A hero never learns.

If you ask Gary Floater what keeps him going after surviving the inevitable ups and downs of four decades of the entertainment business and after influencing three generations of country artists with his honest and bleary-eyed songwriting, he'll tell you: it started out all for the money.

If you told the scruffy haired young man who grew up near in Miami, Missouri that he...

A hero never learns.

If you ask Gary Floater what keeps him going after surviving the inevitable ups and downs of four decades of the entertainment business and after influencing three generations of country artists with his honest and bleary-eyed songwriting, he'll tell you: it started out all for the money.

If you told the scruffy haired young man who grew up near in Miami, Missouri that he would write hit songs one day that inspired hundreds to sing along, to tunes like "That's When the Eagle Screams" and "It's High Time This Old Cowboy Quit Getting So Goldanged High," he wouldn't have believed you.

But he did. He's been to hell and back.

For the money. For the music. And for you - the fans.

Ten years since his last major label release, a group of artists who have been moved by Gary's works have joined together in a big public thank you to a man who made country music and did it his way.

The Floater Way.

A Hero Never Learns: The Songs of Gary Floater