 Do you think that's an important part of the story of country music? I do. I grew up in a small town in North Alabama in the 1980s and 90s at a time when that kind of small government conservatism was sweeping the South. This idea that government was the problem. Big government needed to get out of their lives. And at the same time, I was looking around and seeing people who drove an hour every day to work at Redstone Arsenal working.