The Bones of J.R. Jones

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Rhett welcomes Jonathon Linaberry, the creative force behind The Bones of J.R. Jones, for a conversation about music, artistic evolution, and the emotional realities of releasing work into the world. They discuss his new album Radio Waves, life in upstate New York, and the tension between creation and promotion. Jonathon traces his unexpected path from punk bands and art school to becoming a one-man musical entity, reflects on anonymity and identity, and talks candidly about how writing, recording, and performing remain essential ways of processing the world. Follow Jonathon @thebonesofjrjones Out now! Listen to Rhett’s new album “A lifetime of riding by night” https://rhettmiller.com/ Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Music by Old 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Watch this episode and more on Wheels Off YouTube and Spotify, listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:04.8	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:06.5	That's when it got wheels off.
0:09.6	We started up and we ain't going to starve.
0:12.6	Oh, I like you, I could have not.
0:15.1	That's when they got wheels off.
0:19.6	Jonathan Linnebary is the bones of J.R. Jones and the man behind everything you hear,
0:26.7	from what I understand. Although on this newest record, Radio Waves, a great, great new album that he just dropped.
0:33.7	He has a wonderful producer about whom we will speak at great length in the podcast.
0:39.9	And John is just brilliant.
0:43.9	I'm a fan of his music.
0:46.4	I talk about it.
0:48.3	At the top of the interview, I really love what he does.
0:51.6	And it turns out shocking, very nice, cool, approachable, sweet, thoughtful guy.
0:58.7	I'm so lucky in these podcasts that I get to not just talk to these folks, but meet and really spend, you know, some real time doing a real talk with great creative people.
1:11.6	And I'm really grateful that John was willing to log in,
1:15.6	although he and I are not that far apart right now at this very moment in real time.
1:19.6	By the time you listen to this, it might be different,
1:22.6	because we'll both probably be back out on the road.
1:24.6	But he lives about an hour and a half further away from New York City
1:29.3	than I do. We're both in the country. He's a little bit more in the mountains than me, but same
1:34.1	idea. So great minds think alike, which is something else we discuss at length in this.
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