Chart-topping songwriter, solo artist, multi-platinum award winner, and soul singer based in Nashville. Last October he released a five-song EP that got approximately three million streams across all platforms. He is renowned for crafting No. 1 country radio hits such as Gary Allan’s “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)” and earning prestigious ASCAP Awards and an ACM Song of the Year nomination. He is signed with The Table Entertainment Company and has a publishing deal with Lady Luck Songs. He has had cuts with the likes of Darius Rucker, Bucky Covington, “The Voice” Season 17 winner Jake Hoot, and many more. He is also one of the founders of the Las Vegas Songwriters Festival, which comes up this August at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on “The Strip.”
“I signed my first publishing deal in 2002 and in 2019 I kind of crashed and burned, if you will. Ended up in rehab and got sober in 2019.”
“I had an opportunity in 2022 to come back to a publishing company and write basically what we call row writing, which is you're trying to get songs cut by other artists.”
“When I'm going to choose cover songs to sing with my band, at the end of the day, a song has to be fun for me because if I'm enjoying the song, the crowd will pick up on that. If I'm just phoning something in because everyone around me says, ‘this is a great song, we think you should do this,’ the people will be able to tell whether I like that or not.”
“I got signed to my first publishing deal because Rick Hall out of Muscle Shoals in Alabama at Fame, they believed in me as an artist and sent my record to Bob Davis.”
“I'm just trying to make records that I would listen to going down a back road or if I was brokenhearted… what would I love to listen to?”
“It can be so stressful and take a lot of the joy and fun out of making art when you put all that pressure on yourself.”
“My first concert was my mom took me to see Huey Lewis and the News… but the first artist that I ever really fell in love with on my own was Michael Jackson.”
“I had been a five-sport athlete … pretty much all life. I played tons of sports.”
“The cover band fell apart, and I realized that I was going to have to have my own songs, if I wanted any great musicians to play with me. So, I just started trying to write my own songs.”
“He heard me writing a song and he's like, ‘I think it's time for me to fire you… you need to be writing songs’.”
“When you have success as a songwriter, not only do you get the accolades and you get the financial bonuses of having a number one, but if you're a performing songwriter, that turns into a lot of gigs if you're willing to go out there and play and travel.”
“I had a few things happen in my life, in my personal life, and I had a run-in with the law and kind of realized that I couldn't live like this any longer or I was going to die or I was either going to end up in jail, in an institution or in a coffin.”
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