Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who released a new single last month. He was one of the writers on the 2018 Jason Aldean song featuring Miranda Lambert, called, “Drowns the Whiskey,” which spent multiple weeks at number one on country radio, was nominated for CMA Song of the Year, and sales-wise was certified multi-platinum. He is a regular at The Bluebird Café and The Listening Room in Nashville and even toured as a guitarist for Josh Thompson. He also had his own band, which was signed to Warner Music Nashville and toured for over five years.
“When I’m in a room… I wanna get the best song and if the ideas that I have aren’t clicking with the people I’m in a room with then we go onto the next one and if there’s an idea that someone puts out there that I connect with, we might chase that down.”
“Over the last, however many decades I’ve been songwriting, I’ve gotten pretty good at, kind of, managing the expectations for what an idea is kind of up front.”
“Like anything in life, the better the expectations are set, the easier it is to avoid conflict later on down the road.”
“Sometimes ideas will go places you don’t want them to go and then you just have to decide whether you want to walk out of the room with a song that you may not love or to trust the muse and go along with it.”
“I had a record deal at a major record label before I ever had a publishing deal.”
“I was able to do some really cool things with her. I went to Kuwait and played in Kuwait and Iraq and did a military tour during that period of time. The first time I ever played at the Grand Ole Opry, she was the one who brought me up there to the circle.”
“Willie Nelson is on our record. He made a guest appearance on our record, which is also kind of a neat kind of Nashville ‘box check,’ if you will.”
“I wish someone had told me when I was younger, ‘Just play the show. Do the show, don’t worry about who’s there from the industry,’ because at some point you’re gonna have to do your show the way you want to do it anyway, so you might as well start and if they like you, they like you. If they don’t then so be it, you still did the show that you got and if you made fans…”
“There’s a movement in the world towards using blockchain, which is basically cryptocurrency, as a foundation for ownership of assets. And the application in the music industry is if you can put your songs or your albums or your artwork on the blockchain, you can verify ownership.”
“Ain’t Mine Anymore”
“It’s All the Same”