Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who just released a new single in mid-February and has a full album coming out on April 10th. Already in his young career he has opened for the likes of Hank Williams, Jr., Josh Turner, Lee Brice, Jamey Johnson, and Brooks & Dunn, among others. Plus, two years ago he made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry. Five years ago, at the age of just 17 years old he was on Season 19 of “American Idol.” He has half-a-million followers on TikTok, over 22 million combined video views on his official YouTube channel, and more than 1.8 million streams on his top five songs alone on Spotify, where he has close to 72 thousand monthly listeners.
“I had a duet with the Oak Ridge boys on my first record. Who would’ve ever dreamed that for me?”
“I grew up … being a farm hand pretty much; hired help for free is what we called it. But it was a lot of fun, and it obviously shaped my music because farming is a big part of my catalog.”
“I signed up for a national talent and sent in a video and they selected me to come to Indianapolis and compete and when I competed I went onto another round and they seemed to like what I was doing, and I didn't win that year, but I feel like I won in my own way. I got to go play for rodeo and it was one of the best years of my life as a kid and something I'll never forget and I'm very thankful for the FFA for giving that opportunity and lighting a little spark inside of me.”
“I learned so much from being on (American Idol)… I went to Hollywood, did my audition and the judges were Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie and they absolutely fell in love with me and encouraged me all the way through the show.”
“I feel like I won though when I was on (American Idol). I stuck to my music, I stuck to who I was, and I feel like that made more of an impact. It was more of a win than if I’d have went on and won the whole show and got a whole big pile of money right then.”
“Being on those shows does not make you an overnight sensation or success. You have to still get out here and do the work because you really have to start from ground zero; but you're known at the same time, so it's a very interesting dynamic.”
“Eddie (Montgomery) (from Montgomery Gentry) said … ‘I've been watching you for a long time and we've been friends a long time. I want to invite you to come play the Grand Ole Opry’.”
“I do it all … I come up with the ideas for the videos. I'll help, sometimes I'll film them… I have the vision and I just have to make it come to life. It's just like my songwriting in a way. I look at it that way because that's just as important as songwriting is how you look to the world.”
“That’s a feeling like none other, that people care, that people like your song well enough to put it on hold or cut it. I mean that's like, I can only sing so much, and I can only write so much, and the fact that somebody else liked what I sang or liked what I wrote, there's no greater feeling than that.”
“I feel like the day I don't get nervous is the day I stop caring about it.”
“Money Well Wasted”
“Just a Mom”