I've been writing songs as long as I can remember but didn't know what to do with them, I wasn't sure if they were good or not(lack of confidence). I decided to take a gamble, I approached a guy I knew, a good country singer who had recorded several records(LPs). I asked if he would take a listen to some of my songs and if he thought they were good, that I would pay to record a 45 record(two songs). He picked out two, we went into a studio and recorded them. I had some 45s made and gave some to the local radio stations to see if they would play them. Apparently they like one and started to play it, one called, Cheatin' games can be played by two.

While I was at work one day someone phoned me and said my song was in the top three. I said what do you mean. Apparently the radio station had put on a phone in content for listeners to vote on the best song by local indie artist from all over the province. The next day they were going to have the final count down of the top three out of 100, so I took a radio to work to listen, and my song came in number one, not bad for a first attempt, that encouraged me enough to send it to country radio across Canada and I got a fair amount of airplay there too. I was bit by the music bug that day and haven't been able to shake it ever since.