Songwriter Jordan Merrigan was born and raised in South Dakota where his musical identity formed as a teenager learning to play guitar and pen his first songs before high school. By the time he was in high school he had joined a pop rock band with his childhood friends – counting influences like Brand New, Taking Back Sunday and The Spill Canvas. The band moved to Nashville which eventually evolved to separate careers with Merrigan hitting the road as a guitarist and tour manager for the likes of Dylan Schneider, Mason Ramsey and ERN’s Cadillac Music founder ERNEST. Continuing to discover his own voice as a writer on the road, he studied the works of classic voices like John Prine and Willie Nelson to rock trailblazers John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind). Merrigan signed with ERN’s Cadillac Music / Big Loud Publishing in 2026. Some of his songwriting cuts include ERNEST’s “Blessed,” “Take Me To Montgomery,” “Why Dallas (feat. Lukas Nelson)” and “Ain’t Too Late.”