Craig Morgan
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"Craig Morgan Greer", known professionally as "Craig Morgan", is an American country music artist. A veteran of the United States Army as a Forward observers in the U.S. military/forward observer, Morgan began his musical career in 2000 on Atlantic Records, releasing his Craig Morgan (album)/self-titled debut album for that label before the closure of its Nashville division in 2000. In 2002, Morgan signed to the independent Broken Bow Records, on which he released three studio albums: 2003's I Love It (album)/I Love It, 2005's My Kind of Livin', and 2006's Little Bit of Life. These produced several chart hits, including "That's What I Love About Sunday," which spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard (magazine)/Billboard country charts and was that publication's Number One country hit of 2005. A Greatest Hits (Craig Morgan album)/greatest hits package followed in mid-2008 before Morgan left the label for BNA Records, on which he released That's Why later that same year. My Kind of Livin is also his highest-selling album, having been certified gold album/gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After exiting BNA, Morgan signed with Black River Entertainment and released This Ole Boy in 2012.

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'My Kind of Livin'.

[For families that have been coming for years, even generations,] every year they know they can get that pastrami sandwich or an Emblem Club taco, ... It's just a matter of familiarity.

I think (redneck) used to be considered a derogatory term, but not anymore. Now it's considered more of a lifestyle than anything.

It's never my world up there. I always feel like that place belongs to someone else and I will always be a guest.

I have been very fortunate from the get-go because I am a songwriter and was writing songs and was fortunate enough that I was getting pitched top-shelf songs because the songwriters were my friends.

I think once I figured out where my groove was or my thing that everybody started honing in on what they could pitch me. I demoed a lot of great songs that I didn't cut, and some turned into big hits like 'Roundabout Way,' and 'Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo,' but they just didn't work for me.

You don't have to be a redneck to be a member of a redneck yacht club. It's a term that in the past has been a stigma or a stereotype, but songs like this and other various songs, even though they talk about the very things that people imagine rednecks doing or being, they're realizing that a redneck is more of a lifestyle than a person or a people.

I ran into (a problem) with 'Almost Home' because we put out the next single a little early, so we're not trying to do that. We're trying to keep the bases loaded.

They're scared. It's understandable. It's not a safe and fun place, and a lot of people don't want to take the chance.