Buy Jonathan Byrd: The Law And The Lonesome

Jonathan Byrd was born in 1970 in Fayettevill N.C.On Friday the 13th, November 1970, I was born at the Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and moved to Fort Worth, Texas when he was about 2.

Jonathan Byrd and his Musical start

Jonathan Byrd started going to Clifftop and Mt. Airy and finding Old-time jams at home and on the road, anywhere his new friends lived around the age of 25. Byrd started touring full-time in 2000, realizing that he could do it as a solo performer and actually make a living.

In 2002, he went to the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, where there are lots of these folk musicians, only mostly songwriters. At the 2003 festival, he won the New Folk competition and got hired on as a performer for the next three years.

Jonathan Byrd The Law And The Loesom New CD

The newest record is "The Law and the Lonesome." The ghost of Townes Van Zandt meets Hank Williams on the high plains. Chris Bartos produced and recorded it in Toronto. Several early listeners have told me that if "No Country For Old Men" had a soundtrack, it would be The Law and the Lonesome. Keeping with the trend established by "Radio Soul," it was recorded in four days.

Jonathan is a Kerrville New Folk winner, 2003. Previous Kerrville competitors include Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett and Steve Earle.

"This rootsy North Carolinian may be the most buzzed-about new songwriter in folkdom. He displays John Prine's gift for stark little songs that tell big, complex stories, Guy Clark's lean melodicism, Lyle Lovett's wry mischief, and Bill Morrissey's knack for the revealing image." - Scott Alarik, Boston Globe