THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS
Ronnie Winter - lead vocals, guitar, percussion, baritone horn
Duke Kitchens - guitar, piano, vocals
Joey Westwood - bass, vocals
Jon Wilkes - drums, vocals
“My Grandpa said to me/ Grandson sit down we need to talk/ In life there may be times/ When it gets hard to walk the walk/ It's easier to take the path/ That most have traveled on / But then again sometimes to do what's right/ You must walk alone”
Just two years have passed since The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, a group of friends from Middleburg, Florida who’d grown up together, emerged with their Virgin Records debut, Don’t You Fake It, which spent 62 weeks on Billboard’s Top 200, going on to sell more than a million copies in the U.S. The platinum-plus single, “Face Down,” sold 1.5 million digital downloads, has been streamed almost 17 million times on MySpace and has since been retired after spending 52 weeks on the Top 20 Modern Rock chart (RJA is one of two bands to have done so). Rock radio smash “False Pretense” and the new wedding/prom standard “Your Guardian Angel” (10.2 million MySpace spins and 455k downloads) contributed to the album’s total of 50 million MySpace streams, and the band has since sold-out national headline and festival tour appearances