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Aaron Watson has had a rather anarchistic career in country music. Hailing from Texas and growing up arena in the clubs and confined frequented by the Texas country music community, the accompanist may accept been a big brilliant in the Lone Brilliant accompaniment — but in Nashville things accept been a little bit different.

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“I’ve had every characterization in Nashville acquaint me that I’m not acceptable enough,” the ancestor of three, 39, tells PEOPLE, but conceivably it’s Watson who’s accepting the aftermost beam now. Two years ago, the “Outta Style” accompanist appear his 12th album, The Underdog, and fabricated history actuality the aboriginal abandoned macho artisan to cocky absolution an anthology that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard top country albums chart.

Now, with his 13th anthology Vaquero out, he’s not captivation a animosity adjoin Music Row, but application his adventures angry his way to the top to set an archetype for his three children: sons Jake 10, and Jack 9, and babe Jolee Kate 7.

One attending at Watson’s Instagram annual and it’s bright that while he may be on the alley arena 125 shows a year, it’s his kids and wife Kim who command the best adulation and absorption in his life. Back he’s not on stage, soccer games, ballet acquaint and piano recitals absorb his time — that’s absolutely how Watson brand it.

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While Jolee Kate has two big brothers to attending up to, Watson is determined about authoritative abiding she knows that no amount what anyone says, girls can do annihilation boys can. He uses his adventures actuality angry bottomward by Nashville music admiral to affect aloft the accent of application and adamantine work. “I say, ‘Listen, every characterization in that boondocks has told me that I didn’t accept what it took, so what did your amoroso do? I got out there, I formed adamantine and I becoming it, night afterwards night, fan afterwards fan. And you apperceive what? Fifteen years later, we fabricated history by accepting the No. 1 almanac on country Billboard,” he says.

Frequently allurement Jolee what she wants to be back she grows up — “at the moment a babyish beastly doctor, but she alone wants to accord with babyish animals and they accept to be cute. We’re alive on that!” — Watson makes abiding she accomplished that “if you appetite that, again you gotta be accommodating to assignment hard.”

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“Having a little babe is apparently the greatest allowance that could appear to a man because it makes him attending at both abandon of the coin,” Watson explains. “I’m beholden for that — it’s afflicted how I’ve accounting songs.”

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Both a songwriter and performer, Watson wrote the appellation song “The Underdog” from his aftermost anthology for his boys Jake and Jack. But that didn’t sit able-bodied with Jolee Kate — and he paid the price. “When Jolee Kate begin out her brothers got a song on the aftermost record, she was hot — I had to affiance her that on the abutting album, she would get her own song.

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And she did. “For a year and a bisected I formed on this song — ‘Diamond & Daughters,'” Watson tells PEOPLE. “I wanted to be able to acquaint Jolee that her song is the aftermost clue because I adored the actual best song for last.”

Vaquero is accessible now on iTunes and Spotify.

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