John Wheeler

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Wheeler
Occupation	Country Singer
Date Of Birth	Jan 7, 1970(1970-01-07)
Age	54
Birthplace	Tennessee
Country	United States
Birth City	Tennessee
Horoscope	Capricorn

John Wheeler Biography

John Wheeler is one of the most popular and richest Country Singer who was born on January 7, 1970 in Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. Famous for forming and fronting the popular bluegrass and rock fusion band Hayseed Dixie, he is also notable for his 2013 solo album Un- American Gothic.

After moving to England, Wheeler had a guest spot on Simon Mayo‘s popular BBC Radio 2 program.

John Wheeler (born January 7, 1970) is an American musician, songwriter and music producer. While he is best known as the creator and frontman of the internationally-known “Rockgrass” band Hayseed Dixie, Wheeler also performs solo and has produced and performed on albums by many other artists. He is the 2nd cousin of bluegrass music pioneer, Lester Flatt. An avid motorcycle enthusiast, Wheeler has ridden a motorcycle on every tour since 2006, logging over 200,000 miles (320,000 kilometers) across Europe and the United States.

Following university, Wheeler returned to Nashville, where he toured the United States as a backing musician playing guitar and fiddle and singing harmony for several touring acts. In 1996, he also set up his own recording studio in Nashville where he recorded demos and independent albums for numerous songwriters and bands as well as his own increasingly experimental recording projects. In the summer of 2000, Wheeler had the idea – “just for something fun,” he has said – to record an album of AC/DC songs played in a pseudo-bluegrass style. Singing lead and playing fiddle, mandolin and guitar, Wheeler recorded an album originally titled AC/Dixie along with local Nashville bassist Kurt Carrick, dobro player Mike Daly and guitarist Rusty Horn. The unexpected commercial success of this recording on local radio led to a record deal with Nashville-based Dualtone Records, who released the album nationally on April 17, 2001, and to Wheeler forming the band, Hayseed Dixie, in order to perform the project live. The success of the 2001 Hayseed Dixie U.S. tour and the album, which sold over 100,000 copies in the United States in its first year of release, led to Wheeler continuing with the Hayseed Dixie project through 2018, producing 15 further Hayseed Dixie recordings which have collectively sold over 800,000 copies worldwide and to more than 1,500 live performances in 31 different countries. In March 2003, the band had the unique distinction of having 3 different albums in the Top 15 of the bluegrass category of the US Billboard charts at the same time, Wheeler is also the songwriter for the majority of Hayseed Dixie’s original songs, including the cult hits, “I’m Keeping Your Poop (In a Jar)” and “She Was Skinny When I Met Her.”

He was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a cousin of the famous bluegrass musician Lester Flatt.

John Wheeler Net Worth

John Wheeler is one of the richest Country Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Wheeler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From the late 1980s until the mid 1990s, he attended the University of Tennessee and the University of Wisconsin.

While touring with his band, he rode his motorcycle for more than two hundred thousand miles.

Wheeler was born January 7, 1970 in Nashville, Tennessee, the only child of a carpenter and agronomist. Almost entirely self-taught on his instruments, he began playing the piano at the age of 3. His father, having seen him spend hours using a tennis racquet as a pretend guitar, got him an inexpensive Fender acoustic guitar at the age of 7, and he spent much of his childhood teaching himself by playing along to records on his mother’s vinyl record player. From 1987 -1995 he studied philosophy and history at universities in Tennessee and Wisconsin, paying his way through by playing in several bands which performed on the college music and fraternity party circuits of the time.

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Who is John Wheeler Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

John Ranked on the list of most popular Country Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John Wheeler celebrates birthday on January 7 of every year.

What was John Wheeler's cause of death?

Jack Wheeler
Born| John Parsons Wheeler IIIDecember 14, 1944 Laredo, Texas, U.S.
Died| c. December 30, 2010 (aged 66) Delaware, U.S.
Cause of death| Homicide
Body discovered| Cherry Island Landfill, Wilmington, Delaware

Did John Wheeler get a Nobel Prize?

His awards, including the Wolf Prize in physics, Bohr, Franklin, Einstein and Fermi prizes, were many and huge. But Wheeler never was awarded a Nobel.

Why did John Wheeler name the black hole?

The name “black hole” – for a collapsed star so dense that even light could not escape – came out of a conference in 1967. Mr. Wheeler made the name stick after someone else had suggested it as a replacement for the cumbersome “gravitationally completely collapsed star,” he recalled.

When did John Wheeler discover Blackhole?

Robert Oppenheimer’s position when he first discussed a theory of black holes with Dr. Wheeler in 1939.

What really happened to Jack Wheeler?

His death was ruled a homicide caused by assault and blunt force trauma , and his body was later traced to a dumpster in Newark, Del., more than 13 miles away from where he was last seen in Wilmington. Wheeler was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors in April of 2011.