I don't know how to tell you this, but for the last week, I've been waking up in the middle of the night around 3 o'clock with you on my mind.

And I don't know how to tell you this, but I'm supposed to tell you that you're supposed to be a Christian artist and you're supposed to sing songs about Jesus. This is five days after I've just prayed a prayer. God send me a sign and whatever it is you want, I will do it. And my manager, who's an unbeliever, has been waking up in the middle of the night to tell me that I'm supposed to be a Christian artist and sing songs about Jesus. I don't know about you, but God can't be more clear. Drew, I'm excited to hang out with you, man. Right before we hit record, I think we were saying, like, we both kind of loosely know each other. Like, you, you were mentioning that you bought the dad tired book a couple of years ago. And then I was telling you how one of our dad tired guys is a fan of yours and your music and was like, you have to have Drew on. So I kind of just reached out cold, but I'm stoked to get to know you, but I, in full transparency, don't know your stories. Yeah. I'm excited to sit down with you, man. But for the audience who may not be familiar

with you, but in full transparency, don't know your stories. Yeah. I'm excited to sit down with you, man. But for the audience who may not be familiar with you, tell us who you are, what you're up to these days. Yeah. My name is Drew Parker. I'm a singer-songwriter. I live in Nashville, Tennessee. I've lived here 10 years. I grew up outside of Atlanta, Georgia. I've always had a desire for music. I grew up actually singing Southern gospel music when I was a child. But when I turned about 18, obviously I wanted, I thought I was much bigger than that. I wanted to go chase all the things.

And I also have loved country music my whole life.

And so I knew that to maybe be successful in country music, I needed to move to Nashville.

And so in 2015, I packed my stuff up.

And I was 24 at the time. And packed my stuff up and I was 24 at the time and packed my truck up and moved to

Nashville to chase this dream I've had and I've been here 10 years.

Just to get some context, like when that, when you moved to Nashville, were you married?

Like, are you married now?

You have kids now?

Yeah, I'm married with two daughters now. Oh, sweet. Yep. And so I had just, when I moved to Nashville, I had met my wife nine months prior to moving to Nashville. Okay. I had just gotten out of a longer relationship that I think kind of held me back from really chasing my dream. And so after that kind of broke off, I was like, I'm moving to Nashville. I had made up my mind. I'm going to go do it. And then I met my wife and I was like, oh no, what am I going to do? But I told her, you know, straight up front, like I have a desire to do this, to move to Nashville to chase this dream and I don't want to

wake up when I'm 30 years old and wonder what if I had done it yeah and so I was very open and

honest like and so I said let's just kind of take this as it goes you know and so man we dated and

you know fell in love and I ultimately moved to, you know, I realized that I wanted to be with her.

And so it wasn't long after I had moved to Nashville that I proposed to her.

I think it was we met in December of 2014.

And then I moved to Nashville, September of and then we were engaged the next January of 2016.

So they got married that June.

So yeah, we dated a year and a half before we got married.

Yeah.

And give us an update. Maybe all of our listeners know, and I'm like the ignorant one here, so I apologize. But, like, where are you at now in country music? How did that turn out after? Yeah. So I moved here in 20- It's okay if you brag a little bit, by the way. I'm teeing you up to brag a little bit. So you can go ahead and tell us some of the stuff you've done. So I moved here in 2015. It's okay if you brag a little bit, by the way. I'm teening you up to brag a little bit, so you can go ahead and tell us some of this.

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