VIDEO – AND HAVING A BALL –
Oct. 17, 2025 – “I never was a big drinker, but when I did drink, I was just a total jerk,” he explained. “I always told people I’ve been mistaken as someone, a kid that was a bit cocky and had this like, arrogance about him. But it wasn’t. It was my insecurities, man. It was my insecurities and wanting people to believe I was good enough to be here.” Country music is full of drinking songs. They could be for any mood: drown your sorrows with Merle Haggard’s “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink” or party until sunrise with Eric Church’s “Drink In My Hand.” But for one modern country star, the closest he’ll get to a drink is in song.
“I never thought I would be where I am as a mature father, sober after four years—it changed my world,” said Jake Owen during a recent appearance on the Big D and Bubba radio show. Owen, 44, arrived on the country music scene in the mid-2000s, topping the charts for the first time with “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” in 2011.
