Lee Zeldin

That scares the hell out of me.

It represents the American lifestyle.

It always has.

And if you look back, I had a career that has gone on from the late 80s until now.

For groups like Montgomery Gentry, songs like My Town and Something to Be Proud of, those are songs that are about America.

They're about faith.

They're about family.

My lyric has never changed in 40 years.

I'm writing the same song idea that I've been writing my whole career, but now it's hands-off, and they're trying to expand.

They want to expand.

They want to be all-inclusive to everything.

And Nashville, as you know, it's tripled in size.

And there's amazing talent here, but there's a definite shift in the direction of what they're trying to paint with the music.

Not good.

we it's a sad thing because if and also if you look at american culture in a hundred years the music all the music of the world was shaped by america all the different genres of music have been shaped by america and i'm a guy that studies these things and because i'm such a music fan and i think music speaks so much to so many things and if you look back to you know woody guthrie back in the day and his protest songs

You know what I mean?

Like, why is it not OK to write a song about Charlie Kirk?

But but Bruce Springsteen could put out a song about, you know, stop Trump and stop ICE.

It just it's that's not free speech.

You've got to let it all be out there.