Jon Wolfe
Country
Austin, Texas by way of Tulsa, Oklahoma
For those in Texas, this may be a name you already know and love. For those outside of The Lone Star State, you may have seen Wolfe’s name on a Spotify playlist or in the country music trades. The career trajectory of Wolfe isn’t a unique one, but is a fascinating one.
Born in Tulsa, OK, Wolfe found his way to Texas as an oil trader when his job in Chicago sent him down south. It was at that time he roomed with a fellow Texas country troubadour named Hayes Carll in the early 2000s. Cutting his teeth for the next decade and writing songs for other country artists, Wolfe released two independent releases with his second album being picked up by Warner Nashville and re-released in 2013 upon him signing with the label. After a short stint with the big label world, Wolfe went back out on his own, releasing his next two albums independently again in 2015 and 2017, respectively. The ‘17 effort, Any Night in Texas, hit the Billboard Heatseekers chart and continued to grow his status as a Texas country staple, ranking up there with the known likes of Pat Green, Zane Williams, William Clark Green, and the aforementioned Hayles Carll when the words Texas country are uttered.
Wolfe, after an almost four year recording hiatus, returned with what we see as his gold star effort, Dos Corazones. The album, recorded with Grammy-nominated Producer Dave Brainard in the Chihuahuan desert, showcases the classic Texas country sound, hitting on topics that scream “classic country” like tequila sundowns, American values, beers, broken hearts, and a beat up pickup trucks. For what the current popular country music scene is missing, Wolfe fills all the cracks with Dos. It’s impressive, and a journey through the dusty conclaves of desert country, completely opposite to the journey Kacey took us on with her desert writing session of Golden Hour, but just as honest and transcendent in its own, uniquely different right. This could and should be the album that takes Wolfe out of the Texas scene and into the limelight.
/nbt.fm