Wes St. Jon was born in Maryland and grew up on Tilghman Island, located in the Chesapeake Bay. He started playing guitar at the age of fourteen and played and sang with a band at high school dances throughout his high school years. He worked in data processing for a couple of years after he graduated from school for a company in Federalsburg, Maryland called Wilson Laurel Farms. Then, he enlisted in the Navy where he did a four-year tour of duty, having a band while stationed on Guam and playing to entertain the sailors on ship when he was stationed aboard the U.S.S. Belmont.

After his release from the Navy, he went back to work for Wilson Laurel Farms, still wanting to pursue a career in music. He met his current wife, Faye, and they decided to move close to Nashville and the music business, so they settled in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. After four years there, Wes had an opportunity to go on the road to Jacksonville, Florida, and entertain at a Holiday Inn. He told his wife to pack enough clothes for two weeks, and eight years later, they were still traveling!

While entertaining in Louisiana Wes got a chance to meet many people who worked in the Oilfield. Although he knew nothing about their way of life, he got to know them and liked them and hung out with them to learn some of their terminology. They used to tease Wes when he was entertaining saying, "Play us an oilfield song." Then they would all laugh because there were no oilfield songs.

Wes decided it would be a great idea to write some music for the oilfield so for six months he visited rigs and talked to all of the oilfield workers he could, learning their language and terminology. Then, he wrote ten songs and titled his album "Oilfield Cowboy", and came to Nashville, recorded the music, and has offered it to the oilfield ever since.

Many people ask if Wes has ever worked in the oilfield. The answer is no. He wrote the album from research only, but thinks that the oilfield is the most unappreciated group of people in the country

Since the music is regional because there is not oilfield activity in every state, and because the CD is not yet on a major label, radio airplay is difficult to get. So Wes has been doing CD signings in the towns where the stations are nice enough to give it some play. It always winds up the most requested song on the station because the oilfield loves it!