[Pocahontas - population] 850 if you count the cats and dogs, about 800 otherwise, ... All Jacked Up. |
As the attorney general of the home state of country music I want to discuss my concerns of your promotion of smokeless products, particularly as it relates to the youth who attend your concerts and who listen to your music, |
At first I didn't think it made sense, ... But we decided if it was a hidden track, it wouldn't disrupt the flow of the record, and it would also give people the insight that there was more to a redneck woman than they might think. |
Every time I hear his voice coming in on that song, I get goose bumps. |
Every time I hear his voice coming in on that song, I get goose bumps. I still can't believe Merle Haggard is on my record. But I still haven't met him face to face. I've talked with him a lot on the phone, especially in the last few weeks, when we've been editing the video. It's strange to work with somebody without having ever met them. But hopefully, one of these days, I'll talk him into coming out to a show and perhaps jumping onstage to sing the song with me. |
Honestly, I don't think it could get any better for me. But I feel like my whole team -- my band, my organization, everybody -- is getting better and better at what we do. And it's getting more and more fun as we do it. So we must be on the right track. |
I am still nervous when I travel because it is fairly new to me, ... You know, I didn't grow up traveling around the world. |
I didn't feel the pressure that everybody thinks about on sophomore albums. I didn't think about it. I had final approval on all the songs. My label trusted me to know my audience. We recorded 16 songs, and we used them all. |
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all. |
I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country. |
I was at Pop's until dawn. |
I wish I could say I've traveled more than I have, but I pretty much stayed in one region and I'm sure there are a lot of places like it. To me it just seems so normal around there. It's my home. It's where I grew up. The faces around there look like my kind of people. I look at faces in other parts of the country and I don't get it right off the bat, but I look at anybody up there and it just looks like home. |
If I stop and think about it, it just blows my mind. It's my stage. No restrictions. It's my party, and I am having the best time. |
It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway. |
It was the first time in their lives that these Romanian women earned money for their work. And for us to be able to make that happen was amazing. |