{"id":1317650,"date":"2020-01-13T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1816486"},"modified":"2020-01-13T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:05:23","slug":"jordan-davis-the-backstage-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/jordan-davis-the-backstage-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Davis: The Backstage Q&A"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span>
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Make no mistake about Jordan Davis. He may have debuted with a couple of modern country songs with some pop around the edges, but deep down, the Louisiana native is a straight-up country boy. <\/p>\n

So much so, that he recently recorded a cover of Jo Dee Messina\u2019s 1996 debut single, \u201cHeads Carolina, Tails California<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the first thing we talked about backstage before his Chicago show on Saturday night (Jan. 11).<\/p>\n

CMT.com: Of all the country songs you could\u2019ve covered, why this one? I mean, I personally love it, but it\u2019s kind of an obscure one as far as throwback songs go.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Davis: My uncle Stan (Paul Davis) was a songwriter, so that time in the 90s was the golden era for me. It was the first time I heard music that I really connected to. For me, songs like \u201cHeads Carolina\u201d and \u201cHoles in the Floor of Heaven\u201d take me back to being with my uncle or driving around with my dad. I remember he had this old \u201996 Suburban, and that was the first place that I ever heard \u201cHeads Carolina.\u201d That\u2019s how you know something is special, when you have that memory of your first time. They\u2019re not all like that.<\/p>\n

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