Drawing on a variety of genres and his diverse work as a session and touring guitarist for artists like Bon Jovi, Mikky Ekko, and Yelawolf, Bones Owens makes eclectic alternative roots rock as a solo artist. After nine years as a working musician and songwriter in Music City, his first EP, Hurt No One, arrived in 2014. He issued a sophomore EP, Make Me No King, in 2017, followed by an eponymous full-length effort in 2021.

A native of rural Missouri, Caleb Owens was raised on country and gospel music, and later learned bluegrass, folk, and rock after taking up the guitar at the age of ten. He was writing songs by age 13 and played in bands throughout high school and college. One of those bands led to a publishing deal with EMI, and he relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2005.

Once in Nashville, Owens found work as a studio and touring guitarist for acts as diverse as Bon Jovi, alternative singer/songwriter Mikky Ekko, and hip-hop artist Yelawolf, while also hitting the bars and clubs with his own music. Using his nickname, Bones Owens, he released the debut EP Hurt No One in 2014. Its guests included such names as Butch Walker, Matt Thiessen (Relient K), and Russ Pollard (Sebadoh, Everest). He followed it in early 2017 with a second EP, Make Me No King.

In the meantime, Owens had co-written all but one of the tracks on that year's Yelawolf LP, Trial by Fire, which included the Kid Rock collaboration "Get Mine." In March 2018, he released his own song, "Keep It Close." It was streamed over a million times before the end of the year; he also performed on Carrie Underwood's album Cry Pretty and toured with Reignwolf. In 2021 he issued his debut long-player, the bluesy and nostalgic Bones Owens. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi