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Jon English

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THE BIO
Jon English was truly almost famous a few years back.
As the front-man and songwriter for Austin indie-favorites Plow Monday, Jon helped pilot the group to all the cool rock-star things you think you want in your late teens and early twenties. With all the radio and television exposure, the sold out shows at Austin’s top venues, the major label attention and tours to Los Angeles and New York City, Plow Monday was on the verge of a lucrative record deal in the summer of 2002.
Then they realized they didn’t want any of it.
Instead, at the age of 23 and after more than a decade playing every Austin club you can name, Jon quit the music scene, married the girl of his dreams, finished college, and got a respectable job. Setting up a modest studio in the spare bedroom of their newlywed pad, he continued to record a few songs here and there and distributed them exclusively to his friends and family.
The happy couple bought a house in Kyle in 2004, and Jon began using his home-studio for more ambitious projects, helping out KVET 1300AM during Christmas of 2005 with the Zone Parody Contest. Taking parody lyrics submitted by the station’s listeners, Jon brought the words to life as Weird-Al style versions of popular songs, but with a sports twist to the lyrics.
All the creative juices were now flowing again, and Jon used 2006 to record and produce a full solo album on his own, King of Everybody, released via the internet that September. With the new record, Jon started playing shows again around town monthly. When football season came around that year, the Zone came calling once more, and Jon’s parodies became weekly features on both KVET morning shows.
His songs started to pass virally around the internet, and Jon soon developed a new following amongst Longhorn fans. That following exploded in 2007 when he wrote and recorded “Hooked on the Horns,” his personal tribute to his beloved alma mater and its rich pigskin heritage. Longhorn head coach Mack Brown took notice of the song as it played over both KVET stations, and picked it up as a featured half-time song during the Rice game at DKR Memorial Stadium.
Now it’s 2008, and Jon and his wife are raising their first child. The constraints of an infant in the house have made it impossible for him to compose weekly parody songs this season, but Hooked on the Horns is still spreading from tailgate to tailgate like a brush fire across Central Texas. He still plays live shows about once a month, and is writing a new record of original material that he hopes to release in 2009.

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Member Since: 18/11/2005
Band Website: www.jonenglish.net
Sounds Like: Ryan Adams, Bob Schneider, Pat Green, Robert Earl Keen, Shooter Jennings, Django Walker, Better Than Ezra
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The Return of Jon English

So little Rooster Jack is plenty old enough to hang with the grandparents on a Friday night now.  This means that as much as it pains me to tear myself away from the little guy, I'll be playing s...
Posted by on Tue, 20 May 2008 09:54:00 GMT

Jon English on Baby Sabbatical...

Hey JonFans, Been getting a lot of questions about when and where my next show will be, when a new record is coming out, that sorta stuff.  Wanted to let everyone know that I'm OFFICIALLY on mate...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:25:00 GMT

Hooked on the Horns...

Hey everyone! Well, it's another Longhorn football season and as many of you know, when I'm not at my day job and not peddling my original tunes, the guys at KVET 1300 AM "The Zone" are nice enough t...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:50:00 GMT

Littlefield

Hey, for those of you who have been asking "Littlefield" is a song I did for the soundtrack for the indie movie for my buddy, James Christopher.  I even have a cameo in it, because in Jim's fake ...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:00:00 GMT

Jon English on AM 1300, The Zone...

  CATCH JON ENGLISH ON "THE BUCK ON SPORTS" W/ ERIN HOGAN & BUCKY GODBOLT ALL THROUGHOUT THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON! Listen to KVET-AM 1300 every morning fromm 6:00am to 11:00am to hear bran...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:55:00 GMT

HOW TO BUY THE NEW CD...

Everyone has been asking me how to get the new CD if they can't make it to the CD release.  There are a couple of options. 1) The CD will be available on-line on September 8th as well via www.cdb...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:27:00 GMT

WOW!!! Thanks everyone!

Well, the new songs have been up a little less than a day and already they're getting as many plays as my songs usually do in a month.  Thanks everyone for the support!  It means everything ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:24:00 GMT

New songs now up!!!

Sorry to anyone who was using "The Same" or "Bottlecaps" for their myspace tunes... but in preparation for the CD release in a few weeks, I've posted two more new tunes from King of Everybody.  E...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:09:00 GMT

New Website and New Shows!

Stuck at work in my secret identity as a mild-mannered Chief of Staff for a state representative, I spent most of today's down-time during pauses in debates putting up my new website, www.jonenglish.n...
Posted by on Wed, 10 May 2006 18:28:00 GMT

My First Blog...

I've never been a "solo" artist before.  As you can tell, my picture was literally cut out of a group photo of my old band Plow Monday, which officially disbanded in 2003 after more than a decade...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:14:00 GMT