Trent Tomlinson - That's How It Still Oughta Be (Official) New Single Slideshow

"That's How It Still Oughta Be" is the first single from Trent Tomlinson's upcoming album"A Guy Like Me." Check out www.myspace.com/trenttomlinson for more info; and while you're there, pick up your own "A Guy Like Me" countdown widget to put on your MySpace page, Facebook profile, blog, or wherever else you'd like.

[@candiechick77]

im 14. and i was raised like this. if you disrespect your elders or talk back to your mama and your daddy. your gonna be set straight. its yes ma'am and yes sir. you shake hands. if not its just disrespectful. you do what you told even if you dont want to. you work hard for what you have and be greatful for it. you say grace before you eat. family is everythin, and you know you loved. i truly believe this is how it still oughta be comin from a 14 year old..

[@zach4627]

Now you’re 26…

[@chm1856]

I like this song and was raised by a man who was older, that taught me the things you sing about...Its to bad this will never be on CMT this is the way life should still be, GREAT SONG. It hits home to alot of country raised gal's and guy's.

[@StephsMusicChannel35]

I wish I could grow up back then. I pray for the people that actually love the world we live in today.

[@heatherthomason1268]

Why has this guy not won an award yet?

[@Scooter730]

One of the best songs for everyone to hear. Trent is the real deal. Without question one of the best live performers I have ever seen. Thank you for the great music sir!!

[@NiMari.]

Love Trent's voice and the way he puts his heart and soul into each song. Such an underrated artist who deserves recognition and playtime.

[@wynterrose8498]

I heard this yesterday on the radio!! love this song. I love this guy! I hope they keep playing this for a long time.

[@redneckpax]

often ill see an older fella with a veteran hat on, ill approach him, shake his hand and thank him, im no saint of course but i think if we all make an effort, it makes the world a better place, i do wish tho that my wife and me lived in the country, gotta love the freedom n safety.... heaven on earth

[@warmachine8006]

I'm 17 and this song really hit home for me. This is how I was raised but most of the people I talk to my age don't live like this. Great song.

[@folkflying2]

Today 08/07/22 we need this more than ever!

[@violetmiller9999]

The more songs I check out from this guy the more I love him!

[@AKeryluk]

this song is so true, why is it you dont hear much about trent? all of his songs are great and true to life and 100% country, i dont think he has half the credit and fame he deserves

[@flintstone7771]

I met Trent about 6 years ago down in the Bahamas. He was such a nice guy. Humble too. I wish he had more exposure. This man is just as good if not better than some of the more popular artists. As I said when we met Trent,"Best of luck on your career. God Bless."

[@lovedbyhisgrace]

WOW!!! Man I wish it was still like that for everyone .... Powerful lyrics and incredible music!

[@chasityisabella-recce2273]

Wow, now look in 2021. Times are getting worse. Perfect song. Still listening to you Trent from day one I have. Keep rocking. ❤

[@genekinnick2174]

I relate to this song, because it is how it used to be. You grew up knowing the difference between right and wrong and paid a certain price for not learning it, with respect and a good sense of responsibility and self-accomplishment. Neighbors were more like family, not just "the people next door," and we counted on each other in a lot of different ways, even when we never asked if we could help. We just did. Where I live, it's still like that in ways. Our community watches out for and takes care of each other, but for many it sadly isn't that way. Thanks Trent. Great reminder.

[@reverseoreo08]

Try living in South Florida.. I don't think it was EVER like that.. bunch a rude ass people who wouldn't even piss on ya if you was on fire! I been here 6 years and I hate it more and more everyday!

[@0908jj]

ALABAMA RTR You ain't lying about that. I just moved back to America in Sarasota after 30 years in Miami. That place changes who you are. Very sad.

[@reverseoreo08]

Yep.. Lots of nice places in Florida but sadly they're dying out everyday :/

[@davidstanton4150]

I wish country was still this. I love trent and wish they would play it on the radio! More people need to hear music like this instead of today's "country" music

[@TomsRoadVideo]

Trent, you nailed it with this song......Strong song and powerful delivery......It really hits home. I worked in country radio for 45 years and have never heard better.......Well worth the listen and a like.....

[@Bunton20]

Still one of the best songs by one of the most under appreciated artists of all time!

[@loganmj3]

Agreed with this 110% !!! Its your southern ways and thats how it was and thats how I will teach my ways to my kids!!

[@burkegann8572]

Amen this song should be live on radio

[@michaelpoupart1680]

Man your gift with lyrics, being true to life, you are truly a blessed man.

[@ariayanasa]

amazing and a lot of us "older" people feel this way

[@Slicersbaby08]

This song is so true. When I was little all this was true. I wish it still was this way. When everybody knew everyone and you didn't have to worry about kids getting taking. I love the words to this song. Now a days in some places this is nowhere near this.

[@NASCARGUY51139]

You know, that's one thing i love about living in a small town. We have less than 2500 people. Everybody knows everybody. There is that small town feel. When you walk into the local diner, farmers are wearing green with their shit-kickers, old men bicker about who's the better quarterback, everyone has their own coffee cup behind the counter and when you walk in you walk behind the counter and pour yourself a cup of coffee... Long live good morales

[@mollydennis8]

its still like that in my house and my town in south GA but in other places it should still be like that because its the best way to live

[@muley08]

I just recently heard Trent immediately fell in love with his old style country thank you Trent.

[@jkadcock]

im 14. this is the way it is for every1 i know and me to..if u talked back u got hit where ever it landed and im cane swiched raised and i still fill completely safe.. where i come from aint no 1 gonna bring a weapon to a fight and we all agreel that is how it still ought to be but at least that's how it is in the SOUTH!! IM PROUD OF BEING COUNTRY AND THE MORALES WE GOT

[@jamiehiatt7158]

I agree 💯 that's how it should be, cause it was the way I was raised ,that was life at it's best !

[@pintsize4life]

his face is haunting..looks like hes been thru alot, great song!

[@jmeleeCombs]

Still listen to the first album daily, keep rocking on, don't give up cause you and your music is needed by us fans. :D

[@charmedcountry13]

i love you trent no matter what anyone else thinks.

[@Sephiroth330]

Hey Trent, Awesome song, with naught a word wrong. Everything's gone so complicated, so chaotic, so... untrusting. Way to hit many heart's home--those whom miss the easier years.

[@rednekdave59]

Well let just start by sayin that im 52 and this song reflects how it was back then and im pissed at the kids of today thinkin that they're lives are so miserable and the lack of dicipline and respect for the older folk in this country!, but the blame cant be put completely on them cause the parents didnt raise them the way we were!!

[@TalleDarren]

wow this is an amazing song...Just heard it on winamp and fell in love...:)

[@Combatbootlove21]

I'm Being raised like this. And I love it, because i watch the news and i see that this 22 year old just shot a congress woman, and it's freaking sad! because even though i'm only 13, I see how the world is really going to hell! so i am going to hang onto these days as long as i can!

[@3Xs77brokenangel]

Not only is he speakn the dang truth but, have mercy he's beautiful for a man!

[@robbidude]

This is an amazing song and the message is so true and it really hit home with me and touched me very much.... Thank you for seeing things that way and for putting it into a song!!! Very awesome indeed and I should know because I produce music for a living....

[@texannaanna1968]

Each verse is so true. Love his voice! Where is he now? Why isn't the radio playing his songs?

[@sevenletter6960]

Because other artist's record companies pay more money to have their artists on the radio. This why music is bad on the radio. People are told what is good and they think it is good. They don't know what is good for them.

[@texannaanna1968]

Thank you for sending Trents song. I hope I can find his CD.

[@texannaanna1968]

So very true. We as parents give our kids money and they are the ones buying the cds. So they set the pace. I used to take vacation to get to be home and watched the country awards show. Now I don't even take the time to watch. Treat has that unique voice and sings much better than most of the fluff do. I would think the country artists would band together and come up with there on stations and come up with new real country music. Don't get me wrong I love the old songs but we all have them and there's just so much Wayland and Willy one can stand. I am glad Willy saved a lot of the older songs from being destroyed but the stations don't play Mel Street, Gary Stewart, or Vern Gosdin very much. Miss their music!

[@texannaanna1968]

T rent has that unique voice. What is he doing nowdays?

[@JOHNNYV8JPV8]

They are out there easy to find. I think i have them all. Like I had Garth all of them, then Garth let me DOWN! Yes he's super. Please don't let me down.

[@davidh9547]

God bless you for staying true to country music you may truly be one of the last of the legends. Waylon, Willie, hank, and Merle are proud as they could be. Bless you sir for producing the music that you do, and your songwriting.

[@getoutdoorstoday]

You are a great singer and story teller.Luv u Trent

[@williamc.1198]

I can relate to this as I was raised in the 50's and 60's. Life was slower and was in many, many ways a better time.

[@4ever2bestfriends]

i love this song. i love Trent Tomlinson. hes a very good singer.

[@Awakened133]

Great song Trent! ! You gotta keep cranking em out dude!!!! Haven't heard a tune of urs yet that I don't like!!!

[@leightonhudson51]

a lot of us need to go back to these things

[@gulleycharlene]

thanks trent for the awesome video everything you said is true.

[@loverofmusic1968]

agree not enough air time on the radio!!greast song, i grew up in a small town just like this song! i was a very lucky kid! times are so different now-its sad.

[@Stilettocowgirl]

Love you Trent!!! Saw you in Bakersfield, California a few years ago... was so much fun!! You are awesome!! Come back soon please?!

[@jamesshirrell3677]

I remember life like this song this world is so messed up we need more god in it praise the lord

[@Blueeyesshining81]

If mama's n daddys would still raise their children like this then america would be in much better shape!

[@charmedcountry13]

omg i just saw him last night and he was awesome! i love him!

[@MrSargebenusaf]

We raise out two children just like this. Just like we were raised. What has happened to this world!!!!

[@TheMexineck69]

Crying everynight is hard on ur heart when I listen to angels like her jus hit the spot

[@bpolice20]

Love the song, Its so true

[@dandeady6280]

It was Relevant 14 years ago, and DEFINITELY even More Today

[@Crystal1358]

Great song...definately all true. Fantastic work for your first single!

[@senseijuan3230]

I was raised with the Bible, Great Spirit and ass whipping when needed. I was taught to say yes sir, thank you, and to give my seat to a lady. I am a better man because of it.

[@vanessaseal5816]

When I heard your earlier music my first thought was your style is like unfiltered menthol cigarettes ,now I listen to your song about innocent life was, my life. Good bad ugly we need you beautiful.

[@joshdewitt5451]

I couldn't agree more that's how it still oughta be

[@kilop202085972020]

my bothers and me got the same story and all four of us are good members of society, never in jail, and doing great raising kids the same way we were raised

[@daredevil6093]

trent tomlinson for president!!!!!

[@justinmyslive4108]

truer words have never been spoken

[@SingleTree57]

hell yea!

[@Lelamaemusic]

i'm just a kid, but i'll tell you what when i have kids myself this will e them!!!

[@MchsFox25]

Im from Alabama and proud of it.

[@McloggingInc]

i love my backwoods logging town of 1200 in the mud season loggers leave though and the populatoin drops to about 400 and in the winter were lucky to have 700 its really sad what happened to the United States over the past 15 or 20 years thats why i will never leave the few and widly spread small towns of America

[@SouthernPride67]

Im a 15 year old.This is what i live by. Thats how it was, Thats how it still outta be

[@nccamokid]

i am one of those kids goin back to this kinda thinkin. raised by a single mother in a small town in pa. ive always been kinda half country half city and the city part of me seems to be dyin. i want my kids to have a dad, and property. i want em to grow up huntin fishin ridin quads and fixin motors out where there safe and happy. the way my grandad grew up

[@wildman0615]

blueeyes ur absolutely right

[@barbaraswingle5114]

love this kind of country music keep it up the good fight trent

[@kyra6892009]

I may be in my teens but i was raised this way mostly not with a dad an mother but with my mamaw papaw an moma im raised like them ole southern ways... An im proud of it

[@countryismyrock0]

yes thats the way us COUNTRY FOLKS LIKE IT...

[@daredevil6093]

some one should forward this video to DC,,trent tomlinson for president, id vote for that

[@downwithdon]

Love this song. It is so true. But I know it's just gonna get worse. Love you Trent you are AWSOME XXOOXOXOOX

[@Starr_United_Music]

trent you really hit the nail on the head good job

[@walburnd]

That's how I was raised and I turned out just fine

[@krystalvangorder928]

Great lyrics. Good song

[@jtp1389]

Political correctness has ruined the world, but we still have Trent Tomlinson

[@TheGaCountryBoy2010]

hell I was raised to use my manners and I was raised to be a hardworker. ive been punished many times but I had to learn the hardway but I learned and now life couldnt be any better then it is now. I bust my ass working any job I can get my hands on I look at it if your working you never have time to get in trouble or be into or somewhere you aint suppose to be

[@thejoyjeanz]

@FireFlorist It hasn't changed everywhere I grew up bout this way and I'm only 16. And I wouldn't change any of for the whole wide world! I wouldn't have my dirt roads paved in gold even if it was free. I love the way I've grown up. And I'm damn proud!

[@EGrdneck]

yes sir, yes mam, no elbows on the table at supper time, no hats on in the house....Born and raised in a town of 400; Now i'm the manager at a large scale swine operation.....God bless the country boy, because we are so rich, but have no money....

[@rantard86]

love this song

[@JasmineJrArmstrong-z3n]

Hun i love your music to💙💙🙏

[@Recoveringfromdetermination]

Stereotyping or not here - this guy does not look like one that would be singing songs like this. But I'm so glad he does.

[@Lelamaemusic]

Oakley Kansas...almost everything Trent just sang is true, but i see things changing. i am a freshman in HS and i am friends with the "wrong" crowd, i don't partake in the drugs and alcohol, but it's a cryin shame how our HS is being taken over by "city activities"

[@MaryATTILAMO1]

I LOVE THIS MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rockingwildman37]

back when i was growning up if i was mean and dint do what i was told my dad would take a mineing belt to me but im glad mom and dad did it i know sounds crazy but if thay dint teach me right from wrong lord know where i would be at today im 38 and im thankfully for what my mom and dad showed me back then and i can rember when gas was onlu 95 cents a gal and now its over $3 a gal times was a little harder back then but thay was a lot better u dint have all the drugs and fighting like you do now

[@SailorLindsey86]

I agree completely, everything was much simpler that way!

[@jamesshirrell3677]

This song is sooooo right

[@angieosborne8046]

I forgot about this song

[@TheCalibug2009]

I miss them days

[@arthurnicholson2154]

very awesome song

[@shirleyhawk4589]

thanks for expressing how I feel, just lost Mom from cancer

[@erykah0708]

These are the values my son will grow with ...and if he doesn't listen to me he'll definitely get a nice butt whoopin'! It will hurt me more than him but he'll appreciate tough love one day just like I do now.

[@Zanderkoala]

Have you ever lied on a grassy hill in the middle of the night, just to look up at the stars?

[@deerhunter29102]

Im 16 and i was raised that way but i lost my dad at 8 so i had to help my mom at 13 to make it like i said im 16 and these people my age (most of them) dont care bout nothing which is rediculous.my bro and my friends (20s or older) taught me how to make it

[@DaveShaw1969]

@WilliamMahonycom dude, im older than him, we had tornado drills not cold war drills, if so we had no clue, we heard mention of a gas problem but had no clue, especially in smaller places where its still human not some dumb city

[@amberc5345]

I mean really who even found this song and liked it enough to FORCE other people to listen to it at their job. I mean it blows my mind.

[@derickburghardtmetalworkin1663]

Probably people who have more respect than you'll ever have

[@GoodJobGuy]

great song

[@shannonblane]

And tell me again why this guy ain't on the radio!!!???

[@JOHNNYV8JPV8]

he was back when to many kids singing now, some form of Taylor Swift ( i don't dislike her but)