Jonathan Terrell

Jonathan Terrell has roots music in his blood. Born into a family of ex-cult member musicians, he entered this world in the back room of a trailer hidden out among the deep pines of East Texas. Making music and working horses was all he knew. Songwriting was an amusement for him until a fateful drive out to see the Pacific. Somewhere among the painted rock desert of Arizona he had an epiphany--a voice--that overtook him there on that endless, scorching blacktop. "You will make music," the desert whispered to him. "You will make music." Since moving to Austin, Texas and pursuing a career as a solo artist, Terrell has bloomed into a songwriter of deeply moving and resonant country music explorations. He has played with country legends like Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Hayes Carll. He has written radio singles for Texas artists like Bart Crow and Mike and the Moonpies. Terrell recieved international praise for his 2008 full length solo debut Trials and Stimulations, and then began work on his next record until shelving the project in 2011 to front the charismatic, ever-touring rock'n'roll band Not In The Face. He releases his unshelved Americana gem Past the LIghts of Town on Candy Bang Records summer 2015. Terrell returned to his second album of songs and shaped them into an enchanting collection of yearning and bravado, of heartbreak and redemption. He is currently recording an EP and also preparing for the next record, never leaving the desert's whispers unanswered.

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