This newlywed from Pueblo, Colorado, grew up in California and then spent his teen years in New Mexico, where his father is a prominent musician. Dylan is a distant cousin of Maybelle Addington Carter, mother-in-law of Johnny Cash. A singer, songwriter, guitar player, Dylan is getting radio airplay and recently had the number 1 song on SoundCloud’s New and Hot charts for Folk and Singer-Songwriter music. Following a five-year hiatus he has emerged – in May – with his new album, called, “Lost My Way,” has started a record label, and is already working on a new album.
“There was this old, beat up acoustic guitar in a storage unit that my mom knew about and… she pulled it out for me and I started playing on the thing and the bridge on the guitar was halfway coming off and so I got a lot of finger strength from that, just pushing down on the strings really hard. And then after about a year my parents bought me my first electric guitar because they saw I was really getting into it and they just kind of encouraged me to go from there.”
“The first song I ever wrote… was a terrible song. It got some chuckles.”
“It was just a really tough time and I didn’t have just a whole lot of time for music and I just kind of gave it up because I realized I just got hit with the hard realities of life.”
“The focus of everything I’ve been doing has been internet-based and social media-based and it has really been taking off and it’s pretty impressive.”
“I’m pretty picky about my sound and I really like kind of having control from start to finish and the mastering process as well.”
“For a while there I kind of had writer’s block because I just kind of played out the whole ‘life sucks, everything’s hard, and bad things always happen.’ Ya’ know, I kind of got tired of writing that, so I couldn’t really find the inspiration and, again, drawing from my life, I’ve got new things to write about and to tell people about.”
“Especially now in the modern era it’s a little tougher to get people to look at you for more than five seconds.”
“One of the things my dad taught me was that people don’t really want to hear your original music most of the time. What you really got to do is grab their attention with covers and then pepper in your own stuff every once in a while and then over time they become familiar with it.”
"Bigger Than Me and You"
"Under A Rose"