 It's time now for Mountain Music, being brought to you by the Mountain Arts Center, the main stage of the country music hyena. The influence these mountains have on an artist is undeniable and can definitely be heard and felt in the music of Sunday Best. When it's been everything I think that the spirit that we try to convey on stage that we do convey I think is just a pure reflection of the energy that we were raised in and the love that we were raised in. It's just such a part of the culture that my biggest influence is where the people I saw on a daily basis, my dad certainly instilled to this day is a great musical influence on me. For Nick and Chris the ability to play, sing and write music is nothing short of a spiritual experience. It's just therapy and it's everything. You know it's love, it's understanding, it's everything good and just to be able to tap into that at any moment, whether it's on stage or whether it's at the house or riding the car, it's divine. If you sing in front of one person as you would a thousand, then if you ever sing in front of a thousand you'll sing to them as if they're one and we've always approached music that way and gave it our all no matter where we're at or if we're in the living room or because to us music is worship. These hills and hollers have always been riddled with talent and it's becoming more and more obvious just how much talent is really here. Just this area is so rich. The roots of music here run extremely deep and I think it will remain for eternity how important music is to this area. It will always be important that it never goes away, especially thanks to people like yourself and places like the Mountain Arts Center that celebrate it. It's just been nice to see, I think musicians realize their worth and realize their potential and I like to think that we've sort of helped usher that sort of belief into people because before us it was just like it's a lot of you have to be on the radio or nothing at all and I think we've kind of helped break some barriers down for people.