Jon McElroy

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Jon McElroy is a unique combination of southern roots, classical training and a rock-’n’-roll soul. For more than 20 years he has used his varied musical influences and wicked sense of humor to craft some of pop and country’s most eclectic hits.
He began his writing career in Los Angeles with Screen Gems Music. In a karmic twist of fate, the Mississippi native garnered unlikely success by landing a cut on the debut, quadruple-platinum album of ’80s mall diva Tiffany, only to switch gears and move to Nashville in 1987 to write for legendary producer Harold Shedd.
In bringing his own personal brand of quirkiness to country, McElroy broke through with what is possibly the first “surf song” to ever come out of Nashville. Neal McCoy’s “The Shake,” featured on his Greatest Hits album, was one of BMI’s Most Performed Songs of 1996. McElroy scored another top-five single with “She Drew a Broken Heart” off Patty Loveless’ CMA-nominated Album of the Year, The Trouble with the Truth. Along the way, this guitar-playing journeyman has recorded at The Band’s famous Shangri-La Studio and played with both Gary Morris and Rob Crosby on the now-infamous Travis Tritt/Marty Stuart “No Hats” tour.
Other McElroy songs have been recorded by some of Nashville’s finest, including “I’ll Take That as a Yes (The Hot Tub Song)” for Phil Vassar; “She Went Out for Cigarettes,” Chely Wright; and “Too Far to Turn Around,” by Travis Tritt. He’s also had cuts with Lonestar, Juice Newton, The Bellamy Brothers, and Marty Raybon.
McElroy has two cuts, “Tequila Loves Me” and “In a Small Town,” on Kenny Chesney’s 2005 CD, The Road and the Radio, and a recent Hal Ketchum single, “Just This Side of Heaven.” He also has four cuts on the soon-to-be-released debut album of Curb artist Lee Brice (songs co-written with Brice), and is now enjoying the sucess of Lee Brice’s current single "Happy Endings"!!
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