Jon Byrd Music

JON BYRD: MOJO Magazine proclaimed Jon’s first solo recording Byrd’s Auto Parts “Americana the way it was and the way it should be.”
MAVERICK Magazine declared Byrd’s follow-up Down At The Well Of Wishes “spellbinding, showcasing a true genius at work.”
Jon is also a featured vocalist on Grammy-nominated I Love: Tom T. Hall’s Songs Of Fox Hollow, alongside Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, Bobby Bare, and Tom T himself.
R2 Magazine described Jon’s recording Route 41 as “underpinned by sublime Country picking… Byrd’s warm, effortless vocals touch the emotional core of all he sings.” While another critic noted “traditional country performer, singer-songwriter Jon Byrd is one of the finest exponents of spit and sawdust country coming out of the East Nashville’s scene and beyond. … Hard core (and Americana) country fans need to check this guy out.”

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Byrd grew up among the piney woods of south Alabama before migrating to Music City over 19 years ago. Jon’s latest, DIRTY OL' RIVER, is his fourth solo album and harkens back to his first Auto Parts record: up-tempo country songs, lots of pedal steel, and some really strong country covers. Jon’s originals “I Get Lost” and “If Texas Is So Great” will be heard for years to come.

“Jon Byrd is subtly refining the folk-country singer-songwriter template... There's a spry, temperate intelligence to his work, from his songwriting to his fingerpicked guitar figures and vocal phrasing.” — NPR World Café, BEST MUSIC OF 2017: ESSENTIAL AND EMERGING ARTISTS - Jewly Hight

“Byrd’s an understatedly great singer. And the songwriting… applies a fresh, sharp, Southern vocabulary. He’s understatedly great at the writing part, too.” – The Nashville Scene

“The thing about Byrd is that he has a well-worn and rough voice that could draw a comparison to a more countrified Leonard Cohen.” – PopMatters

“Mature songwriting is married to some classy playing, whilst Jon’s warm, slightly gruff but very relaxed singing holds the centre. … Though he sings of heartbreak and regret, there’s something enormously reassuring about Jon Byrd’s music, a refuge in troubled times.”– No Depression

Where to hear Jon? The Station Inn, as a guest on WSM, touring the U.S., U.K. and Norway, and Jon has held residencies in Music City at the 5 Spot, Tennessee Brew Works, and currently (pre-pandemic) holding down weekly solo/duo gigs at Springwater on the Westside and Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge in Madison, each for nearly two years.