"...Jake Stigers and the Velvet Roots are one of the best bands that I have seen either in or out of Bristol." Bristol Rocks ...click here for more

"His new CD has a loose, energetic flavor, and Stigers' facility with catchy tunesmithing has not deserted him" BlogCritics Magazine ...click here for more

"A well crafted and soulful album, a superior effort full of radio friendly tracks.  Stigers voice is pleasant and striking." Classic Rock Society Magazine ...click here for more

"His songs chime with such a clear and literate brilliance....". UK Sunday Express ...click here for more

"Of all the musical ingredients needed to cook up a tasty batch of rock and roll, one of the most intangible and underappreciated is attitude. You can have the cleanest, fattest hooks in the game, but if you can't muster up a little snarl, a dash of wild-eyed fervor, don't even bother, man. It's gonna come off flatter than a penny on a busy train track. Of all the assets Jake Stigers bring to his game -- and there are plenty -- maybe the most appealing is attitude. The dude just plain loves to sing, and it shows." Dailyvault.com ...click here to read more 

"Indie artist Jake Stigers is a rock singer/songwriter force aspiring to the same league as the great Jude Cole. An artiste who apparently and unusually arrives fully formed and confident, nothing naïve or immature here. The songs all supply shed-loads of hooks, great rock riffs, scorching lead and back-up vocals set in solid arrangements and production to make harmonious AOR of the highest caliber" Blues Matters! ...click here to check out the complete review

"A beautifully recorded piece of work. It's a great good time rock 'n' roll record and it's undeniably radio friendly" Get Ready To Rock ...click here to read more 

"If you ever needed someone to really rip it up and win over a crowd - if your life depended on it - Jake and The Velvet Roots would be the boys. Use your 1 phone call to send for Stigers!" Roadworks Music Club ...click here to read more 

"If Jake opened his own hotel, his fans would make sure there would be No Vacancy because this is the kind of music that people not only want to hear, but experience as well". The Muse's Muse ...click here to read more  

"The continual shifts in style and approaches to music that Stigers creates is a nice burst of fresh air in a time where acts attempt to ape each other without anything in the way of differentiation between them. Stigers has no bounds."NeuFutur.Com ...click here to read more  

" Stigers has a smooth voice with swagger. Jake’s talented band provides fat riffs, heavy rhythms and some harmonies to compliment Stigers’ melodious voice. The CD is strong from start to finish" Kweevak.com ...click here to read more  

“Smothered in Southern blues-rock and the thick drawl of the Deep South, Jake Stigers returns to produce the follow-up to his “Comin’ Back Again” album.  He continues to tackle the roots of alternative rock with a furious tenacity”. Smother Magazine  ...click here to read more  

"No Vacancy" is just as good as his first album but a helluva lot more rootsy!" Melodic ...click to read the whole review

"The fat riffs ring, the chorus sticks in your head like epoxy, the vocals layer nicely on the bridge and you want to check your Billboard charts just to make sure this one isn’t already there.  Nope, not yet…" Daily Vault  ...click to read the whole review

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

“Jake Stigers has a great voice that seems to blend the pipes of front men of rock’s glory days with the swagger of more contemporary artists.  If only they all came this great.” PopMatters

“Where the hell did this guy come from? Do you feel high slaps you upside the head and makes you want to turn around and ask for more.”
Ear Candy Magazine

“Jake Stigers did it this time.  With one continuous 10-song groove, he carries the listeners up the mountain heights, down in to the valley, to church, along the river and back home again.  To sum it up for you, it’s time to recognize his serious talent and start cranking this shit any and every where you go”. KyndMusic

“He’s a cool power pop rocker that could be the result if Mick Jagger, Steve Miller & Danny Wilde got together & made an album…I think Keith Richards would be full of envy if he heard this stuff…” Melodic.net

“With a well refined hard rock & roll sound, Jake Stigers has a lot to offer, with smooth riffs & Stigers’ voice; a well-oiled piece of rock-n-roll machinery…his lyrics are filled with wit & edge…”  
Discovering Artists

"This is music that can't be ignored...."
Left Hip Magazine ...click here to read more

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