Justin Jones (singer-songwriter)  Justin Phillip Jones (born August 17, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter. In addition to singing, he plays piano, guitar, and harmonica. His music has been described by "the Washington Post" as "electrified country and roots-rock that leaves plenty of space for Jones to hold court...like Dave Grohl when at full throttle and Townes Van Zandt when at ease." He has toured North America extensively, and with a backing band that has sometimes been referred to as the Driving Rain. He is the first artist signed to 9:30 Records. Jones grew up in Rawley Springs, Virginia. His interest in music began as a child hearing bluegrass music at his family's parties, and when his mother gave him "Music from Big Pink" by The Band. Jones started playing guitar at four or five-years-old, and writing songs at thirteen. His first performances were open-mic nights at bars in Charlottesville, Virginia. He moved to Washington, D.C. "as a stepping stone to New York City," and with the idea that if he could play a show at the , he would have made it. In D.C. he recorded his first album "Blue Dreams" in 2004. He recorded the album in one day with just himself and his guitar. For a period of a couple years after "Blue Dreams", Jones "got deep into drugs and lived out of my car." During this time he managed to record his second album, "Love Verses Heroin". He got help from a girlfriend who paid for rehab, despite having been split up. By the time he recorded his third album, "…And I Am the Song of the Drunkards", in 2007 he was clean. In January 2010, while working as a bartender at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., Jones recorded a collection of songs he titled "The Little Fox". That June, he traveled to SXSW in Austin, Texas, to give copies of it away and shop it around to record labels. He was approached by Thirty Tigers with a distribution deal, but still needed a record label. This prompted Jones’ manager at the time and 9:30 Club co-owner Seth Hurwitz, who felt strongly about Jones’ music after hearing Jones play at an opening at an art gallery in D.C., to start 9:30 Records to put out Jones’ releases. "The Little Fox EP" was released that year through 9:30 Records to favorable reviews.