I’ve had several working-man songs that I like.
ALAN JACKSONI think every album you have, especially if it’s done well, you feel like you’re competing with yourself.
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Just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it’s going to take to get you on the radio.
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I’ve always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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I’m just looking for a mixture of songs and topics that aren’t the same thing over and over.
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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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I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles.
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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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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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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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“After 17” is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that’s kind of where I’m at in that part of my life.
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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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I’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.
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I could have done a hundred songs, really.
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To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville.
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because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
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