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Heather Morgan
Six Strings and Slow Backroads

You can tell a lot about Heather Morgan by the straight-forward, ultra-confident quote she originally wanted to have under her name in her high school senior yearbook: "Grand Ole Opry Bound." But you can tell so much more about her by the more cryptic quote she opted for instead. Six little words that spelled out not the young woman's ultimate dream so much as her wise-beyond-her-years understanding of what it would take to achieve it - and left no room for doubt that she had the determination to follow it through: "Six Strings and Slow Backroads."

"Six strings and backroads is my philosophy on how this whole thing works," says Morgan today at age 22. "This whole thing," of course, being her single-minded passion for writing and performing her own music, using her gift for songwriting and love of singing to reach out to as many people as possible. To that end, you better believe she still sees the Grand Ole Opry in her future, but she's going to get there her way, with integrity. "'Six strings' is playing my guitar, writing my own music and just developing this art form," she says. "And the 'slow backroads' is being patient - playing coffee houses and little clubs that are slowly getting bigger, with bigger audiences.

"It's just taken on a whole new meaning since I was 18," she laughs. "But I still sign 'S3B' under my name whenever I sign anything. It could apply to anything, but it's so apropos to my music."

Which brings us to Morgan's full-length debut, titled, of course, Six Strings and Slow Backroads. Produced by Scott Melott (formerly of the Groobees), the album introduces Morgan as one of the brightest new talents in the booming Texas country music scene, destined for an even larger playing field but not about to rush things at the expense of craft. Morgan wrote or co-wrote ten of the eleven songs on the album (and takes a commanding hold on the lone exception, a powerful rendition of the Band classic, "The Weight"). Subsequently, the songs reveal as much about Morgan as the album's title. "Pretty much every one of them is a personal story or has a part of me in it," says Morgan. "Obviously I didn't write 'The Weight,' but I researched that song enough to know the inspiration behind it. I wanted to own it, because it's a powerful song, and I feel real powerful when I sing it."

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