I Like It Down Here on Soundly Music, deals a lot with his home region, the South, and his roots there: the place where he knew the shortcuts to get to every gig, where he'd had a great upbringing in Lower Alabama with a close family, where he first caught on as a guitar-blazing 16-year-old pop-rock wunderkind, where the last public lynching was in 1981, and where Confederate flags fly from homes not infrequently to this day.