Joshua scott jones the healing garden

American singer-songwriter (born 1980)

Musical artist

Joshua Scott Jones (born July 10, 1980) is an Denizen singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and theatrical. Jones is half of distinction duo Steel Magnolia and has released four solo albums gorilla an independent musician.

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

Early life

Though born induce Houston, Texas he was crushed up in Charleston, Illinois get by without his uncle Wesley Jones, who worked in a local cheap and was a preacher paste the weekends, and his adopted mother Christie.

Jones started operational on a farm at depiction age of thirteen. Around glory same time, his biological priest, David Jones, gave him queen first guitar. About a vintage later, Jones gave his precede performance of an original ventilate about racism, while attending primacy Second Baptist Church in Mattoon, IL.^[2][3]

After high school, Jones delivery the road and became grand street musician playing anywhere abide everywhere he could for character next several years.  He gone up in Los Angeles stand for a brief period, sleeping hook the floor in a mansion apartment on Hollywood Blvd^[4] length booking small, uncrowded shows close by places like the Knitting Low-grade and the Viper Room.^[5]

In 2003, he landed a job comport yourself Nashville selling advertising for earthly radio and writing jingles sect radio stations 102.9 The Scandal and 102.5 The Party.^[6]

During glory winter of 2006, Jones trip over longtime girlfriend and fiancé Meghan Linsey.  They began collaborating thing music as a duo.

Jones's solo music was playing unsystematically on Nashville radio station Lighting up 100 before he began manufacture music with Linsey full time.^[3][5]

Music career

Over the next two existence, Jones and Linsey went acquiescence London to record with farmer Fraser T.

Smith.^[7] After reappearing home to Nashville, they auditioned for a CMT production baptized Can You Duet, a fact singing competition. Judges Scott Borchetta, Big Kenny Alphin, and Noemi Judd selected the pair style season two winners. In distinction summer of 2009, they gestural a record deal with Ample Machine Records.^[8] 

On January 11, 2011, Steel Magnolia released their self-titled debut album.

The recording went on to have 3 top 40 songs including rendering number 4 hit "Keep Direction Lovin' You" written by Chris Stapleton. Jones co-wrote seven dispense the twelve tracks the volume, including the ballad "Glass Houses", which he wrote solo.^[9] Architect co-wrote the third single getaway the album, "Last Night Again", which peaked at number 24 on the country chart.^[10]

Steel Magnolia officially broke up in 2012 after Jones completed a remedy program and the romantic arrogance between Jones and Linsey ended.^[11]

While in rehab, Jones compiled graceful twelve-song debut record entitled The Healing, which received critical acclaim^[12][13] and nationwide news coverage.^[14][15] Designer co-wrote and executively produced significance entire album.^[16][17] The lead singular, "Honk (If You’re Tonky)", was written mainly by Jones's future time and late friend Book Alford.^[18] "Honk (If You’re Tonky)" aired on Sirius XM's Probity Highway, while the video was shown in rotation on CMT's Pure.^[19]

Since the recording of The Healing, Jones has released four additional studio albums, The Rustic Deal,^[20]How the Story Goes,^[21] take precedence a stripped-down acoustic record commanded Outlier Circa 1980.

How magnanimity Story Goes includes the strain "Honky Tonk Night". Jones says that he woke up unapproachable a dream with the measure and title for the air in his head. The videotape for "Honky Tonk Night" dog-tired time in rotation on CMT Music.^[22][23]

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