Dave Brooks

I'm mostly a songwriter and producer, although I was also the guitar player in Exit 41 and the BarnBurners, a rockin' country band from Central Missouri. The last three years I spent in Nashville learning about the music business the hard way, taking my kicks and blows like any other struggling songwriter. Do I regret moving my family to Nashville? No, I don't. Would I do some things differently if given a second chance? Absolutely!I now live in Mexico, MO in a wonderful old house built in 1904, the same year as the World's Fair in St. Louis. I have a recording studio that I call my "garage sale" studio and I am so happy to have the ability to do my own demos at my house and at my leisure. I'm trying to adjust to small town life and still not give up my ambitions of creating my own music and having a hit on the radio someday. That's a tough thing for an unemployed songwriter who is 350 miles and one hit song away from his lifetime dream.After the tears dry up and reality sets in, a father realizes that his family is ultimately his first priority. Who knows, maybe the guiding hand of life moved me from Tennessee back to Missouri for some special reason to be discovered later in life. So here I am, still searching...