John Sharp
Vocals, Lead Guitar
John began playing live music in St. Louis, MO, performing in front of live audiences at age 14. Coffee houses and crappy bars littered his experience in stops in Champaign, IL, Tucson, AZ, Portland, OR and Chicago, IL before settling in Tucson in 2014. When you grow up in the Midwest, partying with townies is a way of life.
With his buddies from college, John formed Poor Man’s Cow, a band that evolved into a 6-piece jam band modeled after the likes of The Grateful Dead and Widespread Panic.
Moving to Tucson in 2014, John continued to write songs about men with women who have gone bad, and sometimes men who just do bad things. He also performed with some smaller acts prior to hearing Caleb Warren’s exquisite pontificating about Madison, Morgan, Tommy, and all the townies that went before. Band of Townies was born, and John will continue to play and sing into oblivion.