Welcome to Jesus Listen Stories of Prayer.

I'm Susie McIntyre Eaton and I'm so excited to share this conversation with you today.

He's a father of three and he's a country singer songwriter.

His name is Aaron Watson.

Aaron is beloved everywhere he goes, but particularly in Texas music circles.

He's also a man of faith and recently had a scary battle with some health issues

and so his doctors put him on vocal rest.

Definitely a scary thing for a man who loves music and makes his living from it.

He opens up about that time, what it was like and how he relied on his faith during that season of waiting.

So where did all this begin?

Where did your love for music begin?

When our home or college are home, you know, my dad is a disabled veteran and after he got injured in the war,

he told me that music was his therapy.

So, you know, I came around a few years after that and just growing up in the house,

there was always, you know, country music records, gospel records, you know,

roll records being played on vinyl.

So I just, you know, I just always have had music around me and then, you know,

and then mom at church, you know, if I wasn't singing at church, she had dumped me right in the back of the head.

So I was forced to sing and I think, you know, people are like,

well, have you ever taken vocal lessons and I was like, well, you know, Sunday morning,

Sunday night and Wednesday nights, I had mandatory voice classes, you know, and being church across.

Oh my goodness, you covered up by a guitar at all.

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