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Jon Maddux is a singer/songwriter, entrepreneur and CEO of You Walk Away

You Walk Away

YouWalkAway.com, also known as You Walk Away, is a company that helps homeowners facing foreclosure through intelligent strategic default. YouWalkAway is based in San Diego, California. -About YouWalkAway.com:...

You Walk Away

Jon D. Maddux is co-founder and CEO of You Walk Away, LLC. The firm developed a business model that allowed homeowners to use the law to their advantage in a foreclosure situation.

He and the firm have appeared in news publications and on TV programs such as: 60 Minutes
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, ABC Nightline
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, CNN

CNN

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, Yahoo Finance, Time
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, The Wall Street Journal
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, The New York Times
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, Bloomberg

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, Forbes
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, Fortune
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, Money
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, NPR

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, AP

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, NBC

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, CBS

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and Fox News.

Music

Maddux began his work as a musician with the piano at the age of 5 years old. He picked up the drums at age 12 and started playing the guitar at 15.

He joined the rock band Deliverance in the early 1990s, playing lead guitar and keyboard for the band from 1993-1995 while Deliverance was signed to the indie label FMG (Frontline Music Group). He was a co-writer on two internationally distributed records, Learn and River Disturbance
River Disturbance
River Disturbance is a 1994 album by the Christian speed/thrash metal band Deliverance. This album was originally intended to be combined with Camelot in Smithereens...

. Maddux also toured the United States with the band.

Maddux was later signed to Relativity Management by Alex Lipsitz - former manager of Lucy Walsh

Lucy Walsh

Lucy Walsh is a singer, songwriter, and keyboardist who served as Ashlee Simpson's backing vocalist and keyboardist for her Autobiography tour. The daughter of Eagles' guitarist Joe Walsh, she appeared on the MTV reality show Rock the Cradle, which premiered April 3, 2008.-Personal life:Lucy was...

(Island/Def Jam), and recorded the song “Tomorrow” with Walsh working with acclaimed producers Dave Stewart

David A. Stewart

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and Matthew Wilder

Matthew Wilder

Matthew Wilder is an American musician, composer and record producer, best known for his 1983 Top 5 hit, "Break My Stride"....

.

In 2006, Judy Stakee of Warner/Chappell Music

Warner/Chappell Music

Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. is an American music publishing company, and a division of the Warner Music Group. The company traces its origins back to 1811 and the founding of Chappell & Company, a music publishing company and instrument shop on London’s Bond Street that, in 1929, began a rapid...

Publishing signed Maddux to a publishing deal.

Songwriting

Maddux has written original material with artists and writers such as Steve Harwell

Steve Harwell

Steven Scott Harwell is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist for the band Smash Mouth. Greg Camp formed Smash Mouth with Harwell, Kevin Coleman, and Paul De Lisle...

(Smashmouth), Chuck Wicks

Chuck Wicks

Charles Elliott "Chuck" Wicks is an American country music artist. He was one of the participants on the American reality series Nashville, which aired on Fox Networks for two episodes before its cancellation in mid-2007...

(RCA), Lucy Walsh

Lucy Walsh

(Island/DefJam), Kutless

Kutless

Kutless is a Christian rock band from Portland, Oregon formed in 1999. Since their formation, they have released six studio albums including their latest, It Is Well. The band has also released a live album, Live from Portland. Currently, they have sold almost 2 million records.-Biography:Formed in...

(EMI), Juliet Simms

Juliet Simms

Juliet Simms is a singer/songwriter. She is the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the band Automatic Loveletter.-Early life:...

(Sony/Epic) Jamey Johnson

Jamey Johnson

Jamey Johnson is an American Grammy Award nominated country music artist. Signed to BNA Records in 2005, Johnson made his debut with his single "The Dollar," the title track to his 2006 album The Dollar...

(Give It Away, George Strait), Jeremy Popoff (LIT), The Plain White T's (Hollywood Records) Charlie Midnight

Charlie Midnight

Charlie Midnight is an American songwriter and record producer who has been nominated for a Grammy Award , two Golden Globe Awards; and has been a producer and/or writer on several Grammy-winning albums, including:The Bodyguard Soundtrack Album ; Turbulent Indigo Charlie Midnight is an American...

(Hillary Duff, Living in America) Ty Taylor

Ty Taylor

Ty Taylor is an American musician best known for being the guitarist and vocalist of R&B group Dakota Moon and was also a contestant on the reality TV show Rock Star: INXS. He is currently the lead singer and guitarist for Los Angeles based Soul/Rock band, Vintage Trouble...

(RockStar INXS)

Maddux co-wrote “Mad Cowboy Disease” with Grammy Award winning songwriter and artist Jamey Johnson

Jamey Johnson

. “Mad Cowboy Disease” was released on John Michael Montgomery

John Michael Montgomery

John Michael Montgomery is an American country music artist. He has produced more than thirty singles on the Billboard country charts, including two of Billboard’s Number One country singles of the year: "I Swear" and "Sold "...

’s Time Flies CD in 2008 and reached #17 on Media Base's satellite radio chart.

Maddux also co-wrote “I’m Sorry” which was recorded by Teddy Geiger

Teddy Geiger

-Singles:-Album appearances:-Television and movie appearances:-External links:****...

, released on his record TG33 and performed on his 2009 US Tour. Maddux also mixed “Hotter Without You” by Kimberly Caldwell

Kimberly Caldwell

Kimberly Ann Caldwell is an American singer, actress, and television hostess, from Katy, Texas who was the seventh place finalist on the second season of American Idol. She used to work as an entertainment correspondent and hosted various shows on the TV Guide Network...

for Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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on her album Without Regret

Without Regret

Without Regret is the debut album from American Idol season two seventh place finalist, Kimberly Caldwell. The album was supposed to be released on April 6, 2010 by Vanguard Records and Capitol Records, but according to Caldwell's website and YouTube channel, the album was pushed back to a July...

released in April 2011. In 2010 he recorded and produced vocal tracks for Ty Brown, a contestant on ABC’s The Bachelorette
The Bachelorette
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.

Maddux is also credited for writing, producing and recording all music for the upcoming children’s television program Fo Fo Figgily.

In October 2010 Maddux released a 6-song EP "Alive" digitally. The album includes songs all written and performed by himself and is available on iTunes.

Discography

Artist	Album	Credit	Date
Deliverance Deliverance Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty in his film debut. The film is based on a 1970 novel of the same name by American author James Dickey, who has a small role in the...	Learn	writer/performance
Deliverance Deliverance Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty in his film debut. The film is based on a 1970 novel of the same name by American author James Dickey, who has a small role in the...	River Disturbance	writer/performance
John Michael Montgomery John Michael Montgomery John Michael Montgomery is an American country music artist. He has produced more than thirty singles on the Billboard country charts, including two of Billboard’s Number One country singles of the year: "I Swear" and "Sold "...	Time Flies	writer	2008
Jon Maddux	Alive	writer/performance	2010
Fo Fo Figgily DVD	Fo Fo Figgily's First Haircut	writer/performance	2010
Fo Fo Figgily DVD	Fo Fo Figgily's Surprise Birthday Adventure	writer/performance	2010
Kimberly Caldwell Kimberly Caldwell Kimberly Ann Caldwell is an American singer, actress, and television hostess, from Katy, Texas who was the seventh place finalist on the second season of American Idol. She used to work as an entertainment correspondent and hosted various shows on the TV Guide Network...	Without Regret Without Regret Without Regret is the debut album from American Idol season two seventh place finalist, Kimberly Caldwell. The album was supposed to be released on April 6, 2010 by Vanguard Records and Capitol Records, but according to Caldwell's website and YouTube channel, the album was pushed back to a July... - Hotter Without You	engineer	2011

External links

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