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ASHLEY BEST – COWBOY AT RADIO

Ashley Best’s love of music started with the “Bakersfield” sound when he was 10 years old. According to Ashley: “I heard Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens singing ‘Streets of Bakersfield’ and I was hooked.”  But Ashley had been surrounded my music thanks to his Grand Pap on an old reel-to-reel recorder. Grand Pap played in a Country band but passed away when Ashley was only four. But the music lingered. “I spent a lot of time growing up whistling a tune and rhyming words and always imagined myself standing on a stage, singing songs that I wrote,” recalls Ashley. Music came to his rescue in 2006 when his wife passed away, leaving him with two daughters, six and nine months old. Writing songs became his therapy and Ashley performed his first Acoustic show in 2007.  At a local County Fair, he met Jack Ingram. “I asked Jack what the key was to becoming successful in the music business, and he said: ‘Just keep on keeping on.’ ” Ashley Best has been keeping on ever since, performing every chance  he can get in any bar that will let him in. “I just keep on keeping on,” he says with a smile. Now with the release of “Cowboy”, Ashley Best will soon be finding bigger venues with a solid ever growing fanbase, because Ashley Best has broken wide open at radio with his debut single. Not only is the track a huge hit on NRH’s  Country Top50, it’s also breaking on our AC40 charts, a sign that he has a crossover hit on his hands. Keep on keeping on, Ashley Best.