How did that come about?
I often say my road to Canadian Music Week started two years ago on Twitter. A Canadian band out in British Columbia called The Swamp Music Players, lit on to my music and they’re really active in social media and they just loved what I did.
They introduced me to a Canadian fan base primarily in B.C. but not just in B.C. and just promoted my music. They asked me to sing on one of the tracks of their record. They had an LP come out last year called ‘Timeless Cool’ which got a lot of radio play in college radio in Canada and I sang on one of those tracks. Then they said you’ve got to come to Canada and play. And I said ‘will you help me get people to the shows’ and they said yeah.
So last May, about a year ago I went up B.C. and played Vancouver and Victoria. We had a great time. It was awesome.
I built that fan base with them and when it was time to come back to Canada it just coincided with Canadian Music Week. I contacted a talent booker that worked with me in Victoria or Vancouver and so with his help and my application and the work I’d done, lo and behold. I was a late entry but they got me in.
Now I’m not one for rumors but rumor has it that you are leaving the warm confines of L.A. and heading out to Tennessee?
That’s a scoop man. I haven’t said this one publicly yet. My wife and I just bought a beautiful place outside of Nashville in Dickson County, Tennessee on 30 acres of land. We’ve always wanted to live in the country and I’ve always said I can live in the city and I can live in the country but I can never live in the suburbs. I want to be near a music town, Deborah wants to have a whole mess of animals and I need a place big enough and quiet enough to have a music studio so Nashville got the nod.
By the way I would have been just as happy in the swamps of Louisiana but I would have had to leave my wife behind. Ain’t no way she’s living in a swamp. We compromised on Tennessee.
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