When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.
I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out