Jonathan Byrd

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The Law & The Lonesome 00:00 Tools
May the River Run Dry 00:00 Tools
Clean 00:00 Tools
Diana Jones 00:00 Tools
Coyote 00:00 Tools
Houston Window Blues 00:00 Tools
Prairie Girl 00:00 Tools
I Was An Oak Tree 00:00 Tools
Lady's Fancy 00:00 Tools
Galveston 00:00 Tools
Soldier's Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Chicken Wire 00:00 Tools
The Fifth Wheel 00:00 Tools
Wild Ponies 00:00 Tools
Reckon I Did 00:00 Tools
The Young Slaver 00:00 Tools
Dungarees Overalls 00:00 Tools
White Oak Wood 00:00 Tools
Slip Away 00:00 Tools
.38 Baby 00:00 Tools
The Sparrow 00:00 Tools
Poor Johnny 00:00 Tools
The Ballad of Larry 00:00 Tools
You Can't Outrun The Radio 00:00 Tools
The Snake Song 00:00 Tools
Jesus was a Bootlegger 00:00 Tools
Velma 00:00 Tools
Close Enough to Touch 00:00 Tools
Starlight 00:00 Tools
New Moon Rise 00:00 Tools
The Waitress 00:00 Tools
True Companion 00:00 Tools
Mama's Got Wheels 00:00 Tools
A Big Truck Brought It 00:00 Tools
Scuppernong 00:00 Tools
Father's Day 00:00 Tools
Pale Rider 00:00 Tools
working offshore 00:00 Tools
Ashe County Fair 00:00 Tools
Cackalack! 00:00 Tools
The Cocaine Kid 00:00 Tools
Golden Glow of Autumn 00:00 Tools
Fiddle and Bow 00:00 Tools
Radio 00:00 Tools
Tinytown 00:00 Tools
Her Eyes Were Green 00:00 Tools
Wildflowers 00:00 Tools
We Used to Be Birds 00:00 Tools
Tape Full of Love Songs 00:00 Tools
Eli's Cotton Gin 00:00 Tools
Colleen 00:00 Tools
Sandy Mush 00:00 Tools
Jacks 00:00 Tools
Being With You 00:00 Tools
My Generation 00:00 Tools
Amelia, My Dream 00:00 Tools
Big Hoedown 00:00 Tools
Mama 00:00 Tools
Cackalack 00:00 Tools
Down the Old Mountain Road 00:00 Tools
Small Town 00:00 Tools
Sexy Jessie 00:00 Tools
Hank 00:00 Tools
Home Sweet Home 00:00 Tools
Stackalee 00:00 Tools
Rosie 00:00 Tools
I Want You 00:00 Tools
Learn to Rock 'n' Roll 00:00 Tools
Pickup Cowboy 00:00 Tools
The Cider Song 00:00 Tools
Austin Women 00:00 Tools
The River Girl 00:00 Tools
Breathless 00:00 Tools
Molly Dear 00:00 Tools
Robena 00:00 Tools
Little Bird 00:00 Tools
Cocaine Kid 00:00 Tools
For You 00:00 Tools
I'm So Lost 00:00 Tools
Hazel Eyes 00:00 Tools
The Sea and the Sky 00:00 Tools
The Cold & Hungry Night 00:00 Tools
I've Been Stolen 00:00 Tools
Verdigris Intro 00:00 Tools
Verdigris 00:00 Tools
Gold Coast 00:00 Tools
Sundays Loving You 00:00 Tools
When the Well Runs Dry 00:00 Tools
Bean an Fir Rua/Backstep Cindy 00:00 Tools
One Night At a Time 00:00 Tools
The Cold and Hungry Night 00:00 Tools
The New World 00:00 Tools
In the Light of Day 00:00 Tools
Paint The Town Blue 00:00 Tools
The Bishop and the Ghost of the Nazarene 00:00 Tools
Maureen 00:00 Tools
Bean An Fir Rhua / Backstep Cindy 00:00 Tools
Desert Rose 00:00 Tools
Autumn 00:00 Tools
Lay Your Hands On the Highway 00:00 Tools
The Bishop & The Ghost Of The Nazarene 00:00 Tools
Tractor Pull 00:00 Tools
Lakota Sioux 00:00 Tools
It's Too Late to Call It a Night 00:00 Tools
Temporary Tattoo 00:00 Tools
Do You Dream 00:00 Tools
Taking It Back 00:00 Tools
Stagger Lee 00:00 Tools
Fish out of Water 00:00 Tools
It Don't Make Sense 00:00 Tools
Down the Old Mountain 00:00 Tools
Jonathan Byrd, Cocaine Kid 00:00 Tools
Autumn (Jack Hardy cover) 00:00 Tools
Under the Belly of the Night (feat. The Sentimentals) [Single] 00:00 Tools
Law & The Lonesome 00:00 Tools
04 Houston Window Blues 00:00 Tools
Natural Supernatural 00:00 Tools
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A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Jonathan grew up singing in the Southern Baptist church, where his father preached and his mother played piano. After four years in the Navy, he returned to Chapel Hill to play in rock bands in that legendary underground music scene. A friend of Jonathan's invited him to an old-time fiddle festival in the mountains of southwest Virginia, where his writing began to change. Assimilating the sounds of southern traditional music, Byrd wrote new songs in an ancient style. One of those first songs was "Velma," a murder ballad based on the true story of Velma Barfield, the last woman to be executed in North Carolina (in 1984) and the murderer of Jonathan's own grandfather... MORE here Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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