It brought us to a city that doesn’t normally put us on the map. When you look at the media going into the show, it was double in terms of coverage on the networks and...

Everybody was stressed out beyond belief except Carrie.

There is nothing here that forces us to get a record out right away. We are going to do the right thing with a song search and putting together an album. That gives us time....

I still think the year is going to end up down for us, as it will for the overall industry. There are no late releases that are going to save us for the year. We’ll...

We think it’s going to be a huge impact record. It’s one of the most important records of the fourth quarter, for all genres. It is the biggest release in the country format, but aside...

Labels do a lot of things besides manufacture and sell records. We market musicians, we get radio stations to play songs, we help produce tracks and guide musical careers. Wal-Mart doesn’t have an expertise in...

It kind of hits you right between the eyes. It’s really emotional and just classic Alan Jackson. The thing that struck me the most about it was I felt like I was sitting in church...

My experience is that country gets upset when you take a record to top 40 or AC before you take it to them or if you’re working a record simultaneously, … but we’re not. We’re...

I got a phone call from Alan’s manager, saying he was going to do a recording of gospel songs for his mom. He was just going to make a CD copy for her. I said...

It’s a dual approach,

It’s a split effort between the two of us.

It certainly was evident the night she won.

We realized we’d be down as an industry this year. We didn’t have the same caliber of releases and in the same quantity.

At 21, we all know best.

I don’t get the sense that Wal-Mart is trying to enter the label business.

There was a concern at one moment. There was that small matter of a marriage in the middle of the recording process. We were still doing the tour, filming the special. There was a lot...

People seem to have a hunger for those things that not only reinforce their faith but give them hope. Certainly, this record has that feeling to it.