“A great country song has to be the truth, because people can see through it. So we’d actually ride around Nashville at four in the morning, listening to what we’d recorded that day, all hyped up. Then we’d leave the studio, and Johnny and myself were both so wired up that we couldn’t go to sleep. We recorded it at night – you’re talking two o’clock in the morning. “We wrote that song in Nashville, Tennessee. If we have to struggle to write a song, it’s not worth messing with it. I live very simply, and there’s nothing wrong with that. We love little-league baseball, hanging out with family and cooking out. We just started writing down the things we do. “Everything you hear in that song is all true. But we were the first ones to really jump from the rock genre to country. And we grew up with the old country: guys like George Jones, Merle Haggard and Hank Williams. My father was a truck driver, my mother was the manager of a doughnut shop. “A lot of people couldn’t believe we did a country record but, to be truthful, it wasn’t that big of a leap for Johnny and myself. “A great country song has to be the truth” – Donnie Van Zant tells us about the making of My Kind Of Country But with lines such as ‘ We got Johnny Cash, Back In Black, southern rock’n’roll’ there’s no disguising the rowdy good-time nature of this belter of a track. The project allowed the pair to play a more country style of music than their respective day jobs, with a message that didn’t always translate easily outside of the God-fearing, gun-toting southern states. 38 Special-fronting brother Donnie (both younger siblings of late Skynyrd mainman Ronnie). The title track from the fifth collaboration between Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Johnny Van Zant and.
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