 It's time now for Mountain Music, being brought to you by the Mountain Arts Center, the main stage of the country music hyena. Friday night and I've got enough, it's getting hard, I'll have to have a drink just to try to sip my milk. Many artists from this region have made it big, but they had to move away from here to do it. There's a lot of talent, obviously, for whatever reason, that's nestled into this area. A lot of people have, obviously, as most of us know from the area, have went on to have great careers, which is uplifting for anyone. The only thing is all of these people, they left here. They didn't become famous living here. They all have ties to this region, but they all left here, and so it is tough to live here and make this possible. But seeing these people, you know, that are from where you're from, you know it's possible, but you have to work at it, it's not something that comes easy. Sometimes inspiration for a good song simply comes from being out there and playing. That song is called, basically it's called Paying Do's. I wrote that song a couple months ago, autobiographical, you know, it's showing the side of this life that's not so, you know, not so great and all fun, you know, and life's a big party. No, it can be tough. It's a labor of love.