Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jon Finney. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Jon, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

I’m currently working on an album that I feel this way about! It’s written, start to finish, as if it were a story. It’s also the first self produced album I’ve ever made. It has forced me to learn new instruments, and really expand my abilities in a new way. I’ve also co-written a few of the songs with some of my favorite people I’ve ever worked with. It’s just a really meaningful experience for me to make these songs and hear them come to life, because many of them were written in very raw and vulnerable moments in my life.

Jon, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I’m Jon Finney. As far as branding, I’m a songwriter and country artist from Houston, TX. I grew up in Mont Belvieu, TX, living on a big property. I didn’t have the freedom to go down the street to a friend’s house every night, so I took to music to fill my evenings. I couldn’t get enough of it, and would play from the time I got off the bus until it was bed time. It was the best part of my day. I went into full time music almost exactly two years ago, and it’s been extremely incredible to get to devote all my creative energy into that. Being a father, having my work day hours to do music allows me to get to be “Dad” when she gets out of school, so going into full time music has helped the balance of my life significantly.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

I love this question. As an artist, I find it so valuable for me to go support other artists. I find as much joy sharing local artists and people I know who are making music, as I do sharing my favorite mainstream artists. When you think of how music can snowball in the day of social media, you sharing an artist’s music reaches all of your friends, then one of them might want to share it, and it reaches all of their friends, and by the end of the day, your one share can expose this music to potentially thousands of people. It’s simple, but champion local music the way you would champion a World Renowned Pop Star. It can help them get to the next level. A share with friends, not just on your story, but like a text with “Hey. You need to hear this,” is the most invaluable thing to an artist.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

Creatives tend to lean on emotions a LOT. Life is hard. I write about it as some form of therapy. It’s also incredibly important for me to write in metaphor and in an analogous way to not disclose specific details of life. It’s a way of wearing your heart on your sleeve, but also putting up a boundary between my personal life and the creative side. Creatives are emotional in a way that can be really intense for some people, and I would tell literally anybody that getting into a relationship of any kind with a creative is a bit challenging. Feelings are magnified for us, but later channeled into what we are creating. Not to say run from it, but know going into it that the communicative side of how creatives feel is DEFINITELY prominent.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.jonfinneymusic.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonfinneymusic/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonfinneymusic/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@JonFinney

Image Credits
Photo credits: Sarah Fleshner, Christina Pearson, Josh Bailey