Jason Aldean opens up in another meeting about the effect his dad, Barry, had on his decision to turn into a nation vocalist.

Conversing with the PBS program Breaking Enormous, Aldean reviews how his dad and uncle used to sit in the parlor and sing melodies from country greats including Merle Fatigued and George Jones.

“Really, I started wanting to sing just so I could sit in the room with those guys,” the star recalls in the video above, which he posted to Facebook.

After Aldean’s folks separated, his mom, Debbie, brought him up in Macon, Ga., while his dad moved to Florida. His father got him a modest guitar with the commitment that assuming he figured out how to play, he’d get him a decent guitar as a prize, yet youthful Jason was more inspired by baseball by then. It was only after he enjoyed the late spring with his father in Florida that he truly got the instrument. Left with a lot of time to burn while his dad was working during the day, Aldean went through hours playing guitar.

“I really didn’t have anything else to do,” he recalls. “So I started trying to learn songs, and you look up and you’ve been doing it for five or six hours straight. A couple of months later I was teaching him stuff, and so true to his word, he bought me a nice guitar.”

Aldean started playing in open when he was 14, and by his late teenagers he was contending in and winning ability shows in Georgia. That prompted quite a while of bar gigs that carried him to the consideration of his long-term maker, Michael Knox, who met the hopeful vocalist at a show and promised to carry him to Nashville. However it would require a few additional years and more than one bombed record bargain before Aldean hit it enormous with the arrival of his presentation single, “Hicktown,” in 2005, he was well coming.

The hotshot presently plays arenas as one of the greatest visiting acts across all types, and he expresses one of the best delights of succeeding so well is doing right by his folks.

“I look around now, and believe me, I’m very aware of how fortunate I am,” he reflects. “It’s cool, because I’ve been able to pay back my parents for helping me out all those years, and kinda giving me a kick in the butt when I needed it.”