Music City Leather
Wes Shugart heard the call of leather back around 2011.
At the time, the Nashville-based cowboy bootmaker was a builder of multi-million-dollar homes. “But I was stressed out, big time, and not very happy,” he says.
“I knew he was searching for something different,” adds his wife, Sandra. “He came to me one day and said he wanted to make footwear or boots. I couldn't imagine that. It seemed alien to me.”
In time, of course, she came to see that the desire was as natural as the feet at the end of one's legs. “And it set his heart on fire.” Since 2012, Wes has been turning out beautiful, high-quality boots at his Nashville-based outfit, Music City Leather.
The bootmaker says he was raised on a cattle farm near Cohutta, Georgia, in the northwest part of the state. “I grew up on a horse,” he adds, and I always appreciated a good, sturdy pair of boots. Though cowboy boots when
