Rebecca Jed

Growing up on Ranches that her Dad owned in Plano, Texas and in the hills of Harriet, Arkansas Rebecca grew up listening to Waylon and Willie. Rebecca Jed was bit by the honky tonk bug at an early age, while barrel racing at the Houston Texas Rodeo and seeing Willie Nelson, “Hearing, ‘Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys’ ” recalls Jed, “was a life changing experience for me. I knew from that moment I had to be a country singer.”

 Rebecca Jed is a female singer songwriter who has 4 self-produced albums released and is working on her 5th album.  She has a unique sound that has her climbing the chart on several radio stations.

Rebecca has spent the last decade honing her craft of singing and songwriting in Nashville. Following in the footsteps of her heroes Dolly and Loretta, she has toured extensively from the bayou to the sunshine state.

With four self-produced records under her belt, hundreds of stages under her boots, and many miles of highway traveled the years of hard work and long hours have awarded her with nominations like Outlaw Female of the Year 2018 at the Ameripolitan awards, Rebecca Jed is the rising Lone Star of authentic country music.

Recently returning home from her Cowboy Up Tour in late November 2018, under the close supervision of her Timber wolf, Rebecca continues to write new material as she is getting ready to go back in the studio to record her most recent her songs “The Mountain, You and Me”, “If I Were A Truck” as she gears up for her next tour. Singing her own songs occasionally Rebecca will do some Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn covers.

On her Cowboy Up Tour Rebecca recently played in Tennessee and Texas Venues

Leaving the the Ranch lifestyle in East Plano, Texas and in Harriet, Arkansas behind, Jed made the move to Nashville.  Knowing where she wanted to be and what she wanted to do, and that was to be on the stage singing her songs "I grew up pretty sheltered, so when I turned 18 I wanted to see the world," Adding that Los Angeles lifestyle was not her calling: "After some years I got a U-Haul hooked it to the back of my Suburban and drove halfway across the country to Nashville, where I lived for 12 years."

Rebecca’s Dad had a love of traditional country music and would always play the favorite classic songs on the jukebox in their home. After seeing Willie Nelson in Houston Rebecca knew where her calling was. "It wasn't one of his best shows, actually some people walked out during the show, but from then on, I knew what I wanted to do." Playing in Music City, USA on the now-famous Broadway strip and in bars on the East Side, Rebecca didn't let the big record labels of the music industry persuade her to bend to their way of money music. Instead she continued writing her own songs without co-writers, working side jobs to pay for and produce her own three albums herself and not worrying about trying to get a record deal with the main stream music labels.  Rebecca was able to keep her independence and doing things on her own and in her own way for many years has contributed to her second nomination as an Outlaw Female for the 2019 Ameripolitan Awards. "I was also nominated last year, and I think I am where I want to be with my music career."

Recently in an interview with Jed Honky Tonk Daily compared her vocals to a "raspier," blues-tinged version of Tanya Tucker who had a hit with the Bobby Borchers and husband & wife, Ed & Patsy Bruce penned song "When I Die (Let Me Go To Texas)" which is also part of Rebecca's live show, leads us to other female influences, and Kitty Wells is mentioned. With one of the first (if not the first) female-empowering song in country music ever, the over 66-year old tune and hit, written by J.D. Miller "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" hasn't lost anything in meaning over the years.

That acceptance of a strong female also shines through in her own compositions, like in "Cowboy Up," where she asks her man to be strong, or in "Alpha Wolf" where she insists that she won't "be chained or tamed" but shows some vulnerability in her wish that she's derailed through love in "Wreck My Train." Asked if she normally writes the music or the lyrics first, or combines the two of them, she admits that all three ways have happened to her when sitting down to write her songs.

Years on the road and working extra jobs to be able to play her music has awarded Rebecca Jed the title of Female Outlaw Country Singer Songwriter. She knows what she wants and where she wants to be and she is Cowboyin’ up and getting it done her way.

Cowboy Up
Pearl Handel Pistol
Wildfire and Moonshine
Wild and Free

Rebecca Jed is a female singer songwriter who has 4 self-produced albums released and is working on her 5th album.  She has a unique Outlaw Country mixed with some unique traditional and bluegrass sounds that has her climbing the chart on several radio stations.

Posted on Apr 23 2019 at 05:43pm