Country music performer Wyatt Turner will be at the Calhoun Wood Festival street stage Saturday night (June 6), free entertainment, performing one of his special songs, "You Remind Me of West Virginia."
Turner is among a number of special performers appearing during the evening entertainment at the festival.
Turner grew up in Pocahontas County, on the banks, of the Greenbrier river, in a place called Stoney Bottom. Now instead of navigating the winding roads of West Virginia, Turner has been navigating the country music scene in Nashville.
The 24-year-old decided a long time ago what he wanted to do with his life.
"I want to be on a national tour, have a solid band, solid songs and just have people constantly say, 'I've got that Wyatt Turner song stuck in my head," says the musician.
He's half way there. He posted himself singing a song he just wrote called, appropriately, 'You Remind Me of West Virginia.'
"I decided to put an acoustic version, of it, on YouTube and just see what the response was," explained Turner. It wasn't just directed at West Virginians, although, that seems to be the population, of the likers there. It turned out it was the best video that I've ever put up. I've been blowing up on YouTube!"
That's no big surprise to anyone who hears the song. The chorus is incredibly catchy.
'You're wild and wonderful/like a breeze I've always known/You're my country road/girl you take me home/Oh with all that natural beauty/God took the time to put in ya/It's almost heaven in your arms/you remind me of West Virginia.'
It's a love song not only to a woman but to the state.
"I'm not one of those people who says, I can't wait to get out of here and I'm never coming back. I've always been the kid who truly appreciated the actual beauty and the humbleness, of the people of West Virginia," explains Turner.
In fact he loves it here so much, he's moving back. He plans to buy a place in the Greenbrier Valley near his new manager and put down some West Virginia roots.
HEAR WV COUNTRY MUSIC BY WYATT TURNER:
You Remind Me of West Virginia
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