Jason King’s musical talents can be traced back through family generations. His grandfather played bass and his father was a drummer. Like a good son, he followed in Dad’s footsteps and began his musical adventures behind the drum kit.

Born and raised in the Peoria, Illinois area, J. Boy’s early influences were a steady diet of Led Zeppelin, Allman Brothers, Stevie Ray, Van Morrison, and Delbert McClinton. It didn’t take long before Jason was beating a path across the region with area favorites such as The Dave Chastain Band, Chuck Ely, Fade To Blue, and blues great---Eddie King.

It was during stints with T.V. Blues, and The Greg Glick Band, that J. Boy and Jerry Lee first struck up their musical friendship.  Not only do Jerry and Jason slam together a solid one-two punch on bass and drums, they compliment each other as a song writing force as well----most notably---“If You Fall” on the “Mojo Palace”cd, and a fresh new batch of collaborations to be included on the next Juju Kings project.

Jason performs on a DW kit with Zildjian cymbals and uses Vic Firth drum sticks. When writing song lyrics, he uses a #2 lead pencil with a good eraser and anything within his grasp to write on----paper, napkin, matchbook cover, etc.

Whether he is clutching a set of drum sticks or pencil and paper,-- Jason “J. Boy” King always puts his soul on the line while adding a solid groove and good spirit to The Juju Kings!!