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MP3 Jon English - King of Everybody
12 MP3 Songs in this album (47:02) !
Related styles: Country: Alt-Country, Pop: Pop/Rock, Solo Male Artist
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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.
Jon officially retired from the local music scene in 2008 after the birth of his first child. He and his wife, Melissa, now have two strapping young boys blessing their household. Jon is now involved in Texas politics at the Capitol in Austin, and he also studies law part-time at St. Mary''s University in San Antonio.
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