Jesse Brock

Musician · b. 1972 · Decatur, Illinois · jessebrock.com
Best known for Mandolin Harmony Vocals

Jesse Brock is a three-time IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year whose career has been spent making other people’s bands sound better — a chop that drives a rhythm section like a metronome with a temper, and a break style built on tremolo and hard-picked single notes rather than the flurry most modern players reach for.

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  • Born July 18, 1972, in Decatur, Illinois, he started singing and playing mandolin at nine in his family’s band, the C.W. Brock Family.
  • He has held mandolin chairs in an unusual number of first-rank groups: the Lynn Morris Band, Chris Jones and the Night Drivers, Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, Audie Blaylock and Redline, the Gibson Brothers and Fast Track.
  • With Flamekeeper he shared in the IBMA’s Instrumental Group of the Year awards of 2007 through 2009 and the 2009 Instrumental Recorded Performance award for “Jerusalem Ridge.”
  • He was named IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year in 2009, 2015 and 2024 — a fifteen-year span between the first and the last.
  • He is now a member of Authentic Unlimited, which took the IBMA’s New Artist award in 2023 and Vocal Group of the Year in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
  • He sings lead and harmony as well as playing, which is part of why bandleaders keep hiring him.
  • In this catalog he appears with Audie Blaylock and Redline, with Authentic Unlimited on “Cry From the Cross,” and on instrumentals including “Northern White Clouds” and “Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine.”

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