Meet Peyton Jones | Songwriter/Musician

We had the good fortune of connecting with Peyton Jones and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Peyton, any advice for those thinking about whether to keep going or to give up?
This is a question that is truly a defining moment each and every person will face when they want to do something that is their own. and for me personally, this is something that I’ve questioned myself on so many times. I think the answer to this question comes from deep within ourselves though and the answer is what truly shapes us as individuals and shapes how our buisness will perform.

I grew up a first-generation musician. My mom and dad bought me a guitar with 1 year worth of guitar lessons from Walmart back in 2010. From my first lesson on, I fully fell in love with guitar. My guitar teacher, Brain Lacy, was a truly wholesome, married, christian man from Arlington Texas. He taught me the basics of guitar and taught me in a way as to which I understood. My relationship with my mother was extremely rocky at this point and my dad was working a large job in construction so he was never home, so I looked up to Brian inspirationally from his love and passion for God and his connection of feelings through guitar.’

After one seemingly short year of guitar lessons, I will remember this day for the rest of my life, my mom walked into my room and told me I will not be going to guitar lessons that day. She sat me down and explained to me that Brian had passed away. I was 11 at this time and fully did not understand. Neither did she nor the family. Brian was 39 and a very healthy man. Everyone including myself believes it was just God saying it was his time to come on home. I can testify, he did do a lot of good work and the lords work on this earth.

After he passed away I was shattered. I attended his funeral, and it’s still the only funeral I’ve attended to this day. He was someone I could talk to about music. about writing songs which I had started after on 3 months of lessons. Not good songs but Brian encouraged because he saw a small fire ignite when I plucked my first properly tuned string and I lost that on that day.

I gave up for 4 months. I didn’t play or sing or write or anything. My relationship with my parents was not good as it never truly was at this point in my life and I had no one to talk to about this anger and sadness I felt when I picked up my guitar and tried to sing or play. He loved that and he was amazing at it, but he couldn’t do it anymore. But one day I’m not sure what it was, I went and pickup up my guitar and sat in my bunk bed and absolutely balled my eyes out and sang a song completely out from the bottom of my soul and it was a beautifully slow flowing song. It was purely from the soul, I felt Brians presence in that one moment and I hadn’t felt that in so long and it poured out in that song.

From that moment on I knew I had to keep playing. The passion came alive inside of me that day. That small fire he lit burned bright. I took off and truly soared into my own unique rhythms and discovered what my relationship with the guitar was vs the one Brian had shown. I still play every day for Brian Lacy and all that he started. I began playing live shows in 2024 with whatever bars would let me play with my two speaker set up and I played anywhere from 2-4 hour gigs with most being paid!

And I’m glad I didnt give up, because I didn’t give up, I began posting my original music to social media in 2024 and after 6 months of posting, Charlotte Avenue Entertainment in Nashville Tennessee and their producer reached out to record some songs and that they saw my potential. I drove to Nashville and recorded two of my original songs, one dropping March 21, 2025 named Poisonous Love, and it was surreal. I still can’t believe it’s happening.

I came from having No support and no one in my corner to keep me going. I had no one there to tell me if what I was doing was right, or if it sounded right or if it even looked right. I went purely based off of what I wanted, what I expected, and trusted my gut. My gut told me to keep going and always give it my all and thats exactly what Ive done up to this point and what I will continue to do with everything that I do.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
My music dwells into touchy topics. I try and keep my music telling the blunt truth about experiences and about the way things happen/occur in peoples lives. I’ve personally lived a very blunt life from being mistreated by people whom I should trust, all the way to just always being told lies and never truly knowing who is truly in your corner and not just supporting their own belifs/opinions and dismissing yours. I myself became a blunt person for this and so I try and convey that into my music. Poisonous Love, my debut single which released March 21st of this year speaks of my true feelings of being cheated on, and allowing her to stick around in my life and how I allowed myself to be treated like that. I always want my music to speak to feelings and not dollar signs.

Ive learned many lessons like truly just be yourself. I truly do not believe to have many heroes or idols growing up from the very fact of I want to make music that speaks to experiences from my life and I want to convey those the way I felt them. I didn’t every truly connect with anyone and look up to them or take notes, and I did not have many people in my life to do that So I had to build myself into the man I wanted to be, with my music, my business life, and even my personal. I always want my music to feel and sound like me and so I feel I’m able to do that with limited influence.

I am also a first generation musician. My parents bought me a guitar as a room decoration 14 years ago and no one would have thought I wouldn’t have been able to set it down. I took lessons for one full year which got me going, my instructor became a friend figure to me as he was the only one in my life I could chat about music with. and after that I self taught for the rest. I enjoy this background though because with things like my vocals and strumming pattern being self taught, I feel as if I’m able to have a more original sound and truly give off a ‘Peyton Jones’ Sound.

I always want my music to connect with your feelings and to help you feel understood. I did not have much emotional guidance growing up, whether thats dealing with my emotions or talking about them and so music is my way to get them out and hopefully connect with people who might also felt that way at some point in their life.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Id personally start with a local brunch place near where I live called Ales Kitchen In midlothian. They have brunch food to die for and cocktails that are deadly! Id then probably take them to Northpark Center in Dallas to show them a boujee shopping mall. After that we would make several stops throughout the weekend to Cowboys Red River Dance Hall! Red River is my all time go to spot and where you can find me after any gig or any Saturday night! Got tons to do like hard wood floors for dancing, a stage for live music, and a great pool area. (They also have a mechanical Bull)

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
Id like to give a shoutout to Charlotte Avenue Entertainment for being absolutely the best people to work with! Y’all truly do take care of me and my needs and believe in me and I feel it. Thank you for all that you do and I can’t wait to keep working with y’all and keep getting better! Huge Shoutout to Will and Michelle Gawley, and everyone involved on both of my projects.

And Huge shoutout to all of my close friends who have been by my side throughout all of this and have been boosting me up throughout this. A support system makes everything easier and I will be eternally grateful for all of them.

Website: https://vyd.co/PoisonousLove

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialpeytonjonesmusic?igsh=azZlbDZuemh6bGs0&utm_source=qr

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BF3sDJ95Z/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Youtube: https://youtube.com/@officialpeytonjonesmusic?si=9XM6y76X7_ALiTVf

Other: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QT29EY0mHtfzPNS20YLiT?si=1hcQr-crTEenE3aV86sVdw

Image Credits
All my pictures.