No, this is NOT about Taylor Swift. It's dedicated to another female guitarist/singer out there that deserves the same kind of recognition.

Based on a true story at a recent King James Boys show. I never got her name, but hopefully she'll hear this song some day.

Co-written with Stan Keach. Based on a true story in County, Virginia.

I hope that some bluegrass band can have fun with this song and make it a hit!

I saw the name of the town on a map, it had a musical ring to it, so I decided to write a song around it. As I was writing, I imagined Charlie Waller and the Country Gentlemen performing it.

I used to work with a young lady who walked really fast, and that became the inspiration for this "Jimmy Martin meets Chuck Berry" song. Please forgive me for the hack fiddle playing, I am still a beginner on the instrument and I just wanted to fill in some empty spots real fast.

Back in the late 1990s, I was in a female-fronted alt-country/Americana band. No one else in the band wrote songs, so it was delegated to me, and it challenged me to write songs from a female perspective. This was one of my better ones.

Written and recorded about a decade ago with my old band Gravel Train, it is still one of my personal favorites.

This is the song that won the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at Merlefest in 2015 (Bluegrass Category). Co-written with Dawn Kenney and David Morris, this demo is recorded by Troy Engle. It was recorded by Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike on her 2017 release "Small Town Heroes," and was Number 1 on a number of roots-music charts.