Self-taught on lead guitar, rhythm guitar, piano, violin, drums and bass, the singing cowboy started life on March 10, 1980 in Sandpoint , Idaho . His troubled beginnings didn’t bode well for a young boy destined for a life on the stage. “My childhood was really difficult. I was born to a carpenter and a homemaker. We were always dirt floor poor. My mother had four children, my sister Sarah, my brother Rob, my youngest sister Katie. I was always a misfit as a child. I never really fit in anywhere cause I was different than other kids. Once I got into high school, that changed, but as a young boy, I was quiet, shy and reserved, if people that I went to school with then could see me now, they would be shocked.” Troy remembers, “I was about eight years old when I discovered that I loved to sing and could possibly be good at it! It was really secluded and boring where I grew up - all there was to do was play music for fourteen hours a day!”
Three years ago, after paying his dues for years in venues ranging from honky-tonks to the casinos of Lake Tahoe, Troy moved to Nashville to pursue his music. Playing gigs around town with his band One Night Rodeo, Troy has now signed a recording, distribution and promotional deal with a new label called Evolution Underground. His new album drops February of 2009, along with the intensely angry, yet poignantly beautiful, single, “So You Lie.”
Troy has finally reached a point where he feels he is comfortable with who he has become and where he is headed. “My life has been a roller coaster of disappointment, uncertainty and hope. Life is what you make of it. Getting to this point has been a long, hard and treacherous road and, everyday, it seems like I get closer and closer to my goal, but it is still so far away. Things are always looking forward and that is how I prefer it.”
“I want the world to know that I’m here for the long haul. I don’t want to make a million and get out. I am here for a reckoning, not a paycheck. I make music because it is something I feel, not something I get paid to do. I want fans to know that I’m in it for them, to help recreate moments in their lives and to be a friend.” With his melt-your-heart vocals, Troy Bullock shows promise of a long and satisfying career.
| written by Debbie Dubois Miller
