GOLF PLUS

The Line on Jake Trout

Posted: Wed April 29, 1998

Jake Trout and the Flounders, featuring warbler Jacobsen with Mark Lye on guitar and Payne Stewart on harmonica, have been a hot ticket on Tour for 10 years. "Their new album, I Love to Play, puts them on the pro music circuit," Pareles reports, "with a producer, Tom Werman, who oversaw Motley Crue." Studio pros back the Flounders, whose golf buddies Stephen Stills, Alice Cooper and Darius (Hootie) Rucker sit in. "Stewart puffs occasionally on his harmonica," says Pareles, "and Jacobsen sings well enough to get applause at a karaoke bar. He summons an Alice Cooper growl in I'm on 18, gets that Eagles whine in Struggler's Blues, finds a smoky street cool in Low Riser."

"Making a record was like playing a pro-am, only we were the amateurs," says Jacobsen, who'll test his pipes onstage at this week's Houston Open.

Issue date: May 4, 1998