Signed to Epic Records in 2005, he released his debut single "That's the Kind of Love I'm In" in 2005, which peaked at No.

52 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and was the first single from his self-titled debut album.

In the same year, he released his third album, Red Revelations, under the Weston Boys label that peaked No.

[9] Charlaine Harris pays homage to the song by including "Bad Things" playing at Merlotte's in the 2010 Sookie Stackhouse mystery Dead in the Family.

[12] His duet Evil (Is Going On), a cover of the song written by Willie Dixon, with CC Adcock is part of the True Blood season 2 soundtrack.