I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.

I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.