A recording artist with an amazing comeback story of perseverance and getting back up each time he has been knocked down throughout a music career that began in the late 1980s. Present day he is about to release a new album next week Friday – on June 11th – after having released the first single from it in mid-March. There is also a tour currently being planned for him. He’s also the author of a book called, “A Hit with a Bullet: A True Story of Corruption, Greed, and the Real Murder on Music Row.”
"'I Know a Place' was cut by a friend of mine in the '90s and ended up being a single for me and a Top 15 record for me on the Texas music charts."
"I used to live in Nashville for about six years, so I've got a lot of friends in Nashville and my producer's in Nashville."
"Without a song, there's not a singer."
"I don't want to write -- or try to write -- something just to write it to put it on an album to say I wrote it."
"I hate to go back to a writer and ask them to re-write something for me because they're the ones that created it."
"I got a record deal right out of high school... I was 18 years old."
"I was a star athlete in my high school and I had to decide whether I was going to pursue a baseball career or if I was going to pursue a music career."
"It's been a very hard and traumatic ride for me in country music."
"From 1991-1998 I ended up working 250-275 days a year out on the road, without a record deal."
"I walked away from two-and-a-half years of bookings that I was booked up in advance. I just couldn't live under the stress and the pressure of how I was being treated and how I was having to live."
"I really didn't know that I had PTSD until I started writing the book."
"All I want to do is sing a song and tell my story, and if my story and what I've been through can help someone, then I feel like God has used me to help them."
"She’s Crazy For Leaving"
"Bluest Eyes in Texas"