Full Transcript for #475 - Chris Lane + Mitchell Tenpenny + Tucker Wetmore + Joe Nichols

have a good one? 00:05:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, it's about like it is now. I kept it a little more tame. I can't go super long like that wouldn't be my vibe. But uh, where's that right now? 00:05:18 Speaker 4: Is? 00:05:18 Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't let it get much longer. But it's in the shape of one kind of. 00:05:22 Speaker 1: When did you start playing music? And then when did it get serious? And I want to ask how that relates to because I know you were an athlete as well, So what age did you start learning that you like music as far as to play? And then when did you go I'm committed to this. 00:05:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, I loved music, you know, growing up. I love singing along to the radio. But as a sports guy, my brother and I both we we were just football, baseball, basketball in season. That's all we did. And so it wasn't until I was graduating college. I had to go back for one class to graduate in that half year. So four and a half years of graduated and during the downtime where we didn't have baseball anymore. 00:06:09 Speaker 1: You know, I was done with my four years. 00:06:12 Speaker 3: I started learning how to play the guitar, and I became very passionate about that. I'd been to a ton of Kenny Chesney concerts, Keith Urpan concerts, and honestly, watching Keith just made me want to learn how to play the guitar, and it kind of grew into a passion. 00:06:26 Speaker 1: Did you ever sing there before playing guitar? No, I mean just luckily, just along with the radio. Yeah. 00:06:33 Speaker 3: So my last semester I got good enough on the guitar that I could just play three or four songs, and I would go to this open mic night right there by the college, and all the fraternity sororities, all my baseball guys would come up there and hang out, and people would really encourage me. I would do this little medley that had a bunch of hip hop songs in it, and people seemed to like that a lot. And then I would cover like an al Dean song, I'm an Eric Church song, and people would just encourage me that, man, you should try to do something with this. So after I graduated, I moved back to Kernersville, North Carolina, where I grew up at and just started putting a lot of work into it, driving people crazy, trying to sing and play at the same time, you know, which is very hard. Yeah, when you're first trying to figure out the guitar, it's hard to sing and strum at the same time. But I think being an athlete kind of helped me learned a little bit quicker on that. And once I learned one song man, I became so passionate about music. I just wanted to learn all of my favorite songs, and that eventually led me into starting a band. Back then, it was the Chris Lane Band. I didn't put much thought into it, as I had no idea that that would ever lead to a record deal, but so pretty crazy. 00:07:49 Speaker 1: Why did you get on say it the very first time? I know you're playing it? That's a big move to not spend years as a kid learning music and

just like, I'm gonna play guitar, but now I'm gonna go get on stage where people can hear me sing. I don't know, like, were you do you feel like you were called just to get on stage? Were you nervous? Did you feel like you were. 00:08:07 Speaker 2: Going to do it? 00:08:08 Speaker 1: Once and then realize you maybe you didn't want to do it. 00:08:09 Speaker 3: I think the first time I got on stage, I was certainly very nervous. 00:08:14 Speaker 1: Why would you even do it the first time? I don't know. 00:08:17 Speaker 3: I think I just was so passionate about it and having so much fun just playing in my bedroom every day and no shyness, huh and no, and I just kind of, you know, like I said, I was getting encouragement from the people that would watch me play those three songs every Wednesday night. 00:08:31 Speaker 1: It opened my night. 00:08:34 Speaker 3: And that's cool. Yeah, yeah, they would build me up. So I kind of just ran with that a little bit. But yeah, first show is incredibly nervous. 00:08:42 Speaker 1: Could you sing? 00:08:44 Speaker 3: I was shaky like the first four songs, and then I relaxed in and after that night I had so much fun. I was like, man, I want to do this every night for the rest of my life. So I just continue to put. 00:08:56 Speaker 1: The work in. 00:08:56 Speaker 3: It got some guys in the band that could actually play really well. 00:09:00 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:09:01 Speaker 3: There for years in North Carolina. I just grinded it out and got to the point to where I could play, you know, four or five shows a week, mostly covers. Yeah, of course, especially when you first start out, Yeah, and then I started writing my own music, which eventually led me to getting a record deal and moving to Nashville. Because I'd never even been to Nashville prior to getting all my first meetings. 00:09:26 Speaker 1: Well, you didn't come a bunch of times, and that's a weird order of it happening. How do they find you? Then? Who found you? 00:09:33 Speaker 3: So I think some of the William Morris agents started flying out to watch some shows, and word got around because what had happened was much like Brantley Gilbert and some of these guys, I had built up a massive Southeast following, so not just in North Carolina, but I was able to go out into like Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and I was able to sell out the same rooms that a lot of the guys from Nashville who had songs on the radio would come play. So I think that's eventually how I ended up with the record deal is people started flying out saying, who is this guy doing it all on his own and selling out the same venues. 00:10:10 Speaker 1: And that's pretty cool that that's how it happened, because rarely does someone have people come to them and go, hey, we really like you. We'd like to offer you some sort of plan to have a record deal, but you've never been to Nashville. You know most of the stories, even people that are awesome have to come here. Oh yeah

and have and you would probably coommend people you need to go to Nashville because that's kind of how it happens. So, but you built it up by just playing a whole bunch of shows. What was the first song I'm gonna make you go back into the depths of your brain here it was the first song you ever played publicly on a microphone? Like, what would have been the one you were so comfortable with that you thought, I can do this my very first song. I'm going to perform this like just cover song. Yeah, it covers song that you ever did in front of people, like at one of these open mics. Wow, that's a great question. I know it was either al Dean hick Town. Is that easy one to play? Like Corner? No? No, no, it was. I was terrible at playing it. 00:11:04 Speaker 3: I'm still terrible playing I Sometimes I go back and I'm like, oh, I could not figure this song out before because it's like got bar cords. 00:11:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're like throwing f's in there. I would like I for me, it'd be like smash Mouth. I'm a believer, but like the Monkeys. 00:11:15 Speaker 3: Because it was like this, it's just CG the whole time, but you're like going bar courts. If I could see a video of my performance of that song, I'd be on my knees dying, laughing. That's pretty fun. And then an Eric Church song. I can't tell you what it is, maybe your Love Love, your Love the Most or something like that, but I remember playing that song a lot could have been a Keith Urban song too. I mean, yeah, he's trying to play solo. 00:11:40 Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I tackled a Keith Urban solo and I look back and it wasn't that good. Your brother, it's your twin brother, and you guys look very similar because you are twins? Are you guys? Really? You have the twins that come out? What's that called fraternal? You're like in the same bunk turn I know what it's called identical? Yeah, but then what's the other. Oh yeah, eleven different bunks? Fraternal? 00:12:05 Speaker 2: Is it for a p? 00:12:07 Speaker 1: So which one you and your brother are identical? Twins? Identical? Yeah? Did he do music when you did or did he see you were doing music, was like, hey, also should learn how to do music. Uh. 00:12:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of exactly what happened. I think he was experiencing some fomo of me being out there playing music in front of peeps, even though it was just a few songs on those wind at Wednesday nights. But he bought an electronic drum set and started learning how to play on that, and he was like, I'll just start learning how to play the drums and we should start doing something together. So I was like, all right, So he just sat down started learning how to play the drums. Was really bad for a very long time, much like I was on the guitar. And this is actually a funny story, but when I got a record deal, he was still really bad in comparison to guys you would get in Nashville who just crush back there. He had a lot of learning to do. So when I eventually signed there at Big Loud, which was at the time kind of what Florida Georgia Line had done, it was just a publishing production, uh and management deal. They wanted me to hire somebody from Nashville, which I think they had kind of had to do with the FGL as well. But I'm like, this is my twin brother. Man, the way I can do this to him, Like he's put so much work in. I think he'll eventually get there. And he put a lot of hard work in over the years to get to where he is now, which is great. He's great back there. He still keeps time like sneakers in a dryer. But we make it through the show. 00:13:43 Speaker 1: All right. 00:13:43 Speaker 2: That's a. 00:13:45 Speaker 1: Dryer. That's a pretty funny term. You're going up to flats. That's awesome. Oh my gosh. They were in their Friends of Mine and I'm super happen screaming for a year for them to get back together. And I saw that you going out with them. That's really exciting, man, huge, It's huge for me. I'm very excited. I toured with those guys back in seventeen. 00:14:13 Speaker 3: I believe it was right when I had fix out my very first song. 00:14:18 Speaker 1: Kelsey Ballerini was a part of that tour as well. 00:14:20 Speaker 3: I was the first of three, but I got to know them really well, spent time with all of them and just became great friends. We still kept in touch all these years later, and now you know I'm with Jay on his record label, on his record label, and he kept telling me that they were considering going back out, and I'm like, man, at all costs, I've got to be a part of this tour because I was a part of the twentieth anniversary tours direct support when COVID happened and we didn't get to happen, you know, and I was I felt like I was on. 00:14:59 Speaker 1: I want to call rocket ship. 00:15:00 Speaker 3: But I was definitely going into the peak of my career at that point, off coming off of big plans at the time, so it would have been an incredible moment to be a part of that tour. So I'm so thankful that they asked me to come back out and be a part of this twenty fifth anniversary. 00:15:16 Speaker 1: I cannot wait to tour with those guys. That's gonna be fun. That's gonna just the vibe and the energy of the crowd is gonna be fun. I agree. And they haven't been broken up for twenty years, but it feels that way. Yeah, And so everybodys gonna react that way like they're back together, Oh my god, and it's like, yeah, we were fun. 00:15:32 Speaker 3: One of the funniest things that I remember when I first toured with them is I would give Gary a random word every single night, and he always had to find a way to sing it into a song. And I have to give my man credit. The first word I ever gave him. It's a stupid word, but I said raccoon. I'm like, there's no way he could literally sing this into a song. Not only did he use the word raccoon in a song, but he proceeded to use it in every single song that he sang for the rest of the night. 00:16:06 Speaker 1: That's funny.

Broken Road brought the raccoons. 00:16:11 Speaker 3: I think the first song he used it in was they were singing I wish I could rewind. He was like, I wish I had a raccoon, but he would, you know, do a bunch of runs on it. 00:16:20 Speaker 1: I was like, what, I don't know doing, Like I'm not sure what he just said. So Chris has got some dates of his own Waco, Akron, Ohio, Lexington, Birmingham, Alabama, Buffalo, and Rochester all the way through November of this year, So get tickets at im Chris Lane dot com. Then The Life is a Highway tour which is coming up with Rascal Flats. So what's the Rascal Flats Fixed story? Oh? Yeah, yeah. 00:16:43 Speaker 3: So when I was torn with those guys, they would do you know, they would go do their interview first, Kelsey would do hers, and then I would go in and do mine. They told this story, and you know, those guys, they can make anything believable and they feed off of each other and they're very good at it. So they told this story about how they were so proud of me and everything that I had overcome, that they were, you know, honored to have me out on their tour, and that my song. And the person who's interview them, they're like, what exactly are you talking it? What did he overcome? They're right, you didn't hear he's singing about it and his song Fixed. You know, he had a really bad meth addiction where he lost his teeth and as part of the end of the tour gift, we're going to give him a new set of teeth and he's like overcoming, like just all this stuff, and they made it really believable. So I get into my interview. I have no clue that they've done that, and the girl's like asking me about it, and I'm like, are you trying to punk at me right now? 00:17:41 Speaker 1: Is this? 00:17:42 Speaker 3: And she's like, well, Rascal Flats just told me about everything that you've overcome. 00:17:47 Speaker 1: And I'm like what. So she plays it for me and I'm like, oh my god, I cannot believe they did. That was very funny. 00:17:53 Speaker 3: So from there on out, every tour stop it turned into them making up stories about me and me making up stories about them. 00:18:00 Speaker 1: Was so much fun. That is funny, and I learned. I actually learned that sound dangerous because eventually it gets to a point where it's like, you know, I murdered someone. Garry Gary Wotxing Diddy were best friends. Yeah, it's like you know him and Epstein used to fly together. But it just gets to a place where it's like, not, yes, that's that's funny. You still go to Planet Fitness and just work out with random folks. 00:18:27 Speaker 3: Man, I I do on the road, yes, but here at the house, I work out at my country club. 00:18:35 Speaker 1: Dang, that's cool. O what a flex? What a flex? He wouldn't say, No, I go to my I go to especially He goes no. You know, I might be just small town boy from North Carolina, but I got a country club now. Once you have three number ones, you get a country club and look at you, fruit, Fruit? Do you drink your team with the pinky out while you're doing your curls or what? I don't have the pinky out? Man, Dang this guy. Let's talk about the song that just came out. If I die before you, so, I don't know what'd you like about this song when you heard it? 00:19:05 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, everything there is to like about a song. I loved about this one. This is going to be one of those songs that I wish I had written. It took two years or a year and a half to two years for this song to make its way to me because there were. 00:19:23 Speaker 1: Other artists who had it. 00:19:25 Speaker 3: So when it got played for me on accident, I fell in love with everything about the song, but then realized I couldn't have it because somebody else was recording it. So I had to wait this song out for a year and a half. I prayed so hard that it would eventually find its way back to me, and it did. And I feel like this is a I'm praying that it is, but I feel like this is a career changing type song. 00:19:52 Speaker 1: We're gonna play it now here is if I die before you from Chris Lane. Chris, it is always good to see you, buddy. Great to see you as well, Bud. In one day, we're just Chris and I are just a relationship of Hey, are you in town? Nope, that's it. It's one after the other. You know you a town? Nope. At some point we're gonna play second. Yeah, we're gonna be at the same place at the same time. Uh yeah, really rooting for your Congrats on everything with Jay and the new record deal. Thank you, brother. 00:20:17 Speaker 5: Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor, and we're back on the Bobby Cast on the Bobby Bones Show. 00:20:33 Speaker 1: Now he's got a record that came out September twentieth. He's here. He is an amazing singer. Mitchell, good to see you, buddy. 00:20:40 Speaker 2: Oh, it's good to see you. 00:20:41 Speaker 1: Brother. Hey, since I like you and I feel like I know you, I'm gonna ask you a question. Then maybe I wouldn't ask you otherwise. 00:20:46 Speaker 2: Let's go. 00:20:48 Speaker 1: I'm so happy that you were nominated for a CMA Award. 00:20:52 Speaker 2: Thank you man now so much. I was ready for it. 00:20:55 Speaker 1: I've known you for a long time. Yeah, yeah, your first number one number one back in twenty eight. That's right, you have three number ones. How are you a new artist? How are you nominated for Best New Like? What is the criteria for that? 00:21:07 Speaker 6: I've never been nominated for anything? CMA, is that the criteria? 00:21:10 Speaker 2: I think? I think so. 00:21:11 Speaker 6: I think it has to do with you can be up to three albums and let and never been nominated something like that. I mean, you look at Jelly, you look at that shoot. I remember when you know, there's a few few of us that have been around quite a while and getting the nomination. 00:21:25 Speaker 1: I'm happy. Yeah, it's awesome. But when I think about you, I think you've been killing it for a while.

00:21:30 Speaker 2: Well, thank you, brother. I appreciate that. Yeah I was. 00:21:33 Speaker 6: I was surprised too, but I'll uh like any anything, I'll take it, especially from the peers. 00:21:38 Speaker 1: Were you surprised? Yeah, I was there like a second level that you knew you were in it or all of a sudden, it was just like Best New Artists. 00:21:44 Speaker 6: I had no idea when they were talking about when it was coming out or announced again. And I woke up to a couple of texts that said congrats, and I texted texted my manager I was like, what are they congratulating as work? 00:21:55 Speaker 2: Then I got on Instagram. 00:21:56 Speaker 6: And uh and saw it and that was, you know, awesome, you know, in the waking up to those kind of things are amazing. But yeah, I truly didn't know what day or anything that was happening or. 00:22:07 Speaker 1: Anything good. Not today, right Why did you choose that one? 00:22:11 Speaker 6: It's our single right now? Why did you choose I just think it's an important message too. I mean, it's kind of disguised around a breakup song, which I tend to write a lot of breakup songs, even though I'm happily married to Megan. But I like songs that, you know, evoking emotion and but this song's kind of got a bigger picture. It's it's about wearing an owning pain. It's about saying hey and acknowledging it too. It's about saying, hey, I know that this has happened. I'm I'm gonna get over it, but not today. Today, I'm gonna acknowledge it, accept it, and wear it. And you know, I'm doing it in finger quotes. But as getting a little older and maturing, I think that's the only way I've been able to get through some things in life. It's truly accepting things and then moving forward from it. And so the not today term comes from that. It's like, hey, I'm gonna do this, but not today. 00:22:56 Speaker 1: How emotionally mature that sound, because it's I'm knowledging that I am going to do it, but I'm also acknowledging that, I mean, it will not be today because I'm not in the healthy place to do that. Come on. 00:23:09 Speaker 2: Time heels for sure. 00:23:11 Speaker 1: So the album is called The Third, which is I mean the third it's the first song, but also why'd you call it the third? 00:23:18 Speaker 2: Because I am the third as well? 00:23:20 Speaker 6: My name is James Mitchell Timpenny the Third, And I wanted to say thank you to my dad and granddad for believing to me, and unfortunately, you know, they're not here anymore. So I wanted to encompass all that. It being my third record as well, it just all kind of made sense, but to say thank you for for believing to me and letting me do music for as a career. I have a lot of friends that moved to town that their parents and families that don't do that. That's really stupid, and I'm just very grateful my family never did that. 00:23:43 Speaker 1: You have new music out. But also I do want to bring up the fact that Brooks and Done ask you to be on Reboot

Part two with a huge compliment that I mean that. Here's the question. Was that as awesome as it seems. 00:23:53 Speaker 2: Even cooler, even more awesomer it was? 00:23:55 Speaker 6: It was amazing, man, what a full circle moment I've so we got me into country was Ronnie and Kicks. And to get to work with Dan huff in them and have the trust and faith to take one of their songs and make in mine was a little intimidating at first, but when I got in there and I was playing nights, I was like, yeah, whatever y'all want to do, of course, and Ronnie and khe like, we're not gonna put on the record if you don't do it the way you do it. 00:24:16 Speaker 2: And that was so awesome. 00:24:18 Speaker 6: The confidence that they instilled and just made me feel made me feel warm and special, man. So that was really really cool. 00:24:24 Speaker 1: And you did that Ain't No. 00:24:26 Speaker 2: Eighty? 00:24:26 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's one of my favorite songs of all time, and I'm surprised no one's ever done that one with them, So it just made sense. 00:24:32 Speaker 1: You're right though, that would be kind of intimidating. Yeah, something they did so well. They're like, now you do it. Yeah, I get it in there with a guitar part and Dan huff too. It's like no, no, no, no, I like that guitar. 00:24:40 Speaker 2: You do your thing. And I was like, oh, okay, all right, And yes, it was a nerve wrecking. 00:24:45 Speaker 1: When you play all these shows all around the country, you've been doing it for years and they give you like you know, some places will give you like a jersey of a local team, college team. How many of those do you have? 00:24:53 Speaker 2: I have a whole I have a whole, like closet a full of jerseys. Man. 00:24:57 Speaker 6: I've been collecting jerseys since I was a kid. But yeah, over the over the past few years, getting the ones with the names and stuff. I like it, their memories. I call myself a collector. Wife calls me a hoarder. But uh, I like, just like you sports cards. Uh you know, it's it's a problem. Like I love sports and so jerseys are a big deal to me. 00:25:13 Speaker 1: And this is how we do it without getting injured. Yes, yeah, that's how we stay involved. 00:25:16 Speaker 6: That I get the field part of the team without actually going out and getting crushed. 00:25:19 Speaker 1: What do you feel like as your favorite piece of memory. Oh, yeah, like that you personally have of your career. And then do you have anything at the house that you have from somebody else? Oh? 00:25:26 Speaker 2: Man, uh, of my career. That's uh, that's wild. 00:25:30 Speaker 1: Uh. 00:25:30 Speaker 2: I think for me it's you know, the Opry sign? Uh? When can they give you the parking sign? 00:25:35 Speaker 6: You know, like for people that don't know when you when you have your debut at the Opry, they they give you a parking spot and they make a sign that says your name on it. And I have mine right up next to my wives now. So it's that's a pretty special one. It's pretty cool to have that with her. And then I mean, I gotta I played Atlanta a couple of years ago, and I'm a I'm a Braves fan as a kid because growing up in Nationalist Braves or Saint Louis, I chose Braves and Chipper Jones is my favorite play her. I did not know he was at the at the show, and I had his jersey on, and he came up and we coughed and did all the things. He signed the back of it Hall of Fame shipper, So I put that in the frame and I've got it up there in that memory and that we know he was at the show and I was gonna the show. That a really cool We're in the Jersey and that was that was cool. 00:26:20 Speaker 2: I felt. 00:26:20 Speaker 6: I felt like, you know, such a huge fan fangirl on it. But he was like, he's so nice. He gave me his number. I appreciate that. Like Chipper Jones, I text every now and then with him and it's like, that's cool. I don't get it, but I'll take it. 00:26:32 Speaker 1: Did he come up? Did you find out after the show? 00:26:34 Speaker 2: Uh? Yes, I found out. Well, no, I found out right before I was going on. 00:26:37 Speaker 1: See I don't want to know that. I don't want to know after and then. 00:26:39 Speaker 6: I saw I saw him over in the corner, and then I didn't meet him. And then after that I got to meet him and spend some time and do the thing. 00:26:46 Speaker 1: And I'd have been like, don't don't stand him in the eyes? Yeah, don't. 00:26:49 Speaker 2: I was. I was looking at the whole time. Does he like this? 00:26:52 Speaker 1: What was he thinking about this? Kobe calais on one of the songs on your new record, So why Kolby? How'd that come together? 00:26:58 Speaker 6: Man, I've been singing with her in my car since since college, and uh, I you know, recently the last couple of years have gotten to know her. We weren't like super close, we got to know her and I did one of those things. I actually wrote that song with Teddy Swims, another incredible singer, and but when I got into the studio to record it, I just kept hearing Kobe's voice on it, and I did that thing where you text the artist. 00:27:18 Speaker 1: I was so nervous, Oh so you asked yourself. 00:27:21 Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm so scared, Like I hate asking any favors of anybody or any you know, no, that song is not for me. But I did and she responded back pretty quick and was like I've been wanting to ask you for something one time, and I was like, oh my gosh. So it ended up working out organically and perfect. And I'm just such a fan of hers, and it was so cool to get in the studio and like be mixing something and hearing her voice come back through the speakers instead of just like in my car. I was like I had to stop her a couple of times and be like, hey, I'm listening to Kobe Lay right now. 00:27:46 Speaker 2: On the other room because it's pretty cool. 00:27:48 Speaker 1: You could be like, hey, we do we count me in? 00:27:50 Speaker 6: Yeah, that joke got overdone a few times.

00:27:54 Speaker 1: I want to play a little bit of that. Here is Trek seven on the new record. It's called Guests We'll Never Know with Kolby Kela covered Iris from Googo Dolls. 00:28:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, man, how to do it? It's one of my all time faves. 00:28:04 Speaker 1: I've heard you play it. 00:28:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's great. 00:28:06 Speaker 1: It's a like such a fun song anyway, and everybody kind of knows it. 00:28:11 Speaker 6: Everybody knows it's such a nostalgic song and I don't know, it just makes It's just that song that brings out the fields no matter what. So we had some extra time in the studio that day and I was like, let's do our version. 00:28:20 Speaker 1: Woke up in a dream the tour, so I don't know, tell me about like what what do you do? You have a when do you play your hits? Because you have multiple hits now, Like what's the strategy? That's that was the hardest part this year is figuring that out. Because I'm I'm a big proponent of play the songs that got you there. I'm not I'm not gonna name names, but I've gone a couple of concerts recently where they didn't play this the songs, and I'm like telling you that. So we definitely have our songs in there that that have given us a career, and but we wanted up throwing a few new ones. So the hardest part was finding the order where it's not enough too many new ones in a row. So we play them throughout the whole thing. We in the we in the set with like you know, I'll. 00:28:59 Speaker 6: Godrunk drunk me at the end, we do you drunk me into IRIS, and it's just such a virus. 00:29:06 Speaker 2: It works great. 00:29:07 Speaker 6: And that's how we ended up doing Iris was one day I was on stage and I finished the chords and drunk Me and just kept playing the chords and Iris lyrics came to my head and I just tried it once and everyone sung it and I was like, let's do that again tomorrow, and did that for about two years and I was like, let's just cut it. So it kind of it kind of works into that song. But yeah, I mean, we we we try to. We do polls and stuff like what do you want to hear? And now I have a I have a part of this set where I I just grabbed my guitar and I ask people, what do you want to hear? If there's some deep cuts or other songs that you want to you know that we might not play anymore. 00:29:35 Speaker 2: I want to try to give them some of that. 00:29:36 Speaker 1: He used to do that. Eddie and I would do that on our comedy tour. But we would it didn't matter. Everybody would yell everything, so you couldn't prove what they were saying, so we would just know what we were gonna play. 00:29:46 Speaker 6: That is, you definitely have some in the back of your head. But you know everyone has her cell phone now with the type on it. Yeah, so though if I can see a song that that helps, you can't. You definitely can't hear when they're yelling. That is a good point. 00:29:56 Speaker 1: We'd be like, oh, you want to hear walk five hundred miles? Yeah,

okay, and no but he said it. We'd be like, when I wake up, I'm gonna be we know that one and like nobody has ever a requested in the history of our life, but that's what we would do. 00:30:07 Speaker 2: That's a good cough done that before. 00:30:08 Speaker 1: I'm glad. 00:30:10 Speaker 2: I think that's the way to go on. 00:30:11 Speaker 1: In a good place. Twenty tracks on this thing. That's a lot of songs. 00:30:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's half of Morgan's. 00:30:17 Speaker 1: So we're getting what's fun right now? Like, what what's fulfilling for you right right now? 00:30:22 Speaker 2: Golf right now. 00:30:22 Speaker 6: I've been loving playing golf, getting outdoors, but being home a little bit, a little bit more. 00:30:28 Speaker 2: And this tour, this tour has been a lot of fun. This is our headline tour. 00:30:31 Speaker 6: Anytime I get to do a headline tour, it's it's the most fulfilling thing. We've been out with Jordan Davis, which is amazing, and we're about to do Canada with him. I love Jordy, he's one of my best friends. And and then Luke Colms. Getting to do stadiums this year was insane, so I'm not taking an away from that. But there's nothing like having a crowd it's there for a year that's yours. Yeah, man, it's so much fun. 00:30:50 Speaker 1: And you're just a brand new art, just a baby artist, baby artist. See even you had to laugh a little bit because it's awesome be nominated. 00:30:58 Speaker 2: Trust me, six years when I knew. 00:31:00 Speaker 6: It was a possibility, I laugh and yeah, I know, and I tell, but it's you know again like I'm not complaining. 00:31:06 Speaker 2: I'll take it. 00:31:06 Speaker 6: But yeah, we've definitely, especially for the people that have been with us from the beginning, I'm like, thank you. This is a testament to y'all truly. But uh yeah, I'm not the newest of new. 00:31:15 Speaker 1: Mitchell again launched his headlining Woke Up in a Dream tour earlier this month, and so go and go to his instagram. You can see it all there. All the dates are up there. Congrats with Brooks and Doune. Congrats on the new record. Are we still we play? We still play golf the same place? 00:31:30 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:31:31 Speaker 1: I still remember there. 00:31:32 Speaker 2: Yeah I am. I'm still remember there. Yeah. 00:31:34 Speaker 1: I don't have any friends there. So let's go. And now now that I have my my shoulder, I tore my shoulder for a long time, so I didn't play. So I played one time, but now I'm ready. Okay, get on the toe, you guys, go follow Mitchell and Mitchell tenpenny. He's awesome. Follow him at M the Number ten penny, M the Number ten penny and go check him out on tour and check out the new album, The Third Mitchell. Get to see buddy. 00:32:00 Speaker 2: Thank you guys always cheers. 00:32:01 Speaker 1: There we go on the Bobby Bone Show. Now fucker go to see Man, we haven't met. It's good to see. I know we had five seconds ago. Yeah yeah, so I guess we have met officially, it just met. But man, I've been kind of following, like watching you slowly kill it. I wonder being in it, Like do you feel momentum or is it like every day I'm just showing up trying to get ahead. 00:32:23 Speaker 7: I mean sometimes I'll feel momentum for sure, Like especially on stage during the live shows are just they're getting crazy. 00:32:30 Speaker 1: But people singing songs more. Oh yeah, oh yeah, dude, that's cool. Dude, it's getting it's getting pretty wild out there. But you know, most days I'm just trying to catch up, you know. Just I literally got back from New York last night at like, you know, nine pm. So it's like I'm always go, go go. So it's just a lot. But what's your how do you say the name of your town? Kalama, Kalama, Washington? What's what's what's that town? Like? If I drive in, what do I see? If you blink you'll miss it. 00:32:58 Speaker 7: It's literally right on eye five going you know, northbound, and there is much. I mean, we got the Columbia River right there, which it's really pretty. It's like the prettiest place you'll ever go to. 00:33:09 Speaker 1: I'm from a town of seven hundred people, but to go there you have to purposefully go there. There's no going through. Okay, So but your town. When I think of your town, how you describe it? Is that where the cops sit and just nail everybody for driving a little too fast to a small town. Oh yeah, yeah, I hate those towns. Yeah, no matter where it is. On driving, I'm like, I'm about to get a ticket because because that it'll go like seventy sixty forty for like three blocks. And that's when they just nail folks and make their money. So I want to play a song, and they have a lot of like personal questions. But what's song you want to do? Can I pick the song? 00:33:44 Speaker 2: Sure? 00:33:44 Speaker 1: Yeah? Cool? Can we do wind up Missing You? Is that is that what you're doing with? Yeah, it's easier if that was what he's already to do. Okay, good, perfect, all right, talking what Morris here? Let's do wind up Missing You? And this song's awesome and whenever you guys are ready. Thanks man. 00:33:58 Speaker 8: Oh I'm sorry we can't post a live performance on the podcast, but if you go to our YouTube page you can watch it. 00:34:06 Speaker 1: There or maybe listen live. Okay, all right, now back to the podcast, talking about more nice Sean, thanks man. Question about your family. Your your grandpa was a preacher. You're se what do you call up there in Washingtoncause we say preacher. In Arkansas you say preacher, pastor, pastor. Okay, I say coke or popper? 00:34:25 Speaker 2: Oh pop? 00:34:26 Speaker 1: So it's all regional, right, I mean the same thing, but it's all regional. Your grandpa was a pastor? Did you sing in church at all? 00:34:32 Speaker 4: No? 00:34:33 Speaker 1: I didn't, but my whole family did, like my grandma. They did or didn't they did? 00:34:37 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:34:37 Speaker 1: When when could you sing? Because I

learned I could not sing while singing in church? Okay? So when if you didn't sing in church, when did you learn you could sing? Oh? 00:34:46 Speaker 7: Dude, I started singing twenty nineteen after kidding me like five years ago. 00:34:50 Speaker 1: It's stupid. And then this five years already killing it like this, this is a I'm trying. That's awesome. So why did you start singing? Ah? 00:35:00 Speaker 7: I had nothing else, man, I was. I was right off dropping out of college. I just broke my leg for the third time. So I dropped out of school because I was playing football there and music found me again. I started playing when I was eleven, so I like, I love music. What do you mean you started playing to some may give you a guitar piano? Oh cool, Oh that's even better. I had a little keyboard in my room and I would just sit back there and just play and for hours, and nobody knew that I could play. 00:35:25 Speaker 1: I just played for myself. And I wouldn't have thought you could play piano because you have a single mustache. Unfair of me to feel that way. It's absolutely unfair. But most people were just a cool single mustache. Don't go I play piano. Oh thanks, Yeah, that's right. You're surprising us in every way. You broke your like three times playing ball, Yes, sir, yeah, first time. 00:35:44 Speaker 7: First time was I was pretty young, like seventh grade or something like that. Twice on my left knee and then once on my rent ankle. 00:35:51 Speaker 1: Slash leg classic, weak legs hoey yeah, classic. So just some stuff that I was reading about you. It says you won four state championships, sir, And what three in track? Then one in football? What did you run in track? 00:36:10 Speaker 2: One? 00:36:10 Speaker 7: Tens? Actually I didn't get first one tens. I got second, but that much, but I was pull vault four x one. Then we won as a men's team, like a whole men's team. And then football your parents athletes? 00:36:25 Speaker 1: Yeah, back in the day, my. 00:36:27 Speaker 7: Dad was a pretty good football player. Then my mom was an animal. She was just working out a lot, and like, she's awesome. 00:36:36 Speaker 1: When did you win your football state championship? What year twenty eighteen? I think was that? What year in high school? Was that my senior year? That's awesome, like your senior year. Because what sucks is if you went like your sophomore year, in the next two years, you don't meet expectations. Like, yeah, that was so what position did you play? I was a receiver and so you went from playing receiver winning state championship to play collegeball. Where'd you go Montana Montana Tech University? Is it just cold? Every game? 00:37:04 Speaker 7: It's so cold, dude, Like probably nine months out of the year there's like two feet of snow on the ground. 00:37:09 Speaker 1: I'm assuming you didn't have a dome. Montana Tech no. 00:37:12 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:37:13 Speaker 1: So when you go play at Montana Tech, are you like, hey, I'm Tucker. I have three broken legs. I guess yeah, yeah, so but how did you break the third? One football? So dude, But like what happened was across the middle. Yeah, I I was running post of the middle, butte game. It was during practice. 00:37:31 Speaker 7: So it was during spring ball, towards the end of my my freshman year, because I read tcheated my freshman year and I was doing good. 00:37:37 Speaker 1: Dude, Like I got Scout Player of the Year that year, and they're like, hey, for the next four years is going to be like the number one receiver. I was like, all right, let's roll. But it's what's crazy about the story is the. 00:37:46 Speaker 7: Day before that, I was sitting down and I just hadn't been feeling right for like months. And then I sat down as soon as I got home from practice, walked into the bathroom, shut myself in there, and I just started bawling. 00:37:58 Speaker 1: Dude. I was like, God, I need to sign. I know it's been a while, but I just I need help. The very next day of the first player in a post in the middle and snapped my leg in three places. So God, broke your leg. God broke my leg, and now here you are on this stage. He broke your leg to meet me. Did you hear that it's all for you? 00:38:13 Speaker 3: Wow? 00:38:14 Speaker 2: This happened. 00:38:16 Speaker 1: I didn't. That's what you heard. That's exactly what I heard. I was talking to Thomas Ford a couple of weeks ago. As with him. He's singing your praises you know Thomas right. I love Tom He's like the greatest dude. But he said the same thing about you. How did you guys get in a chaw? Did you guys start working together a little bit? He reached out to me. 00:38:33 Speaker 7: Uh, I was like, hey, you want to come open up? I was like sure, and then no, he just texted me like hey, I hate doing or look at this. I'm doing this, and I'm like, oh, that's cool man. 00:38:42 Speaker 1: But when you moved to town, what was the process pack up a car and come without thinking much about it or was it a real all right, let's weigh the options and let's get a r V. What'd you do? Pretty much just packed up my stuff. 00:38:54 Speaker 7: I mean I visited Nashville to make sure, but when it came down to like crunch time moving here, I packed on my stuff in one of those shipping containers that you can ship across the country, like a pod type thing. 00:39:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, like a pod thing. 00:39:07 Speaker 7: All of my stuff that I owned fit in that little pod. And then I just packed up my car and then me and my mom drove down here. 00:39:15 Speaker 1: And where do you move? Do you find an apartment with a roommate? What was the living situation for you? Every new artist is a different story. Well, I didn't know anybody. 00:39:22 Speaker 7: I didn't know anything about anything really, so I moved right across tin roof onto mumbrooon. 00:39:29 Speaker 1: Well for a new artist, good looking guy, you know what that's going to get you in trouble or

really awesome? 00:39:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it did. 00:39:36 Speaker 7: Yeah, but yeah, that was my first apartment when I first moved to town. 00:39:40 Speaker 1: And it was a culture shock for sure. So when you come to town and you see other people, because this is the land of giants, even when you first move here and you see people that are just struggling and they're still they're awesome, right, Like you gotta be awesome to just make tips in a bar when you come when you start to see other people that are playing and they're really great, and to make it you say, culture shock was it? Holy cow, I've got some real competition here one. 00:40:04 Speaker 7: Numb percent dude, And like literally everywhere you turn in Nashville, there's just someone that can shred like you know, crazy, and I'm like or sing like crazy. I'm like, dude, I gotta I gotta work my ass off to do what I want to do. 00:40:19 Speaker 1: And I noticed that really quick. So that's what I did. So, yeah, what does that mean? Do you start just writing a whole lot? Do you like who do you find that kind of walks you through the process a little bit? Did you find like a friend early on that's like, hey, I've been here a couple years, I can help you. Not really, uh I. What I did was just like meet a bunch of people. I would go out to bars. 00:40:39 Speaker 7: I was twenty at the time when I first moved, so I'd go out to bars. 00:40:42 Speaker 1: But he was during COVID, so like, hey, we just want business. 00:40:44 Speaker 7: We're not checking IDs right now, you know, And uh So I would just meet people and then I met I was super blessed to meet like a super solid group of people. 00:40:53 Speaker 1: But they weren't in the music industry. But you know, we'd go out and mingle and whatnot. And then I started meeting a bunch of songwriters and then I signed my publishing deal with Backblocks, and that's when I first really started like getting into writing every single day, sometimes even twice a day for three years straight. Did you do the writers rounds at all? At first? 00:41:13 Speaker 7: I did, like one when I first moved to town and I realized, I don't know what I'm doing at all. It was that ten roof on Broadway, and I was the most nerve wracking thing I've probably ever done in my life because because I've never done it, and I've never really played in front of people other than, you know, than playing around a kitchen table with my buddies or a campfire, you know, back home, and it was nerve wracking. 00:41:40 Speaker 1: Did you play any shows back home where you got paid? No? So here were your first paying gigs. My first paying gig was last week. Last week. 00:41:53 Speaker 4: Sounds like just kidding, Oh. 00:41:54 Speaker 1: Gosh, it was. It was probably like two years ago. And it was because the radio station heard what I was doing down here back home. You know, it's a super small radio station, but they're like, hey, let's just have a hometown show. And I just played cover of songs and they paid me and my band to come out. That's pretty awesome. Yeah, you get paid to do something you love to do. Yeah, so you committed. Now you're going to do that. You can be an artist forever. Oh yeah, okay, good, I hope so you should. You're real good. Thank you, man, I appreciate it. Is it different than you thought though, a little bit? Like the amount of effort that goes into having to be a new artist. It's a lot of missing sleep, It's a lot. Yeah, I haven't. 00:42:31 Speaker 7: I've slept probably ten hours in the least seventy two plus. You know, it's just go, go, go go, and when you get rest, you take it because you don't really have the energy to do anything else. 00:42:43 Speaker 1: Just take care of your legs. Man. Oh yeah, that's my advice to talk about more three times. We don't need another one. You know. I did take the third one to get him here. You're doing a headlining tour the Waves on a sunset tour. Yes, that's pretty exciting. It's nuts already headlining. Do you get nervous because now it's you? Now it's you on the on theatal, on the website, like people got to go. I want to go see Talker web more. Do you are the tickets to the show? Have they? Have they been sold yet? Have you put them up as an on sale? Did you get nervous watching the on sale a little bit? It's all sold out though, Well that's a good flex. Like I wish I was a kiss. So when I will sell tickets like my comedy shows, I will. I will log on right and I'll watch every theater and look at seats and I'm hyper hyper obsessed with being a loser again because I think that's what's gonna happen to me. But you've never been a loser, so yeah, one way to go, Like twelve years from now, when you've had super success, you're on your loser cycle. We'll talk about it, all right, dude, congratulations you guys. You go to Tucker's instagram. The tour sold out. That's crazy. That sold out. It's nuts. 00:43:46 Speaker 4: Due that's that moment in the bathroom we talked about earlier, crying. 00:43:49 Speaker 1: That's That's what I'm going to do after you leave, because I'm like sold that. 00:43:55 Speaker 4: No, that that moment is what led to sold out shows. But if we could circle back to that because I'm curious, like what you sort of just went there, if you can share a little bit more about that vulnerability of like what was going on that made you break and say like, hey, god, it's been a while. 00:44:12 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:44:14 Speaker 7: So, like I said, like for a few months, I just wasn't feeling right, even though everything that I wanted emotionally was happening. Yeah, emotionally and spiritually. You know, I grew up super shrow on my faith. Like we said, my grandpa was a pastor, so I grew up in the church, but I hadn't been praying, you know. 00:44:29 Speaker 1: When I moved to college and I've just been partying a lot. Literally, I would wake up, skip class, go to practice, partying out with my buddies, hang out, and then do

the same thing, wake up, work out, That's what I would do. 00:44:42 Speaker 7: And I was like, this is not how I want to live, you know. And then I sat down and opened myself up, and then he gave me a sign and I listened. 00:44:53 Speaker 1: Is it cool to hear people singing back songs that aren't like the singles? 00:44:55 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's like the coolest part of it all, Like you, honey, people poor loving that one break first, when I am Luking. You know, it's not like a huge collection of songs, but people are listening and licking them. 00:45:06 Speaker 1: You guys. Check out Waves on a Sunset and Tucker web More all over. You did some loop stuff too, right Jud's farm tour? Did you that would? Oh? Yeah? With that? Was he sick? Was he doing it? 00:45:15 Speaker 2: Was it? 00:45:16 Speaker 1: Did you have terrible? Terrible allergies while he was out on that one a little bit? But he got it out, fought through it. Yeaheah, yeah, that's it. He's Luke. You got Luke and t R like the greatest guys like You've such good been so fortunate to be with those those guys. They're good guys like you, like even model like who you are in this industry as a person because they do it right. Uh, Tucker, good to see you, man, It's good to see. It's super cool to finally mean you guys followed Tucker at Tucker web More and hey, don't worry about going to show sold out suckers and check out uh Waves on a Sunset that hep came out just a couple of weeks ago, and there he is, Tucker web More, nice shot. 00:45:50 Speaker 2: Nice. 00:45:53 Speaker 9: The Bobby cast will be right back. This is the Bobby cast on the Bobby Bones Show. 00:46:09 Speaker 8: Now, Nichols, Joe, how's it going, Buddy's going great, man, Good to see it's. 00:46:13 Speaker 1: Been a long time. Good to see you too, maybe like a year. I mean we see each other raised back football game, so I guess, but here we haven't seen each other. 00:46:18 Speaker 8: We're in good moods today, yeah, because we didn't see each other a razor back game. 00:46:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's you're right, that's true. I have a question. We were talking about you. I was at Stone Cold Steve Austin's house. We were doing some work with him. He brings you up. He went to your show, and he was did you know this? Did not know that? So he mentioned going to one, he mentioned going to one of your shows. He's a big fan of yours. Wow. We were talking about music and he was like, you know, I like Joe Nichols and he said he and his wife went to your show. And I thought that was pretty cool. And I know if you're a Stone Cold fan or not, but I thought, yeah, who doesn't love Stone Cold Steve Austin. 00:46:49 Speaker 8: Right, I was a fan before Third Downs at Arkansas became. 00:46:53 Speaker 1: You know, the stone called Steve Austin. Yeah, like he's one of the most famous people of our childhood. 00:46:59 Speaker 8: Inky, y'all didn't know that's what Arkansas does. On third downs, they played the Stone call Steve. 00:47:02 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I had to explained that that's okay. Him and I having a private conversation and you don't read him. He never said what's up. He just came to the show and right, have you ever met Stone Cold? I've never met him, so I don't know. Maybe, yeah, he was at a show. You're like, it was him and George Strait. You know, he brought up. He brought you up at George Strait. 00:47:19 Speaker 8: For a long time, I did drink a lot, So it's possible that some of those years I didn't know anybody. 00:47:24 Speaker 1: I didn't meet anybody. Really, I feel like it was pretty recent though, don't you think I think he said it was recent? Well, then I have no excuse. Yeah, but I think he just wanted to go to the show as a normal guy. Huh. And he did, and he was like he loves Joe Nichols. 00:47:37 Speaker 2: That is awesome. 00:47:38 Speaker 1: I know. I thought you'd want to know that because I woun't want to know that. Well, uh, if you see him again. You probably won't, but if I do, I'll tell him. You ever have like people reach out and come to a show, like who's been the coolest like athlete or like other artists or celebrity to ever come to a show? 00:47:54 Speaker 8: Uh, you know, it's a weird group of people, I gotta say. And most of the time they canceled the last minute. Uh Tebow was supposed to come to a show. I think he canceled the last minute. I don't know what it is about me they cancel last minute. 00:48:06 Speaker 1: I tried to say, something's life on the side of the road, something like he was probably coming to the show and had to like stop and that's broke. 00:48:11 Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely, Uh, let's see. 00:48:15 Speaker 1: You know, there's some some strange stuff. 00:48:16 Speaker 8: I think in act Sean Penn, I think was supposed to come to the show we did in San Francisco. 00:48:20 Speaker 1: Somebody's supposed to come. Is it may ever show up? 00:48:22 Speaker 8: No, I'm like I've been a show. Time'm like we're showing. He's supposed to be here, Like, ah, yeah, he gets stuck, he couldn't make it. He's with the governor or something like that. 00:48:30 Speaker 1: It was. It was something like that, who have you found out was a big fan of yours? Then let's say that, because I guess t Bow and Shan Pinn would count. If they wanted to come to a show, they must have known who you were. 00:48:38 Speaker 8: I would imagine that conversation was like, who am I going to see tonight? 00:48:41 Speaker 1: Who's that guy again? Why am I? Why am I there? 00:48:43 Speaker 8: It was for a performing arts place out there in San Francisco. Man, you know a lot of football players. That DJ Moore that plays the Bears. Yeah, he's He was at a show recently and I was like, it's cool to meet you, big NFL. 00:48:57 Speaker 1: NFL fans you ever get do you get people to sign stuff if they come to us? Or do you play it cool? Man? No, I don't. 00:49:02 Speaker 8: The only time I've ever done something like that was

when I did the thing with with Posts not too long ago, and I had him do a video for my daughter's You know, my my ten year old and my twelve year old. Girls in middle school can be a little rough, you know. I I've learned this as a as a girl dad. And that would have, you know, made them like super super popular in at school because post Malone's cold to the postmone is awesome and yeah, so they found I was doing that and they're like why, uh they why Just. 00:49:33 Speaker 1: A long story. 00:49:34 Speaker 8: So anyway, I was like when I met him, like, oh man, I hate I hate doing this. I'm sorry. But instead of like a sign thing, you mind taking a little video, you know, for my kids. You know, sometimes they have rough days and this might cheer them up. And he's like, oh, yeah, we shot this video. He's super cool by the way, he shot this video and he totally cussed her. 00:49:50 Speaker 1: And I was like, they're not gonna be a show that they go to a Christian school. Look at you know, look at the fun. So you did posted a show, post only did a show and you played at it. Is it Marathon Music works here right in town, right? 00:50:06 Speaker 4: Yeah? 00:50:07 Speaker 1: So how did that come together? I was gonna ask you that, man. It was a weird thing. I was ironing closed one day. 00:50:12 Speaker 8: There's no kidd and I like to iron in the middle of the day because it kind of, you know, gives me a time to think about stuff. And uh my, one of my management company people called me and said, hey, Post Malone's trying to get ahold of you. And I'm like, I'm sure you got the wrong number. I'm positive I'm not the guy. You meant to say that too. And they're like, no, he's he's a big fan and and uh loves loves you stuff and wants you to come out and do a show with him at stage Coach and I was like, I was like, Saturday, right, He's said yes, And I said, I have a show in Texas Saturday. 00:50:42 Speaker 1: And he's like, well, we'll just get out of it. 00:50:44 Speaker 8: I have an actual tour and fans and they pay me money to go to a show and I can't just sorry, guys, I gonna go see Post. So I was I wasn't able to do that. I was like, I tell him, I'm sorry, I give him a number, you know. And I was that was the last I expected to hear anything about that. And fast forward a few weeks, his guy reached out again, like, hey man, Joe Post really wants to talk to Joe, invite him to another thing. What days you got available. I'm like, I'm starting to think you really are a fan of start, really think you know my name. And so anyway, we got together and came to soundcheck. We wanted to do Broken Heartsfield for his album release, and so went to soundcheck and I was ready, and I was so ready. In situations like that, you never know what to expect. I was so expecting. I got to go, yeah, didn't you sing this one song? You know, and then have to learn broken Heartsfield. We're not really a fan. But he kind of knew who I was a little not that guy at all. He

was like, man, this is such a cool deal. And I knew all of it, and he kind of knew a lot of stuff that I wasn't expecting to know. And I came out there and you know, soundcheck, sang the first line, wore that cowboy hat, and he's like, ah. 00:51:49 Speaker 1: This is amazing. 00:51:51 Speaker 8: I was like, oh man, this makes me feel like I'm singing this for the first time, Like. 00:51:54 Speaker 1: Is this impressive? Is this good? That's great? That's really cool. Yeah, that's super cool guy. Did you get your close iron though? Like all my wrinkles are all gone? The question that story is they did get ironed? 00:52:04 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:52:05 Speaker 8: I don't know if you've ever done this. I had to learn this lesson the hard way. But don't ever iron naked that it's a terrible habit. I learned, and I had to unlearn it quick. 00:52:13 Speaker 1: I would imagine it was the hot water would get you the steam water? Yeah, because I put water when I iron That's not what I was thinking about. 00:52:21 Speaker 8: Yeah, unless you're not coordinated and just bumping stuff. 00:52:23 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I feel yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I never have. I don't do a lot of ironing. I go, I go to the dryer. I'm just a dude, you know. I go to the dry Yeah. I just throw in the dryer and it is what it is when it comes out. You know, if it survives, it survives. I was reading it's nineteen years and since Tequila makes her clothes fall off? Oh my god, right, is it nineteen years years? That's wild. It feels like that that I would just listening to that song like living life. Yeah, does that feel like many lives ago or yesterday? Both? It feels like it happened last year. You know. It's such a big kind of career song for me. Man, I don't know. Sometimes many of those things happened to somebody else. 00:53:07 Speaker 8: It feels like, you know, the Broken Heartsville era of my life and then Tequila and then you know the later hits. Like I said, it all kind of feels like different people for different different reasons. I was crazy in two thousand and five and two thousand and six, I mean crazy and uh, I'm going to work fur coats and stuff. 00:53:25 Speaker 1: Like that kind of season. This guy's lost his mind. 00:53:28 Speaker 8: Like I show up like middle of the afternoon in a suit, like I'm here to. 00:53:33 Speaker 1: Do something Iron two and iron burn coat. 00:53:37 Speaker 8: But no, I was a little crazy. But yeah, it does feel like many lives ago. 00:53:41 Speaker 1: Nineteen years I mean, it makes me start to feel like that's many lives ago because that's a song that I can remember where I was in my life. Like there are nine or ten, twelve of those songs that you hear and you're like, oh man, it kind of puts me in that place where I was now nineteen years ago and now here you are. I don't know. For you, I feel like you could just play all the hits and be good. Yeah, but also there's an artist part of you that wants to keep creating. How do

you balance that? Uh? 00:54:07 Speaker 8: Well, I keep finding myself wanting to cut new music, and I've heard some of my friends that have kind of walked away a little bit that goes away, like I don't really want to cut anything else I've done what I've done. You know, it's a it's kind of a grind to do new music, you know, from the production of it to you know, the promotion of it. It's just a long, busy process. And like you're right, and like you said, you're right, I could probably set sail a little bit if I wanted to. 00:54:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, be fine. 00:54:38 Speaker 8: I remember that moment my book, and Agy told me that he's like, all right, at this point, we justly have this conversation with our artists. If you never had another hit, never had another thing, you'd be fine. Here's what you're gonna do, here's the money you get, blah blah, blah blah. And I'm like, all right, that sounds a lot like you want me to hire and no, no, no, just saying if you're ever thinking about, you know, where you're at in life, where you're at in your career, you could end it today and you'd be fine, And like, oh go, it makes me want to start over again. 00:55:01 Speaker 1: I don't want to get to that point. And so honky tonks and country songs and do all the songs kind of sound because I've heard some of the songs. They all kind of feel like you're in a hockey talk. Yeah. 00:55:11 Speaker 8: Yeah, I think for the most part, we got a guitar, guitar. Yeah, we got still guitar. We got a even fiddle on this. Can you believe that we got fiddle steal guitar. 00:55:20 Speaker 1: It's a lot of dance stuff. You know. 00:55:22 Speaker 8: When I started playing in clubs in the mid nineties, we used to do a lot of you know, Beaches of Cheyenne and a lot of George Straight songs that you dance to, two steppers and even some line dancing, and so this album has a lot of those on there. That's that's what I remember about the nineties being cool is we had a lot of stuff you could dance too. 00:55:39 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:55:39 Speaker 1: I go Electric Cowboy. Oh yeah, yeah, they play Nelly, but I would freaking nail some George Straight. I two step. My grandma taught me a two step. I was multi dimensional at the Electric Cowboy because I can't grind. I can also two step. I needed to. I want to play the new song here better than you. So Annie Bosco part of the song, Yeah tell me about this, watch you pick the song. 00:56:00 Speaker 4: So. 00:56:01 Speaker 8: The song is co written by one of the co producers of My record, and it's kind of rare that you see a song that's actually written for as a duet. 00:56:10 Speaker 1: You know. 00:56:11 Speaker 8: That's what they did with this song, and we knew it was a hit. We felt like it was a hit anyway if we just didn't screw it up. It felt like one of those Aldan duets that he's had a lot of success with. And so we're like, all right, now we need a good duet partner. And we kind of talked about some of the younger artists and like, an, I wouldn't feel right. You know, I'm not sixty, but I'm not twenty, so you know, kind of age appropriate here. Let's let's get somebody that would be believable. And so they crossed, like the mega Maroney's off the list, so like that's creepy. 00:56:41 Speaker 1: Like the love of your life, right, So we. 00:56:44 Speaker 8: We kind of started talking about artists and Benny Brown who just signed this this girl any Bosco from California, great singer, phenomenal singer and a phenomenal personality, like a super charming lady. And he's like, man, check out her live show and see what you think. And we did a show together in El Paso, Texas, and she sang like Chris christoffers and songs. And I was expecting like the young you know, let me talk about Max's boyfriend all that kind of stuff, and she was like super into the old stuff like I get into. And so I was like, Okay, we got this is a little bit of magic, and so I asked her to be a part of that. We asked her to be a part of that, and she's like, absolutely, let's do this. And you know, she sang it great. She works her tail off, works really hard. She's super pretty, you know, which makes you know who she is. Makes it awkward with my wife, and. 00:57:30 Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen her or like I like watch her videos on TikTok or something. Yeah, because as soon as I saw that you did the song with her, I was like, how do I know, Annie? I think that's how like like because I obviously follow a lot of country music people on TikTok. Yeah, I think I've just seen her perform. She's good. She is good. Yeah, she's really good. 00:57:48 Speaker 8: And she does great on the social media stuff, which I do not do well. I think my the things that I think are funny, I'll send to the people that post stuff and like this is funny, right, and they're like, oh God, don't even say that, Like. 00:58:00 Speaker 1: Why are you ironing naked? Why did you say a video you ironing naked? 00:58:02 Speaker 2: Joe Hotel? 00:58:06 Speaker 1: All right, Joe's got this album Honky Talks and Country Songs. It comes out October twenty fifth. He's got some songs out from it now. But country Boy Can Survive is that's like a legendary song obviously in country music. But you talk about just Arkansas, where we come from. On a Friday Saturday, I mean just playing like even at when Walmart parking lot, somebody's got their windows down playing this song loud. So you covered this? 00:58:29 Speaker 8: It did, yeah, completely not a dancer, not a dance song really more of a tailgate or a bonfire. 00:58:35 Speaker 1: Song, Walmart parking lots song. Yeah, why this one of boy? It's a great song. But I wonder what drew you to cover this? 00:58:41 Speaker 8: So it's it began with something I did live. I did a cover of Rooster, the Alison Chains song. 00:58:47 Speaker 1: Nick called the Rooster. I said, what you did, yeah, dude, And that's cool. 00:58:52 Speaker 8: It was because the character kind of

seems like the same guy, like this guy come back from Vietnam and he's just a country boy Cancer Vibe guy, a little can't mess with megs, I'll mess with you kind of guy. We've known a lot of those people, you know, from being where we're from, and so I mashed it up live and it works great because a lot of country fans, a lot of older country fans today know Alison Chains music and like they've come over to the country a little bit like me. I love Alison Chains back in the nineties, So. 00:59:23 Speaker 1: That mashup was cool. 00:59:25 Speaker 8: Lives wanted to do it in the studio when we got a studio doing a mashup, and like, I don't know if we can make this work without cutting it separately and then doing some magic, you know, technology wise and making that happen. And so we ended up cutting two separate tracks and getting a really good cut on the entire country Board Cancer Vive track, and I'm. 00:59:41 Speaker 1: Like, well, this is pretty cool. Maybe we should keep this. 00:59:44 Speaker 8: I'm usually I'm like, let's not cut Hello Darling or Friends of Little Places, or you know, any kind of signature song. You stay away from those things, you know, because you're gonna make everybody mad and it's never gonna be as good as the original. I feel like we got a good enough cut where it's not like, oh god, we did this. The energy's right. It's got a cool, like break away from the album moment. You know, there's something recognizable in there. Got a little bit grit. 01:00:09 Speaker 1: You still live away from Nashville, right, Yeah. I feel like if you don't live here, you can actually separate and have a real human life and then a real professional life. Yeah why did you seek that out? I had no choice on the matter. Really. 01:00:22 Speaker 8: I got married in two thousand and seven, and my wife made it about a year in Nashville, and she's like, I'm going to Texas. So you can come with me or not, but I'm going to Texas. And I don't think she fit in really a lot here, and I was gone a lot, so I was on the road. She'd be home, you know, at the house, and you know, we've talked about raising kids, and so she's like, you know, I got my family in East Texas. You know that ain't really fair to me to kind of let make me raise a kid alone here in Nashville where I don't really like anybody. 01:00:51 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's and you're gone all I mean it's a great point. You're not here that much anyway. 01:00:56 Speaker 8: Yeah, and and there's just a lot of stuff that, you know, I want to raise the kids in a normal life, normal normal crowd. 01:01:03 Speaker 1: You know that they can kind of get through. 01:01:05 Speaker 8: Not anything knock against Nashville, but that you do have to kind of fit into a groove here. That's you know, people are kind of related to the business somehow. 01:01:14 Speaker 1: It's not all reality all the time. Yeah, it's a it's a weird place. I would imagine to have kids too, because I mean, you got like other celebrity kids running around and probably yeah, yeah, I know. I admire the fact that you know, you chunk deuces and got out of here, like that's awesome. Uh so is she from there? Is that like her family? She's from Longview? Right, that's where you want to be in your family anyway. 01:01:36 Speaker 2: Right. 01:01:36 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, save on childcare, that's all I hear. Save on childcare. It's easy to do. That's right. Well, it's been really good to see you man, Good to see you too. Congrats on the new song and can't wait for the full record to be out. And the cover is really cool that hangs you and your cover. I'm going to have you sign on the back of this Arkansas helmet here. Yes, so so far it's just you and Tracy Lawrence. Oh cool, there's a here, here's the the well. Yes it is actually so there's a theme here. It's only people from Arkansas, all right, and so if you sign that and then we're gonna auction it off eventually, so I can sign it pretty big. Then is there's only like four of us? Yes? Can you see it? Yeah? Okay, not as good as Tracking and Lawrence. Okay, all right, do we have a do we have a Yeah? That's good. You can see that, okay, and then I'll auction and keep all the money for myself, all right, perfect, Yeah, veryfact. Yeah. Great to see you. I hope the record just crushes. I appreciate it, man, Thank you man. Keep being you. Whenever they were like Joe's coming by, like I love Joe, so you know, it's it's always an automatic. Yes, So thanks for coming by and we'll see you soon, buddy. Thank you man. You guys be sure to check out Hockey Talks and Country Songs comes out October twenty fifth, but there are some songs that are out now, like as Doing Life, with You out now. Yeah, we've released two of them to DSPs and that and know if I had them or if they were out yeah doing live with you? 01:02:53 Speaker 2: What do I? 01:02:53 Speaker 1: Bottle it up? Bottle it up is the other one. Yeah, And so Country Boy Can't Survive, though not yet. 01:02:58 Speaker 8: I think that's going to drop with the album, kind of like a one of the meat and potatoes things from the album. 01:03:03 Speaker 1: You know, I love meat potatoes. You guys love me potatoes, love potatoes all right at Joe Nichols and Joe go 01:03:11 Speaker 5: To see you, buddy, Thank you for coming me you, thank you, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production