A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My best songs come from a place outside myself.
If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.
Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.
I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing.