ANAHEIM, California – When Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Jake Smith, who goes by the nickname The White Buffalo, started toying with ideas for his eighth studio album, he decided to challenge himself by coming up with something sonically and lyrically did other things.
When he googled his band, he saw that they had essentially been categorized into the country genre, which he said he could understand, but it didn’t feel quite right.
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