One of my oldest memories is sitting on the edge of my parents bed and banging on dad's old Kay guitar. I must've been about 3 or 4. I said something like, "Look daddy, I can play guitar just like you."
I remember him laughing at me and telling me to keep it up.
I can recall my dad and my uncles sitting around the living room playing their flattop Martins long after the sun settled down over those green West Virginia hills. I guess that's why I still consider an old Martin to be the Holy Grail of guitars.
I wrote my first song when I was 13 and I've been writing ever since. It is deeply soul satisfying and I haven't found anything that gives me as much peace as picking up a guitar and sitting down to write a song.
I don't write songs to be commercial, non-commercial or anything else. I write songs to say what I want to say the way I want to say it ... and with my own unique voice. After all, you can't be unique or creative if you're copying or doing what everybody else is!
