Farr grew up in Garden City, Missouri, a cattle farming community with no stop lights and no more than 1,000 residents. The turning point for him in music was when his mom married Dwayne Phillips, George Jones' lead guitar player.

"He asked me to go out for the summer with him on the road and spend a couple weeks out there. It pretty much changed my whole train of thought," he told Radio.com. "Seeing a legend like George Jones singing the songs he did and singing them the way he sang with passion, and telling the stories the way he did�I remember getting goosebumps and that was it for me."

After attending Missouri State University for two years on a vocal performance scholarship he decided Nashville was the place he had to be. So, he packed up the car, told his parents he was moving and started working at Tootsies where he flipped burgers and did "pretty much whatever they asked me to do," he said. "I was broke, needed money. I got up one night to sing and that turned into four, five nights a week."

But after a year-and-a-half stint singing cover songs for tourists he realized something was missing. While he loved performing and entertaining, he wanted people to hear his original songs. "I want to be a stylist," he said. "I want people to turn on the radio and hear it and go, 'Oh, that's Tyler Farr.'"

Unsure of his next step, he moved back to Missouri to figure out a plan B and after two months he got the itch to go back to Nashville, but realized things had to be different this time around. "I didn't want to go back to the bar scene, I wanted to be on the radio," Farr said. "That's when Rhett Akins called me and asked if we could work together and would I move to Nashville." A week later he landed a songwriting deal and had his songs cut by Colt Ford and Joe Nichols.

While Farr's first two singles "Hot Mess" and "Hello Goodbye" put him on the map, it's his current single and first No. 1 hit "Redneck Crazy" that introduced him to the country world in a big way. But, the first time he heard the title of the song he wasn't convinced it was for him.

"The first time I saw the title I was like, 'Okay here we go. It's another redneck song. I've heard it a million times,'" Farr explained. "The lady that pitched me the song said, 'No. You need to listen to this. It's different.'"