John Paul Keith

A rootsy and smart singer/songwriter, John Paul Keith is a journeyman musician using a bent toward vintage Fender Telecaster-driven pop/rock and roll twang. A indigenous of Knoxville, Tennessee, Keith was raised singing in cathedral, learned to try out guitar around age group ten, and inherited a like of classic rock and roll and blues performers like Chuck Berry and B.B. Ruler from his truck-driving dad. By his teenagers, Keith was an associate from the alt-country ensemble the Viceroys, but still left the music group to pursue a single profession in Nashville. In ’09 2009 he released his debut record, Spills and Thrills, which garnered significant important compliment — if not really commercial achievement — because of its mix of generating pop, nation, and blues that drew evaluations ranging from Pal Holly to Creedence Clearwater Revival to Booker T. & the MG’s. A proceed to Memphis in his past due twenties brought a restored innovative energy to Keith, who shortly formed the professional bar band the main one Four Fives with drummer John Argroves and bassist Tag E. Stuart. The group made a loyal pursuing in Memphis, and trips opening for functions like Lucero and Jack port Oblivian drew however more focus on Keith’s vintage rock and roll sound. In 2011, John Paul Keith & the main one Four Fives released the Bruce Watson-produced THE PERSON THAT POINT Forgot on Excess fat Possum. Memphis Circa 3AM, made by Roland Janes, showed up from Excess fat Possum in nov 2013.