Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.
Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.
Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.
After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.
But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.
One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.
I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.
I've always loved to sing.
My first solo was in church when I was five.
I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.
A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.
I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.
I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.
I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.
I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.
It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.
