Biography

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 16, 2010.

Has three daughters: Mattie Denise (born July 19, 1990), Alexandra Jane (born August 23, 1993) and Dani Grace (born August 28, 1997).

His song "Midnight in Montgomery" tells the story about the singer's encounter with the ghost of Hank Williams, who was waiting for him on New Year's Eve, which was the night in 1952 when Hank died.

Often regarded by critics and industry experts as among the few country performers to embrace the traditional sound over the more pop-sounding form that gained popularity in the 1990s.

Used Mike O'Malley and Anthony Clark from his favorite television series Yes, Dear (2000) in his music video "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues".

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.

I'm usually just enjoying life.

A country song is a song about life.

I mean, I am driven and laid-back at the same time.

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.