remind me remind me i m getting the live show and the video, this is this is an outstanding interview. you and carrie hosted the cma awards for 11 years. and one of my favorite parts, i used to watch every year. i must say i looked forward to this part in particular, the opening song parody. ohm care by morning why s it taking so long we ll have cataracts and dementia oh this is getting on my last nerve obamacare by morning over six people served how did you discover, you two, that you were so good together? that there was such great chemistry? they paired us up.
where you buy each other beers and solve all the world s problems same here you know, the name of the show is who s talking to chris wallace? i actually would prefer who s singing to chris wallace? we ll change it, change the titles and everything else. in june you released a second song from the album, so many summers. here you are performing in nashville, take a look. oh, lord. swing for the fence jump in the water soak it all in watch all the fires play the songs on 10 tell her you love her wake up and do it again you only get so many summers you only get so many summers your eldest son, hawk, turned
we had already toured together and become very good friends. but they paired us up without knowing that lightning in a bottle would strike. we had so many moments that i just can t believe we came up with. things we had this we wrote the show together, and i said, what if we did parodies of country songs based on current events? the first one we did holds up even more now, which was that s too high. let s see. it was this. because a certain gentleman had stolen the microphone from taylor swift that same year. yes. and it was yes. mamas don t let your babies grow up to be kanyes we wrote that. they went berserk. everybody was kind of mad at him at that time. you know. some things still hold up. your life story is so interesting. you were 8 years old when you were given your first guitar by
your grandfather. we have a picture right there of him, warren. and by 12, tell me if this is true, you were a regular on jamboree usa, opening for stars like roy clark? true? true, yeah. i sang an original christmas song at a rotary club luncheon in the local town. they had this 12-year-old, 13-year-old songwriter that first song i ever wrote was a christmas song, and it wasn t bad. it was actually in some ways better than some things i ve tried to write lately. i stumbled upon it. next thing you know, they heard me do that, invited me on the local christmas show. the very first time i played the jamboree, they let me open for the judds. the biggest thing in the world at the time. i was going to say, what did they think of this 12-year-old kid? in the words of my dad at the time, he was really good about not thinking everything i did was great.
true? true. i cnn original christmas song at a rotary club luncheon . they had this 13-year-old songwriter. the first song ever wrote was a christmas song, it wasn t bad. in some ways, it is better than somethings i have tried to write lately. you know, i stumbled upon it. the next thing i know, they invited me on the local christmas show. the very next time i played the jamboree, they let me open for the judds. the biggest thing in the world at the time. i was going to say, this is a 12-year-old kid. in the words of my dad at the time, he was really good about not thinking everything i did was great. he said, you know, you are 14. you re cute. but, you are going to be 18 and not as cute. you better be good at 18.