Born in Nashville, raised on David Olney and Steve Earle, Jonathan Henley has long had an appreciation for singer songwriters. “I remember when I was 14, my dad took me to a Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan show at Greer Stadium. I went down to the stage to watch Willie, but fell asleep for most of Dylan’s set.  The next day I put on the ‘The Essential Bob Dylan’. When ‘Positively 4th street’ came on I knew that writing songs was all I wanted to do.”  After attending school in Florida and bouncing around for a few years, Henley found himself busking on the streets of New Orleans.  “I was making about $ 5 a day but was hearing and playing with some of the best musicians I’ve ever met.”  With some of these musicians Henley recorded his first album, “Reel Time”, with Bill Howard and Duff Thompson of Mashed Potato Records, live to a reel-to-reel tape recorder.  His song “Here to Stay” (Reel Time) was featured on “Mashed Potato Records Comp 1” and Nashville based Youtube channel GemsOnVHS. While still gigging and busking, Henley continues to put out new material, his third album "Dirty Time" is out now.