Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I’ve ever had has been about 50-50 songs I’ve written or co-written and other people’s songs.
ALAN JACKSONI didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.
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My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.
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But most of the ones I’ve ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I’ve enjoyed that.
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The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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I’m usually just enjoying life.
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I’m hooked on my baby’s love, there ain’t nothing in the jug this strong.
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I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much.
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Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know?
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I think I’ve always approached making albums pretty much the same way.
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If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world.
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Half of them I’d hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn’t even know it.
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Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.
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He’s written some great songs. I thought that “Blues Man” was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.
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You just write about things that happen.
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