Lane Turner “Where’s A Sunset”

Country :cd available on amazon.com Lane Turner grew up in Levelland, Texas, in the western part of the state. His mother, a nursing home administrator, sang constantly around the house while listening to the radio and to her vast country record collection. His father, a Texas law enforcement officer, loved music as much as the rest of the family. At his grandmother’s house, everyone spent time on the big back porch, where a radio hung from a nail. Turner received his first guitar at age 11 as a gift. A friend of his father’s, who worked for the sheriff’s department, showed him how to play. “He taught me classic, simple, three-chord country songs by Hank Williams and everyone else,” Turner recalls. “To this day, that’s still the music I love the most.” At Texas Tech University, he excelled as an athlete, becoming an All-American track star in the decathlon and continued to play guitar and sing as well. He hooked up with other athlete-musicians, and the informal jam sessions evolved into a working band. Known as Diamondback, the band performed at frat parties and restaurants, then graduated to nightclubs and honky-tonks and eventually toured Texas, opening for country stars like Brooks & Dunn and Mark Chesnutt. Meanwhile, he started writing songs for the group. After three years, with the band growing in popularity, they reached a crossroads. Turner wanted to take it further, but since the rest of the band wasn’t ready, he moved to Fort Worth where he became a star on the …
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