Jason Reece plays drums and delivers the vocals sometimes in Austin based outfit ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. When Reece is singing, vocalist/guitarist Conrad Keely takes over on drums. In 2004 another drummer / percussionist was added to the line-up: Doni Schroader.



Jason Reece was born in Hawaii to husband-and-wife ministers. Future Trail of Dead co-frontman Conrad Keely also lived in Hawaii; eventually, through a mutual friend, they met, and Reece later followed Keely to Olympia, WA, where Keely was attending college. There they formed a band from which Reece was shortly fired. Reece then joined Mukilteo Fairies and was asked back again by Keely. Reece declined, going on to form Honeybucket. In 1995 Reece decided he was wasting his life in Olympia and decided to relocate to Austin.



Conrad Keely decided to join him, and they formed Trail of Dead, initially as a guitar-and-drums duo. Later other members joined, and in 2001, after two albums released on independent labels, the band was signed by Interscope. Reece continued to have side-projects, such as A Roman Scandal, and his solo work, A Flood of Red.