“We were trying [to get pregnant] for probably a year,” Houser, 46, tells PEOPLE mere days before the release of his new song “Workin' Man.” “And just about the time we had decided to quit trying, that’s when it happened.”
“She’s been actually feeling really good,” Hauser says of wife Tatiana, who recently spent a month with 3-year-old Huckleberry in Australia, her first trip home since Covid-19 shut down travels around the world. “She’s basically had no nausea or any of that stuff yet.”
And considering that Tatiana, 28, is well into that sweet second trimester of her pregnancy, Houser says he hopes any possibility of sickness is in their rear-view mirror.
“She had a little bit of [morning sickness], but nothing like the first time,” says Houser.
“I’m just not a quitter,” says Houser, whose sixth studio albumNote to Selfis set for release Nov. 11. “This career is not something I just decided to do and try out. This is what I do. It’s feast or famine, and it’s always been that way. It doesn’t scare me not to be the popular kid on the block. I just go and do my thing. I tour and I make a living for my family, and I love playing music live and I love creating music, and I love recording music.”
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The Mississippi native lets out a mighty laugh.
“I’m always going to pop my head back up,” he continues. “My 15 minutes are going to be every few years. I call it my recovery time” He pauses before declaring, “Don’t look for me toevergo away.”
And while Houser seems to thrive on the possibilities that his country music career looks to offer him in the future, the hitmaker currently has his attention solely on the upcoming release of his new albumNote to Self, his first since 2019’s critically acclaimedMagnolia.
“I’m over trying to chase anything just for commercial success,” Houser says, his voice growing deeper with every word. “I want to make music that I love and that is true to me.”
Created solely in the home studio he built for himself in his basement during the pandemic, Houser says that there is no denying thatNote to Selfis a country record at its core, leaning heavily on pedal steel and his increasingly strong convictions.
“I’m not reaching for anything on this one,” says Houser, who is currently out on the road with artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd,Cody JohnsonandTravis Tritt. “I’m just making the music I grew up on.”
That truth makes up the backbone of his new album, which includes a song he wrote for Tatiana called “Still That Cowboy” and the song he wrote for himself called “Note to Self.” The album’s gem of a final track, “Remember How to Pray,” also serves up Houser at his most authentic. But then there is “Call Me,” which has been somewhat of a thorn in Houser’s side for many years now.
“I’ve tried to record that song three different ways,” he says of the song he wrote alongside Paul Overstreet and Andrew Albert. “Every time I was trying to cut it, whoever I was trying to cut it with would try to turn it into aTom Pettysong. And while I love Tom Petty, I kept hearing a different way. But after some late nights, I think I got it right.”
source: people.com
