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.
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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.
As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.
Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.
I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.
Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.
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