Jake La Botz (born November 23, 1968) is an American blues singer, songwriter, actor and meditation teacher from Chicago, Illinois, United States.

[1] La Botz learned to play the blues from the last of the prewar bluesmen living in Chicago in the late 1980s and early 1990s: David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Homesick James, and Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis.

"[9] In the next few years, La Botz appeared in Terry Zwigoff's arthouse film Ghost World[10] as well as in Buscemi's Lonesome Jim.

[11] In 2008, La Botz starred in Sylvester Stallone's Rambo, in which he performed two songs from his album Graveyard Jones, "The Wishing Well" and "Tiny.

[15][16] In season two of the highly praised television show True Detective, La Botz portrays country singing legend Conway Twitty.