Jake Owen is as Florida as they come — tanned, barefoot, and radiating the kind of easy charm that can only be forged by salt air and sunburns. Even after years of chart-toppers, stadium tours, and national fame, Owen still talks like a guy who just walked off the dock at sunset with a guitar in one hand and a cold one in the other.
When I caught up with him ahead of his October 23 show at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, the country superstar was reflective, funny, and unmistakably real — a homegrown artist who hasn’t forgotten his roots.
“Florida’s in Everything I Do”
“You’re a true Florida boy — how much of home still lives in your music?” I asked him.
He smiled, no hesitation. “A lot of Florida is present in my music. I guess you could say that some of my songs are an ode to home life.”…