As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard
I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.
If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.
... We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ...
This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.