Tom's Country View

"I remember being six-years-old and my dad explaining to me why Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" was such a good lyric. My ear was trained to listen to the words before I learned to listen to the music." (Matt Jordan /  citylifestyle.com/kirkwood, 2022)

"Louis Chevrolet was born in 1878 as the second of 8 children in French-speaking Switzerland. From Paris, where he worked in a car factory, he emigrated to Canada (Montreal) in 1900. The following year he took a job in New York City before starting to race cars for Fiat. In 1911 he founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in Detroit with William Durant (founder of General Motors)." (Wikipedia)

"The gentle ballad “I Hope You Do” is a letter to himself as a child that begins with a voice recording of him as a six-year-old. Like all of Summerville, it bears the subtle imprint of his wife. 'She told me, 'When you get down on yourself, just understand that that kid is who you're living for. You’re trying to make that kid proud.'" (chasebryant.com/bio / January 2024)

" It’s tempting, as an artist trying to make a name for himself, to lean into what is working in the industry - to chase the trends I hear on the radio and try to change my sound and my style to better ‘fit in’ to the Nashville game." (Matt Jordan / facebook.com, February 15, 2024)

"You neglect friendships, relationships, because I am so maniacal about making this [music] thing go, it’s been my only mistress. It’s been all-encompassing for me, and I haven’t been able to find that balance and I don’t know how to find that balance. So that’s where it becomes what that song is, where I’m like, ‘I want to run away but I love it so much I can’t.’" (Kip Moore / americansongwriter.com, April 28, 2023)