Lee Zeldin

We got to be the best America, not the second best somebody else.

And that's what we've lost sight of.

We're just trying to be the second best everything else.

And it's never going to work.

It never has.

and uh man my just my hat's off to for the opportunity to talk about it because so many artists want to say something glenn and they can't because you know they're going to lose their they're going to lose their gigs they're going to lose their record deals they're going to get compromised can i ask you jeffrey let me let me ask you've been in in nashville for a very long time by the way you live in one of my favorite cities in all of yeah the entire country franklin tennessee but

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.