He’s kind of that red dirt sound, but he’s just really great songwriter, just really cool, raw, real sound. He’s awesome. You should check him out.

“I really love Ashton Shepherd. I think that she’s a girl that we need in country because she’s so raw and real and just hardcore country. She’s the real deal. I’m definitely trying to kind of champion her and push her name out there even more, because I think she’s good for us.”

Another one of my favorites on there is “Hunter’s Wife,” because I married an avid hunter.

The whole record, Hell on Heels, takes you back like 30 years. If you put it in, you’re going to think you stepped back in time. [My favorite songs on the album?] Obviously, “Hell on Heels.” It’s swampy and sexy, and it’s girls with attitude, and you really aren’t sure what happens to the guys in the song, if they’re dead or not dead. (laughs) It’s so much fun to do live. Another one of my favorites on there is “Hunter’s Wife,” because I married an avid hunter.

I love ‘The Story,’ and she sang it at our wedding, so I’m partial to that one. And ‘Terpentine,’ I love that one too.

I love ‘The Story,’ and she sang it at our wedding, so I’m partial to that one.

"She’s actually one of my good friends. She sang at our wedding, and she’s just one of the most amazing songwriters. She’s this tiny little girl, and she has the biggest voice. I mean, she can belt it. She’s a diva—she’s awesome. She’s one of the greatest singers around, and her live show is amazing, and her songwriting is amazing."

" I love ‘The Way I Am.’ That’s one of my favorite songs of his. And ‘Down Every Road,’ because it sort of describes what my life is. ‘Down every road is always one more city,’ you know? Sometimes you can put an album on and not feel like you need to skip any [tracks], and that’s that whole box set for me."

I love ‘The Way I Am.’ That’s one of my favorite songs of his.

It’s just the best. You can literally put it on and sit there for four hours and sit on your deck and drink a beer and never feel like you need to change a track. It’s absolutely the best box-set ever. I’m a huge Merle Haggard fan. I think people that feel like they don’t know country music need to listen to Merle Haggard because, to me, he’s everything that I love about country music.

“Blake [who Miranda married earlier this year] is such a great singer, and we have such different tastes in music, but ‘Honey Bee’ is such a feel-good song. It makes you just want to listen to it over and over. Red River Blue—I feel like he had a good time in the studio when I listen to that record. It’s really him. It’s 100% him. There’s nothing on there that’s kind of just stuck on there. Every song belongs on the album.”

"I’m obsessed with Beyonce. B’Day is my favorite. I remember reading interviews and watching her in interviews and her saying that she wasn’t even really scheduled to go into the studio, and she just [went], kind of, underground."

“I just love how much soul she has. She sings with all of herself, and whenever you listen, it just feels like she’s telling a story and you’re believing every word of it. I like “Rumour Has It.” I like sassy songs, as you know—it’s got some sex appeal to it, but it’s also just sassy.”