Justin Taylor "JT" Hodges (born July 6, 1977) is an American country music singer. In 2011, he signed to Show Dog-Universal Music and released one album, which has produced three charting singles on Hot Country Songs.
Justin Taylor Hodges was born on July 6, 1977, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, by father James McKinley Hodges and mother Marsha Kathleen McDade Hodges. He attended The Oakridge School for high school and graduated in 1996 making him 37. He later graduated from Texas Christian University and moved to Los Angeles, spending several years on the coffeehouse circuit. He met his wife in Jay, California and they moved to Nashville in 2009.
Hodges' parents are both involved in music: his father is a pianist who owns a recording studio in Fort Worth, Texas, and his mother was briefly signed to MCA Nashville in the 1980s. She recorded a version of "The Bed You Made for Me", later a top 5 hit for Highway 101 in 1987.
In mid-2011, Hodges signed to Show Dog-Universal Music and released his debut single, "Hunt You Down", which he co-wrote with Rivers Rutherford and Mark Collie. Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song four stars out of five, saying that it had an "infectious melody" but criticizing the lyrics for being "too cool for the room". Kyle Ward gave an identical rating at Roughstock, also saying that the song had an original sound, although he thought that the "story is a bit implausible" and said that he did not understand the song's bridge. Hodges' debut album includes eleven songs, nine of which he co-wrote. "Goodbyes Made You Mine" and "Sleepy Little Town" also charted from it.
I came up river on a gravel barge from New Orleans
She was standing on the cobblestones in a pair of cut-
off jeans
I asked what she was doin', she said "Sugar, I'm
killin' time".
Then I handed her my wallet and said, "Baby, so am I"
She said "You might need these" and then handed me her
shades
Took me to a barroom darker than the ace of spades
I asked "What's this we're drinkin'?"
She said "Call it smokey Blues"
I couldn't tell you what it tasted like,
but I know I had a few...
And we danced and we laughed,
never talked about tomorrow
We just lived a little in the here and now
With her hands in my hair, like a million magic fingers
She said "Look me up when you get back to town"
"Look you up," I said, "Hell, I'm gonna hunt you down."
Na na-na-na na na nah, na na na na nah na, hunt you
down.
She asked where I was comin' from
I said "I'm just comin' round, how 'bout you?"
Then she drove me to the highest hill in Germantown
"My daddy's money bought the mansion, they threw in the
plane for free"
She said, "I can drop you off anywhere or you can stay
with me"
And we danced and we laughed,
never talked about tomorrow
We just lived a little in the here and now
With her hands in my hair, like a million magic fingers
She said "Look me up when you get back to town'
"Look you up," I said, "Hell, I'm gonna hunt you down."
Ooh ooh ooh
Last night I saw a falling star dive straight into the
river
And I thought about that girl in Germantown
I've gotta hunt her down
We danced and we laughed,
never talked about tomorrow
We just lived a little in the here and now
With her hands in my hair, like a million magic fingers
She said "Look me up when you get back to town"
"Look you up," I said, "Hell, I'm gonna hunt you down."
I'm gonna hunt you down...
Oh oh oh
Na na-na-na na na nah, na na na na nah na, hunt you