Bret Michaels , the former leader of the hard-rock band Poison, is working with a different kind of music these days, reinventing himself as a country singer.
When Michaels needed a place to shoot a video for country music up-and-comers Forty5 South, he ended up in Chatham County, about nine miles west of Pittsboro..

That’s because Michaels is friends with Christie Cook, whose family owns the property where the video was shot. And Cook, along with her husband, James, runs Media One Studios, a company that specializes in videography work..

The scenery fit the words for a song called “We’re Country So We Can.”.

On Wednesday, Michaels directed a Chapel Hill-based film crew and the band through a series of scenes