My entertainment fee was paid for by keeping the patron’s last table turn there a little longer than they would have been.”Īfter a few years and a conversation heading to football practice with his oldest son Austin, Snook took an early withdrawal from his 401k and moved his family to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a record deal in 2010. I doubled my performance fee and reduced the duration by half to manage the five to six nights a week.

I decided to start playing in restaurants. I had a paid salary for about six months from Sprint, so I had to figure out how to make a living pretty quick. “I loved my job and the people I worked with, but I needed to pursue my biggest passion,” Snook said. In 2007, many of his co-workers were shocked when he accepted a voluntary separation package from the company to pursue music full-time. In one particular project, he helped save the company more than $3 million in tax savings. He said he met a lot of great people and wasn’t scared to take on projects that nobody else wanted. When he became certified as a PMP, there were only 20,000 in the world. He continued playing clubs on the weekends, while working for Sprint as a project management professional. When you walked in, it was a beautiful building with amazing people.”Īt 16 years old - Snook began playing honky-tonks around the four-state area.

Huge artists like Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton and many others, would perform in front of a packed audience. In the late ‘1970s and early ‘80s, the Union Mill Opry was the place to be. “Grand Ole Opry stars would frequently visit the Union Mill Opry.

When he was 7 years old, he began singing in country music theaters and after a year of parking cars at the Boswell’s Union Mill Opry in Edgerton, he finally got to sing on its big stage. He grew up in Edgerton and won his first talent contest when he was 6 years old.

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