Step back from the subtleties, and the higher perspective is splendid: Ashley was a finalist on season four of USA Network’s Nashville Star, where he set himself apart from an ocean of 30,000 hopefuls. He has been named one of the top follows up on the SEC school circuit.
He has been perceived as the Regional Act of the Year victor and Country Male Artist of the Year chosen one at The Georgia Country Music Awards.
Subsequent to delivering his generally welcomed debut self-named collection in 2011, highlighting the radio single “Stained.” Born in Hobbs, New Mexico, close to the oil fields of the West Texas-New Mexico line, Ashley moved to Newnan, Georgia with his father as a little kid.
“Growing up, my folks tuned in to Alabama, Ronnie Milsap, Kenny Rogers…I was consistently around blue grass music as a kid,” Jared reviews. Afterward, he came to guarantee blue grass music as his own, motivated by the rejuvenation of country in the mid '90s by Travis Tritt and particularly Alan Jackson, an individual Newnan local.
He got his first guitar at five years old, and it demonstrated a steady companion to him. The Ashley family moved back to Hobbs when Jared was a sophomore in secondary school, and not knowing a spirit his own age, he started composing tunes to breathe easy.
“That’s when I truly plunked down and began composing tunes, chipping away at figuring out how to play the guitar, simply attempting to devour my experience with things other than being exhausted out of my mind,” he says.
After secondary school, Jared joined the Navy, where he served for a very long time on board the USS Independence and USS Kitty Hawk plane carrying warships positioned in Yokosuka, Japan, and served two deployments in the Persian Gulf. “On long excursions to the ocean, there’s not a ton to do when you get off work.
Either gaze at water or play the guitar. What's more, that’s when I got more genuine about it.” On Sundays, Ashley started playing acoustic gigs at George's Country Bar, found simply off the Naval base in Yokosuka.
While in Japan, Ashley’s music got the ear of a companion who immediately acquainted him with a contact with profound connections to the Nashville music scene. With one year left on his responsibility with the US Navy, Jared booked his first outing to Nashville and was snared.
Subsequent to moving to Nashville the next year, Jared gathered a band and before long handled the much sought-after Friday-Saturday night gig at the world celebrated Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge on lower Broadway, where he had the pleasure of imparting the stage to visitors specialists including Merle Haggard, ZZ Top, Blues Traveler, Toby Keith, Joe Nichols and Tracy Lawrence.
“Broadway’s a boot camp,” Jared says. “You’re going to meet a huge load of individuals and you’re going to become familiar with a ton. It’ll make you or break you.” He was before long acquainted with the previous leader of Giant Records, who brought him into the studio to cut four unique tunes.
Later he recorded the irresistible anthem, “The Next Glass,” which turned into an audience top choice on Nashville’s notable WSM-FM radio broadcast. Ashley at that point inked an improvement manage RCA Records and recorded with Buddy Cannon and Joe Scaiff.
Ashley keeps on keeping an overwhelming visit plan, enchanting crowds at fairs, celebrations and clubs cross country with his insubordinate image of nation rock-meets honky tonk. As of late wedded, Jared credits his better half, Taylor, as the motivation behind his impending collection. “There are no separation tunes, no crying in your lager ?" It’s all fun.”
