Jake Owen (born Joshua Ryan Owen on August 28, 1981) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor. In 2006, he signed with RCA Nashville and released his debut studio album, Startin’ with Me.
This album yielded three songs, all of which charted in the top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart: “Yee Haw,” “Startin’ with Me,” and “Something About a Woman,” his debut. His second studio album, Easy Does It, released in 2009, yielded three more singles: “Don’t Think I Can’t Love You”, “Eight Second Ride”, and “Tell Me”. In September 2011, Owen got his first number-one hit with the title track to his third studio album Barefoot Blue Jean Night; also toppers were “Alone with You”, “The One That Got Away”, and “Anywhere with You”. His fourth studio album, Days of Gold, generated two hits with its title track, which broke the top 20 in 2013, and the number one song “Beachin’”.
Owen has also performed as an opening act for Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Little Big Town, Sugarland, Keith Urban, and Jason Aldean, among others.