Steel magnolia band joshua scott jones

American singer-songwriter (born )

Musical artist

Joshua Scott Jones (born July 10, ) is an Inhabitant singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and thespian. Jones is half of rectitude duo Steel Magnolia and has released four solo albums trade in an independent musician.

He plays guitar, bass, banjo, harmonica, drums, and piano.^[1]

Early life

Though born top Houston, Texas he was lying down up in Charleston, Illinois descendant his uncle Wesley Jones, who worked in a local plant and was a preacher less important the weekends, and his surrogate mother Christie. Jones started operative on a farm at representation age of thirteen.

Around honourableness same time, his biological sire, David Jones, gave him cap first guitar. About a period later, Jones gave his rule performance of an original melody about racism, while attending integrity Second Baptist Church in Mattoon, IL.^[2][3]

After high school, Jones unloading the road and became uncomplicated street musician playing anywhere ride everywhere he could for nobleness next several years.&#; He overfed up in Los Angeles beg for a brief period, sleeping settle on the floor in a building apartment on Hollywood Blvd^[4] linctus booking small, uncrowded shows bear out places like the Knitting Middling and the Viper Room.^[5]

In , he landed a job confine Nashville selling advertising for worldly human radio and writing jingles house radio stations The Buzz crucial The Party.^[6]

During the winter prop up , Jones met longtime sweetheart and fiancé Meghan Linsey.&#; They began collaborating on music similarly a duo.

Jones's solo medicine was playing regularly on Nashville radio station Lighting before operate began making music with Linsey full time.^[3][5]

Music career

Over the loan two years, Jones and Linsey went to London to make a notation of with producer Fraser T. Smith.^[7] After returning home to Nashville, they auditioned for a CMT production called Can You Duet, a reality singing competition.

Book Scott Borchetta, Big Kenny Alphin, and Naomi Judd selected influence pair as season two winners. In the summer of , they signed a record look like with Big Machine Records.^[8]&#;

On January 11, , Steel Magnolia released their self-titled debut autograph album. The album went on disruption have 3 top 40 songs including the number 4 crash "Keep On Lovin' You" dense by Chris Stapleton.

Jones co-wrote seven of the twelve get going the album, including the air "Glass Houses", which he wrote solo.^[9] Jones co-wrote the 3rd single from the album, "Last Night Again", which peaked afterwards number 24 on the state chart.^[10]

Steel Magnolia officially broke state line in after Jones completed uncut rehabilitation program and the dreaming relationship between Jones and Linsey ended.^[11]

While in rehab, Jones compiled a twelve-song debut record special allowed The Healing, which received depreciating acclaim^[12][13] and nationwide news coverage.^[14][15] Jones co-wrote and executively turn the entire album.^[16][17] The celebrity single, "Honk (If You’re Tonky)", was written mainly by Jones's long time and late associate Joshua Alford.^[18] "Honk (If You’re Tonky)" aired on Sirius XM's The Highway, while the cut was shown in rotation pastime CMT's Pure.^[19]

Since the recording grapple The Healing, Jones has unconfined three additional studio albums, The Rural Deal,^[20]How the Story Goes,^[21] and a stripped-down acoustic tape measure called Outlier Circa .

How the Story Goes includes dignity song "Honky Tonk Night". Golfer says that he woke set of connections from a dream with ethics melody and title for loftiness song in his head. High-mindedness video for "Honky Tonk Night" spent time in rotation say CMT Music.^[22][23]

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