Coming at you from Temple Texas is The Buckshot Jones Band. Founded in 2006, the original members Jessie Howeth, Jon Wisinski, and Jon Cooper set out to try something different from their original rock backgrounds. Having always admired the smooth, story telling lyrics of country music, they eventually sat down and started writing. It wasn’t long before ideas and life experiences started forming into words, phrases, choruses, verses and eventually songs. The boys then started playing their synthetic blend of country & southern rock for the patrons of many of the local clubs. People instantly embraced their music and the Buckshot Jones Band was born.
After a while of gigging around town the guys couldn’t help but feel that the band was missing something. “I knew we needed another player but, I had no clue what to look for,” says Jessie Howeth. A few months later while running sound for a band in his hometown of Cameron Texas. Jessie met a young fiddle player from Round Rock by the name of Todd Leger. In-between sets the two began talking and Jessie invited Todd out to audition for the spot. Not long after that Todd joined up with Buckshot and the band has been playing as a four piece ever since.
Between all four of its members, Buckshot Jones has decades of musical experience and knowledge that support and influence their music. Jon Cooper began playing drums at the age of 12. He started out playing country music, gospel, and eventually took to rock music.
Jessie Howeth is the lead singer and guitar player; he got his start at a very young age as a bass player and over the years has learned to play a multitude of instruments including keys, drums, guitar, and dobro. After graduating high school Jessie went to college and pursued a music major. He can now be seen on stage tearing through guitar solos and singing his almost poetic lyrics.
Jonathan Wisinski started learning how to play the bass at the age of 9. He first played upright bass in youth orchestras and eventually picked up the bass guitar where he then began to play other styles of music such as blues, jazz, classic rock, country and everything else in-between. When you combine Cooper and Wisinski’s hard rocking playing styles you get a pulse pounding, jaw dropping rhythm section that will defiantly keep you on your toes.
Last but certainly not least there is Mister Todd Leger. Todd first picked up the fiddle at the age of 8. Like his other band brothers, Todd started out classically trained. He played violin in youth orchestras and took very quickly to his instrument. Soon after that he discovered the world of Texas style fiddling and has focused his studies on the fiddle for the last 12 years. He has competed with his fiddle at state, national, and world levels and over the years has learned 6 string guitar, mandolin, and tenor guitar along with his fiddle.
Buckshot Jones is possibly one of the best up and coming Texas Red-Dirt bands out there. Keep your radio on because with an innovative group of musicians like this. It’s hard to keep The Buckshot Jones down.
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I really appreciate your friendship and ALL your awesome support! We've been very fortunate to have just made over 37,000 MySpace friends, over 400,000 plays and growing so I'd be ever so grateful if you could bulletin your friends and ask them to add us too. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!!!
What up, Curbcheck will be at the Lonestar Sports Bar in Temple this Saturday March 14th!!!! Also appearing are our brothers Deejer from Austin, Texas Drag Queens and In Common. We have almost finished are album and we need to raise money for duplication of the CD. So, WE NEED EVERYONE to come out and support the show. The bands playing with us are bad ass and I promise this show won't disappoint.
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