![]() ![]() I wasn't thinking about making a country or rock record or anything when I did this record. ![]() I'm not saying I'm necessarily doing that, but I definitely think that the progressive nature of country music has been lost. This is like heavy music." It's become acceptable now, but it was breaking down musical barriers. But if you went and got one of my dad's records from the '70s and traveled back in time to the late '50s and put it next to something with country music they would say, "Oh my god, this is unheard of. Just like you said with Kristofferson, people said his music wasn't country because it didn't sound like traditional country music. There are a lot of things at play with the record, but people saying something is country based on the way it sounds, genres in general were built as a marketing tool, so you look at it and people are going to try and throw it in a category or whatnot, but I've always just believed in the art of it all. But I do think that the message of the record is definitely something that people in small towns can really relate to. And if I don't do something like that, they're gonna look at it as blasphemous. In terms of my fans, I think there's a group of them that might be looking for me to do something that is just retro or a throwback to what my dad did. I felt like we're all kind of screwed, stick with your family and your friends, it's the connection between two people that matters the most. I found myself feeling very alone, not to use an overused term, but like a man without a country to some degree. And don't let them kill the real, true American dream, or the world dream, it's not just American - which is about love, truth, honesty, hope, and the spirit of family and love and friends, and the importance of that. And I think that the most important thing is not to let the people that have these agendas - and will always have these agendas at play - really get you down. the sovereignty of the United States is constantly being degraded. And the message that I found myself trying to portray was that the world is in a constant spin and. ![]() The whole message of the record in a sense is, besides being anti-imperialist to a degree, I don't think we're being told the truth and we have been told the truth. For me, what ended up happening is, not that I really had a ton of faith in politicians before, but I wasn't necessarily as educated as I was by the time the record was done. We were in a horrible place when we started the record and we've only side-stepped our position as a country. And I think that really I have grown to have an extreme distaste for both sides. You're right, we started this under Bush and finished it under Obama. ![]()
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