James Jean

james jean is an austin, texas-based singer-songwriter with a unique and original musical sound that features acoustic guitar-driven rock with alt-country and pop melodies. james jean performs regularly in austin as a solo artist and accompanied by good friends jacob hildebrand on guitars, veteran-artist and multi-instrumentalist brian douglas phillips and fred mandujano on drums and percussion. together the group released gimme space (2016), comprised of 10 new james jean originals. james entered onto the austin music scene in 1995. as front man for the james jean band, the group toured and performed at music venues and festivals around the us, as well as in the band’s hometown of austin. jjb independently-released come broken (2003), a full-length studio album, boundless (2004), a full-length live album, and ep titled better things (2005).