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New Year's Day marked the one-year anniversary of Jimmy Wayne's start from Monroe Harding youth home in Nashville, Tenn. heading on foot toward Phoenix, Ariz. for his project Meet Me Halfway solo-walk across America, raising awareness for teen homelessness. To commemorate the anniversary, The Boot sat down with the singer at the youth facility, only this time to discuss how far he's come in a year.
"I was thinking about it when I was driving here today," Jimmy tells The Boot. "The first thing I thought about was my body feels like I've walked already today. [laughs] You can't walk seven months straight and that not have some type of effect on your body. It breaks you down physically. It's taken a while for me to re-coop. My foot still hurts [after breaking it in Arizona]. I wanted to walk a little bit today, but I got to thinking about it, and I thought the walk was to raise awareness for the campaign. If I walked today, it's to raise awareness for the fact that I walked, which is not the reason to walk.
"Today, I don't feel the same way I did last year at this time," he continues. "I don't feel like walking across America. I just don't. But last year, there was something that happened -- not that I'm burned out or anything -- it was a time in my life. What I try to get people to understand is it was during a time when I would have been sitting in Nashville writing songs. It wasn't like I was sacrificing shows or I was giving up gigs or anything. I was going to be sitting here anyways. I'm one of those people I can chew gum and walk at the same time. I was like if I walk, I can write, and I can possibly come up with a song idea. Why not do it? It made perfect sense. I wasn't putting myself out in any way. I was just raising awareness."
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