Jesse McGuane

Jesse McGuane is 47 years old.

He has not always been a rancher,

at one point in his life he was a songwriter in Nashville.

He never had any serious success,

but he never stopped writing songs.

You can't stop when it's a gift,

whether the breaks come or not,

it's not a faucet you can just turn off.

He grew up in Mississippi and East Texas.

Before he could walk he sat a horse.

The pictures his mother has proves it,

and she is always happy to show them to whoever will sit with her long enough.

He and Anne moved back to Mississippi in 2001,

they wanted to raise their kids on a ranch with horses, dogs, and cats..

Their daughter Isabelle is a junior at Mississippi State.

Their son Seth a freshman at Ole Miss on a football scholarship.

All Jesse's life he wanted to have his own place for horses and a few cows.

He grew up on a 120 acre cattle ranch in central Mississippi until his parents divorced.
From the time he could remember until he was a teenager when his father moved to Texas,
there was not a single day without a horse.
Divorce is a painful road to go down for a kid..

The years in college and Nashville not owning a horse were rough on him.

He continued to keep them in his life one way or another.

He worked on a ranch in Brentwood Tennessee for 5 years caring for the owners roping horses,

occasionally breaking a two year old in the spring on his own time.
After years of writing songs and working numerous odd jobs,
he and Anne decided it was time to leave Nashville..
Jesse was all for it.

His black hat was covered with snow as he dismounted..

He tied Cisco to a snow laden branch and walked into the woods..

He saw an old man and a young boy standing over a dead doe.

 

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nashville