Written by J.T. Corenflos for the original jtcorenflos.com in 2015:

1963-68 I was born on November 6th in Terre Haute Indiana to my parents Jerry and Alice Corenflos. My dad was a carpenter (worked at Overhead Door company and Indiana State University) and local musician. My mom worked at Columbia Records pressing plant and 8 track plant and later ran the Shuffle Inn restaurant and (Larry Birds’) Boston Connection restaurant. I have a son named Jacob and two siblings, my brother Steve and my sister Cathy.

1968-82 I attended Rankin elementary school, Terre Town elementary school, Otter Creek junior high school, North Vigo high school

1975-82 I played just about every venue possible: Moose Lodge, VFW, American Legion, beer joint, nightclub, motel lounge, ice cream social, wedding reception, super market parking lot, frat party, high school dance, street festival, biker bar, birthday party, nudist colony (no kidding) small town opry, bean dinner, community center and backyard bbq within a hundred miles. Not to mention all the basements, and garages starting out. BIG TIME STUFF!

1982 In March of 1982 I moved to Nashville to play guitar for Jean Shepard (Capital\United Artist Records, Grand ole Opry). I worked with Jean for about a year and a half performing mostly at the Grand ole Opry and occasionally some road dates.

1983 In early summer of 1983 I auditioned and landed a job with Joe Stampley (Epic\CBS records). I worked with Joe around seven years doing road dates–occasionally with Moe Bandy as “Moe and Joe”–plus some television and recording too. During this time I also played in clubs around Nashville with several different writer/artists, sometimes helping them work on their demos in the studio. One of those was a band called “The Fantastic” Blue Tick Hounds featuring David Lee Murphy. We played all over Nashville through the mid and late 80s and I still work with David Lee from time to time.

1990-2015 When spring of 1990 hit I left the road to stay in Nashville and focus on doing studio work. It was like starting over again, playing every Jam night, Writer night, showcase club, casual gig, beer joint and dive bar I could find, not to mention trying to get studio work too. During this period of taking whatever studio work I could get my hands on, I met a lot of other really great players, aspiring songwriters, artists and producers. In fact, I still work with a lot of those same people today.

By 1992 I was starting to get a good bit of demo session work. Around that time I helped form a band called Palomino Road (Capitol\Liberty Records). We did one album and about a year and a half of road dates. After that ended I decided to focus 100% on session work.

Around 1994 I started to get some master (major label) record calls (usually because of a demo I’d played on). Since that time I’ve had the honor to record with several major country and occasionally pop/rock artists (see links below). Even more to my surprise, I’ve received several ACM “guitarist of the year” nominations (winning in 2012) and have been consistently included in “Music Row Magazine” top 5 guitarist. It’s been a wild ride to say the least, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Thank you for visiting my site!

God bless and I wish you health and happiness,

JT