I've Always Wanted To Make A Bluegrass

Oklahoma's Always Been Good To Me.

A Lot Of Times When Songwriters Get Together And Write A Song... Somebody Will Come In With A Hook And A Lot Of Times They Come Out With Something That Sounds A Little Crafty.

"after 17" Is A Song I Wrote When My First Daughter Went To College, So That's Kind Of Where I'm At In That Part Of My Life. If You Listen To That Song And Knew Anything About Me, You'd Say, "oh Yeah, He Wrote That About His Daughter," But I Try Not To Write Them That They Are So Specific That They Wouldn't Apply To Anybody That Has A Child.

Hee Haw Was Probably My Biggest Exposure To Live Music At A Young Age, Because There Wasn't Any Live Music Around My Town And No One In My Family Played Instruments.

I Could Have Done A Hundred Songs, Really. It Was Hard To Narrow Them Down, Because I Tried To Pick Songs For The Most Part That Actually Did Have Some Effect On Me Or Influenced Me In The Past.