Jason Wilber

Jason Wilber is an American folk/acoustic singer, guitarist, songwriter, and recording artist. His nine CDs are Echoes (April 2016), Lost in Your Hometown, Behind the Midway, King For A Day, Live and Otherwise Volume 1, Live and Otherwise Volume 2, Amber Waves, Ghost of Summers Past, and Lazy Afternoon.

He has played with other artists, including John Prine, Hal Ketchum, Greg Brown, Iris DeMent, Todd Snider, Greg Trooper, Carrie Newcomer, Tom Russell, Hal Ketchum, and Tim Grimm. He has performed in all 50 states and across Canada, Europe, and the United Kingdom.

Wilber played guitar on John Prine's Grammy Award-winning album album Fair & Square and on Prine's two Grammy Award-nominated albums Live on Tour and In Spite of Ourselves (which spent 32 weeks on the Billboard Country Charts).

Jason has accompanied John Prine on duet recordings with Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Josh Ritter, Patty Loveless, Iris Dement, Trisha Yearwood, and Sara Watkins.

Other artists he has worked with live or in the studio include Krista Detor, Carrie Newcomer, Kim Fox, Bill Wilson, and Over the Rhine.

Jason Wilber served as C0-Executive Producer on the compilation CD Coal Country Music featuring Willie Nelson, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Jason and the Scorchers, Kathy Mattea, Justin Townes Earle, Natalie Merchant, Diana Jones, Tom T. Hall, Bonnie Raitt, John Prine, Jean Ritchie, and other artists, who all contributed their talents to benefit the Alliance for Appalachia's work to stop Mountain Top Removal in rural Appalachia.

His TV and radio appearances include The Colbert Report, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Sessions At West 54th Street, The Grand Ole Opry, Live with Regis and Kathy Lee, CNN’s Entertainment Week, The Road, Mountain Stage, E-Town, Austin City Limits, and The Late Show with David Letterman.


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