I was raised...uh...sorta...in a small town in Washington State but have made my home in Wisconsin since 1976. And I love it here. And, yes, even the cold winters that make Alaska feel like the Tropics. (Well...I don't love the winters quite that much, but...) I fell in love with Country Music when I was a youngster and when I discovered I could carry a tune back in the second grade, I began learning every country song I could from then on. I've had many different jobs in my young adulthood (which turned out to be not such a bad thing later in life with the different things I learned to do) until I landed a job as a truck driver and when I discovered it just all came natural to me, that became my career until I became disabled with Degenerative Bone Disease. Not to mention a few other things...:) My love for Country Music has never wavered and is forever implanted in my heart and blood. Before I started driving truck (and at times while driving) I'd been in several bands (and still was until New Years Eve 2013-14) in which were quite successful on a local level. I guess God new I wouldn't have been able to handle the big time, and He was right. As He always is. And, although I consider my self and my genre of music a has been and outdated, respectively, I don't play much these days even though the love for the music will never go away. And, since the bands I've been in over the last 15 years or so, I've just been playing bass guitar and not doing much singing, I've gotten a bit rusty in the department of remembering the words to songs and playing the 6 string. Oh, I still play some here at home once in a while but I don't have much time to get serious about it anymore. However, as many have said before me and will say after me, with so many things to do now, I don't know how I ever found the time to work a full time job! Never thought I'd hear myself say that. Uh...time. You know. My Niece has recently become a book writer (and is very good at it if I do say so m'self) and just yesterday I wrote a "Spoken Word" style of a song about a recent experience and I decided to send it to her for review. Something I've never done before. But then, I've never been able to write a 'good' serious Country love song in my life so I've never considered it. So, she told me about this site and I just thought I'd hop in and (well, gently step in...) and check it out. Sounds like a fun and exciting thing to do so eventually, I just might join the dues paying side of it. Meantime, I'd like to just have fun meeting new and exciting people here and maybe even start writing short stories about my life sometime in the near future. Has to be. At my age, there isn't any such thing as a far future anymore. LOL! Well, not in the physical sense anyway. When God calls me home, things will be much different. I know first hand. Sleep apnea...been there a few times. Beautiful is a gross understatement for the description of Heaven. So, I'm looking forward to get into this so I better shut up and finish my registration process. God Bless and I'll be talking to y'all soon. Uncle Johnny.
