Biography

Hardware was once the stock-in-trade of Pittsburgh’s Bindley family, manufacturers and wholesalers who set up shop at the turn of the 20th century. Just as the city itself has transformed, so has the Bindley name: For today’s Bindley Hardware Co., the nuts and bolts are the makings of song and Jon Bindley is proprietor. A writer by training, he headed south to Nashville to play with a friend’s band in 2011, and honed his songwriting craft as an acolyte of venerable songwriter Fred Koller, known for penning hits with the likes of John Hiatt, John Prine and Shel Silverstein. Upon his return to Pittsburgh in 2014, Bindley began to develop his artistic identity, that of a workingman’s songwriter. The self-dubbed, “Rust-Belt Americana” band has earned a stellar live reputation, sharing stages with the likes of Dawes, Nicole Atkins, and The Felice Brothers. Their full-length debut entitled, Ever Satisfactory, is at the intersection of alt-country and heartland rock, with back-to-basics simplicity and grit. On first listen, it may be easy to see forefathers like Gram Parsons and Jim Croce preceding Jon Bindley, and that wouldn’t be wrong. The 1970s and ’80s town-in-transition poetry of Springsteen and Scarecrow-era Mellencamp are also sensible touchstones.