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Did You Know

  • • Born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in tiny Luttrell — son of a teacher and a hair stylist.
  • • Played baseball and football at Gibbs High School before a Christmas guitar changed everything.
  • • Studied advertising at East Tennessee State and was part of the ETSU Bluegrass Program.
  • • Recorded a self-released demo and sold 1,000 copies at local clubs in Johnson City to buy a new guitar.
  • • Passed an audition at Nashville's legendary Bluebird Cafe in March 1991 — right after graduating college.
  • • Crushed bones in his foot during a 2008 concert when it got caught in a stage lift — finished the show anyway.
  • • Named his fan club "No Shoes Nation" during a 2012 concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
  • • His home on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands was destroyed by Hurricane Irma in 2017.
  • • Created the Love for Love City foundation and donated all proceeds from his album "Songs for the Saints" to hurricane victims.
  • • Was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at East Tennessee State University.

Locations in Lyrics

124 location references across 58 songs

Songs & Places

Pirate Song
Gulf Coast
"I wish I was a pirate ship wrecked down in Mexico"
El Cerrito Place
Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica, CA Twentynine Palms, CA Pioneertown, CA
"And all these pretty people up on El Cerrito Place"
Out Last Night
Arkansas Maine Alabama Panama City, FL East Tennessee
"There were girls from Argentina and Arkansas"
Here and Now
New York City, NY Tennessee Appalachian Tennessee Detroit, MI Malibu, CA
"Seen the skyline of New York City"
Boats
Key Biscayne, FL Newport, RI Newport Beach, CA
"He bought in Key Biscane"
There Goes My Life
Gulf Coast West Coast
"And hangin' out on the coast"
Coastal
Detroit, MI Florida Gulf Coast Perdido Key, FL Alabama A1A, FL Florida Keys, FL
"Silver hair, silver Buick"
Setting the World on Fire
Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica, CA
"Yeah we got drunk on La Cienega Boulevard"
The Boys of Fall
little towns
"In little towns like mine that's all they got"
Pirate Flag
Smoky Mountains, TN Key West, FL Gulf Coast, FL
"Smoky Mountains, nice place to hang around"
I Go Back
Carolina Shore, NC
"And the taste of salt on a Carolina shore"
No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
Gulf Coast
"The sun and the sand and a drink in my hand with no bottom"
Honey Would You Stand By Me
Los Angeles, CA Cheyenne, WY Fort Worth, TX
"If I tried my luck in Hollywood"
California
California
"I'm going to California"
When the Sun Goes Down
Key West, FL Myrtle Beach, SC Panama City Beach, FL San Diego, CA Galveston, TX
"Sun tanned toes tickling the sand"
Live Those Songs
Fresno, CA Panama City Beach, FL
"Saw him sitting on a sidewalk in Fresno"
American Kids
New York City, NY Los Angeles, CA Lynchburg, TN
"New York to LA"
Outta Here
A1A, FL Key West, FL US-Mexico Border, TX
"Let's cruise all the way down A1A"
You and Tequila
Los Angeles, CA
"Made it up Mulholland Drive"
Song for the Saints
US Virgin Islands, VI Louisiana Sugar Cane Belt, LA
"God lifted these islands from the ocean"
Happy Does
Tucson, AZ Boulder, CO
"Heads, you're goin' to Tucson, Arizona"
Summertime
Ashland City, TN Detroit, MI
"Out on 49"
Noise
Tennessee
"Drownin' out all the dreams of this Tennessee boy"
When I See This Bar
Maine Jacksonville, FL Key Biscayne, FL
"A few have moved on back to Maine"
Boston
Boston, MA New England florida_coast, FL
"She comes from Boston"
Flora-Bama
Perdido Key, FL Talladega, AL Panama City Beach, FL Destin, FL Fort Walton Beach, FL Pensacola Beach, FL Orange Beach, AL Gulf Shores, AL New Orleans, LA Knoxville, TN Tuscaloosa, AL Tallahassee, FL Auburn, AL Gainesville, FL
"Sitting here at the Flora-Bama"
Somewhere In The Sun
Austin, TX
"Stuck here at a Holiday Inn near Austin, Texas"
How Forever Feels
Daytona Beach, FL Detroit, MI
"Now I know how Richard Petty feels"
Another Friday Night
Smoky Mountains, TN Memphis, TN
"We go fog up the windows in the Smoky Mountains"
Anything But Mine
Atlantic City, NJ Atlantic Ocean, NJ Cleveland, OH
"Walking alone beneath the lights of that miracle mile / There's a local band playing at the sea side pavilion"
Back Where I Come From
Tennessee
"I'm an old Tennessean"
Paris, Tennessee
Paris, TN Paris, TX Tennessee Paris, KY Paris, MO Paris, ID Paris, AR Paris, ME Paris, IL
"Gonna take you all the way to Paris, Tennessee"
All the Pretty Girls
Los Angeles, CA
"All the pretty girls said I'm going to L.A"
Get Along
Virginia Los Angeles, CA
"Met a man wearin' a T-shirt, said "Virginia is for lovers""
Wild Child
Manchester, TN Black Rock City, NV Detroit, MI
"Been to Bonnaroo or Burning Man"
Beer in Mexico
Luttrell, TN
Don't Blink
Luttrell, TN
Key's In the Conch Shell
Key West, FL
"The key's in the conch shell, come on in"
Paris; Tennessee
Paris, TN
The Good Stuff
Luttrell, TN
You and Tequila (feat. Grace Potter)
Mulholland Drive, CA
"Made it up Mulholland Drive"
take her home
New York City, NY
Take Her Home
Interstate
"In a car seat creepin' down the interstate"
Better As A Memory
pirates
"My only friends are pirates"
Just To Say We Did
Knoxville, TN Myrtle Beach, SC Chimney Rock, NC Las Vegas, NV
"Drove from Knoxville to Myrtle Beach"
Knowing You
beach
"At a bar on a beach in the sun somewhere"
Save It For A Rainy Day
the bay
"Cause the boat's in the bay and it's calling my name"
Seven Days
the sea
"She said it was her first time to see the sea"
She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
Deere
"But if it runs like a Deere, man, her eyes light up"
Shiftwork
the beach
"It took me to the beach"
Somewhere with You
the beach
"Somewhere with you, like we did on the beach last summer"
Tip of My Tongue
ocean
"I can taste the ocean on the tip of my tongue"
Young
rapids
"Heading to the rapids with some discount beer"
Florabama
Orange Beach, AL
"Flora-Bama"
Silver Sands Marina
Gilford, NH West Virginia Fort Walton Beach, FL
"Silver Sands Marina"
Few Good Stories
Detroit, MI
"I'm gonna dance with my baby to some slow Motown"
Feel Like a Rock Star (Duet With Tim McGraw)
Georgiana, AL Montgomery, AL Nashville, TN Las Vegas, NV
"Do you yell out, "Hank""
From Hillbilly Heaven to Honky Tonk Hell (feat. George Jones & Tracy Lawrence)
Appalachian Coal Country
"But working the coal mine can wear a man down"

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