Last year was kind of a down year for us. We weren’t out there for 200 dates last year, like usual. Don [Herron, the band’s fiddle, pedal-steel and mandolin master] was off playing with Bob...

Funny how often something she’d been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want–when the real ‘need’ was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained...

I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I’m not proud of it, I was hungry. And I’m alone, I’m eating and I’m reading a book, right?...

There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

All roads are tough, but you have to choose the one you know you’ll never be sorry for taking.

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.