Halfway to Hazard' Music Videos including Countrified, EPK, Daisy on Yallwire

Growing up in southeastern Tennessee, there just isn’t too much to do. Just ask Chad Warrix and David Tolliver, raised two counties and fifty miles apart in the area. Both have fond memories of traveling to Hazard, Kentucky - the “Queen City of the Mountains” on the weekends, looking for fun. While a far cry from the sights and sounds of Nashville, Hazard was the social nexus of the area; the only city for miles around to even have a movie theater.

Upon graduating high school, the duo went separate ways. David, who had been a child musical prodigy until becoming a basketball star in high school, went on to attend the University of Kentucky in Lexington to study medicine. Chad moved to Nashville, to study music at Belmont University. While Chad entered the music scene the second he arrived in Nashville (Brad Paisley was even one of his classmates), David instead became heavily involved in fraternity life and worked part-time in a burger joint. One day, David made the decision to get back into music, seemingly out of the blue. After asking for his mother’s advice, he packed up and moved to Nashville weeks later.

Though David and Chad had never actually met back home, they knew of each other’s musical exploits - world travels fast in small towns. They quickly became friends in Nashville and began writing songs and performing together. Mixing David’s fondness of old-school country with Chad’s rock n’ roll sensibilities, the two wrote their first song, "Cold", in 2005. Their friends liked what they heard, and the duo began performing together, billing themselves as Halfway to Hazard, a throwback to their humble beginnings as small town country boys.