Pamela Jo was born and raised on a family farm in the Appalachian foothills of rural north Alabama. She grew up immersed in old time, bluegrass, gospel, and country music. Her favorite things are the great outdoors and earthy, rootsy, front porch music. 

Pamela Jo is a lifelong musician and vocalist whose first instrument was her voice. She started singing at age five and began playing ukulele and later guitar in elementary school. She learned piano and bass guitar in high school, studied classical, jazz, and music theory in college, and later took up banjo and mandolin. If it has strings and frets, hammers and keys, or otherwise makes a musical sound, Pamela Jo considers it her kin. These days Pamela Jo performs original compositions, original arrangements of traditional songs from deep in American history with English, Irish, and Scottish roots, and occasional cover songs.