Singer, songwriter, guitar player who has a brand new twelve-song album in the works. In 2024 he is celebrating 25 years since his move to Nashville, and he recently started a new record label and publishing company. He was the Texas Country Music Association’s 2021 Country Songwriter of the Year and has toured with Alan Jackson, Clint Black, and Dwight Yoakam and his top five songs on Spotify alone have a combined total of more than three quarters of a million streams. Back at the start of his career, his debut single spent 15 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, which was the first Top 40 hit for Broken Bow Records.
“I grew up being a big fan of rodeo. I always was playing my guitar at the rodeos late at night.”
“We actually recorded it in my kitchen on my iPhone … And she put it on Facebook and it went viral like immediately. Like millions of views.”
“All I wanted to do is write songs and play in the bars at night, which is what I ended up doing.”
“He wasn't mad. He said, ‘Okay. Well, is that what you want to do?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I think I want to move to Nashville’.”
“I got a phone call that George Strait’s producer, a guy by the name of Blake Mevis, took a liking to my sound and to a couple of my songs. And we went in and recorded an entire album with them and immediately got a record deal on Broken Bow Records.”
“I've had three different record deals and with major distribution deals; Warner Brothers, Sony, those were part of my Broken Bow and Bigger Picture deals.”
“The music business is tough. I mean, it's just up and down and you know, you kind of have to just ride it for the thrill that it is rather than try to predict it or think you know what's going to happen. I mean, you have the biggest dreams ever, but at the end of the day, you know, there's always someone better. There’s always someone worse. There’s always more money you could make, you could always, but you know, if you're getting to do what it is you love to do, I mean, that's really, that is winning. That is success to me.”
“Another one of the main reasons that I feel the urge to help other songwriters and artists is because so many people helped me.”
“When it comes to other songwriters, I just have this place in my heart for them. I guess it's because of my own experience and I know how difficult it is.”
“When it comes to the creative stuff, I think most artists really know who they are but it's kind of a hump to get over that and say, ‘No, this is the song I want, and this is the way that it's going to sound’.”
“I don't really know how to write a song. I don't really feel like I'm the one that does it. To this day I still don't understand because when a really great song hits me, it's just like that; it hits me, and it's just there and I can almost visualize the entire thing finished before I even picked up a guitar to mess with it.”
“My best ideas, best songs, come out of silence. I write a lot with other people and that's always fun and being in a songwriting room is always fun or with the band is always fun but when there's nobody around, that's when God speaks to me and that's the only explanation I have for any talent or whatever you want to call it.”
“I've been blessed to share the stage with some pretty incredible artists, Blake Shelton, Dwight Yoakam. I would have to say Alan Jackson is the highlight.”
“Kamikaze”
“Cowboy to Blame”