I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

She truly is one of the legendary icons behind the scenes of country music. She didn't take the curtain calls, but a lot of us would never have heard Flatt & Scruggs if it hadn't been for Louise Scruggs.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

I am a country boy at heart.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.