My music background is rock and heavy metal in the late 70s and mid 80s where I played professionally for 10 years. In the early 80s I was the front man of a band called Nytrix which released two albums and toured Canada and the US with acts such as Anvil, Coney Hatch, Honeymoon Suite and Killer Dwarfs. We opened for bands such as Max Webster, Saga, Triumph and Motor Head.
I started listening to country and really liked it. In the mid 90s I started writing country songs and recorded many of t...