Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.
I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.
There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly.
I have to thank country radio for believing in me.
I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.
I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.
Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.
If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.