There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now,

I can picture guys sitting out in their yard, working in their yard, bending over to plant some trees or something, and half their crack shows, ... I mean, that's kind of one of the things that drew me into the song. The song talks about things that I grew up experiencing.

I can definitely relate to a few things in the song. Going mudding on a dirt road, going to football games, I did a few of those things.

I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out.

I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.

I think anytime we can do anything for anyone it's good. We just happened to be in a position where we could help out. … Anything that has to do with family and kids, it doesn't take much convincing for me.