I wouldn't give a nickel to have it paved in gold....

Apart from my family & friends, nothing on this earth makes me happier than listening, singing, and dancing to country music.

I remember when I was 5 or 6, me and my mom would follow around KSCS (local country radio station) and go to wherever they were in the DFW area and get free stuff and enter contests.

 I remember singing Brooks & Dunn's "Neon Moon" as a kid not having any clue what it was talking about. Just imagine a 6 year old belting out, "The jukebox plays on drink by drink, and the words of every sad song seem to say what I think. This hurt inside of me ain't never gonna end. Ohh, but I'll be alright as long as there's light from a neon moon."
My grandpa (AKA... Haha....no, not a laugh.... we call him Haw-haw.....I blame my sister Amanda who couldn't manage to say Papa.) played guitar in a country band as a 20-something in smoke-filled honky-tonks 'til 2 am after putting in a full days work at the butcher shop in order to provide for his family.

My dad plays the guitar, and we have country music jam sessions......and we've had the same set of  songs since I can remember. Sugarland's "Stay" (sad, cheating, other-woman song), Tim McGraw's "It's Your Love" (classic 90s love song).....and a few others that we hit the verses and skip the chorus because it has a F chord in it.....and he doesn't do F's.... he's seeking an alternative if anyone knows one!

I've danced at my fair share of honky-tonks, and I've sang at assorted oprys. I recorded one cover song of Martina McBride's "When God Fearin' Women Get the Blues" and even made a music video that went along with it for a contest on GAC (great american country, country music channel). It's my dream job to be a country music singer. But instead I just add some twang to our praise team at church whenever I can.

One of many favorite country music lines, "I wouldn't give a nickel to have it paved in gold. Everything I love, is at the end of a dirt road." - Josh Abbott Band