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“I was probably three or four years old,” he recalled of the first time he sang in front of a crowd. “I had a cowboy hat on, and a button-up shirt, and it was my grandparents’40th anniversary. And they left the mic alone on stage.
“I really enjoy the talking up on stage,” he said. “It adds a lot more pressure to me during the show, because I know I have to make sure I can make people laugh between the songs, but I’ve never liked dead air. It makes me really scared and nervous if there’s not constant noise going on, either from my music or the people laughing.”
In his spare time, he visits the log cabin he built with hand tools, or works on his models and miniatures. Even his voice, with strong hints of a mid-Atlantic accent, is vintage.
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