Adam Hood.Photo: Robert Millage
Adam Hoodnever assumed he would play the Grand Ole Opry.
“I mean, it’s always your dream,” explains Hood, 47, during an interview with PEOPLE. “It’s always what you want to do. For anybody that’s an artist or a writer or anything that’s in that realm, it’s definitely the pinnacle. I just didn’t know that it was in our scope.”
Actually, the acclaimed singer/songwriter still can’t believe it.
“I think I am still processing it,” he explains of his Opry debut last month. “I honestly thought it would be a little bit more chaotic than it was. It was a pretty well-oiled machine! I mean, I was as nervous as you would’ve expected me to be, but after the sound check, I really relaxed.”
His composure continued through his two-song set in which Hood performed two original songs - “Way Too Long” off his 2014 albumWelcome to the Big Worldand “Harder Stuff” off his latest record,Bad Days Better.
Adam Hood.Robert Millage
“I tried to pick out the songs that had the least amount of cuss words in them,” he laughs of the special night that had him playing on the same night as Opry membersDarius Rucker, Bill Anderson,Jeannie Seely,Lauren AlainaandDustin Lynch. “I had to watch myself.”
“I’ve seen Little Big Town do ‘Front Porch Thing’ onstage at the Opry,” Hood remarks of the song he co-wrote alongsideChris Stapletonfor the group’s platinum album,Tornado.
But these days and at this point in his career, Hood says he is enjoying keeping some more songs to himself, some of which have now found their way to his new albumBad Days Better, which peaked in the top 10 on the Americana albums chart.
“You can have so many expectations for what you want the record to be going into it, but then it’s always fascinating me what the record turns into as opposed to how it starts,” Hood says of his fifth studio album released in September. “But I just think we went deeper with this record.”
Collaborating once again with producer extraordinaire Brent Cobb, Hood eventually nailed the album concept down to just what he does best.
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He draws in a deep breath.
“I’m not trying to tell you how you feel,” the father of three continues. “You are allowed to interpret this however you want to, but here’s howI’msaying it. That’s the beauty of being a songwriter.”
source: people.com
