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" At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif. "

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" 'Dirt on My Boots' was pegged as the second single from 'California Sunrise' from the get-go, and we felt like it was just a fun song to go with. "

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Sunrise

Boots

Song

" I just have fun on stage. There's nothing premolded out there. I try to always do something different. "

" I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy everybody in country music. "

" I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music. "

" It's always a good feeling to be recognized for something. "

" If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart. "

" I'm helping country sound a little more country. "

Jon Pardi

Sound

Country

" I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors. "

Jon Pardi

Respect

Outdoors

" 'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and steel, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop. "

" I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it. "

" I lean traditional, but 'Head Over Boots,' it's pretty country. "

" I'm writing songs that I want to sing. "

" I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good. "

" I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14. "

" There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.' "

" I'm moving forward and getting new fans at every show. "

" 'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle. "

" I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it. "

" Take everything you can from what people say. Keep going and stick to your instincts. And what your soul tells you to do, use that. "

" I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can't go, man.' He never could pull the trigger. It's a big move. You just gotta be diehard - you gotta give it your all, you know. "

" You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy. "

" I always want to just stay humble, and I always want to keep climbing. "

" Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do. "

Jon Pardi

Life

Writing

" My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back. "

" If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other. "

" We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it. "

" There's so many great people in Country Radio, and I appreciate all the support they've given me. "

Jon Pardi

People

Great

" I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself. "

Jon Pardi

Love

Always

" I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing. "

" There's so much you can learn from being on a big tour and so much you can learn from being in the clubs. "