{"id":1306061,"date":"2019-03-19T08:33:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804064"},"modified":"2019-03-19T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:33:24","slug":"how-jake-owen-found-love-at-restoration-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/how-jake-owen-found-love-at-restoration-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jake Owen Found Love at Restoration Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 16m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

You know that feeling you get when you walk into a Restoration Hardware? You want everything, and can afford nothing.<\/p>\n

But when Jake Owen<\/a> walked into one, he fared much, much better.<\/p>\n

On the latest All Our Favorite People<\/a> podcast, Owen explained that that store is the very place he found furniture and<\/em> love.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Erica) was an interior designer at Restoration Hardware, and I was buying a couch or something at the time,\u201d Owen says. \u201cI remember it was after I was divorced, and I remember looking at her. I was just intrigued by how beautiful she was and how she was holding court in that store that day and telling people what they needed to do. I was like \u2019Wow, she\u2019s got a lot going for her.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI never actually ever said anything flirtatious until a few weeks after that. After she was helping me. I was in the store, and I said \u2019Hey, you wanna get a beer sometime? I figured if I didn\u2019t ask you for beer, I\u2019d never know if you would wanna go get one.\u2019 And she was like, \u2019Sure, let\u2019s go.\u2019 So, we went to the Red Pony in Franklin.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was four years ago, and now Owen and Erica Hartlein are having a baby together. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how it happens,\u201d he adds of letting love come to you instead of just hoping you find it by swiping through a dating app. \u201cGuys are just scared sometimes to make the first move. But guys should be more confident. That\u2019s what you want a man to be, to step up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, Owen also talks about his new album Greetings from\u2026 Jake<\/em>, due out March 29, and why he tried to keep the country in his country music. \u201cCountry music\u2019s super special to me, and preservation of classic tonalities and stuff in music. Even though I love the evolution of music, too. I really do. So I just kinda blend the two together. My first record \u2014 2006\u2019s Startin\u2019 With Me<\/em> \u2014 was a pretty country record. At the time, I was opening up for Brooks & Dunn and Alan Jackson on the road. So I\u2019ve learned from the best, and it\u2019s been a pretty cool time to be able to drop some pretty country songs on this album.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd thankfully, the momentum of \u2019Down to the Honkytonk\u2019 has opened a lot of doors for me to kinda continue to follow that lane,\u201d he said. The song is nominated for an ACM Award for single of the year. It\u2019s Owen\u2019s first ACM nomination in a decade.<\/p>\n

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