Brother John & the Lonely Roads is less a band and more an ongoing musical gamble between frontman Brother John (otherwise known as Caleb John Lawson, your local singer, guitar player, banjo picker, and primary instigator) and whichever musicians he can wrangle into playing with him. He draws his musical influence from classic country; soul, gospel, and Motown; old-time folk music; and the hymnals he grew up singing from.