Ashley Jones grew up in Tampa, FL, where she wrote her first song on a post-it note at age seven, the day her grandfather passed away. Being a songwriter was always her dream. Dolly Parton was her idol. Self-taught on guitar at age 13, before long the words on paper and the chords she played began to sound like music. Ashley Jones' career as a musician started with coffee shop gigs during her first year of college. Eventually she formed a band, and by the time she graduated released her first EP, Flowers On My Birthday. It was with that EP in hand that Ashley made the move to New York City where she found herself on some of the city's most notable stages for singer-songwriters, CB's, The Bitter End, The Knitting Factory and The Living Room. She released a second EP, To Hold You Over, after a year of city life. In 2005, Ashley left the city she'd grown to love and moved back to Florida to take care of her father when he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. The year spent with him inspired her first full-length album, To Feel Alive Around Here, recorded in a make-shift studio in her old bedroom. She released that album on a rooftop in Brooklyn, NY, in May of 2006, just four short months after her father passed away. Since that pivotal year Ashley's music has evolved and the reason she makes music has changed.