quanahparker

Abilene, TX, USA

I started writing songs to keep myself awake while driving my boys to and from Richardson, Texas for visitation. It’s kind of like my version of “Highway 20 Ride” by the Zac Brown Band (I tear up every time I hear that song). For two years, I went back and forth until my baby came to live with me, and writing my own songs helped keep me focused up and down the highway. I would talk and sing into a hand-held recorder, and it just progressed from there. A lot of songs came out of those trips — and on my trips driving back and forth to courthouses from El Paso to Tyler, Amarillo to Houston to San Antonio and pretty much every county in between on the super slabs of Texas. As they say, “You have to live the blues to sing the blues,” and I’ve done some living.