Tim DuBois

So I got offered a job managing the A&R department of a subsidiary of Universal called Universal South.

And it was Tim Dubois and Tony Braun were running it.

And I've known Tony my whole life.

And he asked me to come work for him there.

Yeah.

And he used to say this thing that Tim DuBois used to say.

He said, "The harder you work, the luckier you get."

Yeah.

It also peaked at number 15 on the Hot 100, giving their band their biggest crossover hit.

Songwriter Tim DuBois found inspiration for the hit when he heard a news report about a person being found guilty of murder in the first degree.

While the band had no complaints about their crossover success, they weren't chasing it.

We're country first and crossover second, Teddy Gentry said in an interview with Billboard.

If crossovers come, that's great.

We would rather have a number one country record than get lost in the middle of the pop chart.

According to Classic Country Music Stories, Tim DuBois was on his way to to a writing session at House of Gold.

During his commute, he heard a news story about a defendant being found guilty of murder in the first degree.

There was a couple of people that I wrote a song that Glenn Campbell, one of your friends that I met in your studio, recorded called Unconditional Love.

Randy Sharp, Tim Dubois, and Donnie Lowry.

That was a three-way.

That's the only one I can think of right now.

30,000 students.

He calls me into his office and he goes hey i just want you to know like we take country music very seriously here like we have a rich history of you know garth brooks uh tim dubois scott hendrix like they're and they were all in the business school at oklahoma state ironically and um he's like i i i see your transcripts and like we know you're touring like grades been slipping a little bit and i'm like yeah i'm leaving on thursdays and i'm not there i'm

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even get the attendance points.