Grayson Russell

Not that the point of that was for me to write a song about it.

I'm not so naive or whatever to believe that was the case.

But to watch...

Something that absolutely wrecked my father's life.

Be redeemed in something as simple as a song.

When film kicked off, I couldn't get hurt, so I couldn't play a lot of ball.

In Alabama, that's all that matters is if and when and how good are you.

Basketball?

Basketball, football, baseball, didn't matter.

And I wasn't really any good at any of them, but I couldn't afford to take a line drive to the ribs or collarbone or whatever and be put out of work because I had bigger fish to fry.

My dad had the most rushing yards in the state for a private school in 1988.

Was in USA Today.

His graduating class was 18 people.

Wow.

My father has yet to see me score a touchdown or hit a home run.

But my gift to him is being able to stand there with him in front of him.

If we do NASCAR stuff next go-round for Talladega Knights with a concert series, that could be 200,000 people.

And watch that man's life.

Not an entire life, but those situations in his life be redeemed and turned around.

And then when we're done, you know, we'll do, like I said, we'll go back to Freebird and we'll put on a show.