Johnathan Rice

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Johnathan Rice (born May 27, 1983) is a Scottish-American singer-songwriter from Alexandria, Virginia, who spent part of his childhood in Glasgow, Scotland. He released his first album, Trouble Is Real, in 2005, followed by Further North in 2007.

Rice moved to New York City at 18 to pursue music and quickly built a local following. He began a long-running collaboration with Jenny Lewis, with seven songs on Further North co-written with her. The two later released the Jenny and Johnny project, culminating in the 2010 album I’m Having Fun Now.

Rice also worked behind the scenes, producing and co-writing on Jenny Lewis’s Acid Tongue (2008) and collaborating with Elvis Costello on Momofuku (2008). In 2013–14, Rice and Lewis scored and wrote seven original songs for the film Song One, starring Anne Hathaway.

His third solo album, Good Graces, appeared in 2013, and in 2014 he co-produced two songs and co-wrote two songs on Jenny Lewis’s The Voyager. Additional moments include his acting turn as Roy Orbison in Walk the Line (2005) and his extensive touring, including a notable Hyde Park show in London with R.E.M.