Although success has carried country singer/songwriter Billy Currington far away from his beloved hometown of Rincon, Georgia, he remains the same simple man who was indelibly shaped by his upbringing in this small Southern town with a population of 4,376.

Currington burst onto the music scene in 2003 with his eponymous debut CD, which contained the powerful Top 10 hit "Walk a Little Straighter" and the fun Top 5 smash "I Got a Feelin'," which was accompanied by the memorable video co-starring Baywatch beauty Gena Lee Nolin.

When superstar Shania Twain heard Currington's soulful Southern voice, she knew she had found the perfect partner for the country duet "Party for Two," so Currington excitedly boarded a plane for Europe to work in the studio with Twain and legendary producer Robert "Mutt" Lange. Currington and Twain performed the song live on the 2004 Country Music Association Awards and a special Good Morning America show from Nashville.

Currington co-wrote four songs on Doin' Somethin' Right – "Why, Why, Why," "Here I Am," "Whole Lot More" and "She's Got A Way With Me," which he wrote with Michael McDonald at his Franklin home. "The Michael McDonald experience has been my favorite yet," Currington says. "Having the opportunity to share whatever it was – the studio in his house where we recorded the demo, the small room we wrote it in, the conversations on the phone, the invitations to hang out together – all of those things are my favorite experiences of this year."

Currington began writing songs as a teenager and began playing guitar at age 17. "I still have my first guitar and the receipt for it," he says. "I bought it at a pawn shop in Savannah, Georgia, for about $120."

While he was a high school junior, he attended church with a friend and was overwhelmed by the church's blend of gospel and country. When he complimented the preacher on the music, the preacher invited him back to sing the next Sunday. Blown away by Currington's burgeoning talents as the two spent more time together, the preacher personally drove Currington to Nashville to audition for the Opryland USA theme park. Although he didn't get hired, the trip proved life changing because Currington suddenly knew his destiny after graduation: he was going to move to Nashville and become a country singer/songwriter.

His music captures the lives of hard-working people who often live off the beaten path. The only luxury they can afford perhaps is time, so they relish the few moments they have off the clock, when their time is finally their own. Sometimes it's the thought of Saturday night that gets them through an exhausting week, so when the weekend rolls around, it's time to forget their troubles and celebrate.

Doin' Somethin' Right contains such crowd-pleasers as the up-tempo rocking "She Knows What To Do With A Saturday Night" and "Hillbilly," a romping, three-chord country song that salutes the backwoods way of life. "It's a part of me," he says. "It says, ‘I wanna be a hillbilly,' not, ‘I am a hillbilly.' I've got so many songs to sing and things I want to say. It spans from love songs to my hillbilly side."