Who is Jon Black

Holy Goodness! Is that me with an electric guitar (that I’m not too good at)? Yes. We have some screws to tighten but you can expect to see this rock n’ roll more often… don’t worry for all you acoustic lovers. The hummingbird still makes appearances but we’re working on getting [...]

My friend Jon Schneck introduced me to a place in Nashville called The Great Escape. It’s pretty much one of my favorite stores across america. Why? It’s divided into two sections. The first half is bins and bins of vinyl. The second half is comic books and nerd stuff. [...]

Some people know that I’m currently spending the night at my friend Matt’s house in Nashville. For those that don’t know, I’m at Matt’s house without him or his family. Such a kind family to let us use their home for 12 hours while both Lauren, and myself, prepare for a a big [...]

Believe it or not I actually watched more than 50% of the game and I was disappointed that the blue team I wanted to win did not. That being said I do have a small issue with all of the games I’ve watched over this basketball tournament….
Whenever a person on the court shot the [...]

Back in March I had the honor of opening for Alejandro Escovedo and believe me, it was one of favorite moments thus far in my career. One cool thing about this show is that it was my first time being taped by someone other than myself. A guy named Dennis Tyler was kind [...]

I want to believe that, deep down, people are good and will do the right thing. When I look at humanity’s track record you can’t help but focus on the bad things humans have done… the Crusades, The Holocaust, The Iraq War, Major Labels forcing music down our throats, slap braclets, etc… [...]

Seriously? WTF?

This is not an april fools joke - it’s for real. Just look in the Sunday Paper.
So, this is the official announcement from me regarding this:
I’m playing this year’s City Stages. I’ll be performing on the Singer-Songwriter Stage (Legacy Federal Stage) with my band on Saturday, June 14th. My name was even [...]

so, I bought a new website for fun. welcome to whoisjonblack.com - now, for all of you asking if you have to update your RSS feed (kirk) the answer is yes. Here’s the new RSS feed:
http://www.whoisjonblack.com/atom.xml
This is going to be the new hub for me. I’m looking forward to what happens from [...]

Hi, the blog is about to go dark for possibly up to 48 hours. When you get back you should hopefully have an interesting surprise. Thanks for understanding.
Update: just kidding. that didn’t take long at all… more like 48 seconds.