David Janakey cut his teeth as a folk artist in the Midwest DIY circuit, honing his blue-collar heartbreaker in basements and bars across the frozen tundra and beyond. Then a landmark 2023 link with the Eau Claire noise rock band Gash unearthed a joyful and unholy country rock sound, thereafter simply called Janakey. Eclectic but tried-and-true, Janakey’s fuzzed out honky tonk recalls the classics with a dose of rock realness, easy to love, hard to miss, and impossible to forget.