When Jimmie Allen first began writing his song “Freedom was a Highway,” with co-writers Ash Bowers and Matt Rogers, he dove back into his memory of driving around the streets of his hometown. A Milton ...

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When Jimmie Allen began cutting his teeth as a country singer, he could only afford to pay his band $25 a show. "[We were playing] trash holes, basements, random bars where nobody cares," Allen told ...