Feature I’ve been chasing songs since I was a 10-year-old kid in Brenham. Sitting in my room, day after day, rewriting songs by people like Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Leon Russell, I first discovered that songs carry secrets. Something happens when you tell a story, make it rhyme and put it to melody. A song is an envelope to hold the truth. Once I realized it was possible to make a living writing songs, I wanted to be a rock star. But you never know where songs will lead you.