CARTER COUNTY, OK -- A local band here in Texoma is now a finalist in a Country Music Television contest. It's an online competition where you get to determine who stays and who goes. Katrina Gutierrez has more.

Members of the band “Rush Springs” hail from Lone Grove and Wilson, Oklahoma. They entered in CMT's Music City Madness contest several weeks ago and found out this past Monday that they were one of 64 finalists.

Beckie Spradling of Wilson may seem like your typical hairstylist, but this 27-year-old is a part of a band that has caught Country Music Television's eye.

"That would be pretty exciting to have somebody local from our own little town making it big that would be pretty exciting," says Wilson resident Mickey Davis.

Spradling says her band, Rush Springs, has been around for almost a decade. Spradling, the lead singer, is joined by Wenona Taliferro on guitar and Walton McMurry on drums.

"It's my mother in law and a friend of ours, and I worked with my mother in law at Michelin, and we got to know each other, and I didn't know she was in a band, and she didn't know I was in a band, so we just got together."

Spradling says Taliferro entered a music slideshow to CMT's Music City Madness web based contest, and now they're band is one of 64 finalists. The song that won them a spot in the competition is 'Chasing That Green Light'.

"It's one of our older songs, so we were surprised. It was written probably 7 or 8 years ago, and we just recorded it about 3 or 4 years ago, so we're excited. It was one of the older songs, and it was chosen."

The winner of the competition is chosen by the public, and will travel to Nashville, Tennessee, to record their own CMT sessions, play a private showcase, and meet one of Spradling's favorite artists-- Reba McEntire.

"I think that's an honor for the band as a whole to be on there. They do a good job."

You can vote for Rush Springs by clicking this link and clicking on Jimmy Wayne