Kenny Chesney

And then after that, it just kind of, I went, oh, wow, like...

It wasn't all the time because I didn't know this was going to be my life, but it was just kind of a slow burn and like this seed that was sown in college.

And that might be a familiar story.

I would imagine that a lot of guys who started playing guitar was to impress a girl at some point, maybe.

A lot of my friends that I know that do this, I have that in common with them, but that's how it started for me.

I would always have stuff written down.

I don't have notebooks.

It's just stuff.

I didn't know what they meant.

And then eventually I would put something with it, and then every now and then I would be

I didn't have enough courage up there to play an original song, you know, in the middle of all the covers of my heroes and stuff.

What would have been the covers you would have been playing back then?

Oh, well, I would have played Tom Petty.

I would play Johnny Cash.

I would play...

Jimmy Buffett.

I would play Alabama.

I would play Leonard Skinner.

I had so much music swirling around in my head growing up in East Tennessee because we heard... It was unlike the way it is today.

Today, we can listen to anything, anytime we want, wherever we want to.