<div>Johnathan Rice is a singer, producer, and writer living in Los Angeles. Born in Virginia, Rice has spent his adult life inhabiting different corners of the entertainment industry. He played Roy Orbison alongside Joaquin Phoenix’s Johnny Cash in Walk The Line. Further North arrived in 2007, in between world tours with Jenny Lewis. The two would go on to collaborate extensively for twelve years. Rice co-produced and co-wrote Lewis’ second record Acid Tongue and a collaborative album, Jenny and Johnny, was released in 2010. They wrote seven original songs for Anne Hathaway’s film Song One in 2013. During Song One, Rice and Lewis worked with Jonathan Demme who later asked them to write a song for Meryl Streep to perform in what would be his final film, 2015’s Ricki and The Flash. Rice released his third solo record Good Graces in 2013. He worked extensively on Jenny Lewis’s “The Voyager” record, which arrived in 2014. In 2016, he would began writing the new record. Around that time he also started posting haiku poems on the Instagram App. The haikus gained a rabid following and led to the publishing of Rice’s first Book “Farewell, My Dudes: 69 Dystopian Haikus” by LA’s Hat &amp; Beard Press. It became the fastest selling book in the company’s history. In 2017-18 Rice recorded his fourth solo album The Long Game in LA. Produced by Tony Berg (Phoebe Bridgers, Public Image Ltd, Aimee Mann), The Long Game is easily the most stark and direct music of Rice’s long career. </div>