John Doe

John Doe born John Nommensen Duchac on February 25 1954 in Decatur Illinois is an American singer songwriter actor poet and bass player Doe founded the muchpraised LA punk band X of which he is still an active member His musical compositions and performances span the rock country and folk music genres As an actor he has dozens of television appearances and several movies to his credit including the role of Jeff Parker in the television series Roswell In addition to X Doe performs with the countryfolkpunk band The Knitters and has released records as a solo artist In the early 1980s he performed on two albums by The Flesh Eaters In the 1989 biopic Great Balls of Fire Doe played Jerry Lee Lewiss cousinturnedfatherinlaw J W Brown Doe starred in the 1992 film Roadside Prophets and in the 1998 short Lone Greasers Other movie acting credits include Road House Vanishing Point Salvador Boogie Nights The Specials The Good Girl Gypsy 83 and Pure Country As a musician with X he has two featurelength concert films several music videos and an extended performanceandinterview sequence in The Decline of Western Civilization Penelope Spheeriss seminal documentary about the early1980s LA punk scene Along with cowriter Exene Cervenka Doe composed most of the songs recorded by X Wild Gift an album from that bands heyday was named Record of the Year by Rolling Stone The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times With Dave Alvin he cowrote two of the songs on the Blasters 1984 album Hard Line Just Another Sunday and Little Honey In the 1992 movie The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston it was Does version of I Will Always Love You that plays on the jukebox when Costner and Houstons characters are dancing It was released on audio cassette by Warner Bros in September 1992 but is difficult to obtain though bootleg copies can be downloaded from the Internet No version is believed to have been released on CD The Meanest Man in the World by Doe was featured in Season 4 of the television series Friday Night Lights and included on the second soundtrack album John Doe released an album with Canadian indie rock band The Sadies called Country Club on April 14 2009 The album features covers of country classics along with original songs Description above from the Wikipedia article John Doe musician licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia