Jon Byrd 'Me and Paul' Featured in the East Nashvillian

Jon Byrd’s new EP, Me and Paul, borrows its name from the 1971 Willie Nelson song of the same title — a saga of nights spent in honky-tonks and making music with a good friend. It’s a story that Byrd and his collaborator, pedal steel guitarist Paul Niehaus, have also lived, although differing in one important aspect. While Willie’s “Me and Paul” story focused on the “rough and rocky traveling” of life on the road, Jon’s Me and Paul is the result of playing in one location, interrupted by a rough and rocky year without a live audience.  READ FULL ARTICLE