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Jason Boland was born in Harrah, Oklahoma, though his mother was originally from Arkansas and he still has family near Clinton. He was interested in music from his early childhood and began play on guitar inspired by rock and roll and country singers of 50s. Jason attended a local school in Harrah. After he graduated from school he nearly joined the seminary, but instead chose to attend and study business at Oklahoma State University, North of his hometown in Stillwater. While he attended Oklahoma State University he was in Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, where he found his future friend and bandmate Brad Rice.

The college town Stillwater also is known for being the center of the red dirt music scene, so it was a great place to begin a music career. Jason Boland and his friends was founded their band in the 1998. As a lead vocalist Boland became one of the most successful artists in the red dirt music scene. The band released their first studio album in October of the 1999, it was titled “Pearl Snaps”. Jason Boland & The Stragglers continue to play in the local clubs and red dirt scenes. Jason along with his friends released their second album “Truckstop Diaries” in 2001. The next year Jason’s band was played in a concert at Fort Worth, Texas, where they recorded their first live album “Live and Lit at Billy Bob's Texas”.

In the 2004 Jason released the third album “Somewhere in the Middle”. The album sold enough copies to land them on the country charts. Jason Boland says “We pay homage, but we don't want to copy or be a throwback act. All you can do is try to take the music that inspires you and take it further. And make it personal”. However, work stopped for a few months in October 2005 when Jason entered the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center in Arizona. He had tried to quit drinking “cold turkey”, and went through withdrawals, even having a seizure on the side of the road. But, he still wrote songs and waited for one more career jump. He made a comeback, and in 2006 released his new album “The Bourbon Legend”. This album was produced by longtime <a href="/biography/dwight-yoakam">Dwight Yoakam</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Anderson">collaborator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Anderson">Pete Anderson</a>, and landed even higher on the country charts than “Somewhere in the Middle”.

In 2008 Jason’s vocal cord ruptured during a show and he claimed it was due to “too much yelling and not enough singing” and he was forced to have surgery, then go through therapy and rest. In the same year, Jason and his band produced another album titled “Comal County Blue”, which landed at number 30 on the country charts. Despite almost non-stop touring, they managed two more studio albums from 2008 to 2010. Jason's second live album "High in the Rockies: A Live Album" was released in 2010. The shows were performed in Colorado and Wyoming. They produced their first music video "Tulsa time" that same year. The Stragglers released an album titled “Rancho Alto”, co-produced with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooter_Jennings">Shooter Jennings</a> in 2011 and “Dark & Dirty Mile” in 2013, also co-produced with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooter_Jennings">Jennings</a>. The last album was released in October of 2015 and was titled “Squelch”.

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They tour quite a bit, anywhere from 180 to 220 days out of each year. Though they enjoy being on stage, Jason states they are “most at home among neon signs, crowds in cowboy boots, and cold, cheap beer.” They even founded The Medicine Stone music and camping festival about six and a half hours southwest of St. Louis, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, with fellow red dirt band The Turnpike Troubadours in 2013. Thousands were in attendance it’s very first year. They created this three day event because they noticed that music festivals of this caliber were mainly held down in Texas and they wanted to bring a top notch music festival closer to home, and closer to their fans in the surrounding states where these kinds of artists tour regularly. It’s nothing fancy. You can camp in an RV, a trailer or in a tent, or you can stay at a hotel in town and be shuttled between the resort and motels. You can purchase beer at the festival, and their fanciest food is made in a hot dog truck.

The band is currently based in Austin, Texas. During his career Jason lived through alcoholism, a car accident, and ruptured his vocal cord, but continues to be inspired by music and tries to create something new. Jason’s band has been extremely successful for their genre, and have sold over a million records globally. Jason Boland is a person who represents honkytonk music in the best traditions of Texas and Oklahoma. Jason’s first marriage ended in divorce in 2008, but was married to his current wife, Mandy, in 2012. They were married in Eureka Springs, in a private wedding ceremony.  They have no children, except “one English Bulldog named Gary”.

Jason considers himself a “pretty spiritual man” and attributes his sobriety and ability to get through rehab, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God">God</a>.  Claiming he almost became a preacher at one point in his life, he states the only reason he did not, was by chance. Thus, Jason Boland and The Stragglers was born.

Their latest album “Hard Times are Relative”, a mixture of new songs and some of their classics, is most certainly one of the best country releases in 2018. It’s easy to love, it’s interesting, yet it is still fashioned in their true style. It’s fun and makes you think, keeping you entertained by stirring up a range of emotions. Most importantly, it’s solid country.

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