Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:13 What is up everyone? How we doing? Welcome back to the In the Round podcast. You got Matt and Tyler.
Speaker 2 00:00:19 What's up? Everybody
Speaker 1 00:00:20 Up in Oceanview, Delaware of all places. We're a long way away from
Speaker 2 00:00:24 Nashville. We're not in the south anymore. Boys
Speaker 1 00:00:25 One? No, we ain't in the South no more, but we're still doing the podcast. Gonna be getting some episodes out for y'all from our spot up here in Delaware. While we are quarantining and we are doing this through Skype, a wonderful program that has provided long distance relationships to happen for the longest time. Um, and today we are using
Speaker 2 00:00:42 It. I think I had a, uh, couple of Skype girlfriends in high school. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:00:46 Of course you did. I'm sure they all went to different schools, didn't they? But <laugh>, um, we got our good buddy, Mr. Alec Davis joining us on Skype out in Missouri. Hey Alec. How you doing buddy?
Speaker 3 00:00:57 Good, man. Good. Just chilling in the crazy times.
Speaker 1 00:01:02 Yeah, dude, we
Speaker 3 00:01:03 Had Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 00:01:04 Oh dude, of course. You kidding me. We, we've been wanting to do this for a while. Of course, the ideal situation would be to do it in Nashville, but we don't know when we're all gonna be getting back there, so we figured you got some time on your hands. We got some time on our hands. Why not? Uh, why not bang out a podcast episode?
Speaker 3 00:01:22 Why not bang it out together, man, dude,
Speaker 1 00:01:24 <laugh>. Absolutely. Absolutely man. So how have you been? So you're back home in Missouri, right?
Speaker 3 00:01:30 Yeah, yeah. Back home in Missouri. Um, Rogersville is the name of the town, just a suburb of Springfield, little farm town. South Springfield.
Speaker 1 00:01:41 Yeah, we know, we know about Springfield, Missouri. Uh, we've been Do ya We've passed through Missouri quite a few times, times.
Speaker 2 00:01:47 We actually played a sew in Springfield. It was before you were with Muscadine. Uh, we played at like some bard there that was really small and, uh, really Podunk.
Speaker 3 00:01:58 Really?
Speaker 2 00:01:59 Yeah. Um,
Speaker 3 00:02:00 Do you remember the name?
Speaker 2 00:02:02 It was some saloon.
Speaker 3 00:02:04 Was it with I can look it up. Uh, was it with, uh, muscadine?
Speaker 2 00:02:07 Yeah. Yeah, muscadine, like headlined it.
Speaker 1 00:02:11 Yeah, it was, um, what
Speaker 3 00:02:12 Year was it
Speaker 2 00:02:13 Last year? Uh, it was like June, July of last year. It was July.
Speaker 1 00:02:21 Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. Uh, I mean I've, well my experience with Missouri, I don't think I've been a part of playing a show. Like, and we've, where we've done a other but passing through. Dude, Missouri is God's country. There's a whole lot of open space, a whole lot of beautiful planes. Um, it's a gr one of those, one of them flyover states
Speaker 3 00:02:42 A absolutely. You know what? I'm glad you said that cuz Missouri gets a lot of flack, dude.
Speaker 2 00:02:47 Uh, it was southbound bar and grill.
Speaker 3 00:02:50 Yep.
Speaker 2 00:02:51 Yep. So we played
Speaker 3 00:02:52 There.
Speaker 2 00:02:52 Played there. Yep.
Speaker 1 00:02:54 Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:02:54 Dude, I'll be there. May 14th.
Speaker 2 00:02:57 Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 00:02:57 What the hell? Yeah, that's awesome. We love hearing that. Yeah. Do Missouri for whatever reason, gets a bad rep and I don't know why.
Speaker 3 00:03:06 Yeah. I don't know. Is it a bad rep or a bad rap? I said bad rap.
Speaker 1 00:03:10 Bad rap, bad rep. I mean, I ain't a rapper, so, I mean, y'all gotta St. Louis, so there's not bad rap there. Yeah. <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:03:18 Yeah. St. Louis is a different area, man. Oh yeah, for sure. It's totally different than down, down in Springfield and Kansas City.
Speaker 1 00:03:24 Yeah. Yeah. So
Speaker 3 00:03:26 St. Louis's own state.
Speaker 1 00:03:27 Yeah, it pretty much is, right? I mean, I've, I haven't been to St. Louis, but like driving, driving through KC and stuff, it's all pretty, pretty spread out and like, those are in very different areas. So where you're from, so you're back, back home. So you grew up in that area?
Speaker 3 00:03:44 Yeah, man. Uh, born and raised down here, just outside of Springfield. And, um, just parents. We got a farm and we raised cattle and, um, you know, chickens and, and the whole deal had horses and rabbits and dogs and everything.
Speaker 1 00:04:06 <laugh>. Dude, that's, that's awesome. Yeah. That's cool. So
Speaker 3 00:04:09 Just had a, just had a baby calf born, uh, two days ago. What's
Speaker 1 00:04:14 It like? Yeah, that's awesome. What's it like delivering a calf?
Speaker 3 00:04:19 Uh, well, I mean, this one happened overnight and, uh, you know, what's kind of crazy is that, you know, some of the time, and I don't really know the percentage, but you know, we've had, uh, three calves so far this year and only one of them's made it. Um, so like I start off a podcasts with a sad note, but they don't always make it through the, the birth, which is kind of sad. And I guess something that not many people know that are, uh, not in the business, I guess.
Speaker 1 00:04:59 Yeah, I would not have known that. Like the, the rate of that, like that there can be those kind of complications and that they happen often. That's, that's interesting. I I, I have no idea of being a, I didn't grow up around farms at all. I grew up in New York, so we don't, we don't have a whole lot of that going on unless you get upstate. But that's interesting to hear. So you guys do it for like a business? Like the family is a, is like a family of farmers and stuff?
Speaker 3 00:05:21 No, I mean, yeah. I mean my, my mom's dad, my grandpa, you know, does it for a living, but we've just got, you know, probably 20 head of cattle at, at the most at all times. And that's something that I did growing up. Um, and then I sold 'em all to buy my first car. And, uh, then I got, you know, out of it after that obviously. But my brother, he's, uh, 16 now, so he's, he's still in it and doing that whole deal.
Speaker 1 00:05:52 Nice. Get That's awesome. Doing the ca doing the cowboy cattle wrangle thing, huh? Is that what it's called? Yeah, that's right. Is it called, is that considered a wrangler?
Speaker 3 00:06:01 What do you mean? Like,
Speaker 1 00:06:02 Like, like, like what is it called? Like are you considered a, a cowboy if you work with cattle or like, what's the proper term for that?
Speaker 3 00:06:10 I would hate to be the guy that, that defines cowboy <laugh> because I can just hear some guy like, oh, this old boy don't know anything about cowboying. Uh, man, I don't really know if there are that many cowboys left, uh, you know, doing the thing. But like, what think of as a cowboy is like, you know, the guys that would, uh, herd cattle for like hundreds of miles, you know, and they slept outside every night and they only lived to be like 45 because they were so aged. I mean, you sleep outside every single night. How many 90 year old homeless people do you see?
Speaker 1 00:06:56 I, I see people that look like they're 90, but they're definitely not 90.
Speaker 2 00:07:00 Yeah, definitely working on Broadway, we see a lot of like, people that have aged quickly, like you said, you know, they might be 45, 50, but they look 90 to a hundred.
Speaker 3 00:07:10 Yeah. Yeah. I'm in no way a cowboy. I took two showers yesterday.
Speaker 1 00:07:16 <laugh>. Hey, two showers. That's more than I did.
Speaker 2 00:07:18 That takes like five up here now. Cause he takes a bike ride now.
Speaker 1 00:07:21 Yeah. I take, I go on, I go on those bike rides, so I go, I get all sweaty. Then my mom's, my mom's a bit of a germaphobe and obviously rightfully so with all the stuff that's going on. But she wants, she's like, you got a shower? Go get a shower. Go take a shower, go get a shower, wash your damn hands, go get a shower. <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:07:35 Dude, I've washed my hands more times in the last month than I have my whole life. I,
Speaker 2 00:07:41 I think that's the same for me too.
Speaker 3 00:07:43 Like, I would never want to admit that on a podcast, but here we are, boys. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:07:48 <laugh>. Here we are. Absolutely, man. So when did you make the move from, uh, from the Springfield area of Missouri to Nashville, Tennessee? When did that all happen for you?
Speaker 3 00:07:57 Yeah, man, so I guess I'll take a, a little step back and kind of tell my, uh, quick story. But I grew up playing golf my whole life. Uh, never really was into music. Um, I mean, from age eight to, you know, a few years ago I was going to the golf course every single day and playing and trying to play professionally. And, uh, I ended up going to University of Missouri, uh, Mizzou to play golf and college. And then, uh, two years in, I had just slumped so hard that the coach was like, Hey, this isn't working out for you. You need to find something else to do. And, uh, anyway, I had, uh, I had kind of been working on music for the last few months before I had that conversation with the coach, and I had booked a gig for the day after he told me that.
Speaker 3 00:09:00 So I had my first gig right after that meeting. And, uh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. And it was, it was kinda like, um, you know, God was shutting one door and, and opening another and, um, it was just like, you know, I look back and the show was terrible, but at the time it was like, that was a great show and people had a great time, you know, and it was like, this is where I'm supposed to be. And so, um, that was four years ago, uh, a little under four years ago, um, that gig. And then, um, I was in Columbia, Missouri, uh, where, uh, Mizzou is for, uh, about two years after that, stayed up there and, you know, opened for a lot of people at the Blue Note and played shows. Yeah, yeah. Which is a, a great venue shout out. Um, but they were really good to me. And let me get in front of, you know, some crowds I definitely shouldn't have been in front of. And, uh, and then, yeah, it was August, um, whatever, a year and a half ago it would've been. Um, so I've been, I've been in Nashville for a year and a half and just damn, you know, grinding.
Speaker 1 00:10:17 That's awesome. See, I'm right around that same time. I moved, um, I moved October of 2018, so I'm right around the same class. You as far as, it's funny, we talk about like classes of when people move to Nashville every because Yeah. You're making, you're making friends with people who move there around the same time. So that's, that's interesting. Also, I didn't know about the golf stuff. I mean, I've, I've probably heard you talk about it on, on your podcast, the day job that you do, which shout out to that, we'll talk about that one in a little bit. But golf, I grew up playing golf. I was the, and you get it playing, um, I'm sure you played in high school and stuff and like you played competitively. I was the, um, what is it? It's not, I forget if it's called reserve or like the extra, I was always like the extra kid who wouldn't, my score would never count. My score counted maybe like twice and my couple years of doing it. But I got to play golf.
Speaker 3 00:11:07 You're the fifth man.
Speaker 1 00:11:08 I was the fifth man. But I got to play golf for free on taxpayer dollars. And in New York we got a lot of nice golf courses. So it was a great way.
Speaker 3 00:11:14 There you go, man. Great
Speaker 1 00:11:15 Way to play free golf four days a week without paying for it. Yeah, it was
Speaker 3 00:11:19 Dope. Exactly right.
Speaker 2 00:11:21 And I lived way out, uh, I lived way out in the country, I think my senior year we got a golf team together, but I'd never played a day in my life. So
Speaker 1 00:11:28 Yeah, I wanna get him out. He's really good at the Rory McElroy, uh, video game. He smokes me in that. Oh yeah. I much better play that
Speaker 2 00:11:35 Can smoke anybody in the video game versus get me on a real golf course though. And it's game over. I, uh, top golf, I do the whole, um, happy Gilmore, happy Gilmore shot. So that's how I really drive it.
Speaker 3 00:11:47 Dude. Every time I go to Topgolf I'm like, I mean, I'm, I'm afraid of heights, so I'm like, I'm going to, I'm gonna swing and fall off this, you know, the ledge.
Speaker 2 00:11:59 See, I am deathly afraid of hikes. Like a horse for me is too high off the ground. Like I don't go horse
Speaker 3 00:12:04 Riding cause that's too,
Speaker 2 00:12:05 That's too far off the ground for my liking. But yeah, uh, I kind of get the same sensation and then I kind of drink a little bit and, uh, start getting better and it kind of goes away for some reason.
Speaker 1 00:12:16 Yeah. I, that was my first impression of doing, doing the whole top golf thing, that being up on such an elevated surface and then trying, especially when you're there with your buddies and people that don't necessarily have that experience of like playing competitively, they just wanna whack the hell outta the ball. They want to get the big dog driver and just smack it and see how far they can hit it. But when you do that, yeah. You, you feel like you gotta be careful. You're like, oh, I wanna hold it back a little bit cuz I don't wanna fall off of this thing. See
Speaker 2 00:12:43 I actually like doing the stuff. Like, I like being on that middle one, the middle layer and actually playing like the closer ones with just a little, you know, iron or a wedge or something. That's actually my,
Speaker 1 00:12:52 Yeah. What what was your strength? Were you a, um, were you a, uh, drive for show guy? Were you a putt for no guy? Did you have the good short game? What were you, what was your strength?
Speaker 3 00:13:01 Well, length was not my expertise.
Speaker 3 00:13:05 Okay. And you can quote me on that <laugh>, but the short game was, was where I exceeded the expectations of, I don't know where I'm going. The short game was good. Okay. That was my, that was where I made the strokes, uh, chipping, um, pitching, you know, anything in between, uh, under a hundred feet or sorry, a hundred yards. And in that was like, if I can just get it there. Good. Yeah. I mean I was never like a long driver. It was pretty much between two 80 to 300 off the t, which not, not,
Speaker 1 00:13:44 It's not, not a long driver, but clear and close to 300. What
Speaker 3 00:13:48 The hell? Well, not long enough for college golf. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:13:53 Not long,
Speaker 3 00:13:54 Or the tour,
Speaker 1 00:13:55 Not a long driver. And you're hitting close to 300 in the video game. Tyler hits like 360.
Speaker 2 00:14:00 I hit Don't like 300.
Speaker 3 00:14:01 Exactly. There you go. Damn. That's, yeah. It's just like guys are hitting it so far, you know, especially in college golf and, and on the tour and uh, you know, two 80 is like a great drive, you know? Um, but when you get on onto those, you know, competing with those guys, it's like, oh, you're hitting a three iron in or I'm hitting a three iron in and you've got a nine iron, you know, and, and that's like, that's a big difference. Yeah. You know, when you got Yeah. A three iron versus a nine iron and, and it adds up. So I mean, that was kind of part of, part of why I wouldn't cut out to do that.
Speaker 1 00:14:41 Yeah. But hey, we definitely gotta do top golf sometime. I am so down for that. Oh, I'd love to. I want, cuz I wanna see, cuz we had, um, there's a, it's funny, there's a lot of guys in music and especially with within country music, they'll grow up playing, playing sports. Something that I've learned a lot of people playing baseball, a lot people playing basketball and football, but also a lot of, a lot of golfers in the country music world. We are, oh yeah. We were hanging out one night and we ended up at Top Golf with our buddy Lance Carpenter, who's a, who's another, another songwriter artist in town. And we, I had no idea. I just, I'm just thinking, Lance is this older guy, he likes to throw a few back. He will pop, he'll do a, do a do Olympic Copenhagen with me. He's a good dude. He gets up there, he's smacking the hell out of the ball, dude. And he was, he would say he would, and he was trying to get me to bet money with him. And I was like, Lance, I've like, I could tell like the dude knew what he was doing, but golf's a fun game, dude. It's That's cool that you did that.
Speaker 3 00:15:36 Yeah, man. We, uh, we were playing this place in, actually it was in Missouri. Um, this is a little road story for you. Um, uh, it was a few months ago. And, uh, they had a golf simulator there. Ooh.
Speaker 2 00:15:53 Oh, those are dangerous.
Speaker 3 00:15:55 Yeah. And so the owner of the club was like, uh, see how did that, how did that happen? Yeah. The owner of the club was like, Hey, you wanna have a, a competition? You know, and some bet, you know, and I was like, I don't really know what I'm doing. And my guitarist Nate at the time was like, uh, well, let me teach you, you know, it, it's easy. And he doesn't play golf. And we were like, just, you know, we, we already knew what was up. We were gonna, you know, get some money outta this guy, out of the owner of the club. By the way, <laugh>,
Speaker 2 00:16:37 That's always a great idea, isn't it?
Speaker 3 00:16:39 Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, this is after the show, after we've been paid and everything. Oh. And, uh, so I was like, uh, okay, I mean, I'll try it. And so he was like, showing me how to swing and I was like, okay. I mean, and so I teed one up pretty high and just skied it, like, just went right under it. And I was like, okay, I'm gonna sky the first one. And so I skied it and this guy's like, all right, he hit, you know, hit it like two 50. And so I was like, okay, double or nothing. I think I got it. And so I did the same thing. I I skied it again and the sky is like, when it goes straight up. Yeah. Like straight up almost misses a net. And so I was like, all right, all all right. Triple or nothing. And we were at 60 bucks at this point. And, um, he's like, all right. And so <laugh>, I just teed one normal and just smacked the tar out of it, <laugh>. And he was like, and like actually put a good swing on it. And he was like, you hustled me.
Speaker 3 00:17:50 I was like, yeah. But it was good.
Speaker 1 00:17:55 That's
Speaker 3 00:17:55 Awesome. We were, dude, we were laughing so hard. And uh, yeah, that was, that was a time that I hustled the venue owner. And if he's listening now, we'll never be asked back.
Speaker 1 00:18:07 Well, hey, there's a venue and Tyler can talk more about this venue. So there's a place in Montgomery, Alabama. It is like, it's a, um,
Speaker 2 00:18:15 It's a knockoff top golf, basically
Speaker 1 00:18:17 It's like a redneck knockoff top golf that doubles as a music venue. And Tyler's been there. I haven't, but they, that's a place where you could probably bri you could probably do
Speaker 2 00:18:29 Well they shut it down like so the day of show they shut it down so that you can't be like whacking golf balls out there. But it's like, you know, I think they've got a marker out at three 50. They, like,
Speaker 1 00:18:41 They essentially do a show at a driving range in the range section of the driving range.
Speaker 2 00:18:46 Yeah. Like the, uh, the canopy that, that I, I did it. So it was last year. We did it the weekend of July 4th, and it's in Alabama, so you can only imagine how God awful hot it is. I literally was working off an iPad console and I had my iPad and I had two other iPads and coolers so that I could like Oh yeah. Cycle iPads, because they were just overheating like crazy. But I was actually using the tee boxes as like my overhang so I could get out of the direct sunlight. But it was only like, you know, probably 30 yards to the stage, you know? So could you, it
Speaker 1 00:19:22 Was really cool. Could you imagine playing a show at a driving range in the range part of the driving? Like the stage is like out there. Like you're out there. I
Speaker 2 00:19:30 Don't, I it's behind the two boxes. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:19:33 I can't imagine a better show now in,
Speaker 1 00:19:37 In Montgomery, here's why. In Montgomery, by God, Alabama, which I have learned Alabama is in, that's the thing too about traveling around the country. You go to all these interesting places, where's the mo, where's the place that you went to? And were like, whoa. That just happened. Like, like a place where you had a little bit of like culture shock.
Speaker 3 00:19:55 Oh, like the people were different. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:19:57 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:19:59 Uh, uh okay. Well this is, this might be a shock to you, but our, our weirdest shows are always in my hometown Springfield.
Speaker 2 00:20:10 Really? I could see that, yes. After being there.
Speaker 3 00:20:13 Like, uh, it's always our worst turnout, which is really weird cuz it's my hometown. That's sad. But, uh, I mean, you know, it's like, we'll get 60 people. Yeah. You know, which is just like bizarre. But it's, uh, at the same time, it's like all my friends growing up have moved away, you know, so it's like, what am I gonna do? Tell my friends, drive three hours to a show? No, but so it's like a lot of my parents' friends and, you know, it's like, not really, they're not like a drinking age. Yeah. You know, they're not going out to party. And so it's like they're at a show in Branson is pretty much what it's like <laugh> and so,
Speaker 3 00:21:04 And so, they're just, they're really enjoying it, but they're like, uh, you know, like their, their mouth is open. They're just watching, you know, like a Branson show. And so that's always like a, a kind of a weird show for us <laugh>, which is, which kind sucks the hometown show. But, um, it, you know, it gets better every time. And we've got to open for, you know, several, uh, you know, Langston and a few people down here in Springfield, uh, that have kind of got us a, a younger crowd <laugh>, um, what's what, but it's just weird to think about building a crowd in your own hometown.
Speaker 1 00:21:44 Yeah, yeah. No, absolutely. And that, and that's the thing about moving to Nashville and like getting out of the hometown and, and every market's gonna be different. Where's the place that you showed up and it was a party right from the get-go and you were like, okay, we, it, it's gonna be one of those kind of nights.
Speaker 3 00:22:01 Um, man, um, we played a show <laugh>, uh, we opened for Aaron Lewis and Drake White.
Speaker 1 00:22:20 Oh wow.
Speaker 3 00:22:21 And that was, uh, like people, it was in Missouri and I mentioned that I was from Rogersville and Rogersville is a small enough town to where people know about it, but it's small. So when they know about it, they're like, he's from Rogersville, he's a hometown boy. You know, but they, as soon as I mentioned that, they were like, dude, they were amped up. That was cool. Um, yeah, that, I'm trying to think that, I mean, that was, that was an awesome show. We've had some fun shows. Have
Speaker 1 00:22:57 You been like, going up north? Have you been in like Ray's rowdy country and like seeing those folks? Have you been to like Pittsburgh and Ohio and like that area?
Speaker 3 00:23:07 We haven't been to Pittsburgh. We're trying to get there and, because I gotta tell you, we had, we had two dates booked and they, I don't know what happened, but, cause they, our booking agents said they got done. Yeah. Whatever. Because
Speaker 1 00:23:19 The Yinzer, the Pittsburgh folks are a party. Yeah. They are a wild time. Yeah. So you're gonna have, once you get up there, they're gonna, they're gonna really, they're gonna like that. That's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 3 00:23:31 Well that's surprising cuz Nikki t is not wild at all.
Speaker 1 00:23:35 Yeah, I know. He's, he's the calmest chillest dude you'll ever meet. Yeah. I still haven't met him. So you still haven't met Nikki t No. How have we not met? How have you not met Nikki yet?
Speaker 2 00:23:44 Because I don't go out all the time like you do. Oh, geez. Like, usually whenever Matt, so I think the last time they were in town, did they do the Monday night takeover or did you go
Speaker 1 00:23:54 The whi Whiskey Gym takeover?
Speaker 2 00:23:56 Yeah, right. Yeah. See, I think I was working at Broadway at that point, so I wasn't out. So I work on Monday nights and I'm on the road Wednesday through Yeah. Sunday. So like Tuesday night is my only night at home and I'd take that full advantage.
Speaker 1 00:24:08 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Yeah. When, how did you get linked up with those guys, with the raised rowdy dudes and Nikki t and Sarah and that whole crew?
Speaker 3 00:24:18 Um, I think it was either like an email or a Instagram dm. And it was early, it was a lot earlier on. And so they were like, now they get like a hundred people messaging them a day. Yeah. Like, for real. And it was early on, so like Nick responded to me and, uh, it was, uh, yeah, I had, I asked him if they'd do a story on, it all comes back around one of my singles that came out in like August. And, uh, they were all about it and really helpful. And I don't know, man, they've just been like so good to me for no reason. Like, and that's what's really cool about, about their company versus, um, you know, others, um, you know, not, not all the others, but just they're really supportive of artists that can do nothing for them and artists that don't get them a lot of clicks.
Speaker 3 00:25:25 And uh, you know, I just, that's, that's something that will, um, help them in the long run and, and these artists that they're supporting like, you know, Farin and, um, you know, like the level that's just almost about to make it. Yeah. Um, when they do make it, they're gonna take Ray's rowdy with them Yes. And say, Hey, these guys help me from Square one. And, you know, um, that's, that's really cool, you know, to see for me, I, I would love that. You know, and I would love to be able to be in a situation where I could help them out too.
Speaker 1 00:26:06 Yeah. It's really like a family and it's, it's cool. Yeah. Because they're all about supporting and promoting the artist who's who they think have has the dopest shit out there. Whether like yourself, Ryan Nelson, who is like Mr. Ray's rowdy, like him and Nikki. Well, he's seeing him and Nikki Tego shot for shot together, Ryan Nelson, Nikki Tego, and back and forth. Like, it's, it's just the party, but the content they put out, the playlist thing they do on Spotify is so important. Um, the promo. So we, we and I, I see your name all over the site too, which is, which is really cool. They're giving, showing you a lot of love.
Speaker 3 00:26:39 Yeah. They're, they're cool people. And you know, you guys know just as well as I do that there's so much good music in Nashville that's, and I'm not talking about myself, I'm just talking in a, in broad. There's a lot of great music and it, you know, it kind of sucks that, uh, people outside of Nashville are only thrown, you know, 1% of it. You know. And
Speaker 1 00:27:05 If that, if that, if
Speaker 3 00:27:06 That, yeah. Right. And you know, it, not every song that's put out needs to be on the radio, but, you know, they're, they're doing a great job. Um, as well as other things like Spotify playlists, you know, of getting, uh, you know, people that are not able to be on radio, but they're getting a platform through, you know, raise Rowdy or, um, you know, a lot of great other companies that, that do the same thing as Raise Rowdy. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:27:35 No, for sure. So you were talking before about the golf stuff and that you had the, you had your first like, gig booked for the day after you had that talk with the coach. How did the transition from Alec Davis, potential professional golfer come to Alec Davis guy putting out songs like Pink Cadillac and Rocking on a Stage? How, how the hell does that transition happen where you put down the nine iron pick up the guitar?
Speaker 3 00:28:02 Uh, well, it doesn't happen overnight. Yeah. And, you know, I think after four years, I'm, I'm starting to finally kind of find my sound. Um, you know, it, when I first started, uh, you know, I, I didn't, I had a vision at the time, but I was crafting my sound, you know, and, and um, you know, it's crazy. It took four years to kind of get to that point. And I'm, it's going to always be changing, you know, but I'm finding myself as an artist and it's so weird when people say that, but now that I'm going through it, I'm like, that's, that makes sense, <laugh>. Yeah. You know, and cuz it does take time to, like, you take all the influences you've had your whole life and you say, I'm very influenced by this person, but that doesn't mean I have to sound like them, you know?
Speaker 3 00:29:00 But I am gonna take this element that's ingrained in me and comes out naturally when I write songs, you know, from Vince Gill, but I'm not gonna sound anything like Vince Gill, um, you know, when it comes to production. And so, uh, yeah, it's, it's been a process. I put out, um, an EP probably three months after that meeting with the coach. And, uh, it's no longer available online unfortunately. But, um, it was, it was a production standpoint. It was a different <laugh>. It was like totally different than what you're hearing now. What was, so I didn't want people to get confused.
Speaker 1 00:29:42 What, what was that sound originally like? What was and what, and what went into the decision? Like what made you wanna be wanna say, Hey, I wanna do this music thing, I wanna be on a stage, I wanna write songs, I wanna move to Nashville.
Speaker 3 00:29:55 I, um, I mean, so my parents, um, have always played music and, uh, you know, had bands and that kind of thing for fun on the side. And, um, you know, I always grew up seeing them play. And um, you know, I, when I first got my car when I was 16, I remember I had Sirius XM and that it had the highway on there. I had like a free trial and I was just, that was like the first time I can remember falling in love with country music, you know, and they were playing like Josh Turner stuff. Yeah. You know, like firecracker, you know, and like that stuff when I was 16. And, um, who, you know, who wouldn't fall in love with that stuff. And, uh, so I mean, you know, I was always listening to country music on the radio and grew up with country music obviously.
Speaker 3 00:30:59 And it was just always something that I wanted to do. Uh, I just with golf could never have the time or the, you know, the, i I wouldn't have the time to do it, you know? So when golf was over, uh, and funny enough, I already kind of said this, but I was working on music before the golf ended and, um, I, so it was just like, after I played that show, I was like, this is where I'm supposed to be. Like, no doubt. It was, uh, it was very apparent. It was like, this is where you're supposed to be, you know, I've opened the door for you. Now you've got to, uh, work hard, you know, to achieve the success, uh, that it takes to make it. So here I am here
Speaker 1 00:31:56 You are
Speaker 3 00:31:56 Here still grinding. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:31:58 Dude. And dropping new music, like Yeah. You, you've put out quite a bit already. We're only in, we're only in the month of, uh, the month of April right now. And you've got how many songs out this year? What is it? Three, four?
Speaker 3 00:32:12 Yeah, I put out four this last month.
Speaker 1 00:32:14 <laugh>. That's awesome. Like, we love that dude. Six,
Speaker 3 00:32:19 Six singles in the last eight months, I think. Hell yeah. So, I mean, yeah, man, it, it's, it's kind of crazy like being in the business of begging your friends to give you a dollar. You know, like give me a dollar 99 cents on iTunes so I can, you know, spend that and much more to record these songs that, you know, hopefully one of them will catch the, the ear of somebody who can, you know, put these out on a bigger platform, you know? And, and every day is just like, um, and every artist listening and you guys know this, it's like, it's a step forward, two steps backwards and, you know, every day, you know, every artist I talk to is like, almost every day they're like, you know, I want to quit, but I can't quit.
Speaker 2 00:33:24 Funny. Um, funny thing that you say that, did you see, I don't know if Matt saw it, I don't know if you saw it, but the whiskey riff thing today, they posted like, I think it was seven years ago today, Luke Combs posted the thing and he was like, uh, man, this is getting hard. I think I might quit.
Speaker 3 00:33:44 Yeah, yeah. I reposted that. Yeah, Luke, yeah,
Speaker 1 00:33:46 Yeah. The Luke Combs tweet popping up from that long ago. Like, and that's the thing, I mean, as an artist, like it's gotta, it's got, it's, it's a draining process. It's a grind and you're, it's really a passion business. It's, you're doing it cuz you love it. You know, similar to, similar to this podcast thing too, you know, like when you're early on, and you know it too, with doing the day job in addition to doing all your music stuff like the, um, it's tough when you don't see results necessarily right away. Like the overnight success thing tho those days are, are over. Like, it's, it's a grind. And especially now with the way streaming is and, and all that, you really gotta, like you said, one step forward, two, maybe sometimes three steps back.
Speaker 3 00:34:28 Yeah. Well even in Luke Combs scenario, like, you look at him and you're like, he's blown up faster than anybody we've ever seen in country music. Maybe, you know, Garth being the, the other guy. Yeah. But that tweet was seven years ago and that's the fastest we've ever seen anybody blow up in our time. Yeah. It's like <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:34:53 I mean, they don't go in Nashville, a 10 year town for nothing, you know, and obviously like for some people it's not 10 years, but it's, I'm a full believer in that you've gotta put your 10,000 hours in it just to be able to step into some of the rooms to get you into the rooms to make it, you know?
Speaker 3 00:35:10 Yeah, yeah. I mean, you're so right. It's just like, if it was easy, everybody would be doing it and everybody is doing it, so that makes it even that that much harder, you know? So, uh, that phrase is always funny to me because everybody is doing country music, you know, and which is awesome. And it's, we've got more people creating music than people consuming probably, you know,
Speaker 2 00:35:38 There's so many, uh, genres that are bending boundaries that, you know. Yeah. As far as country music has been set since the thirties, forties, fifties, you know, you've got people that are, I mean, you can't really bend jazz, but people that are trying to bend, like hip hop and rap with jazz and all this kind of stuff, there's so many like blurred lines now of what genre is that. It opens it up to so many more people to say, well this is country music, but I'm rapping, you know, or this is country music, but I'm still playing jazz chords over it or, you know, I'm speak singing over it. You know, it just opens it up so much more to where it becomes country as in almost a nation and the blue collar thing more than it becomes country. As in I own a truck and I live, you know, in the south.
Speaker 3 00:36:34 Yeah. Well there's country music for everybody now.
Speaker 1 00:36:38 Yes. Yeah. There is. If you grew up, yeah. If you grew up like in Nirvana, throw on co wetzel and you go to a co wetzel show and he's, he's got the, the guys, they got the guitars hanging down by their knees and they're headbanging and rocking still country music, you like a little bit of rapper pop in your country. You like that soft rock style. You got flip on Dan and Shea, like there's, like you said, there, there is country music for everybody.
Speaker 3 00:37:01 Right. And that is, uh, you know, I know there are a lot of people that are like, well, that ain't country, you know, to certain bands, but it's because of those sort of bands that country music is flourishing and, you know, people like you guys and me have jobs in country music. Yeah. Do you know, and so that's a huge blessing that, uh, there are pioneers like Sam Hunt, you know, tr doing something different, you know, and, and maybe that's not our cup of tea, but man, he is doing so much for us that we don't even know about that we should be thankful for.
Speaker 1 00:37:40 Yeah, dude. And even even somebody like Florida Georgia Line, who I know again, right? Bro, bro country, that's another subgenre within, within the format and you don't have, cruise doesn't come out, who knows where, where the country music would be as far as being in mainstream pop culture. Yeah. Who knows if you would have over a million people a year visiting Nashville, Tennessee, who knows if you'd have CMA Fest being on a national network like, like it is, you know, like it's, it's crazy to sit back and it ain't my cup of tea either. I'm not a huge pop country guy in terms of like, just the style. It's just not, not for me, you know, but like I I have an appreciation for it. Yeah. But yeah,
Speaker 2 00:38:19 And you know, even with those guys, they always say the first one through the wall is the bloodiest usually, you know, and oh yeah, they're kind of wearing it. But like you said, they're really breaking down a barrier so that people later on can walk through it and walk through it with confidence.
Speaker 3 00:38:35 Dude, you just wait, man. When we're old, like 60, 70 people are gonna say, dude, that song ain't country. Turn on some good old Sam Hunt <laugh>. Just wait, dude,
Speaker 1 00:38:50 Dude, no, seriously. Yeah. Do you
Speaker 3 00:38:52 Remember like, Garth? Oh yeah. I mean, you know, none of us remember that, but you, you, you've heard about it. Yeah. When he came onto the scene, it was like, you know, Willie and Waylon and everybody was like, this guy is so poppy. And that's why he was so popular amongst the whole world. And, you know, every genre loved him.
Speaker 2 00:39:15 Funny thing. So my mom always tells a story and she says, back in my day, whenever I went to a concert, I saw Charlie Daniels before he was country. I saw him whenever he was considered a rock and roll, but yet he still had the fiddle and everything <laugh>. So Yeah. You know, it's one of those things that like always
Speaker 3 00:39:34 Changing
Speaker 2 00:39:34 As each, you know, generation comes up, you know, now the ones that are kind of taking the brunt of it is the guys like Lil Nas X and, uh, Blanco Brown, you know, trying to incorporate more of the rap country in
Speaker 3 00:39:47 Yeah. I think I see, uh, Gary incorporating some, uh, you know, some rap eventually into Muscadine tracks.
Speaker 1 00:39:59 Dude, he, I'll tell you what, the kid, the kids got bars. Yeah. He, he can rap. He goes off.
Speaker 2 00:40:05 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:40:05 I'm sure there are some demos floating around <laugh> I haven't seen yet that we won't speak of, but <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:40:13 Yeah. Dude. That's, uh, talking about songwriting for yourself. So how old were you when you wrote your first song? Like how long ago did the songwriting process start for Mr. Alec Davis?
Speaker 3 00:40:23 Um, like, by myself or?
Speaker 1 00:40:27 Yeah, like, like when you, when you cons when you would consider writing a song. Like when you were like, Hey guys, I I wrote a song.
Speaker 3 00:40:35 Yeah. Uh, uh, probably about, um, nine months ago was the first time I, I had like, written by myself, um, and, and come out with something. Uh, you know, I I had always tried since I started this four years ago to come out with a product, but it was like, you know, it was just not quite there or I could never finish the song. And, um, it was about, uh, you know, eight, nine months ago that I, you know, got a full cut, um, by myself. And, um, it was actually funny enough, it was the night that I moved to Nashville. Um, it was the first night I was there, uh, in my apartment. I didn't know anybody, like, literally didn't know anybody in town. And I, uh, ordered a large pepperoni pizza and, uh, my apartment just had all these boxes in it. I unpacked nothing and wrote this song. And, uh, you know, I I have never released a, a work tape or a demo or anything of it, but, you know, I've, I've got that song and that story, you know, now
Speaker 1 00:41:56 Very, very important sidebar. Where was the pizza from?
Speaker 3 00:42:02 Uh, well, you're not gonna like it, but keep in mind, I was new in town and I actually really enjoyed it. Uh, Marcos Thin Crust, pepperoni,
Speaker 2 00:42:13 Marcos, where's that at? In town?
Speaker 3 00:42:16 So I moved to Franklin when I first got to town. Uh, I think
Speaker 2 00:42:20 I had Marco's and it's not like, you know, it's not bad at all. I, if I remember right,
Speaker 3 00:42:26 Dude, I'll tell you what, man, I don't know what happened, but it was, I was like, this is like a great pizza. Like, I, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I mean, it fueled my first solo ride, you know? So, um, but I had written with, um, Nate White is my former guitarist, um, lead guitarist and, uh, one of my best friends. And, um, he's like 42, 43. Um, and so he's older and, um, right now he's laughing at, at that, that, that I called him older, but he is, and um, you know, he kind of helped, you know, direct me through this whole music thing because I was coming straight from golf, you know, and it was just like, I didn't know all the right steps and we wrote songs together. And, um, you know, he's, he had to, to step away from the group when he got a, a job promotion, uh, a few months ago. So, um, we write over FaceTime now, but we've had 13 cuts together. Nice. And, uh, I put out a song called You Would Be Mine, uh, last, this last month, and that was our, uh, last cut that we had together and wrote that I think over FaceTime. But yeah, he's a cool dude. And, um, never Heard of You was the first and the last solo, right? Yes. That I, uh, that I've released. So, and I think I kind of talked about that on the, uh, Instagram Live, but yeah, dude, just kind of,
Speaker 1 00:44:18 Yeah, dude, I actually, so when I was biking today, um, I was listening to a lot of Alec Davis, I was listening and, um, thanks man, never, never Heard Of You was one that I, one that I heard on, and as soon as I, as soon as it came on and I, and I heard the hook, I was like, this is the one. I was like, this is the story. I know the story behind this and it's freaking cool. So that, that's awesome. That you're, so you're coming out with these songs and you're still so new and still learning a lot right now in this whole music process and like coming into the world of it and you've got ano you've got tons of songs out. You're putting, you've put out already a handful this year. You got more on the way you're playing shows, dude. Like you're doing it
Speaker 3 00:45:02 Trying, man, I'm, I'm grinding. And you know how it is. I mean, you know how it is, but you know, luckily we just picked up a booking agent about a year ago and, you know, that's been kind of a, a load off my shoulder, but there's still so many things that you have to do, I mean, to be a player in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:45:27 Absolutely. And
Speaker 3 00:45:29 You know, at the end of the day, it comes down to a singer and a song and playing a great live show, because if you don't do that, then your word is nothing, you know? And, uh, so a song like Never Heard of You, you know, when we're playing casinos or bars where people don't know us, um, you know, that's a great song to pull people in. And you know, there I kind of wrote that song, um, because we play ballads that nobody would know and people like, all right, uh, you ready to go to the bathroom <laugh>? You know, so it's like, I gotta be doing upbeat songs that people are excited about dancing to, and then they're like, oh, I like this song too. And then I say, it's available on Spotify, Limewire, wherever you want to download it illegally. And uh,
Speaker 2 00:46:25 My favorite of those they do is Frost Wire. That's the one that I had
Speaker 3 00:46:29 There. Frost Wire.
Speaker 2 00:46:30 Yeah, frost Wire. It was like Lime Wire, but without as many viruses.
Speaker 1 00:46:35 It was Lime Wire, but Frosty,
Speaker 3 00:46:37 You're an original gangster <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:46:39 There was also one that was like, I forgot what it was, but it had something to do with a cool Bear. Cool, cool
Speaker 1 00:46:47 Bear, cool Bear. No,
Speaker 3 00:46:49 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:46:49 Stephen Colbert's cousin Steven Cool
Speaker 2 00:46:51 Bear. C o o l
Speaker 1 00:46:52 Cool. Bear Space
Speaker 2 00:46:53 Bear.
Speaker 3 00:46:54 Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:46:55 That's going back.
Speaker 3 00:46:56 Yeah. I wasn't, wasn't that advanced.
Speaker 1 00:46:58 Hey, so we, so we do some segments on, on, uh, here on In the Round. And one that we like to do is, um, so Tyler's big on Twitter. Are you on Twitter?
Speaker 3 00:47:10 Uh, yeah, I've got a Twitter, but I'm, I'm very not involved. I mean, I probably got it on, got on Twitter, uh, four months ago.
Speaker 1 00:47:22 Okay. So what Tyler likes to do, so Tyler's got like five troll accounts. He's got his own account. Okay. He operates our in Thero podcast account, but then he also has like hidden aliases where he goes on and like, he just, like, he rips apart, like he just goes after things and creates a buzz, stirs
Speaker 2 00:47:39 The pun. Ohio
Speaker 1 00:47:40 State, Ohio State Football, being an s e C guy, he goes after Big 10 football. And, but
Speaker 2 00:47:45 See is funny cuz I pose as a Michigan fan going after Ohio State, so therefore they never like, attack me for being an Alabama fan. <laugh>, it's genius love. Then I, then I don't have any like,
Speaker 1 00:47:56 So do we, so what, what do we got do we got down? Yeah, what's
Speaker 2 00:47:58 Your, uh, what's your Twitter handle?
Speaker 3 00:48:02 I, Alec d Country, would you just please go rip me a new one? Just rip my music to shreds <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:48:12 A L E C.
Speaker 3 00:48:14 Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:48:15 D
Speaker 1 00:48:17 Yeah. So while, while Boudreau's pulling that up real quick, um, you do a podcast as well? Yeah, it's one of my, one of my favorites. I do, it's one that I listen to when I'm out, when I'm out on the road driving, driving around, doing my thing. Um, and you've had a lot of good guests on there. Um, one of my favorite ones that you had on, well, one of my favorite buddies in general, Mr. Ryan Nelson. And you have a bunch of other artists and songwriter on, you got, you've had 6 41 on there, you've had Carly Rogers on there, um, a lot of awesome people. Um, what got you into wanting to do the podcast and, uh, what's that been like for you?
Speaker 3 00:48:51 Man, it's been a great thing for me. Uh, honestly, it, it's been like great just getting to, you know, to meet new people through the podcast that, you know, I, I really like Ray Fulcher is somebody that I couldn't message and be like, Hey man, you wanna write with me? Or Hey, you wanna hang out and talk for an hour? But, you know, it's like I reached out and, or a friend of mine was like, Hey Ray, do you wanna do this podcast? And he was like, yeah, I'd love to. You know? And so I got to talk to Ray Fulcher for, you know,
Speaker 1 00:49:27 An hour. Yeah. Number one songwriter, like a guy that's just bumping out Luke Combs hits
Speaker 3 00:49:33 <laugh>. Yeah. And so, you know, I, when I first moved to town, I was building road cases for Nashville Custom case really? Out in Franklin. Yeah. Yep.
Speaker 1 00:49:43 That's, that's a cool gig.
Speaker 2 00:49:44 We have a fun road case story, <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:49:47 Yeah, I was, I was actually, Lee had me like working on quotes for you guys at one point, <laugh>. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:49:53 Really? Really?
Speaker 3 00:49:54 Yeah. Well, Lee Bird. Yeah. How
Speaker 1 00:49:57 Did, how did you meet Liebert? Quick sidebar. How'd you meet Lee?
Speaker 3 00:50:02 I was opening for Muscadine, um, and it was right before I moved to Nashville and I was like, yeah, I'm, I was talking to the guys and I was like, yeah, I'm moving to Nashville like next month or whatever move I'm gonna live in Franklin, I've got a place there. And they're like, that's where Lee Bird lives. And um, so I met him and, um, um, yeah, Lee's Lee Langston, he's a songwriter, those listening and, um, a great tour manager, great merch guy. Uh, he's a TM right now, right? Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:50:40 He's a, he's a t he's a tm and he's a active outdoors man. Um, the last few weeks he's just been reeling in fish and shooting whatever bird Most a year. Yes, most a year. That's what he does. We call him the waterfowl Mercenary.
Speaker 3 00:50:53 But we, we got together and we've got together to write like, I don't know, a bunch of times, probably eight, 10 times. And we never come out with a song. We just, we always end up like jamming or talking and like, uh, he's just a good dude. We have a lot of fun together. And he's a, he's a cool guy.
Speaker 1 00:51:17 Hell
Speaker 3 00:51:18 Yeah. Yeah. Everybody in your camp is a cool guy, by the way. We,
Speaker 1 00:51:21 We, we appreciate you saying that, dude. And, uh, it's, uh, you spend a lot of time with people out in the row for us. It's eight guys in a Sprinter van, so it's, um, it's an exciting, it's, it's exciting. And, uh,
Speaker 2 00:51:32 Yeah, there's no rooms for egos and attitudes, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 00:51:35 <laugh>. Yeah. We're already
Speaker 2 00:51:37 Crammed in there. Like a bunch of sardines. <laugh>,
Speaker 3 00:51:41 Absolutely. You guys are getting close to getting out of a sprinter though.
Speaker 2 00:51:45 Hopefully
Speaker 3 00:51:46 Getting close. You know, Lee, um, Lee was, uh, uh, I'm gonna tell the story without getting in trouble. Lee was just telling me that you guys were expecting to hit, uh, a million monthly listeners on Spotify, um, by the end of this year. And he told me this in like September of last year, and I was like, you know, I think you guys probably had like 400,000. Yeah, maybe. And that's probably wrong, but, um, well,
Speaker 2 00:52:21 That's about right, actually.
Speaker 3 00:52:24 All right, perfect. I'm always right. <laugh>, yes, Y are fun fact about me. Uh, so I was like, you know, I was like, all right, you know, but still, also, I knew the power of Muscadine and like anything's possible for those guys. So I was like, well, you might be right. And now you guys are like, almost to a million. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:52:45 We're, I actually just checked, we're at 9 35, 930 5,000,
Speaker 1 00:52:50 And all I do is sell the T-shirts. Wow. So I'm, I'm just, I just <laugh>,
Speaker 2 00:52:54 I'm right there with Lee with her. I watch, uh, all the numbers on like Spotify and stuff. Just start shooting up every day.
Speaker 3 00:53:00 Yeah, man. Well, uh, if you wanna watch mine shoot up, just don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 00:53:07 Oh no. I'll sit there too. We'll turn a bot on
Speaker 1 00:53:09 Now. We're checking do they're
Speaker 3 00:53:11 Going down
Speaker 1 00:53:11 And, um, well, we, what we usually do to, to wrap this thing up towards the end is we always have our guests play a song. You're on, you're on, um, on Skype right now in Missouri doing your thing. Um, what do you say? We threw the, um, are you cool if we throw the, uh, the new single on the end of this episode?
Speaker 3 00:53:29 Yeah, please do, man. My guitar is, is literally in the other side of the house, so that would be, yeah. Awesome. Hey,
Speaker 1 00:53:36 So thank, thank the Angels. That's the brand new one, right?
Speaker 3 00:53:39 Yeah, man. And, uh, real quick about
Speaker 1 00:53:41 Yeah. Tell us the story, what went into that
Speaker 3 00:53:43 One? Yeah, so this is like the first song that is, uh, a hundred percent true. Like, it's the first song that's all about me, <laugh>, you know, and like my story, but also very relatable to, you know, the chorus is so relatable to everybody who's ever been through something that didn't go their way. And like the first verse is about how I met my girlfriend, and we've been together for seven years now. Oh yeah. And, um, you know, this girl broke up with me and, um, you know, I was like not really upset about it, but I was, for the next three months after that, I was just like praying to meet somebody that would be more than just, you know, a girlfriend, but somebody who I'd want to be with for the rest of my life. And, um, then I met Audrey, you know, and so we've been together since 2013.
Speaker 3 00:54:41 Wow. You know, and that's crazy. Um, but, uh, and then the second verse is about the golf. Um, you know, play, just living my whole life to play golf and, and the s e c and, um, you know, the next day I played my very first show, you know, and had no idea what I was doing <laugh>, you know, but here I am, you know, playing music for a living and that's, you know, uh, it, at times it's like, man, this sucks, you know, but you look back and you're like, man, I've, I've accomplished a lot of things and hopefully a lot of people have benefited, um, from things that I've written or, you know, songs that, that we've made. So, um, it's just about thanking the angels, you know, that are sent to turn us down. That's the tag. Um, just, you know, kind of being grateful for the ones that tell you no, because those are the ones that motivate you to, uh, to get on top.
Speaker 1 00:55:43 Hell yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah, dude. Absolutely, man. Where can people find you on social media? We know about the Twitter handle already. Where can people find you? Facebook, Instagram?
Speaker 3 00:55:52 Yeah. Uh, Twitter. Well, you can follow me, I guess, but I feel bad if <laugh>. I always tell people don't follow me on Twitter, but I won't say that today. <laugh>, um, <laugh> Instagram, Alec Davis country, and, uh, there you can find double chin selfies. You can find videos, uh, you know, just me being myself and, and, uh, I'm an idiot really. Um, Facebook is Alec Davis country as well. Um, if you'd like to email me, it's alec davis country gmail.com. And the things that I'd like you to send me would be, uh, if you can send virtual Outback Steakhouse gift cards.
Speaker 1 00:56:50 Yes.
Speaker 3 00:56:51 Uh, love a good bloom and onion, you know, bloom and onion. This is America. All right.
Speaker 1 00:56:57 Victoria filet.
Speaker 3 00:56:58 Victoria Filet all day. All right. Uh, you can send me a lot of different things. Um, I've seen it all. Let me say that. So there's my email and Matt's phone number if you'd like to send nude photos. <laugh>, I'll tell you,
Speaker 2 00:57:17 I was about to say, all we need is your, uh, phone number of social security and bank account, and we got it all. You know, <laugh>,
Speaker 3 00:57:23 I'll, I'll tell you my routing number, that's for sure. <laugh>. Hey, thank you guys for having me. For real. Um, you, you kidding
Speaker 1 00:57:29 Me, Alex, thank you for coming on and doing this, bro. We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 00:57:33 Yeah, man, I, uh, I really don't have that much to offer. I'm just kind of an idiot, uh, trying to, to do this whole country music thing and, uh,
Speaker 1 00:57:43 That's exactly what we are doing. So we, we
Speaker 2 00:57:46 We're doing, figuring out one day at
Speaker 1 00:57:47 A time, man, figuring it out one day at a time. Just having, having a good time doing it, man. So, seriously, thank you so much. Uh, Boudreaux first Skype episode in the, yeah, in the tank. We did
Speaker 2 00:57:58 It. First off, I would like to say that about four months ago, I told Matt, if we ever gotta do it, I got Skype set up. He went on this whole tirade this week of searching endlessly and worrying about it. And I said, Matt, I told you four months ago we got this. It worked right, <laugh>, it's
Speaker 3 00:58:15 Pretty good. Well, I mean, it works for now until you get to your computer in like an hour and you're like, dude, Matt, none of his audios synced up. We didn't get any of it captured.
Speaker 2 00:58:27 Oh no, I'm, I'm letting you end the logic.
Speaker 1 00:58:29 Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:58:29 I, I'm making sure of this. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:58:31 He's, he's, he's holding up, he's holding up his end to the bargain. <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:58:35 Well,
Speaker 1 00:58:36 But no, it all, it,
Speaker 3 00:58:37 All, it all works. Well, I say that cause I've had a few podcasts where it's like, oh, okay. Hey, we, uh, that one's not gonna be able to air because we didn't get it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:58:47 Oh shit. I get
Speaker 1 00:58:48 That. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:58:49 Yeah. No, I, uh, I can tell you how to make sure that never happens again. See, Matt's the guy that he thinks of the problem, and I thought about it five months ago and already figured out the solution.
Speaker 1 00:58:59 So he, he's, he's a professional sound engineer. I got nothing to worry about. I'm just used to being in the world of radio where everything's breaking constantly. But now I got a reliable Boudreaux by my side. Uh, big old dog.
Speaker 3 00:59:10 You guys are a good team.
Speaker 1 00:59:11 We try to be, man, it's, I'm, I'm a, I'm a loud mouth New Yorker. He's a big, big quiet, um, Alabama guy. Unless you get some, uh, some bourbon in him. Then he opens up, up real, he opens up and starts talking to you. <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:59:23 Oh, I found the, uh, tequila videos of me
Speaker 1 00:59:27 In Mexico. Oh boy.
Speaker 2 00:59:28 Tequila. That is the, that is my kryptonite.
Speaker 3 00:59:31 Okay. Send 'em. You've got my Twitter handle. Yeah, just tweet them. Tweet, tweet. I'll check them in. Three to five business months. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:59:38 Oh, yeah. Well, thank you everybody for tuning in to the In The Round podcast. Make sure you check out Alec Davis's music. He's got the new singles out right now. The brand new one, which we're gonna be playing here in a second called Thank the Angels. Get on there, stream him on Apple Music, Spotify, anywhere you stream music, get on iTunes, buy the stuff if you really like it, support our buddy Alec Davis and also check out the podcast, the Day Job podcast. Lots of great episodes up there. Same place to listen to our podcast, type in the day job, and give Alec Davis a listen and make sure you guys are doing, uh, make sure you guys are subscribing to Alex stuff. Make sure you're subscribing our stuff. You can follow us Boudro where,
Speaker 2 01:00:14 Uh, in the Round pod on Twitter, in the round podcast, on Instagram and Facebook. And also, I'm just gonna say this, as willing as Alec was to give us his email, I'm pretty sure that if you messaged him on Twitter or Instagram, he'll probably send you the, the, uh, Venmo account if you really wanna support him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 01:00:31 If you really wanna support, um, Mr. Alec Davis right now, it's, uh, it's an interesting time to be in the music and the entertainment business. Interesting time in general to be, to be alive right now. But, uh, we're all gonna get through this thing, y'all. And, um, we, again, we appreciate y'all listening to, uh, another edition of the In The Round Podcast. Now, without further ado, here's our buddy Alec Davis. Here's the new single Thank the Angels. Y'all have been listening to the In the Round podcast.
Speaker 4 01:01:01 I had just turned 17. She called over next day. I thank God.
