The black church in the South is the home of rock & roll.
When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.
The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.
Some things you can never get back.
When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.
I swear, there is Capitol Studios and then there's every other studio on the planet Earth. It is the ultimate, paramount of sound in the United States of America. It is a magical place.
My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.
I figure I'm a mandolin player first and foremost, and everything else I've accomplished is just a scam.
I loved the Rolling Stones. I heard a little bit of country music creeping around the edges of some of their songs. Being a Mississippi kid, I could feel they had done their homework, even when I was a little boy. I could feel the Delta blues influence in a lot of their work.
Well, my heart finally found a home when I married Connie Smith, and I was tired of feeling bad. And it was time to grow up and get on with life.
Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.
The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.
Pop Staples was one of my true mentors.
The history of country music is as important as any other art form.
Shaft' is a great country song.
American Odyssey' will be an amazing adventure inside the musical walls of our cities. It's theater, and radio has always been great theater to me.
The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.
One of the people I heard early on in his career was Eric Church. I liked him and his music.
After something has run its course, you either become a parody and keep doing it, or tear it down and know the truth about it, warts and all.
Growing up in Mississippi, the first song that I ever remember hearing, that captivated my mind and transported me from my bedroom out to the West, is a song called 'Don't Take Your Guns to Town' by Johnny Cash. That's when I was 5-years-old. And I played that song over and over again. I pantomimed it in school for show-and-tell.