Daves Highway: Family Roots, Southern Harmony & Chasing the Dream

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. Come on. [00:00:15] Speaker B: This is Outside the Round with Matt Burrill for Rage Rowdy Podcast. [00:00:20] Speaker A: What's going on, guys? Welcome back to Outside the Round with me, Matt Burrill. Today, we don't have one, we don't have two. We have three special guests. One of my absolute favorite bands that is here in Nashville, Tennessee. They're a family trio. They're from Mississippi originally, and they've racked up probably being one of our most played acts that we have at Raised Rowdy. We're so excited to have the folks from Dave's highway with us. How you guys doing? Good, man, good. [00:00:43] Speaker C: Happy to be here. [00:00:44] Speaker A: Yeah, we were just talking about the hair and like, I got a little bit. [00:00:48] Speaker B: You. [00:00:48] Speaker A: You got the low maintenance little scrub, but the frizz. It's getting a little crazy out there with this heat. [00:00:55] Speaker C: It's a wild T. Yeah, it is truly. [00:00:58] Speaker A: Some. Some days. I mean, it's just. It's crazy hot, it's raining, it's all that. And it's wild here now. So you guys have been doing well? Life's been good. [00:01:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:01:06] Speaker B: Busy, busy, Good, busy. Been doing a lot of stuff like this lately. Promoting our new EP that's coming out in August. I don't know when this. This will air. It will probably be sometime in. In August. So our EP is either coming out real soon or is it out now? [00:01:24] Speaker D: Either way, we'd love for you to listen. [00:01:26] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. How many tracks do we got on the ep? [00:01:29] Speaker D: Six. [00:01:29] Speaker A: Six songs? Hell yeah. [00:01:31] Speaker C: Five originals and one cover. [00:01:33] Speaker A: Who's sick? What cover? [00:01:36] Speaker C: Is it a surprise? No, it's not a surprise. It's Anyway. It's anyway by Martina McBride. Oh, sweet throwback. Yeah. [00:01:42] Speaker A: Why'd we go with that one? [00:01:44] Speaker D: Ah, it's the best song ever. I mean, well, I. I think it was really so the way that everything worked out with recording our project, it just felt like a must because we recorded at Blackbird, which is Martina's husband's studio, and we're in the studio and we're like, there's literally no greater time for us to finally do a Martina song than now. And anyway has been my favorite song since it came out. Like, there has been maybe a moment or two where I've strayed, but it's been pretty consistent. [00:02:15] Speaker B: Well, it's also like that song, while it was one that we grew up listening to and loving, it's also like, there's something to be said about that. In this Town is like the whole song. The premise of the whole song is you feel like you can't people tell you that you can't do it anyway? Right? And that's kind of like. Kind of like our story in the industry. Not a whole lot of people telling you that you can't. But it's like time after time, it's like, oh, this is gonna be the thing. And I'm sure you've heard a million stories like that. It's like, this is gonna be the thing that really catapults us. We're going on a tour, and it's a real tour, and this is gonna be the thing that finally break. And it isn't. But we're gonna do it again. We'll do it anyway because it's what we feel like. It's what we were made for, right? [00:02:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:54] Speaker A: That's awesome. I love that. [00:02:55] Speaker D: Amen. [00:02:56] Speaker A: That's really cool. Look at Zach over here, just preaching. [00:02:58] Speaker D: My parents always said that he was gonna be a preacher, and so sometimes I'm like, man, we did the wrong thing. Is that how you're supposed to be a preacher? [00:03:05] Speaker B: Our great grandmother, she lived. How old was she when she passed away? Like, 95. She every. We went over to see her every Sunday at her little apartment that she lived in in our hometown. And she. Every time she would say, you're going to be a preacher. I don't know that I am honestly. [00:03:20] Speaker A: Entertaining people and bringing their. Their emotions and their mentalities up through song and through performance. That's not much different than getting up on a. On a step stool preaching at a church. [00:03:33] Speaker D: I feel like preaching's got to be harder because you have to have something new to say every time. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Well, I feel like that's something, too. When you guys are artists, you're putting out something new, you know, like there is. [00:03:42] Speaker D: But when we get on stage, we get to sing the same song every night. You know, we have our spiel. That is. [00:03:46] Speaker A: That is true. That is true. No, there is. There is an art to it. So you guys growing up down in Mississippi, when did music become like, this is what we're gonna do Did. Was one of you guys. What are the age ranges, too, by the way? Because I don't know the full dynamics of the. Dave's family. [00:03:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm the oldest. I'm 30. [00:04:02] Speaker D: And then depending on when this airs, she's 30. Her. [00:04:08] Speaker C: I'm 22 forever. [00:04:10] Speaker D: So she grew out of 21. I'm so proud. I'm 28. So strange. [00:04:15] Speaker B: So for one month of the year, we're like, 28, 29, 30. [00:04:19] Speaker D: And this is that month right now. [00:04:21] Speaker A: Really? [00:04:21] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:04:24] Speaker C: But there was never really a. There was never a beginning of music for any of us, really. It was just always a thing in our house. We always sang. We always. We didn't always sing together, but we always sang. And we always had a camera in front of us because our dad. I mean, this was in the. In the age where, you know, cameras. [00:04:44] Speaker D: It's like when video cameras came out. Yeah. [00:04:47] Speaker A: Every dad was like, I gotta get this. [00:04:49] Speaker B: I gotta get this. I gotta get that. [00:04:50] Speaker C: Everything was documented. And so that's just how we grew up. And we, of course, sang in church growing up. We did all of the church productions, the school productions, and then did some stuff together. Well, actually, I was singing the national anthem at a pep rally when I was in the seventh grade. And that's when Erica started singing harmony with me for the first time. And so then her mom was casual like that. My mom was like, whoa, that's the thing. So then Zachary started. [00:05:20] Speaker B: I had a really hard time picking it up. [00:05:21] Speaker D: I feel like it was more like, what are you doing? For my mom. Because she always wanted to sing harmony and she, like, couldn't hear it. [00:05:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:30] Speaker D: And she's always like, it's so hard. It's so hard to hear harmony. And then when we started doing it, she's like, you know. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. [00:05:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:38] Speaker D: No bigger fan of us than our mother. [00:05:40] Speaker A: That's awesome. [00:05:41] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:05:42] Speaker B: So really, from then, like, we. We, you know, did the whole Southern kid thing, like, sang at the senior adult luncheons at our grandmother's church and, like, stuff like. And so we finally, one day with the video camera thing, dad caught us, like, singing a song in our house, like, videoed us doing it and posted it on YouTube. [00:06:03] Speaker A: This is early days of YouTube, right? [00:06:05] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:06:05] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:06:05] Speaker B: This was like 2009, like, when Justin. [00:06:08] Speaker D: Bieber came out on YouTube. We all remember it. [00:06:11] Speaker B: And, like, back when viral meant something. Right. Unlike now, where everything is viral except us. Sure. So it was, like, viral before Viral Dave's Highway. [00:06:25] Speaker D: So we're not viral now. We were viral. [00:06:27] Speaker B: Then he posted this video of us singing a Chris Tomlin song, and we. He just threw it out there. And we were, like, scheduled the next week to go to Disney World as a family. Right. We did that twice. And. Which I'm not salty about at all. I love Disney World. [00:06:46] Speaker D: They were. Sounded really salty. [00:06:47] Speaker C: Yeah, you did. [00:06:48] Speaker B: They would never take me back. They always wanted to go. To go to the beach and sit out in weather like this. Right. [00:06:53] Speaker C: So. [00:06:56] Speaker B: We were like, dad, what are you doing, dude? We're trying to go ride. Let's go meet the mouse man. And he's like, hang on, hang on. And he's like, on his computer. [00:07:03] Speaker D: Well, this is like when Facebook came out also. And so dad was in this big era, literally. He would sit in our computer room back when that was a thing, he would sit in our computer room and be on Facebook. From, like, when he got off work to when he went to bed every day. We thought that's just what he was doing. And we're like, come on, bro. You can connect with your people from high school later. This is more important. [00:07:25] Speaker B: But he had created us a Facebook page. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Oh. [00:07:29] Speaker D: And very savvy. [00:07:30] Speaker B: He had. He had grown it somehow to. From. He's very smart, marketing wise, but he had grown us from zero to 1500 fans. And we were like, we've hit the big time. Like, this is it. We're. I mean, I'm 12 years old, right? [00:07:42] Speaker C: We don't even know 1500 people. 1500 people know us, though. [00:07:45] Speaker B: This is special. And so when we were at Disney World, he was doing that same old thing. We're like, dude, this is not what we came to Disney for. [00:07:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:07:52] Speaker B: So he. He said, hang on a second. And then he showed us what he was doing. Chris Tomlin had seen our video and, like, put it. Put it on his blog when that was huge. [00:08:02] Speaker D: Do you know who Chris Tomlin is? Okay. I'm just making sure. Yeah. [00:08:05] Speaker A: I didn't know until I moved here. I didn't grow up listening to Chris Tomlin. [00:08:08] Speaker D: Where we're from. Chris Tomlin. [00:08:10] Speaker A: Oh, he's like, the guy. Yeah. [00:08:12] Speaker D: There's like, Jesus and then there's Chris Tomlin. Like, it's a big deal. It's still a big deal. [00:08:17] Speaker B: Honestly, Chris Tomlin, for. For whatever reason you're listening, we love you still. So he reposted it, and that was really before reposting was, I guess, was a thing. Truly. [00:08:30] Speaker D: He posted it on his blog. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:32] Speaker D: This is aging us, I feel like, honestly. [00:08:34] Speaker B: And in a week while we were at Disney World, we went from 1500 fans to 15,000. 15,000. [00:08:41] Speaker D: Wow. [00:08:41] Speaker B: And then in the next few years, we went from 15,000 fans to 210,000 fans on Facebook. And it was like, now, you know, we thought we hit the big time whenever we were at 1500. [00:08:53] Speaker A: Right. [00:08:54] Speaker B: And then at that point, like, when that took off, churches started calling us. It's like, hey, we want you to come play. And we. I mean, we never reached out to Anybody to book a gig. But we've played. We've played thousands of shows at churches where they would just bring us to sing full, like Sunday night concerts, like. [00:09:13] Speaker A: Southern gospel style harmony. [00:09:15] Speaker D: Yeah, we were the cutest. They loved it. [00:09:18] Speaker B: They did, they did. And here we are. You know, there's a lot. There's a lot to that, but yeah, that's how we got here. [00:09:26] Speaker C: That's the short version of the story. [00:09:27] Speaker A: Yeah. So did. When does the transition to wanting to go the country route after being in that, that, that worship world? Because I know it's. They call it like m. Like, they call like mainstreams, like secular. Right. And then it's like secular and worship those. [00:09:41] Speaker D: Oh, it's a bad word. It's bad to be secular. [00:09:43] Speaker A: Really? [00:09:43] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Well, it was funny. [00:09:44] Speaker A: Even today, like, I feel like that has to have changed over time. [00:09:47] Speaker B: It's weird because for us, we. We didn't ever really choose Christian music. Right. It. We posted a video and that was the one that did it. While at the. At the same time we were posting Eagles covers, we were posting gospel songs, we were posting Little Big Town. Little Big Town covers, like, and those. [00:10:04] Speaker D: All did well too. But we just got really associ into this, like Southern gospel. [00:10:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, it's hard too, when you're. When you're young kids and it's like, can you go play at Rick's Cafe in Starkville or go play at. What's the venue in Jackson? Dueling hall or something like that? [00:10:20] Speaker D: Well, do you know what that is? [00:10:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, I've been to Dueling Hall. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. [00:10:23] Speaker B: I don't think of any people know. [00:10:24] Speaker A: I've been to every. All the clubs in Miss Hattiesburg, been down the Bruskies, been Oxford. I've done all. Done all that stuff. [00:10:30] Speaker D: I love when people know stuff. [00:10:31] Speaker A: Oh yeah. Mississippi's the first state. I had a chicken gizzard in a special place in my heart, man. [00:10:37] Speaker D: But associate positive things with Mississippi delicacies. [00:10:42] Speaker A: But it makes sense that you guys would be going on like, like a worship church tour. Now was that just regionally in the Southeast or were you guys going kind of coast to coast or. I know there's a lot of churches in Mississippi. You can hit hundreds of thousands of churches just in Mississippi. [00:10:56] Speaker C: We did a lot of Southeast. We also went up to New York City and sang at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Like, we've had a lot of cool things. But I will point out we never did only Christian music at all these shows that we played. We played Boondocks and we played Seven Bridges Road and we played Free Ride and like all these secular songs. [00:11:17] Speaker D: A crazy mix of music. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:19] Speaker D: So the Dave's highway early soundtrack was a wild crowd. [00:11:22] Speaker B: It was crazy. So we did all of that stuff. So, like, and we, we never really did like, do the transition in or out of either of those things. It was just like kind of how it was. At a certain point we were, we were doing the church thing and I mean, we were just. Full disclosure, we were getting paid like, pretty well to do that. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Worship pays very well. I've always heard that from my buddies that are like musicians that are like gig guys. Yeah. They're like, bro, it was hard to leave this, this, this worship gig where you're playing like the Winterfest and things like that. [00:11:50] Speaker B: Well, that's a good transition. Because the reason kind of that we decided we wanted to. At least for me. Y' all can speak on this separate if you'd like. But for me, it was like, man, we're getting up and I fully believe all of the things that I was saying. But as a 14, 15 year old guy who, you know, still trying to figure it all out, it was like, man, we're getting paid a lot of money to do this. It'd be really easy to just continue to do it, to make the money. But I don't know that I've. That this doesn't feel good to me. [00:12:16] Speaker A: So you're just singing covers at that point too? Like, you guys aren't writing at this point, right? [00:12:20] Speaker D: Well, we were writing. That's. So that's what my reason became is I would sit up. We had this like, room that was our music room back in the day. And I would just sit up there and I would be like, God, please give me a song. If it's supposed to be worship music, give me a song. And I never got one. And so I'm like, I don't know if this is a sign. I don't know. But I just always felt led to write the music that was like really on my heart. And that was like my story. And maybe it was like an expression kind of thing. Like, I wanted people to hear my voice in a way, like more than just like my voice in sound, but like in heart. And so we started writing our songs and that's kind of. That was kind of the turning point for me. [00:13:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I'd say, well, I mean, you've heard our, You've heard our music. None of it is like hell raising, drinking, like, it's it's just real authenticity. [00:13:19] Speaker A: You can still have a really good time. Like there's plenty of up tempo stuff in there where the bar people are bopping their head. Like it. It's not this like slow and the, the harmony. Like I always say, you guys have like a superpower. You don't need the full band thing. Like you guys as a trio make more sound than some of the full bands that we have. And it's beautiful. No, and it's great and it's awesome. [00:13:41] Speaker D: We do have volume as our. [00:13:42] Speaker A: Yes. [00:13:42] Speaker D: One of our strengths. [00:13:43] Speaker A: Yes. Oh yeah. [00:13:46] Speaker D: It's tough because we live in an apartment or we, me and Delaney share an apartment. And so if we ever like rehearsing or like making videos, I'm like, God, I feel so bad for our neighbors right now because we are loud. [00:13:57] Speaker A: But it could be bad. [00:13:59] Speaker D: Loud singing. [00:14:00] Speaker C: We have had that for ourselves with our old apartments before. Neighbors. Oh my gosh. Ours. Ours is actually like a pleasant noise. [00:14:09] Speaker D: You say singing, we say wailing. [00:14:11] Speaker B: Feel better for. Feel better for the people that are around y'. All. Now that I'm not there because of the guitar playing. [00:14:17] Speaker A: Oh, those late night practicing. [00:14:19] Speaker D: Not sharing a wall with Zachary is one of the best things for my piece that has. I mean, I would be banging on. [00:14:25] Speaker A: Look at you. [00:14:27] Speaker B: Well, I'm married and we, we actually, we live out here. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:14:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:31] Speaker A: This is nice and easy right up the street. Perfect. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And those amps get a lot louder now than they used to. [00:14:38] Speaker D: I hope Brittany has like noise canceling. [00:14:40] Speaker B: She puts on my beats. [00:14:41] Speaker D: Oh, good. [00:14:42] Speaker A: I'm sure she knows what she signed. [00:14:43] Speaker D: Oh yeah. Good Lord. And he is really good. Which is great. [00:14:47] Speaker A: Yes. [00:14:47] Speaker D: But any to me, like anything that's too loud, whether it sounds good or not, it don't matter. It's like, bro, turn that down. I can't. I'm an old woman. [00:14:55] Speaker A: You guys find that like you're more creative. Some, some of my friends are like more creative at night where they're like, they get an idea and it's like 11:30 on like a Tuesday or a Wednesday. So then you're up singing late at night. Like, you know, there's not a certain. Like. [00:15:09] Speaker D: It's not that way for me. [00:15:10] Speaker A: No. [00:15:11] Speaker D: I'm more of an 11am ER. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Okay. Well that's good for the neighbors. [00:15:14] Speaker D: It is, it is. [00:15:15] Speaker B: Well, we usually go places to write. [00:15:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Writing rooms and stuff. We. [00:15:20] Speaker C: We don't. [00:15:20] Speaker B: We haven't since we moved here. Haven't really done a lot of just the three of us rights. It's Erica writes the stuff by herself, or it's us and one or two other people, which. It kind of helps us. [00:15:31] Speaker D: We need a fourth voice in the room with us because we can't agree. Well, like, we can agree, but we can't say no. We'll beat. [00:15:38] Speaker B: We'll beat an idea to death if it's just the three of us. We need another person. That's like. That's good. Let's do that, you know? [00:15:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome. How long have you guys been here in Nashville? [00:15:48] Speaker D: This is our 10th year. [00:15:49] Speaker A: 10Th year? [00:15:50] Speaker D: Yeah. August. [00:15:51] Speaker B: August 15th. Which is funny because that's the day that our record comes out. [00:15:55] Speaker D: Dude, that's crazy. Are you sure? [00:15:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:58] Speaker D: Did you look that up? [00:15:59] Speaker B: No. [00:15:59] Speaker D: You just know. [00:16:00] Speaker B: I just remember it. [00:16:01] Speaker C: That is pretty wild. [00:16:02] Speaker A: You talk about signs, bro. [00:16:04] Speaker D: If it's August 15th, this is our year. It is truly a ten year town. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:10] Speaker D: I could, like, cry. That's insane. [00:16:12] Speaker B: I don't have cell service. [00:16:14] Speaker D: We're gonna fact check this appointment and let you know. [00:16:18] Speaker A: That's awesome, though. But how. How was it adjusting from, like, did you guys do the. Do the college thing before? Like, have you lived other places or did you go from small town Mississippi directly to here? [00:16:29] Speaker D: Yes, so we went. So we. Yeah, our whole. Our whole life. Our whole life. One life. The three of us have lived together. We moved back and forth from Brandon, Mississippi, which we claim as our hometown because our, like, important growing up years would live there. [00:16:45] Speaker A: There's an amphitheater there. [00:16:46] Speaker D: Yes, there is. That's new, though. That wasn't there. Yeah, we moved away when Chick Fil a had been there for like a year. So it was small town bops when we were there. [00:16:55] Speaker A: You get a Chick Fil a, that's a big deal. [00:16:56] Speaker D: It was a. It was the biggest deal ever. [00:17:00] Speaker B: They've got a Whataburger and a Starbucks and like, all kinds of stuff. [00:17:03] Speaker D: Like, what is happening? [00:17:03] Speaker B: An amphitheater. [00:17:04] Speaker D: Little town. [00:17:05] Speaker B: We've seen little Big town Midland, and I saw Leonard Skynyrd there, and it's. [00:17:09] Speaker D: Like, Little town has heard of a Mississippi. Like, are you kidding me right now? Anyway, so we moved back and forth between Brandon and then a town right outside of Memphis called Hernando for our whole life, probably like four or five times moving back and forth. So we kind of have two hometowns. So we moved from Brandon the year that we graduated high school to Hernando for a year, and we'd had no friends, and we went to community college for One year, it was the. It was, on paper, the most miserable year of our lives. And then some. The. The Lord came in and knocked down the. The wall for us to be able to get out of there. We were like, we gotta get out of this place. And the town is great. Like, it's a really cute town. Like, if you Google, like, cutest towns in the south. At one point, it was up there, like, top 20. Fernando was on there. Yeah, it's a great little town. But we did not have fun there for that final year. Well, we were. [00:18:06] Speaker B: We had made really great relationships with our friends from church and stuff in Mississippi. Like, we spent. We were homeschooled in high school, so, like, we spent a lot of time together anyway, but then with our friends and our grandparents were in. We're in the Brandon Jackson area. And so, like, that shock of graduating high school, starting college, and not knowing anybody was like, man, this is. This is horrible. Like, we would come home from. We did classes at Northwest Mississippi Community College on Tuesdays and Thursdays so that we could still travel Friday through Monday to do music stuff. [00:18:43] Speaker D: And this was, like, in that big transitional period, too, of us kind of choosing what genre we're gonna do. [00:18:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:50] Speaker D: And so, like, we were playing these shows, and we were, like, at churches every Sunday, and we were like, I don't feel like this is what we're supposed to be doing. You know, like, it's not bad that we're doing this. It's not the thing that's, like, making us want to continue. [00:19:03] Speaker A: You're not feeling fulfilled playing these church gigs. [00:19:07] Speaker D: So we're just, like, lonely. [00:19:09] Speaker B: Well, and with the church thing, I want to catch on that it's not. It's not like we weren't doing the right thing. It's we. We still believe and feel and. And, like, we. We're like. We're Christians and believers, but, like, something about, like, going and playing a church gig to collect a check didn't feel good. [00:19:29] Speaker A: Yeah. The church. Yeah. The church as a gig. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:32] Speaker A: Is a different thing than going to church and worshiping. [00:19:34] Speaker B: Precisely. [00:19:35] Speaker D: Well, even, like, we were doing the more, like, hymn, Southern gospel stuff when we loved, like, contemporary worship music, but we weren't really able to play that either. [00:19:47] Speaker B: They didn't want to hear. [00:19:48] Speaker D: Yeah. And so we were like. It wasn't that we didn't want to be at church. It was like, the music that we were required to play at church wasn't even the church music we wanted to play because we grew up and we were like, in the youth band, in our youth group. And we were playing worship every Wednesday and we slapped. We were so good and we loved it. And I mean, even now, like, you lead worship at your church. And we did both for a very long time. I'm not towards my microphone. I'm sorry. [00:20:17] Speaker A: Oh, you're good. [00:20:19] Speaker D: We still love it. Like, I listen to that kind of music more probably more often than I listen to country music. But it's just like. I don't know, we just did not feel like we were called. [00:20:30] Speaker C: Deep down in our hearts, we're a rock. [00:20:31] Speaker A: That's how I describe it well. And we. [00:20:33] Speaker D: Let's rage. [00:20:33] Speaker B: We grew up. We grew up listening to everything. Right. [00:20:38] Speaker C: So one of our first concerts ever was Sticks at the Mississippi State Fair. Like, that is where we grab our inspiration, in my opinion, from. From Sticks and from Boston and from the Eagles and from Eric Clapton to Aerosmith. Yeah. Like the rocks. [00:20:54] Speaker D: Like, our core memories are the rock and roller coaster. Yeah. Disney World. Have you ridden it? [00:20:58] Speaker A: Yes. [00:20:59] Speaker D: Did you hear that they're changing it to the Muppets. [00:21:02] Speaker A: Why? The Muppets are great, but they don't deserve the rock and roll. [00:21:05] Speaker D: I have actually, like, come on, Kurt, about this. Like, I am. So I went to. [00:21:10] Speaker B: I went to Disney World. I got gifted a day pass from a friend who works there for my birthday last year. [00:21:15] Speaker A: You love such a big Disney guy. [00:21:17] Speaker D: My Disney mode's in the car. We're Disney adults. We both have the Disney credit card. Like, let's go. [00:21:22] Speaker A: I love it, man. [00:21:23] Speaker D: Delaney's not a Disney. [00:21:25] Speaker C: I will take myself out of this conversation. I don't dislike Disney at all. But if you went back as an. [00:21:31] Speaker D: Adult, I think maybe. [00:21:33] Speaker A: How was this day? [00:21:34] Speaker B: Oh, it was amazing. It was the best day of my life. It really was. And I think, like, not to again get all like, meh about growing up the way that we did, but it, like, I think that a lot of it was that, like, as kids, we were doing a lot, we were working a lot. [00:21:49] Speaker D: Yeah. So we grew up very fast. Like, we were very, like, mature, but also very sheltered. So it was a weird balance of, like, we had. We acted like adults from when that video got posted by Chris Tomlin. We were adults. [00:22:05] Speaker B: Let me put it to you this way. Imagine yourself playing a show at a church and then as a 12 year old boy having to go out and sit at a merch table and try to sell a CD to a 65, 70 year old man. Can you imagine? [00:22:17] Speaker A: No. [00:22:19] Speaker B: As a 12 year old, it's A wild reality. So back to the Disney thing. I think that's what it is is like we. Delaney introduced me to Universal Studios like several years ago and going there was like. It's almost like it reawakened like this childlike just fun loving thing in me and I can't let it go. It's so much fun. [00:22:41] Speaker D: It's so weird. [00:22:41] Speaker B: It's so much fun. [00:22:42] Speaker D: Zachary is obsessed with Spider man in a way that I don't know that any almost 30 year old man should be. [00:22:48] Speaker A: I remember, I remember going and watching Toby Maguire's Spider man back in the day. Like that was a big deal. [00:22:53] Speaker D: It was. [00:22:54] Speaker B: I just bought all. I still have my PlayStation 2 that I got when I was in second grade. [00:22:58] Speaker A: Those games were. [00:22:59] Speaker B: I just bought, I bought all of them. I have all three of them. Spider Man 1 through 3 for the PlayStation. [00:23:03] Speaker A: Those were like good RPG games. [00:23:05] Speaker B: They're great. But Disney, right? They're changing back to the mouse, they're changing the rock and roll. It all comes back from Aerosmith to the Muppets. And so like whenever we went this last year I made sure to ride it like three times. And I, and I said did you cry? Cuz I did tell like tell the, tell the people here how unemotional I am as a person. [00:23:26] Speaker C: I mean he's pretty emotional, but. [00:23:28] Speaker D: Emotional. [00:23:29] Speaker B: But I'm not a crier. [00:23:31] Speaker D: No, that's fair. [00:23:32] Speaker C: Not a crier. [00:23:32] Speaker B: Not a crier. [00:23:33] Speaker D: I cry so much that I just don't even notice that you don't. She cries sometimes, all three of us, but I haven't cried today. [00:23:40] Speaker A: That's good. [00:23:41] Speaker D: There's still a lot of hours left. [00:23:43] Speaker A: There are. [00:23:43] Speaker B: My wife and I still stood in line at the Rock N Roller coaster. Waited for the front row. Cause I thought this is gonna be the last time that I'm ever gonna get to ride it. And it's like a childhood core memory for me. I'm sitting, I like bought a hoodie that day. I got my hood up and boohooing in the front of the line and my wife starts talking to the guy running the ride and is like, he loves this ride. It's his birthday. It's probably the last time we're ever gonna get to ride it. We ride the thing. So the first time we rode it, the audio was wrong. So like they play you're a purist, so they're okay. [00:24:17] Speaker D: So I also, I have also now gone to Disney. When this happened, I called my boyfriend on the phone the next day. I was like Listen, we have to go to Disney World. And he was like, okay. And I was like, oh, my gosh, I love him. He said, yes, but the, the audio. [00:24:32] Speaker B: On the ride is wrong. So I went. [00:24:34] Speaker D: And the. It's like they haven't updated the speakers and stuff on the ride because they're. They're redoing it. And so like two out of the three times that I wrote it, the speakers were busted. [00:24:44] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:24:45] Speaker D: And so it was like. [00:24:46] Speaker B: But they're not playing the actual audio either. They're playing like a lot like from the. The Aerosmith bootleg record of Dream On. [00:24:54] Speaker D: See that stuff? I don't know. [00:24:55] Speaker B: I'm an Aerosmith. [00:24:56] Speaker D: I don't know nothing about none of that. [00:24:57] Speaker A: Figure I figured you all were big Aerosmith fans. [00:25:00] Speaker B: Yeah, they have a. They have a record from the 80s. [00:25:02] Speaker D: I did wear my Aerosmith T shirt. I went to Hollywood studios. [00:25:06] Speaker B: They've got a record. [00:25:07] Speaker D: I felt like the coolest little thing ever. [00:25:10] Speaker B: They have a record called Live, the Bootleg. And they like. It's just all of their songs Live. It's really cool. I've got it on vinyl and they're playing like Dream on while you're riding through the rock and roller coaster. I'm like, what is this? Like, I love that song. But like, this isn't how it's supposed to be. This. The second time I wrote it, it was right. And it. It's like I'm not gonna get into the details of it all, but like, I wrote it. And at the end of it I'm like. [00:25:33] Speaker D: At first it was this song. [00:25:34] Speaker B: I know it. Like, I'm weeping getting off the ride. And the lady at the end is like, you want to go again? Like, send us through the back to get on the. Like to get on the front row again. The Disney, the Disney magic is real. [00:25:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:48] Speaker B: It's crazy. [00:25:49] Speaker D: It's not a fast pass anymore, Matt. It's a lightning lane. [00:25:51] Speaker A: Oh, is it? [00:25:52] Speaker B: They've changed everything. [00:25:53] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:25:54] Speaker A: I just went to Dollywood for the first time. [00:25:56] Speaker D: Oh, how was that? [00:25:56] Speaker A: It was a lot of fun. So my, my girlfriend. It was my first family trip with my girlfriend and her little daughter and that little six year old. She's soon to be seven. She'll be seven when this episode comes out. So. Happy birthday, Charlotte. But she had me on all the roller coasters at Dollywood. And they go pretty. They go pretty good. We did like, the like ones where adults were getting scared. Little, little Charlotte was wanting to be in the very back of like, because it's faster. Oh, yeah. She loves it. She. I. And growing up, I didn't go on a lot of roller coaster going. I was a little scared of everything. I was like Chucky Finster for. From the Rugrats 90s kid reference there. But. But yeah, she. I. I rode. I think. I think I probably rode like, 20, like 20 or 30 times in the one time we were there because we just. She just wanted to keep going. [00:26:41] Speaker D: Awesome. [00:26:41] Speaker A: So, yeah, really, there's something special about that nostalgia, though, and I'm sure. And that's something too with like. Like, the music you guys do. Like, harmonies haven't been a huge thing in the last, like, because we went through, like, the BRO or the party country era. And like, then. Then you lean into, like, the rock stuff, but. But when you think back to, like, the Little Big Towns, the Lady A's, the Shenandoahs, the Diamond Rios, all of that, and it's like that era of country is coming back in a huge way into the mainstream. And I think you guys fit in that. That mold or in that. That scope of things so freaking well. [00:27:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:15] Speaker B: Hopefully it's opening back up to that. [00:27:17] Speaker A: I think it is for sure. I really do. [00:27:20] Speaker C: I think we want to fill that gap for sure, because it has been a huge gap for a long time. [00:27:25] Speaker D: But, like, all those bands you just named are some of our biggest influences. [00:27:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I can see it. [00:27:30] Speaker D: We got to write with Charles Kelly Sick. [00:27:33] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:27:34] Speaker D: It was the scariest ride of my life. He's so nice, but, like, he started, like, singing a song idea that he had, and I'm just, like, freaking out because he's so. I mean, his voice is just such a presence and, like, I don't know. I. That music is just so powerful and so good, and then you add the harmony on top of it, and it's. It's beautiful. All the things. [00:27:55] Speaker B: But that song will come out at some point because it's. We got a good. A really good song out of it, but it's like, a little bit more. I'd say it's a little bit more pop leaning in recording. You could probably, you know, rock it up a little bit, but it's kind of like. Have you heard his new record that he just put out? It's a lot like that. That song could have been on that record. It would have made sense. The songs that are on it are so good, though, so I understand. [00:28:16] Speaker D: Like, we want to do a duet, though. Can you. Can a trio and a solo artist do a duet? [00:28:21] Speaker A: Is that probably Little Big Towns have sure done them at some point. [00:28:24] Speaker D: Is that a quartet? [00:28:25] Speaker A: Probably would be a quarte. [00:28:26] Speaker D: Well, Charles, if you're listening to this, call us. Yeah, I don't know if you have our numbers, but. [00:28:31] Speaker C: But I will say Old Dominion is a harmony band. [00:28:35] Speaker B: That is, they kind of broke it back in. [00:28:38] Speaker C: Yeah, they. They have been around for a long time. But we are very honored to say that Jeff sprung from Old Dominion. The bass player produced our new ep. [00:28:47] Speaker A: Oh, awesome. [00:28:48] Speaker C: And he's amazing. We've met a couple of the other guys, and they're all super cool, but Jeff played bass on our record, too. And, yeah, having a harmony group guy produce our record, I think completely brought a new element to what we do because he. He gets it, you know? [00:29:06] Speaker D: Well, and they're such a great live band. [00:29:08] Speaker A: For years, they've been that. [00:29:10] Speaker D: Yeah. Like, we. So I actually didn't know how good they were until a few months ago. We went to their rhyme and residency that they did, and I was floored. Like, I liked their records, and I. I have listened to him many, many times. But, like, getting to see them interact with each other and just the natural chemistry that they have, that's what we were trying to capture on our record with the three of us. And I think having Jeff involved in that, like, really made that happen. [00:29:38] Speaker B: Because they're a band, right? And that's what we are, too. We're not. I don't. I don't really. People do consider us, like, a vocal trio, but, I mean, we're a band. And our. We found a drummer that. And you've. You've met Parker before. I'm sure he's awesome, man. We found a guy that, like, really meshes with us. And for anybody listening, that is, you know, a musician. You know how hard it is to find somebody that, like, comes into a thing and just fits right in. The first time we ever used him, we were doing the Tin Roof circuit. [00:30:07] Speaker A: Oh, Nashville hits the roof, baby. A little different from those church gigs back in the day. [00:30:13] Speaker D: We did hit those roofs. [00:30:14] Speaker B: And while it is. It is an absolute blast to play those shows, it is a great rhyme. [00:30:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:30:20] Speaker C: They're not. [00:30:20] Speaker A: They're not super close together. [00:30:22] Speaker C: Well. [00:30:22] Speaker B: And we were doing, like, the. The furthest one we did was Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, we drove to Fort Lauderdale in a RAV4. So it's four people, all of our gear and luggage in a RAV4 with no trailer, and he just stepped right in. [00:30:39] Speaker C: That was like. Like, he inserted his opinion in some of our sibling Arguments, which was great. [00:30:45] Speaker A: You need that tiebreaker. I know there's three of you, so technically there should be a tiebreaker, but. [00:30:49] Speaker D: I'm sure there's weight off of Zachary to be the tie. [00:30:52] Speaker B: Dude, it's horrible. [00:30:53] Speaker D: But Zachary is the worst tiebreaker of all time because all he'll say is, I think you're both stupid. And I'm like. And I'm like, I am not stupid. [00:31:04] Speaker C: If you know the enneagram. Zachary is a nine through and through nine man. And Erica and I are complete opposites when it comes to thought processes and. [00:31:14] Speaker D: Like, volumes of music in the car. Specifically podcast tests. [00:31:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:20] Speaker C: Well, also let me point out, I'm the driver, so whatever I say is on the radio because I'm trying to stay awake. [00:31:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:28] Speaker B: Delaney does the bulk of our. [00:31:30] Speaker C: I do the most driving, so I. [00:31:32] Speaker D: Don'T know what it is about me. I think it's because I'm a chick. I have to sit in the front with her. [00:31:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:38] Speaker D: And so Delaney's also. [00:31:39] Speaker C: You have to. That's for sure. [00:31:40] Speaker D: Delaney is a terrifying driver. [00:31:43] Speaker A: You're like, I just want to sit in the back. [00:31:45] Speaker B: I do, man. I want to sit in the back and I want to, like, put on my headphones. [00:31:48] Speaker D: Well, no, no. She'll get mad. She'll be. She'll be truly offended if I don't want to ride in the front with her. And then, like, if Parker will get up there, she'll, like, make a remark to me when we get out at a Buc EE's or something. She's like, it's fun. [00:32:01] Speaker B: And I'm like, we're so siblings. [00:32:02] Speaker D: I don't know. So true, Delaney. [00:32:06] Speaker C: Okay, whatever. [00:32:06] Speaker D: But she'll also get mad at me if I have my headphones on. She'll be like, sometimes nobody wants somebody to talk to. [00:32:12] Speaker A: I get that. So I am. I've been a driver for. For a year, right. From being on the road and doing all that stuff. Then whenever we go to the. These festivals, these out of town things, I'm the driver. So, like, I'll. I could drive 20, close to 20 hours straight. Like, I've done it before where you just stop for fuel and stuff. But so sometimes you do need that person to talk to. [00:32:30] Speaker D: Do you come up with conversation topics, though? [00:32:33] Speaker B: That is a. That. Yeah. [00:32:34] Speaker D: Do you have things that you'd like to chat about? [00:32:36] Speaker A: Sometimes. But, like, I have it down. I have it down. I have it down to, like, a thing. Like, we bring Ike, our video guy, which you guys know Ike because he's done videos and photos and stuff at all of our events. And Ike's a big sports guy, so we'll just put on. We'll put on New York sports talk radio. Nikki T. Hates it. [00:32:53] Speaker D: Okay, so I'm Nikki T. In this situation. [00:32:55] Speaker A: Nikki T. Hates it. But now Nikki T. And I drive separate because we always bring a crew, dealer stuff. So I'm like, Nikki will just ride in the other car, and I will sit there and geek out over sports. Like. [00:33:05] Speaker D: Like, so funny. We need two cars. [00:33:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:08] Speaker C: Well, Parker is that for me? When he sits in the front, we talk about random stuff like. Like, what was that? I was listening. I was on this kick of the podcast for. [00:33:16] Speaker D: On volume 100 out of 100. [00:33:19] Speaker A: Oh, you're in, like, the podcast series? [00:33:21] Speaker D: I. [00:33:21] Speaker A: It's like, audio books. [00:33:22] Speaker C: Yes. I love podcast series. And it was, like, about lawsuits and stuff, which I know sounds boring, I know, but there's this one. [00:33:31] Speaker B: You're not doing yourself any favors. [00:33:33] Speaker C: Sorry. I know it sounds boring, but it's. [00:33:35] Speaker D: I was listening to this podcast about bitcoin, and I'm like, of course I'm not interested in that. [00:33:41] Speaker A: What bitcoin can we really buy right now? [00:33:43] Speaker C: But no, maybe one of them was bitcoin, but it's. [00:33:45] Speaker D: I know it was. Or it's like murder mystery. [00:33:52] Speaker C: I'm weird. I don't know. [00:33:53] Speaker D: I like listening to things that are. [00:33:55] Speaker C: Different than what you like to listen to. [00:33:56] Speaker D: But now I'm listening to all of the individual people from Vanderpump Rules. [00:34:02] Speaker A: You like the train wrecks. You just are watching the train. [00:34:06] Speaker D: That is, like, the thing for me. [00:34:09] Speaker C: Reality podcast. [00:34:10] Speaker D: It's so good. [00:34:11] Speaker A: Like, Delaney tv. [00:34:13] Speaker D: Delaney will be like, I need you to talk to me. And then I'll be like, what do you want to talk about? And she's like, I don't know. I don't know. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Sorry to steal your thunder. I knew exactly what you were gonna say. [00:34:23] Speaker D: And I'm like, okay, cool. So now I have to stop what I'm doing. I have to, like, close my book, whatever, and I have to come up with a conversation topic to talk about with Delaney. She has to choose if it's worth her time. And then she's like, I'm just gonna call Mom. [00:34:40] Speaker C: Yeah, sometimes. [00:34:42] Speaker A: Yeah, sometimes I'll do the phone call stuff, too. Like, especially if we're driving back from a festival. [00:34:47] Speaker C: Like, that's the hardest when we're coming. [00:34:49] Speaker A: Back from the festival, because it's like, we. We're partying while we're out there. So it's like, I don't drink. So that's the other reason I. I. By default, I'm the driver. I call myself the ogdd. You know, I'm great. I'm built it Built in to get you home and stuff. So we'll be coming back from, like, being like this last one. We were up in Ohio. We were tent camping at the festival. It was a blast. I love it. Shout out country concert in Fort Laramie, Ohio. We had a ball, but we went through as a collective unit. I had none of them. We had 20 cases of Surfside that were consumed amongst our crew of, like, 18 people. [00:35:20] Speaker D: Wow. [00:35:21] Speaker A: So the two guys I went in, my buddy Joe from New York, he was passed out. He kept getting carsick because he hasn't ridden in a car in years. He's a New York City guy. But then Ike was all hungover and feeling tired, too, so they just slept. So it was like, how do you stay? So I've been there, where it's like, there's nobody to talk to, but at the same time, I just dial in. Yeah. Listen to people call and yell about the Yankees. [00:35:39] Speaker B: So you got it on lock. [00:35:40] Speaker C: Maybe I'll start listening to that. Maybe I'll find that interesting. [00:35:44] Speaker A: Or find something. Find something that you have interesting, because then when they're asleep, it doesn't matter. You can put on whatever the heck you want. [00:35:49] Speaker C: Yeah, but. [00:35:49] Speaker A: But at the same time, I get what you're saying, too, because it's like, talk to me. But you're like, about what? [00:35:54] Speaker D: Well, like, you have to think about this. We live together. [00:35:57] Speaker A: Yes. You get a lot of time together too, right? [00:35:59] Speaker D: Well, like, we don't have anything to discuss. [00:36:02] Speaker A: You've already talked about it. [00:36:03] Speaker D: Like, I could sit here and talk to you for probably 10 hours because we don't talk that much, you know? But, like, I mean, I kind of know everything about her. She kind of knows everything about me. [00:36:11] Speaker C: It's. It's tough. [00:36:12] Speaker D: It's like, what's your favorite color? You know. [00:36:17] Speaker C: It was. But we weren't watching Love island at that point when we were driving back from Fort Lauderdale to Tennessee in one night. And why don't. [00:36:25] Speaker D: Okay, here's Delaney's homework from this podcast. She's gonna go home and watch all, I think, like, 10 seasons of Vanderpump Rules, and then we'll discuss, like, hell, it's so good. It's, like, amazing. [00:36:37] Speaker C: Like, I get so bored so fast. I've been watching the Bear. That's a good show. [00:36:42] Speaker B: I haven't seen the new season. I've been watching Survivor reruns. [00:36:46] Speaker D: See, like, Zachary wants to listen to a Survivor podcast. Like, I. [00:36:50] Speaker A: You probably listen to classic. I'm guessing you're listening to music more. You talk about the podcast you're doing, like, the deep dives into the reality TV stuff. [00:36:58] Speaker D: Yeah, you got to know. You got to know the scene behind the scene. Yeah. But eventually that gets sleepy too. [00:37:05] Speaker C: Yeah, everything gets sleepy. [00:37:06] Speaker D: It all depends on how much. [00:37:08] Speaker A: What we'll do. Sometimes Nick and I went up. We did a drive up to Delaware, and it was like an overnight drive. And Nick said, hey, if you need me to drive, I'm like, no, bro, I got this. Drove through D.C. at like, 3 in the morning. It was great. [00:37:18] Speaker D: Great. [00:37:19] Speaker A: No traffic. But we start out, we're like, let's listen to Luke Combs from the first song he put out until the most recent thing. And you do the whole discography of an artist and you watch how they've evolved. [00:37:29] Speaker B: I've done project. [00:37:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:37:31] Speaker A: So it's cool. And especially with, like, the rock bands, like, you listen to that first Aerosmith record, then you throw in, like, the. The embargoed stuff, like the hidden stuff. [00:37:39] Speaker B: The first record is whack. [00:37:40] Speaker A: But then to see that first record or like, Metallica is another great one. Like, from their first early stuff. [00:37:45] Speaker B: Like. [00:37:45] Speaker A: Like when Dave Mustaine with us all the way through, like, another thing you can do, like, you just marathon, like Luke Bryan or early FGL until, like, the last record before they went their separate ways. [00:37:56] Speaker D: The only person that I know of that we've ever done that with was Taylor Swift on the way up to see the Eras tour. [00:38:02] Speaker B: And allow me to. Allow me to put my headphones on. You know, I've heard it enough. I've heard enough of it. I want to roll back on the Aerosmith whack thing. That one is. That's that record. I've read their. Their book. So, like, I know that the stories about that, but, like, the. The first record, Dream on was on that record. [00:38:20] Speaker D: Like, can you imagine? [00:38:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:22] Speaker D: Your first record you put out and it's Dream On. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Where do you go from there? That's like FGL with Cruz. [00:38:28] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:38:30] Speaker D: Taylor Swift with Tim McGraw. [00:38:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:32] Speaker B: It's crazy. [00:38:33] Speaker D: She peaked. No, she didn't pee. Let's get this straight. She did not peak. [00:38:37] Speaker A: No, but look. Looking at, like, what you got, you guys have been putting out music now for. For what, about four or five. Four or five years before that. [00:38:45] Speaker D: I mean, like, how long? How long have we been about 2009? [00:38:50] Speaker A: Well, I'm saying like, like original, like releases as Dave's Highway. [00:38:54] Speaker B: 2012. [00:38:54] Speaker A: 2012. Was. Was. Do you remember that first song? [00:38:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:59] Speaker A: Was it a cover? Was it original? [00:39:01] Speaker B: No, it was original. [00:39:02] Speaker C: We've rebranded since then. [00:39:03] Speaker D: So let's talk about our adult years. [00:39:05] Speaker C: Yeah, we. We started no room came out in. [00:39:07] Speaker D: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We put out. We put out. [00:39:11] Speaker A: I feel like I'm in the car. We're in the backseat of the rap. Welcome to the RAV4. [00:39:16] Speaker D: I'm like a. A journal person. So like, if you need a date, I've got it. That kind of person. [00:39:21] Speaker A: The bookkeeper. [00:39:22] Speaker D: Yes, the bookkeeper. So we put out two songs right before COVID Yeah. [00:39:29] Speaker C: Oh yeah. [00:39:29] Speaker D: So I hate that you hate me. And why do we need them the first round? [00:39:33] Speaker A: Why do we need them to me as a Dave's Highway. Like when I show, when I tell you people, I'm like, hey, check these guys out. That's like one of the first ones that I go to. [00:39:41] Speaker C: I love that song. Funny though, we didn't write either of those songs. [00:39:45] Speaker A: They were Outside Cuts. [00:39:46] Speaker C: Outside Cuts? Yeah. [00:39:47] Speaker B: First releases were Outside Cuts, which we hate. [00:39:50] Speaker D: We don't consider them to be our first song that we put out. Cuz it wasn't like our songs, you know, But I think like we still love them. [00:39:56] Speaker C: Yeah, we did a good job of making them our own, I think. [00:39:59] Speaker D: But yeah, but then no room came out. Date. Don't know. But it was a few years later. What? [00:40:08] Speaker B: Of all the ones that. [00:40:08] Speaker D: Oh my gosh. 11:11 OMG. 11:1122. [00:40:13] Speaker A: I can pull this all up on Spotify. [00:40:14] Speaker D: Yeah, you're like, I can pull up these dates. [00:40:16] Speaker A: I can find all of this stuff because all your releases are in here. [00:40:20] Speaker D: But no room was like in our minds, the song. Because every door that has been opened for us since we moved to this town has pretty much been because of that song. Like our producers wanted to work with us because they heard that song. I won a songwriting scholarship in college with that song. [00:40:40] Speaker B: We signed with our management company and, you know, got to meet Jake, Owen and a bunch of other people because of that song. [00:40:46] Speaker D: And it's like every time we play it, it's like, ah, yes. It's like putting on your favorite pair of shoes, you know, it's like, dang, this song rips. Yeah, but so like with that one, we. We did like the whole photo shoot and worked with a stylist and got her hair and makeup done and we really went all out for it. And then that was the first of two or three singles with that project. And then we did the full record First Rodeo. And that was the. I would say, like the first adult full project we did. [00:41:17] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:41:19] Speaker D: And then this will be the second. [00:41:20] Speaker A: I like the album art for this First Rodeo. [00:41:22] Speaker D: Like, I love it. [00:41:24] Speaker A: The glasses on. Zach's just chilling, smiling in the background. I love. I love it. That's sick. So how are we feeling about getting some new stuff out there? Which, by the way, I love Astro Van. [00:41:33] Speaker D: Thank you. [00:41:34] Speaker A: That's been one. That is Graham, our sound guy. Duck Blind's like one of his favorite songs in town right now. Freaks out whenever we have you guys playing. It's like, they better play Astro Van. [00:41:44] Speaker B: We'll do it every time for Graham, dude. [00:41:46] Speaker D: Yeah, he's awesome. [00:41:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:47] Speaker D: Well, we weren't gonna play it that one night and then he requested it. Do you remember that? [00:41:50] Speaker A: Yes. [00:41:51] Speaker D: And we were like, sick. We get an extra song. Cuz we could just play like a long time. We. It's the thing that makes us want to do. This is the live show. [00:42:02] Speaker A: That dopamine hit of singing in front of people and getting to share your art and getting to jam out together. I'm sure just has to be awesome. [00:42:09] Speaker C: It is awesome. [00:42:10] Speaker D: When it's awesome, it's awesome. [00:42:11] Speaker B: Crazy ladies from the other night. [00:42:16] Speaker A: They were feeling good. [00:42:17] Speaker D: You were like, making it worse, though. I think you were like. You were like, these girls are having so much fun. And they. They loved that. Yeah, they were like. Like, this guy sees us and we're just. [00:42:29] Speaker A: They bought hats and they bought more beer. [00:42:30] Speaker D: Did they? Excellent. No, I don't mean making it worse than a bad. [00:42:34] Speaker A: Oh, no, I was. [00:42:35] Speaker D: It's a good way. [00:42:35] Speaker A: I love the poured gasoline on a dumpster fire. [00:42:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:38] Speaker A: It was one of my greatest joys in life. [00:42:40] Speaker D: Well, they didn't seem like they were like that drunk. Like, they weren't like slurring. They were just like the loudest. They were louder than Delaney's podcast on the road. [00:42:50] Speaker B: My wife was at that show and she was like, I almost got up and went over there and told them to be quiet. Quiet. I'm like, it's good that you didn't. They could have taken you. [00:42:56] Speaker D: She would not have done that. You've spoken with her, right? She's like, I almost told them to be quiet. And they would have been like, minnie Mouse just came over here to fuss. And I just. I don't know. [00:43:06] Speaker B: She's the most supportive person the sweetest person. She like want. She wants. She wants everybody to pay attention and listen because she's like, they're great. Listen. Listen to them. [00:43:17] Speaker D: Yeah. But she's so soft spoken. Yeah. I don't know if they would have heard her. I don't know. [00:43:21] Speaker C: But that was a fun night for sure. [00:43:23] Speaker A: And I love that we had you guys on there and we had the Renata folks on there. Family. [00:43:28] Speaker C: Funny story about Renata. So back when we were at Lipscomb, I think it was like our first or second year when we were at Lipscomb all together. And Renata came. I don't know if y' all remember this. They came to the coffee house show that we played at the Starbucks on campus. And we met. And this was. Was 10 years ago. Yeah, we've known nine or 10 years ago. And then circle up to now and we're playing at the same places. Which they were all very young. Like. Yeah, they're younger than us. [00:43:58] Speaker A: They're like, they're. I want to say they're probably like the. The oldest is probably 20, I think Adrian or Colin's the oldest. 25 maybe. [00:44:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:08] Speaker A: And they started. [00:44:08] Speaker B: Guitar player dude. [00:44:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:10] Speaker B: Collins. Awesome. [00:44:11] Speaker C: Yeah, but they're great. [00:44:11] Speaker D: I was like, rips. Why would Matt do this to us? Put them right before us. Yeah. I hope we held our own. I don't know. They were really, really good. [00:44:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, you guys are different vibes, but still great. And I knew everybody was playing acoustic. [00:44:27] Speaker B: So I'm like, we didn't know that. [00:44:29] Speaker D: I thought that they were going to be full band. [00:44:31] Speaker A: I'm never going to put you guys last if you're playing acoustic. Unless I find out last minute that you guys of playing the. But I'll always shuffle. I'll always try to shuffle it around. [00:44:40] Speaker D: It was a fun night. [00:44:41] Speaker A: Yeah. I thought it went really, really well. And Colin stayed and watched you guys the whole time too. He's like, I'm so excited to watch these guys. I've known of them forever, but. And he lives out. They live out here. [00:44:52] Speaker D: They're. [00:44:52] Speaker A: They're Hermitage, Old Hickory. They're out here in the neighborhood. Yeah, they're hanging out at Nadine's. [00:44:56] Speaker B: And this is the vibe dude. [00:44:57] Speaker D: Yes. [00:44:58] Speaker A: I like. I like them. Where in town, you guys in the city? [00:45:01] Speaker D: We're in Green Hills. [00:45:02] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:45:02] Speaker D: Like right by the mall. [00:45:03] Speaker A: Mall. Okay. Nice. [00:45:04] Speaker D: We do not go to the mall. [00:45:05] Speaker A: I was gonna say I don't go to the mall. I've done some shopping in that mall and it's Very. It's an expensive. [00:45:10] Speaker D: It is intimidating. I've taken my dog on walks in that mall. [00:45:14] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:45:14] Speaker D: Yeah. They love her there. She's beautiful, though. So. Yeah. Did you know that? [00:45:19] Speaker C: I didn't. I worked at that mall for a long time. Four. Four years, I think. Something like that. [00:45:26] Speaker A: Where were you working at? [00:45:27] Speaker C: Lucky Brand. [00:45:28] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:45:29] Speaker D: Before they turned it into. [00:45:30] Speaker C: Actually, I got to sell jeans to Robert Plant like, three or four times. [00:45:34] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:45:35] Speaker C: Really cool. He knew me when. When he came into the store. I never acted like a fan girl, but I was fangirling on the inside. [00:45:42] Speaker D: And she would text us, robert Plant's here. [00:45:45] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. I have to calm down right now. But, yeah, I fitted him for jeans and sold him some. Cool. [00:45:52] Speaker A: Were they skinny? I hope they were. [00:45:53] Speaker C: No, no. He got the athletic fit, which maybe because he's older now, I don't know. But, yeah, it was really cool. Cool experience. [00:46:02] Speaker A: That's funny. So you guys come out here. You said you guys went to Lipscomb, then for college, then what years were we graduating from Lipscomb? That would have been, what, 2019 also. Right before the pandemic. [00:46:13] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:46:14] Speaker A: So how did that. Because for me, I look at 2020 as, like, an interesting time because I. I felt I had, like, my crew of friends, and then I feel like I found my people during the pandemic, like, playing, like, just hanging out during COVID and stuff. You guys, you get the songs out right before the pandemic. You're starting to get this momentum. You find your managers, and then it's like, you got to pump the brakes on stuff. But you're in the south, so you can still do some stuff. But what was that period like there, man? [00:46:41] Speaker B: What? You couldn't do anything, you know? I mean, you know that as well as anybody does. But, like, we. We had management, we had booking, we had. [00:46:49] Speaker C: On the. On the road to where we were trying to go. [00:46:52] Speaker A: Because you guys were, like, doing festivals and stuff, too, at that point? [00:46:55] Speaker C: A little bit. And we were playing. We were opening for Darius. [00:46:59] Speaker D: No, that was after. [00:47:00] Speaker C: Was that all that was after, man? 2020. I don't even remember, really. But. [00:47:04] Speaker D: Well, so when we graduated college, our final semester, we met Ron Fair. If you don't know who Ron Fair is, I always just say, go Google him, and you will quickly know who he is, and you'll know you're gonna. [00:47:16] Speaker B: Be, like, the guy you don't know. You know who. [00:47:18] Speaker D: All right, It's. He's got an insane resume, but so we met. Did A shopping deal is what they call it, which is how we met our management and booking at the time. And we had, like, just kind of. We didn't ever, like, sign anything officially, but we had just done our handshake deals with all of them, like, two or three months before the world shut down. And do you remember from the transition of 2019 to 2020, everybody was, like, coming up with these sayings, like, 2020 vision and, like, you can see clearly. And, like. Like, we really were like, this is our year. And then the world shut down. It was. It was the craziest feeling. And I know everybody had that feeling in some sense, but, like, it was. I don't even know. Like, we just didn't have any idea of what to do. [00:48:09] Speaker A: And you guys had just graduated from college. [00:48:11] Speaker D: Right. And so my. [00:48:12] Speaker A: So that's tough, too. [00:48:13] Speaker D: My day job shut down, so I had no money. And then you were still able to work. [00:48:19] Speaker B: I had quit. I quit my day job, like, two days before Hit. [00:48:24] Speaker A: Because you're like, music's gonna be the thing. [00:48:26] Speaker B: Well, I quit. No, I was mad. I quit my job. [00:48:28] Speaker A: Where were you? Where were you working? [00:48:29] Speaker B: I was at a coffee shop in the Gulch. And I, like, just wasn't having it. [00:48:33] Speaker A: Just all the tourists. [00:48:33] Speaker B: Yeah. I quit until two weeks later. [00:48:37] Speaker D: Yeah. He's like, I cannot do this anymore. [00:48:39] Speaker B: I got good at it, too. [00:48:40] Speaker A: I love. [00:48:41] Speaker B: I love coffee. I like. I certainly served Tom Hanks. [00:48:44] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, he hangs out. He hangs out in the gulch all the time. I've seen him there multiple times. [00:48:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:48] Speaker A: Chilling at Marsh House. [00:48:49] Speaker D: Shawn Mendez. [00:48:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:50] Speaker B: You served Leon Bridges. Tori Kelly. Like, a bunch. It was a bunch of people. The guys from Def Leppard, but, like. [00:48:59] Speaker D: Stay at that hotel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:49:00] Speaker B: You just outed me. Oh, but I. [00:49:03] Speaker D: You can edit that out, right? [00:49:05] Speaker A: I don't think it's a huge. Back in the day. [00:49:08] Speaker B: They're good people. [00:49:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:09] Speaker B: But I. I just. [00:49:10] Speaker D: Just. [00:49:10] Speaker B: I had had enough, and I quit. And so, like, no. No unemployment, no nothing. I applied for it, and they're like, yeah, you can have $47 a week. And that $47 with that $47 a week, it hangs on you proving to us that you've applied for three jobs a week. [00:49:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember doing that. [00:49:27] Speaker B: And if you get one, you have to take it. [00:49:31] Speaker A: Yeah. The Tennessee Work Program. I was in that for a little while, too, because I was touring at that time. Time. So that was. I was applying, I was touring, and I was bouncing. I was selling T shirt, selling muscadine bloodline hats and T shirts and kicking drunks out of bars. That was amazing. That was my life. [00:49:45] Speaker B: And all that went away. [00:49:47] Speaker D: And so I can see you doing that. [00:49:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:49] Speaker A: What? [00:49:49] Speaker B: Bouncing the guy. [00:49:51] Speaker D: I mean, selling T shirts, sure, but bouncing. I can see that. But you're such a friendly face, but I bet you can turn it on. [00:49:57] Speaker A: I was the good cop, but if I had to switch to bad cop, the New York would come out. I'd be. It was good. [00:50:02] Speaker D: Nice. [00:50:03] Speaker A: It worked out well. [00:50:04] Speaker B: Yeah. So we graduated college, didn't have anything to do. Like, we were like, what do we do now? [00:50:08] Speaker D: Well, we had all these plans, and then they all had to kind of just be put on hold because. [00:50:13] Speaker B: Just like everybody else. [00:50:14] Speaker D: Yeah. And so thankfully, we have parents that helped us through that financially. But, like, it was crazy. [00:50:22] Speaker B: It was hard. And we, like, we got really, really into, like, live streaming and we posted some content here and there, and it was good for us. And, like, people were kind to us that had been listening to us for a long time to, like, send us tips and stuff from our, like, on Venmo, we would put our Venmo on the screen. [00:50:40] Speaker A: It's just hard to get the train going again when you. Especially at the level where it was at where, like, you guys had. You guys had management and you had booking and you guys were shopping, doing the shopping deal thing, like, you were in the spot to where it is. [00:50:53] Speaker D: And then it just, like, went all the way down. So we kind of just had to. [00:50:55] Speaker B: Rebuild and we're still reborn, but, like, Ron stuck with us through it all. He actually gave me a job working for him at the. At his studio, which was a life. Honestly, a life changing experience for me. I learned more about the industry and about music than. Because he's a genius. Yeah, he's a genius. And, like, stuff that I thought I already knew. Even, like, harmony singing. Like, he taught. He taught me, like. Like, you're singing that note wrong. Like you think you are. You tell. I've been doing this since I was like, oh, wait. [00:51:29] Speaker D: Oh, dang it. I know exactly who you are, and you are right. It's tough. [00:51:34] Speaker A: So. [00:51:34] Speaker B: And. And then we kind of. I guess we kind of mutually agreed. Like, he. He didn't think that there was anything more that he could do to try to help us and making music and stuff, because our styles are just different. Yeah, he's a. He's a pop guy through and through, and. And he was like, I've done the best that I can. Maybe y' all need to Explore. So then we. [00:51:56] Speaker D: It was more of like a don't feel like you have to stay here kind of thing. It was. It wasn't like a breakup necessarily. [00:52:03] Speaker B: Not at all. No. We're still great friends. [00:52:05] Speaker D: I saw around the other day, and I was like. I just, like, cried. I was so excited to see him. It was so. [00:52:10] Speaker B: He's a mentor. [00:52:11] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:52:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:11] Speaker B: And always will be. [00:52:12] Speaker A: And the universe and the. And like, the Lord. You guys didn't believe it. Like, the Lord puts people in your lives for a reason, and everything happens for a reason. And as dark of a time as it was where you got that taste, maybe if the world hadn't shut down, that wouldn't have been. That wouldn't have all been the right opportunity. [00:52:29] Speaker D: Well, I think it also solidifies how much you want something when you can't have it, you know? Like, I wrote songs every single day during the pandemic. I was really writing some smash hits in my brain. I don't know if they were or not, but if you asked me, was one of the songs that was written in that. [00:52:46] Speaker A: Really. [00:52:46] Speaker D: In that period? Yeah, but we just. When you can't have what you want, it. It makes it so clear that this is what you're supposed to be. [00:52:58] Speaker B: If there was a question before. [00:52:59] Speaker D: Right. [00:52:59] Speaker B: There isn't now. [00:53:00] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:53:01] Speaker C: I also think that time was really good for the three of us, as siblings and as bandmates, to cultivate our relationship a little bit more. And like. Like, we're siblings. [00:53:11] Speaker D: We all lived together. [00:53:12] Speaker C: We lived together. We were together 24 7. All the time. [00:53:18] Speaker A: On the road and at home. [00:53:20] Speaker C: Yes. And we have had plenty of arguments about plenty of different things. And I think we learned how to communicate with each other through that time, too. And I think that our relationships as siblings got stronger through that. Yeah, I really think that that was a time that we needed together to work through. Because also, we were all very down during that time, too, because of what was going on in the world. So with everybody being down, fights increase, of course. And. Yeah, it was just. [00:53:51] Speaker D: Well. And also nowhere to escape. Like, I walked during COVID probably like, 11 miles a day, because I just need. I'm an introvert. And so I was like, I gotta get out of here. [00:54:00] Speaker B: You gotta get out of here. [00:54:01] Speaker D: Yeah. And. And it was. There was a lot of proximity. That's all I'll say. Very close proximity. [00:54:09] Speaker B: Well, anybody who had roommates during COVID also knows that they just don't know what it's like. But a lot of people don't know what it's like to have to do. [00:54:14] Speaker D: It with your family, man. The problem with being siblings is we can be really freaking honest. There is no sugar coating and oof. There's some moments that had. We had a witness, they'd be like, wow, they don't love each other. You know what I mean? [00:54:31] Speaker A: No, but that's. That's also holding each other accountable too. And I think that's probably one of the strong suits of you guys having that. That bloodline together and doing this thing. Like, you guys are going to bring out the best of each other and hold yourselves accountable when it comes to the band. And you guys have your roles and doing it independently. Like, you guys are doing it right now. And luckily you still. You have the management side in your corner and like, you guys are doing what you're doing. But. But having that, the three of you guys together creates a masterpiece, you know, and it's just. It's didn't take the right time and the right moment. Like, everybody's story's different. [00:55:06] Speaker B: Well, and that's what we think we have for us at least with this new project that we're about to put out. It is the most Dave's highway project ever. And that's no slight to the ones that we've put out before, but it's. [00:55:21] Speaker D: Because at the time, we also thought that those were the most Dave's highway projects. [00:55:24] Speaker A: But now you've had the time to evolve and. And grow and mature and let it. [00:55:27] Speaker B: Marinate well in this one. Like, we had such creative freedom with it. This was the first time Jeff from Old Dominion had ever produced a record. [00:55:36] Speaker A: Wow. So you're getting his first thing too. [00:55:38] Speaker B: So we were learning together how to do it, and every idea that anybody had, it was like, throw it out, let's do it. [00:55:43] Speaker D: It was very collaborative. So we worked with Blackbird Academy. So it was their students, which we're very. We're very into because we were music. Music college students as well. And so, like, there was no voice in the room that mattered more than anyone else's. So we all. I mean, I think if anyone's voice mattered the most, it was three of ours, obviously. But, like, we were just all very collaborative and wanted open. Yeah, just like. Like we did have a time limit. We had like four or five days that we were able to make the record because that's how the process of working with the Academy worked or something. There was. There was limits. But like, other than that, the time was our own and we got to use it. How we wanted to. So it was cool. [00:56:31] Speaker B: Well, and we did the. The tracking of the. The music part of the record in the room. Right. Which in. In the past it had been kind of like, okay, well let's get. Let's get the drums, let's get the bass, let's get the guitar. All its in separate places. And I played the bulk of the. Of the guitars on the record. Devin Malone, I don't know if you know him. [00:56:56] Speaker A: Name rings a bell. [00:56:57] Speaker B: He's a studio cat and he's, you. [00:56:58] Speaker D: Know, many records that he's played on. Same as Ron Fair. [00:57:01] Speaker B: Like yeah, he and I were super collaborative on guitar parts and stuff like that. But I mean, Jeff and Jeff and crew were so gracious as to let me play like. Like everything. Right. Leads, rhythms, whatever I wanted. [00:57:16] Speaker A: Dave's highway is you on guitar, so it makes sense. [00:57:18] Speaker D: Yeah, it's a voice as much as any of our. [00:57:20] Speaker A: If you want to capture the true Dave's highway sound, Zach, you got to be on guitar. [00:57:24] Speaker B: Well, and we did, man. And it's like that. That guitar that's sitting over there in the corner was on every song. Every song. The one that I use every time we play is like that. It was that. [00:57:33] Speaker D: Well. And we use Parker, who's our road drummer. Parker Moore. If you want to look, shout out Parker Moore. So it was just very much like if. If anybody has any questions of who we are, here is what it is. It's all our songs. It's our five favorites at the moment, plus a cover that we feel is like one of the most important songs for finding out who we are. [00:57:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:58] Speaker D: Because that's the kind of song that you want to live by. I don't know. I don't live by it every day. You know, we all fail but like it's pivotal in our lives. So this is getting really deep. I love it. I'm so excited about our music. [00:58:16] Speaker B: The record is called if youf Asked Me. It's out on August 15th. And that we. We did that like Erica wrote that song by herself. She wrote it during COVID It's the. The one that made it on the record. And it's so special because I'll let you talk about the. What the song is about. But like the. The cool thing for the record for me is like there's a lot of ways that you can interpret. If you asked me, it's like my favorite one for me and I think for us is if you ask me what a Dave's highway is. If you ask me what What Dave's highway is. Here it is. And here's the record. [00:58:58] Speaker D: Here's six songs that we will show you. What Dave's highway is, is, you know. [00:59:01] Speaker B: From top to bottom, like it. That. That's us. [00:59:04] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:59:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:05] Speaker D: And it's also a lot of the songs on the album are breakup songs, which you've heard all of them, I think, at this point. But so it's like the premise of the song, if you asked me, is if you ask me, I'll tell you all of this stuff, but otherwise I'm going to keep it to myself. It's kind of the. Kind of where I was coming from. And so it's like, here are all of my emotions. And so we've got all of these songs that are sort of tell alls in a way of what we've been through. Mainly me and Delaney, because Zachary. Zachary lets us lead the rights and lead what we want to sing about a lot of the time. [00:59:42] Speaker B: I like to write with my fingers, man. That's all. [00:59:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Finger paint. [00:59:47] Speaker B: Because I'm a toddler. [00:59:48] Speaker D: What if that was Zachary's thing? He liked Spidey Man. [00:59:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Spider Man. Finger paints while getting on the. Getting on the scene. It'll always be the rock and roller coaster. [00:59:59] Speaker D: I'm dead. That's so funny. [01:00:03] Speaker A: I love that. [01:00:04] Speaker D: But yeah, it's. It's our stories and our sound and it's. It feels really good to be putting out this music. It. I think on our pictures we look like ourselves. We did. We picked out all of our outfits and did our own hair and makeup this time. And it's like. It's just very personable, personal to who we really are. [01:00:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Like you guys had even more of a hand in it than the earlier ones. [01:00:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:00:28] Speaker D: And Jeff, like, Jeff was for sure the producer on the record, but he allowed us to have our producer moments as well. Like if. If I didn't like something in the room, he like stopped the whole session and was like, wait, what's going on? And so. And it was just really cool to work with somebody like him because he knows what it's like. [01:00:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:47] Speaker D: To be in a. A band like ours. [01:00:50] Speaker B: He's been. [01:00:51] Speaker D: Because he's in one. [01:00:51] Speaker B: He's been us before, you know. [01:00:53] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:00:53] Speaker B: Minus the sibling dynamic. [01:00:55] Speaker D: Right. [01:00:57] Speaker A: That's really cool. Yeah, that's awesome. And then what do we have as far as, like getting out there and doing shows? Because that was something you guys were running, like, doing, like post, like right after coming out of the Pandemic, like later in the 20, 20, 20, 21. You guys were hitting the road 2019, you guys were out. Out there a lot, but what's it been like not doing that as much and then gearing up to get out there again? [01:01:20] Speaker D: It's a grind, truly. [01:01:22] Speaker B: We don't have booking anymore. We mutually parted with our booking agency, and so we're kind of doing it ourselves. We want to follow you guys around wherever you go. [01:01:33] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, for sure. [01:01:34] Speaker B: You guys are a blast. But it's tough, man. It really is. So, like, we're doing a lot of in town stuff. We're doing some stuff out of town coming up this year, but hopefully this. [01:01:44] Speaker D: Record will kind of be like a blast off moment. [01:01:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Where were some of the markets that you guys like, Some of the touring experiences where you were like, that state that I didn't. I didn't think would be all about us is like. Like a random place outside of the Southeast, because I know the Southeast will always feel like home, but, yeah, I'm sure you guys got to go to all kinds of different places. [01:02:03] Speaker D: We. Honestly, I think the best shows. And y' all can correct me if I'm wrong. There's these two cities up in the Northeast that have. Have these. They used to be, like, carnival circus tents. Circus tents. And the. The stage spins. Do you know what I'm talking about? [01:02:20] Speaker A: Where in the. [01:02:22] Speaker B: Massachusetts. [01:02:23] Speaker A: Oh, Massachusetts. [01:02:24] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:02:24] Speaker A: Okay. The Mass Holes. [01:02:26] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:02:26] Speaker A: Yes. [01:02:27] Speaker B: But they showed. But they so weren't. Dude, they were so. [01:02:29] Speaker A: Oh, they love country music. That's just what they proudly call themselves. They love country. [01:02:33] Speaker B: It was like the music circus. And in one of them, the melody tent was one. [01:02:38] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. But those towns were so beautiful, too. So we got to, like, go and visit the towns, and we met random people that were so nice. Like, I feel like people talk about Southern hospitality, but there's a different kind of hospitality up there where, like, if somebody's nice, you know they mean it. [01:02:53] Speaker A: Yes. [01:02:54] Speaker D: You know, and so, like, we were. I can't believe that I'm telling this story right now. It's cool to me. I hope they listen to this podcast. But we were walking from, like, a little downtown area in. I don't remember which town it was on Cape Cod. It was on Cape Cod. Not in Cape Cod. We got corrected for that. People, like, actually fussed at us for. [01:03:15] Speaker B: Saying it was in Hyatt Cod. [01:03:17] Speaker D: We didn't get it. We're from Mississippi. But anyway, so we were walking. We were like, we're gonna go see the beach. And so I don't know how this happened, but this car. Our parents were probably like, y' all are so stupid. But this car pulls up, and it's this woman and her daughter, and she. They were like, are y' all going to the beach? We can give you a ride. And they're just like. [01:03:37] Speaker C: And we had been hiking for, like. [01:03:38] Speaker D: A long time, and we weren't hitchhiking. Like, we didn't have our thumbs out or nothing. They just, like, didn't want to pay. [01:03:44] Speaker C: For an Uber, and. [01:03:45] Speaker D: And we got to talking to him in the car, and they were like, yeah, we're coming to the show tonight. And we're like, well, dang, so are we. And she was like, wait, why are you going to the show? And we're like, we're the opening act. And so it's just like. Like, little moments like that that we've experienced on the road that, like, honestly, it happens outside of the south for us a lot. And we love the south, but we. [01:04:08] Speaker B: Always have a good turnout in Orlando when we play there. [01:04:11] Speaker D: True. [01:04:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:04:12] Speaker A: It's your love for Disney, I'm saying. [01:04:13] Speaker D: Dude, I don't know what it is. [01:04:14] Speaker B: Like, it keeps coming back. [01:04:16] Speaker D: Zachary's like, let me say Orlando. Maybe somebody will hook me up with tickets. [01:04:19] Speaker B: Sure. But, like, people, like, legitimately, we have people who know us outside us. That was a ten roof show. But, like, outside of the Nashville hits, the roof 10 roof thing, they see our name and they come to our shows, and, like, there's really nothing. There's nothing in the world like that. People who see you and want to come and support what you're doing, like, to the point where they got. They had a young boy with them, like their son with them, and they got kicked out of the bar because they. [01:04:47] Speaker D: Because it was, like, right as it hit, like, 9:30 or something, they came over to the table. It was like our second to last song. And they were kicking him out of the bar, and I. I was pissed. I was like, you cannot kick Evan out of the bar right now. [01:04:59] Speaker B: Delaney got off stage and went. Was like, let him stay. It's just a couple more songs. And they're like, nope. They. They went out and then they. They didn't go home. They went outside and they stood outside and watched the rest of the show. [01:05:08] Speaker D: Yeah, they're the best freaking sick. But we've. [01:05:10] Speaker C: We've had a lot of people in St. Louis. St. Louis was a great show. We. We have been very fortunate with some of the shows that we've played. We opened for Darius Rucker a few times. We went on a whole tour with Jake Owen, and St. Louis was a huge one. Scottsdale was a great one. [01:05:25] Speaker B: Vegas was great. [01:05:26] Speaker C: Vegas was great. I mean, we've. We've been very blessed. LA was great. [01:05:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:05:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:05:31] Speaker C: I mean, well, we just got Mississippi and LA couldn't be. [01:05:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:35] Speaker C: More. [01:05:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:36] Speaker A: But that's the thing is, I think your music reaches to wherever. Like, it has that mass appeal where if you just like music that sounds good to your ears, where it's like, it just makes you feel good with the harmonies and the lyrics and then the other. Up some moments and then down some other moments, like, it's just. It can really go anywhere. It's not like, this is beer, this is cold beer, country music, or. Or this is rock and roll, or this is that. It's a little mix of a few different things, you know, so it's like. I don't think of you guys as, like, a regional act by any means. [01:06:05] Speaker D: I think that that is such a superpower, but at the same time, it makes it. Where I feel like labels don't know where to put us. [01:06:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:06:15] Speaker D: Because we are. I don't want to say straight down the middle because that sounds bad to me, but, like, we do have a bit of, like, a neutrality about us that we're not, like, for young girls or old women. We're for both, and we're also for men, and we're. There's not, like, a specific market. [01:06:34] Speaker B: It seems like there's something, like, a little bit scary about that, too. I don't want to say to the industry, because I'm not going to speak for the whole industry, but, like, there's something about it. It's like we. If we don't know what box to put you in, we don't know what to do, you know, and we've gotten that a lot. Whenever we did that thing with. With Ron, the shopping thing, we. A lot of. A lot of labels, a lot of publishing companies came out and they were like, they're great, but we don't really. [01:07:01] Speaker A: What do we do with them? [01:07:01] Speaker D: Yeah, we don't really have a place. Well, I mean, we've been hearing that since we were kids because when we were really young, because we got so much response from the Christian music industry, we met with a bunch of Christian labels when we were, like, young, young. And they. [01:07:13] Speaker B: They didn't know. [01:07:14] Speaker D: They didn't know because we weren't Christian enough. And we're like, what does it mean to be Christian enough? Yeah, I Don't know. But I feel like that's maybe gonna be an awesome thing for us because there is so much of the like genres meshing together. [01:07:30] Speaker A: Right now is the time. [01:07:32] Speaker D: Like, well, like even Chris Tomlin put out the country collaboration album that he did a few years ago. And then Beyonce's country now Jelly Roll and Bland. [01:07:40] Speaker B: Brandon. Brandon Lake. [01:07:41] Speaker D: Yeah, it's. There's room for things that are a little different. So hopefully. [01:07:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean I'm doing a festival in two weeks where they, they've got me going up doing media and I'm like hosting a side. I'm like helping out with like hosting a side stage. And it's like one of the days. It's like co Wetzel, then Nelly, then Kane Brown, another one the other day. It's like Flo Rida and Jesse Murph before Parker McCollum. You know, like the all genre festival thing and like the all genre ticket for a fan experience is more prevalent now than it's ever been. [01:08:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:08:15] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:08:15] Speaker A: Because country's bigger than it's ever been. So the worship world is like, okay, cool, we'll throw a country artist right there. The rock world's cool. We'll throw a country artist. And they're even the hip hop people are like, well, we'll throw a country artist in there, you know, crazy. So now is like the time. Like it's just again, it has to be like right place, right? Tell me. Look at Chris Stapleton. He was here forever. Brooks and Dunn didn't mean meet until they were 34. [01:08:36] Speaker D: You know, isn't that crazy? Because I feel like, I think as much as I love Taylor Swift, I think that she ruined me because when, when I was a little kid, that was the. I was I think nine years old when Tim McGraw came out. Tim McGraw the song, not the artist obviously. But I was, whenever I turned like 15 or 16, I was like, this is my time because this is when it happened for Taylor Swift. But that doesn't mean that, that that's, that doesn't mean as a 28 year old that it's not going to happen. [01:09:04] Speaker A: No. And every and everybody's path and like the factors and the tools that she had her at her disposal earlier. [01:09:09] Speaker D: Right. [01:09:09] Speaker A: Very different. You know, she was, she was the face of now, one of the big labels in town. Like she was the, the, the big, big thing there. But it's like everybody's thing is a little bit different. And now with the social media thing too, it's like, well, you guys have, you Guys have experience playing. You guys have been playing shows since you were you. You. Before you could drop live. You guys have been playing shows for. [01:09:28] Speaker D: People before we even thought about driving. [01:09:31] Speaker A: Before you had a chance to argue over podcasts or music. [01:09:34] Speaker D: Before podcasts came out. [01:09:37] Speaker A: Yeah. Before Vanderpump Rules was even a thing. You know, like way back, way back in the day. So it's like it just, it takes just getting, getting out there. And anybody that sees you guys, that's the thing. You guys are going to build so many fans. Like you talked about getting the. Getting blessed to be on those, on those tours with. With Jake and Darius and different festivals and folks that don't know you and then leave being Dave's highway fans, you know, and it's just getting the opportunity to go out and do that because anybody that hears you and then gets to meet you guys after, like, they're going to be fans for life. Like those people that gave you the ride to the beach on the cape. [01:10:09] Speaker D: Like, what? I know, it's crazy. Yeah. [01:10:11] Speaker A: Stuff happens for a reason. [01:10:13] Speaker D: We could have died that day. [01:10:14] Speaker A: You could have died. [01:10:15] Speaker D: Could you just imagine, like, if this was like a murder podcast, what would. [01:10:18] Speaker A: Oh, and the Lady Delaney be listening. [01:10:20] Speaker D: Delaney. [01:10:22] Speaker A: On this episode of Cereal, these dumb. [01:10:25] Speaker D: Kids from Mississippi got in the car with these women from Cape Cod. Yep. From on Cape Code. [01:10:30] Speaker A: And they were all going to the same concert. [01:10:32] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:10:32] Speaker A: Only two of them made it. [01:10:35] Speaker B: And now there was no opening up. [01:10:37] Speaker A: And now there's no opener. [01:10:40] Speaker C: Oh my God. [01:10:41] Speaker A: So what do you guys, what do you guys like doing when you're not doing the music thing? Because I know you, I know you guys all spend a lot of time together, but what are like, aside from like the podcast, the reality TV booking, trips to Disney. What do we like, what do we like, what do we like doing in our off time? Because you, you have to give yourself downtime too. It is a grind. And I know you guys work your tails off and are writing all the time and are working on the social media stuff or the this or the that or booking gigs or reaching out for opportunities and doing what you got to do, but what do we do when we're unplugging from music stuff. [01:11:14] Speaker B: Let's mention also that we all three have full time jobs. [01:11:17] Speaker A: Oh, really? Okay. [01:11:18] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:11:18] Speaker B: On top of it, Mondays, like today are just our off days. [01:11:20] Speaker D: Yeah. Downtime is like a rarity in our. [01:11:24] Speaker B: Lives, I feel like, which is not a. Woohoo. Look at us, right? We're working all the time. [01:11:29] Speaker D: But I would love to quit my job. So if anybody wants to find a way to help us quit our jobs, call us. Yeah, my phone number is 601. [01:11:38] Speaker C: I. I think, think I can speak for all three of us when I say this. It's hard to be okay with having downtime, but I think we've all learned how to do that in our own ways. And I like to spend it with my friends because I am an extrovert. I am the only extrovert in this group. [01:11:57] Speaker D: And maybe Matt's an extrovert. Argue. [01:12:00] Speaker A: Well, I'm for sure. Yeah. [01:12:01] Speaker D: Okay, great. [01:12:02] Speaker C: He's an extrovert. But in the van, he's not touring with Dave's highway, so it's a struggle. [01:12:06] Speaker D: Maybe he could. [01:12:07] Speaker C: He could. Yeah, for sure. [01:12:09] Speaker D: Let's. [01:12:09] Speaker C: I mean, we've got one more seat. [01:12:12] Speaker A: Oh, dude. I mean, I've. I've toured. I've toured Trey Lewis, ddid. I've toured all. I've been all over the place, you know. [01:12:18] Speaker C: That was wild. [01:12:19] Speaker A: That was a lot. Yeah, it was four years of chaos and fun. But I've done the tour manager thing, you know? Yeah, it's a grind. I've done it in vans, man. [01:12:27] Speaker D: He's just making all kinds of things. [01:12:29] Speaker A: So what are, like, the highest hobbies? Like, what do we do when we're not working? [01:12:34] Speaker B: Dude, I'm a freaking dork. I, like, I look at. I'm a guitar guy. I'm a guitar nerd. [01:12:41] Speaker A: Guitar YouTube. [01:12:42] Speaker B: Well, that's not. That's not just the. Just the working for us thing. Like, I. I'm a. Like pedal boards and gear. [01:12:49] Speaker A: And like, how many pedal boards do you have? Do you have multiple pedal boards with different things? [01:12:53] Speaker B: I only have two. I only have two. One of them is like my. The one that you've seen a bunch of times. And the other one is like, just a little one that I just spare stuff that I've just thrown together. But, I mean, I've got. At my house, I have 10 or 12 guitars. Like, I've got 50 pedals. Like, I just. Whenever. Whenever we were kids, like, they would save their money and I would buy gear. Like, that was kind of how it was. [01:13:16] Speaker D: I always. [01:13:16] Speaker B: I spent all of my money on gear. [01:13:18] Speaker D: And then our dad would give us lectures on how Zachary needs to save money, and we're like, bruh, you told him you'd go in half. Like, you're. You're supporting this. And then talking to. About his. About him behind his back. [01:13:31] Speaker B: Dude, I. I've like, since I moved out to Mount Juliet off of the. The pedal thing. I've turned, like, full. Just back to my roots. Redneck, in a way. [01:13:39] Speaker A: Like, God bless Wilson county, dude. [01:13:41] Speaker B: I'm saying, I got. [01:13:42] Speaker A: God bless Wilco. [01:13:42] Speaker B: I've got. I've got groundhogs in my backyard. I cannot confirm nor deny what's happening to them. [01:13:51] Speaker A: Caddyshack, baby. [01:13:53] Speaker B: I love it. I'm saying I. I don't throw away my cardboard trash anymore. I just burn it. And that's a blast for me. Like, that's. That's what I'm doing on. On my. On my. [01:14:02] Speaker A: Spending time with the wife. [01:14:03] Speaker B: Spending time with my wife. We watch a lot of Survivor. [01:14:05] Speaker A: Nice. [01:14:08] Speaker B: Nothing really exciting. I like the puzzles and Lego sets. [01:14:13] Speaker A: I told you I'm a dork. [01:14:15] Speaker D: I didn't. I didn't realize my love for puzzles until, like, two weeks ago, and I went on a trip with my boyfriend and we did a puzzle. He was like, yeah, I like puzzles, too. And then I started doing this puzzle, and he's like, oh, no, I don't like puzzles. Like, you like puzzles. Because I could stand. [01:14:34] Speaker A: How many pieces have I gone up to? [01:14:36] Speaker D: 1500 was my most recent. [01:14:38] Speaker A: So you're getting there. So we'll be at. We'll be at 5,000. [01:14:40] Speaker D: Maybe I don't have a space for it, is the problem. I need a big table like this. [01:14:45] Speaker A: You'll find the space for it. If you want. [01:14:47] Speaker D: Really committed. [01:14:48] Speaker A: If you want to build it, it'll. It'll find. Find a way. [01:14:50] Speaker D: That's awesome. [01:14:51] Speaker C: It's been on our kitchen counter. [01:14:53] Speaker A: I was going to say you. [01:14:54] Speaker C: You. [01:14:54] Speaker D: I cleaned it up as soon as I was done. Literally within 20 minutes of when I finished the puzzle, I broke that thing down. [01:15:00] Speaker B: It's in my. [01:15:01] Speaker D: It's 1500 pieces, bro. [01:15:03] Speaker C: But it was all across our kitchen counter. [01:15:05] Speaker D: But it's okay. [01:15:06] Speaker A: My mom likes doing puzzles, but what she does is she. She glues it together and she frames them so there's, like. There's, like, framed. Framed. [01:15:14] Speaker D: I feel like me and your mom could be great friends. [01:15:16] Speaker A: You know, Christy. She's great. [01:15:17] Speaker D: Christy. [01:15:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:15:18] Speaker D: We should meet him sometime. [01:15:19] Speaker A: She's definitely listening to this shout out. Mom. [01:15:22] Speaker D: Puzzles are a new hobby of mine. I have a dog that is the love of my life. Her name is Margie. She's a beagle. [01:15:29] Speaker A: Beagles are beagle in an apartment. That's a bold move, Cotton. [01:15:33] Speaker D: She's a very good, mostly quiet beagle. [01:15:35] Speaker A: That's a bold move. [01:15:36] Speaker D: She only. [01:15:37] Speaker C: She gets to howling sometimes. [01:15:38] Speaker D: She does. She gets a Little rowdy at times, but so does her mama. You know, we. We sing together. It's. It's awesome. [01:15:45] Speaker A: That should be some content. I know you gotta post singing. [01:15:48] Speaker D: Well, it's tough because it's just me and her a lot of the time, so, like, I don't have anybody to film it, you know? And usually whenever it happens. 11:00pm and I'm like, margie, it's quiet hours. Shut up, Margie. [01:16:01] Speaker A: Margie don't have quiet. [01:16:02] Speaker D: No, no, Margie. Margie marches to the beat of her own drum. Do I have more. More hobbies? [01:16:08] Speaker C: I don't know. I cook somewhere. I work out a little bit here and there, but it's working out. [01:16:13] Speaker D: A hobby? [01:16:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:16:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it's definitely. [01:16:14] Speaker D: Let's go. I work out. [01:16:16] Speaker A: Nice. [01:16:16] Speaker C: And then sneakers. I. I like to try new restaurants. I'm a project girl, too, so I always have a new. [01:16:24] Speaker D: She's a big project starter. [01:16:26] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. [01:16:27] Speaker A: That's because you're taking up all the room with the damn puzzles. [01:16:31] Speaker D: I've literally done one puzzle. Just one. [01:16:34] Speaker C: I'm a handy woman, okay? I have taught myself how to use a hand saw to cut shelves for anything. Like, I'm. She stays like to do things like that. [01:16:46] Speaker D: Delaney's, like, sending us pictures in our family group chat of her holding a drill, and we're like, what are you doing? [01:16:52] Speaker C: I'm always. [01:16:53] Speaker D: Again. [01:16:54] Speaker C: I've really been in the mode of, like, building things and making. I. My dad is so nice, and he sent me a whole dual vault kit of, like, drill bits. And I'm bad. [01:17:05] Speaker A: So she come. Has she come over and help with the projects? [01:17:08] Speaker B: Nah, dude. [01:17:09] Speaker A: Yeah. You got a house where you can do stuff. I know I can do. [01:17:13] Speaker B: I can do stuff as well, but, like, I'm not. [01:17:16] Speaker A: I'm not either. I'll be honest. [01:17:17] Speaker B: Dad didn't send me a Dewalt toolkit. [01:17:20] Speaker D: He wouldn't dare send me one, so. [01:17:22] Speaker B: You wouldn't know what to do. [01:17:23] Speaker D: I'd be like, dad, what's this? No, but tell me what. [01:17:26] Speaker B: What this thing does. [01:17:27] Speaker C: We're all very different and very similar in so many ways. [01:17:30] Speaker A: What are the restaurants that we like in town? [01:17:32] Speaker D: Iberian Pig. Oh, yeah. [01:17:35] Speaker C: It's in the gulch. [01:17:36] Speaker D: Oh, it's amazing. [01:17:37] Speaker C: So good. [01:17:38] Speaker D: It's. [01:17:38] Speaker C: It's tapas, so it's a little more. [01:17:40] Speaker B: Bougie if you like to eat. Don't go there. [01:17:42] Speaker D: I don't, but you get a bunch of them. [01:17:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:17:46] Speaker B: Yeah. And it costs you a million dollars. [01:17:48] Speaker D: I'm a chick. [01:17:49] Speaker C: I'M falling on. On a budget. [01:17:51] Speaker D: Somebody else buys my dinner. You know what I'm saying? It's awesome. [01:17:53] Speaker B: I like Jack Browns, baby. [01:17:55] Speaker A: Jack Browns is good. [01:17:56] Speaker D: They're opening one those of Green Hills. [01:17:58] Speaker A: That's gonna be a big deal. [01:17:59] Speaker D: Yeah, it is a big deal. [01:18:00] Speaker C: Greenhouse is one of our favorite spots in Green Hills. [01:18:03] Speaker A: What's the one? Char is a good one. [01:18:05] Speaker C: Green Hills, you know, that's a Mississippi restaurant. Really Originated in Jackson, Mississippi. [01:18:10] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [01:18:10] Speaker C: I went on my first date there. [01:18:12] Speaker B: Jackson. [01:18:12] Speaker D: Nice. [01:18:13] Speaker A: Nice. [01:18:13] Speaker D: No one's ever taken me to char on a date. What am I doing? [01:18:16] Speaker C: What about. [01:18:17] Speaker A: What about urban grub? You like? You got your grub on? [01:18:19] Speaker C: Never been there. [01:18:20] Speaker A: Really? [01:18:20] Speaker D: I've never been either. [01:18:22] Speaker B: Where is that? [01:18:23] Speaker A: It? [01:18:23] Speaker D: It's. [01:18:23] Speaker A: It's expensive, but you get a lot of. [01:18:26] Speaker D: It's the one where like the hill that you drive up on and there's. [01:18:28] Speaker A: Fire across from the flower, like the flower stand or whatever. [01:18:32] Speaker C: It's so bougie. It doesn't even have to have a. [01:18:34] Speaker A: It's real. It's really good. I'd recommend that. Have you done palado? [01:18:38] Speaker C: I love palado. [01:18:38] Speaker A: Pilo is good. And the guy that owns it used to work for the Yankees, so he always wears his World Series. [01:18:43] Speaker C: And they're connected to L. Yeah, same guy. Anthony. [01:18:46] Speaker A: Anthony Riscato. [01:18:47] Speaker C: Yeah. Very good. Very good restaurants. And then I just went to Pastis. I haven't been to that last week. Amazing. [01:18:54] Speaker A: And I only know about these bougie restaurants cuz my. My girlfriend is a bougie restaurant goer similar to Ms. Delaney over here. [01:19:00] Speaker D: So I didn't used to be, but my boyfriend is. And so I'm like, sure, we can go. [01:19:05] Speaker A: Yeah, like. Like I've never been to the 12:30 club, but. [01:19:08] Speaker C: Oh, I love 12:30 supper club and Honky Tonk. They're both great. But I prefer the supper club, cuz Aaron. [01:19:14] Speaker A: Aaron always talks about the. They have the best espresso martini and. [01:19:17] Speaker C: The best truffle fries. [01:19:18] Speaker D: I've heard about their espresso martini. [01:19:21] Speaker B: Y' all are talking a foreign language right now. [01:19:23] Speaker D: Zachary's like, I cook great burgers on my Blackstone. [01:19:27] Speaker A: Burgers on the Blackstone. You get that smash down there? [01:19:30] Speaker B: I got a. I got. I have a Blackstone and two smokers at my house. [01:19:34] Speaker A: Oh, wow. You really are back in your Mississippi redneck. [01:19:37] Speaker C: That just gave me an idea. You need to have all of us over and cook burgers on your Blackstone and just hang out in the backyard, dog. [01:19:44] Speaker B: Easy. I just got a back There. [01:19:46] Speaker D: We're not going. I'm not going back. [01:19:47] Speaker A: I just got a table for puzzles. [01:19:49] Speaker C: Perfect. [01:19:50] Speaker D: Inside in the air conditioned. Please. [01:19:52] Speaker C: Matt and Nikki T. Are invited too. [01:19:54] Speaker B: I just got a cigars. I'm in. I just got a. A movie screen. Like an inflatable movie screen and projector for the back. [01:20:01] Speaker A: You are Mr. Nostalgia. I love you for that. [01:20:05] Speaker B: It was free shout out the Doe family from my church. They gave it to me. [01:20:08] Speaker A: What was the. Have you watched anything? [01:20:09] Speaker B: No, I just got it yesterday. [01:20:10] Speaker A: What's the first movie going to be? [01:20:11] Speaker B: I don't know, dude. [01:20:12] Speaker A: Spider Man 1. Spider Man. [01:20:13] Speaker B: I don't know. It might be Tom Holland. Spider man might be Jurassic park. [01:20:18] Speaker C: For. [01:20:19] Speaker D: The Amazing Spider Man. [01:20:20] Speaker B: True. You can see the thing you can do is you can. You can back. Amazing. [01:20:24] Speaker D: Have you seen him? It's beautiful. [01:20:25] Speaker B: You can back back the truck down there and sit in the. Sit in the bed of the truck, dude. [01:20:30] Speaker A: Have a drive in. [01:20:33] Speaker D: Can Margie come? Yeah. [01:20:34] Speaker C: The backyard is big enough for that. For sure. [01:20:36] Speaker A: Dave's driving in. [01:20:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:20:38] Speaker B: I'm gonna start charging. [01:20:39] Speaker D: It's like Dave's Highway. It's like Dave's highway's restaurant is Dave's drive in. [01:20:44] Speaker A: Dave's drive in and you're just slinging. [01:20:45] Speaker B: Reminds me of Guy Fieri. [01:20:47] Speaker D: Dude burgers. [01:20:49] Speaker A: Drive in movie. Build your own puzzles. You can do all. All you guys could do your own things. [01:20:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:20:53] Speaker D: Yeah. Maybe we leave the puzzles out. We can come up with a new. A new craft. I don't know. [01:20:58] Speaker A: What would it be if it wasn't puzzles? What would the other craft be? Use the power drill with the landing. Build a project. Contribute you all hammer and nail when you walk in. [01:21:06] Speaker D: Have you been to one of those last like places that you destroy stuff? [01:21:10] Speaker A: Oh, the rage rooms. [01:21:11] Speaker D: Yeah. Have you been to one? [01:21:13] Speaker A: I've been told I would have a blast in there. [01:21:15] Speaker D: My mom found out that that was a thing and she was like, what is wrong with the world? People would have that like as an activity. [01:21:23] Speaker C: Mom. I could never picture her doing that. [01:21:25] Speaker D: Mom would be so uncomfortable in a rage room. But then when she started going, she'd be like the ragiest of all just taking a. [01:21:32] Speaker A: Just taking an old like Dell desktop computer and just. [01:21:36] Speaker D: I feel like that sounds so sad. [01:21:38] Speaker A: Oh, you have to feel so great. [01:21:39] Speaker D: After Dave's raging rage. Dave's rage room. [01:21:42] Speaker A: Yeah, we can. [01:21:43] Speaker D: That sounds like my apartment. [01:21:45] Speaker A: We can start applying for some LLCs, guys. [01:21:47] Speaker D: Yeah, I like it. People are going to steal all of this. [01:21:50] Speaker A: No, no, no. So the new music we're, we're about a month, we're a little, we're less than a month out right now. We're like, we're very close to it when this episode comes out because this will be out early August, so everybody can go and pre save it and everything like that. And then what do we do? We have, have we thought about after the ep, like anything else for the rest of this year? Do we really want to just push and kind of let everything marinate? [01:22:14] Speaker D: Big time marinating for sure. We're just really excited to have like, when we play shows to be like, you can go listen to these songs. [01:22:22] Speaker A: You know, you've been playing, you've been playing these songs now for a bit. [01:22:28] Speaker D: Really since we recorded them, is when we started playing them. We just want to play and play and play and play. That's really our, our thing that we love to do. So anywhere that we can do what. [01:22:41] Speaker B: We do best, we will literally play anywhere. We will play anywhere. Just give us chicken tenders and we will be happy. [01:22:48] Speaker D: You don't even have to provide chicken tenders. [01:22:50] Speaker B: I mean, but if you have chicken tenders, big play plus, we'll do that. That was the big tin roof thing. [01:22:56] Speaker A: You know, you go there. Oh, the 10 roof chicken tenders with that honey mustard ranch. 10 out of 10. [01:23:01] Speaker D: Some of them are better than others. [01:23:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, I've experienced that as well. Like Birmingham is a little bit of a different, different vibe than the Carolinas. Yeah, they're all a little different, but. [01:23:12] Speaker D: All have a special place. [01:23:13] Speaker B: Yes. [01:23:14] Speaker A: Yeah. And then we talk. You said there might be some stuff coming out of town. Do we have any? [01:23:19] Speaker B: We've got a couple, we've got, we've got a couple private things going on. But no, no real like tour plans right now. But we're, we're working on. [01:23:30] Speaker A: Yeah. What would be the best way for people to reach out if those folks from living on the Cape route saw you guys or those people in Orlando? What's the best way to reach out to book a Dave's highway gig? [01:23:41] Speaker D: We're very active in our DMs, so any, any DM to at Dave's highway on pretty much any platform will respond quickly. [01:23:50] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:23:50] Speaker D: Instagram is, Instagram is number one. [01:23:52] Speaker A: I call that the Nashville business card. [01:23:54] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:23:55] Speaker A: Is Instagram for sure. It really is. I, I, somebody told me that when I first moved here and I'm like, no way. This is just, it's just people posting pictures and stuff. I'm like, oh, wait, this is like the connector Everything. [01:24:07] Speaker D: I think there's like a booking tab on our website. Website that you can click too. But where do those even go? I don't even know where they go. Is it you? [01:24:16] Speaker C: Do you get those emails? I do not, but they go to our management, so. [01:24:20] Speaker D: Oh, shoot. [01:24:21] Speaker A: It's the management manages. [01:24:23] Speaker C: That was one of my projects is trying to figure out how to do website work. [01:24:28] Speaker D: But, yeah, Delaney made our website. [01:24:30] Speaker C: I hate. Nope, I'm not. I don't want to do that ever again. So you did it, though. I did it, but nope, I'm out. Yeah, I'm hiring somebody. [01:24:38] Speaker A: Websites are a pain in the butt. That's what we run into all the time with our stuff, too. [01:24:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:24:42] Speaker A: Website's not my favorite. Live music. Live music and hanging out with my friends. Very much my favorite. [01:24:48] Speaker D: Yeah, Well, I mean, that's how we feel about, like, the posting and things like that. I'm like, man, I really don't feel that my life is interesting. Like, we. We are in a band together. That's kind of interesting. We go to work. I wouldn't say that's interesting. Me and my dog singing. I'm sure that's cool, but, like, I don't. I don't think, oh, I should post this every second of my life, you know? [01:25:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:25:08] Speaker D: And it's such a, like, not a part of my makeup as a person. [01:25:14] Speaker B: It's not like the. The first thought for any of the three of us is not like, we should post that because, like. [01:25:21] Speaker D: And I envy the people that are like that because I. I'm so jealous in a way, though. [01:25:26] Speaker C: But I feel like it sometimes takes you out of the moment of living that. [01:25:29] Speaker D: Oh, it. Absolutely. [01:25:30] Speaker C: Whenever it's like, oh, we gotta catch this. [01:25:32] Speaker A: You guys are old souls. [01:25:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:25:34] Speaker A: You guys are. [01:25:35] Speaker C: We were born in the wrong generation, you guys. [01:25:37] Speaker A: Yeah, here we are. You're a bit. You're a. You're a band. You're not social media people. You're a band. You write songs, you play music. You go and perform those songs. You go and record those songs. And, like, that's what you guys do, which is what it used to be. [01:25:51] Speaker D: We want to be better. [01:25:53] Speaker A: Yeah. No. Yeah. Because you kind of have to be. [01:25:55] Speaker B: Told that we have to be right. [01:25:57] Speaker D: Well, we just need somebody to follow us around all the time and be. Be like, oh, that's good content. Because I'm like, I don't think this is any good, you know? [01:26:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:26:05] Speaker A: Yeah. It's finding. Finding. What's that? What's that thing? Because I think as soon as people get led to the music, like I've said multiple times and like I've said plenty of times before. And like, I'm going to keep saying, you guys freaking rule. Like, you guys music, it's so good. You guys work so freaking hard. And I really think there's something to this August 15th stuff. [01:26:21] Speaker D: Let's go, especially if it's our 10th year, to the date in this town. [01:26:25] Speaker B: I really think it is. [01:26:26] Speaker C: We're going to. [01:26:27] Speaker D: That's like the Lord. [01:26:28] Speaker B: We'll let you know. I think I'm right. [01:26:31] Speaker D: If you're wrong, I'm gonna be pissed. [01:26:34] Speaker C: It's a sign in a good way, but just. [01:26:37] Speaker A: But just the fact that it came up on here is a sign of some sorts. [01:26:40] Speaker D: We're gonna lie. If he's wrong. It's right. [01:26:43] Speaker B: We can lie about that. Yeah, that's cool. [01:26:46] Speaker A: Oh, man, that's awesome. Well, hey, I appreciate you guys so much for coming on here. Thank you for being such a big part of our family with Razor Audi. [01:26:54] Speaker D: And thanks for letting us know. [01:26:56] Speaker A: We. We love having you guys, like, raise rowdies as much. We tell people we're like a lifestyle brand, a media company that does all these events and does this and degenerates a lot and does a mixture of different things. But we always say the biggest thing is community, you know, and it. And it's finding the folks that are good members of the community, good at what they do, people that we believe in. And you guys are on that freaking list and have been for a long time. And I'm so excited for this, for this EP to get out there there, and so excited for what the future holds. You know, you guys are killer. And just keep freaking going, you know? [01:27:26] Speaker C: Thank you. [01:27:27] Speaker A: Keep it going. [01:27:27] Speaker D: Thank you. [01:27:28] Speaker A: So. You're welcome. [01:27:29] Speaker C: We love you guys so much. [01:27:30] Speaker A: Yeah, we. We love you guys. And we're gonna send you home with some surfsides. What do we think of the green tea? [01:27:35] Speaker C: I think it's really good. Peach is one of my favorite flavors of all time, so this is a great combination. [01:27:40] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. That's awesome. Well, we're gonna send you guys home with some stuff. I got some more hats, if there's any hats that you don't already have, because you guys have collected quite a bit. We are working on some new stuff, and when the new stuff comes out, we'll add it to you. [01:27:52] Speaker D: Y' all have the best merch of anyone in town. [01:27:54] Speaker A: We appreciate that. It's me and Nikki T. Late night, just being like, what about this. Sending it to some guy on Fiverr and being like, okay, it's this and then that's awesome. Ordering it. [01:28:04] Speaker D: You do great work. [01:28:05] Speaker A: Thank you, thank you. We appreciate that very much. But y' all be sure to look up Dave's Highway. Get out there, Pre. Save the ep. Remind me that title one more time. [01:28:13] Speaker D: If you asked me. [01:28:14] Speaker A: If you asked me like I just asked. If you ask me the EP, it's out August 15th. Get out there Pre. Save it. Give them a follow to Instagram. Tick tock. Join the following on Facebook and be on the lookout. And if you, if you got any Disney stuff, send it over to Zach and Erica. And Erica, yes. Yeah, well, I meant Disney. Like if you're just like a Disney, send me Rex. [01:28:37] Speaker B: Dude, it's been a long time since I got like a full Disney thing. Send me some recommendations and going back, I can help. Help you let me know Disney Rex. [01:28:44] Speaker A: But shoot, shoot him a message. And seriously, if you're not familiar with these guys, some of our favorite here in this great city of Nashville, Tennessee, shout out to our friends from Surfside. Sending them home with some eight packs. We got some green teas and some of the regular iced teas over there. And we got a bunch of hats. For more on us, visit raised rowdy.com for my friends from Dave's Highway, I'm Matt Brittle. This has been outside the kind for stay in 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 but maybe the drinking and the lack of money for show I'm just a two trick.