Michigan bred country star Billy Strings earned two standing ovations performing at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville this weekend, but seven years ago he was just a kid with his guitar at a party.
The music tradition in Michigan runs deep, from the Motown era through The White Stripes and on to Eminem, Michigan has produced legends, and now the new kids on the scene pick up some hardware.
Every school administrator from Washington State to Maine has done some form of singing the school closing announcement, but how many have picked up their steel blues guitar and cut some chords?