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Well, good morning.
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Good morning.
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Welcome to the table.
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Thank you.
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You haven't did you even sleep last night?
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That's the question.
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Uh I got about four hours.
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From his last performance.
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That's right.
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And that's what we call a working musician in Nashville, Tennessee.
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That's right.
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I'm so honored and blessed to be sitting down with you because I think I don't think there are many people in this town that don't know you.
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Would you think there are a a small number of people that still don't know you in this town, Bryson?
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Just a small number.
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Small town.
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Well, in Midtown, Bryson Cooper is the man.
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And they have a rolling and roving musician group, which we should nickname at some point.
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If you have any ideas, please drop it down there for us.
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But um about 40 to 50 of you that roll around to all of the real places.
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And to me, this is how old Nashville was formed.
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Absolutely.
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Friendships, situationships, and fun.
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And fun, yeah.
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Tell me a little bit about what you've been up to these days, Bryson.
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Oh, I've been traveling a lot lately.
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Uh it's been good.
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Haven't been back home in quite some time, but just been playing shows.
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Uh me and Dan Marshall were having a good run there at Duck Blind for a while, and then absolutely kind of been on the road, so he's been missing me a little bit.
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But other than that, when I'm in town and playing a lot and uh been to Florida, Alabama, a lot in the south.
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So um it's been good, good summer so far and a little away time too.
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So uh just grinding but also relaxing a little bit.
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Well, I look forward to getting to home on the road, and you just said, and actually you have a little commercial there for us, you are a Hoosiers fan, and I think that's because you're from Indiana.
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That's right.
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Uh tell me about home.
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Where are you from, and you know, discover there.
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Yeah.
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Um I'm from New Palestine, Indiana.
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Uh grew up there my whole life.
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Um parents grew up there.
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Um grandparents basically grew up there.
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And um, that's all I know.
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That's really all I know is home in Indiana until I moved here three years ago.
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But um small town upbringing, and uh, we loved our Indiana Hoosiers, and that's uh that's how I grew up.
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So you're you're so you're also a fellow football fan.
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I'm gonna go ahead and plug Ole Miss now before we get away, before it gets away from me.
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But we won't be seeing you in the season.
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Yeah.
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But we'll be cheering on the Hoosiers from way afar for you on behalf of you.
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So did you grow up country?
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That's the question.
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Yeah, I mean, country in my own way, I think.
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Tell me what that means.
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Uh every Saturday I was at my grandparents' house.
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They lived out in the country, not like a farm or anything, but just out.
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And uh I just used to spend hours in this fort that I had out there, um, you know, with my BB gun and, you know, trying to shoot blackbirds across the sky in the corn's fields and um mowing the grass with my fake mower while my grandpa mowed the grass.
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Uh you know, it turned into a long time of me cutting grass growing up.
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A precursor, little bright things playing with uh Fisher Price moves on to the bigger and better things of cutting grass for other people.
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Absolutely.
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And uh Yeah, it was just a simple life uh growing up in the country.
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It's not like my grandparents or my dad or anything took me hunting or anything like that.
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It was just slower, slower living when I was uh a kid.
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So that helped a lot.
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Yeah.
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Well that's good.
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And when you think about where you came from and what inspired you to take on music, tell me about that journey.
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Well, uh it all goes back to my grandpa, honestly.
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Um every Saturday when I was over there, my grandpa, my mom, and my great uncles had a band called uh Timberline.
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Uh that was their country band in the 90s.
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Then it kind of moved to more uh a modern country band, and then it moved to uh a Christian band.
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And every Saturday they would have band practice in the garage at my grandparents' and I was just there.
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And I just had my little get fake guitars playing along.
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Then when I was about five, that turned into playing real guitars and being a part of the band.
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We would travel state of Indiana playing every church that would let us play as a family, yeah, Christian band, and I would play mandolin.
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And uh yeah, it was it was fun.
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If I knew that part about you, I would have asked you to bring the mandolin because that's I don't even know where it is.
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Oh come on, you gotta bring that one out because I know how fabulous you are on guitar.
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And I've gotten the opportunity to see you live.
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It's fantastic.
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Very excited to see you play today.
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Um and and just knowing that you were brought up around it makes all the difference in the world because it's like the beat was was beat into you.
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I mean, you were right there on the sidelines with these people playing, and a lot of people's stories start where they were just knee high and and other people were performing around them, and it just becomes part of your your roots, your true roots and your blood.
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And so what it when you think of home, what did it sound like?
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So you were playing mandolin.
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A lot of it's a lot of noise.
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Always something going on.
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Uh you know, my it was either my family, my mom laughing, and I get my laugh from my mom for sure.
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And just a lot of laughs, a lot of uh just uh true home talk, you know, uh, you know, what'd you do today?
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How was your day?
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Stuff like that.
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That's what it sounds like to me with uh music playing in the background somewhere.
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What do you think Indiana taught you that that you were able to bring to Nashville?
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Just being true to yourself, being kind to other people, not taking life too seriously, but serious enough.
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Oh yeah.
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Um and just just being okay with what you have, honestly.
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Didn't have much growing up, but we had enough and we had each other, and that's what it kinda goes with down here.
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You got your friends, you got your people around you.
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We're all kind of in the same boat.
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So that's kind of what it's we really are on the same boat.
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I think that's a I think that's a principle I go back to time and time again, that we're all in this together.
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Um and how can we make it through and ease each other's burdens.
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I think I can hear that a little bit in your lyrics and we'll get to that or you know, understand your creative process.
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Um so you've been in Nashville now for a little bit of a while.
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Coming up on three years.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So it feels like a longer than that, but um three years in September.
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And uh been able to accomplish a lot, still yet to accomplish all the things, but yeah, I'm I'm very blessed to be where I am right now.
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And you have some new you have some pretty new music.
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Yeah.
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Tell me about that.
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Um a new single just came out a few months ago called Thinking and Driving.
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Might play it today, we'll see.
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Yeah.
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And then uh I'm working on an acoustic EP right now of um some cover songs that I love playing.
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Okay.
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You know, I I play five at least five times a week and playing cover gigs.
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Yeah.
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I'm like, well, I might as well put out my own version of these songs.
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So I think people would really like to hear that.
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So uh I'm putting out like a seven-song acoustic cover EP.
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Um, just some of my favorites of all time.
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Okay.
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And uh then after that I'll put out acoustic original EP.
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So that's kind of what's coming up.
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Probably throw a single in there at some point.
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Oh, you should.
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Yeah, I will.
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Um actually that that single is called Truck and a Problem, and I wrote it in 2021.
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I think a lot of girls could relate to Truck and a Problem.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Probably a lot of guys could relate to a truck and a problem too.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Uh my buddy back home, Jake Dodds, he cut it a few years ago after hearing it just on Instagram.
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And um he he let me keep all the rights to it, and so I'm gonna put out my version this year.
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Um a lot of life in songs, many different lives that songs live.
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So I'm bad.
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Um yeah, five years ago to now.
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It's it's kind of crazy.
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When do you think of your creative process?
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What does that look like for you?
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Do you start with the the sound or the lyrics?
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It depends on the day, usually a hook of some sort.
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But um obviously I'm a very guitar-minded person, so I try to come in with a lick or something, you know, that I've been working on and uh try to match that up with something that is uh going on in my life, or maybe not trucking a problem.
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I didn't own a truck at that point in my life, but you know, there's certain things in there.
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So you just kind of with your co-writers, what's going on in your lives right now?
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And uh, you know, you might have a five-minute debrief, you may have a two-hour debrief, and then you know, the song kind of creates itself at that point.
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When you have a listening ear, you hear a lot.
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So I imagine that you probably have heard quite a bit on all the sides.
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One thing I do know about you from one of conversation that we've had is that you adore 80s country music.
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Yes, I do.
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I just feel like you're a purist, is what I call it.
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Because I relish in the fact that I too am an 80s country girl.
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So at any given Friday night, you're gonna hear that in my house playing.
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Absolutely.
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Much to my family's probably like, what is going on?
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So what made you love country, classic country?
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My grandpa.
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He did?
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Yep, yeah, absolutely.
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I mean, all the songs I still play today at gigs were songs that his band played in the 90s and 2000s when I was growing up.
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That's all I heard.
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You know, I they weren't necessarily listening to country radio at that point.
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They were listening still to tapes and CDs from the eighties and nineties.
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And um I used to have a burnt CD of their old like one of their old live sets of their band.
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And I would just listen to that on repeat.
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Because it was a lot of cover songs.
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It was all cover songs of the 80s that I just learned to love that they played.
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Okay, now we know you have to put out that cover too.
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That's gonna be a lot of fun.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Oh my gosh.
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So when you think of, you know, what still speaks to you in those lyrics when you write?
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Uh just simple stuff, you know.
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It's like the love, the heartache, the the simpler times of living.
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Um it all relates to stuff today, you know.
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I I love I love the music today too.
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It's just a little more in in-depth sometimes.
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Uh, you know, you gotta think about it harder.
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But back then it was just they said it, they got their point across.
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And uh, you know, there was always something about digging deeper for sure, but it it never took too much to figure out, especially in my four-year-old mind back then when I was listening to it.
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So yeah, I guess getting started real young.
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Yeah.
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So when you think of you know what you're chasing now, because you're a working musician and an artist.
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Absolutely.
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And it's just an ever-evolving thing.
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I mean, you work really hard, and I've heard I hear from out artists out in the way that they're always like Bryson's always working and he's willing to work.
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Yeah.
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And so you have that consistent spirit.
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What keeps you chasing?
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Just uh never being satisfied with where I'm at.
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I mean, I'm content, but um, I always want more, I always want to meet new people.
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I always want to learn.
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Um, you know, there's a lot of great guitar players in this town.
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Oh my gosh.
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You know, so many.
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And I'm not the greatest guitar player, but I know what I'm doing, at least to my standards.
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Humility is a gift because he is incredible.
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He's incredible.
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But uh it's just constantly learning, and I've learned so much from some of the people closest to me in this town, honestly.
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Um my bandmates, other artists, just constantly learning um from them and uh you know what to do, what not to do.
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And uh yeah, that's I think that's what's made me not satisfied.
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Yeah, yeah.
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When you think of Nashville and all the different musicians that are here, what stood out what has stood out to you as one of your most Nashville moments?
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Like, you know what I mean?
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Like this is a keystone.
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This was a Nashville moment for me.
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Then you're kind of I mean, you know, a little bit like yeah, that was cool.
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I just I think honestly for me it was when like I started playing Broadway a little bit, and then um it was kind of with a different band, but then I was able to take over that shift on Broadway and have my own band come in with uh just star players in this town.
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I think that first gig where it was those guys um really was like a moment for me because I've just never been surrounded by those type of players in my life.
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Who are they?
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Uh well Sam Hunt, who uh plays at Losers with me all the time.
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He's on the road with Caitlin Butts now.
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Um Sean David on bass, one of my best friends, Jay Smith on fiddle, and uh Pete Hallowan on drums.
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That's kind of my band now.
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And once I those guys came together and we kind of figured out what we were doing, just one of those moments I was like, well, this is what it's about.
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Yeah.
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You know, five guys getting together playing country music, and we're doing it because we love it.
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Yeah, you're having a good time, and people can feel that.
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And I think that's one of the things I love to see in music when people are still trying to have a good time out there so that you're having a good time on the other side of that.
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It makes for a really good concert and a music experience.
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Absolutely.
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And and it's a lot of fun.
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Where do you hope that your music will take you?
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Who knows?
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You know, maybe somewhere far away from here, hopefully.
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Yeah, you know, but it's always gonna be rooted here.
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Sure.
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Um, but I I want to travel.
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I've always been uh one to love to travel and go different places.
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So uh and I've been blessed to be able to do that um already, but you know, there's still a lot of places I haven't been.
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So uh, you know, I hope I can kind of go many places in this world, in this country, play my music, show my story.
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That's kind of where I hope it takes me.
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Absolutely.
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Who what tell me a dream artist you'd love to open for on the road?
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Oh gosh.
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Um Keith Urban.
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Oh yeah.
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And I know his story, so what do you love most about Keith?
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He's just been a big influence on me as a artist and guitar player.
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A lot of my sound is very Keith's.
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I love that early 2000s thing.
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And uh I love his overcoming story of himself.
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And uh he puts a lot into his music and he lives and breathes it.
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It's very in the studio, you know, a part of it.
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And that's what I love about it.
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Do you have an overcoming story that that maybe we don't know about you yet?
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Yeah, uh sure.
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Um you know, as a we were talking about my upbringing and stuff like that.
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Very loving, very small town, very didn't have a lot.
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Um my parents got divorced when I was 12.
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Um that was a very hard time for me as a going into high school, um not knowing what was really going on and uh trying to figure that out.
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First loves, first all this.
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But um you know, my parents got divorced.
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It was just me and my mom for like a year or so.
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And uh she she was a young mom, she had me at 17, so she was figuring out life too.
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Um then she married my stepdad uh about a year or two later, and um we moved, we all moved in together, ended up having two little stepsisters out of nowhere after being an only child for 15 years.
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Oh wow they were five and six.
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So that was an adjustment.
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And then about two months after that, my dad moved to Houston, Texas, um kind of out of nowhere.
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So it was just a hard overcoming thing.
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But music always brought me back, uh you know, especially at home, just listening to music.
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And uh that was always a grounding point in my life.
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Oh yeah.
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Um even while I was playing sports and all that.
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And uh no matter what, music always kinda helped me through things.
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It has a way of settling our your soul when it seems that nothing else can.
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Absolutely.
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And just carrying you to the next one.
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And I yeah, broken home and and growing up together with your parents is is is a big deal.
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Yeah, it is.
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And uh I'm very blessed that I'm very still in contact with my dad.
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We have a great relationship.
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Me and my stepdad have a great relationship, and my mom a regular relationship, so it uh it's all worked out in the end.
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It sounds like families really uh supported you on this journey, too.
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Absolutely.
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Um I'm probably the first one to ever do something like this in my family.
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Uh-huh.
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So you know it's it's a big thing to have that support back home, you know, when you can call anyone and you know, they're willing to help you out in any way.
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You've got to be really proud of the journey that you're taking.
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Absolutely.
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To get out there and and it's a cowboy move to just get out there and do it.
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Yeah, uh it is it is.
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It's uh you know, to get out on your own feet and because I've always been a I was always a homebody growing up too.
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Um and I struggled going away to college.
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So that was uh actually probably helped me a lot moving away from home at first.
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So then when I moved away the second time, I was like, yeah, I'm ready to ready to get out of here and go do my own thing.
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So what m what song are you gonna share with us today?
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I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna do uh my latest single because uh I think it um kind of relates to the small town life that I've lived and you know, just thinking going out on drives uh on the country roads and not worrying about life because uh life can get in the way sometimes.
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So that's probably what I'm gonna do.
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Um What's the name of that single again?
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It's called Thinking and Driving.
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Thinking and Driving, which you've been doing a lot of being on tour.
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Yes, yeah, on the road.
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It's uh a lot of looking out the window at nothing.
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So a lot of inspiration to take it out.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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It uh it never ends.
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So And when you think of your lyrics for the song, who do you think they would reach the most?
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Uh probably probably people my age, um, you know, who are figuring out life.
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Um you know, life in your twenties is never easy.
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Uh it's about figuring out life and what's the next steps to where you want to go.
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What do you want out of life?
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Yeah.
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Um do you want a family?
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Do you want all that later in life?
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So um I think just people who uh need to get away and escape, you know, their own uh surroundings for a little bit.
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So that's probably all of us at the end of the day.
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But yeah, you have a great keep going story, and I think there are a ton like a lot of musicians who I just hear that are struggling to continue to to just keep the momentum to keep going.
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What advice would you give to anyone who's out there with their music and they're just struggling to say, ah, I just don't want I just want to throw it in and go?
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What would you tell them?
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I would say uh well, first don't quit.
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It's never uh a great thing to quit on anything you do in life.
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Um But you know, wake up every day, be blessed, thank God you're still here, and uh just put two feet in front of the other, walk a straight line, it's never gonna be straight.
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So make your own path through it, honestly.
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Because uh it ain't gonna make itself for you.
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So and uh it's okay to say no to things in life.
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Uh I learned that the hard way.
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If it's not meant for you, it's not.
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Um just keep going and don't don't stress too much about life because it's not worth it in the end.
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So when did you say no?
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And and it changed the direction.
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I'd say uh probably in college.
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Uh you know, I had a lot of pressure trying to figure out what I wanted to do in my life, whether it was business or you know, all these degrees and stuff.
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You know, I probably tried three different degrees and then uh I finally said no, I don't I don't want to do any of this.
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And uh I studied music technology and that really just jump started to where I am today.
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So and then when you first move to Nashville, you also uh can say no to a lot of things as well.
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So there's a good reason to say no to a number of things, young people.
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Oh, that's so good.
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Uh well I we are so blessed that you're gonna share your gift, thinking and driving with us today.
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And we hope that you'll come back and visit with us m a lot.
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Absolutely.
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I have a gift to share with you before you leave.
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I created a candle, it's for your home.
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Oh, you can take it on the road if you want to.
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Or you can take it back home to mama.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So we'll give that to you.
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And I'm so grateful.
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Thank you so much, Pricey Keeper.
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We can't wait to hear more from you and check out his song on all streaming platforms.
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All streaming platforms.
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Yes, and we'll try to plug it in here too for you to say, thank you so much.
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We're grateful for you.
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We are ready to hear you play.
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Are you ready?
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I'm ready.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Fools can get whiskey on rocks and drown their regrets.
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I've tried forgetting pills of medication, tried other women with lower expectations, but there just ain't enough when it comes to your love.
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Think I'll fire the old chivalry.
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I think I'll go for a ride.
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I've been lying, I'll try to pin my hand in the wind.
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Down I speak five flyin'.
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My heart's flying, but it ain't from the witch.
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Oh, I might be swervin, but it's just from the memory.
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I've been thinking driving.
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But I've been thinking driving.
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I ain't gonna stop putting mouth in between you and me.
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But this corner tank buzz gets me out of ten sea.
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I took shifting gears, forget no year.
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All the good times in the wind of you ain't got time.
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You're on my mind, put the lines up and lying, I prank up the end, my hand in the wind, down the back, I'm lying.
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My eyes finding, but I ain't from the wind.
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Why might be working?
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It's just from the memory.
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I've been thinking and driving.
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I've been thinking and driving.
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When it comes to your loof, I think I'll fire that old trivia and drive.
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Think I'll go for a ride.
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You weren't on my mind, but flying.
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I'll make up the hand my hand in the wind.
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My eyes put up and put it on the window.
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Oh my god, it's just gonna drive the happens and grab the five.
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Well, good morning.
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Good morning.
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Welcome to the table.
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Thank you.
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You haven't did you even sleep last night?
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That's the question.
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Uh I got about four hours.
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From his last performance.
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That's right.
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And that's what we call a working musician in Nashville, Tennessee.
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That's right.
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I'm so honored and blessed to be sitting down with you because I think I don't think there are many people in this town that don't know you.
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Would you think there are a a small number of people that still don't know you in this town, Bryson?
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Just a small number.
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Small town.
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Well, in Midtown, Bryson Cooper is the man.
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And they have a rolling and roving musician group, which we should nickname at some point.
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If you have any ideas, please drop it down there for us.
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But um about 40 to 50 of you that roll around to all of the real places.
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And to me, this is how old Nashville was formed.
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Absolutely.
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Friendships, situationships, and fun.
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And fun, yeah.
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Tell me a little bit about what you've been up to these days, Bryson.
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Oh, I've been traveling a lot lately.
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Uh it's been good.
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Haven't been back home in quite some time, but just been playing shows.
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Uh me and Dan Marshall were having a good run there at Duck Blind for a while, and then absolutely kind of been on the road, so he's been missing me a little bit.
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But other than that, when I'm in town and playing a lot and uh been to Florida, Alabama, a lot in the south.
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So um it's been good, good summer so far and a little away time too.
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So uh just grinding but also relaxing a little bit.
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Well, I look forward to getting to home on the road, and you just said, and actually you have a little commercial there for us, you are a Hoosiers fan, and I think that's because you're from Indiana.
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That's right.
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Uh tell me about home.
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Where are you from, and you know, discover there.
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Yeah.
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Um I'm from New Palestine, Indiana.
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Uh grew up there my whole life.
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Um parents grew up there.
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Um grandparents basically grew up there.
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And um, that's all I know.
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That's really all I know is home in Indiana until I moved here three years ago.
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But um small town upbringing, and uh, we loved our Indiana Hoosiers, and that's uh that's how I grew up.
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So you're you're so you're also a fellow football fan.
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I'm gonna go ahead and plug Ole Miss now before we get away, before it gets away from me.
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But we won't be seeing you in the season.
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Yeah.
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But we'll be cheering on the Hoosiers from way afar for you on behalf of you.
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So did you grow up country?
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That's the question.
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Yeah, I mean, country in my own way, I think.
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Tell me what that means.
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Uh every Saturday I was at my grandparents' house.
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They lived out in the country, not like a farm or anything, but just out.
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And uh I just used to spend hours in this fort that I had out there, um, you know, with my BB gun and, you know, trying to shoot blackbirds across the sky in the corn's fields and um mowing the grass with my fake mower while my grandpa mowed the grass.
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Uh you know, it turned into a long time of me cutting grass growing up.
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A precursor, little bright things playing with uh Fisher Price moves on to the bigger and better things of cutting grass for other people.
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Absolutely.
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And uh Yeah, it was just a simple life uh growing up in the country.
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It's not like my grandparents or my dad or anything took me hunting or anything like that.
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It was just slower, slower living when I was uh a kid.
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So that helped a lot.
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Yeah.
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Well that's good.
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And when you think about where you came from and what inspired you to take on music, tell me about that journey.
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Well, uh it all goes back to my grandpa, honestly.
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Um every Saturday when I was over there, my grandpa, my mom, and my great uncles had a band called uh Timberline.
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Uh that was their country band in the 90s.
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Then it kind of moved to more uh a modern country band, and then it moved to uh a Christian band.
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And every Saturday they would have band practice in the garage at my grandparents' and I was just there.
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And I just had my little get fake guitars playing along.
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Then when I was about five, that turned into playing real guitars and being a part of the band.
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We would travel state of Indiana playing every church that would let us play as a family, yeah, Christian band, and I would play mandolin.
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And uh yeah, it was it was fun.
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If I knew that part about you, I would have asked you to bring the mandolin because that's I don't even know where it is.
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Oh come on, you gotta bring that one out because I know how fabulous you are on guitar.
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And I've gotten the opportunity to see you live.
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It's fantastic.
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Very excited to see you play today.
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Um and and just knowing that you were brought up around it makes all the difference in the world because it's like the beat was was beat into you.
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I mean, you were right there on the sidelines with these people playing, and a lot of people's stories start where they were just knee high and and other people were performing around them, and it just becomes part of your your roots, your true roots and your blood.
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And so what it when you think of home, what did it sound like?
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So you were playing mandolin.
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A lot of it's a lot of noise.
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Always something going on.
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Uh you know, my it was either my family, my mom laughing, and I get my laugh from my mom for sure.
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And just a lot of laughs, a lot of uh just uh true home talk, you know, uh, you know, what'd you do today?
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How was your day?
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Stuff like that.
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That's what it sounds like to me with uh music playing in the background somewhere.
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What do you think Indiana taught you that that you were able to bring to Nashville?
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Just being true to yourself, being kind to other people, not taking life too seriously, but serious enough.
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Oh yeah.
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Um and just just being okay with what you have, honestly.
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Didn't have much growing up, but we had enough and we had each other, and that's what it kinda goes with down here.
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You got your friends, you got your people around you.
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We're all kind of in the same boat.
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So that's kind of what it's we really are on the same boat.
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I think that's a I think that's a principle I go back to time and time again, that we're all in this together.
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Um and how can we make it through and ease each other's burdens.
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I think I can hear that a little bit in your lyrics and we'll get to that or you know, understand your creative process.
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Um so you've been in Nashville now for a little bit of a while.
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Coming up on three years.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So it feels like a longer than that, but um three years in September.
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And uh been able to accomplish a lot, still yet to accomplish all the things, but yeah, I'm I'm very blessed to be where I am right now.
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And you have some new you have some pretty new music.
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Yeah.
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Tell me about that.
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Um a new single just came out a few months ago called Thinking and Driving.
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Might play it today, we'll see.
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Yeah.
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And then uh I'm working on an acoustic EP right now of um some cover songs that I love playing.
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Okay.
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You know, I I play five at least five times a week and playing cover gigs.
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Yeah.
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I'm like, well, I might as well put out my own version of these songs.
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So I think people would really like to hear that.
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So uh I'm putting out like a seven-song acoustic cover EP.
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Um, just some of my favorites of all time.
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Okay.
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And uh then after that I'll put out acoustic original EP.
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So that's kind of what's coming up.
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Probably throw a single in there at some point.
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Oh, you should.
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Yeah, I will.
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Um actually that that single is called Truck and a Problem, and I wrote it in 2021.
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I think a lot of girls could relate to Truck and a Problem.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Probably a lot of guys could relate to a truck and a problem too.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Uh my buddy back home, Jake Dodds, he cut it a few years ago after hearing it just on Instagram.
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And um he he let me keep all the rights to it, and so I'm gonna put out my version this year.
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Um a lot of life in songs, many different lives that songs live.
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So I'm bad.
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Um yeah, five years ago to now.
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It's it's kind of crazy.
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When do you think of your creative process?
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What does that look like for you?
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Do you start with the the sound or the lyrics?
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It depends on the day, usually a hook of some sort.
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But um obviously I'm a very guitar-minded person, so I try to come in with a lick or something, you know, that I've been working on and uh try to match that up with something that is uh going on in my life, or maybe not trucking a problem.
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I didn't own a truck at that point in my life, but you know, there's certain things in there.
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So you just kind of with your co-writers, what's going on in your lives right now?
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And uh, you know, you might have a five-minute debrief, you may have a two-hour debrief, and then you know, the song kind of creates itself at that point.
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When you have a listening ear, you hear a lot.
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So I imagine that you probably have heard quite a bit on all the sides.
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One thing I do know about you from one of conversation that we've had is that you adore 80s country music.
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Yes, I do.
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I just feel like you're a purist, is what I call it.
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Because I relish in the fact that I too am an 80s country girl.
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So at any given Friday night, you're gonna hear that in my house playing.
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Absolutely.
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Much to my family's probably like, what is going on?
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So what made you love country, classic country?
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My grandpa.
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He did?
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Yep, yeah, absolutely.
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I mean, all the songs I still play today at gigs were songs that his band played in the 90s and 2000s when I was growing up.
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That's all I heard.
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You know, I they weren't necessarily listening to country radio at that point.
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They were listening still to tapes and CDs from the eighties and nineties.
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And um I used to have a burnt CD of their old like one of their old live sets of their band.
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And I would just listen to that on repeat.
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Because it was a lot of cover songs.
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It was all cover songs of the 80s that I just learned to love that they played.
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Okay, now we know you have to put out that cover too.
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That's gonna be a lot of fun.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Oh my gosh.
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So when you think of, you know, what still speaks to you in those lyrics when you write?
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Uh just simple stuff, you know.
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It's like the love, the heartache, the the simpler times of living.
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Um it all relates to stuff today, you know.
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I I love I love the music today too.
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It's just a little more in in-depth sometimes.
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Uh, you know, you gotta think about it harder.
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But back then it was just they said it, they got their point across.
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And uh, you know, there was always something about digging deeper for sure, but it it never took too much to figure out, especially in my four-year-old mind back then when I was listening to it.
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So yeah, I guess getting started real young.
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Yeah.
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So when you think of you know what you're chasing now, because you're a working musician and an artist.
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Absolutely.
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And it's just an ever-evolving thing.
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I mean, you work really hard, and I've heard I hear from out artists out in the way that they're always like Bryson's always working and he's willing to work.
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Yeah.
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And so you have that consistent spirit.
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What keeps you chasing?
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Just uh never being satisfied with where I'm at.
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I mean, I'm content, but um, I always want more, I always want to meet new people.
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I always want to learn.
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Um, you know, there's a lot of great guitar players in this town.
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Oh my gosh.
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You know, so many.
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And I'm not the greatest guitar player, but I know what I'm doing, at least to my standards.
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Humility is a gift because he is incredible.
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He's incredible.
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But uh it's just constantly learning, and I've learned so much from some of the people closest to me in this town, honestly.
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Um my bandmates, other artists, just constantly learning um from them and uh you know what to do, what not to do.
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And uh yeah, that's I think that's what's made me not satisfied.
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Yeah, yeah.
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When you think of Nashville and all the different musicians that are here, what stood out what has stood out to you as one of your most Nashville moments?
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Like, you know what I mean?
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Like this is a keystone.
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This was a Nashville moment for me.
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Then you're kind of I mean, you know, a little bit like yeah, that was cool.
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I just I think honestly for me it was when like I started playing Broadway a little bit, and then um it was kind of with a different band, but then I was able to take over that shift on Broadway and have my own band come in with uh just star players in this town.
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I think that first gig where it was those guys um really was like a moment for me because I've just never been surrounded by those type of players in my life.
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Who are they?
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Uh well Sam Hunt, who uh plays at Losers with me all the time.
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He's on the road with Caitlin Butts now.
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Um Sean David on bass, one of my best friends, Jay Smith on fiddle, and uh Pete Hallowan on drums.
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That's kind of my band now.
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And once I those guys came together and we kind of figured out what we were doing, just one of those moments I was like, well, this is what it's about.
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Yeah.
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You know, five guys getting together playing country music, and we're doing it because we love it.
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Yeah, you're having a good time, and people can feel that.
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And I think that's one of the things I love to see in music when people are still trying to have a good time out there so that you're having a good time on the other side of that.
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It makes for a really good concert and a music experience.
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Absolutely.
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And and it's a lot of fun.
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Where do you hope that your music will take you?
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Who knows?
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You know, maybe somewhere far away from here, hopefully.
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Yeah, you know, but it's always gonna be rooted here.
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Sure.
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Um, but I I want to travel.
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I've always been uh one to love to travel and go different places.
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So uh and I've been blessed to be able to do that um already, but you know, there's still a lot of places I haven't been.
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So uh, you know, I hope I can kind of go many places in this world, in this country, play my music, show my story.
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That's kind of where I hope it takes me.
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Absolutely.
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Who what tell me a dream artist you'd love to open for on the road?
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Oh gosh.
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Um Keith Urban.
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Oh yeah.
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And I know his story, so what do you love most about Keith?
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He's just been a big influence on me as a artist and guitar player.
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A lot of my sound is very Keith's.
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I love that early 2000s thing.
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And uh I love his overcoming story of himself.
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And uh he puts a lot into his music and he lives and breathes it.
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It's very in the studio, you know, a part of it.
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And that's what I love about it.
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Do you have an overcoming story that that maybe we don't know about you yet?
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Yeah, uh sure.
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Um you know, as a we were talking about my upbringing and stuff like that.
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Very loving, very small town, very didn't have a lot.
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Um my parents got divorced when I was 12.
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Um that was a very hard time for me as a going into high school, um not knowing what was really going on and uh trying to figure that out.
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First loves, first all this.
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But um you know, my parents got divorced.
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It was just me and my mom for like a year or so.
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And uh she she was a young mom, she had me at 17, so she was figuring out life too.
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Um then she married my stepdad uh about a year or two later, and um we moved, we all moved in together, ended up having two little stepsisters out of nowhere after being an only child for 15 years.
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Oh wow they were five and six.
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So that was an adjustment.
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And then about two months after that, my dad moved to Houston, Texas, um kind of out of nowhere.
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So it was just a hard overcoming thing.
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But music always brought me back, uh you know, especially at home, just listening to music.
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And uh that was always a grounding point in my life.
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Oh yeah.
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Um even while I was playing sports and all that.
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And uh no matter what, music always kinda helped me through things.
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It has a way of settling our your soul when it seems that nothing else can.
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Absolutely.
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And just carrying you to the next one.
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And I yeah, broken home and and growing up together with your parents is is is a big deal.
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Yeah, it is.
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And uh I'm very blessed that I'm very still in contact with my dad.
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We have a great relationship.
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Me and my stepdad have a great relationship, and my mom a regular relationship, so it uh it's all worked out in the end.
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It sounds like families really uh supported you on this journey, too.
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Absolutely.
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Um I'm probably the first one to ever do something like this in my family.
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Uh-huh.
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So you know it's it's a big thing to have that support back home, you know, when you can call anyone and you know, they're willing to help you out in any way.
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You've got to be really proud of the journey that you're taking.
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Absolutely.
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To get out there and and it's a cowboy move to just get out there and do it.
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Yeah, uh it is it is.
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It's uh you know, to get out on your own feet and because I've always been a I was always a homebody growing up too.
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Um and I struggled going away to college.
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So that was uh actually probably helped me a lot moving away from home at first.
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So then when I moved away the second time, I was like, yeah, I'm ready to ready to get out of here and go do my own thing.
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So what m what song are you gonna share with us today?
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I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna do uh my latest single because uh I think it um kind of relates to the small town life that I've lived and you know, just thinking going out on drives uh on the country roads and not worrying about life because uh life can get in the way sometimes.
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So that's probably what I'm gonna do.
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Um What's the name of that single again?
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It's called Thinking and Driving.
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Thinking and Driving, which you've been doing a lot of being on tour.
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Yes, yeah, on the road.
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It's uh a lot of looking out the window at nothing.
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So a lot of inspiration to take it out.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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It uh it never ends.
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So And when you think of your lyrics for the song, who do you think they would reach the most?
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Uh probably probably people my age, um, you know, who are figuring out life.
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Um you know, life in your twenties is never easy.
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Uh it's about figuring out life and what's the next steps to where you want to go.
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What do you want out of life?
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Yeah.
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Um do you want a family?
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Do you want all that later in life?
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So um I think just people who uh need to get away and escape, you know, their own uh surroundings for a little bit.
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So that's probably all of us at the end of the day.
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But yeah, you have a great keep going story, and I think there are a ton like a lot of musicians who I just hear that are struggling to continue to to just keep the momentum to keep going.
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What advice would you give to anyone who's out there with their music and they're just struggling to say, ah, I just don't want I just want to throw it in and go?
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What would you tell them?
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I would say uh well, first don't quit.
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It's never uh a great thing to quit on anything you do in life.
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Um But you know, wake up every day, be blessed, thank God you're still here, and uh just put two feet in front of the other, walk a straight line, it's never gonna be straight.
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So make your own path through it, honestly.
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Because uh it ain't gonna make itself for you.
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So and uh it's okay to say no to things in life.
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Uh I learned that the hard way.
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If it's not meant for you, it's not.
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Um just keep going and don't don't stress too much about life because it's not worth it in the end.
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So when did you say no?
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And and it changed the direction.
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I'd say uh probably in college.
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Uh you know, I had a lot of pressure trying to figure out what I wanted to do in my life, whether it was business or you know, all these degrees and stuff.
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You know, I probably tried three different degrees and then uh I finally said no, I don't I don't want to do any of this.
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And uh I studied music technology and that really just jump started to where I am today.
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So and then when you first move to Nashville, you also uh can say no to a lot of things as well.
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So there's a good reason to say no to a number of things, young people.
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Oh, that's so good.
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Uh well I we are so blessed that you're gonna share your gift, thinking and driving with us today.
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And we hope that you'll come back and visit with us m a lot.
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Absolutely.
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I have a gift to share with you before you leave.
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I created a candle, it's for your home.
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Oh, you can take it on the road if you want to.
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Or you can take it back home to mama.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So we'll give that to you.
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And I'm so grateful.
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Thank you so much, Pricey Keeper.
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We can't wait to hear more from you and check out his song on all streaming platforms.
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All streaming platforms.
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Yes, and we'll try to plug it in here too for you to say, thank you so much.
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We're grateful for you.
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We are ready to hear you play.
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Are you ready?
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I'm ready.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Fools can get whiskey on rocks and drown their regrets.
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I've tried forgetting pills of medication, tried other women with lower expectations, but there just ain't enough when it comes to your love.
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Think I'll fire the old chivalry.
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I think I'll go for a ride.
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I've been lying, I'll try to pin my hand in the wind.
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Down I speak five flyin'.
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My heart's flying, but it ain't from the witch.
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Oh, I might be swervin, but it's just from the memory.
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I've been thinking driving.
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But I've been thinking driving.
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I ain't gonna stop putting mouth in between you and me.
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But this corner tank buzz gets me out of ten sea.
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I took shifting gears, forget no year.
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All the good times in the wind of you ain't got time.
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You're on my mind, put the lines up and lying, I prank up the end, my hand in the wind, down the back, I'm lying.
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My eyes finding, but I ain't from the wind.
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Why might be working?
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It's just from the memory.
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I've been thinking and driving.
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I've been thinking and driving.
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When it comes to your loof, I think I'll fire that old trivia and drive.
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Think I'll go for a ride.
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You weren't on my mind, but flying.
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I'll make up the hand my hand in the wind.
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My eyes put up and put it on the window.
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Oh my god, it's just gonna drive the happens and grab the five.
