true. i had this song, and i turned it into the record label. and i had to beg them to single it. they said, women are going to hate this. and i said, i can t explain it, i ve been singing this 10 years, or however long, they love it. there are bruises on their men from them just nudging them as hard as they can when the song starts, like that s you! and i think anything true, you know, is fairly universal that way. it is true. i want to play forgive me, my favorite brad paisley song. this one, a duet with carrie underwood. oh. been so long that you forget the way i used to kiss your neck remind me remind me so on fire and so in love way back when we couldn t get enough
it, but they re humanizing it. after an extraordinary first 50 years, the journey of your life so far , what s next? i think for me, what is on my mind, as i finish this album, at some point later this year it is called son of the mountains. it is me looking through the lens of the person that i was. this kid from west virginia at the world now. i am not shying away from things that inherit to me musically. it is newgrounds and in some ways. in that sense, i am very excited about this artistically. i am very excited about some of the songs that are the kinds of things we deal with things the opioid crisis in west virginia and we deal with depression in another song. i have got several different things that we do. some of it is fun. for the most part, it is a record of real-life and not pulling punches. that is what is next. coming up, a conversation
single from your upcoming album. the song is called same here. he released it, interestingly enough, in february, on the first anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine. before we hear it, why did you want to write a song that connects life here in the u.s. to what those poor folks are going through over there? i was really affected when the invasion first happened a year ago now. watching that, having toured europe so much and seeing the town squares of these major european capitals and cities as people were running for their lives and trying to get out of town. i think it is just an unprecedented thing in our lifetime. we sat down to write this and had this idea. i had in my phone. it was the title. the idea i had was do we have
would become one of my biggest heartbreaks, it was college romance, that was our movie. it ended badly. i came up with this idea that she should be in a music video. i called the manager who is wonderful. it was her manager at the time. i give her the whole story on how i had given her the song. she called kim. i had ulterior motives, of course, i wanted to meet her more than anything. but yes, i did want her to be in the music video. she called kim and said this guy called and wants to put you in a music video. she was doing my work, i had no idea. she was a great manager. she said yes? how long between making the video to you guys becoming husband and wife? let s see, we got married the next year. we dated for about a year. we dated for seven months before i got engaged. i realized the clock was
ticking before she can figure out she could do better. got that out of the way. she said yes. her parents did not like it, especially her mother. but, i asked the question quickly. i was nothing like what they pictured for their daughter. i was a cowboy from west virginia, it was not on the list. 20 years later, do you sometimes live out that video where you have to choose between pleasing her and doing fishing or something else you want to do? how long have you been married? 25 years. you know. the answer is yes. it is ironic, we go back to the same subject of writing what is true. i had this song and i turned it into a record label. they said women are going to hate this. i can excited, however old it