Kenny Chesney

And I remember just staring at it and for some reason paying attention to the guitars and the way it was recorded and thinking, wow, this is so different.

You know, looking back on when some of this dream started, you know, and not really knowing what it meant, that's one of those moments because that also created space for me.

It's funny because I think that there are moments when we're young and we don't even know it at the time, right, that seem really insignificant because that moment, I saw that and it passed.

Yeah.

That moment passed and I went on to shoot free throws and I went on back home, but I kept it back here.

No, but not only, but the sound was like that sound.

I know that it was rock.

It was on MTV, but the accent, the music, it spoke to me.

in ways that some other things didn't.

So in college, I would be playing that.

When I got to Guitar Man, I would be playing that, I would be playing Leonard Skinner, I would be playing everything.

But I was always drawn to singer-songwriters like Buffett and Steve Miller.

And especially when I got older, Bruce, the people that did that were the people that I was really drawn to and still am to this day.

Yeah, I mean, it was really strange.

It still is.

Like, when I first moved to Nashville, I got a publishing deal with Acuff Rose Publishing pretty quickly.

And then Phil Walden, who had Capricorn Records, was my first record label.

He's the first person.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.