[1] He attended the University of West Georgia, and studied Auto Body & Paint at Coosa Valley Technical College.
[2] After around two years of recording demos and performing local gigs, High Flight Society began searching for a frontman.
John Packer, the bassist and backing vocalist of High Flight Society, happened to be Wilkes' friend.
On December 12, 2008, it was announced that they had added Jerad Griffin to take over Jason's rhythm guitar parts and to sing background vocals.
Wilkes and the rest of High Flight Society backed Sam Hunt as his band for a couple of years.
In early 2014, Disciple launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their new album, which was to be recorded and released independently.
Apart from playing the bass and singing background and co-lead vocals, Wilkes helped in co-writing three tracks on the album.
On March 31, 2015, it was announced that Wilkes had made the decision to step down from the band in order to support his family.
He performed "One Headlight" by The Wallflowers, and caused two out of four coaches to turn around; Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.
[11] In the Battles Round, on the episode broadcast on March 26, 2018, he was paired with Blake Team teammate Jordan Kirkdorffer both singing "Nobody to Blame", a Chris Stapleton song.
[citation needed] Wilkes then sang "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus, winning his knockout against Dylan Hartigan, moved on to the live playoffs and was eliminated.