“When you’re in the heat of it, I’m talking like when ‘Redneck Crazy’ hit and ‘Whiskey in My Water’ hit, ‘A Guy Walks Into a Bar’ hit, I call that the flurry years, just like a hurricane because I didn’t expect to be famous, to be honest. That’s what set me off.” On his “flurry” of success with back-to-back hits: Then my mom married George Jones’s lead guitar player when I was 16 and the rest is history. did the classical thing just because my mother made me. Having to play tailback was not a good position to play when you’re singing the national anthem classically. “I still played sports and football and baseball – you could imagine who they wanted to tackle, the guy that was singing the national anthem with shoulder pads on. to Garth Brooks, because it just came natural to me, so I gravitated towards it. I just love singing anything, Boyz II Men, New Edition to Hank Jr. Debbie Mills was the best vocal coach in Missouri and she lived in Harrisonville about 20 minutes from us, so I started taking lessons from her. My mom got me into classical training when I was in seventh grade. “I was always dancing or singing or doing something stupid, and that has continued. Below, he talks to American Songwriter about being signed to Jason Aldean’s label, Rednecks Like Me and what it truly means to be “redneck.” On his musical upbringing and being classically trained: Farr would go on to become a chart-topping singer with hits like “Redneck Crazy,” “A Guy Walks Into a Bar” and “Whiskey in My Water.” His 2023 EP, Rednecks Like Me, marks the first time he’s co-written every song on a project. After all, his mother forced him into classical singing, which he balanced with his love for sports and hunting. Farr admits that he didn’t anticipate becoming a country star during his backwoods upbringing in Garden City, Missouri.
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