'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.
I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.
If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.