The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.

To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business.

Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.

I've always been a T-shirt, Levi's, leather jacket, and combat boots kind of girl.