 It's time now for Mountain Music being brought to you by the Mountain Arts Center the main stage of the country music 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 in the land of cassette tapes my brother had a Judas Priest and this is not the style of music that I play now obviously But I'd use free some 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 like 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 bottom is the solid foundation to build not only a great song But a great album the album is called bury who we are and it was written in rehab. I am 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 book into the end of it. It's 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 gonna rise It 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 it's and you lead with your heart I've always felt like you just keep it up and everything is 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 You know from all those from being on stage to playing small venues to being on lengthy tours It just it keeps everything so Like 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 it goes with your guitar back into the case and and you go you travel again And it's like you share just a moment and 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