Steven Tyler on Going Country, 'Idol' and the Future of Aerosmith (Rolling Stone)

As a child spending his summers in New Hampshire, Steven Tyler would run a 50-foot wire from the back of his radio to the top of an apple tree in order to pick up WOWO, a Fort Wayne, Indiana, station that would play some of his favorite country songs. "I'd listen to things like Johnny Horton's 'The Battle of New Orleans,' " Tyler says. "I loved the Everly Brothers, Duane Eddy, Jerry Lee Lewis." More than half a century later, Tyler is connecting with his childhood love by cutting a country album in Nashville.

Read more of Andy Greene's interview with Steven Tyler @ Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steven-tyler-on-going-country-idol-and-the-future-of-aerosmith-20150612#ixzz3csWLtdsR