DJ Cliffy D

[00:00:15] Speaker A: This is outside the round with Matt. [00:00:17] Speaker B: Burrill, a razor outdy podcast. [00:00:27] Speaker A: Dude. Dude, Cliffy D, we got you out before noon. [00:00:31] Speaker B: I know, it's weird, right? Not at a festival and not at a festival. [00:00:36] Speaker A: When does your day usually start, bro? [00:00:38] Speaker B: Usually around now. [00:00:39] Speaker A: Usually around now. What does a day in the life of Cliffy d look like? [00:00:43] Speaker B: Get up. First thing you got to do, check the phone, see if any good emails or something came through. Anybody on Instagram hit me up or something. Go through those and then start making some music, maybe. I got a studio behind my house now. [00:01:02] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Going to start cranking them out from behind my house now. I used to be over there on dumumbrian, there for about a year and a whole. [00:01:11] Speaker A: The whole vibe of in the city, bro. Because you're from here, right? [00:01:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, born and raised, man. Hendersonville is where I'm from. [00:01:16] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. We love Hendersonville. Yeah. [00:01:18] Speaker B: I just did the little benefit for the tornado with, like, struggle and, like, a bunch of old school people. [00:01:23] Speaker A: Andy Gilly's a good friend of mine, man. [00:01:26] Speaker B: He's great, dude. [00:01:27] Speaker A: He's the man I got to know Andy through our buddy Trey Bonner. And Trey and Andy would get together once or twice a week and just have drinks together and just hang out and just such a big champion. But, like, the whole dynamic of the city, even in the five and a half years that I've been here, I. [00:01:43] Speaker B: Love what they're like. They're changing the city and they're keeping me involved. And that was really cool because they had, like, Ronnie McDowell's son, and there were some legends there, dude, Jesse, Keith. And it was pretty cool to be a part of that as a DJ. And I literally grew up, like, two roads over from where the benefit was. [00:02:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:06] Speaker B: And they raised, like, deal for what city? [00:02:10] Speaker A: Yeah. And do you claim the unicorn title? [00:02:13] Speaker B: What do you mean? [00:02:14] Speaker A: Like, being from Nashville? Because there's so many of us transplants that move down here. Like myself. [00:02:19] Speaker B: I'm from Hendersonville, so it's 1520 minutes up the road. So I claim Nashville, but I'm from Hendersonville, but on the resume, it's always Nashville, dude. [00:02:34] Speaker A: It's middle Tennessee. [00:02:35] Speaker B: I live in Murphysboro now, and I still put Nashville. [00:02:38] Speaker A: You live all the way in Murfreesboro? [00:02:39] Speaker B: Yeah, man. Yeah, that's kind of where I migrated to for college, and I never left. [00:02:45] Speaker A: MTSU is a spot. [00:02:46] Speaker B: I mean, I went to school there for five years and I never graduated. [00:02:51] Speaker A: Classic. The tail is old as by, like. [00:02:53] Speaker B: Year two, I was going to school for radio. [00:02:55] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:56] Speaker B: Same communications radio. By my sophomore year, I was doing the 05:00 ride home on 125, the party. So I was doing like, that's something you can't teach, man. You can't teach being an artist or being a personality. And that's when I was like, oh, man, I think I'm just going to use college to promote. [00:03:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:14] Speaker B: So I just promoted the hell out of myself, man. I was doing all the clubs and the radio, so I was like, when I was at school, it was more handing out flyers because when I was in college, it's 2000 to 2005. So I was just handing my space days, guys. My space. Yeah, I was just handing out flyers, man. And I was doing cool shows back then, man, opening up for tiesto. No shit, Van Dyke. [00:03:42] Speaker A: I was born 95, so that was my elementary school years. [00:03:47] Speaker B: I'm 41. I turned 42 this month. [00:03:49] Speaker A: Oh, really? Birthday parties coming up. Is that Lebanon? [00:03:54] Speaker B: 17Th year in a row I've done a birthday bash. [00:03:57] Speaker A: And has it always been in Lebanon? [00:03:59] Speaker B: No, I've bounced from, man. They've been at tin roof, they've been at McFadden. I've had the ying yang twins. I've had, I've had. I love them because they're so random. I've afro, man, I've done rehab. Yeah, whoever I could afford that year. So I get. So this year, in the past two years, what I've done is do dj versus drums, which is me and kid, which formerly of Upchurch. We used to be his band and stuff. And we do like a showcase of the music I've been doing in my studio. So I'll have like mises, Brandon Hart, Kentucky music Mafia, Carly Rogers, Sarah Ross. And they'll all come do their one or two songs that we've done together in my two hour show. So it's kind of like a high energy dj drum meets a jam type. [00:04:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's you. It's the cliffy d experience, if you will. What it is, dude. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Literally everything all over the place. And you never know who's going to show up, man. I got some special guests this year that might show up. I'll ever say who it is because sometimes they don't show up. [00:05:07] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, that's what we do too. We did an event recently, we did a takeover with nothing fancy. And we had some people possibly lined up with special guests, but we just kept special guests on the fly. And I had people come up to me at live like, bro, who is it? Who's better? We don't have one. And they're like, oh, this is still cool, though. [00:05:23] Speaker B: Officially have it. It's just like, me and Nick know that maybe somebody might show up. [00:05:29] Speaker A: Someone might just walk through the door and we might get lucky and they might have a few and hop up on stage with a guitar. [00:05:34] Speaker B: You guys, too. I've been lucky enough that those guys have showed up a couple of times. [00:05:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:38] Speaker B: And that's what have made my events what they are, man. And that's kind of cool, too, because those random people that, I mean, I'm not paying them anything or anything. They're helping me and my brand stuff. [00:05:49] Speaker A: Same. It's cool. You mentioned Carly Rogers and Sarah Ross. [00:05:53] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Carly was one of my first friends in town. [00:05:56] Speaker B: I did a song with them. [00:05:57] Speaker A: Yeah, Carly was one of my first friends in town, and it was her, and I forget the dude's name. She was with some guy at doghouse. And I just walked in and I started talking to her, and she was telling me that she was nurse. She was, like, fucking with me. I think the kid's name was Shelton. And she was like, yeah, Shelton's an artist, but I'm just a nurse. And, oh, I got to go to the bathroom. And she had a pizza from little Chicago. She's like, can you watch my pizza? Make sure nobody fucks on my pizza. And I just moved to town from New York, and I'm like, all right, I'll watch this nurse's pizza. And then she came back. And then immediately I knew who Carly was from her previous projects, from her stuff with Upchurch, from her solo stuff. And then her and I instantly hit off. And then Sarah Ross, I had a college radio show just like you did. I came up doing the. Our stories are different. Are different because we're from. From. I'm from New York. You're from down here. Middle Tennessee. But our paths are similar in that we came up doing college radio, and our experiences in college weren't as much in the classroom as they were on the mic, as they were at the events and the scene at the shows. Sarah Ross is from Hammondon, New Jersey. Proud piney in South Jersey, where they grow lots of blueberries. It's the blueberry capital of the world. People give so much shit to New Jersey, bro. And it's like it's the Garden State because more produce comes out of the state of New Jersey. Maybe it's because you have the hubs of New York and Philly, but more produce comes out of the state of New Jersey than anywhere else in the country. And Sarah Ross is proud. South Jersey. And I had her on my college radio show back in the average Joe's days. I had her back when she was doing stuff with the bandits, doing stuff with Cole. [00:07:31] Speaker B: That's what a lot of people don't know is like her longevity, man. [00:07:34] Speaker A: Well, from American Idol, back when she was going by, I think it's. I don't know how to say that last. Yeah, it's italian as fuck. And then she spits bars. She can spit bars. [00:07:45] Speaker B: And she's got a great voice stuff coming, too. [00:07:47] Speaker A: I'm excited for that. [00:07:48] Speaker B: We got more. I sent her some beats the other day and she sent me some too. [00:07:53] Speaker A: Is that how writing with Cliffy D goes? You'll come up with like a beat kind of thing? [00:07:57] Speaker B: Sometimes, but the best way is when we all get together and we make them from scratch. We'll make them from scratch and then they'll get to writing and then I'll get whoever else involved, like a guitarist or whoever, and we'll finish the beat while they're writing. Sometimes we'll finish a song in 8 hours. [00:08:17] Speaker A: Wow. It'll just be a day and it's just a hang. It's a hang that turns into something cool. [00:08:21] Speaker B: The song I got coming out with Jesse and Colt Ford, March 15, it was a demo that turned into a single. [00:08:29] Speaker A: No shit. [00:08:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like a demo that was so good. They were just like, let's put it out. Instead of let's fishing around or whatever. They were just, let's put it out. All three of us. So it's going to be featuring all three of us. [00:08:43] Speaker A: That's cool, dude. And it's cool to get to be in the artist world as a dj because you were kind of one of the pioneers of doing that in the country space. Whether you want to call it hip hop or country rap, there's so many different monikers to go. What do you identify? [00:08:58] Speaker B: I've been a dj since 99. [00:09:02] Speaker A: No shit. [00:09:04] Speaker B: Me and Buba go way back. Bubba sparks. [00:09:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:08] Speaker B: When I started producing, he was one of the first artists I reached out to and he was the first one to go. Yeah, so I was booking him for my birthday bashes. [00:09:19] Speaker A: He was one of the ten before booty, booty, booty rocket ever. [00:09:23] Speaker B: I mean, it was during that or it was during that era, like during that peak. And in the early two thousand s, I was booking Buba. And we didn't really call it country rap back then because I guess some people did. I mean, Colt was around it was like Colt and Buba. There wasn't that many around in the early two thousand s that were doing. [00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah, because the lax came after that. Moonshine bandits came after that. Moccasin Creek was Moccasin Creek, bro. They were. Fuck. They had a moment back in the day. [00:09:56] Speaker B: Bottleneck. I know all them guys. Bottleneck was really cool. He would always come to our Florida shows with Upchurch and it was always good seeing bottles. [00:10:06] Speaker A: Florida is a wild place to tour. [00:10:08] Speaker B: That's where we toured during pandemic. [00:10:09] Speaker A: Same with Trey. Because I was part of all the DDId stuff with Trey. [00:10:15] Speaker B: We literally hit up every venue in Florida and they all, you know, of course, because they didn't really close down at all. [00:10:22] Speaker A: Yeah, Florida, Texas. [00:10:23] Speaker B: We hit up in Indiana. [00:10:26] Speaker A: Indiana is a very underrated state, especially for music and touring. [00:10:31] Speaker B: I go there once a month and I play this place called Buds or Marina Point. And it's the same owner owns both of them. But I've been going up there like five years. [00:10:39] Speaker A: Wow. [00:10:40] Speaker B: It's pretty cool, man. Every time I go there it's thousand people. It's a cool place, man. [00:10:49] Speaker A: Just the local watering holes are so cool. You're tapped into that world here in Tennessee, especially with cahoots. What's the venue you work with down in Murfreesboro? [00:10:59] Speaker B: In Cookville? [00:11:00] Speaker A: In Cookville, that's right. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Called revolver. [00:11:02] Speaker A: Okay. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Actually out there tonight. [00:11:04] Speaker A: No shit. [00:11:05] Speaker B: Wait a second. I've been going out there for eight years. I just find my little. It used to be Nashville, but Nashville is kind of. I don't know, it's a little different for me. [00:11:15] Speaker A: Was that's what I was getting at before. Like when we were talking about Hendersonville and just how this town's changed so much, this whole area. And it's from when you started to now being a guy that's born and raised here and living 40 plus years on this earth, you've really seen this city turn into a metropolis. Like in Atlanta, like a charlote. [00:11:33] Speaker B: Back when Second Avenue was both ways. Yeah, I'll never forget. I dj in this place called Bar Nashville. My third week there, we kicked out Britney Spears for underage drinking. Swear to God. And I was underage drinking and I was the DJ. [00:11:50] Speaker A: Yeah, you just happened to be in the booth. You were good. [00:11:52] Speaker B: You were good. Yeah, she was up there in the little thing. She got kicked out. But Second Avenue was both ways. We had a wireless mic. I forget because we were like one of the few bars that had a wireless mic. [00:12:04] Speaker A: That's a big deal back then 2000. Yeah. [00:12:06] Speaker B: So I would stand in the middle of the road and talk on the mic and hand out flyers. Both ways people are going both street team or shit. [00:12:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:15] Speaker B: So yeah, that long ago. But it's just not the same anymore, man. I don't want to dj for 8 hours. First of all. No, those djs get there 910 o'clock and they're there till three. It's not my thing anymore. I'd rather go to Indiana and do eleven to one, show them what I got and then be done. [00:12:37] Speaker A: What's it like having a fan base? That's something like the last, seems like the last like ten years. I'm sure for years being here in the Nashville, in the middle Tennessee area, you've had that. But now to be able to go to states that are outside, I got. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Friends in Oregon and I'll be there in May and I get these places that I go back to, you know what I mean? I started touring with jelly in 2013. [00:13:04] Speaker A: No shit. The OG jelly days. [00:13:06] Speaker B: That's when I got the balls to leave Nashville. I was at this place called McFadden's. I was the dj and manager there for like seven years. It was really cool, dude. I did Flava Flav and I did all kinds of crazy shit. I did Polly D. I did Snookie. Pretty much anything that was relevant. They were like, go get them. And I would go get them and book them. And McFadden's was a really cool place to work. [00:13:33] Speaker A: Where was that at? [00:13:34] Speaker B: On Second Avenue. [00:13:35] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:38] Speaker B: It'S condemned because after the bomb and all that stuff. Yeah, but even before that it was condemned because the building was falling apart. I'll never forget, dude, I took Flavor Flav to the roof of that the night we had him and we were hanging out and he told me a story. He said, man, I'm going to open up my own fried chicken place and it's going to be called Flav's fried chicken. FFC. Same logo and everything. It's KFC. Years go by, I'm watching the news. Flav gets sued for opening up a place called FFC, like in Vegas or something. I was like, oh my God, he did it. I thought it was just know, one of those drunk moments or whatever. But no, he did it actually. But yeah, McFadden's was cool. But yeah, after never, I did Nashville underground for a bit and then Nashville just kind of pandemic came. Once pandemic came, I haven't played Nashville since. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Yeah, because you've been able to go out on the road and build bases in different markets. And those areas like Nashville, growing translates to Cookville. Growing translates to Lebanon, growing translates to Murphysboro, Dixon, Clarksville, Spring Hill, all these different towns growing as well. And it's like, if you don't have to go into the city and deal with the chaos that is Nashville, you can still get a good crowd out in those small towns. [00:15:06] Speaker B: And that's what those club owners figured out. They're like, man, we get Cliffy once a month and it's worth it. Dude, you go to cahoots when I'm there. [00:15:16] Speaker A: Oh, bro, we've been there march 9. [00:15:18] Speaker B: I'm back on a Saturday, and then March 29 is my birthday, but the 9th, I think. Yeah, dude, there's a line around the building on Saturdays when I'm there. [00:15:27] Speaker A: I love cahoots. [00:15:28] Speaker B: And the staff and the owner, they're like, man, we love it when you're here. And literally, I dj an hour and a half. They do line dancing until eleven, and then I do eleven to 1145. Then they go back to line dancing, and then I come back on and do another 45 minutes. [00:15:42] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. I fucking love cahoots. [00:15:44] Speaker B: It's a cool place, dude. And that's been my home base, I guess you could say. When I got a fan base, I could just call Bill at any time and be like, hey, dude. And I tell him about other stuff. I told him about midget wrestling, and now he does them once or twice a year. [00:15:59] Speaker A: Midget wrestling show. [00:16:01] Speaker B: I did the microfest. I made the show. Made the show twice, which is cool that Jack's my guy, man. I've been booking Jack since he got out of prison in six. And I'm proud to say that, dude, I was one of the first people to book him when he got out of prison. There was another guy running his company, and I was booking that guy, too. And then when he got out, I was he. Well, then they had a fallen out, and I stayed with Jack. And then you see what happened, man. He took it and ran with it, dude. [00:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah. And something I'm excited for. I know Nick's been once, but we've really built one of our base. Like, live Oak's been a home base for a long time. We just started stuff over at winners, which, by the way, Drew says hello. Hey, Drew's been our guy over there, Steve, as well. But we've really enjoyed. We've been at winners now for a little over a month, and Drew treats us like family. He said to say hello. We were with him last night. [00:16:58] Speaker B: He's one of the ogs, bro. He was running decades. He was a bartender, and I would come DJ Sundays at decades and decades was a cool bar, too. Nothing new. And this was like in 2010. So it was a challenge for me to learn the old music. And I think that's kind of why I am the dj I am now. Just because I was forced kind of to learn that old stuff. [00:17:23] Speaker A: Yeah, you had to, bro. [00:17:25] Speaker B: It's like if you wanted to work downtown, you needed to know the. Even though that wasn't my thing, now it is. Now it's like everything's part. [00:17:34] Speaker A: You got to pivot and do whatever the market's calling for. And then our latest home, in addition to winners that we've gotten to go into the rusty nail become a spot. Tommy and Steven and the crew over there, bro, we love the nail. And it's like if raised Rowdy was a bar, it would be the freaking rusty nail. We can really do whatever in there. Tommy and Steven and the crew over there, they believe in us. And you've been able to be a part of a lot of the growing of that and the facelift that that place has gotten. Yeah, dude, the bike nights, I've heard nothing but good things about them. I know Nick went to one of them and he said it was freaking awesome seeing you do your thing. [00:18:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it's kind of more of like a social thing. It's not really like me in a club getting girls on the bar and all that stuff. It's more of like a social thing. I try to play clean music. Not that I always do. Not going to put that out there. I just try to because there's kids there. It's outside. But we're doing two of them this year. We're doing one at Rusty nail the third Thursday of every month starting in May sick. And then we're doing the first Friday of the month at Harley in Murphysboro. [00:18:55] Speaker A: That's cool to do it at the Harley dealership. Yeah, that's cool. [00:18:58] Speaker B: And they're pretty cool, dude. Even at Rusty now, they let us rage. We're doing rallies and people burning out. [00:19:06] Speaker A: When we're doing rounds. People are like, man, I might screw this up and I'll yell out, fuck it, you're at the nail. Like, if there's a place to try something new and let your guard down and be you, like, we do rhythm and smoke over there. We do a cigar and whiskey event. And Tommy loves that shit. [00:19:21] Speaker B: That's how already he likes cigars. [00:19:24] Speaker A: Yeah, they got a damn humidor behind the bar. Now Tommy's turning the nail into a cigar bar that also has volleyball, that also has bite nights. That has us in there, has upstar in there, has the get up in there. They do the micro thing as well occasionally, like, their drag shows on the weekends. The nail is just. It has a little bit of everything. [00:19:43] Speaker B: That's awesome, man. Shout out to Tommy, dude, me and him been doing. He was. [00:19:47] Speaker A: Yeah, when did you first meet him? Because I know he's in the as well. [00:19:50] Speaker B: When I started at Barnasheville, we all kind of started at the same place. Barnasheville bar was the place, dude, that was, like, where all the badass bartenders worked. That's where the badass djs worked. And I was lucky enough know I took a Tuesday and they were. Or, no, I took a Monday, because Tuesdays were already hopping. Tuesdays were college night. And Bruno was like, man, we got. [00:20:16] Speaker A: To get you on. [00:20:16] Speaker B: We got you on. And the manager, Kirk Evans, was like, we got to see what you got. How many people could you and Bruno bring on a Monday? Let's see Bruno, what your boy got. So I took a Monday. We did, like, 150 people. Like, enough for them to be like, oh, shit, we got to get Cliffy in here. And then I started training with the other djs, like, for $50 a night and a bar tab. So I was like, I'm getting drunk and $50 a night, and I'm learning how to dj. This is great. But, yeah, they all took me under their wing, and there I am, man. But bar in Asheville was the place, dude, that was the place that taught me. [00:20:58] Speaker A: Where was that at? [00:21:00] Speaker B: It was on Second Avenue, right? [00:21:02] Speaker A: You were just living on second? [00:21:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I was. Dude, I was the second Avenue king for, like, 14 years. [00:21:07] Speaker A: No shit. [00:21:08] Speaker B: I was on the radio, so I had, like, the 05:00 ride home, and I was on the radio, but I did Second Avenue then. I also did, like, silverados on Murphysboro Road. There was one point in time in my life I was at a club six nights a week. [00:21:21] Speaker A: That's, like, what Nick and I are doing now. The past four nights, we've had events. [00:21:26] Speaker B: I was like, how the hell are y'all awake? [00:21:29] Speaker A: We've been live Oak, the nail, live oak. And winners. And winners is the full band thing. And then the other ones are writers rounds, but we're in the bars all the time, which, for me, I'm used to in the past life touring. [00:21:43] Speaker B: It's like when to get up and do your work, and when it's time to go sleep. [00:21:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And then doing the podcast stuff and getting this room ready. This is our first episode in this new space, and it's a hustle and it's a grind. And then we're getting into festival season. You've linked us up with the good folks from TNT tailgate, and we're planning to be at three of them this year. We're planning to be out in quentin. [00:22:07] Speaker B: With a good one. That was a good one last year. [00:22:10] Speaker A: We're very excited about shine down. Yep. Shine down. Josh Ross is on there is jelly on that one, too, or I think it's Bailey. [00:22:19] Speaker B: Bailey on that one. Bailey, jelly, shine down. [00:22:23] Speaker A: Bailey, jelly, shine down. Are the headliners on that? [00:22:25] Speaker B: Dude, I've done so many radio commercials for those. It's like, really? Yeah. I do all the radio commercials for Tailgate nationwide. [00:22:32] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:22:33] Speaker B: So I had to do some rock ones for jelly and shine down, and I had to do some country ones for jelly. So they were kind of know, but looking for be it. [00:22:46] Speaker A: I've never been to Midland. And Nick has told me the beauty of Michigan, because Michigan wasn't a legal state when I first went up there, because I went up there with Muscadine back in the day. We did a show in Grand Rapids, and he has told me the Michigan is a special place because of the laws that are up there for us to get. For you to get some. Urban. [00:23:07] Speaker B: Michigan's great. [00:23:08] Speaker A: Yes. [00:23:09] Speaker B: They take care of you. Shout out to country boy concentrates if you ever see him up there. [00:23:13] Speaker A: All right, that's one I have to check out. [00:23:14] Speaker B: That's my budy up there. He'll take care of you, man. [00:23:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I hear midlands, just like. Obviously, bloomington's kind of like the flagship. That's where Wayne and Austin and those guys being in Peoria. [00:23:25] Speaker B: I go up there and I'll spin at cruisins. [00:23:27] Speaker A: Oh, bro, I had a time at fucking cruising with Trey. [00:23:30] Speaker B: You ask anybody. Anybody's had a time at cruisins, especially when you run into fucking Wayne. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Oh, dude. Wayne takes you back into the kitchen, and then you're back there for like an hour, and then you pop out, and then they got that little green room area, like that little side building. They had just acquired that when I was there with Trey during the pandemic. And to see where it's at now is fucking wild. We're excited. Clinton, Bloomington, and then Midland. And the fact that Clinton and Bloomington are back to back weekends, it's going to be a lot of fucking fun. Yeah. [00:23:58] Speaker B: Oh yeah, that's what I did last year, man. I came straight when I saw you guys in Bloomington. I had come straight from Iowa and that city. That was really cool, man. Like the know the parks and rec. [00:24:12] Speaker A: All the cities like involved in. [00:24:14] Speaker B: I met the chief of police. [00:24:17] Speaker A: Good guys to know. [00:24:18] Speaker B: Oh man, they were really cool. We ended up partying and hanging out and became Facebook friends and they're just good guys up there, man. It was really cool to see a city embrace this, like. Yeah, just the way they did it. It was really cool, man. And it was really cool to become friends with those guys. And now we're going back and it's like you're going to summer camp every year, dude. [00:24:45] Speaker A: That's how Nikki and I first met. Nikki was calling during COVID because they were going to so many festivals. That's always been like the raise rowdy thing is like four fans by fans. Like it started at a festival in Ohio that we go to called country concert with Nikki going on a bachelor party for a buddy. And now he's been going to that festival for twelve years. And now we get to help out with the camper party and do more stuff. And during COVID he put on these little bootleg festivals, if you will. It was really just people hanging in an open area and everybody chipping in and been paying some folks to come up from Nashville and whatever. But he called it raised rowdy Summer camp. And that's where I got my one tattoo that I have that I know I need to add. I know Mike stole has a lot of work to do. We're going to get there, but raise rowdy summer camp and that's like what going to festivals does feel like. It is like we bring our crew up, selling t shirts, playing games with people doing the thing and it does feel like summer camp. And there's such a community to the festival culture, particularly with tailgate and tall. [00:25:43] Speaker B: I feel bad because I see you guys as much. [00:25:46] Speaker A: You're fucking working, bro. [00:25:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I was on one stage to another. [00:25:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:50] Speaker B: 02:00 08:00 09:00 after party. I loved it though. It's cool. I get drained, man. When I come home from those, my wife's like sometimes I won't talk for like a day or two. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Yeah, because you're talking nonstop. Literally 96 hours. [00:26:06] Speaker B: I've had it turned on for like two and a half weeks straight. Like just talking to people, making sure that I'm in the right place. It's a lot, but it's a good a lot. [00:26:18] Speaker A: What I like about that festival, too, is that they embrace all different styles. Like, last year, you had gravy. You had Charlie on a Friday. You had Mike, you had nickelback. You got to see all the different things. [00:26:30] Speaker B: It's been cool. [00:26:31] Speaker A: And seeing that grow. How long have you been working with those guys? [00:26:34] Speaker B: 2019. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Okay, so you were BC before COVID Yes. Those boys. [00:26:39] Speaker B: And we did ludicrous the one year that was really cool, I got to go on after ludicrous before Sam Hunt, which is just insane when I say shit like that. This year, I went on after jelly roll before Nickelback. It's like, chill bumps, like, immediately, because not many people get to say that, dude. Granted, I get to do 1020 minutes, but it's a pretty epic ten to 20 minutes. I got them hanging by their nutsack. You know what I mean? [00:27:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:09] Speaker B: I think I'll just play sing alongs and keep everybody happy. And it's a cool job, bro. I'm not the best dj in the world, dude, but those guys trust me to get up there and do the right thing and play the right thing and say the right thing. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Bro, you're a seasoned vet. You've been doing this thing, and you've been bringing the party to so many different demos now, so many different states, so many different small town cities, and you're part of the Nashville culture and the story of music and entertainment in middle Tennessee. Not just music, but entertainment, bro. No, man. And there's a reason 100 people a day are fucking moving here because of the city being what it is. And the entertainment and the bar industry wouldn't be the same without guys like you, because you were the guy doing it 20 something years ago when it wasn't good to walk down Broadway, you had to worry about walking down Broadway. Now it's the spot where people have conferences. You've got suits coming here. You've got the waitlist. For people to do conferences at Opryland is like, years. [00:28:07] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It's crazy how big it's gotten. I used to go downtown and know everybody. I'm talking go at every single bar. I knew the manager or a bartender. Now it's like, do you know anybody here might know? One person might know. Might know the manager still or something, but it's big, bro. I embrace it, dude. I'm not one that's, like, bitching about it too much or whatever, because that's growth, dude. That's what I'm trying to do. But the city is just doing it bigger than me. [00:28:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I spent time working downtown as well. I was a door guy at Whiskey row on Broadway my first year in town. I went from being a radio dj on an adult contemporary station. Today's hits, yesterday's favorites. Today's hits, yesterday's favorites. Magic, 98.3. Here's Bruno Mars. [00:28:57] Speaker B: I'll be back on the radio starting in May in Kentucky. [00:29:00] Speaker A: No shit. [00:29:00] Speaker B: All the hits. [00:29:01] Speaker A: Congrats, bro. [00:29:01] Speaker B: All the hits, 107.3. [00:29:03] Speaker A: That's a big deal because it is not easy to get. Radio gigs are different now because that whole landscape has changed. [00:29:10] Speaker B: A budy of mine own the station. He literally owns it. And I hit him up, and I'm kind of linking it with the club I'm doing in Indiana because it reaches up there. [00:29:22] Speaker A: Cool. [00:29:23] Speaker B: So they're going to sponsor Mick show from ten to midnight every Saturday. [00:29:28] Speaker A: That's awesome, dude. Yeah. Because I moved down here wanting to be in radio because that's what I was doing. I had my college radio show called radios. It's just different. [00:29:35] Speaker B: I love it and I miss it, but it is kind of a dying breeze, bro, especially if you're trying to make good money at it and stuff. [00:29:44] Speaker A: Yeah. And a lot of it has to do with the robots. The robots cut into industries all over the place. We use the robots a lot. We use the robots for a lot of our processes, particularly within the podcast network. And it's great to have, but the fact, like, the locality of jocks, like having the local jock, that's in central New Jersey, that's in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that's in Murphysboro, Tennessee, and now it's that national thing, which I get it, and I get having to cut down on budgets and all of that stuff. But it's like you lose that local factor. Yeah. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Shout out to 129 the buz. [00:30:18] Speaker A: Because those guys fucking love the buzz, bro. I love the buz. [00:30:22] Speaker B: Those guys are still. When I was on the radio, I was with 125, the party. [00:30:26] Speaker A: And those guys were before it went sports because now that's 125. Is it the game? Now it's a sports station. That's within the same company, though, right? Same building. [00:30:33] Speaker B: Cromwell. [00:30:34] Speaker A: Cromwell. And was that on Murphysboro pike? Because I used to drive by that. I used to live in Antioch in that area, and I remember driving by that building be like, maybe I should just pop in there and hit them with a demo or something. But it's such a different. [00:30:46] Speaker B: If there's any radio station you could do that, it's probably them, man. I like that they still use jocks that are there because you need that. [00:30:54] Speaker A: And then that's how you build the community of people that are going to listen to the ads, that are going to listen, are going to come out to the events that are going to be calling. You're going to have your prize pigs. You bring in the national. National stuff. You don't have your prize pigs. For me, it was like, people like Jim from Highland Park, New Jersey, and he'd be calling in, and we. We started having a 1099 people because they were winning so damn on the radio when we became Beasley media, because we were graded media New Jersey for a long time, and then we got bought out with something. But, yeah, moving down here, I wanted to be on the radio, but I took that job at Whiskey Row because I had buddies that were from Jersey that moved down here, and they were songwriters that wanted. That was the job that paid the bills and everything. But Broadway. Even now when I go down there, I still know the folks at Whiskey Row, and I'll see some folks, like the guys outside of the stage or outside of tootsies, that I just knew from working the circuit. But it's been about four or five years now since I've worked down there, and it's even changed since then. [00:31:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's like I said, it's not a bad change. It's just growth. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just growth. And there's so much turnover in those bars, too. Like, I'll see somebody. I'll see one of the girls that worked at Whiskey Row, and she'll be working over at winners, over at Live Oak or over at tin roof, and it just bounces. That's just the bar scene. That's just how it's always kind of been. Dude, you were talking about, like, jelly roll boy, and. Dude, to see what he's done now and to see him be like an international commodity and brand and from where he started and the trials and tribulations that he's gone through in his life, and now the message that he gets to spread. And seeing him at Tailgate and tall boys Bloomington, bro, this past year, because we saw him at another festival, and the crowd at the other festival was great and an awesome crowd about similar capacity, but the folks at TNT Bloomington last year, it was like watching a guy at a megachurch give a sermon. People are hanging on to every word. He's just so powerful. [00:32:51] Speaker B: And it was like that in Iowa. [00:32:53] Speaker A: I bet it's going to be like, I can't wait to see him in Midland, bro. I feel like Midland is going to be his crowd to a t. Well. [00:32:59] Speaker B: I was with him the first time two years ago when he played Midland. It was awesome because he's been going to Michigan. People don't really realize how long jelly's been going around. And when I toured with him in 2013, most the shows were packed, but there was a couple that there wasn't nobody at. You know what I mean? Like Sacramento. I'll never forget it. And he had it in his contract that if there wasn't like 50 tickets sold, we didn't have to do the show, and we didn't do that show. And I was like, damn, man. How could Michigan be so packed? And then Sacramento just have nothing? Then we did la, and it was packed. I was like, what's the like? It's like a three or four hour drive. It's not that know. But he still wasn't, like, doing it. I'll never forget, bro. It was my first tour to ever go on. I left Nashville. Like, I finally was like, all right, I got to give up this nightclub gig to go see what the road's all about. And Jelly drove. He drove the RV. [00:34:05] Speaker A: He's one of the guys, one of the artists that was driving. [00:34:08] Speaker B: He did a lot. I mean, he would rather drive, I guess it seemed like. And I sat in front a lot because it was my first tour. [00:34:16] Speaker A: The jump seat is the way to go. [00:34:17] Speaker B: And he looked over at me and he said, clifford. He calls me Clifford. I said, clifford, why didn't you ever book? Because, you know, I worked at places like bar and. Which we didn't do wasn't. We booked Flava Flav to come guest bartend and vanilla ice and stuff like that. Like guest appearances. We never did shows. And I was like, man, my clubs don't do that, bro. We just kind of get girls on the bar and bar. And he's like, man, that's just messed up, man. You all never booked me down there. And I'm like, yeah. I was like, yeah, I know. I've known who you are the whole time. Different clubs, you know what I mean? Because this is an early days. It was gangster rap. You know what I mean? My clubs just don't want that, bro. The club owners are like, hell, no. But he said, clifford, I'm going to start doing rock and country. This is in 2012 13. And I was like, all right. And I was listening to smoking section as he was writing it, driving. That was before smoking section was done. Like, it was in its baby stages. And he was like, what do you think about this? [00:35:26] Speaker A: One. [00:35:27] Speaker B: And he would just sing smoking section, which turned into a pretty big country song for him. That was ten years ago, so he's been working on it a while. And he did it, man. He deserves everything he's getting right now. [00:35:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And the give back that he does. [00:35:45] Speaker B: That'S why, man, he's the guy for that role. He's owning it. I'm sure it's not easy for him going from just a guy that did music to the guy. You know what? He's. He's. He's on top right now, man. And it's awesome to. It's. It's cool watching his reactions because they're fucking genuine, you know what I mean? Everybody's like, he just picked up Garth Brooklyn because he's fucking excited. [00:36:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Because that's jelly. I remember the first time I met Jelly was at Cheekwood golf course. [00:36:21] Speaker B: Oh, nice. [00:36:22] Speaker A: And he was riding around and him and money Matt were playing in the fort. We're playing in front of us. And Jelly had his own golf cart, and he had a bottle of tequila. And it was funny because that was my first interaction. First interaction with him back during COVID So, yeah, to see where he's gone and all that stuff, dude. And you've gotten to be a part of so many fucking cool things, Ben. [00:36:45] Speaker B: I djed his after party here in Nashville, which was an experience. It was the coolest after party I've ever djed. [00:36:53] Speaker A: Where was that at? [00:36:54] Speaker B: Underneath Bridgestone. [00:36:56] Speaker A: Oh, in the green room. Okay. Yeah. [00:36:58] Speaker B: But to get in, you had to lock your phone up. [00:37:01] Speaker A: That's smart. [00:37:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:03] Speaker A: That's very smart to do. [00:37:04] Speaker B: It was really cool. There was one dude walking around with a camera. It was cool. My wife was like, no one's going to believe this. I was like, that's the point. [00:37:13] Speaker A: That's the point. This is rock and roll. This is throwing it back to the days when you didn't have phones, when you didn't have everything getting out there. I never got to experience that. I started driving in 2013, so I've always had a gps. My phone, I got my first smartphone when I was, like, 2009. That was one of my first phones. My generation doesn't know the world. [00:37:41] Speaker B: Before you got from Myspace, bro. That was tough. [00:37:43] Speaker A: I was going to say. [00:37:44] Speaker B: I mean, vanilla Ice was my top friend, bro. [00:37:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:48] Speaker B: Not that he was really my top friend, but I had him in my top friend. [00:37:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:52] Speaker B: Because that's who I was. I swear I'll go to Myspace still. [00:37:55] Speaker A: Like, oh, you can still log into it. [00:37:57] Speaker B: I don't remember the password, but you can go look at it. So I'll go look at it. And I'm like, man, dude, just for the memories, bro. I'm like, dude, I was on the radio back then, so I was doing stuff with baby Bash, and I'm like, what's another one? Just a random person that I did. And I was just, oh, big black and bam bam from Robin. [00:38:21] Speaker A: Big. Oh, you partied with big black? [00:38:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I brought them in. I paid them. Paid them to come. I'm like, oh, what do y'all call us? Three grand. [00:38:27] Speaker A: Okay. [00:38:27] Speaker B: Come on. Three grand for a night. And I was packed every night. [00:38:31] Speaker A: That was one of my favorite shows growing up. [00:38:32] Speaker B: Oh, bro, I did him and bam bam. I couldn't get big black to talk on the mic. [00:38:37] Speaker A: I'm like, bro, he just wanted to chill. [00:38:39] Speaker B: Yeah. And then bam bam finally came out and talked on the mic. But, yeah, it was cool. I did. It's just. It's been a crazy life, man. [00:38:50] Speaker A: Yeah. So, like, looking back, what's something that you would tell, like, back in the day for where the cliffy D brands at now you're a married man. You got any? [00:39:00] Speaker B: No, no. We're know, hopefully soon. Yeah, we just had a nephew. [00:39:07] Speaker A: Awesome. But to see where you like back in the days from the bars and the grind on second to now, being someone that they know around the world. [00:39:15] Speaker B: Because I never did. They were baby steps. It wasn't like I just all of a sudden made it. I knew this was what I was going to do. I just didn't know how. And it took until I was late 30s, early forty s to really get it and be like, all right, dude. I started producing. I was like, what's going to get me out of the clubs but still keep me Cliffy D? And I knew all the connections. [00:39:46] Speaker A: And. [00:39:47] Speaker B: I'm not an idiot with a computer. So I hired a good audio engineer, o rig. Shout out to o rig, the DJ. And we've just been nonstop, bro. We put out like 20 something singles last year. [00:40:01] Speaker A: It's insane. So many singles is a lot of music. [00:40:04] Speaker B: With Project Pat, with gorilla Zoe, with Colt Ford, with country rap. I'll do whatever, man. And I've got some EDM stuff up my sleeve. [00:40:15] Speaker A: Oh, dude, that gets the New York, New Jersey fist pump guy excited. [00:40:19] Speaker B: Really. I want to still want to do what I do and create with these artists from scratch because they'll come in with the riff and stuff and then we just create the beat around what they're doing. Those are the best ones, those are the most organic ones. But when I'm just sending them beats and stuff, that's cool, too. But it's the organic ones because it's them playing guitar. It's not some guy they don't know or whatever. Those are the best ones. But, man, I would say, don't give up, dude, because it's there. You just got to figure it out. And I did. From radio to everything, now it's just radio tailgate and tall. It's a little bit of everything I did. But coming up, I didn't want to let go of those club gigs, dude. [00:41:04] Speaker A: I was like, dude, I was like. [00:41:05] Speaker B: Man, some other dj won't come in on my Friday night because that was how I paid my bills and stuff. That's why I was afraid to tour and stuff. Like, dude, bubba asked me. Bubba was one of the first artists to ever ask me to tour in, like, 2001 or two. And I was like, no, man, I can't. Barnasheville, man. Who's going to DJ Thursday, Friday, and Saturday? Because it took me forever to get that. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. [00:41:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:32] Speaker B: And then I was afraid to leave it, and I didn't for ten years, 13, and I just afraid, dude, I was like, I didn't want to, but I would say, get out of that comfort zone, because if I could go back ten more years and start touring ten years earlier, oh, dude, there's no telling, you know what I'm saying? I'd be like, damn, man. But I just had it in my head that I was going to retire being a radio guy, but then I was just like, radio kind of fizzled out. And it's not that, it's just kind of the money fizzled out, dude, there was no money for what I was doing in radio. I was doing mixed shows, so just hour long dj mix. [00:42:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, dude, those were Huge. Back home in New York and Jersey with, like, DJ envy, DJ Toro, like, New York scene. That was huge. I remember going to club. [00:42:30] Speaker B: I have every single one of them recorded. Every single one of them. And it was cool because that's back when I would get people to call in and I had a little intern running the board over here, like, bringing in the calls or recording the calls real quick so I could throw them. [00:42:47] Speaker A: On the Vox pro, the little spinny thing. But it was great, man, that's awesome. [00:42:52] Speaker B: But it's cool now because I'm doing a little radio. I'm doing a little club stuff, a little festival stuff, and studio stuff. So it's awesome. [00:43:03] Speaker A: You're just an entertainer. [00:43:04] Speaker B: I love it. [00:43:04] Speaker A: You're an entertainer. Your personality. You're a composer, like, being a producer. And overall, dude, you're just a good hang. [00:43:13] Speaker B: Every time I see you guys, it's like, vibes. I look forward to seeing you guys out because it's always. I think I saw you guys on a golf cart or something last year at a gas station. [00:43:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:25] Speaker B: And I was like, why are you all 250 yards away from the festival on a golf cart with Austin? Oh, you're getting beer. All right. Got you. [00:43:36] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. I mean, you're just somebody that, when we know the cliff is going to be that, we're like, all right, this is going to be a party. Cool. And it's always a good time. And we're looking forward to really being more involved with TNT this year. [00:43:50] Speaker B: I was just talking to them on the way in, and we got some announcements for Midland coming. [00:43:55] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:43:57] Speaker B: Very shortly. I know everybody's getting a little antsy, but we're getting to it, and it's going to be exciting, I promise. [00:44:04] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. We're going to have some fun. We're going to be in the trenches together. When you're at a festival, what are your survival guide tips? I know you're different now because you're talent. You're not just like, I can hang. [00:44:18] Speaker B: Out in the green room. You get to hang out in the real green room. [00:44:20] Speaker A: You get to hang out in the green room. [00:44:23] Speaker B: The real green room in Illinois. It's green as ever. [00:44:26] Speaker A: Oh, dude, them brownies are delicious. [00:44:29] Speaker B: Well, we had the chocolate fountain. [00:44:31] Speaker A: In fact, there was an infused chocolate fountain with marshmallows. [00:44:36] Speaker B: The cool thing was that people that didn't even partake wanted to see this green room. [00:44:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:42] Speaker B: Because there's no worlds like it either way. They came in and hung out, and it was cool. And we're doing that again this year. [00:44:48] Speaker A: Fuck, yeah. [00:44:50] Speaker B: So, yeah, man. [00:44:52] Speaker A: That's awesome. That's awesome, dude. Well, anything else you want to plug that you've got coming? You said you got some music coming, right? [00:44:58] Speaker B: March 15 with Jesse Colt, Ford and myself, produced by O Rig. And we also got my birthday March 29. [00:45:07] Speaker A: We'll be there. We'll be there. Let me check. Let me check it out. [00:45:10] Speaker B: Friday. [00:45:11] Speaker A: Yeah, let me check the calendar, make sure, because Fridays we don't host events. And unless we're out of town for a festival, I don't think we're anywhere on the 29th. I'm going to look that up real quick, and I'm going to mark the calendar for Cliffy D birthday. [00:45:22] Speaker B: We got mises. [00:45:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Nick is out of town, it looks like. But I will be there and I will bring the crew. I'm going to say quiffy db day. I'm going to be there. We're going to bring anybody watching this because this will be coming out. This will be coming out next week. So this will be out in the ether and we'll happy to do any promo to get. [00:45:41] Speaker B: March 29, man. [00:45:42] Speaker A: And where's that at? Ecahoots. Okay. Perfect. Fucking love that place. [00:45:46] Speaker B: Brandon Hart, Sarah Ross, Carly Rogers. [00:45:49] Speaker A: Oh, Sarah and Carly will be there, too. Perfect. [00:45:51] Speaker B: Yeah, perfect. Who else? Kentucky music mafia. [00:45:54] Speaker A: Oh, hell yeah. I like those guys. [00:45:57] Speaker B: Who else, man? Tommy Almarode. Kid Ziggy. [00:46:00] Speaker A: Kid Ziggy. [00:46:01] Speaker B: Kid Ziggy. [00:46:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:01] Speaker B: He just did a song with Colt. [00:46:03] Speaker A: He sounds like a fun time. [00:46:05] Speaker B: Yeah, he was at Tailgate and tall boys last year. The mud park one. [00:46:10] Speaker A: Oh, the. [00:46:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Which. I was at that one last year. [00:46:14] Speaker A: Yeah. You do all of them, right? [00:46:15] Speaker B: Yeah, last year I wasn't at Midland. I was just at Taylorville, but this year I'll be at Midland. [00:46:22] Speaker A: Because they were like the same weekend. [00:46:24] Speaker B: I think, last year. Yes. And the year before that, they were the same weekend, too. And I opened up for three six Mafia at Taylorville on Friday. [00:46:34] Speaker A: What is that like? [00:46:35] Speaker B: And then we all got in a bus, the tailgate and tall Boyne. We all got in a bus and went to Midland overnight. Had people drive us. And literally I woke up and we did the jelly Roll Midland one. Because it was only one day, two years first. And then we drove right back to Taylorville for the Sunday show. So it was like ping Pong. But that was cool because I got to open up for three six mafia with my drummer. We did a 45 minutes opening. We were direct support for three six Mafia. And that was awesome, bro, because I love. I'm from Tennessee, and I grew up literally listening to three six Mafia, three. [00:47:18] Speaker A: Six Mafia and jelly roll in the same weekend, back to back at different locations. And you got to be there for both. Pretty fucking insane. [00:47:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:24] Speaker A: As a Tennessee boy on the flyer. [00:47:26] Speaker B: For both of them, too. That's why I was like, yeah, this is fucking crazy, dude. Because even still, I look at these flyers that I'm on, and I'm like, this is just insane, dude. [00:47:36] Speaker A: Who's somebody you haven't opened for that. [00:47:38] Speaker B: You want to limp biscuit real quick? [00:47:39] Speaker A: Oh, dude, straight up. Yes. We're big. We're big butt rock, guys. [00:47:44] Speaker B: I'm like, you ain't got to pay me. Just let me do it. Because he was a big part of my energy and stuff, how hype he is and stuff. And I loved that back in the early two thousand s and stuff. And I kind of put that in my dj shows. So, yeah, that'd be one that bucket list shit. [00:48:06] Speaker A: We love butt Rock. Yeah, the butt rock account as it sits today is like 27,000 more followers than the actual raised rowdy account. The butt rock account with all the memes and stuff. [00:48:19] Speaker B: I'm working on a rock song with Justin Champagne. [00:48:22] Speaker A: Oh, no, I've got Justin coming on the show in a couple of weeks. [00:48:25] Speaker B: I saw him, Cliffy D. Said, what up? [00:48:27] Speaker A: Okay. I saw him at Red Door. I saw him at Red Door last night. And on Tuesday night I brought our budy Jerry. And Jerry's like a full on cartoon character. He's a funny dude. He's our buddy ike, who you've met, who does the video stuff for us. It's Ike's roommate Jerry. And he's like, from England. Was born in England, but then lived in Colorado. He's a very interesting, funny dude. He gets down with the 422. He's a good kid. But we walked in and then all of a sudden you hear Justin come up with his Cajun Kunaz accent, and he's like, what's up, man? And Jerry's like, who's this guy? I'm like, oh, this is Justin. Because Justin had done some shows with us with Trey back in the day, so we got to kicking it and talking. And what he's done, too, is fucking. [00:49:07] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:49:08] Speaker A: Two years with Snoop dog on the road. Yeah, dude, it's Bridgestone with Kevin Gates. [00:49:13] Speaker B: Dude, I sent him the beat and he said, man, that's right up my alley. I was like, yeah, I know. I've been watching you. [00:49:17] Speaker A: I've been watching. I sent it to you for a reason. [00:49:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I literally made that beat and was like, I got to send it to him first. And now I'm just waiting on live drums on it. But, yeah, that'll be a good one. I love his sound, like what he's morphed into. It's like a country rap rock. I'm with it because it's like a blend of all the shit. [00:49:39] Speaker A: And he's such a fucking cool cat, like such a good kid and always been really good to us. We don't see him a whole lot because he spends his time down in Louisiana most of the time. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Built a studio behind his house, too. Yeah, dude, that's the way to do it. [00:49:52] Speaker A: If you got the means to do, like, why not do it? Why not have the work from home and music? Yeah, he's a good kid and I'm excited to hear his full story and have him on here kicking it. So, dude, we appreciate the fuck out of you, man. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Popping the cherry, dude. [00:50:07] Speaker A: Popping the cherry on the new space here at raise Rowdy HQ at the city limit studios located. And I love that. This building is just so awesome. We'll give you a little tour of it when we hop off here because there's all these different producer rooms here. There's a damn recording studio in the middle. There's like a photo room back. Like it's such like a creative space. And the owner of the place, Mitch, reached out to me through DM because he saw me working out at Planet Fitness and said, hey, I know you don't know me, but I've worked. Not to be weird, but I have this thing and I think rage rowdy would be cool in here and it's been a long time coming, but to have the space and couldn't think of a better guy to do the first fucking episode with. [00:50:45] Speaker B: Congratulations to you guys because I know what it's like and how hard it is to get things going and started. We appreciate like they look now. [00:50:55] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. And we're going to get a bunch of shit on the walls. If you got anything you want us to send over to have some cliffy d representation, we're more than happy to be repping. And where can people go to find. [00:51:05] Speaker B: You on all the social djcliffy d for everything? Instagram, I'm not very active on TikTok. [00:51:12] Speaker A: I'm not either terrible. [00:51:14] Speaker B: But Instagram, Facebook I'm very active on because that's where I get most my genuine followers that come to my show. Real people are Instagram's cool and stuff. As far as people that actually that can come and shake their hand, it's through Facebook still and Instagram. Instagram more like regionally, locally. Facebook is still my beast, dude. That's how I get the people to come to cahoots. [00:51:42] Speaker A: That's how I got started, man. With college radio. I was just sending out dms. And that's how I got lucky to have guys like Luke Combs and John party calling to my college radio show in 2000 and fucking 1415 was because I was just dming people on Facebook messenger. That's how my tool, bro. [00:51:56] Speaker B: That's how I'm reached out to Colt Ford reached out to all some of these artists through Instagram. Once I got the blue check, back when the blue check was a real. [00:52:07] Speaker A: Thing, back when it meant something, once. [00:52:09] Speaker B: I got that, everybody started taking me a little what answer am yeah, dude. [00:52:16] Speaker A: Well, y'all be sure to check out our boy Cliffy D. I'm not even sure what camera to look at right now. We got so many of them in here. It's so luxurious. But y'all be sure to check out our boy Cliffy D. Dj Cliffy D on everything. Got some new music coming out with Jess Lee and Mr. Colt Ford man himself. And if you're here in middle Tennessee, even if you're not here in middle Tennessee and you're looking for a reason to come to the Nashville area and you want to get the true local experience at a bar venue, some line dancing, drinks, you can afford free beer till eleven. [00:52:47] Speaker B: Free beer. [00:52:47] Speaker A: Free beer. [00:52:48] Speaker B: Yeah, even on my birthday night. Free beer. [00:52:50] Speaker A: Oh, fuck. [00:52:51] Speaker B: Free bottled beer. Not that shit. Out of the free bottled beer. [00:52:56] Speaker A: Free bottled beer on the 29th, Friday the 29th, Cliffy D birthday bash. And if you don't have your tickets yet and you're looking for a good festival to go to the Tailgate and tall boys circuit, one of our favorites will be there. Cliff will be there too. A bunch of big artists across all different genres will be there. [00:53:11] Speaker B: After parties every night. [00:53:13] Speaker A: Oh, dude, after parties every night. We'll be raging too. We're not sure what our staying arrangement is. [00:53:18] Speaker B: Dude, I have to be up at like 1030 every day too. So the after parties fucking kill me. [00:53:23] Speaker A: Oh, dude, it's a marathon, not a Sunday. [00:53:25] Speaker B: I'm like, is there another dj? [00:53:28] Speaker A: And then the drive back to Nashville. [00:53:30] Speaker B: I think this year I'm like, I'm going to work in an extra day at the hotel just so I could do it recoup. Because, man, it's having it turned on for like 15 days in a row. Partying, taking shots, it kills you. [00:53:46] Speaker A: It's a lot. It's a lot. [00:53:47] Speaker B: For a little herbal, maybe a THC infused chocolate. I don't know. [00:53:53] Speaker A: Oh, dude, the fountain. The fountain will be flowing. It'll be great. [00:53:56] Speaker B: Can't wait to shout out to higher harvest. Higher harvest, sponsor of that last year. [00:54:01] Speaker A: Okay, cool. [00:54:02] Speaker B: They sponsored it very well. [00:54:04] Speaker A: Harvesting it very, very high. The bar is very high in the green room. But y'all for real, be sure to check out our boy Cliffy D. Be on the lookout for all the events. And thank you, of course, for watching outside the round with me, Matt Barill. The new space. Really cool. We're going to be getting some cool shit up on these walls real soon. And more episodes coming. Be sure to follow along. Look up outside the round, give us a follow, like subscribe, all that good shit. And for more on us, visit raisedrowdy.com. We got the new hats in. We're going to hook you up with some merch after Nick's got it in his new vehicle. We got nikki t in a new vehicle that can actually haul merch. So now we don't have to rent vehicles to drive in addition to my trucks. It'll be really cool. But thank you guys for watching. For my boy, Cliffy D. I'm Matt Burrill. This has been outside the round. [00:54:49] Speaker B: I never been the kind for stand one place for too long? I never been the best at this I love you to a girl I love only got a couple tricks on 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? Maybe the drink and the lack of money for show? I'm just a two trick pony? Yeah.