Jake Owen Finally Gets Real

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Jake Owen is one of the architects of bro country, churning out radio smashes like “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” and “The One That Got Away.” But on his new album of outlaw country songs, he buries his bro persona. In a shockingly emotional interview on Nashville Now, Owen talks about his big musical risk and how he ended up working with producer Shooter Jennings on the new album Dreams to Dream. It’s a vulnerable interview that shows a major country star letting down his guard, and it’s only on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.0	Welcome to Rolling Stones Nashville Now.
1:24.2	It is a new episode here at the Nashville Now cabin.
1:27.4	I am Joseph Hudak, your host, senior music editor at Rolling Stone.
1:31.9	Country is here. Nashville is now.
1:34.5	We have Jake Owen as our guest today.
1:37.7	Jake Owen and I have been talking to each other and doing interviews for many, many, many years.
1:44.3	I distinctly recall meeting him in a place called Roteers in Nashville about 12 years ago
1:49.3	to talk about his album then that he was putting out and how much he wanted to kind of like
1:56.9	show off his classic country knowledge.
1:59.2	You know, Jake has always kind of been looped in,
2:03.2	lumped in, I guess, with the bro country movement, because he had some songs like
2:07.9	Barefoot Blue Gene Knight, one that got away, most recently down to the honky tonk.
2:12.9	These are songs that were radio hits, and they made him very popular on country radio but when you talk to
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