1. Johnathan Rice was born on May 27,1983 and is a Scottish-American singer-songwriter.
21 Facts About Johnathan Rice
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Johnathan Rice has worked as a producer on Jenny Lewis' Acid Tongue and Voyager, and as a songwriter on the self-titled record by Nashville band The Apache Relay.
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Johnathan Rice was born in Alexandria, Virginia on May 27,1983.
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Johnathan Rice spent his childhood between there and his parents' native Glasgow, Scotland.
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Johnathan Rice attended two high schools, Washington, DC's all-male Jesuit Gonzaga College High School and Glasgow's Turnbull High School in the suburb of Bishopbriggs.
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Johnathan Rice moved from Virginia to New York City at the age of eighteen with 1,000 copies of the Heart and Mind EP and the intention of launching his career as a singer-songwriter.
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Johnathan Rice arrived in New York two days before the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11,2001.
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Johnathan Rice played small folk clubs in Manhattan and Brooklyn, most notably playing regular sets at the Living Room at its original location on Stanton Street, and built a live following that lead to headlining performances at its revamped Ludlow Street location.
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Johnathan Rice lived in an apartment in mid-town Manhattan and worked different jobs to pay the rent, all the while writing the songs that would make up his debut album.
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Johnathan Rice flew Rice out to Los Angeles, where he auditioned for Watts-Russell and then label head Tom Whalley.
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Johnathan Rice was offered a record deal with the company.
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Johnathan Rice has cited Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Colin Blunstone, Spoon, Pixies, and Pavement among his influences.
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Johnathan Rice played the concert with his touring band, Death Valley, a lap steel and harmony group that featured Neal Casal and "Farmer" Dave Scher of the Beachwood Sparks and All Night Radio.
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In 2005 Johnathan Rice played Roy Orbison in the Oscar-winning 20th Century Fox film Walk the Line alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon and contributed to its platinum selling, GRAMMY -winning, T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack.
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In 2006, Johnathan Rice joined Jenny Lewis's touring band and played on her debut album Rabbit Fur Coat.
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Johnathan Rice again toured the record extensively both with a full band and solo acoustic, again mostly as a support act for the Good Life, Rilo Kiley, Matt Costa and the Redwalls.
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In 2008 Johnathan Rice co-headlined a tour with Maria Taylor of Azure Ray, and played Los Angeles' Sunset Junction festival.
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In 2008, Johnathan Rice acted as a producer, musician, and co-songwriter on Jenny Lewis' second solo album, Acid Tongue.
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In 2013, Johnathan Rice released his third solo album, Good Graces, on SQE Music.
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Johnathan Rice co-produced two songs on the album with Lewis: "Head Underwater" and "You Can't Outrun 'Em".
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Johnathan Rice co-wrote two songs: "She's Not Me" and "The New You".