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 Dwight Yoakam collaborator Pete Anderson, 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 Shooter Jennings in 2011 and “Dark & Dirty Mile” in 2013, also co-produced with Jennings. The last album was released in October of 2015 and was titled “Squelch”.
| Net Worth 2021: | 20 million |
