Gary Allan photo courtesy of Universal Music Group Nashville.
November 30, 2007 — Gary Allan, whose new album, Living Hard, was released last month, keeps a relatively low profile. You don't often read about him in celebrity magazines or spot him on red carpets.
"That is me not liking to do interviews," he explains to The Tennessean. "I think everything in this industry works against you as an artist. I am introverted and in a business that forces me to be extroverted. I've avoided a lot of stuff. My management would disagree with me, but I think it gives more mystique to you. If people don't have complete access to you, they have to wonder more."
Gary is currently opening for Keith Urban on his Love, Pain and the whole crazy thing tour, and he has nothing but praise for the Australian headliner.
"He is a class act," says Gary of Keith. "We've gotten along so well. It's the best tour I've been on, just as far as how I've been treated. There are no insecurities — 'Hey, don't use this stuff of mine.' He is letting us do whatever we want."
Gary wraps up the tour on December 16 and is scheduled to make his first appearance the next night on The Late Show with David Letterman. "This is one of those great big things, like Madison Square Garden, that you've had on your list," he says. "Outside of that, it would be Saturday Night Live, and then I would have completed my list. I can quit."
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