Austin, Texas based musician born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1962 and then moved with his family to Pasadena, Texas in 1977. Watson’s father and his brother, Jim, were both musically inclined and guided what have become his longstanding musical influences. Watson began writing his own songs at age 12, making his first recording two years later. Soon after, he became an emancipated minor and went to school by day and played local Houston clubs and honky-tonks by night in an aggregation called The Classic Country Band.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1988 on the advice of Rosie Flores and soon joined the house band at The Palomino. He recorded two singles for Curb Records in 1990 and 1991, One Tear at a Time and You Pour It On and I Pour It Down, and appeared on the third volume of the compilation series A Town South of Bakersfield in 1992. Not long after, he moved to Nashville and spent some time writing songs for the Gary Morris publishing company where his first daughter was born.

Married to Celine Lee.