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meeting new people and playing new venues and knowing the jobs we have are very special to us. Not everyone gets to do something like this. It needs to be taken seriously, but enjoyed too. It’s a blessing.”

“Even if we don’t like somebody’s ideas we’ll listen to them before we completely tear it apart,” he said, tongue frmly in cheek. “It’s great to work with a group of guys who are that understanding. It’s not just playing in a band together, it’s an actual friendship.” The band started innocently enough as Clayton Landua and Scott Neal, who had known each other quite a while before each realized the other had musical aspirations, began to play

together at informal gatherings before moving on to amateur events and competitions. “Me and Clayton kind of knew each other,” Scott, Dallas’s brother, said. “We started playing at some open mic nights and pickin’ parties. That’s how it all started. We won our frst pickin’ party. That’s where the name of the band came from.” Scott, the band’s lead guitarist, recalls he and Clayton performed in the sixth slot at the competition sponsored by an area radio station. When they were declared the winners, they were asked their band’s name and told they had a week to come up with one. “On the way back we just started tossing band names out that had the number six in them,”

Scott said, laughing. “That’s one of the ones Clayton came up with and we agreed on it.”

Clayton, the band’s front man, remembers well the songs the duo played to earn their frst recognition. “Picture of You” and “That’s the Way Love Goes,” he said of two of his own compositions, “we played those two songs and got a good response out of them. I was pretty green on the guitar and I couldn’t believe we won. After that the pieces just kept falling together.”

The pieces include fve talented Stephenville area musicians, Dallas and Scott Neal, Ben Hussey, Clayton Landua and Josh Serrato, who are

RIGHT Josh Serrato, lead guitarist, also believes in the different personalities meshing to make a great whole, “I think it’s a lucky draw of the cards that we are able to be best friends and turn around and set a stage on fre at the same time. We always have each other’s back on and off stage.”