WELL I USED TO SAY I WANTED TO MEET ALL THE COUNTRY MUSIC ARTIST POSSIBLE AND NOW I CAN SAY THAT I'VE MEET ALL THE COUNTRY MUSIC ARTIST. MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WHEN I MOVED TO NASHVILLE WAS MEETING EDDIE CURTIS AND HIS SWEET WIFE BOBBY WHICH AT THE TIME I MEET EDDIE HE WAS PLAYING BASS FOR MERLE HAGGARD. ONE NIGHT WHILE WORKING AT THE BAR REDD VOLKAERT CAME IN AND I TALKED TO HIM FOR AWHILE, WHICH I HAD MEET HIM WHEN HE HAD PLAYED WITH THE DON KELLEY BAND AT ROBERTS. WELL TO FIND OUT MERLE WAS DOING THE OPRY THAT NIGHT AND I TOLD RED THAT I WANTED TO MEET HIM AND LOW AND BEHOLD MY DREAM COME TRUE, I GOT TO MEET MERLE. WHEN HE DID HIS SHOW AND STARTED TO HIS BUS RED CAME IN ROBERTS AND GOT ME AND TOOK ME OUT TO MEET HIM AND THAT WAS A BIG DREAM COME TRUE FOR ME. THEN FROM THAT NIGHT ON I MEET SO MANY OF THE ARTIST, STARTING WITH MERLE IT WENT TO: VERN GOSDIN, MEL TILLIS, THE LATE PORTER WAGONER, JIM ED BROWN, JEAN SHEPARD, AND THE MOST AWESOME LADY IN THE WORLD CONNIE SMITH, JENNIE SEALY, LORI MORGAN, TERRI CLARK, MARTY STUART, BILL ANDERSON, RAY CHARLES, SAMMY KERSHAW, RAY PRICE, WILLIE NELSON, VINCE GILL, BROOKS AND DUNN, KENNY CHESNEY, MARK CHESTNUT, TRACE ADKINS, TRACY LAWERENCE, THE LATE CONWAY TWITTY, FERLIN HUSKY, ALAN JACKSON, GEORGE JONES,CHARLIE LOUVIN, KEITH WHITLEY,RONNIE MILSAP, HAL KETCHUM, MICHAEL MCDONALD, TIM MCGRAW, FAITH HILL, CRAIG MORGAN, THE ONE AND ONLY JOHNNY PAYCHECK, BLAKE SHELTON, OAK RIDGE BOYS, ALABAMA, JOE NICHOLS, LEE ROY PARNELL, GEORGE STRAIT, BUDDY JEWELL, DOLLY PARTON, SHENANDOAH, RICKY SKAGGS, THE WHITES, MIKE SNYDER, DARYLE SINGLETARY, DOUG STONE, RANDY TRAVIS, TRAVIS TRITT, RICKY VAN SHELTON, MARK WILLS, DARRYL WORLEY, HANK WILLIAMS JR, LITTLE JIMMY DICKENS, AND THE ONE WHOM I MEET YEARS AND YEARS AGO AND THAT IS GENE WATSON AND HE HAS BEEN MY IDOL SINCE I MEET HIM. I'VE BEEN TO EVERY SHOW POSSIBLE THAT HE HAS HAD, AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. I MEET JEFF BATES, AND THERE ARE SO MANY AND I KNOW I'VE LEFT SOME OUT AND ITS JUST BECAUSE I'VE MEET SO MANY. COUNTRY MUSIC IS MY LIFE AND I LOVE IT, IF IT IS REALLY COUNTRY.