Born and raised in Kansas Jerrod Niemann cut his teeth on country and popular music while still a small child in part thanks to a little honky-tonk and later a skating rink that his parents took Exposed for everything from Merle Haggard to the Bruce Springsteen of the final moments of country music have an advantage when Jerrod heard George Strait 1986 holiday album Merry Christmas Strait to you from that moment on his passion for the gentry who ignited and Jerrod spent most of his college years in Texas, performing in local clubs
Jerrods road to Nashville started as a trip back in the meantime, he has begun to explore the roots of country music and came under the influence of artists such as Lefty Frizzell Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and George Jones, he realized the new traditionalists somRandy Travis Keith Whitley and Alan Jackson have used the rich heritage of those who came before them, it was also at that time Jerrod discovered Liner Notes and then the wonderful songs written by Whitey Shafer Dean Dillon, Paul Overland Street and Aaron Barker, it was some of the men who would become his heroes and his dream was not just that he would become an artist, but that other artists would record his songs, and
Writing songs since she was eight Jerrods materials exhibit a refined musical maturity which extends far beyond his years Whether listening to his words drenched in regret enormous despair or give up one of his loud rollicking honky-tonk tales delivered with sheer unabashed förtjusning its not hard to imagine his heroes ingendding their approval
In fact, one of Jerrods first co-author on arrival in Nashville was one of those he so admired Whitey Shafer Then the young songwriter has had the opportunity to work with Dean Dillon, Paul Overland Street Aaron Barker Larry Cordle and Garth Brooks, among other writers who personifies what Jerrod believe is the true essence of country music
In the five years span Jerrod has resided in Nashville, he performed a number of dreams but put their places of major goals, he signed a development deal with Mercury Records in 2003 toured the country with over half of his band "The Saloonitics" (opening for several major label artists) and a staff writer till three different publishers on Music Row, he has written songs for Neal McCoy Julia Roberts Jamey Johnson, John Anderson and Garth Brooks, he made his first ... a hit song by Garth Brooks in 2005 with the "Good Ride Cowboy" a tribute to Chris LeDoux
Jerrod is now back working on his own album, his first album in two years' Yellow Brick Road, "packed with brand new tracks and a few you may recognize
