FILE – This June 5, 2019 file photo shows Lauren Akins, left, and Thomas Rhett at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tenn. Rhett announced on social media that his wife is pregnant with another girl. (AP Photo/Sanford Myers, File)

With four little girls, it’s harder for Thomas Rhett to bring the family out on the road. Occasionally, though, wife Lauren climbs on the tour bus or pops up backstage and he’s grateful for the post-show perspective only she can bring.

“There are those shows where I’m not on or like something happened in the show where it just ruined me for the rest of the night. And I kind of like start to just close my eyes and sing songs and hope the rest of the show goes well, and those are the nights where Lauren goes, ‘Honey, you can’t let those things get to you because most of the time people don’t know if your E string on your guitar was out of tune. Only you know that and only you can get in your head on that stuff.’ And so it’s nice to have somebody to really kind of bring you back down to earth after a show.”