The art of songwriting takes time, skill, and passion to put together a full piece. For one Kentucky man, his songwriting inspiration comes from his roots in eastern Kentucky.
“I moved here when I was 10 years old,” said Darrell Pittman. “I grew up in Ohio. They drug me down here kicking and screaming, and when I look back, I realized… I grew up here. Those were the most formative years of my life. I moved here at the end of fifth grade, and I graduated high school, so those eight years were the most formative years of my life.”
Pittman dug his roots into Powell County and Stanton, and he has always spent a little extra attention looking at song lyrics. In fact, it started as a way to make a little money from his dad.
“He would pay me a dollar a song to sit down and see if I could figure out the lyrics to the words, because you couldn’t Google lyrics back in the 70’s,” said Pittman with a smile on his face. “I’d sit down and I’d try to pull the lyrics out of these songs so he could learn it and him and his band could play it later that week.”