A singer, songwriter, guitar player from Alabama who these days lives in Nashville. His list of accolades and awards includes Top 10 national songwriter recognition by Taylor Guitars and HoriPro Entertainment Group, songs recorded by over 40 country music artists, Billboard charting releases, and most recently, a No. 1 country song in Belgium. In addition, four days before this interview was recorded, he opened up for Martina McBride in Montgomery, Alabama, which was his first stadium show. He is currently nominated for three 2021 Josie Music Awards and was previously a guest on this show three years ago back on Episode 246.
"This journey of music, most everywhere you go there's always people that have never heard you... So, you have one chance to make a first impression."
"You gotta give your fans love... But they were once people that didn't hear you too."
"It takes friends, it takes a team, it takes a lot of people to keep rising, to achieve goals."
"My biggest blessing is my friends. I've always said that. And because of those friends I get to go to Denmark, host my own show with writers that I love, and just spend a week or two with some of my friends."
"This was at a time where you had racial deals going on. To have R&B and a rapper on a country song, mixed races, that's just something you don't see. That's unheard of. I knew this song was bigger than anything I could do."
"I learned my lesson of questioning anything... I mean, they can't write movies that good."
"He said, 'Ya' know, if you're in a duo, you gotta work twice as hard. You gotta give two hundred percent.' He said, 'It's more than just one of y'all.' He said, 'Because in a duo if one of you fail, you both fail. You both have to give a hundred percent.' Now, that always stuck with me."
"The song took hold and two months later after we recorded the song it hits the charts in Belgium and four weeks after that it's the number one song in Belgium. I mean, who would've ever thought?"
"The music industry is already tough enough to make it. So, there's no need for everybody to look at it as competition."
"This album, by the time we release it, will have been recorded at four different studios, three different engineers, some of the songs have been done two or three different times... but... I don't think I'd have it any other way."
"All This"
"Lie Like You Love Me"