As I approach my 6,440th concert on the best tour of my life, my confidence cup runneth over.

You see, I don’t just rock myself into a foaming puddle of sweat and adrenalin every night then order room service. I have been hugely blessed to connect deeply with “working hard, playing hard” America as I sit down and meet with the best of the best every night before and often after every show. A spiritual campfire if you will.

Teachers, cops, ranchers, farmers, military heroes and their families, welders, plumbers, carpenters, doctors, students, community leaders, CEOs, little guys, big guys, men and woman of every walk of life, every ethnicity, every color, every creed, every race, every religion and beyond.

These great people are my friends, fellow American music lovers, and the very heartbeat of this great country.
We celebrate my incredible band and our powerful soundtrack to the American Dream of being the best that you can, a rule of life we all adhere to. We maximize the immeasurable good that still abounds in our wonderful lives, while also facing the inevitable bad and ugly that is so painfully prevalent today, most painfully in a runaway corrupt, power-abusing, criminal government gone mad and a vicious, hateful media blindly supporting them.

All these fine people I meet with in every city across the country are aghast at the vulgar dishonesty of a media that has plummeted into the soulless abyss of hurling the hateful accusation of “racism” at me and anybody they disagree with.
These good people know me well, and know I am the antithesis of a racist. My black bass player and my Mexican bass player would be the first to stand up for me. They know how the media and all the haters lie like dogs and resort to the now meaningless accusation of racism. Very, very sad.

We are most offended that the president of the United States and the U.S. attorney general are clearly guilty of racism when they intentionally bring race to the fore when they make public judgments based on the color of someone’s skin instead of the content of their character in total defiance of the findings of the FBI, Department of Justice, entire state’s investigative resources and a jury verdict.

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