Southern Land Taylor Ray Holbrook

We all have stories. Either told or heard we all know what a story entails, an account of past events in someone's life. The stories that make us who we are and explain what we’ve become due to past experiences. For me, my story can be told best in song form. From beginning to end, the song “Southern Land” by Taylor Ray Holbrook explains my background and what I went through down in the “Southern Land” of Tyler, TX.
13 years of my life were spent in Tyler, Texas and I thought it’s where I would stay for years on end. When you moved into a new town at the age of 4 it’s not a huge inconvenience, you haven’t started elementary school yet so your friend range is quite small compared to when you’re in school. Kindergarten starts, you and 20 other kids are put into a
Years go by, and the same kids you were in grade school with are now the same kids you are in high school with. You know close to everyone in the grade, you know the ways of the halls, and you swear you could drive the roads blindfolded and backwards. For me, this is the town where I learned every backroad and every deer stand within a 20 mile radius. This was my town, this is the town where “We slip out to the field, climb a tree, shoot a deer. I reminisce about these days, man I get a chill.” In the song “Southern Land” by Taylor Ray Holbrook, he sings about his life being brought up in a small, southern life town. This song brings up key points that were similar to my up bringing back home. The lyric above tells about what I did every weekend during season; climbing up in the deer stands early in the mornings of season and waiting to shoot is such an