I am currently residing in beautiful Tulsa, Oklahoma., and traveling to Nashville throughout the year. My main purpose is songwriting for major-label artists. I am also working as co-founder and president at Country Music Songwriter,™ a new Country Music focused media company officially launching worldwide in 2026! Subscribe here for updates on CMS and other news!
I’m the youngest of six, born in the small southern town of Blakely, Georgia- right near the Alabama border.
Because my parents moved wherever the work was, we lived all over the Southeast, rarely staying put for long. Later my dad kept books for an interstate road-building company, so wherever they laid roads became home. Looking back, that nomadic childhood taught me how to read a room, connect with all kinds of people, and feel at home in unfamiliar places—skills I lean on every time I write a lyric that sounds like the truth.
I started singing around age five, and when we moved to Nashville when I was eight, I fell hard for country music. I even had my first taste of the stage there, playing “Father Christmas” in a school production. When we left Nashville, I remember feeling—quietly but clearly—that I belonged there among the songs and lights. I didn’t complain. Moving was normal. But the seed was planted.
In my pre-teen years, music lived in me via church choir and radio, and in one small Georgia town the high school band even let me tag along with the drum line. My dad was a drummer when he was younger, and I like to think some of that rhythm found its way to me.
By my teens I had my first guitar lesson in Glendale, AZ, and soon after that I was singing in high school choir and writing poetry- my first real doorway into songwriting. Acting pulled me back in too, all the way from our Hickory Grove Road home in Letohatchee, AL. back to the Montgomery Little Theatre. I loved the idea of combining music and story, and one of the musicals I acted in was Oklahoma!—which is funny, because at the time I couldn’t have found Oklahoma on a map… and later I’d end up living there with my Oklahoma born and raised wife!
In 2014, songwriting stopped being something I dabbled in and became something I pursued with intention. That year, I shared a co-written song with a well-known Nashville publisher. After listening, he told me, “Based on this, I believe you can become a hit songwriter.” Then he laid out everything I’d gotten wrong—and somehow that was exactly what I needed. From that moment on, I believed I belonged in the room. A short time later, I had the privilege of writing with and learning from several hit songwriters in Nashville. I’m still learning, still writing, and still grateful to be on this journey!