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Artist
Austin Webb
12+ albums
countrymodern countrymale vocalistscontemporary countrynewcomer
about
Austin grew up in Greenville, S.C. listening to healthy doses of Motown, R&B, rock, and retro country from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. He also loved authors like Oscar Wilde, O Henry, Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas, and started writing poetry at nine years old. He knew he was going to be a writer of some sort, and at 16 when he picked up a guitar, he began pouring out his emotions into songs. His Martin guitar has been with him through thick and thin since he was 16, and is his most prized possession. It’s already nearly as beat up as Willie Nelson’s from being played eight hours a day for years, and he keeps signed photos of two of his heroes, Guy Clark and Kris Kristofferson, on the back of it. “I really love that guitar…it never talks back, it never pisses me off, it never gets mad -- it’s so neutral and apathetic, but it cares for me in a sense. I love it. And I can beat it up all I want.” (laughs) For a time after high school, he went to Atlanta and played gigs up and down the East Coast. He worked 25 different odd jobs during his pursuit to make it as a singer/songwriter, including working on the line building cars at a BMW plant. “I‘ve always had to work hard for everything…nothing was ever handed to me. My family is not very rich, they’re just regular people, so I had to do a lot of things for myself and so I’ve always had a pretty good work ethic.” Austin’s first trip to Nashville was completely spontaneous after a bad breakup. He turned his car around and drove all n
