Frankie Ballard Lights Up the Road

Frankie Ballard may sing about bad times making the good times better on his Number One smash "Helluva Life," but the classic rock-inspired country shredder has nothing but a gilded road ahead of him: his first headlining run, that is.

"You go through life and you have these goals and ambitions… and that's all that you see," Ballard told Rolling Stone Country on the ethos behind the hit song — and his life. "But then thirty years have gone by, and maybe you've achieved them or maybe you didn't. That's not life. It's the every day, trying to get there. It's......