The accelerated pace continued for Rockie, taking things to Nashville, where in quick order, he met the Universal South staff, hooked up with renown manager Bob Titley (to co-manage with Larson), and was teamed with producers Blake Chancey and Tony Brown. With Kevin Law in New York, they began going through songs Rockie had in his catalogue, while at the same time, he developed a few select relationships with co-writers that resulted in some new songs. “We picked 40 songs that we thought were the strongest. Then, as a group, we narrowed that to 16 and started cutting three at a time.” This editing process led to what would become Rockie’s major label debut, due in stores March, 2006. The songs on the record reflect a lifetime of rising above adversity, challenge and doubt; of playing every region of this vast country, from coast to coast, and all points in between. A generous soul traveling alone, silently counting his blessings as he takes a leap of faith on the tiny stage of a roadhouse filled with skeptical strangers, or an audience of one CEO in the posh suite of a Manhattan high-rise office building, believing in his heart that his words can reach out, bridge the divide and tug a common thread of human experience. He succeeds because above all else, Rockie Lynne mines our kindred sprit simply by sharing his truth in song.
“I think that as a whole, this record is a snapshot that captures who I am and where I’ve been to get to where I am now. I have always written very autobiographically. Almost always my songs are musical expressions of some part of my life. There’s a piece of my own truth somewhere in everything I write. I don’t know how to do it any other way.”