Drew Green: 'What You're Looking For', Tennessee and Paying Your Dues

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:12] Speaker B: Come on. [00:00:15] Speaker A: This is Outside the Round with Matt Burrill for Rage Rowdy Podcast. What's going on, guys? Welcome back to Outside the Round with me, Matt Brill. Today, a longtime friend of the family. He. He's a proud Tennessee native, a lover of chicken parm sandwiches. He's got his debut album coming out and he's got his Opry debut here coming up soon. It's my boy, Drew Green. [00:00:36] Speaker B: What's up, baby? [00:00:36] Speaker A: What's going up, buddy? How you doing? [00:00:38] Speaker B: Love it, man. This place is awesome. I haven't been here, dude. [00:00:40] Speaker A: And it's right down the road from. [00:00:41] Speaker B: Dude, it's like next door. Yeah, it's great. [00:00:43] Speaker A: It's awesome, man. So how is life? [00:00:45] Speaker B: It's been killer, man. It's been busy. Like, like you said, we have the new album coming out, which is like long time coming. Yeah, I've put out tons of eps. Been doing this for like Die Hard for, you know, three years doing the artist gig, you know. But I've been here like 13, so it's. It's been. I'm really excited to have my, my first album coming out. [00:01:02] Speaker A: Yeah, man. It's funny looking back to when you and I first met because I've met you through Ethan Willis back. [00:01:08] Speaker B: Golly, I was probably still playing at Tootsies before. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Before. COVID Like. Yeah, I say. I like to say BC before. [00:01:14] Speaker B: Before my first record deal. Yeah. [00:01:16] Speaker A: Like 2018. 2019. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:17] Speaker A: Was when I met you and then got to know you obviously through our mutual buddy Rip to our friend Sam Johnson. And getting to just watch your journey over the years to now with the. The debut full length record coming out. Like you said, you've been putting out music now for a while and the Opry debut coming up, man. But I want to back up. Tell me a little bit about McMinnville. [00:01:38] Speaker B: McManville, Tennessee. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Grow. Is it MCM. Do you say it like Louisville, where it's like McMinnville or how do you. [00:01:43] Speaker B: I say McMinnville. My mom says McMinnville. So. Okay, there's a little a. I think a lot of locals play. Matt say Mac minimal. But it's McMinnville. Yeah. It's about an hour and a half southeast of Nashville and it's nothing but farmland and trees. It's the nursery capital of the world. So nothing but, yeah, trees. So I grew up on A. About 100 acre farm and which now my. My family's business has grown so much since I started doing music. My brother, my brother's five Years younger than me. He's taking it over. So it's been. It's a. It's a big business going on. They're. They're crushing it. But some days I'm like, you know, I could be on the farm probably doing a lot better than I'm doing right now. The struggle of up and downs of the music career. But I love singing, man. I think my dad worked me pretty hard as a kid, and it kind of pushed me into the music career a little bit. And I've always just loved singing, so I'm happy to be here still. [00:02:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Growing up. About an hour and a half, you said south of town. When did you start coming up here? [00:02:43] Speaker B: Crazy. I was in college at Tennessee Tech in Cookville. [00:02:46] Speaker A: Oh. [00:02:46] Speaker B: When I got the opportunity, like, long story short, I was drunk at a bar, like, underage with a fake id, and the owner of Tootsies came in and wanted to hear live music. And I think he was a little intoxicated, too. And he paid for some, like, some people to play. And I had my guitar. I just moved back to college that day. I had my guitar, I played. And he asked me to play at Tootsies the next day. And I thought he was just drunk, you know, talking. I really didn't even know what that was. I was like, 20. I'm from here. But I'd never been downtown. I didn't know the downtown scene at all because I wasn't even of age yet. [00:03:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:17] Speaker B: And I went there the next day and I. I did that thing for a minute. And that's kind of what got me into the thought of, like, maybe I can do this. And that night that he asked me to play, a random guy came up to me and was like, man, I think you're really good. His name was Jeremy Mackey, and he's still one of my day one, like, Friends fans. And he handed me an Eric Church Sinners Like Me record and the good stuff. And I didn't even know what it was at that moment. And I went and became obsessed with it, of the songwriting aspect of it. So I started writing songs by myself. I wrote maybe six or seven by myself. And there was no country music scene in my college at all. So I started playing this bar called Spankies. That was, like, the place to play, and everybody there was, like, Dave Matthews cover bands. And so I just, like, burned it down. The first time I played. Like, the cops were called, People were throwing up in the fountain. I mean, it was an absolute show. And I was like, this is kind of cool. I kind of like this, you know? And I gained a pretty big following. And I made a terrible little ep, like, with some random dude I met that couldn't record, you know, it was awful. And I thought, maybe I can do this. And so I started playing at Tootsies. I did that for about six months. I started failing college because I was just singing the whole time. And so I quit that. Got a finance degree. I got married. I got a job at a bank. [00:04:36] Speaker A: Wow. [00:04:38] Speaker B: I got promoted to manager and trainer. Like, only two people got this gig at this. At Wilson bank and Trust. I was at Wilson bank of Trust and told my wife one day, I was like, you know, I'm gonna regret not going back to music and not, like, fully dedicating my time to it. Like, I'm probably gonna. Like, I feel like I should be doing it, you know, Something just told me to keep trying. And as soon as I got promoted, I quit. The next called Tootsies back. Had been, like, a year and a half, and they somehow remembered me, and somehow somebody called out that day. It was, like, the luckiest. I'm the luckiest son ever. Like. And they. I got back into Tootsies. I did it for four years, four nights a week. The best gig I played six to 10. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And the guy that played 10 to close was Hunter Phelps, who's freaking crushing right now. But so we became, like, one night that's probably a year into it, my guitar player string broke, and it was Tuesday night. There was probably four people there. It was, like, dead. And. Because I played in the back room. And so I played a song I wrote for my wedding, and Hunter was walking in for his gig, and he heard it and was like, man, you want to write tomorrow? And I was like, well, I've never wrote with anybody. But he drove out till I was living in Lebanon at the time. He drove all the way out the next day, and we wrote, like, every day for, like, a year together. Yeah. And so that led to me riding with Hardy because they were buddies, and I just got switched from BMI to ASCAP and got put in this program where you meet with all these publishers. And I thought I was ready for a pub deal because that was my. What I was shooting at. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:09] Speaker B: Everyone said no, literally everyone, and was a little down about it. And, you know, and as soon as that happened, Hardy calls me, and I'm like, in the. Having my first son. I'm, like, in the delivery room, and literally, it's like, Three minutes away from having a kid and Hardy calls me. I was like, yeah, Florida Georgia Line's cutting the song. He said, what are you doing? I'm like, ah, just having a baby, man. Nothing much. [00:06:28] Speaker A: Did you talk about being the luckiest SOB ever? Yeah, it's also. It's the blessings, man. It's right place, right time, and it all happens for a reason. Like you get told you're having your first major label cut as your. As your little ones being born. [00:06:43] Speaker B: It was. It's phenomenal. Yeah, it was. It was a great day for sure. And because I kind of gave me. My wife kind of gave myself like a four or five year window to have any success at all or else go back to the bank or go back to the farm, something. Figure out something, you know? [00:06:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:59] Speaker B: And she kind of provided for me because all the money I made at Tootsies went straight into my recording. I demoed, I had. I've. I always say there's a guy that used to do all my demos and he has a really nice house. I always say I bought his house because I spent so much on demos, you know. But, yeah, it's been. It's been great. And here I am. And it's been ups and downs, you know, as soon as I sign a record, I was at. So as soon as the Colorado song came out for FGL that I wrote with Hardy and Hunter, I got the opportunity to sign pretty much kind of wherever I wanted because I was like, Florida Georgia Line was the biggest duo in country at the time. [00:07:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:33] Speaker B: And probably still is. But I signed with Corn man, which is Brett James. And that was like, I knew the minute. It was weird. A year before that happened, I remember saying telling my wife, like, if I could sign anywhere, I would want to be with Brett James. Like, yeah, my favorite and legend. Yeah. Just insane songwriter, insane person. Just great dude all in general. Like, I've looked up to him like a father and a brother for. For. Since I've been doing it. But about a year later, I was trying to get a Kenny Chestney cut. So I called him because he's the king of Kenny Chestney cuts. [00:08:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:04] Speaker B: And it's like, let's get breakfast, you know, so I could pitch him a few songs. And so I pitched him, you know, if I figured he would be like, yo, this sounds good, keep it up, bud kind of thing. [00:08:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:12] Speaker B: Typical boss thing, you know. But he listened to like 30, and we were both late for rides that day. And he called me that night and was like, dude, I think you're ready for a record deal if you want one. And I was like, so it's been like a year into my pub. I was really wanting to get a lot of cuts. I was rotten, like, for everybody trying to get lots of cuts, you know. [00:08:29] Speaker A: That'S how you make your wave. [00:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that was the way at the time. That was the way this is before COVID before Tick Tock, before that. So the way into the business was to write songs and get known, you know? And I just got a Connor Smith cut. I Hate Alabama. And so I was like, man, I. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Think that song, by the way, that song had a big moment, brother. [00:08:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it was great. And. And I was, like, mad at myself for not cutting it whenever it happened, but I wouldn't have it any other way because, like, he put it out, like, the perfect time. He crushed it. And I love Connor. [00:08:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Yeah. As soon as that, I was like, I don't know if I like my. Why am I questioning if I want a record deal? Of course I want a record deal. That's what I did this for, you know? [00:09:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:06] Speaker B: And I had a record deal a week later with Justin Timberlake and Sony Records. It was insane. It's just like, what. [00:09:15] Speaker A: Isn't it crazy? Like, thinking back to your journey and being a journeyman and hanging out at Spankies and then ending up as one of the house guys at Tootsies. And then you work, get. You work with. You get to know him, work with Brett James and then Timberlake. [00:09:30] Speaker B: It's like, records. It's like you're in. You're in a slump. You're like, what am I gonna do? It's been a year. I haven't had any good things happen. Minus me playing and riding. I'm riding every day. I've got so many songs that no one's ever gonna hear. And it's like, that's. I'm in that. That state, you know? And then the next thing you know, Justin Timberlake sent me a video of him singing my song, Good Old man in his car with his wife. And I'm like, what? You know, it's like, what's happening? And I signed my record deal, like, a week later, and the COVID happened the next day. I was. I was, without a doubt, the last person in the business, probably, to sign a record deal. Before COVID I only had a thousand followers on Facebook when I signed my record deal. How crazy is that? Like, nowadays, that's like, you have. You have no shot unless you're just freaking Crazy. [00:10:17] Speaker A: Yeah. So take me back to 2020. You have all these big things happening because I remember that because that was when you were. We had you playing the rounds at Live Oak and, like, we were kind of running around with the same crew. You were. You were getting out on the road like, it was all starting down some. [00:10:32] Speaker B: Shows with him, too. Yeah. [00:10:32] Speaker A: Yep. Yeah, we did cruisins. [00:10:34] Speaker B: Yeah. That was crazy, bro. That's. That story's not for here for the mic. [00:10:38] Speaker A: No, we can talk about that after. For sure. Shout out to Wayno and Austin. [00:10:43] Speaker B: That was concerts, family ins. I love that place. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Yeah, we have. We have a good time in Peoria. [00:10:47] Speaker B: That place is crazy. [00:10:48] Speaker A: It ain't. It ain't for the. It ain't for the faint of heart. It's a special place. Special jointman. [00:10:53] Speaker B: It is. [00:10:53] Speaker A: But talk about. Your mindset of the world shuts down. You're. You're a dad. You're. You're married, like, and you got to provide for your family, but you can't go out and do shows. You're obviously. The bars are closed. You're kind of past that at this point. But take me back to five years ago. [00:11:09] Speaker B: I mean, in the. The simplest form, they pretty much just handed me a phone and said, go get famous on Tick Tock. And I didn't know what that was. You know, every. And everyone's going through a period of. At this. At this time, everyone's going through a period of, do I even want to do this Tick Tock thing? Because that's the. You looked at like. Like, people shunned it. People like, you know, And I was like, I'm not dancing for nobody. Because at the time, that's really all it was, was dancing when it first started, you know, And I was like, if this is the way, then okay, this is not what. I grew up wanting to do one. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Of the right songs and sing them. [00:11:41] Speaker B: You know, I grew up watching, you know, like a Eric Church video or an Aldean video on, you know, riding the tractor, watching freaking CMT at night or mtv. You know, the music videos. And like, this, the. There was a moment where everyone was very, like, suspicious. You don't know when an album's gonna drop. You don't know anything until it's in the store. You know, it's like. And there was Beauty of the Artist read of that. And then now. And so I'm like, so they want me to just, like, live my life and show everyone all the time. And that was a little weird at first, but I Was like, you know, if I'm gonna do it, I'm just gonna do what I do. And so I just sang a video of me singing in my truck one day. And I asked my son behind me, who was 3. Yeah, 3. He says 20. 20 because he was in 17. So I was like, how old are you? And he says, he said four. And I was like, I wrote this when you were one. And then I, I sang a song that I wrote for him called good old man. And the next day I woke up and I had 84000 followers on TikTok. It was like so fast. It was like, I mean like I said, everything was just like nothing, nothing. Hard times, hard times, Bam. And it's just like every day it's like every successful thing that's happened to me has been that way. [00:12:44] Speaker A: Yeah, man. And it's just an innocent video of you with your little man saying, absolutely. Hey bud, check out this song I wrote when you were one. [00:12:51] Speaker B: And in 24 hours, 23, 000 people had already used it like in their videos, their tik tok. So I was like. And it broke like a Shazam record thing. I mean it was like, it was crazy. And so I'm like, okay, well this might go to radio. Like I'm thinking in my, in my head, cuz I just signed my record deal. They've gave me all these little checklists and I broke and I checked all those checklists for like social media aspects in one day. So I'm like, okay, okay, so we, we're going. Ready? [00:13:16] Speaker A: We're going that loud, bro. You check it on one day? [00:13:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean we're like looking at like a four month program of like getting this many. This we did all in one night. So I'm like, okay, we're going radio, you know, so we got a couple dates, we got a couple things happen. There were some things that got in the way. Like there was a song that was out about a kid at the time that went number one. And there was a another song that came out by somebody else that was similar, like, whatever. But I'm like, this is the biggest one of the, like I feel like it's doing pretty well, you know, and we didn't do it on radio. So that caused a really big, not to get like the politics of the industry, but like they caused a really big fight between me and like my 2000, the Justin Timberlake side, which was a little 40 and the Sony side. And so they got into a little bit of argument for about six months. It was kind of like getting ghosted slash arguments about what we should, should or shouldn't be doing. And I'm. I mean, I moved to town to be a radio guy, but at the same time, I'm crushing the streaming game. So they're like, you don't really need to go to radio right now. And so I'm like, cool. I'm like, I'm. I'm a listener more than I am like a. I'm not going to tell you what I need to be doing if everybody's like, the people that are supporting me and my team are like, we're crushing this right now. We should stay doing this. I'm like, cool. But a lot of people didn't believe that. And so we. I was like, if we're not gonna, like, come together, we should, like, separate. It's like, split ways because we're not getting anything done, arguing about it, you know? And I was on tour with Russell Dickerson at the time out west, and it was awesome. And they were kind of paying for it. And I didn't ask off specifically. I just asked to split ways. And then. So I guess that's asking off, but. And they said no because they were funding all my tours and stuff, and I just had an EP fixing to come out. And so about. About six months later, I asked again, and it was cool. And they gave me, like, my masters of stuff that I recorded back. It was a really, like, innocent, sweet breakup. Like, it wasn't a. Like, they got dropped and fired, like. [00:15:04] Speaker A: Which is hard to find in this world. [00:15:06] Speaker B: And. And I don't even like talking about it, really, because everybody is like, the common denominator is like, yeah, Drew got dropped, which is fine. I don't care. Like, that's that. And that's what technically, on paper happens, because you do get. You're not there anymore. [00:15:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:19] Speaker B: So. [00:15:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:20] Speaker B: But the way the business, technically, it was like, we just stopped giving them material so that we could be out, you know, so however you want to look at it. And I was like, I'm done with record deals. Screw Nashville. I did the, like, I went through that independent moment of like, I'm just going to do it myself or go back to the farm even. You know, I was still at that. At that point. And then I put out a video of me singing a lot of bit of you. And it just like, again, out of nowhere, like, next day, next day, like, 200, 000 followers. Like, it's like. I mean, insane, like, overnight craziness and about a week later, what do you know, I got six labels calling me in one day. Like my name had to just go across every desk. [00:16:01] Speaker A: And as soon as you hit that point of being like, should I be doing this or am I gonna head back home to the farm or am I gonna go back to the bank? The universe just comes at you with. [00:16:11] Speaker B: With everything you're staying in, boy. Yeah, yeah, Y. You're still in. You still got more time. And so I was like, I'm not signing another deal or crushing. I've made more money off this independent song than I've made off of all my stuff I did with a label. [00:16:25] Speaker A: Cuz you own it all. [00:16:26] Speaker B: Because I own every bit of it. Yeah, like 100% of it. So I'm like, if I can just get one of these a year, I'm. I'm set. Like, I'm great. You know, I'm happy. And I was like. But then I started thinking, you know, Tick Tock's so volatile. I'm up and down all over. Like it's, you know, one day we're Getting every post is 300k views and the next day we're at 3, 000. So it's just so up and down, you know, it's like. And so I, I prayed about it, talked to my wife about it and something was just like, I'm a better team player than I am independent. Like I'm not an independent guy, period. I'm. I'm asking how does this look before I go on stage? Like I'm not like the guy that's just like don't give a about nobody. I'm not that guy. [00:17:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:04] Speaker B: So I'm a team player. And so I took some meetings with a guy named Ben from Columbia in la. And he does Jesse Murph and co Wetzel and was a big fan of him from the get go because he shot me straight about a lot of things. And it was at another point coming out of COVID where the record deals and was changing a lot because record labels were realizing that they don't really play a big part in the world as much as they did. [00:17:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:28] Speaker B: So they're having to cut the artist breaks a lot more and the artists are getting paid a lot more than they were because in order to sign someone, you're gonna have to give them a little bit more. Because like my first deal, I mean they pretty much just said. And it was my fault because I was getting my first record. [00:17:42] Speaker A: You don't know. [00:17:42] Speaker B: You don't know anybody? Nobody come in here, and they just get a deal, and they're, like, so happy and.360, baby. [00:17:48] Speaker A: 7:20. [00:17:49] Speaker B: I get 300k, you know, or whatever. And it's like. It's all recoupable, baby. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:54] Speaker B: And that's, like, nothing. Well, they're about to. They're about to make you, you know, like, I'm. You're gonna make a lot of money, bro. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:59] Speaker B: And so it's. It's a. It's a process, but I. I learned a lot from my first one. And so they. They sent me an offer, and. Love them, but it was a terrible offer. And I was like. I pretty much caught him and was like, how in the. Are you gonna fly up here three days, buy me all these food and steaks and coolers and, you know, treat me like a king for three days? [00:18:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:23] Speaker B: And tell me all this crap and then send me that. That's what I said. And send them. I was like, what. What's. I don't understand. He's like, look, that's just our initial thing. You send us what you want. So I was like, all right, bet. So I got my attorney. I freaking sent what I wanted. And they didn't. They didn't change it much. I was like, I don't care if I go to radio. I don't care if I do success at all. I have to take this deal, you know? And it turned out great. And I'm super happy where I am right now. Yeah, it's been awesome. They've been. They let me. They let me put out as much as I want, you know, I'm trying to do, like, a song every four weeks, and it's like, that's when I See Me grow is when I put out songs and, like, every three weeks. [00:18:58] Speaker A: And that's the fan base that you've built. [00:18:59] Speaker B: Sure. And that's what the world wants. [00:19:01] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, dude. They. They want it. It's the. The years of us waiting for a Jason Aldean or a Brantley Gilbert record every three, four years. It's been gone for almost a decade now. [00:19:10] Speaker B: It's even crazy. Unless you're like, even like, look at Morgan. I mean, he's putting out records like that, but he's doing 36 songs at a time. And then literally three months later, he'll put out another song. Like, it's like, yeah, everything's very quick. [00:19:23] Speaker A: Start teasing. Track one, 36 song. [00:19:27] Speaker B: Crazy, dude. [00:19:28] Speaker A: It's crazy, man. [00:19:29] Speaker B: But he has the money to do that. He has the team. I mean, the best team in town. So that's. That's awesome. I mean, I'm happy for him, but not everyone can do that for sure. [00:19:39] Speaker A: You know, everybody's got to work in different ways, man. [00:19:42] Speaker B: Sure. [00:19:42] Speaker A: Talk about your time of coming in. You talk about, like, at the tail end of the. One of my favorite eras. The. Because everybody at our age. Because you're how old? [00:19:51] Speaker B: 36. [00:19:52] Speaker A: You're 36. I'm 30. So we're kind of in that same. We're kind of in that same ballpark. And everybody remembers going to an FGL show and drinking. And drinking Fireball at the tailgate and watching. [00:20:03] Speaker B: Bro, country was hot. [00:20:04] Speaker A: Yeah, bro, it was. It was like the. I call it the. The sex, drugs, and rock and roll of country music. It was our hair metal. It was our fgl, and it was great. Dustin lynch and Luke Bryan and those guys were our Motley Cruelty Crew and Guns N' Roses and Whites. [00:20:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's what I learned in the writing process. That's where I grew up. Was like, fgl, Sam Hunt. [00:20:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:22] Speaker B: Like a blend of those two, probably. [00:20:24] Speaker A: Party man. If you're out in a field or you're in a parking lot, you're hanging out, girls are dancing on. [00:20:30] Speaker B: I call it adjective country because. Because, yes. Like, fgl. Tyler Hubbard, in my opinion, is the king of adjectives. Like, every, you know, hot summer, sweaty, sandy night. Yeah. Like, it's like. It's like four adjectives in the noun or whatever. Like in there. And FGL was the king. And that's like. That was different of that. [00:20:48] Speaker A: Yeah. So what was. [00:20:49] Speaker B: Every song was like. [00:20:50] Speaker A: Yeah. What was it like coming up in that era? [00:20:53] Speaker B: I mean, I knew writing that that was. I was a party song writers kind of like what I did more than, like, sad ballads. So in my. When, like, whenever I got to my Colorado cut, I was like, okay, I can maybe do more of this, like, all the time. I could probably get pretty successful at just writing party songs for people because no one has them and everyone needs them and everyone loves them. And the live music scene was coming back and blowing and crazy. So it's like, maybe that's just what I should do. So I've got more songs that are just like, me partying than, like, I. I did the whole bro country lyric thing pretty well, so. And because that's what I grew up listening to, and I loved it and I miss it in a way, you know, but at the same time, it can only resurface lyrics so much. I mean, I understand why it's. That's the. That's why it's out. Not because we don't love it. Everyone still loves it. [00:21:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:41] Speaker B: The reason why that it's not doing what it did. That was. That's why it's an era. Because an era is something that you do, and then until it gets resurfaced so much that people are tired of it, everything. That's what an era is. [00:21:51] Speaker A: Everything cycles back around. Like, right now, we're in that neo traditional thing. [00:21:55] Speaker B: Sure. [00:21:55] Speaker A: Butt Rock is back of the 90s, 2000s, where it's like Nickelback Biscuit System down corn. Those guys are all. Are all back. Creed, like crossfade. All those bands are back. And it's like the bro country era is gonna come back eventually. [00:22:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:22:11] Speaker A: It's gonna cycle through. I think everybody just got so damn sad. [00:22:15] Speaker B: It's really still there. It's just in a different light. Like, it's not a bro country barn bonfire banger. Like, it's like more like a bro country sad boy banger in a way. In a way, like sad. Like the sad boy bangers are. [00:22:31] Speaker A: Because Morgan's still doing it. Yeah, you could argue that Morgan is still very much. But. But to me, to have the perfect live show, you gotta have that moment where I agree, like, you put your arms around your bo, hold your girl tight, and you're just 100 getting after in the lawn at a send amphitheater. [00:22:46] Speaker B: That's what they want to do. They come there to drink and party and have a good time and listen to music. You know, whoever's playing, they're going to. [00:22:52] Speaker A: Be there for it. Even Zach, Brian, like, Revival is that moment in his show. Open the Gates is that moment at that show. [00:22:58] Speaker B: Marlo here to the boys back home. Dragon Dirt Road. [00:23:01] Speaker A: You know, that would have been an FGL quadruple platinum number one song. [00:23:06] Speaker B: God. [00:23:06] Speaker A: You know, I mean, massive. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like around here, you know, it's like. I mean, all those songs are just like. We say the same thing, but it's no different than someone that doesn't do that. Like, their songs say the same thing too. Just in different. A different light, you know, it's just like. However, I don't look at really country music like that in a way. I look at it like I. Because I'm definitely, you know, not so much country music. Like, my music is not country for the most part. I've got 808s and, you know, pads and all kinds of stuff going on. I'm Not. But I also have steel guitar and banjo, so it's like, you can't say that it's not country. But if the more into the 808 world and like the. The hip hop world, like, the influences that I have, I go. The more country my lyric goes. So it's like, to me, I'm about the lyric. If it has talks. If it talks about conscience, growing up in the country and country in it, then it's a country song. [00:24:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:02] Speaker B: I don't care how. What the music does. There's a lot of songs that people will argue that are country songs that I'm like, this ain't even a country song. It's like, like talking about feathers in the wind. And like, it's not even about, like, country people. [00:24:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:14] Speaker B: You know, it's just like, this is. This is not a country song. This is a folk song. [00:24:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:18] Speaker B: Or whatever, you know, And I'm cool with that too. I love that stuff too. I love that music. But the arguments that people have these days are crazy. [00:24:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, man. It's like, what's something that somebody in a small town is going to relate to? And bump, like, sure, people were bumping. [00:24:31] Speaker B: Relatability is everything. [00:24:33] Speaker A: People were bumping. Nelly and Boozy Badass and Lil Wayne and dude, all that stuff, man, all day long. [00:24:40] Speaker B: I was. Yeah, I was. [00:24:41] Speaker A: I was too. In New York. And I'm not even from, like a super small town. I'm from a New York City suburb. [00:24:46] Speaker B: Dude, when we opened up for Nelly that day, that. When you were there. And that was insane, bro. [00:24:51] Speaker A: Nelly's. [00:24:52] Speaker B: I've never seen them live. Never, like, at all, you know, And I grew up. I mean, Country Grammar. I know every word to every song on that record. [00:24:57] Speaker A: You and the band were jamming, dude. [00:25:00] Speaker B: I was new. I knew every word. Like, and I loved how he liked. I love art. Like, to me, the art is like. He comes out to Family tradition by Hank Jr. And then every, like, every four bars it would go like, it's going into Country Grammar. Like, how do you like some of the. The art? Like, it's very artistic to me and I love. I love that. And he crushed it, man. [00:25:22] Speaker A: Dude, my, my, my. Some of my favorite sets of that weekend, which you and the boys killed it too, man. It was great to see a show again. That was a fun freaking day. But the real treat of Crossroads 41 would shout out to everybody in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. [00:25:36] Speaker B: Those people are fans. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Nuts, man. We had a good time. I was up there for all. All Three days. [00:25:42] Speaker B: So yeah, it was a blast. [00:25:43] Speaker A: We went to the local dive bar. We. Yeah, I got a full oshkosh experience and it was awesome. [00:25:49] Speaker B: It was fun. [00:25:50] Speaker A: What some of my favorite moments were Nelly set, then Floatrider played the next day. [00:25:54] Speaker B: Yeah, but that was. I saw videos of it looked awesome. [00:25:57] Speaker A: He had. [00:25:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Like people up on stage. [00:25:59] Speaker A: He had. He had girls in that were in the pit or in the VIP. Yeah. He had like 30, 40 women from of all ages, all shapes and sizes on stage for about four songs. [00:26:10] Speaker B: I think that's fun. I think that's awesome. [00:26:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a party. He put on an. A 75 minute party. [00:26:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:18] Speaker A: Of just nothing but hits. That's the thing about like Nelly and Fluoride. They just have hits. [00:26:23] Speaker B: They can do whatever they want because you know the song already. [00:26:26] Speaker A: You forget how many features Flow Rider was on. [00:26:29] Speaker B: All of them, bro. [00:26:30] Speaker A: It was nuts. [00:26:31] Speaker B: So many. [00:26:31] Speaker A: And they have like their crew of like their other guys. It's like Flow Rider had all of his like Miami guys and Nelly had all the St. Louis guys. Like that was a cool part too. [00:26:40] Speaker B: Was like seeing their whole production of everything. [00:26:42] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And like their crew coming in and singing on everything and everybody's kind of got their moment. They got the dancers and then they're bringing the. The people on stage with them. Man. It's crazy. It was a party. I love that the festivals are starting to go in that all genre thing. I think that benefits. [00:26:55] Speaker B: Crossroads Festival is a cool thing. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And there's other ones out there do that where it's like a little like rock. The country does that. Where like Afroman's been involved in that or. Or Nelly's been involved in that or like a ti or people like that. [00:27:09] Speaker B: I think that they're blending it. Yeah. And that's what we grew up listening to. And that benefits the people that buy concert tickets. Did not just listen to one thing. [00:27:16] Speaker A: No, never, dude. And I think that benefits a guy like you who gets a little bit like adventurous on the production side of. Of having an 808 in there. Of having a. [00:27:27] Speaker B: A hook grunge guitar. Yeah, whatever. [00:27:30] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. Kevin Dalton and the boys were up on the guitars, man. Like. [00:27:33] Speaker B: Sure. [00:27:34] Speaker A: It benefits a guy like you to the all genre festivals. Like country has reached that moment where a guy like Luke Combs is playing Lollapalooza. Like. Yeah, yeah, Bonnaroo. The. The folk festival in New England, the jazz fest in New Orleans. Like countries at that now. [00:27:50] Speaker B: Luke Combs played Bonro this year. [00:27:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:52] Speaker B: I remember seeing that being like, not what I thought but. But I'm proud of it. Yeah, man. [00:27:57] Speaker A: Yeah. I was talking with Kurt, Kurt Ozon last night and Kurt was telling me or was telling somebody, he was like, yeah man, we've just been doing. Luke's been doing side quests this year. [00:28:07] Speaker B: Side quest. [00:28:08] Speaker A: Side quests of. Side quests of doing these all genre festivals. I'm like, thank God he's doing it because he's, he's kicking the door down to where somebody like. Like you could go and play like a rock festival. You could play a festival that means a little bit clubby, like with your production style. Like there's so many different lanes that your show can fit in for sure. [00:28:27] Speaker B: And I love being. Leaving the door open when it comes to like. Right. I love writing songs. So it's not really not about what I want to do or what I want to sing about. It's like if we write a good song today, like I wanna, I might want to cut it, you know. And if, if it might be about my family, it might be about drinking beer, it might be about getting over a girl, it might be about a made up story that never happened, you know, but it's more about. I'm a melody guy for sure. And that opens the door for my live show to be like. Like you said, I got Jamie and Dalton up there with rocking guitars. I mean it's, it's a, it's those boys rip. It's a rock show. [00:29:01] Speaker A: You know, the band sounds and looks good. [00:29:04] Speaker B: I mean they're banging up there, you know, so it's like it's a rock show or I mean you could. It's close to almost metal show, but it's like the music has the 808s in the background stuff and it keeps it. And the tracks and everything that, that we have in there keeps it country and keeps. And I keep it. I mean I'm. It's me that's the country part of the song probably, you know, but yeah, man, people are loving it. The last three shows we've had have been the best three shows I think I've ever had. [00:29:28] Speaker A: Where have they been at? [00:29:31] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:29:32] Speaker A: Do you remember? [00:29:33] Speaker B: Oh no. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Remember? So have you played since. Since Crossroads? [00:29:36] Speaker B: Yes, I played three times since then. Or I played Nebraska. [00:29:40] Speaker A: I love Nebraska. Dude. [00:29:41] Speaker B: Dude, so hard. Like we have people that say that country is here, country there. No, dude, no, I'm telling you right now. I went, played a county fair in Nebraska and somewhere. I don't Even know Nebraska. Like, I mean the smallest town I've ever played in ever. And there's 3, 000 people that knew every word to almost all of my songs. And I'm like, I'm like blown away. I'm talking. They're holding up signs with my, with my songs on it. [00:30:08] Speaker A: Like big timing in a small town, baby. [00:30:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Like tattooed by people like my name's on their arm. And I'm like, these people are die hard. [00:30:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:16] Speaker B: And they love new country and they love country in general. They know everything. You know. I played with Rodney Atkins one there that night and it was like we're completely different artists, you know, he's. I grew up listening to him. [00:30:27] Speaker A: Oh yeah. [00:30:27] Speaker B: And everyone knew all of her songs, mine and his. And it was like the crowd, the, the fan base did not change because they're just happy to see a show because they probably haven't seen one in that, in that area maybe ever or in a long time. So it was like really, it was really like eye openening for me to see like the Midwest killing. Yeah. In short, the. It's insane. [00:30:48] Speaker A: Yeah, man. I love the Midwest. Talk about coming up with the guys of like having your songwriter crew of like, you talk about Hunter, you talk about Hardy, you talk about like Smith and Quest, like Brett Anderson, CJ Solar, like your guys, whole crew. Like what was it like kind of cutting your teeth with those guys before. I was like they were blowing up. [00:31:07] Speaker B: I was like a year after them, all of it. Like Smith and Brent, Hunter, cj. I was like the little baby of the group. Like, but so I'm. I don't even consider myself in that group really because they were like so tight. Like they were doing all the whiskey jams together. They were doing all the, you know, everybody. [00:31:24] Speaker A: It was like Band of Brothers Jameson, you know, everybody. [00:31:27] Speaker B: Yeah, everybody wanted to be in that crew. And I wasn't Like, I was friends with Hunter and Brent and Smith and Jameson. Like I wrote with. We'd wrote a lot but just a few times where these guys are riding like once a week. I'm like once a month probably. So I was like the little guy in the group, but the biggest guy in the group but the littlest guy. So I don't consider myself. I was like a year after but. [00:31:51] Speaker A: Well, what'd you think being a younger, Being like the younger. [00:31:54] Speaker B: I mean some of them guys are the best. Like I, I walk. Like I said, I'm the luckiest. I'm. I walked into the best like Hunter riding crew. Like we kind of. We were. He was new here. We kind of taught each other how to ride a little bit. Like, we were like, each other's like, you know, he'd been in town a year before me, and. But, like, when you meet Brent Anderson, you route with Brent Anderson, Smith and Jameson. These guys are next level, dude. I'm like, I can go somewhere and write four songs in one day. Like, what are we doing here? Like, we got. We're. We got something here, you know? Like, me, Smith, and Brent went to my houseboat one summer, and we wrote nine songs in one day and drank probably 50 beers a piece. And, you know, like, it's 3am and I'm clearing off the table about. About this size. And Brent's like, there's beer. Everybody's like, dude, we've drank a lot of beer. I'm like, brent, this is the. The third time I've cleaned this table today. Like, we've drank a lot more than you think. We're writing songs, and they're not. They're not bad. I cut four of the nine on one project. Like, it wasn't like we were writing just right just to be riding. Like, we were writing all hits that day, you know? And some of these guys, I think, deserve so much more credit and the ability. I think some of the best writers in town are the. The writers that can't get their songs to people because they're that good. They're so good that they don't leave the work. Like, they're. That's what. Because they're working. Like, they don't have the team. They can call Morgan Wallen and get him a cut or whatever. You know, some of these guys are like, they're working. And so, like, they're. And you. And people haven't heard their freaking insaneness. Like, I. I just cut a song called you'd in the sun, which is. I didn't write. And Brent. Brent showed it to me, like, the second time I ever wrote with him. Like, in 2017. He showed me this song. And I remember, like, literally, like, getting floored, being like, I can't write a song today. I need to quit my job and go home right now. Like, this is the best song I've ever heard in my life. And that. Songs like that, when you get that feeling to me, I was like, I can't believe even I. I forgot about it because I know Blake Shelton had it on hold at one point. And I called him, like, last year and was like, do you still have that song or did someone cut it? Like, I haven't heard anything about it. And he was like, no. And I was like, can I cut it, please? I need one more song from the finish my project. And it's the last song on my album that's coming out. So it's like, it's my. Like some of these guys, like, when you hear the. Just the lyrics, like, to me, I sound like on it because his work table is so good. I was like, I'll never be able to do what Brent did. I love Brent Anderson so much, but. Shout out. Yeah. And I was like, how about you just produce it? So Brent produced the whole thing. And it's like this. Lyrically, if you just listen to and like, read the lyrics, it's. It's insane. Like, every line compares your ex to the sun. And it's like, it's just good. Yeah. [00:34:33] Speaker A: That's awesome, man. So talking about the record, what you're looking for. [00:34:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:37] Speaker A: What's it like having your. After all these years of doing this, having your debut record out, it being songs that you've written with your guys and just tell me about, like, where the title for the project come from and kind of walk me through the process of getting this bad boy out randomly. [00:34:53] Speaker B: I have had that title for the album for a long time. Like, probably like two or three years. And I thought that would be a cool thought. I had this song that I wrote called what you're looking for. I was at opening up for Brantley Gilbert at a freaking mud bog somewhere in Tennessee with. With whiskey jam. And. And that is the most me and me. It was. It was me. It was like an acoustic rounds, like me and Megan Patrick and a bunch of people. And we were in the. We were all sitting in this trailer one night. We were all drinking and having blast, and Ward was like, everybody get out your phones right now and play the weirdest, craziest song that you've wrote this year. Like, I don't care if it's terrible work tape just right. Play the weirdest song you have. And I just gotten this song called what you're looking for back. And it's got this weird, like. Like cat. It's like almost cowboy. Like western. Just like rattlesnake kind of thing, you know, vibe. [00:35:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:46] Speaker B: But also like this Indian. I don't know, it's. It's just a different song with 808s and halftime. Freaking. I mean, it is the craziest thing for, like, music and listeners. Everyone. Everyone that hears it go, well, that's really different. [00:36:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:00] Speaker B: You know, and I played that song and they were all. Everyone flipped out. I hadn't showed anyone yet, but everyone flipped out and they're like, dude, you've got to cut this song. Like, you've gotta like someone. Someone has to. And I didn't take it like, that serious because, like, it's just so different. [00:36:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:16] Speaker B: And then event. And it just set in my pocket for, like, three years. Never touched it again. Talked about it. And then we got. Talked about doing the album and we produced it and. And we got it done. And I can't wait to tell board that because I haven't told word that yet. But, yeah, I cut it and named the whole project after it. But, yeah. And that kind of shows, like, my music, like, because the song is like, I don't want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a six gun. I don't want to be all these things that. That I've been before. I just want to be what you're looking for. Like. And so it's a love song, really. I guess. But. But it don't feel like it's like, very, like, off the cuff, like, badass in a bar, talking to a chick kind of thing. [00:36:52] Speaker A: Nice. [00:36:52] Speaker B: But. And I feel like a lot of my music does that, so I feel like that was a good thing for the project because, like, all the songs blend really well to me. And I was not expecting that because one day I'll be writing a song that's like, you know, George Jones country, and the next day I'm doing something that I'm like, damn, jeez, he could cut this. Yeah, Like, I mean, it's literally that for me right now. So it's like, it's. Every day is different, but at the end of the day, when I'm done with both songs, I'm like, I feel the same. Like, I love both the same. So I'm happy with that. And I think there's a lot of people out there that like listening to it, you know? [00:37:22] Speaker A: Yeah. What's the one that you think the people are going to resonate with the most? [00:37:28] Speaker B: My favorite that's doing well right now is the one we just put out called Ammo. [00:37:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I was listening that on the. [00:37:33] Speaker B: Way over here and we shot. And I shot a crazy cool video for Forth. It's like. I mean, like, war. It's so cool. Yeah, we didn't. We didn't go out. The whole song's about drinking alcohol. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:42] Speaker B: But we. We didn't do that. For the video, because that's what anybody would do. So we kind of went straight up by guns with it. But it's like jets and bombs and it's badass, bro. It's like Call of Duty. [00:37:53] Speaker A: Where do you go to film that? [00:37:55] Speaker B: I went to Lee Brass's house. Yeah, I went to Lee Brass's farm. Yeah. [00:38:00] Speaker A: Just blew a bunch of stuff up. [00:38:02] Speaker B: Well, we had most of his visual effects, but we were, like, in the trenches. I mean, like, there's, like, dirt getting flown on me and there's explosions. Like, it is crazy. Yeah. He's got a beautiful farm. Dude like, Lee Bryce is. Has, like, heaven on earth. [00:38:16] Speaker A: And he's one of the nicest guys. One of the nicest dudes in town. Like, he's og, Man. [00:38:19] Speaker B: I'll say this just like I've said this before, but I'll say I remember and I'll never forget. The Peach Pickers played at the Rhyme and Whatnot. And I'm two years into town playing six to ten Thursday night at Tootsies, and it's like nine o', clock, and I'm singing that Ain't My Truck in Her Job. And Red Aikens walks in the back door of Tootsies with Dallas Davidson and Lee Bryce and, like, the whole crew of people, all of them, they're all freaking hammered and they're walking in, and Lee Brass, like, it's dead, But Lee Ross goes. And they all go to the bar, but he comes right in front of the stage and he grabs a stool and he pulls it right in front of the stage and sits down, like, so intimidating. I'm like, just right in front of you, Right in front of me. I'm like, hell, yeah. Cool, Cool. And my band's like, you know any LeBron songs? I was like, we're not playing Lee Brown songs. I was like, he doesn't want to hear me play his song like that. Yeah, that would be weird to me. [00:39:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:11] Speaker B: You know, so I didn't do that. And he watched, like, an hour and a half of my show. Wow. And hung out with his crew and stuff. But he kept coming back and sitting down right in front of me. Like, he kept going like. I'm like, dude. And then at the very end of our set, he, like, comes up and, like, talks to me and was like, man, you got a really good band. You should keep them with you for a long time. And you should keep doing this, too. And he was super nice. Just like, well, he didn't have to do that, you know. He could have been a dick and. Or he could have been just not said anything. [00:39:37] Speaker A: Just not acknowledged you at all. [00:39:39] Speaker B: I know that we're playing downtown Tootsie's band. Like, I know we're not great. [00:39:42] Speaker A: Yes. [00:39:43] Speaker B: Like, I know we don't sound great because you never. You ain't never been downtown. Like, man, these guys sound awesome, you know? This is not a thing down there. Yeah. And so he was the nicest, probably even to this day, one of the nicest guys I've met ever. And I've. I feel like I've opened up for almost everyone. So shout out to him for letting me use his place, because he didn't even. He didn't even know I am and let me use his place to shoot a music video. You know, stuff like that. It's just, like, genuine. He don't care. I'm not hurting nothing, you know? And if I did hurt something, I'd probably pay for it, you know? And it's just country. He's just a country boy. [00:40:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, man. There's not. It's. It's like. [00:40:15] Speaker B: I want to try this. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Oh, do it, man. Yeah, try it. You an iced tea guy? You like iced teas? [00:40:19] Speaker B: I'm a vodka guy. [00:40:20] Speaker A: You're a vodka guy. That counts. That counts. Yeah. Try. Try the Surfside. A little iced tea. You can't even taste the hot. Yeah, they're crushable. They're crushable. Yeah, they're known. They're. [00:40:31] Speaker B: Oh, man, they're like, beyond crush. [00:40:33] Speaker A: Yeah. The slogan is no bubbles, no troubles. It's not a Seltzer, It's a Surfside. [00:40:38] Speaker B: There's so many people that. That don't like. Like, I love the carbonation. The carbonation. Yeah. And so, like, this is. This is for them. [00:40:44] Speaker A: Yeah, this is. That's something that. You could just pound those on a boat. [00:40:47] Speaker B: It's, like, so light. [00:40:48] Speaker A: You just pound them on water. That's what people do, man. They're big on, like, the golf courses. [00:40:53] Speaker B: These are. [00:40:54] Speaker A: They're in. Yeah, they're in. They're in almost every. They're in almost every baseball stadium right now where you can buy them. They're in. [00:41:00] Speaker B: They just drink that, like, so fast. [00:41:02] Speaker A: Yeah, man, they're. They're crushable. Nikki T. Puts work on those things, and they make, like, a green tea, a lemonade. The green tea's got, like, 30 milligrams of caffeine in them, too. Those have natural caffeine. [00:41:13] Speaker B: There's green tea and vodka. [00:41:14] Speaker A: There's flavored iced tea. There's flavored lemonades. [00:41:16] Speaker B: There's all kinds of box of them. [00:41:18] Speaker A: Oh yeah, that's what we're doing, man. I'm giving you the box. That's what they're there for. 40. [00:41:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:22] Speaker A: And we got a bunch of hats over there too. We can grab some hats. [00:41:24] Speaker B: They're freaking good. Oh man. You know I'm a hat dude. [00:41:27] Speaker A: No bubbles, no troubles, Surfside. [00:41:29] Speaker B: Oh, you know, it was funny. Speaking of hats with raised rowdy. Like I remember when y' all first came out, like, yeah, somewhere in that. I don't. [00:41:35] Speaker A: Whenever 2017 was when Nick started the blog and started printing hats, I remember. [00:41:40] Speaker B: Seeing all this stuff and I'm like, these guys are going to be massive. I just knew and I felt it. Like I just knew something. Something felt right about it and I was like, I'm going to hop on this, this train and try to get in there with them boys off the get go. Because I feel like they're. What they're doing is cool and I want to be part of it. [00:41:55] Speaker A: The wild thing for Nick was Nick tells me because I was. I moved here 2018, so I was not far behind you. And I used to work downtown too. I was a bouncer with Ethan and Dave and Tyler and Dakota and all the. All those boys with Joey. Joey worked down there for a while. Like I was down there doing that and everything. But I remember seeing Nick posting of stuff. Like I. I would find artists through who Nick was talking about on the blog and it was like Nick, it was Sarah, it was Katie. It was like he had, he had somebody in Chicago, somebody in. In New Hampshire, somebody down here in Nashville. Nick obviously was in Pittsburgh. And it was like people didn't know where raised Rowdy was at because Nick, Nick was talking about guys like you, the Ryan Nelsons, the Muscadine Bloodlines early on, like all the Meg Patrick, the Ashland Crafts, the Job Fortners, you know, like the Taylor A. Holbrook. Like back in the day. Like, well, y'. All. [00:42:50] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, it's the underground, but y' all have a way big platform than like then you probably gave yourself credit for like you could make anyone probably really famous. [00:42:59] Speaker A: Well, our thing is, man, our thing. [00:43:02] Speaker B: If you wanted to, you know. [00:43:03] Speaker A: I appreciate you saying that, dude. I mean we, we just, we're. We're guys that. I used to go to 100 concerts a year when I was in New York. I'd. I funny you talk about Brantley Gilbert. I drove to Portland, Maine to see Luke. It was funny. Luke was actually the first of three, the night that I went. Then he got moved to direct. It was Luke Combs, Tucker Beathard. It was Brian Davis, Luke Combs, Tucker Beathard, and Brantley Gilbert. That's in Portland, Maine. Like, I would drive five, six hours to go to a concert. Nick would do the same thing. Nick and his friends used to. [00:43:31] Speaker B: You love it. [00:43:32] Speaker A: They would chase shows is what Nick would call it. He'd see show chasers. Yeah, bro. He'd follow Cadillac 3 for a whole weekend. [00:43:39] Speaker B: That should be a TV series, bro. [00:43:40] Speaker A: He'd go to a Cadillac, like 3 Thursday, Friday, Saturday show across three different states. Him and his friends would. Would carpool and they'd go just like the. The girls down in Alabama, like, I call them, like the Vines, like the Die Hard Muscadine fans. Like Katie Brooks and. [00:43:53] Speaker B: Yes, Katie's my girl, bro. [00:43:55] Speaker A: Katie, Joanna. Like Brandy Hewitt in Mississippi. [00:43:58] Speaker B: I love that you just mentioned Katie. Shout out. Katie. Katie was like my first, like, I know Die Hard fan. [00:44:03] Speaker A: I know, man. She. She used to freak out when I would have you because I. I met all of them when I was selling Gary and Charlie's T shirts on the road for. [00:44:10] Speaker B: I love people like that, man. [00:44:11] Speaker A: And. And Katie was somebody that would always freak out when I'd have you drive. [00:44:14] Speaker B: She would drive literally four hours. [00:44:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:18] Speaker B: A week to see me play at Tootsies. [00:44:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:20] Speaker B: For probably a hundred times. I'm not even exaggerating. [00:44:23] Speaker A: Yeah, man. I mean, that's what it is. [00:44:25] Speaker B: People love it. [00:44:26] Speaker A: That's what separates country music from everything else people don't love. I mean, I'm sure there's people that are like that about rap and hip hop and rock and. And EDM and whatever. But there's something special about the country music. There's something special about the Katie Brooks of the world, the Nikki T's of the world. Like, where it's just. You love. Like, I used to watch, you know, Dave Hangley. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:45] Speaker A: So I use. Dave's the reason I moved to town. [00:44:48] Speaker B: Okay. [00:44:48] Speaker A: I used to go and watch Dave play cover gigs across New Jersey. And I had him in my college radio show in Frickin 2014. And then Dave moved down here and he'd call me once a week and say, bro, you gotta move, you gotta move, you gotta move. But it was supporting the guys in your scene, just like you had your people at Spankies or you had your regulars that would come and see you and the boys play at Tootsies. Like, people just feel connected with you guys as. Aren't yeah, man, it's. It's the crew, it's the day ones and those people. I'm sure there's a list where it's. I mean, Katie's in a special category, but I'm sure there's other guys. I'm sure there's other guys and girls that have kind of been with you day one that were with you from the Tootsies days that are now so stoked to see you put out your. [00:45:28] Speaker B: It's crazy. Like. Like you forget. Not forget about them, but like, when you. It's been so long since I played there. Like yesterday when we leaked that we were playing the Opry coming up, it's like all the comments that I saw, that was like, I remember watching him in 2017. [00:45:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:42] Speaker B: At Tootsies. I'm like, how do you remember that? Like, I mean, it's like they've been following me. That's the day ones that have been following me way longer than I. That I even realized, you know, it's like, it's crazy. It's. It's wild. [00:45:55] Speaker A: Yeah, man, It's. It's freaking awesome, man. I'm so excited for you. And just. So it's. What's something that you would tell that. Well, there's a few. There's a few ways, I guess I always like to ask this question of like telling you when. When you started, but it's like you've gone through multiple chapters of this thing. Like, what's something that you would tell that guy that played. That was playing at Tootsies, that was cutting his teeth? Now, knowing what you know now in 2025, getting ready to drop your first full length album on a record deal, having the success you've had, what would you tell that. That young hungry kid in 2016, 2017, when you were getting your start? [00:46:37] Speaker B: I think from. From my perspective, a lot of people would say, go network. And there's. And they're not wrong. I wish I networked more. I would probably be a lot bigger than I am right now if I networked, I. More from the get go. But I'm. I'm a farmer. And so I. So I work. And so if. If I'm not at home with my family or doing something I want to do, I want to be working, you know, and so I think if you have the passion to want to do it and you can sing whether. If you. Even if you can't sing, if you just want to do it, I think if you have the. The passion to want to get up and go do something about that every day, then you should be doing it. Because I write songs. That's what got me in the business. And so in my head, I want to tell you to start writing songs, because if you want to be an artist, there's not that many artists that just write other. Sing other people's songs. There's a few. There used to be a lot in the 90s, and it's coming back around a little bit, I think. But at the same time, you don't have a thing yet. If you don't. If you don't write songs and you. All you do is sing other people's songs and you don't have it, then you don't have a thing yet. [00:47:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:42] Speaker B: And I think it took me probably $30,000 of worth of demos and that house and. Yeah, it took me a lot of years and writing and time figuring what mine was. You know, like I said, I grew up on the Eric church songwriting. I was a big fan. When I moved to town, I was curved bill, baseball cap, hiding behind a guitar, singing like, eric church. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Like. And that's what got me in the business. And eventually I realized that that wasn't me, because whenever I write and you write and you write, you start doing the same formulas that. That aren't what you. You know, what you were wanting to do. It's like, I can't help it. This comes out, like, drew. This. This Drew green is. Comes out every time I write a song, no matter what. If I'm writing for Blake shelton, It's gonna get a little Drew green in it, you know? [00:48:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:36] Speaker B: And that's when you realize your sound and your friend. So I think in order for me to do that, I had to write for 10,000 hours, probably. [00:48:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:41] Speaker B: So, like, I think if anybody really wants to do it, My advice would be to go do it all the time. And I'm not saying you have to write songs, but if you're not writing songs, you need to be singing somebody's songs all the time. [00:48:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:52] Speaker B: Like, you need to be recording in the studio every day. [00:48:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:55] Speaker B: Because even that's a whole learning process. I mean, it's like a job. It's like anything else. You're not just going to there. I mean, the COVID thing happened, and there's little things that. Some people just walked right into freaking stardom, but they're still. But they're catching up on work that I like. They're still working their ass off. [00:49:11] Speaker A: Yeah. What I. What I. What I say to that And I love a lot of the guys and girls that have popped since co. Amazing. There's a lot of them that are in our family that I consider close friends, but they had a very tough learning curve in 2021 when the world opened up. Some of them had notes on their set lists of takeoff hat here, talk to the crowd here, because they'd never been on stage before. [00:49:34] Speaker B: Yeah, like, exactly. [00:49:35] Speaker A: You having the reps that you had preps you to whether you're playing a show to no one or a show to 10,000 people. [00:49:42] Speaker B: I remember. I'll say this because he's a friend. I remember opening up for Bailey once. And when he first, like, who is Bailey Zimmerman still, you know, like, who's this guy? And then. And then I'm like, why is there so many people here? Oh, Bailey's playing in a minute. Like, I'm like, okay. This guy has, like, this Taylor Swift thing going on. [00:50:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:02] Speaker B: There's a lot of people here to see this dude. Like, what the. I'll just be playing off the bridge. [00:50:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:06] Speaker B: Like, this dude. This kid is. This kid. This kid. He's got one song. How is it this pop? Like, he was like. It was insane that day. I really, like. That's when it hit me. And then he. He comes around the corner and me. We're cool. He gets on. He gets on stage, and he just runs on stage, and he takes the shoes and he. Off. He throws them in the crowd. And I'm like, what the Is this? [00:50:27] Speaker A: What. What's he gonna wear the rest? [00:50:28] Speaker B: What's he doing? [00:50:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:30] Speaker B: I'm like. I mean, my mind was blown. Like, I was like, what is he doing? And am I. And I think, like, being so new into the scene, like, that was his mechanism to. He crushed it. It was like. He made it look like he knew exactly what the hell he was doing. [00:50:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:47] Speaker B: And I think that was, like, his tick of, like, he goes out there and runs. He's crazy. He's jumping, swinging his hair. [00:50:53] Speaker A: He's like a spider monkey. [00:50:54] Speaker B: Yeah. And I'm like, every and everyone. You can't take your eyes off of it because you're like, what's happening right now? What's he about to do? [00:50:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:00] Speaker B: And that's the genius. I was like, that's genius. [00:51:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:02] Speaker B: Like. And he owned it, you know? And he, like, that takes that a little bit. Like, I think. And I think that's awesome. Like, whereas somebody who's played a 10, 000 shows, they're not gonna do that. And he's not gonna do that when he gets to 10, 000. Because he won't have to. No. [00:51:14] Speaker A: And now he won't have to. [00:51:15] Speaker B: He don't have to now. And he's learned he can walk on stage. [00:51:18] Speaker A: And he's learned from Morgan. He's learned from Nickelback. He's learned from. [00:51:21] Speaker B: Well, he's comfortable. [00:51:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Now. Now he's a festival. [00:51:24] Speaker B: He knows that people are coming to see him play. You know, at the time, he was. He was worried about probably getting to the lyrics of the songs. You know, he's. He's played six shows with his band before. He's very new. I've been there too. Like, it's like, you know, it's definitely a learning process. And that was his. He. And he owned it. Yeah. [00:51:42] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Gavin is a similar thing. Yeah, same Gav. It's funny. [00:51:46] Speaker B: We throw beers at me. [00:51:47] Speaker A: We've been lucky. We've been lucky, too, with. With Raise Rowdy. Like, we've been doing events in town so long with. But in the round with me and Nick, with Rowdy on the Row and everything were Bailey's first show ever. His first performance ever was at Live Oak. He had never played in front of people. He was still living in freaking Illinois. [00:52:05] Speaker B: How crazy. [00:52:05] Speaker A: And Chief and them had him come down and he looked at Nick afterwards and was like, man, that was my first time. And Nick's like, oh, in Nashville. He's like, no, that was my first time playing in front of people. Austin Shawn was playing guitar form Bailey. I'll show you the picture after. With his curly hair like that. [00:52:19] Speaker B: Those stories like that aren't normal and don't. And people that we're. We're talking to right now, the people that are thinking that you might want to do this. That is not normal. And that's not. That was because of. Of the. Where the world was at. And that. That door was open for him. But that door does not open. No, that door does not open ever. And it will not probably open again. [00:52:38] Speaker A: And Gavin, same thing. Gavin played the first nothing fancy takeover of Rowdy on the Row, and that was his first time in Nashville. Crazy, you know, and it's like he comes out and it's just. It's a. It's a thing, man. I've. We're going down to see him in Statesboro, Georgia again in a couple weeks, which, yeah, it's a. It's a. It's chaos. It's fun, man. He's one of the few shows where usually I like to be in the pit. Like, how we were for Nelly, but for his show, I'm like, I'm a stand up front of house. [00:53:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna stand in front of house. I don't know what's gonna happen. [00:53:10] Speaker A: It's a while, man. So what do we have coming up for. For the rest of the year? Obviously, this album coming out just talk about again. I know we started up talking about, but just for you, coming from the path that you came from of cutting your teeth downtown and singing other people's songs and the ups and downs in the roller coaster for Opry debut, like, just how excited. [00:53:29] Speaker B: I'm, like, so nervous. [00:53:30] Speaker A: How big does it feel? How big of a moment is it going to be to stand in that circle coming from where you. You come from and the. The roller coaster. Because it's a roller coaster for everybody, but for you, man, it's a roller coaster that truly has had so many ups and downs over the last eight years. [00:53:47] Speaker B: I think mostly, like, what I remember, I remember sitting out back of Tootsies, smoking a cigarette once, and I remember being wasted one time and 10 times, and just thinking, man, I'd love to play the rhyming. I'd love to. I'd love to go play the ramen. And then, you know, I've been drunk and, like, I've thrown up on freaking Ramen for you. Like, I mean, yeah, everybody's done it. Yeah, everyone, you know? And I remember just thinking, I'm not gonna go until I play there, because I'm gonna play there. I'm. I'm gonna play there. So I never went. I got off. I got. I'm a huge Incubus fan, and Incubus played there one night, and I had, like, someone offered me, like, front row tickets, and I didn't go because I was like, I'm gonna play there, and I'll play. And I played there with Mitchell Timpani. It was great. I'm the same with Opry. I've never been there, and I've had so many opportunities to go, and I want. [00:54:39] Speaker A: And I want so many buddies. [00:54:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, dude. And. But I'm like, I'm not. I'm just like. I feel like it's like the chip on the shoulder thing, like, if I don't go, and I keep telling myself, I'm gonna play there, I will play there. And that's the kind of how I operate. So it's like, I'm. And so I've never been. I'm really excited. I've seen lots of pictures and videos of people playing there. But, I mean, it's. It's like the. To me, it's like the super bowl of. In a way, of where a country music artist and someone that grew up that loves country music and the tradition of country music that started country music. So I can't wait to be there. Yeah. It's crazy that I could even be included. Yeah. [00:55:16] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Hey, man. It's well deserved. [00:55:18] Speaker B: Thanks, bro. [00:55:19] Speaker A: It's so well deserved. And you've earned it. And literally gone through every step of the way to get there. And, man, I. I would say the way that 2025 is closing out, 2026 is gonna be. [00:55:32] Speaker B: I hope so. I'm hoping. Lighting up. Yeah. [00:55:35] Speaker A: Yeah. What are. What are the goals for 26? Is it. Is it shows it to work? [00:55:39] Speaker B: Yeah. I would like to do what you're looking for a tour? Probably. Yeah. I mean, that's the goal. That's my. And like, that's what I want. That's what I'm shooting for. And that might be a small club, you know, thing. I don't care. I don't care if it's 20 people. [00:55:50] Speaker A: If you're playing at cruisins, I will be there. [00:55:52] Speaker B: Yes, we will. [00:55:53] Speaker A: We will bring the race rowdy. We will bring the rowdy shit show to cruise. [00:55:57] Speaker B: Wait, well, you know. [00:55:59] Speaker A: Well, you know, I'll make it happen. I'll text him after this. Be like, you got to get Drew Green. [00:56:03] Speaker B: Let's go. That was, man. I've played there twice in both times we've been like top tier show. [00:56:09] Speaker A: What was the top two? What was the other one? So you did it with Trey back in. [00:56:12] Speaker B: Trey. And then I did it. Just me? Yeah. [00:56:14] Speaker A: Oh, you. So you've headlined there? [00:56:16] Speaker B: Yeah, and I was like, not at the headline on stage yet, like where I probably could. So, like, I think they had like a college night thing, so like to make it work. But yeah. [00:56:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Have you been there? How long ago was that? [00:56:28] Speaker B: Probably two years. [00:56:29] Speaker A: Have you been there since Ducks opened up? No, they opened a bar across the street that's like the after hours bar that they also. [00:56:35] Speaker B: That little market used to be like. [00:56:36] Speaker A: Right across the street or like next to the market. So. Okay, so it's Casey's liquor store, Ducks. And Wayne cooks breakfast at Ducks from time to time. So he'll be up all night and then he'll stay on site and then get up in the morning. Because they do breakfast in there at like 7 in the morning. [00:56:52] Speaker B: They know how to party. [00:56:53] Speaker A: Yeah, they're different up there. Peoria is just different. [00:56:56] Speaker B: I mean, I'm like, what has happened? I have shotgunned five Red Bulls. And I mean, like, what am I doing? [00:57:02] Speaker A: They have that Surfside stuff there. Surfside works with them, too. So the green room is. The green room is just loaded with. I mean, obviously every kind of thing, but cases they treat you right. [00:57:13] Speaker B: That's what. More importantly, Wayne, shout out. Because, like, I remember I just got a brand new crew. We're opening up for Trey. This is the first time I played there. And this dude takes the opener out for a steak dinner. [00:57:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:27] Speaker B: And, like, probably spends over a thousand dollars on our dinner. [00:57:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:31] Speaker B: And we feel like rock stars treats us great. Gives us, like, somewhat like he went above and beyond what any owner of a place usually does. So, like, I will always play there if he invites me. Yeah, for sure. [00:57:44] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Hell yeah. [00:57:45] Speaker B: Well, so I love people like that. [00:57:47] Speaker A: Yeah, man. So hopefully a tour next year and then are we looking at more music coming out? Yeah, we're on the four week. Four week program right now. [00:57:53] Speaker B: Right. So we'll sound like. I'll probably, I guess, get the next option for my label and then I'm gonna go right in. Like, I've always done it a little different. I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna do it different this time. This next time. I've always did, like, recorded a song, send a song into, like, my, you know, my team. But, yo, what do y'. All. I love this song. What do y' all think? And then I'll record it and I'll record another one, and then it's kind of like more sporadic. Whereas this time I think I'm going to do it like the old school, a little more old school way. And I'm gonna go in and record all of it one time. Like, just pick the songs. Even if I wrote them five years ago, whatever. Like, pick up, make an album and record it. I think definitely that's what I want to do. It might not be the best thing to do, but that's what I'm gonna do. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And I'm sure that that'll change 100 times because I write so much. Like, I'll write something that changes that, you know, 10 times. But that's my plan right now. Yeah. [00:58:42] Speaker A: How many days a week are you writing right now? [00:58:44] Speaker B: Just like three. [00:58:45] Speaker A: Just so it's light down. [00:58:46] Speaker B: That. And that's. It used to be really busy because I'm doing some, like. Like, I'll have to shoot content one day. [00:58:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:53] Speaker B: You know, I'll have to do something like this one day. I'll have to do a vocal one day. So it's like there's, there's a lot of stuff in between or meetings, you know, with, with whatever. You know, there's a lot going on. But three days is kind of hard to even do. Like, I was that in June. I had like three five day weeks and I was like, I remember calling my publisher and be like, dude, I can't, I can't do this anymore. My wife's gonna leave me. I haven't been home. I hadn't got home until 8 o' clock at night, every night this week. And I'm just, I'm dead, dude. I can't. I don't even want to write. Screw country music. I hate it. [00:59:24] Speaker A: You know, talk about the support system of having your, having your wife and, and you've got the one, you've got the, the one son and, and a daughter. Oh, and a daughter. [00:59:33] Speaker B: Now my son's 8 and my daughter's 4 for man. Wow. [00:59:36] Speaker A: So talk about having that support system and just how much you love being that, being the family man and being, being that, that good old man, like with your kids. [00:59:45] Speaker B: Dude, it's everything. It's like my wife, I wouldn't be sitting right here without her for sure. She's a nurse practitioner. And so like my first six years of music was her living under her, you know, her paycheck. And I know a lot of guys would say, well, man, that sucks. Like, you know, the guy's supposed to provide, God's supposed to do this. 100% agree. And I think that was our investment and she was making an investment in me because she believed in me. [01:00:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:13] Speaker B: And she still, she's a workaholic. I don't care what she says. Like, she just loves to be doing shit. And she's a, she'll work seven days on, seven days off. And her seven days off, she gets Botox for seven. Like, wow, five days. So she's like a full blown, working all the time. And I'm like, babe, just quit. No, you can quit your job and just be a mom anytime. Please. Like, I'm happy with that. And we won't be, have as much money, obviously, but we'll be happy. We'll still be happy. We can live. We could definitely live. She's like, no, she, she loves it. She's actually way more calm and better than when she's working. Like her off wigs. Just when we fight, you know, that's funny then. [01:00:51] Speaker A: Talk about the kiddos. [01:00:52] Speaker B: Man, oh man. Levi, my son, he's eight. He's just started second grade. He's freaking. He's a genius. Really? I think he's way smarter than I am. [01:01:01] Speaker A: I think he's just got that nurse practitioner gene. [01:01:04] Speaker B: I mean. Yeah, but I think he's got like a building he wants to like. I think he's going to be like a contractor or something. [01:01:08] Speaker A: Oh, is he like Legos and like. [01:01:10] Speaker B: Dude, you want I have a room like this full of Legos he's made by himself. [01:01:14] Speaker A: Wow. [01:01:15] Speaker B: Like he's, he's like doing like the 12 year old Legos. Yeah, he's just crushed. I mean he'll sit there for like eight hours. Like he's just like. And he loves doing that. My daughter, she's the wild one. He's the sweetest. Like, holy. Like I, I, it's like almost like he's a baby still. Like, he's so sweet. He's like, yes, sir. No. So mannered, so well, perfect. She's the freaking wild cat and, but she's got me wrapped around her fingers. So it's like, like I like it. You know, I'm definitely a daddy's girl, but I love it, man. Yeah, I love being at home. I, I love touring and I love, I've kind of in the past two years is when I realized that. Because one year I played 188 shows or something and I lost $60,000. Yeah, I'll straight, I'll tell everybody. I don't care. I played, I played 100 something shows and I lost that much. That's how much I lost that year. I was like, something's, I'm not doing something right. [01:02:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:12] Speaker B: You know, like I'm getting these shows books and I'm opening up for Alabama. I'm opening up for Hank Jr. Yeah, I played, I opened up for everyone that year. Sam Hunt, Darius Rucker, John Party, everyone. And but I got to a point where like I'm either gonna have to start making money or staying home because I'm making some fan base. But you really don't see the growth like, like that you want to see losing money, you know? And I mean, and I played arenas, I did the whole thing. I've done enough shows where it's like, like it's not like I have to play this show. I don't care how much I lose, dude. You know, I've been that guy. I was that guy for two years and I lost a lot of money. Doing that. Being that guy. And I'm. And I'm very fortunate to be. To even get the opportunity to be that guy. [01:02:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:02:53] Speaker B: But I've got to a point now where it's like, okay, let's make money or stay home. And so like, if, if. And I think everybody probably hits that point. And that's where I'm at. Yeah. [01:03:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Are the little ones. Are they going to get to be at the. [01:03:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:07] Speaker A: At the Opry? [01:03:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:08] Speaker A: How special is that going to be to. [01:03:10] Speaker B: I cannot wait. Because they've, they've. They've only Levi's. Only seen me play like twice. [01:03:14] Speaker A: Really? [01:03:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Because he was so little and so he sent me play like the CMA Fest and bought two years and that's it. And Ruby see me play like once. Yeah. And she was like too little. This will be like the first time she'll even remember seeing me play, probably. Yeah. So I'm really excited. [01:03:30] Speaker A: That's going to be so freaking special, dude. [01:03:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:03:32] Speaker A: And then. [01:03:33] Speaker B: I can't wait. [01:03:33] Speaker A: You're on a roll right now, dude. Congratulations on everything, man. [01:03:37] Speaker B: And y' all too, man. Y' all too. [01:03:38] Speaker A: We're. We're hustling, man. And there's. There's ways we could definitely do some cool together, like. [01:03:43] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:03:44] Speaker A: I think I. I think you were de. I think you were definitely raised rowdy and I think you're raising your kids especially. It sounds like little Ruby. Definitely. We'll have to get her. [01:03:54] Speaker B: She's so country. [01:03:55] Speaker A: But we'll have to get her in one of those little raccoon shirts or. [01:03:57] Speaker B: Something, you know, Like I. I have a country voice for sure. Like, everybody's like, definitely feel like from the north, like this guy's country. [01:04:03] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:04:04] Speaker B: You know, but like, I don't hear it, you know, And I feel like mine's not that country, but like, I hear her talk, my little four year old girl, and she's like, daddy, when you gonna do that? I'm like, she's gonna be the country. This thing that's ever happened. [01:04:17] Speaker A: Duke's a hazard. [01:04:18] Speaker B: It sounds like Laney Wilson walking around. [01:04:19] Speaker A: That's awesome, man. Well, hey, man, thank you so much for coming out here and hanging, man. And yeah, I'm so excited for this record to get out there. What you're looking for, what you're looking for. It comes out very soon, right? [01:04:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:04:30] Speaker A: Nine, 19 and then the Opry debut. [01:04:32] Speaker B: 27Th. Yeah. [01:04:33] Speaker A: Is eight days later. That's right. That's wild, man. What a September. What a month. [01:04:37] Speaker B: I'll Give you a shout out. I'm. I'm trying to try to play plan like a party. I don't know. I don't know, but I haven't. I'm not the best party planner but at all, like. And I don't do surprises, so I'm going. Try to plan like a party or something. I'll hit you up. [01:04:49] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. Oh, me and Nikki T will be there. We'll bring. Bring a little. Bring a case to somebody. [01:04:54] Speaker B: You got to do that, bro. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to take care of everybody. Yeah. For once. Yeah. [01:04:57] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. Hey, well, we appreciate the hell out of you, y'. All Be sure to look up our man Drew Green. What you're looking for. It's out on 9 19, baby can't wait. The full length record. Get out there and pre save it. Pre add it. Do all that. That stuff that we do now in the streaming apps where it's like instead of pre ordering it. Yeah. It's all. Yeah. Hard it do share it, repost it, Whatever the. Whatever. [01:05:17] Speaker B: All the things. [01:05:18] Speaker A: All the damn things. And if you're in town 927, a very special day. This man's making his grand old Opry debut. So thank you so much for coming on. Shout out to our friends from Surfside. [01:05:28] Speaker B: It's really good. [01:05:29] Speaker A: Drew likes them. [01:05:30] Speaker B: First one. [01:05:30] Speaker A: You'll like them too. No bubbles, no troubles. It's not a seltzer. It's a Surfside. We're sending Drew home with an eight pack of them. You can share. Share them with the wifey, too. [01:05:39] Speaker B: Help her. She'll help her unwind. She don't love the carbs like the carbonated. [01:05:43] Speaker A: And she'll like, yeah, there's only two grams of sugar. There's like. I think it's like less than 100 calories or something. [01:05:47] Speaker B: Three grams of carbs. [01:05:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:49] Speaker B: No, it's. [01:05:50] Speaker A: They're ready. They're ready to go. And for more on us, you can visit raisedride.com from. I'm Andrew Green. I'm Matt Brill. This has been outside the ramp. I ain't never been the kind for. [01:06:02] Speaker B: St one place for too long I. [01:06:07] Speaker A: Ain'T never been the best at s. [01:06:10] Speaker B: I love you to a girl I love only got a couple tricks on. [01:06:14] Speaker A: 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. [01:06:26] Speaker B: Drink and the lack of money for. [01:06:29] Speaker A: Show I'm just a two trick on it. Yeah.