Brandon Jenkins (musician)
| Brandon Jenkins | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Brandon Dean Jenkins |
| Origin | Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. |
| Genres |
Red Dirt Texas Country |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Rainy Records Red Dirt Legend Recordings Remorseless Records Explosive Records Thirty Tigers Smith Entertainment E1 Music |
| Associated acts |
Cross Canadian Ragweed Jason Boland & The Stragglers Stoney LaRue Casey Donahew Band Josh Abbott Band |
| Website | brandonjenkins |
Brandon Dean Jenkins (born June 1969) is a prolific American singer-songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma, now based in Nashville, Tennessee, who is notable for being part of the Red Dirt music genre.
Jenkins was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to parents Wilma Jenkins (née Linthicum) and Dean Jenkins, a popular Tulsa radio disc jockey on stations KELi (where he was known as Dean Kelly) and KMOD-FM.
In 1987, Jenkins graduated from Central High School in Tulsa, where he was in the jazz band, sang in the choir, and taught himself guitar. In the 1980s, He attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. During his time at OSU, Jenkins made life-long friends with many of his long-term musical collaborators in the Red Dirt Music community, including Cody Canada, Mike McClure, Stoney LaRue, and Bleu Edmondson.
Jenkins' uncle was the Grammy Award-winning bass player, sound engineer, and producer, Gordon Shryock, who was known for his work with J. J. Cale and Leon Russell, as well as Andrae Crouch, Elvis Presley, Natalie Cole, and Dwight Yoakam.
In the early 1990s, Jenkins got his start recording for the Alabama-based record label, Rainy Records.
In 2003, Jenkins moved from Oklahoma to Austin, Texas, where he lived until 2015.
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