When Drew Fish was a sophomore in high school, he was invited to a performance by acclaimed Texas singer/songwriter Cory Morrow. Nearly 1,000 fans had gathered to Morrow’s Tyler, Texas show.

 

Backstage, before the show began, Fish played a couple songs for Morrow, who later surprised Fish by calling him onstage to sing for the crowd. When Fish stepped off the stage everything had changed for him.

 

“I thought ‘that was so cool. I have to get a band together.’ That was the moment I knew I wanted to start performing,” the native Texan explains. “I don’t know that I was thinking career at that point, but I definitely knew the experience had moved me in that direction.”

 

He did start a band and he and his buddies played through high school and college, getting gigs at fraternity and sorority parties while in college and traveling throughout Texas and neighboring to play music for people who quickly became fans after seeing their high energy, fun-loving show.

 

After college, Fish’s parents, both of who played and sang, told him he had to get a job. He and his band talked it over and decided they wanted music to be their job, so they went in and cut their first album, which Fish describes as having “a rough and real” sound. People loved it, more dates came along, and a second album, which was smoother and more poetic, emerged. Along with it came more interest in the band for bookings, radio and television.