I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle.
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I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.
I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.
I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.
You know, Southerners are pretty cool.
I'm a Southerner.
Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.
I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.