03/09/2026
Dustin Perkins brings so much passion to every song he writes and sings!
Tonight I’m performing songs for my kids at the Larry Joe Taylor's Texas Music Festivalongwriter contest.
I’ve been doing these damn contests most of my life. I’m a lot older now. Most the artists up there are younger and ain’t made the same mistakes I’ve made. My hair’s turning grey and my hands start barking after sixty hours on construction sites, wood shops, and stages.
But tonight ain’t really about the contest.
It’s about showing my boy Tuck there’s more a man can leave behind than just how to fish and hunt. And showing my little girl that if you don’t fit the mold, that’s alright. She can be exactly who she is, and that’s already perfect.
We don’t have to live inside anybody else’s story.
Tonight I’m climbing on that stage to show my kids what our story looks like.
