About this artist
Jon Langston is a Georgia-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter whose hard-driving contemporary country style found an audience in the mid-2010s. After his breakout 2015 EP, Showtime, earned him some Billboard chart time, he picked up tour support slots with Luke Bryan and eventually a major-label deal to release his 2019 EP, Now You Know.
A native of Loganville, Georgia, Langston began playing guitar in his early teens but gravitated toward football in his college years. After some injuries left him sidelined, he rekindled his interest in country music and began writing songs that he played for friends and posted on YouTube. Encouraged by his music’s reception, he contacted producer Josh Manuel and headed to Atlanta to record his first EP, Young & Reckless, which he self-released in 2013. Citing both country and rock influences from George Strait to Staind, Langston’s first few songs fared well on the iTunes country charts and he soon found himself opening shows for Chase Rice. He followed up with a second EP in late 2013, which featured the feel-good single “Runnin’ on Sunshine,” co-written by fellow Georgian and former Voice contestant Jordan Rager. Following his ambitions, Langston moved to Nashville, releasing the single “Party Boots” in 2014, followed by his third EP, Showtime.
Released in May 2015, Showtime would prove to be Langston’s first breakout, reaching number 26 on Billboard’s Top Country Album chart. Wasting no time, he followed up that December with a self-titled EP that fared equally well on the charts. Displaying his range, Langston next appeared on a 2016 track by Atlanta-based metalcore band Issues. 2017 brought some chart success with the single, “Right Girl Wrong Time,” and an invitation to join Luke Bryan’s Farm Tour. Early the next year, Langston landed a contract with UMG Nashville and made his major-label debut with the swaggering, bluesy “When It Comes to Loving You.” Switching over to Bryan’s 32 Bridge Entertainment label, he returned in 2019 with his fourth EP, Now You Know. ~ Timothy Monger