(Q)-Name, age and place of birth.
(A)-Andy Childs of Sixwire, I was born in Memphis, Tennessee and I’m thirty-nine years old.

(Q)-Define the term, “country music”.

(A)- Country music is pretty much the same that it always has been.

(Q)- It hasn’t changed all that much?
(A)- Not really.

(Q)- Why?
(A)- Way, way back when, I’ve read stories that Patsy Cline was considered a rebel because of the way that she dressed and that the music she recorded was a little bit slicker. Now that we look back on that era, she is every female country music singer’s idol. So to me, it’s certainly not a new thing for there to be music that is still within the country music format and pushing the envelope a little bit. I think that is just as important today as it was back then.

(Q)- What sets Sixwire apart from the other all-male “country” groups.

(A)- We’re a band who played on our album produced and wrote every song on our album. Everybody in this band is a top-notch musician with years of experience. So when we went into the studio it was actually us. Everything else you hear is us.

(Q)- What about live, in concert?
(A)- We go out there and we play our music to make an exciting show and we don’t lose anybody in the audience and yet, we’re playing (mostly) original music. I don’t see a lot of that out there. The audience stays in tune with what we’re doing the whole time. While there have been a few other groups who have actually played and written and produced their own music in Nashville, there is not a whole lot of them currently. So we believe that country fans actually want the music to be original and performed onstage by the same guys who have written and played on the music on the album

(Q)- Is there one song that you feel will be your breakout single and if so, why?

(A)- “Way Too Deep” is I think the single that’s going to make it for us. This is the deal with the song. When we wrote the song and recorded it, we felt like it really defined what we do. And we added it to our live show immediately. And, the reason we thought it defined what we did is it has interesting vocals with point and counterpoint in it. And also there is some really interesting guitar playing going on. So that song is the song to define who we are as a group to an audience.

(Q)- What does the name Sixwire mean?

(A)- There’s six strings on a guitar, that defines who we are as a band. Sixwire is a nod to the guitar because that’s what we’re about. We live and breath guitar and stringed instruments. Around my house my two children are constantly playing guitar.

(Q)- Are you tutoring your children to play guitar?
(A)- Yes. I have two sons are currently studying guitar and taking lessons from me. My two sons (older son) Daniel (16) plays guitar and my other son Cameron just started playing guitar a few months ago and he is already playing very well. I tutor them by giving them a little to learn at a time. I don’t have them taking lessons from a professional guitar teacher because I am able to teach them essential things that they need to work on and I give them a little at a time to work on with their lessons. They both want to do it bad enough that they spend a lot of time working on what I gave them for their lessons to work on. They both love the guitar and they want to learn so much that they spend a lot of time working on their lessons. When I come home from a tour, they’ve knocked out what I’ve taught them and they’ve also learned some things from their friends who are learning guitar also. We have a little room in our house (Franklin, Tennessee) that we use a studio. It’s been wonderful experience watching them learn and have so much enthusiasm.

(Q)- What are your feelings as to the attitude the country fans have regarding to what is and what is not country music?

(A)- I don’t think that the listeners out there for country music and I’m taking about overall the average, general population of listeners, I don’t think they are out there debating with each another, what is country music and what is not or over what the definition is and isn’t. I think that’s something that we do within the industry and I get a little tiered of hearing that.