Dalton Davis: The Cowboy Casanova

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:12] Speaker B: Come on. This is Outside the Round with Matt Burrill for Rage Rowdy Podcast. What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of Outside the Round with me, Matt Burrell. Today a Merry Spirit Special guest. He is the pride of Gastonia, North Carolina, the cowboy Casanova himself, our boy, Dalton Davis. [00:00:34] Speaker A: How's it going, brother? [00:00:36] Speaker B: I haven't seen you in a minute. [00:00:37] Speaker A: It's been a while. I was thinking that when I was coming, I was like, dang, I don't know if I've seen you maybe in a year or so. [00:00:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you remember the first time we hung out? [00:00:45] Speaker A: Key West. [00:00:46] Speaker B: Key West Songwriters Festival, baby. [00:00:48] Speaker A: You guys got me my first round in Key west ever, so, bro. [00:00:50] Speaker B: And that was a time Key west was a vibe. [00:00:53] Speaker A: That was Key West. 2023. [00:00:56] Speaker B: I think so. Yeah. 2023. So coming up on three years ago. [00:00:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I just moved to Nashville that March. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Yeah, cuz I remember. I remember Sam. Sam Crabtree was Texas homies, bro. Yeah. Do you come from a spot where there's a lot of great guys? I mean, I know the whole area of Gastonia. Everybody jokes that it's the gateway to Charlotte, but really, Charlotte is the gateway to Gastonia, as. As my buddy Boogie Tate likes to say. But you like the. The Williffords and. And Sam and Brook and Boogie. And I know Cameron Marlo's from not [00:01:28] Speaker A: far out there, but another kid in town, Alex Graham, he's a singer. He's Gastonia, too. So there's a whole little squad from us out there. [00:01:35] Speaker B: Yeah, man. It's. It's a. It's a vibe, man. And you can feel the Carolina roots in your music. And, like, you sing about Appalachia and the world that you know and being. Being out being the. The little brother to Charlotte in a way where it's like, you know, it's. It's cool, man, but how's life been? It seems like it's been a damn rocket ship here lately, huh? [00:01:54] Speaker A: We've been going a million miles an hour, that's for sure. It's definitely everything that I ever dreamed about and more and twice as fast as I ever thought it was gonna be. So in. You know, I feel like every day I'm like, all right, I'm about to sit down, and we're finally gonna get a little break. And then someone's like, hey, we need you to do this. You gotta do this. Or, hey, did you post a TikTok today? And I'm like, no, I didn't. The Dodgers are about to play, you know. [00:02:15] Speaker B: But yeah, dude, it's. It's wild. How'd all this Landman stuff happen? Because that's been a pretty big moment here lately, huh? [00:02:20] Speaker A: Yeah, it's pretty wild. Got a phone call, said, hey, do you want to cut this song? And I was like, sure. Can I hear it? They sent it to me. I was like, yeah, who wrote this? Billy Bob Thornton and Ronnie Bowman and Mark Collie. And I was like, yeah, 100%. I'll sing this song. [00:02:32] Speaker B: Like, I'll cut that. [00:02:34] Speaker A: They're like, when you need it by today at 10 o'. Clock. I was like, oh, okay. So we ran over the studio, recorded as quick as we could, sent it over, and then they hit us up and like, hey, you want to go to the premiere in New York? So we flew out to New York and got to meet Billy and some of the guys on the cast and kind of had a cool hangout. Then the next couple weeks, we had the CMA after party, and next thing you know, I'm sitting over there kicking it with them, and he's like, hey, man, let me hear that song. And so I showed it to him. Then we get a call like, hey, this on the soundtrack. And, you know, it's kind of wild seeing a show that you watch. Next thing you know, your. Your shows, your songs on the soundtrack, you know. [00:03:02] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, it's wild, man. So take me back to you first moved out here. You said 20, 23. So what led to the path of you making the jump? Because Carolina, a lot of people don't know this. There's a lot of places to play out there, and you can cut your teeth. I know you spent some time out in Chattanooga as well, that southeastern Tennessee region, Another sp that you could get gigs and you can make a living doing this thing. But what was kind of the catalyst for I got to get here to Nashville? [00:03:31] Speaker A: I think I didn't come to Nashville as long as I could because of that exact reason. You know, from Carolina to Chattanooga and everywhere in between, in that little two and a half hour region, there's plenty of places to play. But then Nashville kind of started calling, and it was one of those things that's like, okay, like, they know who I am. I should at least go, like, see what this is about. Take a couple meetings and wait. I always wanted to be a songwriter, and I'd never really done any co writes. And the first meeting I had in Asheville, I got plugged into a whole little network of songwriters. And next thing you know, My first couple Fridays in Nashville, I'm riding with Jonathan Singleton, and I'm like, there's no way I'm not coming to this. And I remember something that I kept getting told by a lot of the guys when I first got here. They're like, you know, you got to be present to win. You got to be present to win, [00:04:11] Speaker B: got to be on the field to win at the game 100%. [00:04:13] Speaker A: Like, you know, you can keep getting cool songs. Driving back and forth from Chattanooga to Nashville, he's like, but every night when you drive home, there's another event that you could be networking at or somebody that could be meeting or hearing play show or asking you to play show. And so I started taking that into a lot of consideration. And then a bunch of my friends moved up here, and I was like, all right, well, if it's game time, it's game time. Let's go, you know, and there's, you know, love Chattanooga. There's a huge music scene there. There's only so much of a country music scene there. So I feel like we had gotten to the point of like, okay, we don't. We. What's the next step? [00:04:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:43] Speaker A: I was like, all right. Nashville's the game plan. [00:04:46] Speaker B: Yeah, man. And it. And luckily for you, at that time, Chat was. Chat's really not that far away. [00:04:51] Speaker A: No, it's right down the road. [00:04:52] Speaker B: There's a lot of people that take weekend trips from Nashville down to that region, you know, and popping down into the Smokies region and all of that stuff, man. So it's not that far away. What's it been like now, having a. Having a team, man? Like, you're on a pretty damn good label. Like, you. You're. You're really doing this thing. [00:05:09] Speaker A: I'm very thankful to be signed. We signed with MCA Republic, and August 18, I think, was our official day. And, you know, it's definitely one of the wildest things to. You know, we have a call every Monday at 2 o' clock and every Thursday at 4 o' clock or something like that. And I get on, and when I first got on, I thought it was gonna be like, you know, management, like, one or two other people. And then you just get on the zoom list, and you start scrolling, and you're like, holy shit, there's a lot of people. [00:05:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:34] Speaker A: And they're like, all right, Dalton, so what are you thinking? And you're like, oh, shit. And I'm in charge. [00:05:38] Speaker B: Like, what's the best part? [00:05:40] Speaker A: It is the best part. And the most Terrifying part. He's like, oh, wait, like, I got nobody to blame this on. This is all like, if this doesn't work, it's because I didn't do what I was supposed to do, you know? So kind of a humbling experience, but also a very exciting experience. [00:05:51] Speaker B: Yeah, man, tell me about cows in the front yard, which to me is such a Dalton Davis song. Like, when I think of you, man, like you pulled up in the old beater truck. We're sitting outside having a smoke before we come in here. Cows in the front yard. I'm like, that is a Dalton Davis song. [00:06:06] Speaker A: Well, I gotta gotta say, you know, it's not too much of a beater. It's the seven' three, you know, I'm [00:06:12] Speaker B: looking at it like it is a countryman's. Oh yeah, that's more what I'm saying. [00:06:15] Speaker A: Growing up in town, like, that was the truck. Like all the cool kids when I was, you know, middle school, all the cool high schoolers had a 97, 95, 7 3. And I was like, all right, one day when I get the money, I'm gonna buy one of those. And that's kind of what Cals was about. I got a call one morning. Messi, my producer, he called me and was like, hey, I got a write going on over here. It was a guy, Jett Harvey and Christian Stallnecker, who I ended up writing Cals with. They had written a different chorus that morning, called me and said, hey, will you come sing the chorus of this? So it was like 9 o' clock in the morning. Anybody who knows me knows I'm not recording no music at 9 o'. [00:06:45] Speaker B: Clock. No. [00:06:46] Speaker A: But I was like, alright, if Messi's asking for me, I'll go. Yeah. So I got up, drove over there and I get in. I honestly couldn't tell you what the chorus was about at all. But we go in, we sing whatever the chorus was and then we start kind of just shooting the shit. And Christian tells us this story. He said he just gotten back from Texas and seen this HOA neighborhood with. the end of it was like. He was like, it had to be the president of the HOA because they had fenced off in their front yard and cows in this big HOA neighborhood. And it kind of just provoked this conversation. Like, oh, okay. Like that's the dream right there. And you know, spitballed, snowballed. And two hours later we had cows in the front yard. [00:07:21] Speaker B: That's awesome, man. I love that your sound is so distinct as well, because there's a lot of folks that obviously a lot of guys and girls doing this country music thing, and there's all the different flavors of ice cream with different sub genres within it. But it's like when. When I hear your voice in Sonically, it has that. That throwback to it and then also some touches of the modern thing. But your voice is so distinct that it's the moment you. You hit that song on one of the streaming platforms or hear you live, obviously live, we're seeing you. But it's like, you know that it's you saying. [00:07:52] Speaker A: I think a lot of that has to do with where I've come from. You know, I've been really blessed to have a lot of musical influences and mentors in my life who've kind of helped me not only grow, but also find who I was and being blessed. You know, the guys that are around me singing in the band and that we write with are some of the best singers I've ever been around. So you sing with those every day. You're like, all right, well, I can't do what he can do, so I'm gonna have to figure out what I can do and really dial in on that. And that's helped me a lot. [00:08:17] Speaker B: Yeah, man. [00:08:18] Speaker A: Around a lot of cats better than me. [00:08:19] Speaker B: I mean, it's a team sport. 100, you know, it's a team sport. [00:08:22] Speaker A: Rise and ties lift all ships. [00:08:23] Speaker B: Dude, Nikki T says that all the time, dog. That's, like, been Nikki T's, like, motto since I've known him. Is that man truth. So how did. How did 2025 go for you overall? It's crazy that we're in January of 2026, isn't it? [00:08:39] Speaker A: Truly is insane. 2025 is so wild because I started off the year we had put out, I think two or three songs, maybe. I think two songs. [00:08:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:50] Speaker A: And we were, you know, excited about it. Had just signed a publishing deal and was like, you know, what's going to happen? And then in February, I'm flying to New York to meet with Republic, and then I'm March, I'm in mca, and I'm like, oh, the year just started, you know. Yeah. And we put out another song and things kind of started rolling and we started catching some steam in Canada, and the next thing you know, we're in record label negotiations, and I'm like, what? What? You know, how did we get here? And it's such a wild experience because, you know, a lot of people see that I moved here two and a half years ago, and they're like, oh, this guy just got here, and he just, you know, this. But it's wild. Like, you know, 2021, I was sleeping in the back of my truck chasing music. And so to be 2025, going to 2026, signed to, you know, one of the best teams in the business, it's like, wake me up or don't wake me up. Actually, let me. [00:09:39] Speaker B: Let this dream. Let this trip just keep going, dog. Take me back to the hardships of coming up and really chasing this thing. And when did you. When did you start gigging? Like, when did you know, I want to be out here doing this if I got to sleep in my truck, if I'm playing for. For tips and a beer or two, like, take me back to those days. [00:09:59] Speaker A: Well, you know, I always say, like, I did my first fly gig as a bass player when I was 12 years old. I flew from Charlotte to Orlando. So I've been gigging kind of on and off my whole life. [00:10:08] Speaker B: Wow. [00:10:09] Speaker A: But in 2018 is when I really was like, okay, like, I'm forsaking everything else. There is nothing else. I'm gonna go figure out music. And at that point, I kind of moved into this apartment in Chattanooga. I had resigned from my job and kind of hid for six months. I was like, I'm gonna figure out who I am as a person. Got back in touch with, you know, a lot of the roots I grew up with and started just surrounding myself with as many musicians as I could and started kind of chasing it and was blessed to have played in a lot of other bands as a bass player. So I knew a lot of musicians. So when it's time that I was like, all right, I'm gonna step out and be an artist, I could call people that I already knew. We'd play shows together. And I was like, I trust these guys. I know they can, you know, figure it out. Most of them weren't country musicians, but we figured it out together. [00:10:47] Speaker B: It's kind of. That's kind of refreshing, though, to have that look of outside the genre because there's so much blending going on. Even though your stuff is undenia classified as country and western music, to have those friends and those folks outside of the Nashville bubble has to be a great thing to have 100%. [00:11:05] Speaker A: You know, one of my favorite scriptures, the Bible says, only a fool despises wisdom. And I think one of the biggest blessings of my life is having people who know so much more about music around me so I can come in and Say, hey, this is a country song. This is what it's supposed to sound like. And they can like, yeah, that's cool. We're going to play it just like that. But it never is going to come out just like that. Because the knowledge they have music and the way they play, it's like, you know, they learned. They didn't learn country, they learned every other genre that they were playing. So like, all right, bring a little bit of that sauce in here and we'll put that country sauce on it and make something a little bit new, you know? [00:11:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And knowing how the road works with other genres as well, because rock touring is a whole different thing. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, no kidding. [00:11:40] Speaker B: What was, what was that band experience like? Take me back to being a 12 year old and doing a fly date. Going to Chicago? [00:11:46] Speaker A: No, I was going to Orlando. [00:11:47] Speaker B: You going to Orlando? You're going to Orlando from Charlotte? Sorry, I heard Chicago there. But what was that, what was that gig? [00:11:53] Speaker A: It was like a. Basically like a glorified battle of the bands with this band that I was playing with. And then they had all moved to Tennessee and then like, hey, we're gonna go. We won this competition, won the state of North Carolina. And the nationals were at Disney World. So first time I got, first and only time I've been to Disney World. And so I remember my mom, we like figured out the money, we got me on the plane. I remember she dropped me off at the airport. She was like, I, you know, I have my base case. [00:12:15] Speaker B: She's like, all right, see you flew by yourself. [00:12:18] Speaker A: By myself. I'll never. Being on the plane flying with this guy and like trying the whole flight like, hey, bro, like, let me get [00:12:24] Speaker B: some of that Bud Light, bro. [00:12:26] Speaker A: He was just like, just kept shaking his head at me the whole time. I tried so hard. He never did budge on the Bud Light, but ended up going, getting down there, had a, you know, had a great time. And it was just kind of an eye opening experience for me because I remember that was like, I think the summer of the seventh grade. And so going back into the eighth grade, I was like, oh, like, you know, I might be a little. I might could do this, you know. Yeah, because you come back in, everybody's like, you know, I went to Myrtle beach this summer and I was like, yeah, that's cool. I competed against a bunch of bands from across America and just felt like I was the man. [00:12:53] Speaker B: I went to Disney for work. [00:12:54] Speaker A: For work. [00:12:55] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:12:56] Speaker A: So definitely, like started a little bit of that Casanova. Oh, I Can do this, you know, mentality. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Where does. Where did that. That branding come from? Of. Of Casanova? [00:13:06] Speaker A: It's been a nickname on and off for a long time for a plethora of reasons. Yeah. And it just kind of stuck as a brand, and I made it my Instagram probably close to 10 years ago, maybe, and just been rocking with it ever since. Now it's, you know, a kind of an umbrella brand for a lot of things that we do. [00:13:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Dude, is. That was. That was when I remember saying. I remember when we. When we had you down in Key west at our, like, happy hour rounds, and I remember trying to find you [00:13:32] Speaker A: on Island Dog, right? [00:13:33] Speaker B: At Island Dogs. Yeah, Island Dogs. Shout out to Tebow and the team down there. But I remember trying to tag you and stuff. And I remember. And then I was like, what. Where is his name? And I'm like, oh, it's Cowboy Casanova. What a different kind of thing. [00:13:48] Speaker A: Which. [00:13:49] Speaker B: Which was awesome. Dude. What's it been like now? Getting to go out on the road and do shows, Having that experience when you were younger to. Now you're doing the damn thing. You got a label deal, you got a great team around you, and you're. You're out there singing your damn songs in front of people that happen to know them. [00:14:05] Speaker A: It's wild how the younger and that question are still so intertwined. For me this year we had, you know, fun year of opening for some of my favorite acts ever. But the most important for me was the reason that I play country music is because my uncle taught me how to play guitar, and he taught me how to play Country Boy Can't Survive as my first song ever. [00:14:23] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:14:24] Speaker A: So since I was six years old, I was like, you know, Bo Cephas is him. [00:14:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:27] Speaker A: And then this summer, we get the calls like, hey, you want to go open for Hank Williams Jr. And not only do we get to open for him a couple shows, you get to open for him in Alabama. And I was like, oh, it's on. And so, you know, we got to go down there, got to meet him, shake his hand, take a couple pictures. And I was like, you know, this is the. The most full circle moment of all time. I'm, you know, every night I have a song coming out of my record this year called I Didn't choose to Be country. And I talk about learning how to play the song Country Boy Can't Survive. I'm playing that opening for the Nitty Gritty Band and Hank Williams Jr. And I'm like, Trying not to, like, tear up. I'm like, thank God I got my sunglasses on, you know? [00:15:00] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Pretty cool experience. [00:15:02] Speaker B: The full circle moments are kind of my favorite part of being in the music game. Now I'm not a writer, a producer, an artist. I don't sing. Me and Nick like to say that we. We listen well, we love to tell people and talk about it, you know, that's what we do. But the full circle parts of it, with your love of music and now getting to have those moments like you did with Bo Cephas and Nitty Gritty and so many others, it's got to be freaking awesome. [00:15:24] Speaker A: It's wild, you know, driving down the road as a young artist, I remember the first kind of songs I was listening to are, you know, Young Blake Shelton and young Tim McGraw and these guys. And it's, you know, I'm opening on the same bill as Blake Shelton and what do you think I was when he was playing? I was in the front row with the boys. Like, yeah, holy shit, this man's playing Old Red right now. And I remember hearing this in the back of the Pontiac on fire playing [00:15:46] Speaker B: Boys round here, bro. There was nothing like being at the local amphitheater in the local shed. I go in Jersey and I remember seeing him and listening to him play. Boys around here, just getting down, just packing as much Skull Wintergreen into my cheek as I possibly could, bro. It was fun. [00:16:01] Speaker A: I did feel like I was in, like, middle school. It was just me and the band and we were in Canada, so we didn't have any of our, like, extended team, so it was just a few of us and we're out there and it's like, oh, we were getting after it, you know, we were putting down some bruise and having a good time. [00:16:12] Speaker B: I've heard the Canadian country fans are wild, too. [00:16:15] Speaker A: They have been the biggest blessing to us. You know, we started seeing a lot of success in Toronto. It's actually Toronto is my number one stream, really. [00:16:22] Speaker B: I would not have guessed that. [00:16:23] Speaker A: Shout out to the Toronto family, but shout out to the Utes. That's what they say in Toronto. Utes get roasted for that one. But we have a good friend of ours, George at Apple Music has been a big help of ours and big friend, and he kind of put us on some playlists. Started catching a little fire in Toronto. We played a lot of shows in Canada this past summer and it's been fun. It's a wild experience. You know, I play a show at back home you know, there's a few cats we're still, you know, coming up. And not everybody knows every word. We play shows in Canada and it's like, how do y' all know the words of these songs that aren't even out yet? And so, yeah, the wild experience, seeing 12 year olds know every word to your song. And I'm like, I live 1500 miles away from you. We're in Vancouver. How do you know this? [00:17:04] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, I remember back in my touring days, I worked with the Muscadine Bloodline guys. I sold. I'm part of that same tree that. That Sam Crabtree's from know or he was out on the road with them. I was a little bit after that. But I was selling their hats and T shirts for. To make my living, to pay my rent down here. And I remember them always saying, because they're from Mobile. And they would say, like, it's crazy that they can't. They couldn't sell out the room in Mobile, but they could go to Texas or Chicago or Washington state and sell out a room that was even bigger than the room in Alabama. [00:17:34] Speaker A: Such a wild thing. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Like, it's wild that, like, you would think that the hometown that a Coyote Joe's in Charlotte or something like that would be like the. The highest ticket sale, but it could be 1500 miles away and freaking Toronto with your Utes. [00:17:47] Speaker A: You know, they're loving it. So it's just. It is a real. It's crazy too because, you know, we got to play a lot of cool markets this year, but we played a lot of not country markets. And it was a, like, very refreshing. [00:17:58] Speaker B: Like, what markets? [00:17:59] Speaker A: Like, we're playing like Vancouver and Boston. And, you know, Boston can be a country market in some spots, but, you know, just a bunch of random Connecticut and spots like that. And it's like, you know, you're showing up, you're playing songs, and you're playing, you know, our songs coming out. If you're redneck and you know it, you don't expect everyone in Vancouver to be singing along. But we are. You know, every time I say, I'm like, hey, this is for the rednecks out there. And if you're not a redneck, you can pretend for the next three minutes. And by the second chorus, you see all these guys who, you know, have never shoveled no shit before over there, you know, beers up in the air, they're chiming in with the rednecks. It's like, okay, cool. Like, this is. Everyone can understand this. [00:18:35] Speaker B: It Reminds me of, like, the country is countrywide. Country. Country must be countrywide. Shout out to Brantley Gilbert and Cole Ford on one. But it reminds me of how everybody says, like, St. Patrick's Day. Everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day. [00:18:48] Speaker A: 100. [00:18:49] Speaker B: Everybody's a redneck at a Dalton Davis show. Gotta be everybody. [00:18:52] Speaker A: I'll take that. [00:18:52] Speaker B: They're bought in, man. Like, and growing up in New York, I. I relate to what you're saying because I used to go. I mean, I would go to upwards of like 50, 60 shows a year, and I'd go and see Granger Smith doing his Earl Dibbles bit in the heart of New York City at the Irving Plaza. And you'd have people that were just so. They're such big fans of it, and there's not a lot of it up there that when a guy like you comes to town, it's a big deal, you know, like, they can really get after it and get to Honky Tonkin and get to drinking cold beer and smoking darts and going home in their Pontiacs and shit like that, you know, [00:19:25] Speaker A: man, it is funny because you're like. You get looking out there like, I wonder where Ian's got these cowboy hats from, because, you know, there ain't no store nowhere close. I was like, I respect. I'm. Yeah, man, I'm here for it. [00:19:35] Speaker B: Yeah, man, you're getting to do some wild festivals this year. We were talking about before we hopped on here. You're getting to be a part of the Rock the Country series. [00:19:42] Speaker A: Very excited. [00:19:43] Speaker B: Which is our first year. I've been the one where we've popped up and, like, sold, like, our hats and T shirts, but never as involved as we are this year where we're having our own stage and stuff and you're getting to play some of those things. Come on, you're playing another full circle moment. Brock the country and your. Your headline, and I believe the one up in. Up in Buffalo. [00:20:02] Speaker A: First time playing in Buffalo and I'm from New York. [00:20:04] Speaker B: I've never been to Buffalo. That'll be my first time in Buffalo, too. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Let's go. I hear there's a. A pretty, you know, wild country market up in Buffalo. I heard they get down, dude. [00:20:11] Speaker B: And you know what's great about Buffalo for you? [00:20:13] Speaker A: What is it? [00:20:14] Speaker B: You know, what's. You know, what's right not that far from there. What, the Canadian border? [00:20:18] Speaker A: There you go. [00:20:18] Speaker B: It borders Ontario. [00:20:20] Speaker A: I was like, wait a sec. What, What. What's the test here? What am I? [00:20:22] Speaker B: Buffalo right Here, we can do it mapped out on the donuts, which we'll get into here in a little bit. But I'm sure there's going to be a lot of your. Your. Your homies from up there, a lot of your fans that came out for the Toronto shows or anyone in Ontario. They're gonna come across the border, bro. [00:20:36] Speaker A: Love to see them. [00:20:37] Speaker B: Like, Buffalo's right freaking there. [00:20:38] Speaker A: That's the. Love to hear that. [00:20:40] Speaker B: Genius. [00:20:40] Speaker A: I'm gonna let all the boys know. [00:20:41] Speaker B: Oh, they. They will know. I'm sure they have it marked on the calendar, too. And what's gonna be great is you're gonna have a bunch of Canadian folks because that's like the Red, White and Blue Festival decked out in stars and stripes and cowboy hats, just ripping cigs. And it's 911 weekend, which is like a very patriotic weekend in New York, too. In New York. In upstate western New York, man. We might have to do some content where we eat chicken wings up there. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Let's go. [00:21:02] Speaker B: Buffalo's known for the wings, obviously. Buffalo wings. And I've never been there and had them. So if I'm going to have my first buffalo and I feel like it should be with you, I'm down. [00:21:11] Speaker A: We're going to do, like, the, like, raise rowdy hot ones. [00:21:13] Speaker B: Oh, dude. That might be what we do. It might be tough for. We'd have to do that after you play and after I introduce you. We can do that a little bit later in the night when neither of us have to get on a microphone again. But it could be. That could be a fun little bit. [00:21:24] Speaker A: Let's run it. [00:21:25] Speaker B: And you're doing one down in Florida as well. Ocala, which is one of the bigger ones, man. [00:21:29] Speaker A: Very excited about. [00:21:30] Speaker B: Ocala's wild. That's. [00:21:31] Speaker A: I'm trying to be playing some warmer markets. We've played a lot of cold shows lately. Yeah. [00:21:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's funny that they send you. You would think that in the winter months you'd be hitting the Southeast and be hitting the Southwest and dipping into Texas, but I've. I've done that too, where it's like we might have to drive through snow. [00:21:48] Speaker A: For this gig, we drove from Montana to Calgary and Calgary to Vancouver in December. [00:21:54] Speaker B: What a hole. [00:21:55] Speaker A: Or into November. [00:21:56] Speaker B: That is a hole. What are you touring in? [00:21:58] Speaker A: Kind of a sprinter set up with a trailer. [00:22:00] Speaker B: Oh, so you're really getting after it. Yeah. [00:22:03] Speaker A: That's a lot of personal. [00:22:05] Speaker B: That's a lot of miles, and that's people that don't Know that Calgary to Vancouver and even Montana. That's a lot of mountains you're going through. [00:22:13] Speaker A: Some drove through the Colorado Rockies, through past bam. [00:22:15] Speaker B: You guys see storm? Did you guys drive through any storms as you were going? [00:22:18] Speaker A: We didn't see too many storms, but there was snow surrounding us everywhere. And it had been snowing off and on the kind of the whole time we were there. So we luckily didn't get caught in too much of it, but we got to see a lot of it. [00:22:27] Speaker B: Yeah, man, it's, it's, it's wild. There's something about like you're. You pop out for that. You pop out for that cigarette, that beer with your boys outside, outside, like before the show. And you're from the green room and you're just feeling it and then you get on stage and it warms you right up. It's that rush. You still find a way to be sweating. [00:22:44] Speaker A: Shout out to the Canadians. A lot of the venues, they have like, looks like a old school phone booth, but it's for the cigarettes really. Oh, man, that thing is a blessing because right before the show you need a quick smoke. You go get in the little hot, stale phone booth and it don't smell great, but it sure does beat the hell out of the wind. [00:23:00] Speaker B: Some of the most degenerate I've ever heard. And I love it. [00:23:03] Speaker A: I'm here for it. [00:23:03] Speaker B: I almost want to go to Canada just to experience that. [00:23:05] Speaker A: I feel like all waffle houses should install one of those. [00:23:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, dude. [00:23:09] Speaker A: Bring back smoking sections. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Yeah, man, it's funny. [00:23:11] Speaker A: I'll take it today. [00:23:12] Speaker B: Yeah, hot take of the day. For sure. I remember when those. I remember going like growing up, going to restaurants in York and it was like the smoke going to like the Bennigans or the Chili's and it was like. Or the TGI Fridays and it was like you had the smoking section by the bar. And my mom would be so mad when we'd have to sit in the smoking section. I was like five or six years old, dude. But, but yeah, man, make, make a, make the smoking section back, man. [00:23:35] Speaker A: I feel like a lot of people my age relate to this, but I can remember my mom being a waitress at a fish camp in North Carolina. [00:23:41] Speaker B: Really? [00:23:41] Speaker A: Where they had a fish camp. I mean, they had a smoking side and a non smoking side. There was no, you know, real barrier between. I think it was like a half retaining wall. [00:23:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:48] Speaker A: And my mom would work the smoking side and sit me in the non smoking side until she was done. And like all Right. [00:23:54] Speaker B: Well, I'm still. You're still getting. Yeah. [00:23:56] Speaker A: You're still smoking cigarettes today. [00:23:58] Speaker B: It's a. It's a closed room. Yeah. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Shout out. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Shout out. Mama. Shout out. Mama Davis. How are. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Jarvis. [00:24:06] Speaker B: Mama Jarvis. Shout out, Mama Jarvis. I got you. I got you. What was your family dynamic like, growing? Got a lot of brothers and sisters and stuff, or what? [00:24:13] Speaker A: I have two brothers and sisters and two stepsisters. Had to think about how to word that one. [00:24:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:19] Speaker A: But, yeah, my. Me and my brother and sisters are pretty close. They're. You know, everybody thinks I'm the wild one. I think I might be the most tame out of the three. [00:24:26] Speaker B: Really. [00:24:27] Speaker A: There's. [00:24:27] Speaker B: Okay. [00:24:28] Speaker A: That's for sure. Yeah. [00:24:29] Speaker B: Are they still all back in the Carolinas? [00:24:31] Speaker A: No, honestly, I only have, like, some cousins and some grandparents still living in the Carolinas. Most of my family lives in Georgia now. My sister lives outside of Atlanta and has a, you know, little basketball team full of kids running around. And so a lot of the families move there, and they all, you know, get to grow up with the kids, so. [00:24:46] Speaker B: That's cool, dude. Have you gotten to do shows in Georgia where the family's gotten to come out to some shows and stuff? [00:24:51] Speaker A: A few. And I think we have a couple this year we might pull off, so. That'll be fun. [00:24:54] Speaker B: That'll be. That'll be a cool feeling, man. [00:24:56] Speaker A: I usually see a lot of them when we play. You know, we played Charleston this year, and a lot of them drove down because, you know, Charleston's not too far from. [00:25:01] Speaker B: Where in Charleston did you play? [00:25:03] Speaker A: It was an amphitheater downtown. [00:25:05] Speaker B: Was that the music? Was it the music Farm or. There's the bath. There's the. They do stuff at the tennis. At the tennis facility, too. Like, Eric Church did a show at a tennis court. Like, what do you mean they're doing. They have a. They have a. They have an amphitheater at their tennis court. Like, that's very Charleston of them. [00:25:18] Speaker A: You know, I. It's not the pinnacle. I can't remember what it was called, but it was. It's like a kind of like an outdoor amphitheater surrounded by all these, like, outdoor bars and. Oh, nice chip container things. It was pretty cool setup. [00:25:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Because I've done Isle of Palms out there. The Wind Jammer. Oh, yeah, That's a cool spot. [00:25:34] Speaker A: That's a fun one. [00:25:35] Speaker B: Yeah. The Carolina scene of, like, the venues. Like, we talk. I talked about Coyote Joe's a little bit. You have memories going there. [00:25:42] Speaker A: That's the first club I Ever snuck into. So I got a lot of memories of there. I don't know how many I could talk about, but that was a fun spot. [00:25:47] Speaker B: Growing up around, were you sneaking in there for shows or just the house band stuff? Because the house bands are great there, too. [00:25:53] Speaker A: I knew a lot of cats who played in the house band, so I was like, sneaking in to see them play or sneaking in, you know, just to have a good time. So, yeah, depending on the weekend. [00:26:01] Speaker B: Yeah, that. That's one of my favorite honky tonks. And then the rip to Coyote Joe's is trashy, trashy cousin over in South Carolina, the Blind Horse Saloon in Greenville. [00:26:12] Speaker A: I never made it down to the Brian. Yeah, Blind Horse. [00:26:14] Speaker B: Blind Horse was wild, man. It was like, you take Coyote Joe's and you make it like if Coyote Joe's is a. Is a modular home or a double wide trailer. Blind Horse was a single wide. You know, it was just a little bit smaller. Like shag carpet on the stage. Like, it was. [00:26:28] Speaker A: Was. [00:26:28] Speaker B: It was a lot of fun. [00:26:29] Speaker A: Sounds like a spot. [00:26:30] Speaker B: Yeah, man. The Carolina country scene, like, the folks come out for the shows. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Take it down. A lot of them play, too. So I always say, you know, it wasn't really cool to be a musician where I was growing up, because everybody could kind of pick around and play or sing a little bit. It was just kind of everybody's family history, you know, So I feel like a lot of people when they recognize, like, oh, these guys are really doing it and this is put together, like, oh, yeah, we'll go support this because we like music too, you know. [00:26:53] Speaker B: Yeah, man, it's special stuff. So you, you. We talked about it a little bit earlier. I want to pull it out of you. We're talking about new music this year. We're talking. Did I hear the word Album? [00:27:02] Speaker A: We got an album coming in 2026. That's for sure. [00:27:04] Speaker B: Go. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Very excited. Can't share the date just yet, but it'll be later this year. [00:27:08] Speaker B: Tell me a little bit about the record, the vibe of it, what we can kind of expect, man, because that gets me fired up. [00:27:14] Speaker A: I think it's like full fledged Dalton Davis. You know, we've kind of been saying it's the baseball field of an album. We have Left Field. That's, you know, the autobiography. A little bit of, you know, this is the wild that we've done in life. You got right field. That's, you know, the cows in the front yard. We're gonna have a good time. [00:27:28] Speaker B: The short porch. Yeah. [00:27:29] Speaker A: And then we have center field that's just down the middle. Old school country, the we grew up on. And it's kind of a hodgepodge of those that tell a love story of being in love, falling out of love, and talking about not choosing to be country, and growing up this way, and just kind of what life is like for us. I'm very excited. [00:27:46] Speaker B: How many. How many songs on there do we know? [00:27:48] Speaker A: I don't know. Can I share this yet? Yeah. [00:27:50] Speaker B: They don't say the names. You don't say names of anything. But just how many. How many songs on the project? [00:27:55] Speaker A: We got 12 songs on the main album, and then we're gonna do a five song deluxe followed up. [00:27:59] Speaker B: So 17 new songs. Let's go down the pipe. Let's go. But we got one that we do know that we can talk about on here. Redneck. And you know it. I feel like the title is pretty self explanatory, but fill me in on who you wrote it with. Like, what, what? The production? Like, just the feel of that song. [00:28:15] Speaker A: That's another kind of funny ride. That was the first ride I had with Brad Tercy and Ross Ellis. [00:28:19] Speaker B: You're just getting in rooms with legends, bro. [00:28:21] Speaker A: Trying to. [00:28:22] Speaker B: These guys are freaking investing in you by writing with you special. [00:28:25] Speaker A: Don't take it for granted. Yeah, well, I was definitely nervous for that ride because, you know, I know Brad's legacy and I know Ross has written some smashes too. So I was like, oh, shit. I really got to be prepared. So I had this little note of all these ideas, and the week before, I had done a photo shoot with Will Jones. And we're out there and we're like, you know, while the camera break is on, we're shooting the shit. And I was like, man, I got this goofy if you're redneck and you know it chorus idea. And I sing it to him, and Will's like, man, if you don't write that, I'm gonna write it. And so I was like, all right, I think we might have something here. But then I get. I was like, maybe I'll bring it up in this Brad. Right? And I get in there, and I was too nervous. I was like, this is cheesy. Like, they're gonna laugh at me. This ain't the move. Like, I gotta come up with something real good and heartfelt and serious. We threw a couple ideas out, and it was kind of like nothing was landing that day. And I just kind of threw it out there. I was like, hey, you guys might laugh me out of the room. But I have this. If you're rednecking, you know what I did? Let's. What if we chase it down this alley? And I sang the chorus idea that I had, and Brad kind of looked at me, didn't say anything for a second, looked at Ross, and he just got up and walked out of the room. I was like, damn. Did I just, like, did I piss him off? Like, is he not vibing with this at all? And he goes down and comes back up with an attorney and was like, hey, can we pull this off? And the attorney was listening to it, so. Singing again. I sang a couple times. They do, Yeah, I think you're good. That's. Whatever you're playing with is public domain. Let's go play ball. And we wrote that song that day, and that was, you know, kind of a cool moment for me because after that day, I started getting phone calls like, hey, we heard this song. Like, what do you want to do with it? I was like, I don't know. You know, I don't. Didn't have a publishing deal at the time. I like to say that song got me my publishing deal, my record deal. [00:29:55] Speaker B: Wow. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Kind of opened a lot of doors for me. And I had a couple bigger artists call and ask if they could cut it, and I wanted to change it up a little bit. And they want to change it from if you're redneck, you know it. To if you're country, you know, it's. And something about it kind of just rubbed me the wrong way. I was like, man, if you ain't willing to step out on a limb and call yourself a redneck, then I don't want you to sing this song. And so I kind of decided. I was like, you know what? I think I might bet on myself. So I called Messi and said, hey, I need to. Well, actually, you know, through my manager, Alex Lunt, we kind of set up. I was like, hey, I really need a producer. The next day, he got a call with Messi. I get on the phone with him. I was like, hey, you want to record this song? He said, why don't you come over tomorrow? We recorded Redneck, you know it. We drank two bottles of Casamigos that night and recorded the song that we now have. And it was the beginning of, you know, the perfect relationship. Me and Messi been making music every day ever since together. And I, you know, I like to say that's kind of what started it off for us. It's, you know, just a redneck get [00:30:45] Speaker B: down so why hold it? You've been doing, you've been putting out songs that you've done with Messi, but that came after doing this one. Is this just that special of a song that you wanted to wait for the perfect time to like kick off the year with it or what? [00:30:59] Speaker A: Think there's a, you know, that's kind of a multi fold answer. I think, you know, one, like I said, it did open a lot of doors for me. So it's one of those things. I was like, okay, if they're talking about signing me because of this song, I'm not gonna put the song out yet until, you know, let's lock a couple of these things. [00:31:13] Speaker B: Let's put a couple logs on the fire, then we pour the gas. [00:31:16] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:31:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:17] Speaker A: And then also too, I was really excited about not just putting out another song and putting out a body of work. So Cows will be included in the body work. That was kind of the. That was the first single with the label and the first step in this new, like, you know, unfolding of the rest of the music. And even though I. It'll come out as a single, I also think Redneck plays an anchor role in the album. So I wanted to wait till the whole body work was ready to go so it could come out and serve not only the single purpose, but the, you know, album purpose as well. [00:31:44] Speaker B: That's awesome, dude, that's. You got me fired up over here, man. I'm freaking stoked for you, dude. And it's full circle. Thinking back to Key west back in the day, like to where you're at now and Sam Crabtree just shooting Nick and I say, hey, I got buddy. Can you throw them on something key what? And to see what, what you've done and how hard you've worked and the career that you're building and still continue with the build. What do you do for downtime? Like, what do you do when you're not doing your music stuff? Because it gets to be a lot, [00:32:13] Speaker A: man, as far as the label's concerned in the team, I don't have any downtime because if they, if they knew that I did, I'd be doing something else. But, you know, we, we like to hunt as much as we can. Had a good time this past season. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Has it been a good. Have you gotten some deer? [00:32:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Shot a buck in South Texas. Shout out to Russell and the guys down in South Texas and shot a lot of ducks in Illinois with Rob Hatch. We've been getting after a good bit, getting ready, you know, My favorite time of year, turkey season, is just right around the corner, so it's game time. We have a potential tour right now that runs the day after opening season, pretty much throughout turkey season. So if we end up locking that one in, I'm gonna be making a lot of new friends across the country. Hey, can I kill that turkey in your backyard? [00:32:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Gary used to do that with Muscadine where he's. He's gone out and tried to get the. I forget what. What the name of it is, but where you kill a turkey in every state. [00:33:03] Speaker A: Grand Slam. [00:33:03] Speaker B: The Grand Slam. And he's taken a lot of them, and a lot of it comes from just finding fans and asking permission. Yeah, asking permission. And the guys and girls take them out and they go kill turkeys, you know, like, so that is a great strategy. I mean, if you're touring in, like, Maine, you could get a turkey in me and you're playing. [00:33:23] Speaker A: Or Nebraska. [00:33:25] Speaker B: Or Nebraska. Or South Dakota. [00:33:27] Speaker A: Or. [00:33:28] Speaker B: Yeah, Wyoming. Like, literally wherever, bro. [00:33:30] Speaker A: We play a song, it'll be on the record, too. That's this year. It's called Hunting Land, and we play it every night. And it's just talking about it's hard to go hunting if you ain't got land. And it's always my kind of leeway of like, okay, cool. Like, if you're really into hunting, come talk to me at the merch booth. And it's always like, hey, we. We'll play any song you want us to play all night long. If we can hunt in the morning. Yeah, I'll come to wherever bonfire you want. Wherever you want me to hunt at. Y' all hear that? If you got hunting property, I'll come see you. [00:33:53] Speaker B: That's awesome, dude. What's something that you would tell that kid? [00:33:57] Speaker A: Because. [00:33:57] Speaker B: How old are you, Dalton? [00:33:58] Speaker A: 30. [00:33:58] Speaker B: You're 30. Okay, so we're same age. Yeah, we're same age. We're same age. I'm turning 31 very soon. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Me too. Not a couple months, so. [00:34:05] Speaker B: Really? Yeah. So we're right on that. But what would you tell that guy that was sleeping in his car chasing music to telling him what you know now of where your life is at? You're putting out a record with a big time label. You're on festival dates with freaking Kid Rock and Jason Aldean and all these big folks. You've gotten to see the all of North America and do all this cool stuff. What would you tell that guy that's doing it just because he loves it and is stuck sleeping in the back seat of his car. [00:34:34] Speaker A: I think belief is the biggest thing. You know, there are plenty of times I was sleeping in the back of that truck, and I could have been like, this ain't gonna work. I don't believe it. I'm gonna give up and just go keep framing houses like I was doing or laying brick or whatever, you know? But I always believed this was gonna work. No matter what, no matter what comes against me. Like, this is what I'm supposed to do. I'm gonna do it. You know, the Bible again says, without faith, works is dead. Since I was a little kid, my mom's been telling me, you know, one day you're gonna get up and play music in front of a lot of people. And she just ingrained it into my head to the point that I was naive enough to, you know, or like, you know, wild enough to sleep in the back of my truck and be like, all right, it doesn't matter what it takes. Like, I'm still gonna do this, and I'm gonna get up, go to work today and still go to that gig tonight, because this is all I have, you know? And I remember September 9, 2021, I'll sleep in the back of my truck. And I took a picture that day, and I was like, this is the last time I'm ever gonna sleep in this truck. And I kept believing that. And there's plenty of times, you know, I moved to town on the back of another deal that fell through and supposed to sign this publisher deal, and it didn't go through and, you know, thankfully, because it led me to the place that I'm at now, exactly where I need to be. But there's plenty of times where I could have been like, this ain't for me. And there's plenty of times where I thought a couple times like, damn, maybe this is just a little bit too far out of my reach, but I just was just ignorant enough to keep believing. Like, you know, what? If I just believe this more than anybody, If I believe I'm gonna make it more than they believe, I'm not going to. They're not gonna beat me. You know, I like to say there's a lot of cats in town who can outplay me and out sing me, you're gonna be hard pressed to find some. Some cats to outwork us. And so that's the thing is, if you keep believing in work, can't nobody beat you. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Amen, buddy. Amen. I'm ready to go out there and run on the football field right now, buddy, you have me all jacked up. I love it, man. And you can't count out the dog. That's got a lot of fight 100, you know, and that's so much because this industry, it beats you down, man. It beats you down. It's a roller coaster, it really is. And if you hang on, man, if you hang on, you're going to get to the finish line. [00:36:22] Speaker A: It's definitely, you know, I'm a big fan of boxing. You know, the amateurs are three round fights, three, three minute rounds. And you know, a lot of cats have a lot of success in the amateurs, but when you get to the Pros, that's a 12 minute fight and that's 12 rounds of getting your ass kicked. And that's definitely where we're at right now. We're just trying to hang on to the decision bell and hopefully we can throw a knockout punch here. [00:36:41] Speaker B: I'd say you're hitting them with some pretty good jabs and hooks right now [00:36:44] Speaker A: and trying to dodge as many back as I can see. [00:36:46] Speaker B: I'd say so, buddy. I'd say so. What are you most excited for about 2026? Like, what are the big goals for this year? [00:36:52] Speaker A: So hard to, to say. It's such an exciting year. Messi just got his first number one of 2026 as a writer on Meg Ronnie's new song six months later. [00:37:01] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:37:02] Speaker A: And so I was at the studio last night, he was like, yeah, man, it's my first number one of the year. Let's try to go get a number one another one. And I was like, well, shit, that's a lot of pressure. So let's get after that. I'm really excited just to have, you know, new music coming out. Cows came out in October and was just a DSP release and then was the fourth most added song to country radio and got added to almost 30 stations. And so it's like, okay, if that's where we started at, where we going next, you know, and just excited. We've been really digging in with the band and I think we're really at a spot too now. It's like, you know, we got the chemistry we've been really dialing in for and we're ready to go get after it. So I'm more excited than ever just to play, you know, we've had a. I haven't played a show with the band since December 12th and we did a live recording yesterday of Redneck and you know, it. [00:37:43] Speaker B: That had to feel so good to get back with the boys. It's like when you're. [00:37:46] Speaker A: Now I'm itching, I'm like, get me. Let's go, let's go. [00:37:48] Speaker B: When you're in the middle of the. And you're touring and you're driving from Calgary to Vancouver through the barren frozen tundra, you're like, I can't wait for this time off to go kill some deer and relax a little bit and do stuff here. But then once you get sitting on your couch and you're not on the road every weekend, you're like, I can't wait to get back in the van [00:38:06] Speaker A: with the boys 100%. I'm like, let's get after it. We, you know, we had the rehearsal Tuesday night, the recording Wednesday, and it's just for one song. So we're all like, [00:38:17] Speaker B: what's next? [00:38:17] Speaker A: You know, we felt like we got to the edge and we're like, oh, come on. Like, let's play ball. Yeah. Yeah. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Dude, that's. That's awesome, man. I'm very excited to see where this year takes you and where beyond. Man. What's it been like hearing your song on country radio? Like, because you grew up, you're a small town guy, so the radio has always, I'm sure, been a huge part of your life, your family's life, your friends lives and. And now you have a song that folks all around the world are hearing. [00:38:42] Speaker A: I think maybe I'm just still an old soul, but you know, even in a DSP days, radio is the pinnacle for me. I grew up, like you said, like that was it. You weren't cool if you didn't have a song on the radio and to, you know, we were in Canada the first time they played my song 10:33 Shout out to Travis Daly and the squad. But they played us first and gave us a little intro and it was, you know, insane to hear. But you know, it was one of those things where it was so unreal to believe. You're like, okay, it was just a one time thing. Like he was just, you know, maybe throwing us a bone. He plays us on the radio. And then there's so many times since then I'm just driving to go hunt or to go to the dump to throw some trash out. And the next thing you know, I'm like, what is. And I turn the radio, I'm like, oh, that's me on the radio. And it's the crazy experience. I can't tell you how many calls or texts I've got. Hey man, I'm at a Bar in Minnesota, or I'm at a truck stop and Fort Worth, and your song is playing here, and I'm like, what is happening? You know, it's just the coolest experience. It's what I always said, like, that was one of the biggest things for me. One day, I want to hear myself on the radio. My goal was always to pull up to a stoplight and hear somebody listening to me on their radio in the car next to me. So I still haven't had that yet. So if you hear me on the radio and I'm close to you, pull up, roll your window down. But it's very exciting. [00:39:54] Speaker B: That's awesome, man. Well, dude, I appreciate the hell out of you coming on here and hanging. And now we can get. We can get in. We can get into some of these donuts. Thank you for bringing the donuts. I got some gifts for you as well. We got ball caps over there, you and the team, if you guys want to grab. Grab some hats and. And stuff. [00:40:08] Speaker A: And then we're leaving with the surf. [00:40:09] Speaker B: And then I got an eight pack of Surfside for you. The. The iced tea variety pack. So no bubbles, no troubles. Enjoy. They're. They're. [00:40:15] Speaker A: I'm loving this one right here. [00:40:16] Speaker B: There you go, man. That's good. Give you a little bit of caffeine here. Get the day going a little bit, man. Well, brother, I appreciate you and very excited for Redneck and, you know it to be coming out. It'll be out by the time this episode airs. So y' all be sure to go out and stream that and then get out there and request at your local radio station. People say it doesn't do anything anymore, but I'll tell you what. You breathe down a program director, a radio guy, or girl's neck to play a Dalton Davis song, and they have it in their playlist. They will play that song. So all the support helps. And, brother, I can't wait to rock the country with you this year. [00:40:47] Speaker A: We're gonna get after it. [00:40:48] Speaker B: It's gonna be something, man. [00:40:49] Speaker A: First time in Buffalo. [00:40:50] Speaker B: First time in Buffalo. [00:40:51] Speaker A: Stay tuned for the hot one ones, dude. [00:40:53] Speaker B: The hot ones, man. Me and Nikki gonna be sweating. It's gonna be. I'm already dreading. [00:40:58] Speaker A: Maybe we'll bring in one of the guys from the band, too, and just make it ecoplay and feel Tuvi, too, dude. [00:41:02] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe we do that. Maybe we do that. That'd be great. Start thinking of which of your guys would be the hot wing guy. And then we could have some Surfside there to wash him down. Yeah, so it'll be sick, dude. Well, appreciate you, everybody. Give Dalton a follow. Look up Cowboy Casanova. And be on the lookout too for the news on the record that'll be coming at the at some point. [00:41:20] Speaker A: Coming soon. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Coming soon to theaters near you. To ears near you. Shout out to our friends from Surfside, no bubbles, no troubles. Always be depleting. Get out there. Check them out. They got lemonade, iced tea, green tea. They're rolling out some new flavors as well. Get them wherever you get your booze. And for more on us, visit Razor Eye.com from Ann Dalton, I'm Matt Brill. This has been outside the round [00:41:42] Speaker A: I [00:41:42] Speaker C: ain't never been the kind for st one place for too long I ain't never been the best at s I love you to a girl I love Only got a couple tricks up my sleeve they usually just make them leave? So if you know me if you really know me? You know I'm just a two trick pony May be the drinking and the lack of money for show I'm just a two trick pony [00:42:17] Speaker A: yeah.