Name: John Haywood
Start: 2025-12-21T19:00:00+00:00
Location: FortyFive Vinyl Café

Pre Christmas Country Music with John Heywood “As honest and country as a tumbleweed and a dirt road” Baltimore native John Haywood brings his unique sound to the intimate setting of FortyFive.
John Haywood was born
the son of a sheet metal contractor just south of Baltimore, Maryland. He earned
his BA in English in 2013 and set out to become a novelist, traveling the country
before settling in Nashville to begin work on a book about the Music City. He
fell in love with songwriting, however, and returned in 2021 to establish himself
in the music community, writing over 300 songs in his first two years and
establishing a unique sound and voice of his own. In 2023, he was added to the
Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival and made his television debut as lead singer
of the band Gamblers in the Neon on the AXS show "Banded: The Musician
Competition." He also released his first two singles, “Ghost Town in the Sky” and
“Saint,” both reaching over 100,000 streams. In 2024, he returned to the Tin Pan
festival and saw his first viral songwriting cut “Tamed by Tennessee” reach over 2 million streams