Where I Find God
Fleet sings a selection from his Workin’ Hard album inside the Old Harmony Church on lake Martin
By Betsy Iler, Editor of Lake Magazine. June 25, 2020 (A Story From Lake Magazine)
Larry Fleet recorded the music video for one of the best new Country songs of the year, Where I Find God, at Lake Martin this spring, but if you’d asked him three years ago what he thought he’d be doing now, that wouldn’t have been his answer. The sensation behind the come-from-nowhere hit would have said he’d be working hard, pouring concrete to support a wife and baby and playing guitar for barn parties on the weekends. Instead, he’s made his debut on the Country tour with singer/songwriter/actor Jake Owen and has appeared on stage with Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Jon Pardi and other greats.
Fleet has retreated to Lake Martin every summer for four years with his wife, Phebe, staying with friends who are more like family; jumping off the dock, smoking meat, wake surfing and eating good food.
“We used to talk about getting a beach house someday,” Fleet said, shaking his head softly. “No more. Now we talk about a lake house. “The first time I got in the water, I could see my feet. I think this is the cleanest water I’ve ever been swimming in.”
The singer/songwriter Fleet met Lake Martin’s Woody Kennedy family through his wife, Phebe, who had long ago been inducted into the family. Dr. Woody Kennedy, an Eclectic, Alabama, native and plastic surgeon in Chattanooga who passed away last year, kept a house at the lake and invited the Fleets, who soon became regulars.
