An old red garage that looks a lot like a barn, has turned into quite the stage for Laycee Lee and Granite Station.
They're a young bluegrass band. With long blonde hair and big blue eyes, Laycee is the group's lead singer. She is the youngest of the group at sweet 16.
She has been singing since she was a little girl.
"Dad used to take me to different churches around the area," she says.
But Laycee wasn't always into what her dad was listening to. She didn't think old country and traditional bluegrass was exactly cool.
"You know how every kid is when they just become a teenager," she says. "They want to listen to whatever everyone else listens to."
"Finally I was like, 'Well I don't want to be on the bandwagon.'"
Instead she wanted to start her own. She discovered an appreciation for traditional bluegrass tunes and the fiddle. That's when she first met 20-year-old Austin Stovall.
"Some guys were like, 'Well, if you're gonna be a lead singer you need to learn how to play the guitar,'" Laycee says.
So she picked up guitar, and soon after that got a shotgun lesson on the bass.
"I needed a bass player actually one time, and I called Laycee at the last minute," 19-year-old Alex Leach says.
It was the night before a gig, and Laycee had never played bass before.
"I asked her if she could come play bass, if she could learn how in one day," Leach says. "So sure enough her dad bought her a bass, and she learned over night."
They did a show the next day, and a few weeks later Leach returned the favor by joining Laycee's band. Leach plays the mandolin and guitar.
Laycee didn't have to play bass again. Instead, she brought on 20-year-old Brannon Hyder. When Laycee needed a banjo player, she remembered 19-year-old Joe Rose, whom she'd met one night at Ciderville in Clinton.
"I just called him and was like, 'Hey can you come play on this CD.'"
"He was like, 'I'll be there in 30 minutes.'"
The band has been picking together ever since. They're young but have old souls.
"We prefer the old traditional style like the Stanley Brothers," Laycee says. "We don't really care for all the melodic stuff. We want to keep it how it came up to be, and be the new generation of it, just not changing any of it."
Laycee and Granite Station hope to make it big. They've performed on a number of shows in Nashville, including SPBGMA, the Bluegrass Music Awards and Convention. They have also played for fiddler Johnny Daniels.
"We'll do whatever it takes to get there, because we really want to make this a profession," Laycee says. "But if it doesn't happen, we can always say at least we went out there, and we did it."
Laycee Lee and Granite Station will release their second CD the end of July. It will be available atwww.layceeleeandgranitestation.com