Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player, and CMA Member who has a new single coming out next week Friday, August 2nd. He has opened for some of country music’s hottest names, including Chris Stapleton, Walker Hayes, Jake Owen, Cole Swindell, Brothers Osborne, and more. Presently he is doing exactly that, playing live, with upcoming dates from Tennessee to Georgia to both Carolinas and even over in Denmark, plus the Pensacola Beach Songwriters Festival in the Florida panhandle, followed by a date in Alabama. His top five songs on Spotify alone have a combined total of over one million streams, and similarly, he has a combined total of over 1.1 million video views on his official YouTube channel.
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“Last year, when I went over to Denmark for the Nashville Nights International Songwriters Festival, I went a few days early to write with major label artists all over Scandinavia; so, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, of course. And we wrote a ton of songs.”
“I worked down in Macon, Georgia, for a number of years. After undergrad college, I went back for a couple of years and was kind of working in the medical field and doing a number of different things; went to a nursing program, I did X-ray, and I was working for a group of neurosurgeons at the time that I left. But I had a band that I put together in Macon because if you know anything about Georgia, there's a rich music history, especially Macon… So, I was gigging anywhere that would let me in.”
“It was getting where it was kind of tough to get back from Chicago at 10 or 11 o'clock on a Sunday night and being dead tired from the road and having to be in surgery at 6 a.m. on Monday morning. So, that final little bit of approval that I got was winning that Georgia Country Music Award. I was Artist of the Year in 2015, and that's the year I moved up, June 1, 2015. Just had my nine-year anniversary of being in Nashville full-time.”
“My goal was to not have to do anything else. I made a promise to myself if I was moving to Nashville, it was to do music full-time and go all-in.”
“If you're not doing something that makes it move forward, then you're kind of wasting time.”
“I'm proud of the things I've accomplished, certainly I’ve been very proud of the music that I put out, and the people I've been able to work with and write songs with.”
“It's crazy to think that your guitar and your songs have taken you overseas.”
“If you're asking permission, you're already behind. Like, you just have to do it. You just have to start.”
“Those first handful of years, you're like, ‘Man, I don't have a clue what I'm doing.’ But that's, I mean, there's people in this town that are heads of labels that don't get it right but 30% of the time. So, I don't think anybody really knows what they're doing.”
“If you really think you can do this and you really want to do this, then you'll find a way.”
“You have to remind yourself it's not about followers, it's not about streams, it's not about awards. If you're doing this, art is subjective… You're doing it to reach that one person that gets it. You're doing it because you have something to say.”
“If you are a songwriter and you are writing great songs, you are an artist, whether you admit it to yourself or not.”
“I had a specific distribution deal through Warner Music shortly after the pandemic and through 2022.”
“Better at Heartbreak”
“You’re My Hallelujah”