One day — in a dark storage closet in Knoxville, Tennessee — Jared Gabriel stumbled upon a dusty nylon string acoustic guitar with only three strings and several broken tuners. His mother noted his interest. She took the guitar to a small, local music shop to have the tuners and strings fixed. Jared was ten years old. Jared started playing with friends and friends of friends. He soon picked up on songs like Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” His older brother’s buddies were his first teachers, but even a ten-year-old Jared knew they could only take him so far.