In a 2014 interview for McPherson Guitars, Jacobs described his typical day as, “I get up within the morning and have my espresso, and eat my Cheerios. Spend a while with my spouse and I am just about writing a tune each single day at 12 o’clock.” Typically “a tune simply occurs like that,” he mentioned, snapping his fingers. However whether or not it does or not, then he heads into the studio and “by the top of the day, I am fairly spent.”
Writing and producing might be “relatively taxing,” the Minneapolis native mentioned, “however I’ll by no means complain. Nonetheless to today, I can not consider it is what I do for a residing, and it really is a blessing…5, 10 years from now, truthfully I would love to simply nonetheless be doing what I am doing.”
He additionally shared that he received his first custom-made McPherson as an anniversary present from his spouse, with their marriage ceremony date “1-1-11” engraved into the again of the headstock. He known as it “actually essentially the most stunning guitar” he’d ever seen or performed.
Jacobs used the instrument to perform their wedding song “Say I Do” whereas Pickler danced the rumba on Dancing With the Stars in 2013, throughout the week the contestants paid tribute to one of the best yr of their lives.