mean? Outlaw… I mean, to me, an outlaw is somebody with integrity who does their own thing. I don’t sing about pretty girls. I don’t’ sing about sitting on a tail gate drinking a beer. I sing about like “800 Pound Jesus” and “Turnip Greens.” I don’t even know what that means – Outlaw.
I think it’s somebody who colors outside the lines. Well, I guess I’m an Outlaw then. I cer- tainly don’t fol- low trends. I do what I do. And I don’t know man..
That’s great. It’s a good way of put- ting it. Some of the Outlaws today are called Out- laws because of the clothes they wear. If they wear a rough looking hat and a vest, they’re considered an outlaw. But Outlaw isn’t a vest, it’s a spirit.
It’s the same thing - as you know, I spe- cialize in Southern Rock. And that’s a term like that. It’s really a spirit more than anything. People ask me all the time. How can you say this band is Southern Rock or that one? It’s all a melting pot of different types of music. The Allman Brothers Band are a blues band to me, and Marshall Tucker was a country band and Lynyrd Skynyrd was
kind of British Invasion Rock when they first came out. I think the more I think about it, Outlaws are people who do what they do, and they’re not influenced by some corporation that’s telling them what they need to sing. In the music game, I guess if I’m an Outlaw, that’s why I would be one. I’ve had chances to do things different. Talking about Toby Keith. He asked me to be on his record label and doing all this stuff, but I never even considered it. I knew what kind of crappy songs I would have to sing to play that game. So I guess I am an Outlaw, to answer your question, be- cause I’ve had chances to swim in the big pool. But it’s so spiritless and so embarrassing, the songs you have to sing, and I re- fused it. I chose the narrow road in- stead of the big
wide one.
I’m so happy you did, man. And not only the music, it’s seems to when you sign on, you sign that deal with the devil with those major labels. From the people I’ve talked to, it’s almost over when you do that because they control you like a robot. They want you do dress a certain way, and… Those record companies are just pimps. They use you up and when you’re of no use to them, they get rid of you. I am completely in- dependent. I’m not on any record label. I’ve
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