There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?'
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I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
When I got to Nashville, people started asking me about how I got into country music. I'd tell them I came from a place where people wore cowboy hats for a real reason.
Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.
I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that's the way it was for a long time. I'm a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.
And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.
I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.
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