“I was nervous at the very beginning. I had butterflies the whole day before, but as soon as I got up on stage my nerves were nowhere to be found. I knew right then that this is what I wanted to do.” Phillip Thomas was 17 years old when he walked out on stage for the first time in his hometown of Harlingen, Texas; however, the doorway that led him there opened up nearly a decade before at the very susceptible age of 9. It was the guitar that first laid its hooks deep into his young music psyc...