Preston Wimberly at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Preston Wimberly is an American musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist known for being a member of

Jamestown Revival Jamestown Revival is an American folk duo made up of Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay. The childhood friends from Magnolia, Texas, write songs about everyday life that are a combination of harmonies that merge Southern country, Americana and Wester ...

and a former member of

The Wild Feathers The Wild Feathers are an American country rock band formed in 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, by Ricky Young, Joel King, and Taylor Burns, all of whom were lead singers in previous bands. Drummer Ben Dumas joined the band following th ...

Career

Preston Wimberly was raised in Dallas. He and fellow Wild Feathers member Taylor Burns attended

Richardson High School Richardson High School (RHS) is a magnet high school in Richardson, Texas, United States with approximately 2,770 students and a student/teacher ratio of approximately 15:1 in the 20182019 school year. It is the oldest high school in the Richardso ...

Richardson, Texas Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 United States census, the city had a total population of 119,469. Richardson is an inner suburb of the city of Dallas. It is home to the University of ...

. In 2007, Wimberly and Taylor started

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band Noble Dog. Wimberly and Burns later went on to found

country rock Country rock is a genre of music which fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal s ...

band

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. The Wild Feathers were distinguished by their unique quadruple harmonic style, with four main vocalists. Like Wimberly, the other three vocalists in The Wild Feathers had previously been frontmen of their own bands before starting The Wild Feathers. Wimberly recorded The Wild Feathers' self-titled 2013 album ''The Wild Feathers.'' He appeared in

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's 2015 film ''The Longest Ride''. He officially left the band in 2015, after recording the album ''Lonely Is A Lifetime'' which was released in 2016. Wimberly has had a solo career as a guitarist, and performed with acts like The Way Down Wanderers and King Corduroy. He was feature on Statesboro Revue's album ''Ramble On Privilege Creek'' (2013). In 2016, Wimberly joined

as guitarist. Previously, Jamestown Revival had joined The Wild Feathers on their 2014 tour. In 2016 Wimberly performed at the

Ryman Auditorium Ryman Auditorium (also known as Grand Ole Opry House and Union Gospel Tabernacle) is a 2,362-seat live-performance venue located at 116 Rep. John Lewis Way North, in Nashville, Tennessee. It is best known as the home of the ''Grand Ole Opry'' fr ...

with The Wild Feathers' for their live album ''Live At The Ryman''.

Discography

Jamestown Revival

The Wild Feathers

Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wimberly, Preston American country rock musicians American country rock singers American country singer-songwriters American country guitarists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Country musicians from Texas Richardson High School alumni