singer, and so we kind of made a callout to the other inmates and officers and they came up with mcculloched out to be pretty good. ♪ said she never talked about me ♪ ♪ how it never did seem right ♪ i've been pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ wasting days and wasting nights ♪ >> writing music in prison is just my life. i don't sit down to write a song. something hits me and my best songs come with about two minutes and about two or three minutes i have an excellent song. and i wrote "pulling time in nashville at the walls" which is tennessee state prison, which is shut down now. ♪ here the families come and see me ♪ ♪ they can spare some of the time ♪ >> i let my feelings out in my songs and i wrote old-time country. i don't write anything but old-time country. when i'm under pressure and depressed i write all the time. all i do is write my songs and play my guitar and study the bible and try to stay out of trouble. ♪ oh you can't leave >> though confined to prison, mccullough confided he still had dreams. ♪ with a fool >> i just want to go into a studio and cut a couple of albums and try to m