“We were at odds my whole adult life. My mom didn’t like my lifestyle. She wanted me to stay close to home, but I had big dreams and moved across the country to California. We just couldn’t find a way to get along with each other for so many years. Then she had a serious medical condition that caused me to come back...
“I’m so sad about the death of Prince, he was a true genius, and a huge inspiration for me, in a very real way…. In the the eighties, I was out on the road in a massive downward spiral with drink and drugs, I saw Purple Rain in a cinema in Canada, I had no idea who he was, it was like a bolt of lightning! In the middle...
“When I first heard ‘Austin’ I fell in love with Blake Shelton. I connected with his songs right away because he’s from small town Oklahoma and I grew up in farm country. In a time when everything was done simple. We didn’t have all of these modern day conveniences. His music has helped me most during...
“I graduated high school in 1970, so my high school years were the 60’s. We thought the messages being sung by the Beatles and the Stones; Janice and Jimi were going to change the world. I went to concerts in college and listened to music constantly. Then I got married, got a job and moved into the work-a-day reality. In 1979, my...
“Back in 2015 I found Lord Huron in my dad’s playlist. The very first song I listened to was ‘Meet Me in the Woods’. I was attracted to their sound right away, but when I listened to ‘Fool for Love’ I was captivated by the story. And that’s when I fell in love with them, I’ve always liked...
“You can feel so much emotion through U2’s music because their songs are written about personal experiences. And those songs resonate with people because they can associate with them through events in their own lives. For me, A while back I was having a hard time, a lot of horrible things happened that put me in the position...
“Through all the twists and turns, I can definitely relate to songs and lyrics at different periods of my life. It’s kind of cool to think about, when you follow along as a band grows, you find the similarities in your own life. When I was younger, Jimmy Eat World had an album called Futures. At that point in my life I was...
“My girlfriend and I went to our first U2 show together on November 16th, 2006 in Adelaide. I knew that was the perfect time to ask my future wife to marry me. So I got down on one knee and proposed during the transition between Pride and Where the Street Have No Name. We also had tickets for two more U2 concerts a couple of days...
“It was Christmas, I was 6 years old and my aunt put Hard Candy Christmas on the record player. At that moment I fell in love with Dolly Parton. I loved her voice and I thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world. From then on, everything in my life was Dolly, Dolly, Dolly. I wanted to be just like her. The more I found...
“The biggest connection I feel has got to be the Avett Brothers, Head Full of Doubt. As a teenager in high school, when I’m dealing with a tough situation, sometimes I over think things. Or I don’t think things through in the best way. So the first time I heard that song I was like wow, this is so awesome. I could...