With the older songs, I was writing from a little more of a traditionalist perspective both musically and lyrically, but I wasn't doing it intentionally. That was just what was coming out. Some of the artwork and some of the recording style lent itself to a nostalgic feel.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.

[One of the album's most poignant songs is its closing number, When God Made Me , sung from the perspective of a man searching for his place in the divine plan.] Did he create just me in his image, ... or every living thing?

select songs that would give an insight into Rosemary from a family perspective, and from the more than 30 years that I spent with her.

Sometimes we disagree when writing songs. We'll get mad at each, but eventually we'll put everything together and it all comes out fine. We won't stay mad at each other for long.

I've probably been writing songs in Nashville longer than anybody. My first co-writer was Andrew Jackson,