it’s music, and it’s sad that our business has everything that could have gone wrong went know? “Are you kidding, God, really?” “Yeah,
turned into what it’s turned into. You used to wrong (laughs). It went south but I learned a remember when you just used to watch it with
be able to make a living at it and it’s so difficult lot. I was blessed going into L.A., I see what your brother on Tuesday nights? You’re actually
for the young ones now today, they don’t pay God had done for me. He planted me in Los hosting the show now, Jon.” Then going to
anything to play, and I don’t know, you’re going Angeles and I didn’t understand the harsh the Forum and seeing the Eagles thinking,
to end up on a cruise ship (laughs). Back in reality of some of the rejection, but I look back “Someday…” and then headlining the Forum
the day my brother and I supported ourselves on it now and it’s pretty supernatural how He with Journey, “Yeah, God, really?” “Yeah, Jon,
playing clubs and different venues, but it’s not just had me set up in this certain soil that was really.”
as easy today. my training ground. But that was the soil that was going to make me into Jonathan Cain in So the shift, you could call it suddenly, but it
I feel that I’ve been so blessed with my career Journey, those eight years there. And then of wasn’t suddenly, it was a period of shifting and
and with Journey, that it’s time to pay my course working with John and The Babies. I experience, soul searching and figuring out. I
blessings forward and give praise to the Lord had to get out of Chicago, nothing was going figured out that I write well with other people,
for it all. I can see now, after writing the book to happen there for me, I listened, and God was I’m a good co-write, and that seemed to be the
Don’t Stop Believin’, just how much the Lord telling me to go West. And I had this complete one thing I missed early on in my career. That’s
had his hand in my life, in the band, and in my setup, they had a house, they had a producer, really what opened the door for me. Now I’m
destiny. I always tell people you have to move a studio, a manager. I look back on it and just writing with the greatest co-writer of all time,
with God, He’s like a wind. Worries come and go, wow, how did that happen? I had a dream God (laughs). And He is faithful when it comes
worries go but you’ve got to just stay with Him about being a singer songwriter and they had to lyrics, they keep coming. “More Like Jesus”,
and He’ll take you to your destiny. I feel that it all mapped out for me. Hanging out with I didn’t even know there was a song called that,
through the music I am able to stay connected Wolfman Jack and going to Midnight Special normally I look up on the internet to find out if a
to that spirit filled heart, that place where you with him. And then I ended up hosting Midnight title has been done already. I had never heard
are just grateful. That’s why I’m trying to get my Special with John Waite and The Babies, you the other song called “More Like Jesus”, I just
brother in the grateful place now, he’s going
through some tough times. I think when you find
contentment and gratefulness and you give it to
God through worship, I find that it feels like I’m
pleasing Him. There is an exchange there, and
when you lead people to that it’s very fulfilling
[WM] There’s an early band shot that I came
across on your Instagram feed. What was that?
[Jonathan] That’s just the Jonathan Cain
Band, Windy City Breakdown, the ill-fated
album that I made for Bearsville where
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