Small Town Southern Man

Jackson was asked by CMT News what his inspirations are when he sits down to write a song. He replied: "I think sometimes you sit down and try to write something and think, 'Well, this may make a good single,' and you're trying to do something for your career. But most of the time, I write what comes out or I have ideas I've scribbled down over the past year or two. I had 'Small Town Southern Man' written down, and I'll just pick that up and start writing it. I don't know that I sit down and try to designate each song for something special. Just write each one and pick the ones you like. I've always tried to mix it up on an album where there's some up-tempo things and some mid-tempo kind of cool songs - some real love ballads that are pretty. Heavy broken-heart songs and drinking songs and just a little of everything. You know, that's kind of the way country music's always been."

CMT News asked Jackson if he enjoyed dressing up in the 1960s and '70s clothes in the song's video: "I got to dress up sort of like Hank Williams Jr. from that era and kind of the '70s-looking thing with the big side burns and all that. That was pretty cool. I've had a lot of comments about that - the sideburns, mainly, in that scene where it's kind of real funky looking."

Jackson spoke to CMT News about the car on the album cover: "It's a '68 Charger. It's one of my cars we stuck in there. You can't tell much about it. Every time they put a car in a shot, you don't see anything but a little piece of it, so you can't even see what it is. I'd say, 'Man, why don't you back up and shoot the whole car so we can get a good shot?'"