"No matter what sound comes out of the speakers, it's always going to sound like the blues to me", JT said when asked about 'changing gears' so many times since the beginning of his career in seemingly different directions.

Born January 19, 1980 to music loving parents, the youngest of three grew up with the soulful sounds of the fifties and sixties in the air as he, his father and siblings would stand around the family piano and sing back up to each other. Never tiring of the music his father made, he would stay up late asking for more as soon as he could speak.

JT learned what his father was playing on piano quickly and by age 7 would play and sing for guests whenever given the opportunity. By age 10, this multi-instrumentalist had already excelled in music at school learning the violin, viola, cello, and bass without being able to read a single note. That summer he dedicated every moment to learning all he could about the guitar missing many family dinners fumbling with Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and SRV licks.

By the time he was 13, he had already begun playing guitar professionally in a mariachi on the weekends. "$50 for an hour's work wasn't bad for a 13 year old" he said jokingly, adding that he just spent it all on new tapes and music equipment. By 15 he started his own blues band playing all the songs he learned watching the local guitar players at their gigs when he would sneak into the live music venues to feed the need. He quickly began playing all over the coastal bend no less than three nights a week, always with his parents in tow so he would not be thrown out by the bouncers for being too young.

Once he graduated high school, he became a regular act at Dr. Rockit's Blues Bar hosting jam sessions and headlining on Tuesdays and the occasional weekend in any given live music venue or festival in South Texas.

It was there that he received the best schooling in music by the likes of Gatemouth Brown who commented, "alright, boy, alright" when the youngster went to meet him after his opening set. Austinites, W.C. Clark, Chris Duarte, Jimmie Vaughan, and Chicago blues legend Jimmie Johnson and even Carlos Santana were all instrumental in the grooming of JT's style growing up and coming into his own through chance meetings.

He already had a distinct style of showmanship and virtuosity, but had not quite mastered the craft of original songwriting. It wasn't until at the age of 21, after moving to the Big Apple and new to the New York blues scene, and in a completely different element than his familiar Texas blues roots, he began playing in different bands from mo town to blues to country to Prince tribute bands and soon understood what he had been missing. A non-prejudice approach to songwriting. "I realized that it does not have to 'fit' a genre in order to work as long as it was real, long before I had moved to New York, but I had not seen it so openly encouraged" he was quoted as saying.

Since moving back to Texas from New York City, he has applied all that he has learned from the good and bad times into his music and songwriting.

His self-titled first release since his return, received many wonderful reviews from both blues and country lovers. "There's really not that big a difference between country and blues. They both come from the same place : the heart of America. I guess it to some people it just depends on what kind of hat you wear to the gig."

His new album titled "Crazy Sun", has so far received great reviews and the first single "I Won't Never Go" will be the first in history to go directly from the studio to worldwide radio stations later in the summer of 2007. "This one definitely has more of what traditionalists would call blues but that was just the way the songs were written. It's always blues, as long as I got my guitar, it will be blues no matter what anyone says."

He has followed his father's footsteps in teaching his two sons the beauties of music and all that it can bring. His oldest played his first gig on guitar at his 8th birthday and his 3 year old is already playing drums.

"This is something I was put here to do. Nothing gives me more joy than to write and play for good people and share my life experiences and tell tales through song."