Joshua Scott Jones (born July 10, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and entertainer. Jones is half of the duo Steel Magnolia and has released four solo albums as an independent musician. He plays guitar, bass, banjo, harmonica, drums, and piano.
Though born in Houston, Texas he was brought up in Charleston, Illinois by his uncle Wesley Jones, who worked in a local factory and was a preacher on the weekends, and his adoptive mother Christie. Jones started working on a farm at the age of thirteen. Around the same time, his biological father, David Jones, gave him his first guitar. About a year later, Jones gave his first performance of an original song about racism, while attending the Second Baptist Church in Mattoon, IL.
After high school, Jones hit the road and became a street musician playing anywhere and everywhere he could for the next several years.  He ended up in Los Angeles for a brief period, sleeping on the floor in a studio apartment on Hollywood Blvd while booking small, uncrowded shows at places like the Knitting Factory and the Viper Room.

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