After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

My first solo was in church when I was five.