Jake Owen Reflects on Changes That Have Come With Being a Husband and a Father

It wasn't that long ago that Jake Owen was a single man on the rise in the country music industry. These days, he's at the top of his game and has a beautiful wife and a precious baby girl to share it with. Continue On for some exclusive insights from Jake about how fatherhood has changed him.

It wasn't that long ago that Jake Owen was a single man on the rise in the country music industry. These days, he's at the top of his game and has a beautiful wife and a precious baby girl to share it with. 

Owen and his wife Lacey became first-time parents in 2012 when their daughter, Olive Pearl, was born. The whirlwind of his career now has a sense of balance with the two loves of his life by his side night after night as he criss-crosses the country on some of the most high-profile tours in country music. 

"The coolest part for me is I'm at a point in my life and in my career where it's really starting to blossom and it's starting to grow," Owen tells Roughstock. "I feel fortunate that things in life tend to work out in the times that they do ... the whole thought of things happening for a reason. I look back, maybe four or five years ago, and if I was married and had a child, it would be a lot harder than it is right now. Thankfully, the way that things are going, my daughter is able to grow up and ride a bus that I am able to ride on my own with my wife. She can come out to all the shows. Every night, I used to sit there and look out at the front of the stage, thinking how pretty those girls were in the front row. Now I look side stage by my monitor console, and I see the two prettiest girls in the crowd. That's kind of where my life's gone [laughs]! But I'm comfortable with that. It's pretty consistent."

As Olive approaches turning a year old (November 22), the proud father says every day his little girl is changing before his eyes. "She is quickly growing," he beams. "Her demeanor and personality are becoming more and more evident. I see a lot of my wife in her every day. I see a lot of me in her every day with the faces she makes and everything."

Owen and his new family head back out on the road this weekend where he will continue opening shows for Jason Aldean's Night Train Tour. Visit www.jakeowen.net for a full list of dates where he will be performing throughout the remainder of the year.

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