Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.