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One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

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Growing Up, South Carolina, Favorite Places

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Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

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Fans, Giants, Gentle

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I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

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Moving, Stuff, Heard

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I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been very blessed in my life to have a wife who loves me and supports me and is able to be in my band and travel with me.

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Blessed, Expectations, Wife

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I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

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Water, Tree, Black

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You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

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Growing Up, Home, Sacrifice

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You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

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Love Is, Thinking, Quality

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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

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Children, Growing, Married

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Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey thats slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.

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Daddy, Trying, Slowing

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I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I'm always looking forward to seeing what they're going to become and what they're going to be interested in later in life.

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Growing Up, Boys, Later In Life

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My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

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Night, Ideas, Would Be

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I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

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Years, Continuing To Learn, Imperfection

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I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

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Fun, Water, Trying

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I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

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Song, Certain

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I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

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Song, Real, Hymns

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When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

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Sales Person, Return, Cold

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I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

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Inspirational, Basketball, School

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What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.

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Home, Squares, Feet

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I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

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Land, Titles, Albums

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I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

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Song, Morning, Writing

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My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

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Home, Years, Publicity

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The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

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Son, Knives, Fans

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My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

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Valentines Day, Song, Years

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I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

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Father, Who I Am, Proud

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'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

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Song, Fun, Writing

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Born: November 20, 1977
Occupation: Singer
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