a journey. a dream. my everything.

i can remember being five years old and getting my first guitar. red, plastic, incapable of being in tune. it came with an amp and a microphone. obsessed with gladys knight and reba mcentire. my first concert. demanding that my mom and grandparents sit down on the couch. "this is reba mcentire standing right up here in front of y'all." i truly believed in that moment that i could and would be her someday. my first applause.

when i was young my grandpa made me a copy of a gladys knight tape. i would listen to it all day, and every night before bed. falling asleep to my favorite track... my mom heard me screaming and came running down the hallway. "what on earth is wrong?" my tape player had eaten the tape. i was devistated. "papa can make you another copy sis." i couldn't catch my breath, but when i finally did... i told her that i had to have it so that i could learn to sing like her. i told her that someday when she died someone would have to be there to sing her songs, that people would still want to hear it. i knew that was my job. "if i don't do it, who else will?"

and then sitting in the back seat of my dad's truck. asking him to crank it up! i was eight years old and obsessed with steely dan and robert cray. i've listened to every steely dan record, every donald fagen record at least 1,000 times. no exaggeration. every time i hear it, it is different. it's better actually. i respect that band maybe more than any other. for some it is the beatles... and for me, definitely steely dan.

fourteen. alaska. sixteen. college. bluegrass tour bus. guitars. the everybodyfields. twenty. nashville. life changing lawyer.

now. i feel like life has decelerated to slow motion. piece by piece things come together. since my publishing deal in april i've written almost 40 new songs. i finally found a manager who has whipped me into shape. i had a song in a movie with sigourney weaver, i released my first record. i'm making progress. and next i'll find a magnificent label... or maybe they'll find me.

i've been traveling, dreaming, aspiring to be another reba mcentire (of sorts). i have always been in a hurry and i always aim high. this is the beginning, this slow motion part is the beginning of something bigger. i am ready.