Fans of rising artist Travis Denning know the “After a Few” singer is a directly up guitar slinger — but they in all likelihood don’t realize how lengthy he’s been that manner. Turns out the Georgia local has been rocking since before he changed into a youngster, but he knew taking his expertise to the next level meant the usage of the proper tools.
“One day my dad and mom stated, ‘Look, we are able to purchase you a guitar … a nicer, extra expert type of guitar,” Denning tells Sounds Like Nashville in element of an specific video collection. But the offer came with a catch. Still only a youngster, his mother and father had been concerned this music issue turned into only a phase, in order that they made him a deal.
“We’d like to get you a [Gibson] Les Paul,” Denning’s dad, “Diamond Dave” recollects telling his young son. “To get a Les Paul, although, you’ve gotta research [Led Zeppelin’s] ‘Stairway to Heaven’ from beginning to quit, such as the solo.”
Denning says his dad and mom demanded perfection — no missed notes, no faking — and he took that as a vote of self assurance. “Stairway to Heaven” is more than twice as long as a regular rock single and notoriously difficult to play, so it took the budding musician four and a half months of diligent exercise earlier than he turned into prepared to perform it. Then at some point after church, he came downstairs from his room with what his dad describes as an peculiar appearance on his face.
“I got here down like … ‘Alright, I’m ready. Come upstairs,'” Denning remembers. “But inside I become like ‘I’m approximately drop this s*** on them so difficult, and they’re gonna have to shop for me a guitar!'” I’m so fired up.'”
Needless to mention, Denning took one of the first steps on his “stairway to u . S . Stardom” that day. He quickly picked out a contemporary (left handed) Les Paul classic — one he still performs to nowadays — and the relaxation is history.
Earlier this week Denning and his dad crammed Sounds Like Nashville in on their own family’s time in Utah, and Denning simply released a propulsive new music titled “Heartbeat of a Small Town.” The irresistible romance of his modern single, “After a Few,” has cracked u . S . Radio’s Top forty, and he’s on the street via the quit of the 12 months with Riley Green at the Get That Man a Beer Tour.