Uncaged wins you the Grammy for Best Country Album. What kind of reaction do you have to that?

Well, it’s funny, ‘cause that was kind of the least country album we’d made to date, you know?

[Laughs] But it goes back to that whole genre thing. The genre seems to be changing, and a lot of it’s the more popular bands in quote-unquote ‘country’ are writing pop songs and are writing rock songs and things like that. Our most country tune on the record is arguably ‘The Wind,’ and it has done the least amount at radio as a single. [Laughs] It was kind of like it was too country for country.

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