"When I first moved to town, some people said, 'What do you know about country music? You're from a beach town and you played golf in college. What, do you just want to be country all of a sudden?'" Owen told the website. "In a way, it pissed me off. But it also made me try to cover up the fact that I was from Florida."

He added that this resistance forced him to sing songs that helped justify that he could sing country songs like early singles "Yee Haw" and "Eight Second Ride."