Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spears was my first concert.

I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.

It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague.

How can you not like Britney Spears?

Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

The Britney Spears fans aren't going to dig us.