While helping my uncle deliver 7-UP to an armory in Elkins, West Virginia, I saw a Faron Young show. I was only 10 or 11, but I was hooked on country music. At age 13, I asked my friends’ dad, James Murphy, to show me some chords on one of his guitars.

Shortly after, James and I started a band. A few years later I bought a pedal steel guitar and taught myself to play. I’ve played with a lot of people in a lot of places.  Playing with this accomplished group, Flat Out, is by far one of my favorite things.

-Charlie