In December 2001, Phil Pritchett sat in his songwriting office in Nashville and found his true calling; however, it wasn't in Tennessee. After eight years of living in Austin and playing his original music to fans all over the South, he'd come to Nashville to try and change country music for the better. After nearly two years, he realized a better way to handle this task. Said Pritchett of his time in the MusicCity, "I came to realize that the blood and guts of doing music for a living was doing your thing and working hard to keep doing it.