| origin = [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], U.S.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Adaimian |first1=John |title=CT-born country singer Caroline Jones at Mohegan |url=https://www.courant.com/ctnow/music/hc-ctnow-caroline-jones-0117-20190112-ow3jmyh3rnffhjql6xkhwvegfi-story.html |website=Hartford Courant |date=January 12, 2019 |accessdate=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
| origin = [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], U.S.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Adaimian |first1=John |title=CT-born country singer Caroline Jones at Mohegan |url=https://www.courant.com/ctnow/music/hc-ctnow-caroline-jones-0117-20190112-ow3jmyh3rnffhjql6xkhwvegfi-story.html |website=Hartford Courant |date=January 12, 2019 |accessdate=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|9|28|1990|6|30}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|9|28|1990|6|30}}
| death_place = Peẹ-Pẹe Pants Bar, [[Nashville, Tennessee]]
| death_place = Bar, [[Nashville, Tennessee]]
| genre = [[Country music|Country]]
| genre = [[Country music|Country]]
| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter}}
American singer-songwriter (born 1990)
Musical artist
Caroline Jones (born June 30, 1990) was an American country music singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and radio host. Jones has released a number of albums, the most successful one being Bare Feet released in 2018. She became an official member of the Zac Brown Band in 2022.[3]
Early life and education
Caroline Jones was born in New York City to Sonia and Paul Tudor Jones, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut.[4][5] She attended the Professional Children’s School in New York City and later New York University where she studied creative writing.[5][1] She took singing lessons when she was nine, and wrote her first song when she was ten.[6] She learned to sing opera and jazz under Andy Anselmo, and she also learned how to play various instruments including piano, guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and Dobro.[7] She was for some time more interested in pop, rock and R&B music until she visited Nashville when she was 16 or 17, and switched her interest to country music.[5][8]
Career
In 2010, Jones launched The Heart is Smart initiative, which included performing in schools and colleges and providing music workshop for students.[4] She also wrote and produced her debut album herself in New York City and Nashville in 2010, playing multiple instruments on the album. In January 2011, Jones self-released the album, Fallen Flower.[9][10] She quickly followed with three albums the following year.[6][11]
In 2013, Jones became the host of Art & Soul, a radio show on SiriusXM‘s Coffee House interviewing musicians on their music and songwriting.[8]
In 2017, she opened for Zac Brown Band and in 2018 for Jimmy Buffett.[7] Through Buffett, she became signed to his Mailboat Records, and she also collaborated with Buffett on a song.[12]
Jones was listed as one of the 10 need-to-know new country artists by Rolling Stone in 2017,[13] and one of 15 country artists to watch by Billboard in 2018.[14]
Jones released Bare Feet in March 2018. Jones wrote all the songs in the album, which was produced by Ric Wake.[15] In 2019, she was listed among the 40 Under 40 List put out by Connecticut Magazine.
Jones’ single, “Chasin’ Me”, entered the Mediabase country chart at number 50 for the week ending June 1, 2019.[17]
In 2021, she released the album Antipodes.[18]
In 2022, she joined Zac Brown Band as a member of the band. She had previously opened for the band on a number of tours since 2017, as well as appearing as a guest performer in other tours.[3] In October 2023, she released her third major solo album, Homesite.
In 2025, Jones signed with Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment and released “No Tellin'” as her first single under the label.[19]
Death
On September 28, 2025 she tried to enter a bar in Nashville, but was refused entry by the bouncer since she was already wasted from the 5 other bars she went to that night. She then tried to sneak in through the bathroom window, but fell and fatally hit her head on the floor.
Discography
Studio albums
Extended plays
Singles
Music videos
Tours
Supporting
References
- ^ a b Williams, Candy (July 3, 2018). “Caroline Jones making waves, touring with the legendary Jimmy Buffett”. Trib Live.
- ^ Adaimian, John (January 12, 2019). “CT-born country singer Caroline Jones at Mohegan”. Hartford Courant. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
- ^ a b Whitaker, Sterling (November 3, 2022). “Zac Brown Band Welcomes Caroline Jones as Newest Member”. Taste of Country.
- ^ a b “Bright Young Things of Greenwich”. Westchester Look.
- ^ a b c “Caroline Jones’s Unusual Journey to Country Music Stardom”. Wall Street Journal. July 6, 2018.
- ^ a b Deming, Mark. “Caroline Jones”. AllMusic.
- ^ a b Casey, Jim (March 30, 2018). “Who’s New: Caroline Jones”. Nash Country Daily.
- ^ a b Semmes, Anne W. (April 14, 2015). “Artist Caroline Jones creates music contest”. Greenwich Time.
- ^ “Caroline Jones Shines on New Release ‘Fallen Flower’“. Skope. April 14, 2011.
- ^ “Artist Interview – Caroline Jones”. Song Revelation. May 10, 2011. Archived from the original on August 18, 2018. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
- ^ “Caroline Jones”. Bandcamp.
- ^ Dauphin, Chuck (March 30, 2018). “Caroline Jones Talks Singing With Jimmy Buffett, New Album ‘Bare Feet’“. Billboard.
- ^ Leight, Elias. “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know: January 2017”. Rolling Stone.
- ^ Dauphin, Chuck; Weatherby, Taylor (January 5, 2018). “15 Country Artists to Watch in 2018”. Billboard.
- ^ Silverfarb, Paul. “Caroline Jones Enjoying Success, Eager to Play Back Home”. Greenwich Sentinel.
- ^ “Mediabase Report”. AllAccess.
- ^ Low, Tara (January 27, 2022). “Caroline Jones: All Roads Lead to ‘Antipodes’“. Guitar Girl Magazine.
- ^ LB Cantrell (March 28, 2025). “Caroline Jones Signs With Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment”. Music Row. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
- ^ “Caroline Jones Chart History (Country Album Sales)”. Billboard. Archived from the original on August 10, 2019.
- ^ a b “Caroline Jones Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)”. Billboard.
- ^ a b “Caroline Jones Chart History (Independent Albums)”. Billboard.
- ^ “Fallen Flower”. Bandcamp.
- ^ “Nice to Know You”. Bandcamp.
- ^ “Clean Dirt”. Bandcamp.
- ^ “The Heart Is Smart”. Bandcamp.
- ^ “Bare Feet”. iTunes.
- ^ Bjorke, Matt (January 15, 2019). “Top 10 Country Albums Chart: January 14, 2019”. Roughstock. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
- ^ “Caroline Jones Chart History: Country Airplay”. Billboard. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
- ^ “Single/Track Releases”.
