PC: When did you begin your music career?

KE: Unfortunately for myself, it was not until I was 24 that I bought a guitar and first attempted to learn to play music. I wish I could have got an earlier start! It was a couple of years later that I met my good friend Dave Carr who taught me quite a bit and made me want to learn. He was the fist person I ever knew personally that could play. He wrote a couple songs on my CD for me. Then around 1997 I moved down to Stillwater and saw Jason Boland and Cody Canada doing an acoustic duo around town about three nights a week, and their talents just blew me away. I got to become pretty good friends with those guys and hang out with them quite a bit prior to their bands taking off big. It was in 1998 or 1999 that I started opening up Jason Boland's weekly Wormy Dog gig, and started to get some of my own gigs around Stillwater.

PC: Who are your main musical influences?

KE: Well, the people that made me like country music way back in the day were Hank Williams, Jr., Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson. I still love those guys, and a little later it was and still is George Strait, Dwight Yoakam, and Clint Black. I was already out of college when I discovered the Austin Music scene and fell in love with Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Jerry Jeff, and Reckless Kelly. That was part of what brought me back to Stillwater in 1997 and then I got turned on to Jason Boland, Cross Canadian, The Great Divide, and Stoney LaRue. There isn't any of those guys that I have mentioned that I am not envious of their talents! Although I cover every one of them from time to time, my own personal writing is pretty straightforward country.

PC: What approach do you take when writing your songs? Do you have any specific routine?

KE: I don't write a tremendous amount of material, but almost everything I have written has been personal experience. There is at least some influence of what has happened to me in my songs even if they aren't about a specific experience. Some take awhile to write, some come right out, and some never get finished. I have a lot of those!

PC: Tell everyone about your up and coming CD?

KE: My new CD is tentatively titled "Kyle Everett and Friends, Acoustic". It will obviously be an acoustic project and there will be 15-20 tracks on it. I wrote a couple of new ones, but the majority of the songs are some of my personal favorites that I like to cover. Some from Texas, some from Oklahoma, some from Nashville. Just vocals, acoustic guitars, and some mandolin and dobro. It should be out in the fall of 2003. I am very excited about it! I am recording it at Red Door Studios in Stillwater, which is Nathan Clewell's place (www.RedDoorStudios.com). He is producing it for me as well (Great place for an acoustic project for anyone out there looking to record). Matt Gambrell of Tornado Alley Graphics is doing the art work (www.TornadoAlleyGraphics.com). I have Roger Ray of The Stragglers, Travis Linville of The Burtschi Brothers, John Cooper of The Red Dirt Rangers, and Cari Clewell all scheduled to work on it! It doesn't get much better than that line up of guitars, mandolins, dobros, and harmonies!

PC: (Texas & Red Dirt music artists it like one big family, everyone helps each other out) is this true?

KE: There is no doubt about that. You find out pretty fast that everyone has their unique talents and has something to offer. It's not a competition. Everyone benefits from the success of everybody else. All you have to do is look at what little I have done in music to see how big a help everyone is. Jason Boland and The Straggler's played on and produced my first CD "Water for My Horses". I have been on the road with "No Justice" a little lately opening shows for them. On my new CD I have Roger Ray from The Stragglers.

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