Craig Morgan

And so I go out and I'll get my Jeep and I called Phil, Phil Billy.

And I said, Phil, I just left Atlantic Records and they want to offer me a record.

And he said, shit, that's awesome, dude.

Because, you know, we were writing together and playing together a little bit.

And he said, Phil,

And I said, they asked me about my manager.

I don't have no manager.

He said, well, we better find one.

So we spent like four hours talking to everybody we knew.

And finally they hooked me up with this person, Christy Fortner.

And so I said, hey, I need a manager and I need it tomorrow.

And she said, yeah, I'm on board.

And she came on board as my manager for quite some time that first year or so.

And all I did that first year, that was in like October.

In January, my first single came out called Paradise that you alluded to, which is odd because when I wrote that song, like...

I didn't want people... I didn't want my buddies in the military to think I was trying to take advantage of my military career to have success in the music business.

So I didn't want to write about my military, but I just wrote the song, and they loved it, and they thought it would be a good single.

So we did it anyway.

And...

Yeah, so I did that for a year, but I didn't do any shows.