“Everyone else had seemed to have their future figured out, except for me, I had no idea what direction I wanted to go. I was a junior in college, living in this small, podunk town. So many of my friends were finishing school and moving away. It was almost like a diaspora. They couldn’t wait to get out of there, move to the...
“After the initial shock of the twin towers crumbling on 9-11 I thought, if I could die at work, it’s not gonna be while answering phones at an office in NYC. So I quit, and decided that making music would be my job. When I was 13 my dad put a banjo in my hands and showed me how to play a couple of songs like the Beverly...
I wasn’t a troubled kid, but I was always in trouble. It wasn’t that I was out of control, I just had a lot of energy that I didn’t know what to do with. I was paddled in kindergarten so many times for just being like, myself. And it didn’t change my behavior. It just sucked for 20 minutes, then my nature would...
This vacation was quite different from others I had taken. It was just me and my very best friend. We rented a van, threw a mattress in the back, and drove through Sweden and Norway for three and a half weeks. During our other trips we’d backpack, stay in hostels, and go into different cities spending time with all...
“It was a sink or swim moment in my life, I felt like this was gonna make me or break me, and I damn sure wasn’t gonna let it break me. When I was 21 my mom died of cancer. Before she passed away she told me ‘you gotta keep going, because life goes on’. Those were the three hardest words I’ve ever heard, life goes on...
Her- “We are both musicians so I think we might connect to music and think about it in a different way than a lot of people. Blake has been an artist that’s inspired me since I was a kid. I grew up listening to his music and he’s still, obviously very much relevant today. When I think of his songs it takes me back to my...
“There are so many people who have inspired me throughout my career. I’ve been able to work with many of my heroes like Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell and Merle Haggard to name a few. But I’d have to say that what made me try to do this music thing was my dad and his friends, playing all kinds of music, right in my own...