Jon Vezner
GRAMMY® Award-Winning Songwriter
Many artists came together and created the song, Play It Forward, which is fundraising on behalf of Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee to support their mission of feeding hungry people and working to solve hunger issues in our community.
Second Harvest is distributing nearly 40% more pounds of food per week compared to this time last year. Simultaneously, grocery store food donations have declined more than 30%, and food drive donations are at a standstill. This means Second Harvest must purchase an additional 100,000 pounds of food each week to feed our Middle Tennessee neighbors.
By supporting this fundraiser, your gift will provide hope to those in need. http://shfbmt.convio.net/goto/playitforward
Jon was recently featured in the wonderful Ken Burns special "Country Music" on PBS
From the article Ken Burns' Top 5 Song Discoveries While Making 'Country Music'
'Where've You Been,' Kathy Mattea
So John Vezner's married to Kathy Mattea. He's at the Bluebird Cafe, and he's singing this song that he and Don Henry had written, about his grandparents. His grandfather had been a salesman, and his grandmother was the salesman's wife who waited for him to come home at the end of every day. She slips in her old age into forgetfulness, and one day they're in different parts of the hospital for different reasons. She's been unresponsive, and he's wheeled into her room, and she looks up and she says, "Where've you been?" And it just... apparently, at the Bluebird, people were sobbing by the first or second verse.
It seemed too long and too maudlin of a song, nobody was going to record it. But Kathy Mattea said, "I want to do this," and it won two Grammy awards. I'd never heard of it. It's one of those requested songs in the canon of country music that is just so poignant. None of us are untouched by age-old love, and the fact of what happens to them is common to so many families. You can endow the ordinary with the extraordinary by just telling a good story. And "Where've You Been" is a great story.
Snow, Snow, Snow - The DonJuans
Video by www.alvarortega.com.
Snow, Snow, Snow
