Dan Jones is a punk and indie rock and roll singer-songwriter living in Kansas City, Missouri. Rock and Roll Daydreams is his 9th album release, and his fourth with Dan Jones and The Squids.

Jones' influences range from classic 60's and 70's (Lou Reed, The Who, Neil Young, Alex Chilton) and alternative and punk rock (The Minutemen, Guided By Voices, The Replacements, Meat Puppets). He was born in the suburbs of Kansas City but headed to the Pacific Northwest in his early 20’s, for about a twenty-year stay. From 1998 to 2013, Jones made indie albums and played along the I-5 corridor first as an americana troubadour, then leading the ever-changing Eugene-based Dan Jones and The Squids as well as The Golden Motors.

As a prolific and hard-working regional solo artist and bandleader he supported local Eugene bills with Dinosaur Jr, fIREHOSE, Decemberists, Mike Watt, Steve Wynn, John Doe, Stew, Arthur Lee, and many others.

When Jones first made the burgeoning Pacific Northwest Americana scene, The Oregonian declared “any given verse of his songs packs more wit than a roomful of singer-songwriters could muster in a month of open mics.” The Eugene Weekly later called him the “bed-headed poet laureate of Eugene…[finding] beauty in the ordinary while coaxing poetry from things most writers leave in the garage...delivered in a Neil Young-esque holler or Lou Reed-style talk/song…”

Returning to his hometown Kansas City area in 2013, Jones fired up The Squids again with junior high pal Tulipana (Season To Risk), and college pals Ronan and Alex Alexander, all stalwarts of the KC scene. They’ve become a mainstay on local stages and have supported Tav Falco, Pedaljets, MSSV The Big Iron, and many more.

Jones shares music, art, and writing pretty much daily at www.danjonesmusic.com and still sends handwritten postcards to his mailing list members.

also from dan jones

dan jones: for your radio (2000)

dan jones: one man submarine (2003)

dan jones: get sounds now (2005)

dan jones and the squids: totally human (2007)

dan jones and peter wilde: my name is john smith (2010)

the golden motors (2011)

the golden motors II (2018) 

dan jones and the squids: we live in a world that is out of this world (2019)

dan jones and the squids: serve without delay (2021)