Blaine Larsen

Larsen was introduced to music very early. By age 10, Larsen had begun singing along to country karaoke tapes, and by age 13 he learned to play guitar as well. When Larsen was a junior in high school, he and his family made a trip to Nashville, Tennessee where Larsen recorded a demo CD composed mainly of cover songs. This CD also included a song that he had co-written with his school teacher. Nashville songwriters Rory Lee Feek and Tim Johnson discovered Larsen\'s demo CD. They then flew him back Nashville again to hold a recording session with him, and by 2004, his debut album In My High School was released on Feek and Johnson\'s label, Giantslayer Records. The album\'s lead-off single, which was the title track, received some airplay particularly in Seattle also reaching 60 on the country charts that year.\n', '

After "In My High School" began receiving airplay, Sandy Conklin, an empl…