>> I went to school at Georgetown University and I majored in Music
at Georgia Southern and I got here in 93.
I graduated high school in 93 and got here and I'm from a small town called Hagen
and Clagsdell High School is the high school I grew up in.
I decided in, I think, tenth grade that I was committing my life to music,
that I was going to have to make the dedication, the practices hard as it would take
on the guitar and to learn as much as I could about singing and playing guitar.
And then performing, it all is a series of small steps.
How do I get to where I can play in a club?
Like now that I played the club, how do I get the other clubs to hire me?
Now that I've done that, how do you I you know, negotiate in how we record an album?
Then after we did that we signed our first record deal.
Well how do you negotiate those terms?
And you know, things like that.
And then you get to a point in your career where you realize well,
I've done two albums, I've got another on the way.
I've written a few books.
I've gotten, you know, a manufacturing company.
What is it that I want to focus on and I haven't figured that out yet?
I love all of it.
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