My friend Daniel Horne used to coordinate the Artists Of the Rustbelt events in and around Youngstown, Ohio. The Womacks and I played a...

Sneaking down to the Lil' Champ with my buddy Kiki, cracking open a glass bottle of Sunkist from the cooler as the Jamaican...

We'd gotten to the auditorium early enough that morning to be the only ones there besides the janitor. He let us in a side door, and we...

I learned early on, the advantages of carrying a cheap acoustic guitar around a campground. If you knew enough songs, in enough genres,...

When I called Tommy to ask if he'd play mandolin on the next album, I figured it was a long shot. I had a couple of things in my corner...

I backed the van up by the side door, and started loading gear out to the sound of the waves hitting the deck in their drunken rhythm. It...

Before my brother opened his shop, there was only one retail music store in Norwalk, Ohio. My Martin had come from Mossman Music, and...

"The car comes with the stereo" I repeated, and the tow-truck driver finally caved. "A hundred bucks, plus a ride down to that Best...

I made an agreement with my mother when I moved to Nashville, that I would finish high school there. So at the beginning of my sophomore...

Garth had already finished up his organ tracks earlier that day, but when I saw the headlights slowly meandering up to the barn, I knew...

I lived with Millichamp for awhile, even though my publisher had provided me the condo at 19th Avenue South as part of my stipend. The...

By the time we got to Woodstock, we were hungry and in need of sleep. We were also out of smoke, which wasn't good, considering we had...

When I was thirteen, I got a cheap acoustic guitar at a garage sale, and started playing cover tunes for tips within the first week. I...

I spent a good chunk of my teen years on 19th Avenue South in Nashville. My publisher had two units in a building there; an office on the...

When I was writing for Terry Rose Music, RJ introduced me to a very successful engineer who had recently purchased one of the bigger...

Had I stayed in high school, 1994 would've been my senior year. I would have been a Graphic Arts major at a little trade school in...