“I was born and raised in Mobile. I played a little baseball and went to Samford. My life has been a weird one because of my brother, Jake. I wanted to make my own way and not be looked at as the little brother living off of the rich brother. I worked for three years as director of volunteers at Pathway Church. We had 330 volunteers. After that, I came back to work for Jake. I wasn’t living off of him, I was making his life better. Jake and I are four years apart and it is just the two of us. We grew up on one side of my grandparents and my cousin, Chad, lived on the other. We played baseball and football in the yard every day. We have always been close.”

“What is ‘The Outsiders’ tattoo on your arm?”

“Jake and I have it and a few others have it. With the success Jake has had, society puts us in the top tier, but that is not who we are. We are the outsiders of that group. We have become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Fame and fortune are not what they are cracked up to be. It is difficult to deal with. There is the public figure and glass house and people coming out of the woodwork. You have to watch your back and surround yourself with who you can trust. We found out this year that people we thought we knew were out to get us the whole time and they got us. You can’t prepare for that. Success happened fast with Jake. He went from high school to the big leagues in three years, but he is a professional. I was in college during Jake’s heyday and that was cool for me. He was winning Cy Young awards and I was playing baseball in college. I may have been a little too prideful of who my brother was. When I graduated from college, he gave me his house in Mobile as a graduation gift and his memorabilia was still in the sun room. I never wore Jake’s jersey, but I used to put on the Pete Rose signed jersey and wear it out like an idiot. I was 22-years-old and look back and see pictures of me acting like a fool. Jake left Mobile in 1999, when he was 17 and hasn’t really been back to Mobile since except for a few months in the off-season. The older he got, the more he appreciated growing up in Mobile and having southern roots. It is not every day you meet genuinely good people like you do here. That draws him back. My family was about to move to Selma to take care of his ranch that has become a place for corporate retreats, then he bought the music studio downtown in March 2015, and wanted me to work here. I am so glad we stayed. We knew we wanted the foundation to be located here, then we ran across the building with a studio and started dreaming about how we could help the music scene in Mobile. There are so many talented people in our area that no one knows about. I had been missing out on the cool stuff in downtown Mobile for a long time because I didn’t come here before we bought the studio. Now my best friends in the world are involved in downtown. There are some very talented people doing big things here.”