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Singer, songwriter, guitar player who just put out new music two months ago. He has also been working on more new music to be released next year. Despite the pandemic he has still been and is performing, including dates in Tennessee, Virginia, Florida, and Alabama. He had started off 2020 with shows in Texas, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Indiana. He has approximately 13 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify and previously appeared on this show in the summer of 2017, on Episode 183.

Notable Guest Quotes

"The more I write music, the more I decide to record and put out music as an artist myself, if I'm wanting to represent myself truly and honestly, it's going to have more of that vibe to it because that's just the country music that I love, ya' know that kinda traditional, older style of country.  I'm hoping folks will hear at least a hint of that in the stuff that I'm releasing nowadays."

"One of the good things to come out of quarantine was a little extra time to pick around on guitar and just come up with ideas."

"A Zoom or Skype co-write is never ideal.  I do prefer writing a song with somebody in-person... It's definitely more ideal to write over Zoom or Skype with somebody that you just write well with already and you already know real well.  For somebody brand new it would be, it's a little more awkward with somebody that you just started writing with."

"I've been playing smaller shows and less full band things because it's just tough for venues, it's tough for anybody to have a full band, especially when you're forced to do less capacity.  So, I've been playing a lot of acoustic shows and it's been treating me well."

"Even when I'm playing by myself to a room of 20 people, I'm just, it's practice for me.  I get to work on my craft and I get to learn new songs.  And I play originals and covers.  So, it's a good experience for me."

"I take pride in that.  I want to always give the best effort I can when I'm playing a gig."

"I'm still finding new ways to do livestreams and make 'em fresh and did quite a few of 'em in the back of my touring van.  So, I kind of set it up as a little studio and recorded quite a few videos in it."

"I'm trying to navigate the waters as best as I can independently and I'm really trying to set myself up for one day being pretty self-sufficient.  But anytime you have an opportunity to work with a company like a record label or a booking agent or a publishing company that believes in you and wants to push your career forward, if it's the right fit, I would absolutely love to work on that."

"If you're in the Christmas spirit right now and you have a song idea come to you, you probably should go ahead and write it because you might even forget about it by the summertime."

Songs on this episode

"You're Not Gone"
"Something in Me"