I Did [picking Cotton] From - Until

Gospel Music Was The Thing That Inspired Me As A Child Growing Up On A Cotton Farm, Where Work Was Drudgery And It Was So Hard That When I Was In The Field I Sang All The Time. Usually Gospel Songs Because They Lifted Me Up Above That Black Dirt.

I Got Really Excited About It. But Then We Went Into The Studio And Tried To Record Some With Different Musicians, And It Didn't Sound Good. It Didn't Work. So We Put Together The Album [unchained] With Just A Guitar And Myself.

My Father Was A Cotton Farmer First And - But He Didn't Have Any Land Or What Land He Had, He Lost It In The Depression. So He Worked As A Woodman And Cut Pulpwood For The Paper Mills, Rode The Rails In Boxcars Going From One Harvest To Another To Try To Make A Little Money Picking Fruit Or Vegetables.

I Love The Freedoms We Got In This Country, I Appreciate Your Freedom To Burn Your Flag If You Want To, But I Really Appreciate My Right To Bear Arms So I Can Shoot You If You Try To Burn Mine.

People Call Me Wild. Not Really Though, I'm Not.i Guess I've Never Been Normal, Not What You Call Establishment. I'm Country.