John Crouch Music on Social Media
Upcoming Shows
Background music for this art opening, which is free and open to the public
Songwriter Open Mic, hosted by Bill Passalacqua of Poss Music Works
Background music for the Judging Reception, free and open to the public
History of the Crouch Family Farms:
William Daniel Crouch (b.1798) came to Clark County, Illinois, and began farming here in 1838. He was John's 3rd great grandfather. His son, James (b.1860), John's 2nd great grandfather and his son, James Harlen (b.1895), John's great-grandfather and his son, Johnie Clarence (b.1919), John's grandfather (about whom the song Harder Days was written), and his son, Bill D., John's dad, all have farmed in Clark County, Illinois. John's son, Dustin, also farmed with his dad for a time before becoming a police officer.
John, a sixth-generation farmer, currently farms here, in many of the same fields that have been in the family for over 150 years. He is assisted on the family farm by his stepbrother, Dana Taylor.
One of the farms, from James Crouch's father-in-law, Samuel Orrell, is an Illinois Sesquicentennial Farm.
