Songwriter, mostly back in the 1980s. Closest I ever got to the big time was a demo of Honky Tonk Barmaids made it all the way to the desk drawer in Waylon Jenn
Waylon and Willie were once asked, "How come all you guys tend to look like the stuff you sing about?" Waylon said, "Well, because we've lived it." As a songwriter myself I understood exactly what he meant. This is a song about a guy who has "lived every broken-hearted country song ever wrote".