Karley Scott Collins

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And for more details and to get in touch with the rest of the familia, visit razerowdy.com. Now let's get into it. Outside the round with me, Matt Barill, a Raise Rowdy podcast. Come on. This is outside the round with Matt Barrill, a Rage Rowdy podcast. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to outside the round. Today we have got a very special guest. We got our girl, Carly Scott Collins from the Florida Georgia line. Not the band, the actual place. And Carly, you've been one of my favorite people the last, like, six months. We had you first at Outside the Round when we first rebranded, got connected through, I think, Brie over at Sony. [00:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. [00:01:42] Speaker A: And then I got to fill in for Ward at Whiskey Jam one night. And it happened to be a night I was like, oh, shit, Carly's playing. Let's go. [00:01:48] Speaker B: And I was excited to see you there, too. It's always nice to see somebody, you know, because makes it a little more comfortable. [00:01:53] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. So speaking of comfortable, you're about to be getting comfortable on stage. You got a tour kicking off oh, yeah. With the one and only Larry Fleet. And it's funny because I remember you telling me when the tour was, like. [00:02:05] Speaker B: Getting confirmed, I had literally just that day I think I literally just found out that we had gotten the tour the day of the Whiskey Jam. So I was, like, telling anybody that would listen because I was thrilled. So, yeah, I'm very excited. [00:02:17] Speaker A: Yeah. And now what's the process been like of getting ready for your first long run of doing touring stuff where it's consistent with the same camp where you got this group of guys on the road with you as a band? You're traveling far into it. [00:02:31] Speaker B: There's so much more that goes into it than I ever realized, honestly, because I did like I don't know, I've done like, weekends here or there, but honestly, most of what I've done is literally just me and a guitar regardless. So there's nothing. It's literally like I have my guitar, please give me a di. And that's it. Like a mic and mean. We've practiced a ton, me and the guys, actually. Yeah, you helped me find my guitar player. [00:02:55] Speaker A: Shout out to Jake. I hope I don't butcher his last name. Is it flag? Is it flaw? [00:02:59] Speaker B: I say flaw. [00:03:01] Speaker A: Jake Flog. That's what we're going to go with. And you don't know. How I met Jake was at Live Oak and then at Red Door there was a night he was wearing a Creed hat and we love like, 2000s rock like that. So I was like, bro, nice hat. And then him and I got to talking and then I saw him playing with some people and then like a week later I saw you at Whiskey Jam and you were like, hey, I'm looking for some guys to come out. The folks I've used in the past might not be available. Do you know of anybody looking for a gig? And I was like, oh, I think I know the perfect kid. [00:03:30] Speaker B: You know what's so crazy? That's like another thing that kind of went into it is like this was in May, I think. And so we had gotten it in May. The tour is like September, October, and everyone I reached out to is already completely booked. So I was like, oh my. It's just crazy how fast people book out. So. Thank God. But he's amazing. He's great. He's like had everything nailed down immediately. He's been super helpful also for me, like, learning because I'm playing electric on the road, too. I played some of the leads. [00:04:00] Speaker A: Oh, sick. That's cool. I didn't know you did that. [00:04:03] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, it's rock and roll over here, Matt. [00:04:06] Speaker A: Well, yeah, you're wearing a damn Metallica t shirt. [00:04:10] Speaker B: So he helped me. Like, he convinced me to buy a $700 guitar pedal. And that was painful. It's been fun. We've practiced a lot and then yeah, getting a tour manager, figuring out all the backline stuff, like all of that logistics is just wild. It's really crazy. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Now. You a big Larry Fleet fan. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. I've loved Larry for a mean this actually is kind of a dream first tour for me a little bit. I think that his music he's like the kind of country music that I really love. Like really thoughtful lyrics, really soulful voice, not just like, I've got a truck and there's a hot girl in Mean. I think that we'll fit in really well together. I'm excited. [00:04:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Now you talk about the kind of country that you like, what is Lake City, Florida like? Because I think correct me if I'm wrong, I think there's a loves there because I think I've fueled up. Is there a loves around Lake City? Yeah, there is, actually, because that's something you'll notice. You're going to rack up a lot of loves points on the road. Being out there with the guys in. [00:05:13] Speaker B: The land points is a thing. [00:05:15] Speaker A: Yeah, you get the rewards, and then you can use it on snacks and the food that's in there. Things I've learned on the road. Doing the tour manager thing in my past life. Loves bucky's pilot and flying jay. If there's nothing else available but, like, we have SNS. [00:05:30] Speaker B: SNS is like but it's like, just in our area, so it's like we've got a lot of SNS. We've got busy bee and x. I've. [00:05:36] Speaker A: Been to a busy. [00:05:37] Speaker B: Busy bees are good. It gets the job. I mean, the logo is literally like clean potties, and that's what I look for in a gas station. [00:05:43] Speaker A: Yeah, which is exactly what you get with bucky's and stuff. But that's, I think, the only time I've stopped in lake city. So what is growing up in lake city, Florida, like, oh, my mean, there's. [00:05:53] Speaker B: Literally nothing to do in Lake City, Florida. I mean, everyone, if you want to do something fun, you drive to, like, gainesville or Jacksonville. But what we actually did for fun growing up was, like, arrowhead hunting and driving around in the forest at oh, and then we have these crystal clear springs. I don't know if you've ever seen them. It's, like, attached to the river but comes up out of the ground. It's 75 degrees year round. So sometimes when it's really cold in the winter, it's like 30 degrees outside. We'll go get in the spring because it feels like a hot tub because it's still 75. [00:06:30] Speaker A: Wow. [00:06:30] Speaker B: So they call it nippy dipping. [00:06:33] Speaker A: Nice. That is some Florida stuff right there. [00:06:37] Speaker B: It is, yeah. So that was, like, a lot of outdoors stuff. I guess we did a lot growing up. [00:06:43] Speaker A: Yeah. I love florida. [00:06:44] Speaker B: I do, too. [00:06:45] Speaker A: I really do. And I've been to all different parts of it this past weekend. You ever been to the florabama? Have you conquered that yet? [00:06:52] Speaker B: No. [00:06:52] Speaker A: So that is in the redneck riviera along the panhandle. [00:06:56] Speaker B: So it's like okay. [00:06:57] Speaker A: Near half of it's in orange Beach, Alabama, the other half's in Perdido key, florida. [00:07:01] Speaker B: Well, you know, if it's in alabama. [00:07:03] Speaker A: It'S on the border. Yeah, it's on the border. And it's just wild, like in the gulf and stuff. So you grew up. So that's I'm guessing it's like the east eastern side of Florida directions. [00:07:15] Speaker B: It's north Florida. I know that part. It's like basically 30 minutes from Valdosta. Kind of like right in the middle. [00:07:23] Speaker A: Oh, so south Georgia. [00:07:24] Speaker B: Okay. I'm very familiar with south literally south. [00:07:27] Speaker A: Georgia is kind of bigfoot travel stop in valdosta. [00:07:30] Speaker B: Oh, I thought you were going to actually talk about bigfoot. We used to go bigfoot hunting in the forest. [00:07:36] Speaker A: What would a bigfoot be doing in Florida, though? I don't know if a bigfoot would be like, they could be everywhere. I'm just trying to think because, like, Florida, you have, like, alligators and shit. A ton of those. [00:07:46] Speaker B: I actually have kind of a funny story about bigfoot hunting? [00:07:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:49] Speaker B: What you aunt? Well, my granddad owns sporting goods stores around the area. Right. [00:07:55] Speaker A: Nice. [00:07:56] Speaker B: So my aunt runs a lot of them, so we would go bigfoot hunting. Seriously? Of course. Looking for bigfoot for a while, but then it became that I wanted to scare my friends when I was growing up. [00:08:06] Speaker A: Okay. [00:08:07] Speaker B: So my aunt got a gilly suit. You know what that is? Yes, from the store. She put it on and we would drive my friends and her son, my cousin's friends out to the forest at like 11:00 at night and she would go like, park her truck somewhere. So we would walk down the trail and of course I'm like snickering. I'm like, I know what's going on. She would like jump out in her gilly suit and scare everybody. But she said one time she's hiding behind her wheel behind her truck and a park ranger pulled up. He just shined his light on her and she's like squatted behind her wheel in this full body killy suit. He's like, what are you doing? She was like, I can explain. And he was like, I've seen a lot of crazy things, but this might be the craziest. [00:08:52] Speaker A: That is not a Florida man. That's a Florida woman. [00:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah. My aunt, she auditioned for Survivor. She could shoot an apple off somebody's head. Wow, she's cool. She's a cool chick. [00:09:02] Speaker A: That's impressive. So you spent a lot of time in the woods growing up and doing like kind of living out a country song? [00:09:09] Speaker B: Yes. Except I will not go hunting. I won't do it. No, I tried to go one time with my granddad and see, I've never been either. [00:09:18] Speaker A: Okay. I did. Closest thing I ever got to that. We have some friends that have some land in Alabama. Octagoville, Alabama, middle of nowhere, outside of Montgomery. It's our budies from Shackleford Lane. We were just hanging around. We were just hanging out right around the side by side and they shot a quail. But the quail didn't die. [00:09:37] Speaker B: No, I don't want to hear this story. [00:09:38] Speaker A: Yeah, they took care of it right above my head and I was like, what is going on? Because I'm from New York, I've never seen anything like that. It's a whole different animal. [00:09:48] Speaker B: No, my granddad is like my granddad's pretty hardcore. We would go fishing and he's literally like right in front of me, we catch a catfish and he'll just cut its esophagus out while it's alive. And he's like, all right, we're going to fish with this now. Oh, my God. [00:10:04] Speaker A: To catch the other fish with. [00:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah. I like to think of myself as a country girl, but it has limits. Yeah. [00:10:12] Speaker A: So moving from Lake City up here to Nashville two years ago, did you feel some kind of like, culture shock coming from small town Florida to one of the biggest growing fastest growing cities in the country? [00:10:23] Speaker B: To a point, yes. But also I lived in La. For like six years. [00:10:28] Speaker A: I didn't know this. [00:10:31] Speaker B: So I was used to city a little bit. [00:10:33] Speaker A: When did you go out to La. [00:10:35] Speaker B: So I was a child actor really for a little while. [00:10:39] Speaker A: Doing what? [00:10:40] Speaker B: From like six to eleven I was in some scary movies. So there is any scary movie fans now? [00:10:46] Speaker A: I get the whole spooky thing with your aunt jumping out in scary people and you want to do that. It makes sense now. [00:10:52] Speaker B: And it's actually so much fun actually to be on a set of one of those because I mean like the blood is just maple syrup dyed red. I mean it's a good time actually. But I quit when I was like eleven. But so I mean I was used to big cities for a little while doing that. [00:11:08] Speaker A: What's the child actor life like? [00:11:10] Speaker B: I mean honestly I don't remember a ton of it because I was so young. [00:11:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Those years that everything happens so quickly too. [00:11:17] Speaker B: Oh yeah. But it's the entire reason I ever picked up a guitar because I literally like I was eleven and there was this movie and I had gotten down to the final two girls. They were going to try to pick for it, but they were like, oh, but you have to learn how to play guitar if you want to get the part. And so my agent hooked me up with this guy he was friends with that lived in like a hippie community at the top of Topanga Canyon. And so it was literally like people were just like doing yoga outside and he gave me guitar lessons like on a couch under a tree on the side of the mountain. [00:11:52] Speaker A: Wow. [00:11:52] Speaker B: And so the first song I ever learned was Queens of the Stone Age. [00:11:56] Speaker A: Dude, that's awesome. [00:11:57] Speaker B: I know. I still love Queens of the Stone Age. Actually. Badass one of my favorite bands. And so that's the whole reason I ever got into music was acting. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Wow. And then when did the writing start? Because you've got the full package right now in terms of what guys and girls look for when they come to town. You've got a team behind you on the record side, you've got a team behind you on the publishing side, you've got folks helping you with the management side, you've got folks with the booking side, you've got all of that. The writing songs part is a huge part of it. [00:12:28] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:12:28] Speaker A: So when did you start doing that? [00:12:31] Speaker B: Honestly, after that first little bit of learning how to play guitar, I decided I didn't want to do acting anymore. I moved back home and I spent a lot of time playing guitar because I was like, oh, this is what I really like doing. So I started playing in church a little bit, started writing some Christian songs and we sang them at church and then really kind of as soon as I started figuring out how to structure chords and how to string thoughts together. I started writing, and I just spent a lot of years back home getting better at it. Getting better at it before I ever took my first trip here. [00:13:10] Speaker A: How old were you when you took your first trip here? [00:13:12] Speaker B: 19, I think. [00:13:14] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I took my first trip here when I was 19 because I had some friends that were coming up here on and off. I had some friends that were playing in Jacksonville and stuff that had started coming up here kind of I don't know. I figured out that that was what I wanted to do, so I started coming up here just to meet people a little bit and write and maybe network a little bit. Kind of never left, I guess. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd say it worked out for you. [00:13:43] Speaker B: It did, yeah. [00:13:45] Speaker A: What's it like moving up here before it at the age of 21? Because I know you're not, like, the world's biggest partier, which is a blessing, because that saves your voice, that saves you from the headache, all the stuff. I've been sober for seven years now. I've been off the booze. I went too crazy. I went crazy young. Still, California, sober, but not a drinker. But so many guys and girls get up here, and it's like, off to the races with the drinking and the party. That is Nashville. A Wednesday night here. It could be a Friday night anywhere else. So what's it like coming up here at a younger age and kind of doing the whole thing of networking and meeting people and kind of finding yourself because you find yourself at 1920 years old? [00:14:26] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I've found myself quite a bit in the last few years, and I guess finding your voice, too. But yeah, I mean, I don't think it was the only thing that was kind of, I guess, a little bit difficult about not being a big party or a drinker is that yes. A lot of people do the networking and stuff at places like Red Door and stuff. And after rites, people are like, let's go to Red Door. And that's just not really my thing, I guess. But I think you can network in a lot of ways as long as you make an effort to do it. So I try to make sure I'm riding as much as possible and meet people that way. And then, of course, when I do play shows at Whiskey Jam and stuff like that, meeting people, so trying to play out quite a bit, and that's, I guess, the best way for me to network. [00:15:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I would say so. As someone who does the host events here in town, there is such a community with that. Do you remember your first rounds or that first Whiskey Jam? [00:15:22] Speaker B: I remember my first round ever. Yeah. My first round was well, this doesn't really count as actually my round, but the first round I ever played in was I had written this song with Liz Rose. [00:15:34] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:15:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it's actually out. It's better strangers. And she asked me that night she was playing around at the Listening Room, and she was like, come play the song we wrote. And so I was, like, sitting in the back of my car because we had just written it that day, like, trying to make sure I wasn't going to screw it up. And that's the first round I ever played at. [00:15:50] Speaker A: That's a great song, too. [00:15:52] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:15:52] Speaker A: Is that one of your first ones. [00:15:53] Speaker B: When you moved to it was actually it was probably one of the first songs I wrote, moving Town. Actually, there's another song that I wrote with Nathan Chapman that I have recorded, but it's not out yet. That's like one of my 1st 1st songs that I wrote when I moved to town that I still love. [00:16:12] Speaker A: So hopefully that's cool that you've recorded and that you're recording and going back to stuff that you created when you first got here, because you're writing a lot. I'm guessing you're writing multiple times a week at this point. Multiple times a day. [00:16:27] Speaker B: Well, when I'm here in town, I usually write Monday through Friday, every day of the. [00:16:33] Speaker A: That'S that's a lot. But then you've put out a good body of had you had the EP that came out earlier this year, right? And then you've been in the studio working on all kinds of stuff with a guy named Dan Huff, who's like, a big producer, and you've worked with a few different producers in town. What's it been like getting in the room with guys that have these accolades and they're at such a high level, and you're at that level, too, but you're so young, like, figuring it out. [00:17:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's especially with people like Dan Huff. And then I was also recording with Greg Kirsten in La. I think it's really hard to find the balance with producers of I'm the Artist and I have a vision for my songs and I know what I want. And this person's won 700 Grammys, and they probably know what they're talking about. Who do I listen to in this scenario? If we disagree on how something should sound, but I think it's I don't know. You have to find that happy medium. And I think working with Dan was a lot of fun because he puts a lot of importance on the artists he works with, having a vision and knowing what they want their sound to be, because it's really hard to produce someone who has no idea what they want. And so that was like he had, of course, his own vision and his ideas for the songs, but he really know what I wanted out of them, too. So we had a lot of fun working together. And he's obviously ridiculously talented. [00:18:10] Speaker A: Yeah, he's worked with a lot of. [00:18:11] Speaker B: People over the mean. I looked up to him for a long time, especially a lot of the stuff we did with Keith Urban because I've loved Keith Urban since I was a kid. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Yeah, if you're a chick out there playing guitar, my gosh, yeah, I'm excited. I don't think you didn't play electric at Whiskey Jam when I was no, no, I didn't. I'm excited to see and get out. [00:18:33] Speaker B: To a show, to the New York show, maybe. [00:18:37] Speaker A: When is that next? [00:18:39] Speaker B: That's like next week. [00:18:40] Speaker A: Next week. So have you done festivals yet? [00:18:45] Speaker B: I've done like, festivals in my hometown, but not like not really because I'm. [00:18:49] Speaker A: Still in festival season right now, where we go to a lot of festivals around the country. [00:18:55] Speaker B: Okay, cool. [00:18:56] Speaker A: Because I used to go out there as a TM and it's like you get to the show, you hang out in catering, you sound check, you play the show, and then you get out of there. But with what I'm doing now, it's like we're camping at these festivals. We're hosting like, hot dog eating contests and ridiculous, like Ray's Rowdy branded shit at these festivals. So we've got, I think, four or five more left. And it's fun though, the country music fan culture. And you're going to see this going around the country now. I mean, you've been out to La. You've been to New York City, you've seen a good chunk of the country, but you haven't seen it through the eyes of an artist on so I'm so excited. [00:19:32] Speaker B: I'm ready to go. [00:19:33] Speaker A: You're going to see that there's country music fans everywhere. And the Larry Fleet fans are very passionate and they know good music. They're going to latch right onto you. It's going to be awesome. But you're going to get to see how different crowds are. Like when you go out to Texas, it's a different thing than when you go to the Northeast or when you go to the Southeast, the Midwest. You go up to South Dakota and it's the only thing going on that month. And the people go crazy. And you're going to a lot of states on this tour. Like you're going all over the place, right? [00:20:00] Speaker B: Yeah, it's literally like starting in New York and ending in Florida, actually. But, yeah, I mean, we're like Alabama, New Jersey, Michigan, missouri, like, all over the place. So yeah, I'm super excited. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. [00:20:15] Speaker A: Yeah, it absolutely is. So with directions, do you like driving and stuff? Or are you usually or do you think you're going to have Jake and some of the TM or some of. [00:20:22] Speaker B: Your old I'm not old enough to drive a rental car, so oh, shit, that's right. [00:20:27] Speaker A: Fly dates and rental cars and stuff, I guess. What are you guys going to be traveling in? Do you know? [00:20:32] Speaker B: Yeah, we've got like Sprinter vans. [00:20:34] Speaker A: Okay. The sprinter. Van is nice. [00:20:36] Speaker B: I've never been in one. I've literally only just been in like a rental mom van before now. [00:20:41] Speaker A: Is it the sprinter with the bunks in it, or is it the rows? [00:20:45] Speaker B: No, it's just seats. [00:20:46] Speaker A: Just the rows. [00:20:46] Speaker B: Okay. [00:20:47] Speaker A: So I kind of like that personally, because the back yeah, because the Sprinter bunks are like coffins. They're like, really? I'm not a tall, huge guy, and I couldn't even fit in that dang thing. But the sprinters with the rows, you're going to learn very well how to sleep in a van as you're going down the road and stuff. And it's nice that you don't have to worry about driving. [00:21:11] Speaker B: Yeah, because I can just chill, read a book. Everybody else has to drive. And I can say I can't. I'm not old enough for a little while. I can get away with is there. [00:21:21] Speaker A: A spot that you're most excited to go to? [00:21:25] Speaker B: Probably the New York one, actually, because I've been there once or twice. I went there to see Springsteen on Broadway in 2018, maybe 19, but I haven't been there a ton. So I'm excited to see a different part of it. [00:21:41] Speaker A: Yeah, you're going to get to experience you a foodie. You're a big food person. [00:21:44] Speaker B: I'm a foodie, but I don't eat meat at all. [00:21:47] Speaker A: Okay. [00:21:48] Speaker B: And I'm also really picky. [00:21:50] Speaker A: So you're really picky. So what's on your what are your go tos then? [00:21:57] Speaker B: Mexican or Italian? I'm always fine with New York's. [00:22:00] Speaker A: Going to be good then, for you. [00:22:01] Speaker B: With the Italian food, I found, like, on I because I love to read. So I found there's like an Italian restaurant in a bookstore somewhere in New Jersey. And so that's my first stop, actually. But that's like I always struggle to eat on the road because it's like, I mean, most of the time it's like fast food places. And if you don't eat meat, what are you going so I'm just like, French fries, please, for every meal. But I survive. [00:22:29] Speaker A: You're going to get to sample around some stuff. You'll figure out the ways you'll figure out what your snack is when you're going down the road. Mine was always peanut M and Ms and beef jerky, which obviously beef jerky doesn't work for you, right? [00:22:43] Speaker B: My mom loves beef jerky. Really? Yeah. Both of my parents, they love a good steak, but I like to go to steakhouse because I'll get like the potatoes and the sides and stuff. [00:22:54] Speaker A: You'll just make a whole meal out of the sides? [00:22:56] Speaker B: Yeah, that's how I do it. [00:23:00] Speaker A: Do you have a rider yet of what you've got made up for when you go on tour? Do you know? [00:23:04] Speaker B: Have one, but I'm not like I didn't want to be like, crazy and. [00:23:08] Speaker A: Get people to so what do you got on there? Do you know? [00:23:10] Speaker B: Literally just like water but not dasani. Can be like any water, but it can't be dasani. [00:23:16] Speaker A: What do you not like about the Sony. It's good. Atlanta tap water. [00:23:20] Speaker B: When you open it and it goes, that's not water factory. Yeah, that's definitely you shouldn't be drinking. Yeah. So just any water. But I don't want to die soon. [00:23:32] Speaker A: I don't like the you ever have Zephyr Hills? [00:23:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't mind it. [00:23:36] Speaker A: Zephyr Hills is mine. That I can't do. [00:23:38] Speaker B: Why? [00:23:38] Speaker A: I just could never do it. I'm looking at Mcelwan because he used to be on tour with me with, like the Zephyr Hills water was always like it was just a different kind of thing. [00:23:47] Speaker B: I don't have a problem with anything else, but I prefer, like smart water or something like that. [00:23:52] Speaker A: You're not like a bougie, like Fiji water? [00:23:54] Speaker B: No, because I was trying to be as easy as possible. So I'm like literally any brand of water, just not this. And then I was like fruit and vegetables and lay's potato chips. [00:24:04] Speaker A: Lay's just the classic lay's. [00:24:06] Speaker B: Yeah, because it's good for your voice. I don't know why. [00:24:11] Speaker A: This is the news flash right here. Lay's potato chips, good for the voice. I've never heard that. [00:24:17] Speaker B: It's like something about it just like coats your voice. I don't know. Don't take my word for it, but I swear it helps. [00:24:23] Speaker A: That's going to help me because my voice goes in and out all the time. Just from talking all the damn you. [00:24:28] Speaker B: Should do warm ups, too. Just because you're yeah, I've never done. [00:24:32] Speaker A: The vocal warm up thing. I'll send you some stuff because I'm trying to think, like Trey never really did vocal warm ups. The Muscadine guys, when I was out with them, used to do them all. Charlie from Muscadine used to do vocal warm ups all the time. [00:24:45] Speaker B: I didn't do it for the longest time. [00:24:47] Speaker A: What got you to want to start doing it, then? [00:24:49] Speaker B: Well, I started singing harder songs, and I noticed that when I went to go for a note, cold without warming up, it was so much harder to hit than after I'd sang three or four songs, maybe. And so I kind of like, after talking to some people, figured out what. [00:25:08] Speaker A: Does the vocal warm up sound like? [00:25:11] Speaker B: You're going to do me like I'm. [00:25:13] Speaker A: Going to do you like that, Carly? [00:25:15] Speaker B: It's just a lot of, like the. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Maybe it's because I got a Zen in. [00:25:21] Speaker B: But you can do the just go up and down and then there's another one. It's like you go up and down the sky. [00:25:32] Speaker A: I don't know, Nate. My voice can't get that high. Like it'll just crack. [00:25:35] Speaker B: We could start super low and bring it up. But yeah, so I do a lot of those, especially before a show or before the studio or something, just so I can make sure I'm ready to go. And also I don't want to be like because I'll still be touring when I'm 87. [00:25:52] Speaker A: I love that. Road Warrior. Let's go. [00:25:55] Speaker B: I want to still be like Axel Rose. Like, hanging out on the stage now that he's 87. Axel rose, don't be mad at me if you hear this. [00:26:02] Speaker A: What are your favorite you're wearing a metallica shirt. You went and saw a spring scene on Broadway. You were talking about queens of the stone age. Like, you're big into the rock stuff. What are some of your favorite bands? [00:26:14] Speaker B: Definitely guns N'Roses. [00:26:16] Speaker A: Okay. [00:26:16] Speaker B: That's, like, my dad is the reason that I got super into the rock music because, I mean, my entire childhood growing up, he drove me to school whenever I was growing up. Usually he would take me to kindergarten and stuff, and he would play guns N'Roses and chains, and he didn't play the clean. So, like, when it was like, I don't know, like, mr. Brownstone or something, when it was getting ready to cuss, he'd like, turn the radio down real fast. And so I think I don't know, it's just a good memory for me, I guess, just, like, bonding with him. So, like, rock music to me is just a happy thing. And so, like, guns N'Roses. I love pantera. I'm a huge pantera. [00:26:55] Speaker A: I would not expect this. This is awesome. [00:26:57] Speaker B: Dimebag is my favorite guitar player of all time. [00:26:59] Speaker A: That's the shit that I listen to. I love that. [00:27:02] Speaker B: Yeah. We knew we had a heart. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Absolutely. Yeah. [00:27:06] Speaker B: But I think my nana is, like, the one that got me into country music because my parents didn't listen to country at all. [00:27:12] Speaker A: I feel like there's so much crossover, and there's a lot of crossover. [00:27:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, the eagles, for example, to me are like country music. [00:27:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:22] Speaker B: But they're technically classic rock. [00:27:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Because they weren't what country was back. [00:27:27] Speaker B: In that day, but it would be now, I would think. [00:27:29] Speaker A: Absolutely. Yeah. And you have the hard rock elements within country music right now. [00:27:34] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:27:34] Speaker A: Like hardy or like, you go to. [00:27:37] Speaker B: A bailey, which is so cool. [00:27:38] Speaker A: You go to a bailey zimmerman show. It's very similar to a nickelback show. And Florida Georgia line was just like, an extension of nickelback and all those rock elements. Of all the times, to be able to be a little experimental with your music and mix it up and have different sounds that aren't the most traditional. This is, like, the perfect time for someone like you to be, which is. [00:28:01] Speaker B: Like, a lot of the new music that I'm working on. I wouldn't say it's like I mean, I'm not out there like, oh, you. [00:28:10] Speaker A: Don'T go disturbed, like, would be awesome. That would be crazy show opener. [00:28:18] Speaker B: But a lot of the new music has more rock elements to it, actually, that we're recording right now. So I think I'm drawing a little bit more on a lot of my inspirations than I think I ever did in the past. I'm excited for people to hear it, and we'll be playing a lot of it on the road, too. [00:28:36] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm guessing you mixed some covers into the set. [00:28:39] Speaker B: We mixed a cover. Only one? Which one now? But see, it's supposed to be a surprise, but I'm going to say it anyways. We're doing the chain by Fleetwood Mac. [00:28:47] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:28:48] Speaker B: But we're doing it more rock. So I'm playing Electric on that one, too, actually. And I think people like it. It's a lot of fun to play that one. So I'm excited the band likes it. [00:28:59] Speaker A: I didn't know if you were mixing in a GNR cover or something. [00:29:01] Speaker B: You know what I thought about it, and I kind of I was, like, thinking that, I don't know, something like Night Train would actually be, like, a lot of fun. But then, I don't know, I thought something that had a little bit more country to it. [00:29:13] Speaker A: Yes. Makes it a little bit easier, especially as an opener. [00:29:17] Speaker B: Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking, too. [00:29:19] Speaker A: Yeah. And you're going to be doing, like because you mentioned Montclair, New Jersey, that's the like that you're doing some theater gigs, which is like, instead of like, the because I've done a lot of the bar gigs. That's where most of my touring experience has been from, is like, Sigs inside Bar and Bumfuck somewhere in the Southeast or in Texas or wherever. But theater gigs are nice. The house teams there are always tour, and you're easing in very nicely. [00:29:52] Speaker B: Yeah. I've never played a theater before, I don't think. I think this will be my first one or my first ones. [00:29:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I think you're doing and it fits with Larry and what he does. Like Larry Fleet in a theater. That just sounds like the perfect kind of fit. [00:30:07] Speaker B: Yeah. And I've never actually seen him sing in person either, so I'm excited to watch him play, too. [00:30:12] Speaker A: What is that? My phone just went off theater. We're going to put that over there. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:30:17] Speaker A: Technical difficulties. What else? So as far as the new music coming out, do we got any new music coming out before the end of the year? [00:30:28] Speaker B: Yes, definitely before the end of the year. Sooner than later, actually. Sony's been yelling at me about deadlines because Nathan and I so we're co producing now. Nathan Chapman and I are co producing everything that I'm working been he told me yesterday, do you want to make deadlines or do you want to make records? And I was like, true. So we're working on it. We've been having a really good time just being super free and super creative. So we are actually also, like, playing all the instruments, just the two of us. We didn't really hire any studio musicians this time around. [00:31:12] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:31:12] Speaker B: Yeah, because we I don't know, my favorite time being creative has always been just me and Nathan writing a song together, just the two of us, because we would always build the track, just the two of us. And so I had had a bunch of different experiences. Nathan and I had a studio band. I did it with Greg, and then Dan and I had a studio band. And so when it came time to do this next round, I was like, why don't we just do it, just the two of us? Like we've been doing it, and it's been so freeing to just be like, what if we try this and try this, and it sucks, and then, this is awesome, and then just hang out and have a good time. It's been so much fun. Yeah, I've enjoyed it a lot. [00:31:54] Speaker A: It's a good, creative way to do it. [00:31:56] Speaker B: Yeah. And I don't know if this is actually kind of funny. And I've never told Nathan this, so if he listens to this podcast, I don't know if he knows or not. [00:32:03] Speaker A: Shout out Nathan. [00:32:05] Speaker B: When I was 14, I wrote a song, and of course I loved Taylor Swift when I was 14 because every girl did. So I took a video of it, made my mom video me playing this song that I wrote, and we emailed it to Nathan Chapman. I found his email online. [00:32:22] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:32:23] Speaker B: And he responded back, and he was like, sounds good. Keep working. And so when they put him on my calendar for the first time, I called my mom and I was like, oh my God, he's going to remember this. He's going to judge me. So I don't know if he knows, but that's what happened. [00:32:39] Speaker A: That's some awesome, full circle stuff that you get in music and you get by living here, by making that move to Nashville and doing it. Is it crazy to be doing what you're doing right now at such a young age? [00:32:51] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. I think riding with people that I actually literally looked up to my entire life is never not going to be insane to me. So I feel super lucky to be doing it at all. And especially in the times where it's like I get frustrated with something or irritated with TikTok or something. It's like when you reset your mind and you're like, you're doing this at know. There's never a time when I'm not grateful for sure. [00:33:19] Speaker A: Now, if you weren't doing music, what would you be doing, you think, besides chasing bigfoot in the Florida woods and trespassing? [00:33:29] Speaker B: Honestly, this is a random one, but I'd probably be an archaeologist. [00:33:32] Speaker A: Really? [00:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:33] Speaker A: Okay. See, I grew up loving dinosaurs and shit. [00:33:36] Speaker B: I love dinosaurs. I painted a dinosaur on one of my purses. [00:33:40] Speaker A: Really? [00:33:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm a painter, too, so I've painted all my cover arts in the past. [00:33:47] Speaker A: That's awesome. So it's just creativity just all over the place? [00:33:50] Speaker B: Yeah, anything that I can do to have my hand in something or be as creative as possible. [00:33:55] Speaker A: Why archaeology? Is it the arrowhead thing growing up? [00:33:58] Speaker B: Maybe, yeah. I mean, I've just always loved history, but my mom also always liked ancient Egypt and stuff. So when I was growing up, she would read me stuff about that. So I think it just was like something I always thought was cool. But there's this guy, his name's Josh Gates, and he's got like a TV show on Travel Channel, I think. And I love that show. So I always thought that if I ever went to college for anything, it'd probably be that, but I didn't. [00:34:22] Speaker A: Do you like ghosts and all that spooky kind of shit too? [00:34:25] Speaker B: Well, I don't or do you believe in ghosts? I was going to say happened the other night. [00:34:29] Speaker A: Oh. Do you have an experience? [00:34:31] Speaker B: I did. [00:34:32] Speaker A: Where at? [00:34:33] Speaker B: In my apartment. [00:34:34] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:34:35] Speaker B: And I barely slept that night. I don't know. This might not actually be that crazy, but it scared me. And it has to do again with Guns and Roses. I have not listened to my Alexa in I don't know how long. And I was laying in my bed at night. It was like 11:00 at night. It was silent. There was no sound whatsoever. I'm just like looking through instagram or something. And all of a sudden she just screams. She was like starting playback and she started blaring. Welcome to the uncle. Unlike 100% volume. So it's like, do you know where you are? And so it terrified me. And so I'm pretty sure my apartment is haunted. [00:35:10] Speaker A: Yeah, see, I used to live in a haunted house, actually dead ass. [00:35:14] Speaker B: Where? [00:35:15] Speaker A: It was out in hermitage. It was sketchy. Mcewain been to that one. Libby Lane Mac. [00:35:21] Speaker B: Why do you think it was haunted? [00:35:22] Speaker A: So my roommate works does armed security and stuff. He used to work works within the government and all that. [00:35:29] Speaker B: Okay. [00:35:29] Speaker A: And there'd be nights where he would text me and be like, did you hear that? From his room? He would be like, did you hear that? And I'd be like, yeah. And he'll be like, all right, stay in your room. I'm clearing the house, thinking that someone was in there and like just appliances going off at random times, doors being open. [00:35:44] Speaker B: It'll spook the world. [00:35:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it really will. [00:35:47] Speaker B: So no, I don't like ghosts, but I do like ghost stories. I like hearing about other people's ghosts, but I don't want it. [00:35:52] Speaker A: So you believe in them though, right? Yes. I do too. Yeah, I do too. And isn't it crazy? Like ghosts and then aliens were like. [00:36:00] Speaker B: Taboo for I believe in aliens too. [00:36:02] Speaker A: Because they are real. It's been proven that aliens are real. Now, did you see that thing in Mexico? Or do you think that's fake? What does the archaeologist Carly think? [00:36:10] Speaker B: Well, in my professional opinion, I kind of thought those look like clay stuff someone just made out of. I mean, I would be shocked if that was an actual body of mean. Did you see the picture of, like. [00:36:24] Speaker A: Little they look like little Indian you are. Because I've seen all kinds of lights and things like that you see some stuff driving through the middle of nowhere. Kansas at 03:00 in the morning. You are going to Kansas. [00:36:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Or Kansas City. That's Missouri. Never mind half of it's. Missouri. Whatever. Same thing. [00:36:47] Speaker A: Yeah. How far west are you going on this tour? Are you going out to, like, Cali? [00:36:49] Speaker B: I told you not to ask me about directions. [00:36:52] Speaker A: By west I mean California. [00:36:54] Speaker B: No, we're not going to California. Let's see. [00:36:57] Speaker A: Are you on, like, Master tour? [00:36:59] Speaker B: You tell me how far west I'm going. [00:37:02] Speaker A: Oh, you're doing Minneapolis. Oh, Rosemont. You're doing Joe's Live. [00:37:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And I've never been to Chicago either. [00:37:08] Speaker A: Chicago is awesome. [00:37:09] Speaker B: So my agent said there's like a specific pizza place and he said that he would make sure that it's his favorite pizza place. So he said he was going to have the pizza backstage. And I love good pizza. [00:37:19] Speaker A: Are you doing Huntsville? [00:37:20] Speaker B: And I'm excited to go to Alabama, too, because I've been through there. But my dad played football for Troy. [00:37:25] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:37:26] Speaker B: Troy State in Alabama when he was in college. And so I feel like yeah, you're. [00:37:29] Speaker A: Doing a lot of like I've been through a lot of these. You're probably it's probably Soul kitchen. [00:37:35] Speaker B: It is. [00:37:36] Speaker A: Soul Kitchen is a vibe. [00:37:38] Speaker B: Is it? [00:37:38] Speaker A: It is. It's a cool room. Mobile's got a lot of history. So Mobile is where Mardi Gras actually originated. Mobile was doing Mardi Gras before New Orleans was. So it's got like that like kind of like spooky Cajun culture. [00:37:50] Speaker B: New Orleans. [00:37:51] Speaker A: Yes. Mobile is like a mini. It's like a mini New Orleans. [00:37:54] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm excited, too, about this is, like, silly, but anyways, in Orlando, it's at the House of Blues. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Oh, nice. Those are always great. [00:38:03] Speaker B: Yeah. When I was younger, I had a friend or some friends that got to go backstage, but they wouldn't take us with them and so they were just like, sorry, we're going backstage. Like, I'll see you later. So now I get to go backstage, so I'm excited. [00:38:17] Speaker A: You get to have your own Dang Green room, girl. That's freaking awesome. [00:38:21] Speaker B: Yeah, so I'm excited to go. A lot of my family will be there, and a lot of my family's never even seen me play with a band. [00:38:27] Speaker A: Really? [00:38:27] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a song that will be out at some point. It's about my grandmother is a mess. So I wrote this song about her and she loves it. I played it for her and she loves it. So I'll be playing it and she'll be there and it'll be fun to play it live for the first time. [00:38:45] Speaker A: That'll be really cool. Now, when you're not doing music stuff, what are you usually doing? Besides you said you like to read. [00:38:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, lots of reading. Cooking. I like to cook a lot. [00:38:57] Speaker A: Yeah. So we did a cooking bit yesterday. Mcewane doesn't even know this, and he usually knows all the stuff that goes on with me. So we do a lot you a cook? I was yesterday. We do a lot of bits with raised rowdy. Like we do a lot of funny time. [00:39:10] Speaker B: You do a cooking bit. [00:39:11] Speaker A: It's like, hit me up. We're thinking about starting one yesterday. Kind of inspired it. Our budy Trey Bonner puts up just jokes on his Instagram saying boys who cook. And he's like boiling pasta, but he has, like, goggles on. Like he's very extra and funny. So yesterday we did a bit to promote one of the festivals we're going to that Laney Wilson's going to be at. And we called it cooking with grease. Cooking with grease. But we cooked with a lot of grease. [00:39:39] Speaker B: Oh, God. [00:39:41] Speaker A: It was like bacon and then putting crisco inside the fry, inside the pan that had the bacon. [00:39:47] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:39:48] Speaker A: Just a ridiculous amount of stuff. And I was wearing a chef's hat with a nickelback patch on it and an apron that had Creed on it and all kinds of just funny just funny shit. And we're like, deep frying these potatoes. And I got stuff on the grill. I went to light the grill and a fire shot out at me and I'm always caught on fire. [00:40:03] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I've caught the stove on fire. [00:40:07] Speaker A: Really? [00:40:08] Speaker B: Yeah, because what was I doing? I was making potato chips because I grew potatoes. I garden, too. That's my other thing. I grew a bunch of potatoes and then I sliced them really thin. I made some homemade potato chips and I guess there was too much grease and it went or olive oil. Yeah. And then it went over and it was like on fire and I didn't know what to do. I'm probably going to get this wrong, so people should Google it before I some sort of one of the powders. It's like baking soda or baking powder or something. You pour it on the fire and it stops it. [00:40:35] Speaker A: Really? [00:40:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:36] Speaker A: Good to know. Yeah. The grill thing was like very quick. [00:40:41] Speaker B: You still have your eyebrows. [00:40:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Nikki T and one of our content guys, Ike, they were inside with the bacon and all of a sudden I was mic'd up. So it's caught on the microphone. Oh, shit. And like my hand because I was just covered in grease. I tried cooking. Luckily, my family's really good at cooking. My mom, we're not Italian, but we have being from New York, like all those Italian recipes, honorary Italian, going over, like bagels and all the Jewish deli sandwiches and all that. So my family has a lot of that. And then my girlfriend loves to cook and I spend a lot of time over there with her and her daughter. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Okay. [00:41:20] Speaker A: I'm learning slowly. But the Cooking with Grease thing, I don't wish we called the burger. We called it a trash burger. [00:41:26] Speaker B: Okay. This is a bunch of different stuff. [00:41:29] Speaker A: Just a disaster. Yeah, we do that. And then our other go to is like at the end of a festival when we're camping, we call it whatever we got left or like whatever we have left. And it's whatever we have left. We just cook it all up and stuff. So you like cooking? [00:41:43] Speaker B: Sounds kind of awful. [00:41:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a time vegetable season is just a whole thing. But what do you grow in your garden? So potatoes, everything. [00:41:53] Speaker B: I grow potatoes. A lot of tomatoes, peppers, onions. [00:41:57] Speaker A: You have a garden outside. [00:41:59] Speaker B: So this is like or is it. [00:42:00] Speaker A: One of them hydroponic little garden things? My roommate has that. [00:42:03] Speaker B: This is actually so back home in Florida. So I go home. It's technically mine and my mom's garden. So she does a lot of this stuff. But when I'm back home, I help take care of it and all that stuff. So it's like a big my dad had her built this big fancy garden. And so, yeah, there's a bunch of space in there to grow all kinds of stuff. Okra. Everything. [00:42:22] Speaker A: Oh, Okra. That's the way to Matt Mcelain's heart right there. He loves fried. [00:42:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:42:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I had some fried. Okra. I had a meeting three the other day. You ever eaten one of those? [00:42:31] Speaker B: No, because it would just be the. [00:42:34] Speaker A: It would be no meat in six. Well, my thing turned into a meet in six because I just everything it was really good. It was a place called Paw Paws. Paw Paws in Birmingham, Alabama. [00:42:43] Speaker B: Sounds like it would be good just by the name. [00:42:45] Speaker A: And I was the youngest person in there by probably about 45 years old, folks. It was great. It was holding the door for all the old ladies. It was awesome. [00:42:55] Speaker B: Do you play music? [00:42:57] Speaker A: Do you? [00:42:57] Speaker B: No, you haven't? [00:42:59] Speaker A: No, not like a MacAway space. [00:43:01] Speaker B: So apparently he's really not good at it. [00:43:03] Speaker A: No, I've tried to learn. [00:43:06] Speaker B: I think you should sing us something since you made us sing. [00:43:09] Speaker A: Oh, no. I don't know if you want that. I wanted to be in sports media. That was what I got. [00:43:17] Speaker B: Cool. [00:43:17] Speaker A: I was like that kid in middle school, like having a sports blog, writing about the Yankees and college football. [00:43:23] Speaker B: You were really into it. [00:43:24] Speaker A: I was really when I'm into something, I go all the fuck in. And then I got into the country stuff. My first concert was Tim McGraw 2003. I was eight years old. It was awesome. Haascat fu Manchu pre sobriety. Tim McGraw. It was when Tim McGraw was partying like Morgan Wallen, like that era. [00:43:44] Speaker B: Tim McGraw has always been cool, though. [00:43:46] Speaker A: Oh, he's always been cool and always good music. Yeah, there's different eras of McGraw. I'm talking like real good man and pre live like you were Rowdy McGraw. But then when I went off to college, I was working at my college radio station. And I helped out with a country show there. And that's kind of what college? [00:44:06] Speaker B: What college? [00:44:07] Speaker A: Ryder university. It's up in New Jersey. Small school. Rowdy Ryder. It was Rowdy University. That would have been sick, but Ryder University, it's in, like, central New Jersey. [00:44:19] Speaker B: Okay. [00:44:19] Speaker A: And there was a country show there, and I kind of helped grow it. And we were able to find guys and girls in Nashville before they got big. I had Luke Combs call in 2015, 2016. We interviewed Wallen when he had short hair and was wearing hats like this what he looks like now, but younger. We had, like Bret Young, Walker Hayes, John party, all these people. So I got involved in that and then made the move down here after working in Radio Back. A bouncer. I was a bouncer on Broadway. I don't know if you knew that. [00:44:51] Speaker B: No, I did not. [00:44:52] Speaker A: I was a door guy. [00:44:53] Speaker B: I have not spent much time on Broadway. This is like I feel like I've not had the Nashville experience at all. I've never done the, like, out on Broadway. [00:45:02] Speaker A: You're doing it your way, you're doing what makes you comfortable. [00:45:05] Speaker B: But I feel like at some point I'm going to have to do it or it's a lie that I've lived in Nashville. [00:45:11] Speaker A: Where would you want to go? [00:45:13] Speaker B: Everywhere. You want to go to everywhere. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Do it all. Do you have any other folks that you're close with that are in the music industry, like other young artists that you would be like, hey, let's go out. Who would your team be going out? [00:45:29] Speaker B: A lot of my friends are songwriters, really? More than, I don't know, a ton of the artists, I feel like, because when I moved here, it was like the pandemic hit shortly. [00:45:38] Speaker A: Yeah. You moved here in COVID? [00:45:40] Speaker B: Yeah. So it was kind of like I'm just now starting to get to meet some of the artists that are closer to my age. But all of my friends all of my friends are older and married, so I feel like they wouldn't go with me. Maybe Alex Klein. Do you know her? [00:45:55] Speaker A: I don't. [00:45:55] Speaker B: She's amazing. She's a really talented writer and producer. She's great. She produced somebody like that, for sure. Yeah, she's super talented. So I'd probably ask her. She's always a good time. [00:46:07] Speaker A: She always makes me laugh. I used to go out on Broadway all the time because I worked down there. I didn't drink. I got sober before I moved down here. Thank God. [00:46:14] Speaker B: So you've been here seven years? [00:46:16] Speaker A: I've been here to be five years in, which is which is wild to think about. But all I knew was Broadway, because I worked at Whiskey Row. I was a door guy at Dirk Spentley's Bar new home of whiskey jam. And I was there. Aldean's hadn't even opened yet. Luke's hadn't even opened yet. So you would go to Honky Tonks, like, you'd get done with a shift and then go out and then be out till three in the morning and then get up and do it all over again. [00:46:42] Speaker B: I cannot remember the last time I saw three in the morning, but well. [00:46:44] Speaker A: You'Re about to you're about to be on tour. [00:46:47] Speaker B: I'm excited. I'm ready to see three in the morning that way. For sure. [00:46:50] Speaker A: Yeah. What are some of your favorite spots to go and eat here in town? We got a lot of Mexican food here. [00:46:54] Speaker B: Yeah, actually, you know what, I shouldn't say it on here because people are going to start going to it and then they're going to find out about it. People know the no, this is a secret spot. It really is, but I'm going to say it anyways. So. I think it's on gallatin. It's called Maize de la Vida. And it used to be a truck, and now they have this little shop and it only seats like, ten people and it's the best Mexican food I've ever had in my entire life, regardless of where I've been, so that place is amazing. And then there's another truck I'm like, apparently I'm a food truck person and it's called Fab Pizza. And it's really fab pizza. [00:47:28] Speaker A: Pizza food truck. I'm very big on my pizza. [00:47:33] Speaker B: Yeah, you should know. It's the best pizza I've had in Nashville, for sure. [00:47:35] Speaker A: Okay, that says a lot. [00:47:36] Speaker B: Maybe top three ever. [00:47:38] Speaker A: Okay, I'm going to have to go and check that out. Yes, for sure. Have you gotten to experience outside of Nashville? Like, have you been out in the country? Out here? [00:47:47] Speaker B: Yeah, like leapers fork. Oh, my God. And I met Vince Neal there, like yesterday. [00:47:52] Speaker A: You met Vince Neal yesterday? [00:47:53] Speaker B: Yeah. In Leaper's Fork. [00:47:55] Speaker A: What was he doing in leaper's fork? [00:47:56] Speaker B: I think he lives there. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Vince Neal from Molly crew. [00:47:59] Speaker B: Yeah. I have a picture. So I was just eating breakfast before band rehearsal, and I walked past this guy and I was like, that really looks like Vince Neal. And I just walked inside, and then I was looking out the window and I was like, that really is Vince Neal. So I went back outside. You're not supposed to interrupt know, but I was like, but I'm going to do it anyways because my dad's not going to believe this. And I was like, are you who I think you are? And he was like, who do you think I am? Are you Vince Neal? And he was like, yeah. So we took a picture together and it was cool. [00:48:29] Speaker A: Nice guy. [00:48:30] Speaker B: Yeah, super nice. But it was just weird and random. [00:48:33] Speaker A: I had a weird experience like that. I didn't pop over and bother him, but we had it confirmed a few months. Like. Well, you didn't bother Vince. Neil. He was very nice. And it was so my girlfriend lives over here in the Gulch, and so we walked along the Gulch, which I never thought I'd be doing, the Gulch. I'm not the most gulch kind of guy. But we were walking past not super Gulchy, not super gulchy. I don't look good in a Bachelorete hat. But we were walking past Marsh House and she was like, oh, shit, that looks like Tom Hanks. [00:49:05] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:49:05] Speaker A: And I was like, oh, shit. That is Tom Hanks. And then she had popped in there for dinner like a week later. And they were like, yeah, Tom Hanks comes out here and stays here like a few times a year. [00:49:14] Speaker B: That's wild. [00:49:14] Speaker A: Fucking Tom Hanks just hanging out. [00:49:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:17] Speaker A: And then I've seen people on Broadway, all kinds of people. You see people the wilder side of people working on Broadway. [00:49:28] Speaker B: I saw Jason Aldine at the zoo not long ago, but I didn't bother him. [00:49:33] Speaker A: I haven't gone to Nashville Zoo yet. I want to go and do it. [00:49:36] Speaker B: We went, me and my family. Me and my parents went a couple years ago. But yeah, I mean, it's cool. It's a zoo when you're not going to Broadway. That's what you do for fun. Yeah. [00:49:48] Speaker A: So what are some goals for you before the end of the year? So we're pretty much there. We're in September. It's been a great year for you. Put out a lot of music. You've got a great touring opportunity. You've got a phenomenal team with you. It's happening for you. The year 2023 is like kick starting everything for you. [00:50:07] Speaker B: I think my main goal for the end of this year, since most of the rest of it I'll be on the road, is just to make a lot of new fans on the road. I mean, I've been working really hard to make a really great show. And I think that's kind of my goal for this year is to meet a lot of new people and do a really great job on the road. So that when I'm going through doing my own shows that they come to mind. And I think releasing a few new songs would be awesome. And then next year, I think just hopefully touring a lot more because I think that's the most fun is being in front of people. [00:50:44] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. That's awesome, dude. I'm super excited for you. It's so cool to be doing this one to have you on. Big fan of what you do. [00:50:53] Speaker B: Thanks for having me. [00:50:54] Speaker A: Very excited for what's to come with the new music. Love the stuff that you've got out now. But it's cool. Like, last time that we really kicked it was at Whiskey Jam. And you would tell me about this tour. And the tour starts next week. And for it to start in my homeland, neck of the woods. I'm glad you're not having to drive because up there, it's a different animal with driving. You're going to be getting right off the Garden State Parkway. You're going to be on the Lie Long Island Express. [00:51:22] Speaker B: I just had someone tell me earlier that not to buy anything on the Garden State on the parkway. They were like, make sure you. Buy everything ahead of time because it's like twice as expensive on the parkway. [00:51:33] Speaker A: Yeah, the parkway. So we don't have loves up north. [00:51:38] Speaker B: Right. [00:51:38] Speaker A: All of our states, with the way the taxes and stuff work, the travel stops are like state mandated, so they clean and stuff. But the Garden State Parkway is interesting. There's no tractor trailers allowed on there. A lot of the roads up north, trucks aren't allowed on. And some of the roads are so narrow. Like the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut. So narrow. It's like Indy car racing. There's no shoulder, and it's two lanes, and it's just people doing 80, 90. It's crazy. But yeah, the GS again, I grew up around it, so I used to go up and down the GSP all the time. But yeah, I guess that's good. Claire's Montclair is a fun little town, though. It's a cool college town. The folks up there, too, really appreciate the country music. Fans that are up there really appreciate it because we don't get it. [00:52:27] Speaker B: Like you don't get it as much as in the south. [00:52:30] Speaker A: No, there's not a show every weekend, so when there is a show, folks will drive from two, three, 4 hours away to be at that show. [00:52:38] Speaker B: I'm excited to meet people. I'm going to be like, going out, hanging out at the merch table. [00:52:43] Speaker A: We got Carly, scott Collins merch. [00:52:45] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I got a T shirt. Getting ready to have a hat. Yeah. And I designed it all. Painted it myself, too. So, yeah, I'm excited. [00:52:53] Speaker A: Awesome. You create all the stuff yourself. [00:52:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:55] Speaker A: So cool. Where can people go to find you? Oh, last question. [00:52:57] Speaker B: Okay. [00:52:58] Speaker A: TikTok. [00:52:59] Speaker B: Yeah, TikTok. [00:52:59] Speaker A: Shit. You enjoy. You're of the generation that's like when you think of the TikTok generation, it's like, that 25 and younger, right? TikTok for you is like, what? I guess facebook and Instagram. I'm 28, so I'm not too much older than you. But TikTok came about very much so during the pandemic and everything. And that was like, before you even moved up here to Nashville. But now it's such a huge part of music and finding new fans and getting your shit out there. And if something pops, people tend to record it. What's it been like coming up in that world? [00:53:39] Speaker B: I think there's a lot of positives and there's a lot of negatives. I think everybody probably feels that way. I think social media in general, TikTok and Instagram and all of it, it's really cool to be able to literally have a DM conversation with a fan that lives in, I don't know, Norway or know. I think that part makes it really cool. And people can discover your music all over the world in a way that they really couldn't before. But I think that sometimes it can put people in a box a little bit. It's not so much about all the time. Now, what's the greatest song? It's about the song that popped off on TikTok. And I think that's kind of sad sometimes because there's probably a lot of really great songs that just get pushed to the side because they didn't get popped off on TikTok, but they might have done really well on the radio or if people had given it more of a chance. So I think that part kind of sucks, but I think it's a big learning curve. I think that originally I was a little bit hesitant to do it because I just felt like, I don't know, I didn't feel like I was super fit into the TikTok thing. But I think I've learned a lot now and I've grown to enjoy it a little bit more than I used to. I appreciate it. [00:54:52] Speaker A: Yeah. It's figuring out your way to do it. What is your TikTok feedback exactly? [00:54:58] Speaker B: Because I thought that I was going to have to dance. [00:55:01] Speaker A: You're not a dancer. [00:55:02] Speaker B: Absolutely not. [00:55:03] Speaker A: I'm not either. [00:55:04] Speaker B: No, I don't dance at all. So I was like, I mean, how can I dance to one of my songs? I'm like, what do y'all want me to do? But yeah. So I figured out how to, I guess, make it my own, I think. [00:55:15] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:55:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a little bit more bearable. Yeah. [00:55:17] Speaker A: That's awesome. Well, where can people go to find you on all the socials? [00:55:20] Speaker B: It's at Carly Scott Collins on everything, but it's Carly with a K because my mom wanted to make it difficult. K-A-R-L-E-Y. [00:55:27] Speaker A: Yeah, you are carly with a K, which is awesome. [00:55:30] Speaker B: Like a kardashian. [00:55:32] Speaker A: There you go. Awesome. Well, y'all be sure to check out our girl Carly Scott Collins. Look up the Larry Fleet tour. What's the exact name of the tour again? I forgot. [00:55:41] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:55:42] Speaker A: I'm putting it on you. I'm sorry. They sent me all it's literally just. [00:55:45] Speaker B: The fall tour, so there wasn't a tour name. [00:55:49] Speaker A: Larry Fleet's fall tour. Carly Scott Collins going to be on all those dates, kicking it off in New York, finishing it up in the homeland of Florida. Y'all be sure to go and get your tickets and be on the lookout. New music coming soon ish very soon, very soon. New music coming very soon. So y'all be sure to follow our girl, Carly Scott Collins. Stream her music. Don't just stream it, buy it as well. If you're on the itunes, train, the Google Play, Train, all that and give her a follow on all the socials. Big believer in this girl right here. Appreciate all y'all watching this episode of Outside the Round. Shout out to our friends, big Friendly Productions, saxophone studios, whaletail Media. If you guys want to know more about us, look up Raisedrowdy.com, tell your mama and them. Give us a follow a like and leave a review on the podcast platforms. Froggirl, carly. For old sweet boy behind the camera, I'm Matt Burrill. This has been outside the round never been the kind for stair one place for too long I never been the best at this I love you. To a girl I love only got a couple tricks on my sleeve they usually just make them leave so if you know me if you really know me you know I'm just a two trick pony but maybe the drinking and the lack of money for show I'm just a two drink on it yeah, close.