So imagine this:  You’re a 15 year-old with musical aspirations.  Fatefully, your sister marries a guy who is in a band, tours on a bus, and is cool if you ride along every summer until you graduate high school… IMO, that’s the hand of God at work.  This is the actual life experience of Texas singer-songwriter, Charlie Shafter. In this episode you will quickly realize just how likeable of a guy Charlie Shafter is.  Shafter’s musical stylings are certainly influenced by other artists he mentions in this interview such as James Taylor, Neil Young and Bob Dylan.  To Yours Truly, Charlie’s music is a nice breath of fresh air in a in the Texas Country – Red Dirt Music world that is sometimes a bit over-run with songs following “way too familiar” of themes. (Beer drinking, skirt chasing, unrequited love, etc.) Charlie and his side-kick, multi-instrumentalist, “Starfire On the Mountain”, can be seen HERE doing