Since the fall of 2004, The Jason Boone Band has been providing hard-driving picking, toe-tapping tunes and strong, soulful singing for audiences around the south! Creative song writing, professional recordings and a genuine passion for what they do gives success to the group. Each time they take the stage energy and excitement can be felt at festivals, concerts, churches, as well as private parties.
The Jason Boone Band is comprised of talented, award-winning musicians bringing more than a century of musical experience together in a group that loves to relate to their fans both on and off stage. Engaging audiences with tunes of traditional bluegrass, country ballads, and spirit-lifting gospel songs, The Jason Boone Band is music and showmanship at its finest. The Jason Boone Band has released 2 cd's. Their first self titled cd was an all Bluegrass Gospel release, followed by their secular release "I Hear Mississippi Calling". Both cd's have sold numerous copies at the many different venues The Jason Boone Band has performed at, as well as through internet distribution all over the world. Both cd's have received radio and internet radio airplay in countries such as Germany, France, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Spain to name a few, as well as in the United States.
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The namesake and band leader, Jason Boone of Pearl, MS, provides lead and tenor vocals as well as guitar instrumentation.
A tenured song-writer, Jason’s compositions can be heard on the group’s album, “I Hear Mississippi Calling”. He and the band are currently working on a project which is expected to launch in early 2011.
Jason’s stage experience includes stints with Steel Blue, a group he helped form as a teenager and The Larry Wallace Band. With the desire to stay true to his roots and keep the tradition of bluegrass and bluegrass-gospel music alive in Mississippi, he formed THE JASON BOONE BAND in 2004. Since the formation of the band, he has contributed to the uplifting gospel and toe-tapping grass roots bluegrass tunes audiences have come to expect.
With his soaring tenor voice, Jason has been a multi-year finalist for the Male Vocalist of the Year Award and the group has been a finalist for the Band of the Year Award multiple years in the Magnolia State Bluegrass Association.
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Tim Hathorn, of the Hattiesburg, MS area, brings smooth rhythms and hard playing drives on the resophonic guitar (dobro). In addition to his instrumentals, Tim provides low tenor and baritone harmonizing vocals for the group.
Since age 12, Tim has performed over 35 years with many groups engaging in styles varying from bluegrass to the blues to traditional country. His style is greatly influenced by the likes of Josh Graves, "Bashful Brother" Oswald, and Gene Wooten and the more modern licks of Mike Auldridge, Rob Ickes, and the "Flux", Jerry Douglas. Tim has masterfully melded the styles of these giants and others into his own!
Tim has performed all over the Southeast including stage time at Opryland and New Orleans Jazzfest, and has accompanied many artists including Mac Wiseman, Raymond Fairchild and the Crowe Brothers, Jerry and Tammy Sullivan, The Sullivan Family, Gary Waldrep, Sweet Dixie and most recently, Driskell Mountain. Tim’s soul-felt strumming can be heard on his solo album “Livin’ the Tradition” as well as "I Hear Mississippi Calling", the critically-acclaimed latest release of The Jason Boone Band.
Smooth strumming, emphatic drives and energetic stage presence has earned him the title of two time Dobro Player of the Year in 2008 and 2009 in the Magnolia State Bluegrass Association.
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J R Willis makes his home in Philadelphia, MS. At an early age, he started playing the banjo and touring with the legendary Sullivan Family, and developed into a multi talented singer, songwriter and musician. J R has played with numerous groups throughout his career including The Sandy Ridge Bluegrass Band, Magnolia Bluegrass Travelers, Southern Country Band, The Dunaway’s, and Alan Sibley and the Magnolia Ramblers. An award winning musician, he has won awards including 2011 MSBA Banjo Player of the Year, MS State Banjo Champion, Attala County Talent Contest 1st Place Banjo Player and the Alabama Bluegrass Guitar Player Contest. J R has shared the stage with bluegrass greats Doyle Lawson, Joe Issacs, Bill Grant and Delia Bell, Wayne Lewis, Cambell Mercer, Little Roy Lewis, and Jason Crabb. He has performed on RFD TV’s “The Cumberland Highlanders” with The Sullivan Family and Alan Sibley and the Magnolia Ramblers; and performed on Ket Television at the Osborne Brothers festival in Hyden, KY. Extensively traveling throughout the United States, J R has performed at venues including Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, IN, The Legends Award Show in Owensboro, KY and the Ernest Tubb Troubadour Theatre in Nashville, TN.
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A native Mississippian, Capricia “Cappy” James makes her home in Philadelphia, MS. As a daughter of The Guthrie Trio, this talented singer/ songwriter/musician has been influenced by music since early childhood. As a young girl, Cappy played piano for many churches and continued providing melodic tunes for congregations throughout the South into her early adulthood. As a young woman, Cappy took her passion to a new level by writing heartfelt lyrics and original scores that she has taken out into the community as her testimony and ministry to others. In recent years, Cappy has challenged herself to new heights by learning to play guitar and the electric bass. She was introduced to the Bluegrass circuit by making her bassist debut as a member of Alan Sibley and The Magnolia Ramblers band in the spring of 2011. During her freshman season of the Bluegrass world, Cappy has traveled extensively through the great State of Mississippi and many other Southern states, with a highlight of playing on stage at the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, IN.
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