 It's time now for Mountain Music, being brought to you by the Mountain Arts Center, the main stage of the Country Music Highland. Family can be an early musical influence, even if they don't play or sing. One memory that always comes to me is back in the world of cassette tapes. My brother had a Judas Priest, and this is not the style of music I play now obviously, a Judas Priest on one side and a Metallica on the other, and I remember kind of taking that from his possession and laying ownership to it, and I don't think I ever told him that I had it. But I remember my uncle driving us around in a jeep that he had, and he had a John Cougar Mellencamp cassette and a Bruce Springsteen cassette, tops off country roads, and I remember those two albums really changing that made me kind of say, I want to do this. You know, at that point I didn't know what a living was, but I think I wanted to do it for a long time. Sometimes reaching Rock Bottle is the solid foundation to build not only a great song, but a great album. The album's called Berry Who We Are, and it was written in rehab. I convinced the facility that I was in to allow me to have this very guitar, and I skipped lunches and skipped breaks to write. The song that we played is called I Will Rise, and I felt like that was a good bookend to the end of it. It's basically just saying, live your life and do it as good as you can. Be the best you that you can be, because one day we're all going to rise. I wasn't intended to have any sort of meeting behind it other than positivity and just keep it up, whatever you're doing, as long as it's positive and you lead with your heart. I've always felt like you just keep it up and everything's going to be just great. Anthony enjoys all aspects of being an artist. He says there's nothing like playing on stage. There's a lot of satisfaction in it from all those, from being on stage to playing small venues, to being on lengthy tours. It keeps everything so beautifully unstable. For that hour and a half, two hours that you're on stage, you're able to really show a side of you that nobody gets to see. That only I get to see sometimes, and then you put it away. It goes with your guitar back into the case, and you travel again, and it's like you share just a moment. I think that's long story short, that's what it's about, is that moment. It's the one hour and a half moment that you share.