May 18 2024 77 mins
Since he was a boy running around the woods and water of Southern Ohio, hit songwriter Andrew Scott Wills has been enamored with American history. He spent his summers combing the dirt for arrowheads and visiting historical forts and memorials. As he a teenager he discovered Eckert's "The Frontiersman" and built his first CVA Kentucky long rifle kit. Around the same time he bought a junk guitar for $20 and started songwriting. Life took him on a whirlwind journey of college, marriage, fatherhood and a career of songwriting on Nashville's Music Row notching Billboard charting singles and hundreds of recordings. He grew tired of his career depending on the unreliable music industry and fickle artists. All the while, the frontier was calling.
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Topics Discussed:
- Why the mountain man culture draws us in.
- Could we make it back then?
- Becoming an American Mountain Man.
- Jack Hinson and his one man war against the Union.
- How to quit your job and go west.
- Making his sound bring back the feeling of 1820s.
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Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music: Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking