A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
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.
As much as I love the amazing players in Nashville, and once in a while you can get that unrehearsed kind of feeling, it can be difficult here.
But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.
Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.
For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.
I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.
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 played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.
I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.
I wanted it to be a small production, something that sounded like what you would hear live in a club with a real loose feel.
I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.
I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.
I've always loved to sing.
I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.
I've been playing swing chords for a long time.
I've known Ray Benson for almost 20 years. I used to open for him in Montana when I was out working solo with just my guitar.
I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
If you mean my revelation - it was in Big Sky, MT when I was playing a ski resort, (in the summer) and I realized there would be no talent scouts at 14,000 feet.
It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.
Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.
My first solo was in church when I was five.
My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.
My touring band is awesome. They're amazing players, who love playing this style of music. They're very versatile.
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.
The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.
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