His shows are much more rhythmic than most other singer- songwriter concerts, with jazz, blues, folk, Latin, and boogie sounds all married to thought- provoking lyrics, a voice a lot like James Taylor's, and lots of onstage energy. Jay Webber, says Martin Kohn of the Detroit Free Press, is "too jazzy to be folk, too folk to be jazz, too folk and jazzy to be pop or rock." We just call it good music! After Jay released his "Live at the Ark" album a couple of years ago, word spread about his talents, and over the last year he's divided his time among Michigan, Texas, a creativity-recharging float down the Platte River, and Sarasota, Florida, where he has worked with Latin percussionist El Chino.