I've Always Stood Up For

My Mother Kept Asking Me, "when Are You Going To Do A Gospel Album?" And I've Always Wanted To Do A Gospel Album. Everybody Was Going On About It, So Mom Started Hounding Me More.

I've Had Several Working-man Songs That I Like.

"after 17" Is A Song I Wrote When My First Daughter Went To College, So That's Kind Of Where I'm At In That Part Of My Life. If You Listen To That Song And Knew Anything About Me, You'd Say, "oh Yeah, He Wrote That About His Daughter," But I Try Not To Write Them That They Are So Specific That They Wouldn't Apply To Anybody That Has A Child.

Oklahoma's Always Been Good To Me.

I Could Have Done A Hundred Songs, Really. It Was Hard To Narrow Them Down, Because I Tried To Pick Songs For The Most Part That Actually Did Have Some Effect On Me Or Influenced Me In The Past.