Photo by Don Perry.

John Paul Keith has hit another one out of the park with his June 21st release, “The Man That Time Forgot” and he is hitting the road in support of it. Big Rock Candy Mountain called it “…another brilliant album from John Paul Keith. Another entry into "perfect record" status.” Twangville commented that “Some might argue that Keith was born 60 years too late but I’d say that he arrived just in time. ” Keith will play at The Honest Pint on August 18th with the Bohannons, please note this updated venue.

John Paul Keith grew up outside of Knoxville, the son of a truck driver. He learned to sing in church and he learned to play guitar when he was ten and his father gave him an acoustic and a copy of Chuck Berry’s Golden Hits and The Best of B.B. King. It was the first music he ever heard that wasn’t country or spirituals—he didn’t hear the Beatles until he was nearly in high school. By the time he was seventeen, he was drawing big crowds in Knoxville as a member of the Viceroys, and then quit the band when they signed an indie deal because he didn’t like the direction the music was headed. By twenty-one, he had moved to Nashville and formed his own band, and got signed to a major label within months. It was a meteoric rise by a kid everyone in the industry had their eyes on—and wanted their hooks in.