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Jake Owen photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Wednesday marks exactly a year since Jake Owen released his sophomore album, Easy Does It, and it’s been a winner for him. Thanks to the hits “Eight Second Ride” and “Don’t Think I Can’t Love You,” his profile has risen within country music, and he’s clearly staking his claim to fame.

He’s not above playing around with that fame, either, like when he tweeted “Let’s get naked” to fans back in October. A short bit later, he noted that he’d “never had so many responses in my life.”

But even though Jake plays around with the celebrity he’s created, he insists that it’s not his primary motivation as an artist.

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Jake Owen photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

By triggering his early career with “Somethin’ About A Woman” and “Don’t Think I Can’t Love You,” Jake Owen made a strong connection with female fans. And he seemed to be courting them again with the sexual references in his current hit, “Eight Second Ride.”

But women didn’t have as strong an influence on the song as Jake’s brother.

“He and all his buddies,” Jake says, “they’re like, ‘Man, all you do is write songs for girls, man. Your girlfriend — you’re always writin’ her tunes. Why don’t you write us a song that we can play in our trucks and have a good time with and crank it up loud?’ So it was like, ‘All right.’ So I did.”

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Jake Owen photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

It takes a good eight hours to drive from Nashville to the Florida Panhandle, but Jake Owen used to make that trip regularly when things were tough during his early days in Music City. He needed to play some shows to pay the bills, and he wasn’t making much headway in country music’s capital.

It was a lonely time in Tennessee, but Jake is now experiencing a huge amount of popularity; in fact, his current single “Eight Second Ride” brought him into country’s Top 15 this week. The difference is stark.

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Jake Owen photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Jake Owen’s “Eight Second Ride” uses a rodeo phrase for a sexy come-on that has his latest video at No. 18 on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown, but some real rodeo pros join Suzanne Alexander from this week’s CBR (Championship Bull Riding) finale in Kansas City.

Suzanne checks in with a bunch of bull-riding cowboys — including Jarrod Craig, Ardie Maier, retired champ Gary Leffew and the Kansas City winner, Hugo Pedrero — as she works through the biggest videos in country music.

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Jake Owen photo by GAC Staff.

Many male musicians will tell you their earliest motivation to sing or play guitar was a simple one: They wanted to attract girls.

Jake Owen has discovered firsthand that it works. He’s become a magnet for female fans, and he doesn’t mind it one bit, though his parents have mixed reactions about the frenzy their son has stirred.

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