The "Better Off Gone" hitmaker has cycled in and out of every kind of record deal and contract to find himself mostly independent, 800 miles from Nashville and smiling.
Country fans, get ready for another legion of country music superstars in say ... oh, 18 years? Some of today's hottest country artists have had babies in 2015, which means their musical genes (and, okay, good looks) could very well have been passed down to their bundles of joy.