God's country

It’s a full-body immersion into the post-grunge hard rock of the late ’90s and early 2000s from one of Nashville’s most successful songwriters: a five-time Academy of Country Music Award winner whose many hits include Blake Shelton’s “God’s Country,” Florida Georgia Line’s “Simple,” Chris Lane’s “I Don’t Know About You” and “More Than My Hometown” and “Sand in My Boots,” both by Morgan Wallen.

But at Stagecoach this year, your audience started chanting “U-S-A” as you sang “God’s Country.”

It came as the songwriter-turned-artist sang “God’s Country,” the 2019 hit he penned for Blake Shelton, and it was intense.

For Christian nationalists, this is God’s country, and all authority comes through God.

Throughout the summer of 2020, and for most of the pandemic, the “Lonely Planet,” “Private Eyes,” “God’s Country” and “Fiction” scribe had been working on an adaptation of his play “Shooting Star” with his good friend Kirk Lynn.