“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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To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.
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Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
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And radio definitely doesn’t; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
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If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.
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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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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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There’s no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
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Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.
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Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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I love your cooking, honey, but sometimes I need some real food.
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It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’
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I don’t see that it would be worth retiring.
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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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All you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there.
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I’ve always stood up for country music.
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I’ve had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
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A country song is a song about life.
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Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane.
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I’m more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel.
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They’re really not.
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When I was in high school, I don’t know that I really had big dreams.
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The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.
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I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway.
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I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars.
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is.
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I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
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