Yeah, I know, but I think he recognized it and is trying to make amends. Said his Dad died in '13 and it made him want to play music that his Father would want to listen to and be proud of. This album doesn't sound like country radio tripe.
One does not simply work for Universal Nashville... they own him and they will own him forever. He gained enough power, or clout, or blew the correct people to cut an album. That alone is surprising. They usually keep the writers hidden away in a minimum wage hell. If it ever gets airplay, it won't, because they won't push it, but if it did, they'll turn him into a clown act.
He wrote a number one hit for Kenny Cheeseney for Christ sakes.. that alone should get him castrated. That song was pure stank ass-cheese. He should be ashamed of himself, apologize to everyone he meets, then kill himself.
This... he wrote this stanky ass song.
Universal Nashville is the ASS in asshat. They are THEE machine. Whatever they release is poison to real musicians. If he wanted to make real music, he would have signed with someone else, and actually worked for a living, but he wanted the easy path. So that's what he got. All musicians know exactly what they're getting into signing with a music manufacturer. Once a whore, always a whore.
Ask Zach Brown. He can't get legitimacy from his peers and he wants it so badly. Same with Garth Brooks, who wanted to be a Neil Young or James Taylor and they stuck him with that stupid hat. I wouldn't care if they resurrected John and George, and put the Beatles back together. Those labels, especially
that label, is anti music and anti musician.
