Hailing originally from the sticks of west-central Illinois, where every high school kid was required to have a copy of both Guns-n-Roses "Appetite for Destruction" and Hank Williams Jr. "Born to Boogie", John managed to grow up just as musically twisted as you would expect. A childhood filled with the influence of church music (both traditional and early ccm), a retired square-dance-calling grandfather, all metal directly before and after "Pyromania", and a parental LP collection that includ...