It's a long way from Glencoe, Alabama to Hollywood, but Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has made the voyage, and has lived the life of a troubadour. Watts grew up on a mainstay of country music that included Cash, Bocephus, David Allan Coe and Loretta Lynn, but it was Dolly Parton who she felt a kindred spirit to. Her earliest musical memory goes back to when she was just five years old where she'd go around the house putting on performances of Parton's "Me and Little Andy" complete with hairbrush microphone for her family. But it wasn't until nearly twenty years later that her musical dreams would become a reality. Watts landed the role of Parton in "The Barbara Mandrell Story: Get to the Heart", and it's from there that she realized she had a deeper connection with music than acting -- in the years that followed she'd start turning heads, opening ears and touching the hearts of the audiences she played for.While Hollywood isn't what some would call a "true country market", what some don't realize is that Hollywood is the forefront of one of the best undiscovered underground country scenes that is yet to be discovered. Making the rounds all over town with fellow rebels and misfits that have included Keith Gattis (Dwight Yoakam), Dusty Wakeman (Lucinda Williams), up-and-comers including Bryson Jones of the Snakehandlers, and Waylon Payne, son of Grammy Award Winning artist Sammi Smith ("Help Me Make it Through the Night"), Austin Hanks (2003 Nashville Star contestant) and Travis Howard (2002 Nashville Star contestant) Watts' has made quite the impact that has lauded the praises of Hank Williams Jr., and landed her major gigs including opening for Alabama and Toby Keith in front of 50,000 screaming fans in her home state of Alabama, and most recently opening for David Allan Coe at Hollywood's Key Club in December of 2004.But that's not all that this quirky little girl from Alabama has accomplished. Currently without a label, she's attracted the ears of Grammy Award Winning Producer Pete Anderson, and is getting airplay on Watusi Rodeo 103.1 FM and Fallen Angel Radio online, and has been featured in the Roots Highway e-Zine. In a time where country radio is overrun with run-of-the-mill teeny boppers singing about first dates and broken hearts, both subjects that the singers know little or nothing about, Watts delivers music that country fans haven't experienced in decades.
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