We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Weston T. Hine. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Weston below.

Weston, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What was the most important lesson/experience you had in a job that has helped you in your creative career?

I was living Atlanta and doing work mostly focused around a band I was playing in at the time. Like most young bands we were broke and open to any opportunities to scrounge together some cash. I had a friend who connected me with a BBQ joint over in Peachtree Corners that had live musicians weekly (for very little money) and they were looking for more. I jumped at the opportunity as many hand-to-mouth aspiring artists might. It was a situation where they wanted musicians to play mostly covers for multiple hours. Anyways, long story short my set wasn’t very diverse and mostly centered around depressing covers of already slow music. About 3 months in I got fired for “just not fitting in well” and playing too many “slow” songs. In hindsight I find it hilarious because I still love so much sad music, but I did learn a valuable lesson which was, always consider your audience and who hired you. Tailor your music to represent you but also people probably don’t want to hear a deep cut Bon Iver song while stuffing their face with BBQ.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?

My name is Weston T. Hine. I’m an artist who grew in the Northwest Florida region in the southern beach town, Panama City. I grew up playing routinely in church and eventually began playing in bands and writing my own music in high school. After spending a string of years working in Atlanta and fronting the rock group MYFEVER, I moved back home to find more work during the pandemic. Since then I have been spending much of my time focusing on my original solo music for the first time ever. To keep up with Weston T. Hine including latest releases, tour dates and more – visit www.westonthine.com.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being creative in your experience?

For me, nothing beats the sensation of finishing a brand new song. There’s a true sense of connection when you create something from nothing but feel as though it communicates something honest to your current experience in life. A lot of times that feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction comes from listening back to the rough demo maybe a day or so after completing the song and loving it. It does go both ways – there are times where you hate it, so when you come back and feel very satisfied, that’s a special thing. A close second would be getting to share your songs with a live audience and seeing it connect with someone. Even one person visibly enjoying an original song gives me gas in the tank to keep creating and doing what I love.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I think the fact that I’m still working on music illustrates resilience. Music is such a beautiful thing. I think it attracts so many different people towards itself as a vocation naturally, and that’s okay. However, a big pond with lots of fish means you’ve got to do a lot to stand out. At this point I still feel very young in the career side of things, and like I have so much to learn. However I’m deep enough in to music to know that this is my life’s work and it really took some time to figure that out. I’m honestly proud that I can comfortably say that now and that I still find myself fully committed to it.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.westonthine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/westonthine/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/westonthine
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/westonthine
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/westonthine
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@westonthine

Image Credits
Photos by : Robert J. Hill, Gaby Champagne, & Allie Hine