The core of the band was at last in place and the sound began to gel.ДЄfter being together for less than a month, the four piece went into the studio to record HOT TROTTINвЂ™ вЂ“ a raucous and enjoyable journey from start to finish. Several years and incarnations later, they were joined by musical prodigy Nick Jay on bass and a hard-hitting drummer from Oklahoma named Jordan Cain. From the start it was JT on vocals, playing a mean, bluesy lead guitar, with Kansas on rythym adding a harder rock edge, a combo that was instantly right. With shared common influences ranging from the Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin and Jimi Henrix to Bob Dylan, The Band and Muddy Waters the two were compelled to write and play together. Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights first began to take shape when childhood friends began playing guitar in their teens. They knew the thirty-something, steel-eyed veteran accepting that trophy on that stage in Vegas had been rocking roadhouses, theaters and stadiums relentlessly since 1997, that heвЂ™d been celebrated by critics and fans of hard-core country music for more than a decade, and that as a Texas-born songwriter and performer, heвЂ™d been on the short list of next generation artists who could fill the boots of Lone Star legends like Willie and Waylon and the boys. When Jack Ingram won the 2008 Academy of Country Music award for вЂњBest New Male Vocalist,вЂќ thousands of people in the audience had to be smiling to themselves about that whole вЂњnewвЂќ thing. His first release was his self-titled album in 1995 with an appearance on Austin city limits-, Jack Ingram began his music career singing at a privately owned bar near the TCU campus of Fort Worth, Later, during the early 1990s, Jack toured the state of Texas opening for Mark Chesnutt and other acts. He started writing songs and performing while studying psychology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas,

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