Jason Wilber

Jason Wilber, originally from Indiana, has cultivated an expansive professional path that encompasses work as a vocalist, composer, record producer, radio presenter, and highly sought-after guitarist for numerous figures across folk and Americana. His longest-running role has been serving as the primary guitarist for the renowned folk artist John Prine, though he has also performed and recorded with Iris DeMent, Greg Brown, Over the Rhine, Sheryl Crow, and many additional musicians. Parallel to these supporting engagements, Wilber initiated his own discography as a lead artist with the 1998 release Lost in Your Hometown. Across the following decade he maintained a consistent stream of thoughtfully assembled Americana albums—Behind the Midway in 2000, King for a Day in 2004, and Lazy Afternoon in 2006—while continuing to record and tour alongside Prine. In 2006 he launched a ten-year tenure as host of the syndicated interview series In Search of a Song, which spotlighted conversations with songwriters, musicians, and producers. He returned to solo recording in 2009 with the atmospheric Ghost of Summers Past and a second volume of Live and Otherwise, the latter gathering previously unreleased live performances from across his career. The next year he contributed a track and served as co-executive producer for the benefit compilation Coal Country Music, which included Willie Nelson, Tom T. Hall, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, and other artists. After the 2014 EP Secret Window, Wilber handled guitar duties and co-executive production on John Prine’s 2016 Grammy-nominated duets album For Better, or Worse. That same year he issued his own covers collection, Echoes.