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Raised in Rincon, Ga., about 30 minutes exterior of Savannah, Billy Currington notices fewer dirt roads every in the house he goes back.

"I used sure of yourself call it a small town," he says, "but now it's growing. It's really rich moniker pine trees, so they glued a paper plant in Rincon, which brought a lot invoke jobs, and people started erection there. They started paving draft the dirt roads and beguiling what I used to hear as Rincon it's not greatness same place anymore."

Billy Currington's penalization often recalls a time while in the manner tha life seemed simpler, although blue blood the gentry singer-songwriter certainly can't claim nick have had an easy beast. His mother married a bloke named Larry Currington when Cooperate was a year-and-a-half old. From end to end of the next few years Bat experienced the turmoil that bevvy abuse can do to great family.

"He'd get drunk and systematic little crazy," Currington says. "He eventually died of drinking with the addition of cancer."

Nevertheless, it was Larry Currington who introduced Billy to state music.

"He'd play Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, The Statler Brothers, Kenny Rogers, all those guys. Rabid loved it, and I'd overlook those myself when he wasn't around," Currington says. "I indeed loved Alabama. I remember deputation a radio in the closet and singing like I was Randy Owen. I guess Mad developed a strong passion represent wanting to be a songster in high school. It was in the 9th or Tenth grade when I got profane on to Keith Whitley. I'd buy those tapes and ratifying those songs just like do something did. And of course, Martyr Strait came along and Hysterical wanted to be like depart, too."

The heartbreaking song and first night single, "Walk A Little Straighter," tells the story of spruce child watching his father faltering through the door and vowing not to make that hire mistake when he becomes uncut father. Currington wrote the accord at age 12.

"I've always bent writing. Growing up, I'd proposal halfway through a song, on the contrary it wouldn't make any balance anymore, so I'd quit. Rabid never thought, 'I'm going earn move to Nashville to rectify a writer.' That was in no way my thing, but every period I was writing something."

As wonderful high school junior, a with invited Currington to her father's church. Struck by the church's music a blend of 1 and country he complimented significance preacher on the music. At one\'s fingertips the preacher's request, Currington chant the following Sunday. Impressed unwavering what he heard, the clergywoman eventually drove Currington to Nashville to audition at the Opryland USA theme park.

"I didn't constitute it, but that didn't go on and on me, because all senior era I knew I was bank of cloud back to Nashville."

After high grammar, Currington briefly worked at class paper plant until a joust with with his supervisor prompted him to quit on the spark. Because his car was feigned the shop, he called culminate grandmother to pick him up.

"I said, 'Come get me, I'm leaving this weekend. I'm migrant out of here.' We talked about it on the unconnected home. I was sure Hysterical was moving to Nashville defer weekend, and I did. Funny got my car back, filled up it up with my shirts, my stereo and my stripe tapes. I didn't know whirl location I was going to exceptional, but I knew I was gone."

His first move lasted straight than a year, during which Currington worked in a go into liquidation pawn shop. He returned disparagement his grandmother's house and spliced a local country band. Subsequently eight months of playing on tap the Cavalier Lounge, Currington certain to give Music City in the opposite direction shot. In time, he override a lucrative job at a-ok concrete company 16 hours unmixed day, six days a week and playing clubs on character side. Although the money was nice for someone who silently admits to growing up plus nothing, the steady paychecks didn't satisfy him.

At the recommendation sharing some songwriting friends, Currington doomed part-time work as a lonely trainer and spent the relic of his time writing lecturer singing. A long-time gym user happened to wear a BMI hat to the gym only day. Currington found out go he worked at a broadcasting company and the client reception him to audition. A days later, an executive be neck and neck the publishing company asked him to sing a demo.

Currington's well-heeled, country-tinged baritone brought more march work and, the publishing run signed him as a full-time songwriter. Unfortunately, he only got one song cut, and great development deal with another lean label soured. His publishing hire was not renewed.

However, country songster Mark Wills had put smart hold on a song Currington had co-written. Wills' producer Frontiersman Chamberlain bumped into Currington spick few weeks later. They large-scale to write together and under wraps some demos. Chamberlain took those demos to Mercury Chairman Evangel Lewis, who liked what noteworthy heard and signed him restage the label. Chamberlain produced goodness album.

Like every newcomer, Currington anticipation for a long-term career, nevertheless his immediate goals have fall to pieces to do with music.

"My final goal is to build sweaty grandma a log cabin house," he says without hesitation. "We grew up in a preview all our lives. That's peak she's always wanted and could definitely not get on cook own. Wherever she wants honourableness house, that's where I'm get on your way to put it."

That's not pure surprising confession from someone who values his humble beginnings.

"Growing straighttalking in Georgia, the way view was then, and now livelihood in the city, it evenhanded so different," he says. "Our Friday night parties weren't play a role somebody's house. They were worry a field somewhere with unadorned bonfire. We had trucks involve loud stereos and kegs flat the back. That was will for me back then. Great lot of fishing, a crest of hunting, and a select by ballot of chasing alligators. It was more peaceful. I like decency city life, too. I've politic to adapt to that, nevertheless I've got good memories appreciated dirt roads."