My influences started with My Father Greg Easterling, My Grandfather Jim Easterling, and my Band Director Herbert Bassett. Famous influences included James Taylor, Bonnie Rait, Sarah McLachlan and other great vocalists and songwriters. I love all types of music because no matter what kind you are listening to "There's good music and bad music....period".
Growing up in the middle of the Louisiana/Mississippi border I was never a stranger to music adapting a country/blues/jazz sound. My family owned a music store in Vidalia, La, still running today and has been for almost 45 years, opening Sept. 1966. Everyday my school bus dropped me at Easterling Music where I was exposed to the best and the worst the south had to offer. My grandfather Jim Easterling was the beginning for our music lineage writing for Marty Robbins and making the nashville scene as a songwriter in the early 70s. He was made a member of the Louisiana Hall of Fame in 1998 for his musical career dating back from 1957. My Father never made a big scratch on the music scene but very talented all the same playing piano from the age of 6 and guitar from the age of 13. He finished his degree at USM with a minor in music in the 70s and started a family with my mother of course. My father has been the driving force in my music career playing for me from the beginning with my live performances starting at the ripe age of two....I fired him for messing up during my first song relaying to my mother, "I'm getting a new band". Since then of course he has been rehired and has functioned as a very strong mentor in my musical journey. I began playing piano at the age of 7 and guitar at 19. I have played professionally since the age of 20 with my start of my career at the Marketplace Cafe' and Slough Daddy's, doing lunches and brunches on Fridays and Sundays. During nursing school in 2005 I did some demo singing for Songwriter Tommy Polk writer of "I Don't Wan't You To Go"released as a single by Carolyn Dawn Johnson. I finished nursing school somewhere in the middle of playing all over Mississippi and Louisiana and finally landed here in Nashville, TN with an aim of making this not just a long road, but a life as a singer/songwriter/musician. I hope you enjoy my music as much as I enjoy playing it for you.......Thank you for stopping by and come again soon.
Unfortunately, I had to let the trombone go when life started getting in the way (LAUGH). I have taken up singing in the choir and really enjoy it. I'm not on your level of course (you sound great), but it is a way for me to stay in music. How are things in Nashville? Tell me what all is going on!
Hey Erin! Thanks for the sweet message :-) It'd be great to see you in Vidalia. Your stuff sounds great on here! Please tell Tommy I said hey. Talk to you soon.
Thanks so much for the add! I'm new in Nashville and trying to meet as many people as I can! If you have a free minute, please stop by my page and give my music a listen and feel free to leave comments, I always appreciate feedback!
haha...wow, Thanks Erin show's how much you know your own cousin (: haha but thanks. i know i look different since you've seen me! I miss you too, lol. But i'm really not sure, uh, you'll have to ask my dad that one..haha
PROFILEANGELS. COM THANKS FOR ADDING YOURSELF TO MY PROFILE ERIN AND HERE'S A LITTLE SOMETHING TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY SINCE LIFE REFLECTS LIFE. YOUR FRIEND, THE OUTLAW/JESSE JAMES
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