Jef Chandler is a native of Greenville, South Carolina and a graduate of Furman University. He has been writing songs, playing in bands and performing live since he first picked up the guitar at the age of 12. In that time he has had the privilege of opening up for such acts as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Fred Eaglesmith, Scott Miller, Tish Hinojosa, Jump Little Children, Billy Pilgrim, and many more. From 1995 until 1998 Jef played with the popular acoustic band from Greenville called Big Brown Bowl.

In 1999 Jef released his debut solo album Talking Out the Fire. The songs on the album range stylistically from crunchy rock anthems to bluegrass to country. Many of the tunes have received airplay on radio programs throughout Europe and in the United States. When the album first came out, Mike Miller of The State in Columbia, in his year’s end retrospect for 1999, called the CD one of the underground best releases by a South Carolina artist that year.

For the past decade Jef has toured the southeast with a changing roster of talented musicians from the upstate, including former members of the national act Seconds Flat (Kevin Latham, Matt Morgan, Scott Allen, and Larry Hoskinson), and current members of The Work (Charles Hedgepath, Mark Dye, and Jeff Holland).

In October of 2004 Jef released his second solo CD Everything Good is on the Highway. As with his first CD, Everything Good received airplay on independent radio programs in Europe and the US, and the song Empire of Idle Thoughts charted in the top 100 on the indie Country charts in Europe in March of 2005.

Currently, Jef Chandler is playing club gigs and festivals in the southeast and is working on a third CD due for release in 2007/2008.