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Soup to Nuts Live presents Catesby Jones!
Catesby Jones headlined the second installment of Soup to Nuts Live to a sold-out audience at WHQR on August 28, 2008. Click the above link to download the entire show for free!
From Catesbyjones.com:
Growing up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Catesby's first musical memories were of his father's Hi-Fi blasting Dixieland Jazz and Big Band Swing. But it was in his early teens that a Christmas guitar transformed his life and shaped his future forever. Embracing this new love he quickly amassed a repertoire of songs by the Ventures, Beach Boys and Beatles and dreamed of where it would lead him.
While attending Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, Catesby played in coffeehouses and began to develop his songwriting skills. After graduation, he traveled and performed in New Orleans, Boston and Greenwich Village where he landed a yearlong engagement on the coveted New York College Coffeehouse Circuit Tour. Returning to Shaker Heights, Catesby became a fixture in the Cleveland club scene and developed an ever-widening array of original compositions. In 1976, he recorded his first collection of songs titled All Grown Up Now at Cleveland Recording with Ken Hamann.
An invitation to visit a friend in tropical St. Thomas triggered a prolific period of creativity, travel and performing from the Virgin Islands to Martha's Vineyard. However, it was the lure of steady work and oil field money that attracted Catesby to Kingsville, Texas where he fell in love with country music. In 1983, demo tapes from a recording session in Corpus Christi earned him a winning slot at the Kerrville Folk Festival Songwriting Contest.
With his success and confidence building, Catesby moved to Memphis and it's famous Beale Street. Playing at the Rum Boogie Caf?, he met his wife Mimi and together with a batch of new songs, they moved to Nashville. His first success was a single song contract with Larry Rogers' Partners/Vogue Music. Grand Ole Opry star Del Reeves recorded "Baby On Board" but the single was never released. Undaunted, Catesby signed an exclusive writer's contract with a small independent publisher in 1988 and Josh Logan recorded a ballad co-written with Hank Sable, "She Don't Love Here Anymore". In 1989, Travis Tritt's platinum-selling hit "Country Club" , co-written with Dennis Lord, made Catesby one of Nashville's best up and coming songwriters.
In 1991, a contract with Woody Bomar at Little Big Town/MCA resulted in the recording of "Read My Licks" by Chet Atkins. This title track, co-written with Dave Allen, was released in 1994. During his seven years in Nashville, Catesby was a regular performer at the Bluebird Caf? and Douglas Corner Caf?. He wrote and co-wrote over three-hundred songs, many of which were demoed by young hopefuls and future stars like Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, Joe Diffie, Linda Davis and Jeff Carson.
Other activities in Nashville included playing bass in Les Kerr's Bayou Band, participating in The Country Music Hall of Fame's Words and Music program for kids, and co-writing children songs like "Call 911" with Jim Moore and the Animal Band which received the E911 Institute "Media/Entertainment Excellence Award" in February 2004.
Catesby and Mimi moved to Wilmington, North Carolina in 1993 to help take care of his parents and raise their children by the sea. He continues to write and perform regularly.