We were trying to write a song, sitting around drinking, and that's what happens when you're drinking while you write; you write silly little ditties that make the girls mad.
The bridge still makes me laugh [Fowler starts singing]: "I started thinking about it, adding it up / The house the boat the car the truck / When I see my attorney going to kick his butt / for talking me out of that damn pre-nup."
CS: So, how are thing going on the road?
KF: Everything is going good. This is our biggest year to date -- every year it keeps getting bigger. That's how it's been for me, a long, slow gradual climb, but it keeps getting bigger. I've never had that big, breakthough, mainstream success. A lot of guys get big overnight, but that's not me. I always said, things never come easy for me.
But we're just like this whole Texas country music scene. It's still growing. It kind of started back in '98 and '99, with me and Roger Creager and Corey Morrow and Pat Green. It all started in Austin and College Station, basically.
Now we do well in Chicago, in Kansas City. People come down here and hear us, then go back to where they're from. I always say it's spreading like a bad virus. First it was into Oklahoma, then New Mexico, then Kansas, then Missouri. It's been really cool to see this thing grow from its infancy to where it's going.
CS: So, what's next, then?
KF: I'm just going to keep doing what I do, keep writing my brand of country and bringing it to the people. We'll keep touring. My motto's been, "One fan at a time." If they hear us, they'll like it, and we can build up the fan base that way.
Also, I'm right in the middle of writing the next album, which should be out next year. And my song Long Line of Losers is going to be on Montgomery Gentry's new album.
It's a vicious cycle: write, record, tour, write, record, tour. We're not taking any time off this year, so you have to take time off to write on the road. You have to say, "On Monday, I'm going to take an hour to sit down and write." We're playing 160 shows this year, so we're on the road all the time. But it keeps me out of trouble.
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