Chris: It feels good considering the last hit we had on the charts was "Miss Me Baby" and that's been fourteen to eighteen months. So, anytime you go through something like this and it's been that long, you start getting worried, nervous a little bit apprehensive. So to have a song do what it's done for us, it's a great thing. I'm very proud that the fans have bought the record and requested the song and showed up to the shows to support it. It's been a great thing all the way around.
Scott: What makes this album different from your previous ones?
Chris: I think that what separates this one from the others is the material and production. I got to work with Scott Hendricks on this album. He is awesome and I think one day we will find him in the Country Music Hall Of Fame for sure. He's a great A&R guy and a great producer. He gave this album depth that I don't think was on any other album. We are only one song into it and I think we could get four or five singles if we want to.
My hopes are to get the momentum that we had with "Chicks Dig It" and "Beautiful Day" I think that's already starting to happen. We are working bigger venues and starting to sell out. Anytime I get a venue sold out, it's a good thing.
Scott: Now you've had an awesome career already, but what's the biggest thing that's happened to you so far?
Chris: You know, that's a good question. There have been so many things that have happened that have been great in my career. I think the most important thing is the relationship I have with the fans. It's one thing to get a record deal and then to get on the radio, but connecting with the fans is probably the thing I am most proud of. The Cagle Heads are just wonderful. They are a great group of people. I don't know what I did to deserve them and I really don't want to know because I would probably mess it up. It's just one of those things that I have always been told, "work hard and always be yourself." That's what I try to do. I think they see me as a regular person who works hard and got lucky and took advantage of it.
Scott: Off your new album, is there a song that sticks out or means the most to you?
Chris: The song that means the most to me would probably be "Change Me." It's something that when I sing it, it's what I want. It takes something special to get there. It would be a pretty dull life for me to wake up at forty and be finished. I hopefully have forty more years. I think that song holds a place in my heart that none of the others do. I love "love" songs, I love the third track "It's Good To Be Back" because I'm a southern rocker at heart. Those are the ones I find playing back and forth more than others.
Scott: How would you describe your life?
Chris: My Life? It's been a country song. If you play it backwards, you get everything back. My life, it's been one of struggle, and I think it's been like everyone else's. My parents got divorced. We came up with nothing and had to struggle to get where I am. I wouldn't change a thing.
Scott: If you could spend the day with anyone, who would it be?
Chris: My grandfather. I would give anything back, if I could spend one more day on a horse with him.
Scott: What's your tour schedule like for the rest of the year?
Chris: We start this weekend, but we took a week off for Easter simply because I have some new fathers in the band and wanted them to be with their kids for Easter. We are going to work basically Thursday, Friday and Saturday and then Friday and Saturday, and then go back to Thursday, Friday and Saturday again for the rest of the year except for Halloween, Thanksgiving and then come off the road on December 15th.
Scott: Is there any particular region that you are focusing on or try to hit everywhere?
Chris: No, we are going everywhere from Washington to Miami, Florida. Anywhere they will let us.
