Indian & The Jones

Among a long list of pickers, storytellers, and shredders, the collective influences of Jesse Schaefer, Tanner Evans, Sarah Dossey and Billy Satterwhite of Indian & the Jones (I&TJ) might surprise you.

Officially formed out of a happenstance meeting, the idea of I&TJ was truly took shape when Evans and Schaefer attended an intimate performance by Mandolin Orange at SXSW music festival in the Spring of 2015. In the midst of hearing the band for one of the first times, Evans leaned over to Schaefer and said, “We should do this.” That was the beginning of the story that very soon included Dossey, a pop artist and banjo-player whom they had met on literally the same weekend, and only a couple years later included Billy Satterwhite, an improvisational bass player.