“I’m ready for something new, and I think I have the material to take that next step.” There’s a bravery in Terrell’s storytelling on this new project that only comes from repetition and honing the craft.
“I've had a career doing this for a long time, but I’ve always been on an independent streak,” Terrell explains with his signature Texas twang. Highlighted by brilliant singles like “Better For You,” which comes alongside a self-directed video with frequent collaborator Shakey Graves onboard as a producer, it’s clear that two decades into this game, Terrell is firmly in his prime. With his new EP, A Couple 2, 3, the singer-songwriter now signed to Range Music has translated his philosophy into a staggeringly coherent, funny, heartbreaking, and gorgeous project. No one has more fun than Jonathan Terrell you can see it when he’s on-stage making even the most cynical crowd shake their asses and you can hear it in his songs. He followed those records with his latest album, 2020’s Westward, which was hailed by Rolling Stone as “irresistible.” Early records like 2008’s Trials & Stimulations and 2015’s Past the Lights of Town established him as a boozy street poet, a gun-toting feminist ( Vice) with the theatrics of a Texas Springsteen and the introspective power of Townes Van Zandt. In the early days, Terrell balanced his burgeoning solo career with his work as frontman of local rock n roll powerhouse, Not in the Face, showing a duality and versatility rarely seen in country.
Drenched in sweat but more suave than your best tux, the Jonathan Terrell show quickly became the stuff of legend. Born and raised in a trailer hidden far in the Pine Curtain of East Texas to a family of ex-religious cult musicians, Terrell has taken the myths and lineage of his deeply held history and mixed them into a radically inventive career as the torch-bearer of Austin, Texas’ cosmic country scene.Īfter crashing down like a UFO in the still nascent days of Austin’s modern era, Terrell quickly became one of the city’s fastest rising stars, blending the seriousness and dedication it takes to make it as a songwriter with an unabashed desire to whip every show into a frenzy and have a wild time. He likes it that way, conjuring stories from histories both shared and made-up, creating a world from the depths of his imaginations and from his humble roots in equal parts.
Jonathan Terrell has been doing things on his own for two decades now.
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