Dillon Carmichael

The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital patients Dillon Carmichael has met will always stick with him.

This 4-day retreat was BEYOND epic!

“I grew up on Lynyrd Skynyrd. I grew up on Southern rock and there’s that part of me that I wasn’t getting in my live show.”

“The new music, the most contemporary it would get is ‘90s country,” he says with a slow, middle-Kentucky drawl.

The legend lives on 30 years after his death.

They sound great together!

He says it's one of his personal favorites.

New year, new music.

The best country albums of any given year are situational.

Who's got your vote in 2018?

They told him he'd have to pay his dues, and he did. He has. He is.

The gritty performance calls to mind some classic country greats.