 When I heard my song for the first time on the radio, it just was the wildest thing. I almost jumped out of my car driving on the road. It was like a dream come true, you've grown up listening to music and then all of a sudden there's a song that you wrote that you played that you're singing and it's on the radio. So to sum up the story of how I got here to the House of Blues, I started playing in Fayetteville after my last deployment and the owner of the establishment introduced me to Sweet Tea, the radio DJ for 100.1 FM, got me into the Carolina Artist Showdown at that point. The past few months have just, it's just been such a huge, huge blessing to get here. Can't even describe how humbled I am to be nominated for two awards, Male Arts of the Year and Country Single of the Year. Someone came to me and said, have you ever heard of Chris Munson? Like, I haven't, well he plays in his garage, you should jump on YouTube and see his video and I was like, oh, this is great. And then I came across someone else in Fayetteville and they said, have you heard of him? I said, Jay, sounds familiar, you gotta listen. It's a passion, I can't drive down the road without thinking of lyrics and I don't know how to turn it off, so I guess that's what drives me.