Jack Ingram

Jack Ingram was born on Nov. 15, 1970, in Houston. He first played seriously while studying psychology
at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He toured around the bars and roadhouses of Texas with his
Beat Up Ford band, and landed a regular Tuesday night gig at the honky-tonk club Adair's. The second
of Ingram's two independently released albums was recorded live at the club. He earned a recording
contract with Universal Records' Rising Tide imprint and worked with Steve Earle on his debut for the
label, 1997's Livin' Or Dyin', which also featured co-writing credits from Jim Lauderdale and Todd
Snider.

Ingram relocated to Sony's Lucky Dog imprint for 1999's Hey You. The 2000 follow-up was a Texas
concert recorded with Charlie Robison and Bruce Robison. In 2002, Electric confirmed Earle's influence
on Ingram's music, with his bar-room country songs infused with a devil-may-care rock 'n' roll attitude.
Lucky Dog issued several songs from the Electric sessions as the EP Extra Volts in 2003. Live at Billy
Bob's Texas arrived in November 2003.

In 2006, Ingram released Live -- Wherever You Are, an album he recorded at Gruene Hall, on Big
Machine Records. The project included his first two new studio tracks since the Electric sessions. The
album's first single, "Wherever You Are," reached No. 1 at country radio.