bio

I’m Jonathan Stephen Braught and I’ve been playing music in New England for twenty years. I started playing guitar because I struggled to put a voice to emotion and it became an important expressive outlet for me. Music allowed me to convey an inner world that I struggled to put into words and guitar was a natural conduit for creation.

I spent years playing music as a side guy focused primarily on guitar. I loved exploring textures and notes and, over time, developed a playing style that I became excited to call my own. From there I pursued other musical instruments and learned to record myself in my basement. I would demo my underdeveloped and early songs, burn them on CDs and sell them as demo tapes at shows. I’ve written and distributed more songs than I can remember over the last twenty years.

More recently I’ve taken to the idea that the music I’ve made deserves a more lasting legacy than to be written and then forgotten so I have taken steps to release them on a broader scale. I have released two EPs since 2019 and I’m currently working on several other projects with good friends that I have met along the way. My music draws heavily from outlaw and honky tonk country, punk and laurel canyon songwriter with a big helping of loud and brash guitar. I’m not the best at pinning down my music, but I dig what I’m doing these days, and I bet you will too.

Currently, I’m performing regularly and I just wrapped up a Northeast tour with my friend and Modern Fools’ bandmate, Josh Blair. I live to play, perform and record music and I spend a considerable amount of time learning and practicing an array of instruments (from drums to pedalsteel). I have a small, yet functional, studio in my house where I produce and record music for musicians here in New Hampshire. Finally, I serve on the board of directors for Nova Arts in Keene, NH, an organization that focuses on inclusive promotion of music, culture and art in the Monadnock region.

Disco:

Modern Fools – Strange Offering

Modern Fools - SEER

Jonathan Stephen Braught – Anyways EP

Jonathan Stephen Braught – Badlands EP

Honest Thieves – Banana For Scale

GirlandPiano – Wayward Ark