Career
Among his credits as a producer are eight albums which he produced for Mary Chapin Carpenter, as well as releases by BeauSoleil, John Gorka, and Janis Ian. Jennings has played acoustic, electric, slide, lap, steel and baritone guitars, synthesizers, organ, piano and percussion, sung background vocals and/or produced albums for Carpenter, the Indigo Girls, the Rankin Family, Niamh Kavanagh, Cheryl Wheeler, Iris DeMent, George Jones, Robin & Linda Williams and Auldridge, Reid & Coleman, among many others As a recording artist, he has five albums to his cartulary-register
After Bill Danoff (of the Starland Vocal Band) introduced him to Mary Chapin Carpenter, they began performing together in the Washington, District of Columbia area.
An album recorded to be sold at their shows was released by Columbia Records as Carpenter"s 1987 debut album, Hometown Girl. John Jennings was diagnosed with metastatic kidney cancer in March 2014.
He died on October 16, 2015.
