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Artist
Jason Tyler Burton
12+ albums
about
Jason Tyler Burton is a wanderer, a soul searching adventurer who writes songs about the journey. Originally from Kentucky, he is now a nomad in the American West where he works as a seasonal park ranger. His songs and stories are heart felt, reflecting a search for meaning and home, with a voice and lyrics that invite you to lean in a little, and really listen. From living rooms to music festivals, his live show engages audiences with excellent songwriting and stories and a compelling voice. His sophomore release, Headwaters was released in 2014 to great reviews and airplay, including syndicated shows such as Out of the Woods and NPR’s Fresh Folk. In the woods, just across the Kentucky River from Daniel Boone’s fort, a boy leaves his log cabin home and follows the path of a creek running through his family’s land. Jason Tyler Burton goes searching for the spring that is the source of Calloway Creek. That search for the source of things has driven him throughout his life, now culminating in the release of the aptly-named HEADWATERS, Burton’s second original full-length album. In 2007, he and his wife ventured west from Kentucky to the Utah wilderness, leaving behind the security of a career in higher education, with a desire “to take some risks and live a better story,” living out of their van and working with the National Park Service and other seasonal jobs. The idea for the album came to him while searching for the source of the Green River in the mountains of Wyoming, r
