John Common
Style / Genre: Roots Rock / Indie / Americana

About the Artist:
JOHN COMMON sometimes wishes he were a filmmaker or a painter, but due to a run-in with his brother's record collection at an impressionable age, he ended up with a bad case of the rock and an obsession for making music instead. He's constantly writing songs... they range from raucous and snarly to beautiful and introspective. He grew up in Pensacola, Florida -- hotbed for every strain of rabidly fundamentalist, evangelical Christian sect known to man (action) and a surprisingly vibrant indie music scene (reaction). When he was thirteen, he found his older brother's Epiphone acoustic guitar covered in dust in the back of a closet and a light bulb went on. "Writing songs is pretty much the only thing I've ever stuck with," he says. After traveling around the country, writing, playing shows and just soaking it all in, he eventually made his way to Colorado. As the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the Denver-based band RAINVILLE, he built a reputation for writing gritty, honest songs and then playing and singing the hell out of them live. Rainville released two albums to critical acclaim nationally and in Europe, and toured from 1999 to 2004. In late 2004 John began exploring different territory. That desire to experiment led him to begin writing and recording a body of music unlike anything he's ever done before. It's difficult to classify and he’s quite happy to be making music without labels.

JOHN COMMON has shared the stage with Cowboy Junkies, Camper Van Beethoven, Matthew Sweet, Dolorean, Jim White, The Replacements, DriveBy Truckers, The Old 97s, Trashcan Sinatras, Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers, Widespread Panic, Cracker, Rhett Miller, The Gourds, Slobberbone, Jesse Dayton, The Souvenirs and others.