Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. Today we visit with country music phenomenon Aaron Watson.

Aaron grew up in Amarillo, Texas and started chasing his dream of becoming a country singer-songwriter while still in college.

Through perseverance, a work ethic instilled in him by his father and the grace of God, Aaron has seen his career come to life over the last

18 years and is celebrating the release of his latest record, Viqueiro.

Aaron shares about the struggles of life and making it in the music world and how his family

and his faith have always been the support he has leaned on.

I'm Aaron Watson. My first job is being a dad to Jake, Jack, and Julie Kate. I grew up in Amarillo, Texas. My dad is 100%

disabled from serving our country during the Vietnam War. My mom's a school teacher.

My dad is my hero. He's dealt with so much because of his disabilities.

I would have to say that I am who I am because of dad,

the example that he said. I mean, mom and dad's marriage was not perfect, far

from perfect, but always persistent.

And we would have our big fights.

You know what, it would always end with us hugging each other and crying

and making up and moving forward.

I think one thing that I always go back to and I've told

the story a million times was I was around 12 and my dad had a cleaning business and he also cleaned our church. My dad was a

custodian and not not the most glorious job and one summer all my buddies were going swimming and I really

wanted to go swimming with them. And my dad said I really need you to help me

today. We got a lot of work to do and I'm pretty sure that I complained

every second of that day and we were in a bathroom in a men's bathroom and I had on the yellow gloves and I was down on my knees and I was

scrubbing this toilet and my dad was in the stall next to me and he was cleaning

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