Imagine for a second you're a master chef, like a total purist. And you finally win your absolute biggest award. But you get it for microwaving a hot dog. Oh man, that would be soul crushing.

He became the house band for a local Beaumont club called Cutters. Talk about building vocal stamina. And starting when Mark was just 17, his dad began driving him back and forth to Nashville, just knocking on doors, trying to get him to record on small regional labels. And they did that for a decade, right.

• Systematically destroying the very thing that made him valuable in the first place
• He gets his very first Billboard Hot Country number ones, Brother Jukebox, and they'll think of something
• They create a vacuum, leaving the Aerosmith cover as the only viable option for his career
• The biggest hit of his career ...