Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:13 What is up everyone? Welcome back to the In the Round podcast. You got Matt and Tyler. We're getting ready for a night out. We're doing a night recording. Ty, uh, something that we haven't done yet. Yeah, this is weird. This is weird. Uh, but I kind of like it because after this we're gonna be heading over to Whiskey Jam for what's gonna be an awesome night of music. We'll talk a little bit about that later. But right now we have one of my best friends, uh, one of our best friends, Tyler, a guy that, uh, we've, that I've one of the first guys I got to know when I first moved here to town and, uh, Hey, are
Speaker 2 00:00:41 You gonna do that side or
Speaker 1 00:00:41 Not milk? And he's, he's about, and he's, he's about to take a shot of, uh, some nice calcium, protein filled, Hey, I got,
Speaker 3 00:00:49 I got cheers right here for you. Here's the ones that wish us well and the ones that don't go straight to hell. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:00:54 Thought, buddy. Ethan Willis. Ethan, how the hell you doing homie, as you throw back that milk shot.
Speaker 3 00:01:01 I'm doing great, man. How are y'all
Speaker 1 00:01:02 Doing? Great. And uh, something that's really cool, uh, getting the wide, getting to know you for a little bit. You got, you got it going on right now. Like you got the single that's gonna be hitting when this airs on. This is airing next Monday. Yeah. So the single will have been out for three days warmer than whiskey. You rocked bus call, you had your first live band show here in Nashville. You're starting to put a lot of pieces together. You seem like you're writing every day. And, and life is just good years of working on this. Yep. And 2019, I remember you telling me right around New Years, you're like, Hey, come here. Don't be the year. You're like, Hey, come here. And I'm like, what's up man? And I just started getting to know you and you're like, 20 nineteen's gonna be my fucking year. And I'm like, okay man, 2019, let's see what happens. Even
Speaker 2 00:01:40 Like whenever we were on the Florida trip, he was like, yo, 2019 is gonna be all of our
Speaker 1 00:01:43 Year. Yeah, oh yeah. Yep. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. And, um, 2019 really has been a great year for you so far. So let's get a little background on ya. You're from Philly, not the Philly I'm used
Speaker 3 00:01:54 To. Right. Get it right. Get it
Speaker 1 00:01:56 Right. Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Speaker 3 00:01:57 Get it tight. That's right.
Speaker 1 00:01:58 And, uh, how would you describe Philadelphia, Mississippi? What was it like growing up down there?
Speaker 3 00:02:02 It's a one stop mom and pop shop baby. It's, you got everything from catfish to freaking pine trees to red dirt to probably some of the best biscuits you've ever had in your life.
Speaker 1 00:02:15 <laugh>. Oh, I believe it. So, and I, I've been wanting to get down there to Mississippi, but I feel like Mississippi is a huge part of your, your, your influences. I mean, a lot of people write about where they grow up and you had the opportunity to grow up in a few, in a few different places, but primarily Mississippi. Right. Also lived in Memphis. Right, right. And then you lived in the Nashville area.
Speaker 3 00:02:34 Yeah. Like the whole, like timeline of that. So, born and raised. I was born in Meridian, Mississippi, raised in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and, um, spent uh, six and a half years with my father here in Nashville. Lived out on Leapers Fork, actually grew up with the beard, so I know I grew up with Tucker Beard and, um, spent about six and a half years here, moved back to, uh, to Mississippi and then moved to Memphis. Lived in Memphis for, I don't even know the timeline, like the, the amount of years, but lived in Memphis. That's where I met the, um, the girl that I had my son with. And then I just recently moved back to pursue songwriting, which we'll get. I know we'll get more into it with my dad and stuff. So
Speaker 1 00:03:19 How long have you been back here in Nashville? Cause I actually don't know this. How long have you, when did you move back from Memphis? Oh
Speaker 3 00:03:25 Shit. I spilled my milk. You're
Speaker 1 00:03:26 Fine buddy. It's just milk. Just Dave and Jake's couch. Who cares? I'm cry over spill milk
Speaker 3 00:03:30 <laugh>. Um, I moved back in May of 2017.
Speaker 1 00:03:38 Okay, so you're still pretty fresh on, on this timeline back and now, where would you say the music and the songwriting really started? Was it in Mississippi? Was it in Memphis? Was it growing up around guys like the beards and obviously your dad? We can talk about that a little bit. I mean, it's nineties country stuff,
Speaker 3 00:03:56 You know, I was always raised around it. Um, my dad was, um, he was a league guitar player and a gospel quartet in Mississippi called the Believers Quartet. They toured the nation and played the World's Fair. Like they represented Mississippi in the world's fair. Wow. And, um, so I, I knew I knew about music then when I was younger, but when I moved to Nashville, that's when I really, really picked up wanting to do it. You know, I lived in Leers Fort, went to Hillsborough Elementary and middle school and had a program there called Kids on Stage. And they taught you photography, songwriting, guitar, bass, guitar, how to get in a studio and make tracks. Like they taught you everything. Yeah. And they did a summer camp every year. And I, of course I went to the summer camp cuz dude, that was the cool thing to do. You know, you could get in a band in the summer camp, you practiced for two weeks. And then at the end they had this thing called Hill Stock where all the bands got together and we had this huge concert. Dude, we were all trying to impress all the girls there, you know, <laugh>. So, I mean, it was that, that's really where I fell in love with music was when I went to Hillsborough. That was, that's like the greatest years of my life. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:05:08 And now growing up down here, someone I've learned a lot of people grow up with, with the gospel, Christian rock kind of influence. We're on the buckle of the Bible belt for crying out loud. Absolutely. But also country and things like that for you. Musical influences. What'd you grow up? Uh, jamming to?
Speaker 3 00:05:20 Oh dude. Just a whole array of things. So, um, huge fan of Pink Floyd. Huge fan of Boston. Uh, Leonard Skynyrd, obviously you're from Mississippi. You better be a fan of kinda
Speaker 1 00:05:33 In the handbook. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:05:34 It's in
Speaker 2 00:05:34 The handbook. And it's from the South though in general, like everybody.
Speaker 4 00:05:36 Right, exactly. You're from Bama. <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:05:40 It's
Speaker 2 00:05:40 Like, it's like one of those things like, you know, you before you know who Leonard Skynyrd is, like you hear
Speaker 3 00:05:45 Them 100%. Yeah. And, and like the countryside of it, Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs, he was a little bit on the, uh, bluegrass side, but, um, my dad had a, also had a Bluegrass side, so that was, and dad was a songwriter here in Nashville in the nineties. So I heard everything from Red Dirt to traditional country to bluegrass. Uh, literally grew up around it all. So
Speaker 1 00:06:12 You remember the first song that I know this is, this could be a tough question. First song that you heard where you're like, I want to do that style of music. The first country song that made you wanna be like, I wanna be a country singer. I, I wanna do the songwriting thing. Do you remember which one or one in particular that you were like, I want to do this, this is fucking sweet.
Speaker 3 00:06:30 Oh gosh, man, that's a tough question. The one song that comes to mind would be, um, white Lightning, George Jones.
Speaker 1 00:06:40 Yeah. That old school that, and you hear it on Broadway every now and then with certain bands time. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2 00:06:45 Absolutely. And it was always like, one of those things,
Speaker 3 00:06:47 If you're an ajs or any or or Roberts, you're gonna hear White Lightning.
Speaker 2 00:06:50 Yeah. I've heard it at Whiskey Row before, like multiple times. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:06:52 Heard it on the day. On the day shift, dude. They go, they go in on it.
Speaker 2 00:06:55 Yeah. Um, what's his name? Uh, Jamie Michael will do it every now and then. Yeah. Yep. And, uh, there's a couple other bands that'll do it if they get requested it. And I've heard really good renditions of it. I think I've heard Henry Martin do it one time. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:07:08 Oh, Henry up there doing it. But that's what we would call an OG banger. Like that's just one. Absolutely. Back in the day, kind of shaped shave country music and stuff. Now with your writing that you're doing now, you're doing this thing full tilt, man, you're going balls to the wall and it seems like you're writing trying to, I'm trying to, when did you make the decision to get back into writing and what made you want to do that? Um,
Speaker 3 00:07:29 So I played the whole West Tennessee circuit through Memphis, like Arkansas, Northern Mississippi, um, as Ethan Willis and the long honors. And, and we were, we're, we were rocking it. We, we had, we were playing two to three times a week. Uh, and whenever my son was born, I played a few months after his birth and then I just made the decision of just taking some time off Yeah. With it, you know. And then, uh, may of 2017, so he was born April Fool's day of 16.
Speaker 1 00:08:07 Okay.
Speaker 3 00:08:08 So he was a a year old. Yeah. And, um, I just made the decision. I was like, when we got back here, I wanted to take a little time off and, uh, really didn't play any live shows. I played some open mics and stuff like that. But, um, whenever I started working downtown, I just, I couldn't stand being around the music anymore and not doing something. So I met Dave. Dave really pushed me to, you know, get back into writing and stuff like that. I feel like that we kind of pushed each other in a sense. And, um, I don't know, it's just, it's, it's weird how things work like that,
Speaker 1 00:08:47 You know? Yeah. And I actually remember, um, cause I've known Dave for years and he's one of the reasons that I got that I moved down here and stuff, and obviously met Tyler through Dave met, we all know each other, we're like a cool crew. But I remember, um, something that Dave, Dave was doing, especially early on when I first moved down here, is he was really showing me what he was working on. And there was one, um, the first song I think you two wrote together was, uh, what changed, right? Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:09:08 Yeah. What changed? What
Speaker 1 00:09:09 Changed? And you and you guys touched upon some stuff that was down in Mississippi where you grew up. Yep. Some stuff that's up near the other Philly, uh, we'll call it Philly number two for right now, even though it is Philly, well we,
Speaker 3 00:09:19 We call it the little Philly,
Speaker 1 00:09:20 The little you call that the little Philly,
Speaker 3 00:09:22 The little No ours.
Speaker 1 00:09:23 Yours is gonna Philly say that's some bad backwards.
Speaker 3 00:09:27 Yeah. That's best accurate.
Speaker 1 00:09:28 Yeah. Yeah. But, um, as far as as, um, writing, when would you, like, when were you like really starting to like, get in on rights again, start doing the rounds, things like that?
Speaker 3 00:09:39 Um, you know, I've only been as far as, uh, writer's rounds go, I've, I've only done maybe five writer's rounds. I've done a lot of open mics and I've played a lot of shows as a full band with my band back from Memphis and stuff like that. So in no way am I green to performing live. But, um, I'm very green to writers rounds, which I've picked it up, you know, secondhand to me.
Speaker 1 00:10:04 What's it, what's it like for flipping the switch? And I know Tyler's talked about this too, the switch of playing a full band live show, like you started out as, as a, in a rocking band and doing that to slowing it down with an acoustic guitar on stage with a few other people in front of a sitting audience where everybody's supposed to be quiet. Well,
Speaker 3 00:10:20 I'll say this like, so when you go from full band, like rocking out and you know that like if you mess up, you've got a couple other guys to lean on that you know that they are spot on with bling. It's a little nerve wracking in a sense. Like I said, at first, performing by yourself acoustic is a, is a little bit nerve-wracking. But once you get, once you get a hold on it and really figure out, um, and really memorize, like muscle memory is a huge thing with, with singing and playing guitar at the same time. Your body just, you play these songs so many times that your body just automatically goes, goes to those notes. Yeah. It's just, it's, I don't know what it is. It's just a thing with musicians, that's just what happens. It's muscle memory. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:11:06 So no ab absolutely. See, I don't know how to play the guitar. I have no musical ability. Like even Koda Bear can find his way through picking a couple chords on a guitar <laugh>. Like I can't, that's
Speaker 2 00:11:15 Cause of a video game though. So
Speaker 1 00:11:17 Its a video game. He's such a fucking
Speaker 3 00:11:18 Out rocksmith. He's
Speaker 1 00:11:19 Such a fucking millennial, you know, like this fucking guy. But, um, but no, that's something that, that I, sitting back, I mean, I go to a lot of those things and there's gotta, it's gotta be pressure. The spotlight's on you, you know? And very much so. And the response on at certain rounds, like when you've got some, some big name people in the audience and things like that, like people are listening for lyrics. They're really gonna analyze and dig deep into the song. I know Tyler does that when we're out, cuz I'll try to like whisper something to him or whatever. And Tyler's like, like Tyler's really, really listening.
Speaker 3 00:11:48 Oh yeah,
Speaker 2 00:11:49 Absolutely. Yeah. Even like a, like live band shows, like, don't talk
Speaker 1 00:11:52 To me because you're analyzing.
Speaker 2 00:11:53 Right. I'm, I'm in the hundred, I'm in a zone.
Speaker 1 00:11:55 Cause you're analyzing how, how the drums are mixed with say the bass and the guitar and all that for the live band show. And then lyrically at the writer's rounds and melodically, you're, you're really paying attention to somebody that participates in that craft.
Speaker 2 00:12:06 This, for me, like, it's like when I played football, like I was zoned everything out. Like I would, I would ask my parents, I was like, were y'all even like cheering tonight? Like <laugh> like Yeah. Like it was loud.
Speaker 3 00:12:16 You completely black out. When you're in that moment, you're Jones's rolling.
Speaker 2 00:12:19 Like yeah, it's like a horse and a race. Like you have the blinders on and it's that. And like, you know, um, especially
Speaker 3 00:12:25 At a rider's round that's like, I don't know, that should just be a given for a lot of people. And I feel like most people are show up for the support. Yeah. Obviously. That's great. Thank you for showing up for the support and everything like that. Um, but I feel like a lot of people show up just just to drink and say that they were there, you know? Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:12:43 Yeah. And I mean, like for me, like there's a lot of times whenever I go to a show or, uh, you know, a writer's round or something, and even when I'm running this sound like there's moments where like I look around and I'm like, oh shit, there's other people here. <laugh>. Like, I zone out.
Speaker 1 00:12:58 And like, especially when you, when you're running the sound, you got your got your iners in or you got your cans on and Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:13:02 Like even yeah. I mean most of the time I don't even have those on. Like, it's just like, it's me and the band still, you know? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:13:08 Yeah. Now, what's cool about this town? Obviously a lot of great songwriters here and you've had the opportunity to write with some cool people, ah, and, um, and, and getting to meet some cool people within the songwriter community. And like tonight, for example, over at Whiskey Jam, it's the 50 egg takeover, which is really cool. And that's a group that you and I have talked about that's just like a fun group to watch and all that. What's it like as somebody that's getting back into it now, learning and getting to meet people? Like I know you're close with T Phillips and a lot of those guys. What's it like being around and kind of soaking up the, the songwriter lifestyle and what it's like to be a songwriter here in town?
Speaker 3 00:13:43 It's a completely different lifestyle. Like 180, well, 3, 360 compared to what i I used to do in music. Um, it is maintaining an image where you don't look bad around people. Um, it is, um, faking it till you're making it
Speaker 1 00:14:07 <laugh>. Yeah. Like, just yeah. Having that confidence,
Speaker 3 00:14:09 Looking professional, acting professional. You know, the questions, you know, all the right answers. I mean, just in case if you're ever in, in that setting with someone, cuz like, hang hanging out with Taylor, um, he's introduced me to so many people. Yeah. Like j like he introduced me to Jeremy Busey the other night. He's introduced me to, uh, God, what's his name? Uh, Bobby Penson. And it's just, I feel like if I was like extremely green and did not know what to say, sorry. I'm, I'm fidgeting over here. <laugh>. No, you're good. You're good.
Speaker 1 00:14:42 Giving producers Tyler their heart attack.
Speaker 2 00:14:45 Y'all heard that clicking. It was Ethan fidgeting
Speaker 3 00:14:48 <laugh>. I feel like I, you know, if I didn't know what to say or you know, how to act or something like that, that these people would look at me like I was just, you know, like, like Taylor, who are you hanging out with? Yeah. You know, there's a lot of things you have to learn in a lot of ways that you have to know how to act, you know, and you're not faking it. It's just the fact of the matter of when you're a professional, you act like a professional.
Speaker 1 00:15:10 Yeah, no, a absolutely. And that's something in this town's such a small town, right? It's a fa it's the fastest growing city in the country. There's a lot of freaking people here, but everybody in terms of music seems to know everybody kind of thing. Yep. So whether you're downtown midtown, you gotta gotta kinda, uh, kind of behave yourself a little bit. Hey,
Speaker 3 00:15:27 Gimme a shot of that
Speaker 1 00:15:27 And stuff. You started out with a shot of milk, then you finished the glass of milk. Now we're run a bottle of Captain Morgan. Uh, you can tell it's whiskey Jam night here in Nashville, Tennessee. Cheers buddy. Cheers. Oh god. And, uh, Tyler's asking for a swig as well. Crazy bastards. But, um, captain
Speaker 3 00:15:42 Morgan
Speaker 1 00:15:43 Now going, now going back to, um, your early days, something that I didn't notice when I was looking that I, I didn't even realize it was on Spotify. I'd heard the song a bunch of times, but you go back to your long honors days where it's like southern country, grunge, wherever your motto was.
Speaker 3 00:15:56 Southern grunge.
Speaker 1 00:15:57 Southern grunge, um, the, uh, the song Camo and Ammo. What?
Speaker 3 00:16:01 Hold on. Can you say that one more time for me?
Speaker 1 00:16:03 Camo and ammo?
Speaker 3 00:16:04 No,
Speaker 1 00:16:05 No. Camo and ammo. And your
Speaker 3 00:16:06 Yankee
Speaker 1 00:16:07 Voice. Camo and ammo.
Speaker 3 00:16:09 Camo and ammo.
Speaker 1 00:16:10 Camo
Speaker 2 00:16:10 And ammo. Sound like Siri over there.
Speaker 3 00:16:12 Camo and Ammo son.
Speaker 1 00:16:13 Camo and Ammo. That's right. Oh, was that one of the first songs you wrote?
Speaker 3 00:16:16 Uh, negative first song I ever wrote like by myself. Uh, God, what was the name of it? Oh my goodness. Um, it was a song called New Girl.
Speaker 1 00:16:28 New Girl. Yes. Where was that one?
Speaker 2 00:16:30 Were you watching the TV show at the time?
Speaker 3 00:16:32 Negative. It wasn't even the thought of
Speaker 1 00:16:34 Negative Ghost Shot. I love it. Green and negative. That was Ethan's two words,
Speaker 3 00:16:37 <laugh>. Um, so no, that was, no, that was not about the TV shows. I wrote the song about, like, I was trying to think of like, oh, what is a real experience that I've ever had in my life that I can write about? And I was still young at this time. I wasn't, I was thinking I was like 18 years old. Yeah. And uh, I was like, what is something, you know, that really touched me. I'm like, oh, what about like when the new girl, like there's a new girl that comes to school, everybody wants to know where you from. Why'd you move here? You know, all the, so that's what I wrote the song about. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:17:04 It's funny how like the new girl shows up to school and immediately like every person is like, oh, I got a chance. Oh, exactly.
Speaker 3 00:17:11 That's
Speaker 1 00:17:11 Why I wrote it. I got a clean slate, I got a chance.
Speaker 3 00:17:15 Exactly. She
Speaker 2 00:17:16 Has person. No
Speaker 3 00:17:16 Idea what kind of person I actually am. <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:17:20 Oh man. I have a chance again. Like, you know, like all the other people are like still all in the class, especially like going to high school probably. Well, you went to a little bit bigger in high school than I did, I think. Yeah. But like, there was like 40 people in my class, man. Like, we knew everything about everybody. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:17:33 We were a little bit bigger. A little bit bigger.
Speaker 1 00:17:35 Oh. But that, that's, that's awesome though, dude. So what do you, so that song now, you fast forward, you fast forward eight years, uh, seven, eight years, whatever it is. Um, let's compare that to the songs you're writing now. Oh, okay. What a difference, right? Or were you happy with it?
Speaker 3 00:17:48 It, there is a difference. Most definitely. But at the same time, if I took that song and sat down for 45 minutes with it, like the concept around that song is a really great concept. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:17:59 No, it is. Absolutely. Sitting
Speaker 3 00:18:00 Back thinking about it, I'm like, wow, not dumb. <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:18:04 Ethan was writing, uh, bangers even outta the songwriting. Womb
Speaker 1 00:18:08 <laugh>. Yeah. Yeah. So you talk about that. What's it like growing up around all the music stuff and, and being a Willis, your dad? Papa Willis. He, he, like you were saying, he's he did the music thing.
Speaker 3 00:18:18 Yeah, he's, he's done some cool stuff. You know, he, he had a bunch of, uh, back in the nineties, my dad was in Nashville when my mom went into labor with me really as a songwriter. And he had a lot of, uh, he had a lot of songs on hold. He had song on Hold by the Dixie Chicks, Joe Diffy, George Strait. But my dad, back then, the songwriting thing wasn't a big thing. It wasn't popular. Yeah. Everybody wanted to write their own stuff and perform their own stuff and, you know, not knocking my dad for singing or anything like that, but he just, he didn't have it
Speaker 1 00:18:50 With
Speaker 3 00:18:50 Yeah. With, with his voice. You know, he didn't have the right branding and stuff like that. And he was so set in his ways. I mean, we're small town dude. There's, he was n like that lifestyle was drilled in his head. So, uh, he didn't really want to change and he didn't want to give his stuff away like that. But now, this day and time, like what he pounds in my head is, if someone wants your song, you sign it over to them for the right amount of money, you know?
Speaker 1 00:19:17 Yeah. That's, that's, that's gotta be something cool though. And I know you've got the little guy love, love your little guy, by the way. Yeah. Clay and David. Oh, clay and David. That's my boy. And what's really funny about what's really cool about, um, when I've gotten to go on, uh, go on rides with you guys and uh, and things like that is, um, you'll put on certain songs and um, we'll talk about, uh, your connection to your buddy Michael Hardy.
Speaker 3 00:19:39 What, what's one that he always says,
Speaker 1 00:19:41 Oh God, uh, he loves God's country. That's right. He loves Whiskey Glasses. Line 'em up. He has no idea what he's singing about at all. He's like, line 'em up, line 'em up.
Speaker 3 00:19:48 He loves God's country, man. That's the most,
Speaker 1 00:19:50 And then old and an old town road, he's gonna grow up verse Oh God, what he's gonna grow up in, in with different influences just like yours. They might not be the same influences, but they're gonna be different. Exactly. Which brings something to the table, you know, it's, that's something that's, uh, that's pretty dope and cool. But what's that? Like, you're the son of a songwriter, <laugh>, he's the son of a songwriter. What's that feel like to be a part of
Speaker 3 00:20:09 Clayton? David is taken to it a lot quicker than I did. Well, I say that, I don't know what I was saying at three years old. So, but, um, um, you know, I really love seeing him already knowing like Melody, like listen to the song so many times he can already hear a melody. He can sing it back to me. You know, and that just, that means so much to me as a singer songwriter, to see my son and to actually see that my gene pool like flowed over into him. And I'm like, yes, he's gonna be a, a freaking prodigy,
Speaker 1 00:20:46 You know? Yeah. No dude. And, and it is, it is really cool. And even songs that we'll hear on the radio, like he was singing the, um, the new Chase Rice song, just like random songs, he'll just pick up on it. You don't even realize that he is listening. It just shows that he's advanced for a little guy. I'm telling you Clayton David, he's coming 20, what would it be? Be like 20, 30, 20, 38.
Speaker 3 00:21:03 Let's
Speaker 1 00:21:03 Just say that. 2038. Cuz yeah. That's, that's why that's 19 years now too.
Speaker 3 00:21:07 I'm gonna make him work for it too. I'll tell you that much. Yeah. You know, that's, that's one thing that my dad, so my dad didn't, he never made any music, never had a cut, never had a song on the radio, anything like that. And he like apologized to me one time. I told this story earlier to Jake and, um, our, our buddy Jesse LaBelle, I believe was on the podcast while back. So we wrote with them today and I was telling them this story. My dad apologized to me a while back for saying, oh, I'm sorry I didn't have one of those song cuts. I'm sorry I didn't let one, I one of 'em go down. I was like, dad, stop. You know, because you didn't do that. I'm having to work my way through the trenches and I'm making so many relationships Yeah. Meeting so many people and I'm able to show all these people how genuine and how humble I actually am as a person. Yeah. Instead of something just being handed to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:21:50 Instead of being, instead of being the next Willis, you know? Right.
Speaker 3 00:21:52 And I'm not knocking someone that was given better opportunities than me. Cuz that's amazing. That means that their father or mother worked for whatever they did, you know? Yeah. And the offspring is benefiting from it, so. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:22:05 Which, which is pretty cool. Now you talk about relationships and you've known this guy since back in, back in the Mississippi days. There's something cool coming outta the West Tennessee, Mississippi market right now. And one of those guys is your boy Hardy. That's what the
Speaker 3 00:22:17 Four by fours. Four. So
Speaker 1 00:22:19 Talk about, so you've known, you've known Hardy for a while now. Uh, what was, what was it like growing up or coming up in the music scene where he was coming up? Another one of our good buddies, Clint Reynolds. Like you've got some guys that are shout about Clint
Speaker 3 00:22:33 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:22:33 That you, that you grew up with and now they're doing it in this town. So
Speaker 3 00:22:37 It's really weird. How, how like, so me and me and Michael, I call him Michael. Like I know him as Michael Hardy. Yeah. Um, I'll call him Hardy for everyone that's listening. So for me and Hardy, me and Hardy, we weren't best friends. We weren't close friends. I'm not gonna make up some huge story about how we were all best buddies went fishing together. Yeah. No, none of that ever happened. But our town is very small and I know a lot of Hardee's and I know that he knows my last name. And in Philadelphia, that's how a lot of the stuff, like a lot of how I know you and you know me, goes, is last names, you know?
Speaker 1 00:23:14 Yeah. Somebody went to school with somebody. Right.
Speaker 3 00:23:16 Somebody knows somebody. Do you know some of the Willis Just Long? Yeah. It's a small,
Speaker 1 00:23:20 His mom, his mom's a nurse. His dad's a teacher. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:23:22 Yeah, yeah. So pretty much what, how this all happened was, um, so I remember Michael Hardy from when I was, when I was a kid, um, I played a lot of sports at Northside Park. And uh, so whenever I moved back to Mississippi, um, after living in Memphis, I moved back and I played drums in a cover band called Detour, which is where I met Clint. And, um, Clint like reintroduced me to Michael at, at the Ferret, the Nashoba County Fair one year. And this was when Michael, uh, I believe this was right before his move to Nashville, or either like right when he had moved, it may have been the summer of his move to Nashville to to be a songwriter. So of course I was like, like wowed by him. I was like, oh dude, like we should write sometime. He was like, and I had put some stuff out on, um, God, what's the name of it?
Speaker 3 00:24:20 SoundCloud. SoundCloud, yeah. Yes. I'd put some stuff out on SoundCloud. Yeah. And that was the thing then, you know. Oh yeah. Absolute. You put songs on SoundCloud, you could record it right there on there and post it. So I had put some originals on, he was like, oh dude, I, you know, I guess he had listened to some of myself, I'm not sure. And he was like, yeah, we can write. Of course we never wrote, he was way bigger than I'd ever thought of, of being. And he, that is one guy that has worked his tail. No, I'm sorry, his ass off.
Speaker 1 00:24:46 And God, God's country today just went number one. Right. That's another number one for him. That's like three or four now.
Speaker 3 00:24:51 And he deserves every single bit of it. Dude, he has worked his ass off with through the trenches. He's made a name for himself. He's a good dude. Like even today, like he doesn't have to pay me any, any like mind. He doesn't even have to show me, you know, anything. But he's interested in, in, you know, the stuff that I'm doing. He's giving me advice, he's giving me pointers on songwriting and he's keeping me pumped up and telling me, dude, don't give up. Like keep going. It's worth it. It's gonna pay off. Like, that's, that's one thing that I really, really like about that dude. He's humble. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:25:21 Oh, he, he really is. And uh, I think I've met him maybe once and it was in passing after a late night in Midtown, so I haven't really gotten to know him like you've known him. But, um, also speaking of that, the way that this town works with networking, how it, how interesting and different is that from other places. Like, you literally have conversations just sitting over, sitting over a beer at two 30 in the morning at Red Door or Cookout <laugh> or Cook or at Cookout. That's where a lot of our conversations happen. Shout out to Cookout. But, um, but like, it's just that, that's style. Like that's your office. That's where you work and network.
Speaker 3 00:25:55 That's crazy. That's one thing that I, I preach, I try to preach to my fellow songwriter and artist friends is that going out networking. That's a huge part of making it in this business. And it, you know, if you, if you were to go out, sit at a table every Monday night at Whiskey Gym throughout the year, just one night outta the week and people see your face, they're gonna recognize your face. They're gonna know who you are. They may not know your name, but they're gonna see you. I can't tell you how many times I, I know who like John Wood, I know who John Wood is. Yeah. I know who he is. He doesn't know my name. I've passed by him a million times and I see him and I'll nod my head at him. Yeah. You know, it's just, it's the gentleman thing to do. Yeah. I've never walked up and introduced myself yet. You know, I just, timing is, timing is everything. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:26:43 But it's just the recognizing. Right. And then, and then once your stuff's set, you're like, oh, that guy put out stuff. Let's see what he's got. Right. It's another way. Exactly. People that wanna check out your stuff and,
Speaker 3 00:26:51 And it's just, it's crazy how it works in this town. That's what I preached to my friends is going out networking's. One thing I was told at a very young age is, um, no, at a very young age, well at, as a very young songwriter in Nashville. So within the last two years, I was told, if you want to make it in this town, you have to go out every single night. Which I don't, we don't go out every single night. I mean
Speaker 1 00:27:15 There, there was, there
Speaker 3 00:27:16 Was at least once a week, there was kids there two or three weeks
Speaker 1 00:27:19 There. There was like a month stretch where I wasn't going to bend till 6:00 AM and I don't even drink.
Speaker 3 00:27:23 We were, we were, we were killing it.
Speaker 1 00:27:25 But yeah. What what'd you have on that, Tyler? I was
Speaker 2 00:27:27 Gonna say like with that, like, you know, I went to college here, um, to a small Christian university. I'm not gonna name it, but, um, you know, like cliffhanger, the thing about it is like I've made, I've been outta school now for a little bit over a year. I've made 20 times the friends and contacts and like done probably a hundred times as far as like where my career's gone since being outta that college and being able to go to the bars and being able to go drink and have a beer with a friend and meet somebody over a beer and stuff like that. Then the five years that I was at that college,
Speaker 1 00:28:06 At university where the whole goal of a university is to network and get a job. Right.
Speaker 3 00:28:09 And dude, think about this. I thought about this the other day. Think about if we didn't have whiskey jam, if we didn't have revival, if we didn't have bus call, if we
Speaker 2 00:28:18 Didn't have, let's not imagine that world. No.
Speaker 1 00:28:20 Yeah. That's a dark world.
Speaker 3 00:28:22 Do you, do you like, what, what would we
Speaker 2 00:28:24 Be doing? Somebody in Nashville would come along and pave that road eventually.
Speaker 3 00:28:28 I don't know. I
Speaker 1 00:28:29 Don't know. But, but if that idea, but if, but if those like staples cuz then you have why not Wednesday that was built off of that. Right. You have like a line of all
Speaker 3 00:28:36 That different was built Whiskey Jam, whiskey jam's, the og like, as far
Speaker 1 00:28:40 As like Yes. Seven, eight years believe Yeah. The search
Speaker 2 00:28:42 Series. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:28:43 Goes like Whiskey Jam's the og and I've yet to play Whiskey Jam. Shout Ward. You should get me on there. <laugh>. Um, <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:28:49 Now we'll talk about quick one of those, um, one of those events that you mentioned. Bus call. Now you play get
Speaker 3 00:28:55 That
Speaker 1 00:28:55 <laugh>. What's that? Yeah. What's that? That's what everybody's asking after, after watching you play because you fucking dude. Thank you man. It was awesome. Thank you. I got, I got to sit in and and watch some of the rehearsals and stuff and I've been out on the road with you, um, and seen some cool things. But to see you do that and I was asking Tyler, it's funny, I called Tyler after the show because Tyler does this for a living where he goes out and he's, he's a sound guy. He's out with the musket on Boys Now and out playing shows around go working shows around the country. So he got to watch you and I was like, Tyler, what? What'd you genuinely think of Ethan? And what'd you say?
Speaker 2 00:29:28 I was like, you know what? Like he killed it. Like, y'all were tight. You know, that was probably one of the best bus calls I've seen, you know, I've been to quite a few of 'em. Dude.
Speaker 3 00:29:36 Thank you.
Speaker 1 00:29:37 Yeah. Like the ride. That means a lot to me. He's sitting there, he's, he, he knows what good acts sound like. Absolutely. Down on and working down on Broadway sometimes, you know what bad acts sound like you get stuck working that most
Speaker 2 00:29:46 Definitely know what a bad act sounds like.
Speaker 3 00:29:48 I will say for it, for that to be my first full band live show in three years, two and a half, no, about two and a half years. Yeah. Actually, um, I may have lied on stage accidentally. Um, but <laugh> first full band show in two and a half years, I definitely knocked some dust and some rest off myself. But I feel like I did really good. You did.
Speaker 1 00:30:12 You did. You did, you did do really good. And what was really cool about that too is, um, it's cool when you, something cool about this town too is make meeting people and, and developing relationships and friendships and then kind of like coming on the up and up together. Right. And somebody that you're doing that with right now, who's also on that show is Miss Carly Rogers. Hey Girl. Girl. Another, another, another friend of the program for I think back in episode three or four. So to be, we got to be there and watch Carly and then, and then Dazy came on and then you popped on and it was, it was cool. Like to know three acts in a row and watch you guys all crush it,
Speaker 3 00:30:44 Right? It was like, it was perfect. Like I didn't, I didn't get to see the, the acts that went first and second. Um, I did get get to meet Sammy, super cool dude. But like, it was like, saw the crowd with Carly and then it was like boom, Dazy and it was just like crowd. Yeah. Like crowd,
Speaker 1 00:31:01 Crowd. They're here, let's keep 'em here. Yeah. And then
Speaker 3 00:31:03 Like, I, I walk in from outside and somebody, it may have been Dave or somebody was like, Hey dude, this is their last song. You need to go get ready. And I was like, oh, alright, let's, let's do this. Like, I'm, I'm ready to feel that feeling again. Like let's get, let's get back on full stage. How
Speaker 2 00:31:17 Did it feel to like, walk up on that stage and know that like, at least like two thirds of that place was there for you?
Speaker 3 00:31:24 Dude. Yeah. Like
Speaker 1 00:31:25 That's, we had, we had a big crowd in the house. You just,
Speaker 3 00:31:28 You gave me chills saying that dude because, uh, I've never had support like this before. My, my work family, my industry family, everyone that I met in midtown gonna whiskey jam. Like even people that weren't able to make it, there was people that weren't able to come that are coming on the 18th. And it's just like, I, I was, I was literally speechless, dude. Like listen, like look, when I got off stage, I had like 45 or 50 notifications of people tagging me and stuff. Yep. Like requests of people I didn't even know that were tagging me like it. Dude, I'll be honest, I'm a big baby and whenever things like that happen for me, I cry when I left with my buddy and, and that's why I left. Like I left with my best friend Zach. I've been best friend Yeah. With him for like 10 years. Went his truck. We went to Will Haggins was Clinton. I having me a nice little cry on the way over there, dude. It felt good to have that support,
Speaker 1 00:32:19 Dude. That's awesome. That, that is, that is awesome.
Speaker 2 00:32:20 So now you brought up something, what's going on on the 18th to tell the people,
Speaker 3 00:32:24 Uh, playing national noise at the back corner with, um, I don't even think the lineups announced it. I don't know if I should say anything. When will this, it's
Speaker 1 00:32:32 Usually a week of thing where they'll, they'll announce
Speaker 3 00:32:34 It. Okay. So yeah. So it's me, Juju Kapai again. Okay. So me Juju get another test to pack another place. There you go. Uh, Josh Wolf, uh, there's a couple other ladies on there. I cannot remember their names. I'm sorry. Um, but that's gonna be a, that's gonna be a really sick show. Yeah. We,
Speaker 1 00:32:51 We went and saw Henry play there a few months ago, remember? Yeah, I've heard That
Speaker 3 00:32:55 Place is awesome.
Speaker 1 00:32:56 It's it's
Speaker 2 00:32:56 A, it's really cool place. I've seen quite a few shows there. Uh, it's a really cool place. They got a really good sound system in there. A really good, good vibe.
Speaker 1 00:33:03 Yeah. It's set up like, almost like a nightclub where there's like a balcony and all it's
Speaker 2 00:33:07 A nightclub. After get a, like, after y'all get done, they literally bring a DJ in. They've got like,
Speaker 1 00:33:11 They start dress code the shit out of everybody. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:33:15 Guys.
Speaker 1 00:33:15 So we're gonna, we're gonna be in there with big, like, I was in there, we were in there together and I put a lip, uh, I packed a fat lip of Copenhagen and people were looking at me like, what the fuck is this?
Speaker 2 00:33:25 Oh yeah, Matt and I would definitely fish outta water that night.
Speaker 3 00:33:28 But now back, we'll,
Speaker 1 00:33:29 We'll be bringing the country in on that on the 18th, man. We'll be bringing the country crowd will be there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:33:35 Oh yeah. Just dude, that's gonna, I I, and like, there again, it's just like every show I know that I'll get better and better and better. So like, I'm kind of sad that I don't have another full band show booked after the 18th. So. Well,
Speaker 1 00:33:49 Let's get on it. Let's get you one. Oh yeah. Seriously.
Speaker 3 00:33:51 Just yeah. We're, we're gonna work on
Speaker 1 00:33:52 It. It's, it's gonna, it's gonna start. It's I know. After the
Speaker 3 00:33:54 Single comes.
Speaker 1 00:33:56 Yeah. So talk about that real quick. The single, oh my gosh, it drops. Uh, we're recording this on Monday the eighth. It drops on Friday the 12th. Yes. And, uh, this will be airing on, uh, on Monday the 15th. You talk about that single, you talked about you getting the right with some cool people. You wrote that with, uh, two guys that we know from a little group called uh,
Speaker 3 00:34:13 Six one. Dude, it's crazy cuz like where we're sitting right now at the, at at Dave and Jake's literally right there, if you look right across this little parking lot, that balcony right there at at the other apartment Yeah. Is where warming the whiskey was written. No
Speaker 1 00:34:27 Shit right
Speaker 3 00:34:28 There, dude. If you look out that window, it was written right there. No shit. Yeah. So our,
Speaker 1 00:34:32 Who was living, who was living
Speaker 3 00:34:33 There? Austin G and Brooks Hoffman.
Speaker 1 00:34:35 Oh shit. They were both living
Speaker 3 00:34:36 No way. Yeah. They lived there together. And uh, so Logan introduced me to them. They, it was before they were really anything. They had a real, they had a pretty good following. Yeah. That an EP out and they were playing, um, some places in Jackson and Martin,
Speaker 1 00:34:52 Kentucky.
Speaker 3 00:34:53 Kentucky. Right. Um, and they had, they were playing like Bel Court taps here and stuff like that, but you know, they weren't what they are today. And literally just hit 'em up. I was like, Hey, let's write one. I I got a chorus, came to 'em with this chorus of warming the whiskey and um, we sat down, wrote a verse and a cour or wrote a verse and wrote the melody for the course and came back, we rescheduled another. Right. And wrote the second verse. And now a year, and let's see, what's today's date?
Speaker 1 00:35:26 Today's the 8th of July.
Speaker 3 00:35:27 8th of July. So we wrote it January of 18.
Speaker 1 00:35:31 Oh shit.
Speaker 3 00:35:32 Yeah, that song's been sitting for a minute. It's been over a year. Yeah. That it's been sitting. And,
Speaker 2 00:35:36 Uh, so I gotta see them this weekend. And, uh, they're sick. It was a great set, like high energy, great show, but they actually opened up with that song and that is such a great opener. They it,
Speaker 1 00:35:46 Yeah. What's it like? You got, you got you. You're, you got a, um, a group like that that's going around and playing, playing the festival. Sarah Kate got some big opening gigs. They were up in our neck of the woods, but freaking Brantley Gilbert. Like they're,
Speaker 3 00:35:58 That was an arena show.
Speaker 1 00:35:59 Yeah. Oh yeah. That was at the, the, um, hard rock right up in, uh, up in Atlantic City Atlantic. Yeah. Um, but what, um, what's that feeling like for you?
Speaker 3 00:36:08 Dude, it's, it's surreal and I know you probably have to wrap up and stuff like that on this, but I'll just, I'll,
Speaker 2 00:36:14 Uh, no, we good.
Speaker 1 00:36:15 No, you take as much time as you want with this single, because this single is, it's awesome. And I remember hearing the different versions of it to see all the mix. What's that like for you? Because camo, camo and ammo. So camo and ammo of that was camo and
Speaker 3 00:36:27 Ammo.
Speaker 1 00:36:28 That was recorded. Was that recorded in Nashville or was that Memphis? No,
Speaker 3 00:36:30 That was in Memphis.
Speaker 1 00:36:31 That was in Memphis. So this is your first process as a writer and as an artist Yeah. Putting out a song in Nashville. What was that process like of you hear the, your work tape to demo to second version demo, third version, fourth version. This,
Speaker 3 00:36:43 This, this. We didn't even have a work tape of it. We didn't have a work tape. Really? Yeah. We had a a like a 32nd video that was on Instagram that a bunch of people liked and they posted on their page and stuff and everybody freaked out over it whenever we all posted it. Everybody loved the song. And then, uh, 6 41 kind of took, because that song is more, it's more of a rocky style of song. Yes. Yeah. And what 6 41 has out is more of a pop country. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so it really didn't fit what they were putting all the time, which, you know, I totally understand as a songwriter. Um, but to have them playing that song live, opening it, opening with it and all those people getting to hear it. Cuz I know that one day they're gonna be like, I've heard this song before. Like, yeah. And, and I, I, and I know that people love it, but just, I don't know the whole process in that song and writing it, the, the time length of how long it it sat it's just, it's
Speaker 1 00:37:42 Crazy. And that was, uh, Ross producer.
Speaker 3 00:37:44 Yeah. Ross Copley. He produced it.
Speaker 1 00:37:45 Great. Dude. I got to meet him for the first time, uh, over at bus call. Great freaking dude.
Speaker 3 00:37:49 That's my boy.
Speaker 1 00:37:50 Yeah. That's a, that's a good dude. And again, making, making connections
Speaker 3 00:37:53 And times everything that I wanted in that song. He, he was like, alright,
Speaker 1 00:37:56 Make it happen. Yeah. And you wanted, and you get particular, and Tyler no gets particular about certain guitar riffs and melodies and style of guitar because he is a guitar player. You came up as a drummer. Right. So there's certain times with the drum. With the drum thing. That's
Speaker 3 00:38:07 Why, that's how I write. Like, my writing is very percussive. Yeah. I, that's why I love melody structures. There's
Speaker 2 00:38:12 A lot of times where like I start out a write and I'm just like,
Speaker 3 00:38:16 Oh yeah,
Speaker 2 00:38:16 Absolutely. And that's like, that's how I start the song. And like, I go to that and then I might go to chords later and
Speaker 3 00:38:21 I love to beatbox too. So like my beatboxing with like, what
Speaker 1 00:38:24 Does beat what does your beatboxing sound like?
Speaker 3 00:38:30 It's pretty sick weather.
Speaker 2 00:38:31 There you go.
Speaker 3 00:38:32 Make me feel like bad. Andy
Speaker 1 00:38:34 Austin did Turkey calls. Ethan Willis does beatboxing. I like it. I like it. I like where we're at right now. That's, uh, that's awesome man. So one of them whiskey drops on July 12th. July 12th, I've been waiting for it. And all
Speaker 3 00:38:46 Digital platforms
Speaker 1 00:38:47 Finally. Oh, all digital platforms. We know that for a fact. All digital platforms, um, shout out
Speaker 3 00:38:52 To, uh, Matt Burrell for, for, for putting that up for me. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:38:56 Hey friends, friends, help friends in times
Speaker 3 00:38:58 I'm texting him frantically. I'm like, bro, we have to get this uploaded. Can, here's all my login. Can you upload this single for me? <laugh>, send me a screenshot with a green check mark. You're good to go, buddy. I'm like, oh my God, thank you.
Speaker 1 00:39:11 But for
Speaker 2 00:39:12 Matt, yeah, that's Matt. That's Matt for us. Like, I send him all these files and stuff like Matt's
Speaker 3 00:39:16 The road dog. Matt just me. Well,
Speaker 2 00:39:18 No, he's not even the road dog. He's just the guy that like, I'll like finish this up and I'll bounce it out and I'll put it in the Google Drive and I'll be like, Hey, it's in the drive. You take care of all the other stuff. So he like, he's the guy that writes like all the like description and puts it in those
Speaker 1 00:39:32 Tags. Right. Labels. I'm the one that handles all the backend shit. He edits. Makes it sound good and stuff. Um, but yeah man, congratulations on Thank you dude on all that stuff. Now we got two things we can do right here. Either we can put a guitar in your hand right now and have you play if you wanna play the new single. If you wanna play another one that you've written, you do that real quick. Or we can throw on the MP3 at the tail end of this. So do you wanna play live and have people here live and get a Coda Bear who just walked in finally? Uh, can get a nice, uh, pretty video over
Speaker 2 00:39:59 You? He was busy trying to sue your parents.
Speaker 1 00:40:01 He was busy. Yeah. Freaking Kyle over there with his, uh, Coda.
Speaker 2 00:40:04 Hey, how's that hand doing this week, bud?
Speaker 1 00:40:06 Oh boy. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:40:08 Koda pulled a Kyle, he was punching some drywall earlier in the week. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:40:12 It was wood. It was wood. It was wood. So what do you want? What do you wanna do? You want, you wanna place at tune or you want
Speaker 3 00:40:17 To? Um, what do you want? Well,
Speaker 2 00:40:20 I'm asking. I wanna hear that. I wanna hear that. Uh,
Speaker 1 00:40:22 Mississippi. Yeah, I wanna hear Mississippi.
Speaker 2 00:40:25 Yeah. Can you play
Speaker 1 00:40:26 Mississippi right now? I don't with milk in you. I think you can
Speaker 3 00:40:29 With milk in me. I
Speaker 1 00:40:30 Think you can.
Speaker 2 00:40:31 That sounds so bad.
Speaker 1 00:40:32 With a shot. With a shot of, uh, shot of
Speaker 3 00:40:35 Milking. Oh, goodness gracious. Was that
Speaker 1 00:40:36 2% they arch? 2%. 2%.
Speaker 5 00:40:39 You wanna hear some funny Dave?
Speaker 1 00:40:42 Oh geez. Skin milk. Okay, we're getting, we're getting a healthier,
Speaker 3 00:40:46 We're
Speaker 1 00:40:46 Getting a little worse, but so what do you, you wanna play? You wanna place us the tune or you want to? Um, you want us just throw the final in
Speaker 3 00:40:51 The end? I think I'm gonna leave the live stuff to, uh, the 18th. That'll give some give. Okay. Hell yeah. Give the people you know. All right. So warm. You gotta you gotta come see me on the 18th to hear Mississippi. All right. All
Speaker 1 00:41:01 Hell yeah. That sounds good. That's gonna be over at the back corner with, um, with the artist noise. Roar Management folks. Uh, it's an awesome showcase. Very excited for that one. And, uh, yeah man, thanks for coming on. Thanks for jumping in. Last problem.
Speaker 3 00:41:13 We've been talking about it for a minute. Do I have to
Speaker 2 00:41:16 Say that I am disappointed in Ethan here? Why? Because he was rocking this beautiful, like shadow camo Atlanta Braves hat, and now he's went to this ugly ass an hat. The dude's the
Speaker 1 00:41:27 Winner. The dude's the winner.
Speaker 3 00:41:29 This camo better. The
Speaker 2 00:41:30 Dude's winner. Okay, but the other camo,
Speaker 3 00:41:32 If I could, oh, maybe we can take, maybe we can like, take a black Sharpie and make this New York an a, an a for dude. Dude,
Speaker 2 00:41:38 I would love for it to get that ugly thing off that hat. I will buy you in a lot of brave yellow
Speaker 1 00:41:43 Hat. Gotta say second best record in baseball. Second highest winning percentage in baseball. They're having a damn big gift. Also real quick, you're from Philadelphia, Mississippi. I brought you a treasure from, uh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Is this from
Speaker 2 00:41:54 Was state? I
Speaker 3 00:41:55 Was is this from the famous Wawa
Speaker 1 00:41:57 That is from the famous Wawa? Shout out to Wawa up in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Also, wanna give a shout out to my friend
Speaker 2 00:42:02 Real quick? I saw book. He's for the first time
Speaker 3 00:42:04 This weekend. Real quick, I'm gonna get a little bite. I'm gonna get a little bite. W yeah,
Speaker 1 00:42:06 One bite. Everybody knows the rules. Um, there you go. Oops. I keep, but, um, shout out to his friends, uh, Brian Kelly and, uh, Corrine. They got married. They used to let me sleep on their couch and they actually have a podcast as well that they do. My buddy's Bob and Spencer. It's called Shooting the Shi. Check that one out. But it was an awesome wedding. They had a mosh pit at their wedding. We moshed at the end of their wedding. That's, it was, it was Wild.
Speaker 3 00:42:26 Was watch. I was watching the Snapchats and I was like, two guys like rap bling and all. See a little, I see a little kid run across with a bottle in his mouth. I'm like, what is going
Speaker 1 00:42:34 On? Oh, that's a Jersey Irish Catholic wedding. So shout out to those guys. But anyway, Ethan Willis music, right?
Speaker 3 00:42:39 Socials Ethan Willis music on Instagram.
Speaker 1 00:42:42 And uh, you have Facebook.
Speaker 3 00:42:44 Facebook. It's just Ethan Willis. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:42:45 So you can find him, find him on there. Make sure you get the new single. We'll be spending it here in a second. Also, follow us in the round podcast at In the Round podcast on Instagram in the round, on Facebook websites coming together. YouTube is at in the round. Uh, just the wandering Tyler, uh, and at Matt Bar. You guys can follow along with us now without further. You got one last thing, Tyler?
Speaker 2 00:43:08 Yeah. Shout out to Brandon, the golden retriever. He, uh, he's working on the website. <laugh>. No, for real. Did you not see that Snapchat today? He looks like a golden retriever. Jesus
Speaker 1 00:43:18 Christ for real. Talk about that in a second. But, uh, thank you guys for listening. Subscribe, review, comment, let us know what you think and make sure to check out the awesome debut Nashville Single from singer songwriter Ethan Willis. Warmer than whiskey. It is dropping. It is gonna be out by the time you hear this, so no.
Speaker 2 00:43:36 So glad I have a noise gate on this so they don't hear that.
Speaker 3 00:43:38 Shout out to the three amigos, Jake Summers and Cannon Volo. Yo.
Speaker 1 00:43:42 And also shout out Jake Arch and Dave Hangley for let us use their space. We will be in the studio. We got ourselves a house brother. It's gonna be a good time,
Speaker 3 00:43:48 Dude. We do have a house. We move in Wednesday. We move
Speaker 1 00:43:51 In like two days. Okay,
Speaker 3 00:43:52 You're gonna live with me. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 1 00:43:53 You're gonna live with me. How do you feel about that? Hey,
Speaker 3 00:43:56 I can, I can totally take you in a fist fight, so I'm fine with that. Hey,
Speaker 2 00:43:59 I'm still coming over and we're still having our daily mat whooping. Oh, that's
Speaker 3 00:44:02 So I cannot wait.
Speaker 1 00:44:04 But anyway, warmer than whiskey. Here is Ethan Willis. Thank you guys for listening to the In the Round podcast.
Speaker 6 00:44:34 So yeah, Carolina Coastline, Myle Beach, sweeter Fresh.
