16 years ago, we sat across the table from each other in Cracker
Barrell, trying to decide if we should quit our full time job and go
after our dream of being “full time musicians”.  We were young, pregnant
(literally) naive and chock full of hope and faith.  We just wanted to
be able to say that in our lifetime, we had really gone after the thing
we felt like we were made to do. Right then and there, while Michelle
was eating a catfish sandwich, (the whole pregnant thing) we decided to
go for it and we handed in our notice the very next day.

16 years
later, we have recorded 8 cd’s and played for thousands of people.  We
have toured  living rooms, coffee shops, bars, colleges, churches and
festivals.  We have worked a vast array of part time and full time
jobs.  Barry earned a Dove nomination and Michelle gave birth to four
babies. We have played all over the world and driven our minivans and
suburbans all over North America.  We have been kicked around some and
got back up some. Record deals fell through while artists all over the
world have been recording our music. We moved to the mountains and moved
back from the mountains.  And here we are, 16 years later, having
another catfish sandwich moment.

We are still sitting across the
table from each other, trying to decide if we should keep going for it. 
We have learned a lot of things the hard way and we are much less naive
these days (are we?).  We still really want to say that we did what we
were made to do.  We are doing whatever it takes to keep food on the
table and always trying to find a way to do the music we believe we are
meant to do.

The Catfish Sandwich project is a group of songs that
sums up our journey, from Cracker Barrell to today. There are songs
about growing up, love songs, prayers, heartaches, hope and bustin’ yer
ass.  Anyone who knows us will hear the narrative of our crazy life in
the words of these songs. It’s a story worth telling because it ends
with the future and hope we have always believed was ours.

We are
returning to our Americana roots and taking the production somewhere
grassy and rootsy.  Banjos, steel guitar, mandolin, fiddle and honkey
tonk piano will tell this story for us, the way we want it told.  We
will record this project in Dallas and hope to raise the funds to hire
the studio musicians who speak that language the best. We want to raise
funds to master Catfish Sandwich in Nashville, like we did Long Straight
Uphill Climb.

We haven’t packaged our cd’s in anything but cheap
envelopes in a decade, and we are aching for the packaging to match the
content of this project in quality and class.  We want to raise funding
to make that happen.

We have never once, in the past 16 years,
been able to get any single project done without other people helping to
make it happen, so why should this project be any different? 
Partnering suits us and helps us know we are doing something that is of
value to anybody else.

So, who wants to make a Catfish Sandwich?

If we exceed our initial goal, we will let ourselves dream bigger and plan for the most amazing cd release tour of our lives.