THE BAND
Jonah Briggs
Jonah Briggs | Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Mandolin
Jonah Briggs grew up in Austin’s Bouldin Creek neighborhood in the 1990s in a house where his father played fingerstyle guitar locally, with the passion of a hobbyist. Jonah started on a half-size acoustic at seven, put the Mel Bay book down at seven-and-a-half, and has been playing by ear ever since.
By nine he was slowing down Doc Watson records by hand. By twelve he was absorbing his father’s sessions from the edges of the room. By his early twenties he was doing Nashville session work — the kind where producers ask for something and you deliver it, and occasionally deliver something better. He played on records that won awards and a few that deserved to. He developed, along the way, an arranger’s ear rare in a guitarist: an instinct not just for what to play but for what to leave alone.
Kat’s Sundog found him through a mutual connection, sent him some demos, and by all accounts lost him to the music about forty seconds in. He drove up to Asheville for a weekend session. It became a week. Nobody really discussed whether he was joining the band. It just happened.
On stage he stands back and to the side, which true fans understand right away: a session musician’s belief that the song is the point. The guitar is in service to it. He would prefer you were watching Elara.
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