Jon Pardi’s Life Story Is Playing Out Like a Down-Home Country Tune

The chart-topping Nashville singer-songwriter finds his inspiration from the ‘good, bad, sad’ of his own journey.

Country star Jon Pardi says, 'My job as an artist is to sing about experience.' Courtesy of Jim Wright

The drive to be a country music star came early for Jon Pardi, whose fifth studio album, “Honkytonk Hollywood,” was released on April 11.

“When I went to preschool, I said my name was Randy Travis. And that is a true statement,” Pardi told The Epoch Times in a recent interview. “I was also Merle Haggard, George Strait. I was a big country music fan.”