It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.
When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.
This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.