“Some of the
best songs that I
have ever written
came from what I
thought was the
worst time in my
life. I think some
of the best songs
come out of the
worst situations.”
and felt really connected to Dolly Parton in to do Country music, and had a record deal. I had written for my album and giving them
particular. She was a big influence for me. She I had a record and was singing at the Opry! to other females on the label, and they were
was really the reason I picked up the guitar Everything that I had gone after and prayed for, singing them! ‘Invisible’ is the word that I really
when I was about thirteen years old and started God had blessed me with. I got to this point related to in that moment, I felt really sad and
writing songs. I just loved how she told a story probably about five years into my record deal just stuck.
and I also loved how she just got up and sang where I felt like I was kind of stuck in this place a song like “Jolene” or “Coat of Many Colors” of really feeling invisible within my own label. In my personal journey I was in this place where
but at the same time she would talk about I had made two albums there that never got God had given me everything that I asked for
how she loved the Lord. I thought, “I want to released, and I put all this work into this music, and everything that I wanted, and He wanted
do that!” I really just felt connected to those and I just remember asking God, “Why is this me to kind of learn the lesson of what I wanted
story songs. So, I set out on my journey to not working? What is wrong with me, and why versus what I needed. I feel like I got to a place
do music as a teenager, moved to Nashville do I feel stuck?” They were taking songs that of saying, “Hey God, I need you to take this
June 2019
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