It was like, 'Damn, we're opening for the Stones!' For a country band especially, coming out of this genre it's something that is an extra long shot. I think we would've paid everything ourselves. We were so excited to get invited to go do it. Fast forward to 2006 and Kix and I are opening for the Rolling Stones in Omaha. Louis and that's back when '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' came out, by the Stones. I can remember spending two weeks with my cousins in St. But music was the thing that I'd cling to. And as a result I was painfully shy, to the point where I would see someone coming, even in college, and I'd cross the street so I wouldn't have to walk by them. I was super skinny, I would wear cutoffs under my jeans in junior high so I could make my pants stay up. That was across Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, where all my grandparents were. Bush and Barack Obama and hanging with the greatest, Muhammad Ali. His choices are diverse, fascinating and often not what you would expect in a life that includes meeting Tom Petty in 1976, sitting at a kitchen table across from Van Morrison, creating a song used by both George W.
