Episode Transcript
[00:00:15] Speaker A: This is outside the round with Matt Barrel for Razor Alley podcast.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: What is going on? Tailgate and Tallboys, day two, Bloomington, Illinois. Super fucking stoked to be here. This is outside the round with raised rowdy live on location from the raised rowdy tent. Very happy to be here once again. My name is Matt Barrel and yeah, we've got a great day of music in store.
Last night, Mother Nature did not want to cooperate with us, but today it is fucking beautiful. There's a couple clouds in the skies out there by the windmills and that's about it. It is sunny. There's not a lot of shade. It's fucking beautiful. Gorgeous. Exactly what you want. And speaking of gorgeous, this lineup that we have got today, I mean it is awesome.
We've got starting from. We'll start from top to bottom. We got the one, the only, Mister Eric fucking church, the chief himself headlining tonight. We got our man DJ Cliffy d doing the after party on the side stage from twelve midnight to 02:00 a.m. you know we're going to be out there. We're going to be higher than all the corn that we drove by to get out here to great old Bloomington, Illinois. We got l. King playing. We got Paul Cawthon playing on the main stage. We got our man Tyler Braden kicking it off on the main stage. And the side stage is also fucking stacked. Three great friends of ours playing that today. We got our boy Nate Kenyon who's going to be joining us on the podcast here in a little while. Good buddy of ours from the great state of Georgia, Miss Lainey Gardner, who did a live podcast with us at Live Oak last year when we did that WME takeover.
She's going to be on the side stage. And then we have got our boy who is going to be joining us momentarily. The hometown kid. He's kicking off the whole damn festival on the side stage. Mister Clayton Shea going to be joining us in just a few minutes. It is just absolutely beautiful out there. Oh, the content team is out. The content team is here.
We're going to have our boy Landon Smith jumping on a little bit to tell us the vibes out in the parking lots. Day two is usually when you've you begun to make your friends at the festival and the weekend just goes up, up from there. So it's going to be a freaking blast. We got the truck show going on as well. A lot of big fucking trucks. I don't know how people get into those trucks. That was the question that I have. We're looking at that Ford super duty over there by the elevate ten. How do you even get in that thing? Like, there's like a ladder come down or something? You just jump, like box jump into. I don't know, but they got a truck show going on today up until the gates open at about 230, so a great fucking lineup. Shout out to our friends from country financial helping put on this great event. Wayne and Austin and the whole team from USA concert shout out to cruisins, one of our favorite rowdy clubs in the country. And of course. Oh, there we go. There's the content. Hell, yeah. We were looking for you yesterday, bud. Welcome back. Good to fucking see you.
And shout out. We've got our friends from surfside out here with us. Clayton's going to be enjoying one of these here momentarily. Get him all primed up. That a nice. Be nice and buzzed for the load in and it'll be cool. So let's get him on one time. I know the crowd's going to start coming in here momentarily. Got some people looking at us like, what the fuck are these guys doing? We have got, right here, we got our man, Mister Clayton Shea, y'all. Give it up for Clayton, the hometown boy. Gonna pop those headphones on right there.
[00:03:45] Speaker C: What's up, brother?
[00:03:46] Speaker B: Talking to the microphone. There you go.
[00:03:48] Speaker C: This thing on?
[00:03:49] Speaker B: It is on, I believe. I believe it's on. Yeah. So, Clayton, how are you doing today, my man?
[00:03:54] Speaker C: I'm fantastic, dude. How are you doing?
[00:03:56] Speaker B: I'm doing great. It's really good to be in your home state of Illinois, man. So where are you from in relation to here?
[00:04:02] Speaker C: So I'm from a very small town called Canton, Illinois. It's about an hour and 20 minutes from here, southwest from here.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: Okay. So down closer to, like, Missouri, Kentucky.
[00:04:14] Speaker C: Not quite that far. It's more west.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: More west. So out towards, like, Iowa.
[00:04:18] Speaker C: Exactly. About an hour from the voyage.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: We were in Clinton, Iowa, last week, and, man, it was fucking awesome. I heard the Iowa folks are great. I had never really been to Iowa, and it's just good hearted midwestern folks.
[00:04:31] Speaker C: Who was the. The headliner was headliners for that.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: We had jelly roll on Thursday, then we had Bailey on Friday, and then we had shinedown.
[00:04:39] Speaker C: Shine down.
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Shine down was fucking wild. We had shinedown, cadillac three, them dirty roses. Myron Elkins on the rock day had the openers. Like Nate Smith out there as well. It was. Lakeview was out there, of course. It was a good, good, solid festival. It was a good way to kick off the TNT season, tailgate and tall boys. And this isn't your first time out here, your first time working with Wayne in Austin and the folks from USA concerts. You're a veteran of cruisins.
[00:05:03] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, we go way back. I've known those guys for almost a decade, playing, you know, cruisins and just being homies for the last, you know, several years.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: So what does this festival mean to you and the people in this area like to have a big area. This is one of the biggest, most spread out festivals that we'll go to all year with raised rowdy, and we go to quite a few of them, and it just seems like this area of folks in the midwest, across Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, northern Kentucky, like this is a big deal that they mark on the calendar of year. How important is this festival for kind of the ecosystem of country music in the heartland?
[00:05:42] Speaker C: Yeah, you know, it's been on my radar for a long time. It's been something I've been trying for. For a long time. And I think moving to Nashville, releasing music, that sort of thing, kind of got me out of the box of, like, cover band, which I was when I was here, you know? So it got started getting a little more seriously, and I think once I started doing that, they're like, oh, you know, Clayton's got some stuff going on, so let's get him on this festival. And I've had a lot of people in my corner pushing me, blowing them up every year, like, hey, is Clayton playing? And so I know I got a lot of people coming out to the side stage to see our show that they're gonna be, you know, showing out for us.
[00:06:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And all these people that start, they've opened. They've opened up the gates here at Tailgate and tall boys. I love your outfit, girl. I love that outfit. There are some greatly dressed people here. Festival. The festies are like no other, especially here in Bloomington, Illinois. Have you been to this festival before?
[00:06:32] Speaker C: Yeah, so I was here last year just as a, you know, a concert goer. Luckily, they hooked me up with the artist pass so I could kind of mingle and do my thing. But, yeah, it was very much just kind of breaking me in for the festival kind of thing, and I. There was talks of me coming back and playing this year, but nothing was solidified. So shortly after that, the crew came down to Nashville for a whiskey jam, and they're like, hey, you're on, brother.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. That's awesome, dude. And to have you kicking off because we didn't have any music yesterday? You are literally kicking off the festival, my guy. That's right. From last year, coming here, being a festive. How we doing, guys? We got the crew out here. There we go. From being one of those folks that was just here watching the festival last year to kicking the damn weekend off.
[00:07:17] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: That's a big deal, dude.
[00:07:19] Speaker C: I'm stoked, man. It's. It feels a little surreal. It feels like milestone, you know, one of those things that you stress out about until it happens, and then I think I'm gonna go through the show, enjoy that, and then afterwards, I'm gonna be like, oh, that was fucking awesome. And it's gonna hit me then I think, yeah, dude.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: And it's cool to have you on here. It's cool to have Bailey headlining. Obviously, another local guy. Yeah, that right there. So that is surfside ic vodka. Let's get that first sip on the mic. Let's hear it. Let's get that first sip.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: Oh, my.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:50] Speaker C: That is refreshing.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: They're crushable.
[00:07:52] Speaker C: Oh, wow.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: They're crushable.
[00:07:53] Speaker C: I could shotgun one of these. No doubt.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: Yeah, we can definitely make that happen. We. Surfside is our newest. Our newest sponsor, the raised rowdy.
[00:08:02] Speaker C: That's. You know what I love about this is, like, the twisted teas. They're way too sugary. They're way too. Like, I drank one or two and I'm like, ugh, I feel gross, but I think I could drink about twelve or 30 of these.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: Yeah, they're. And they're carrying them at Live oak, at losers, at the rusty nail, all the places that's too close to home.
[00:08:18] Speaker C: That's going to be a little. It's going to be a problem.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Rusty. Now you can get them for, like, $4 during our events.
[00:08:23] Speaker C: Seven minutes from my house.
[00:08:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Oh, dude. Same, same. So how long have you been in Nashville now?
[00:08:28] Speaker C: I just hit my six year mark in March.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I hit my six year mark in October is when I hit it. So we're. We're part of that, like, same class. We got this. Let's talk about that sign real quick that's flying up. It says.
What does it say? It says about, like, Eric. It's. It's like Eric Church had said, you must wear sunglasses you must wear sunglasses to an Eric church concert, which. They have the shades on right there.
[00:08:51] Speaker C: These guys get it.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: They get it, they get it, they get it. But for you, Clayton Shea, being in Nashville, we come in. We came in at, like, the same time.
[00:08:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: In 2018. We both moved here, and we got to know each other pretty well. You were kind of. You were. I think you might have been. Were you on that first in the round?
[00:09:07] Speaker C: I was on the first one.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: You were on the first in the round that we ever did at Live Oak, which has been going on now for. We're coming up on our. On our fifth year of being there, which is fucking wild. We survived through Covid, got through all that shit, and you were one of the last podcasts that I did before COVID hit.
[00:09:24] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: I was, like, right around St. Patrick's day of 2020, so I remember because you and Boudreau were drinking whiskey together.
[00:09:29] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: That was back when you. Back when you had the long hair. Like, I feel like you have gone through some changes in your. In your writing and have really found, like, who you are as an artist.
[00:09:43] Speaker C: I appreciate you saying that.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: I think so. Like, over the past year, it's been really cool to watch you kind of evolve and find your guys and girls that you really like writing with and putting out the music where you're like, this is Clayton Shea. This is what it looks like. This is what it sounds like.
[00:09:56] Speaker C: I think it's a never ending journey to get there. You know, I think you never stop evolving. But I think, first of all, thank you for saying that, because I've been working hard on that, but I think I'm closer than ever to getting to the place where I feel like it's really authentically me. The music I'm putting out means something to me, and it feels like music I'd put out regardless of whether people listen to it, which I think is important. You know, it's for you, too. At the end of the day, it's for the artist, but the. You know, you want people to enjoy it, but, yeah, thank you for saying that, brother. It's been a process, dude.
[00:10:25] Speaker B: It hasn't. But watching the guys come up around you, too, like, seeing you go on retreats with our good buddies, Jordan Rager and fucking Stemmy, Jimmy holds and Jerry Jacobs and Chase McDaniel, and, like, that whole crew. And right now is the time where it doesn't have to be singing about trucks. We love trucks, and we love those truck shows. It doesn't have to be guys wearing cowboy hats. It can really be kind of anything, and you can put in emotion and portray it in a different way, where you have those rock roots to you, and you can write songs that can do that, but we couldn't do in 2018 that we can do now in 2024.
[00:11:05] Speaker C: It's more open than ever. I think right now, the country genre, the umbrella of country, is expanded. It's rock, it's pop, it's everything in between. And it's never been a better time to just dive into what you love and your influences.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. So as far as new music and things going on, we're getting in now to the time of year where everybody, a lot of folks got shows and are getting out there. You've spent years on the road as a band member, too, so you're, you're no stranger to touring, but as far as getting in the studio, I know you're writing a ton. You've been writing a lot, especially over, like the last, it seems like year and a half, two years. You have just been grinding, putting the pen to paper, putting the notes, the endless notes in the iPhones and all that. What do we got as far as, as far as new music and things like that? What do we have to look forward to in this year? 2024?
[00:11:48] Speaker C: So I'm definitely in a place right now where I'm, like I just said, kind of reaching into my influences, digging those things up, trying to write stuff that feels very authentically me. And I'm letting that process breathe. I'm not in any rush.
I could put music out at the end of the year. It could be next year, who knows? But I'm kind of doing these shows and trying them out. So I'm going to try out several new songs, but it's definitely moving more towards like a, you know, late nineties, two thousands, rock, country infused sort of thing. You know, I grew up listening to like, goo goo godols, Creed Mashbox, 20, stp, buck rockets. Exactly. Yeah. So it's gonna, it's gonna sound something like that, too, but I haven't quite gotten to where I feel like it's done. And so I'm letting the, letting the process do its thing and breathing and, you know, trusting it.
[00:12:35] Speaker B: Hell yeah, dude. That's awesome, man. We're very excited for the new music coming out. We're very excited to see you on this stage today. Thank you so much. We know how big of a moment it is for you, and it's one of our, one of my favorite things, and I think I speak for Nikki. To Nikki T with this, too, is one of our favorite things, is getting to watch guys and girls that we've had playing our events, wearing our merch, watching us grow with Ray's rowdy, and then getting to see you guys grow and play festival stages, play club shows, getting cuts as writers, like, just kind of growing within the scene. And today's that moment. You're. You're in your home state of Illinois. This is, like, one of the biggest festivals, arguably, in country music this year. With this lineup of. Of incredible headliners, there's going to be 20 to 30,000 people walking through the doors throughout this weekend. Like, it's. It's a big deal. So to see you kicking it off as a hometown kid, it's just fucking incredible. It really is.
[00:13:32] Speaker C: It's humbling, brother.
Yeah, you know, it's. It's weird how fast time goes. We're just talking about being in town for six years. Does not feel like that.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: No, dude, it flies by.
[00:13:41] Speaker C: It's crazy. You always want to move faster as an artist, you know? You always want to get it there quicker. But trust in the process is important, and I'm just humbled to be here. It's a. It's an honor.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: So, dude, it's awesome. It really is. Now, what do you guys do for fun out here in Illinois? Because there's a lot of fields. We have our buddy Landon Smith with us. This is Landon's first time going north of the Mason Dixon line. He's from Georgia, and he was like, we were started driving by, and we go by all the fields on the. On the interstate, and you start seeing windmills. He's like, what are those? And his mind was blown. He's like, what do they do for. What do they do? What do they do for fun? I'm like, field parties. Drink beer?
[00:14:20] Speaker C: Drink is. The first answer is drink. The second answer is there's not a lot to do here, so you just kind of get creative. Yeah, I mean, when I was a kid, we would just, like, hang out at the Walmart parking lot or, like, the park. We called it the pit. That's where everyone went. Like, he played hacky sack and smoked cigs and, like, just degenerate. Like, there's not a lot to do around here, to be completely honest. And every time I come back from Nash, I'm like, oh, I can't drive five minutes and go eat at, like, a fucking b dubs or something. You know what I mean? It's like, there's not. It's not around here. Bloomington there is for sure, but still, even in Bloomington, there's not really jack shit to do.
[00:14:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you go into Chicago a lot or. Not really?
[00:14:55] Speaker C: Surprisingly, not a lot. I've been to other cities more even living here. It's, you know, two and a half ish, 3 hours away, depending on traffic. I've only been there a handful of times, to be honest.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: Nice. How do you, like. Do you prefer the Illinois style of pizza? Cause we had Detroit style the other night from a place called pizza playa, I think it was.
[00:15:15] Speaker C: You're talking about, like, deep dish. Like.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah, like, there's, like, the deep dish, then there's, like, the squares of, like, the shit they have in Michigan, and then there's, like, my New York, like, thin crust.
[00:15:23] Speaker C: I like the thin crust, personally. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's just too much fluff in a deep dish. It's like, I don't need all that. I just like to have, like, a couple of things.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: To me, it's like, there's a lot of work with the deep dish to where you need the. Oh, there we go. There's Austin and the gang. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Uh oh.
But there's, like, a lot of work to eating a deep dish. Like a fucking lasagna.
[00:15:44] Speaker C: It's like a cake or like. Yeah, dude, it fills you the. Who wants that much cheese?
[00:15:48] Speaker B: Yeah, there's so much luminantis I can eat, you know? But, dude, we're very excited to watch you today. Appreciate you coming over and doing this. And this will be getting aired on the. On outside the round. This will be our first. The first episode you and I have done together post Covid.
[00:16:04] Speaker C: This is, like, a throwback, a blast from the past.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: It really is, bro. And we're very excited. How long of a set are they giving you today?
[00:16:10] Speaker C: We got 45 minutes. The cool thing is, is we're initially first of three on the side stage, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, we got bumped up to the 05:00 slot. So now we're second. So hopefully a few more people will be there, you know?
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:16:25] Speaker C: So slightly better slot.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: Okay, yeah. A great slot that's coming out. We'll be sure. We'll be sure to be over there. And we're in a good spot over here. What do you get as far as. As far as fair food and stuff? Cause we're looking. I know they're gonna have catering. You're gonna have access to all that stuff wearing that artist tag, but looking over there, you've got, like, the sausage grill with the fucking cheesesteaks and all of that. I don't know what a Mac daddy is, but I'm intrigued. There's, like, all this stuff, like, what is your kind of go to at an event like this?
[00:16:54] Speaker C: I've been eating really well for a while. I might actually cave and get myself a little funnel cake if they got it. Oh, funnel cake.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: Got it.
[00:17:01] Speaker C: I'm like a fried. No.
[00:17:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Danny. Danny back there in the tent. She's one of our festies.
She got some funnel cake in Clinton, Iowa. Blew her mind.
[00:17:10] Speaker C: I'm a fool for it, dude.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, the food out here is fantastic. Seeing all the vendors out here, the infusion of the truck culture with this festival is really cool. You got Jack Daniels over there. You got Red Bull over there. You got Tito's. You got all these different things going on. Of course, the folks from country financial, our boys from nothing fancy are here. We get to be here. It's a lot of fun, man. And what a way to kick off the day. And that guy right there, huggin old Nikki T. Austin Jones.
[00:17:37] Speaker C: What up, brother?
[00:17:39] Speaker B: One of the. One of the guys that has helped put this whole thing together. And we're gonna have to give. Give him a big old hug. We got him and Wayner coming on tomorrow, I think so. We got him, Wayner Lakeview and locade coming on tomorrow, which we're excited about. Then we got Colby Cooper and Ben Chapman coming on on Sunday. Wyatt Flores here yesterday, and it was cool. And Wyatt popped up due to the unfortunate events yesterday. Wyatt popped up in a. In a truck bed and played a. A full acoustic set for everybody, which.
[00:18:08] Speaker C: Is such a g move, dude. I mean, he didn't have to do that. And, like, the fact that he did is, like, I think that's super cool.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree with that. It's really cool, man. It's really cool to have you here and have you as a part of the. The raise rowdy family again. You're. You're what we call day one. Oh, shit, brother. I don't know if we can get your feet up there to show the kicks. We might be able to with the camera. Tell us about these fucking shoes.
[00:18:29] Speaker C: So I'm a bit of a sneaker head.
[00:18:30] Speaker B: Just a bit.
[00:18:31] Speaker C: Just. It's become a problem in past, but.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: I can see Shelby smirking over there when she is. I got a little bit of a problem with how much. How many sneakers I own. How many sneakers do you think he owns, Shelby? How many pairs of sneakers does he own? A full closet? Are we talking.
[00:18:46] Speaker C: I have 30. I have racks. I have, like, the shoe racks where you, like, that stack up. They're plastic boxes that you, like, unfold to cases.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:55] Speaker C: So I keep those duck display cases almost.
I quit buying them for a little while just because I was like, it's getting out of hand. So these are the. The new edition pumps. Reebok pumps.
[00:19:06] Speaker B: They don't.
[00:19:06] Speaker C: Unfortunately, they don't pump like the old ones did. Yeah, but these were like a fucking steal, dude. I got these for $80.
[00:19:13] Speaker B: For $80?
[00:19:14] Speaker C: $80? Yeah.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:19:15] Speaker C: I honestly wanted to buy, like, five more of the different colors and shit. I was like, stop, dude. You're out of hand here.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: That's awesome. Well, Clayton, I appreciate you coming on.
[00:19:25] Speaker C: Thank you, brother.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: Can't wait for your set. I know there's some folks trickling in right now. If you can hear us out there, Clayton Shea playing the side stage. 05:00 sharp, baby. It's 05:00 somewhere. It's going to be 05:00 here in Bloomington, Illinois. And the hometown boy Clayton fucking Shea is going to be on the stage and on the side stage. And we're very excited. And what's really cool, too, I'm helping him see the main stage, which is a lot. It's gonna be wild. Introduce our church tonight. It's gonna be. It was wild. Jelly roll and shine down and bailey last week, but we're gonna have Nikki T. Involved this week, and he's gonna be helping us out with the side stage.
[00:20:01] Speaker C: Let's go.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: You'll have Nikki T. Is gonna be like, you're at live oak.
[00:20:05] Speaker C: It's gonna feel like home band.
[00:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah, dude. It's gonna be great. It's gonna feel like home at home. So, Clayton Shea, everybody. Be sure to look him up. Clayton Shay music stream the songs that are out right now. And he's gonna have some more stuff coming. He's been. He's spending a lot of time cooking in the kitchen right now, getting on those writing retreats, and buying sneakers in his spare time. So y'all be sure to check out our boy, Clayton Shea. We'll be back with some more podcasts after this is outside the round, live on location at Tailgate and Tallboys, Bloomington, Illinois.
[00:20:33] Speaker C: Boom.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: And we are back. Tailgate and Tall boys, 2024, Bloomington, Illinois.
And we are here at day two, and it has been awesome thus far. The energy is back up. The bands are sound checking. Got a great night. Eric Church, Paul Cawthon, El King. Our boy Tyler Braden, who we just saw backstage. How are you girls doing? You girls doing good? Excited? Hell, yeah. That's awesome. Seen a lot of cowboy hats coming in here. Very excited about all that. And, yeah, happy to be here in Bloomington, Illinois, Tailgate and Tall boys, 2024.
And we have our boy, Mister Nate Kenyon, coming to join us in just a little while. Nate's going to be kicking off the day on the side stage here in just a little while. How my friends at BMC lights doing? Can you all hear me over there? Hell, yeah.
Across from our degeneracy. Love your trucks, all your lights and all that shit you got over there.
I can't hear you. I got headphones on.
Triangle sleep. I don't know. I don't know what you're saying. Come on over. Come a little closer. As Billy Currington would say. Oh, no, that's Dirk Bentley. Wrong, wrong. Curly haired guy from the two thousands. But yeah, happy to be here at Tailgate and tall boys, folks bringing in their chairs. All those GCI chairs. Those are good chairs. That's what we're sitting in right here.
Free aC. Free aC over at the BMC lights tent. So y'all be sure to go get you some of that free ac. You got any more of them cooling towels? We'll probably take a few of those if you got them. A cooling towel will be freaking awesome. But, yeah, we're on location. Had our boy Clayton Shay on earlier in this episode for day two, and we've had the folks that degeneracy has been at a high level.
Nikki T.
Why don't you come? Why don't you come join me? We got Nikki T. Here getting it going. How you guys do? I like those pants.
Cowhide and shit. Looks good.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: Hello.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: There's some good folks. The folks are starting to come in and they're bringing chairs. They know what they are doing. Look at that corn dog with the mustard. Yes. I got ridiculed last week in Iowa for only putting mustard on. They're like, you gotta put mustard and ketchup. I'm like, no, just mustard is perfect. That is a perfectly good corn dog. Oh, we got BMC lights over, bringing over some more towels. Let's go. Let's go. Strap me up.
Whoo.
Oh, it's so cold. It's gonna feel.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: Thank you so much. Yeah, absolutely. Appreciate it.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: So, Nikki, how you feeling on day two here, bud?
[00:23:18] Speaker A: It's beautiful. I mean, honestly, couldn't ask for better weather. Yeah, the vibes are also immaculate.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: The vibes are very immaculate.
[00:23:26] Speaker D: It.
[00:23:27] Speaker A: We got the rain out of the way, so it's going to be a great festival.
[00:23:29] Speaker B: Yeah, we got the rain out of the way and a great lineup today of some folks that we know very well personally and very excited for you to be making your TNT hosting debut. Yeah.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: On the side stage out here introducing the homies to man.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah. It's really cool that it's Nate who's going to be joining us here in just a few.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:23:48] Speaker B: Clayton Shea. Yep. And miss Laney Gardner, who Laney did our first. One of our first live pods that we ever did. Yep. Over at Live oak, me, you and Kurt. Before the wme takeover of Otr, we had.
We had Lainey on there, which was cool. So I love her sound. That song, 6ft deep is one of my. One of my favorites that I consistently jam and enjoy. So a lot of good stuff going on. Like you said, the vibes are just immaculate.
[00:24:16] Speaker A: Like, beautiful out. Everybody's in good humor, bringing their chairs and you're starting to see the folks filter on it.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: Big chair that guy's got that looks like a tent bag, but it's got a chair in it. They know what they're doing out here.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: The XL, baby.
[00:24:29] Speaker B: I love that Afro right there, too. That's. That is. You're ready to frickin go. We're gonna see that Afro head banging all weekend long here in Bloomington, Illinois. And it feels good to be out of town doing these festivals, dude, we do so many events in town, but it's nice to have the change of pace and get to see folks because that's how we kind of all started was by doing. Doing these festivals as patrons. So, yeah, to be out here doing this now, it's been a blast, dude, it's amazing.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: Very, very blessed to have these guys treat us the way they do here too, man.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: Dude, we were just eating and catering. That's absurd that we have access to catering. It was delicious. The taco meat was awesome. Hey, how are you guys doing out there? You guys doing good?
Any of you guys like shotgunning beers?
No. They're like, no, no. They were doing that in the product about you guys. You guys are looking at each other. They're like, we do like, we like shotgunning this. We'll provide the beers if you all come over. We will provide the beers over.
Come on.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: All right, here we go, boys.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Come on. I just got to check your ids. Hey, girls, let's get, um. Let's get two beers out of the cooler. Two bug lights, please. Two beers, please. And thank you. Go check the ids. There we go. That is a real Illinois id. You wouldn't believe how many of these fake Illinois ids I used to catch in Nashville. When I was a bouncer. So we got Braden, and. Yeah, Braden, we got. What was your name?
Braden Walker. And his middle name is Walker, so that's cool. Hey, Landon, let's get Landon Smith back out here. Landon, come on.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: I think he's gone.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: Landon.
Here, Landon, get you. Get you a beer? Get you a beer, boy.
No? Okay. No beer. You have a third that wants to do it, or we just go do it two way? Just go do it two way. Come on. Who want. Hey, there we go. Come on over. Let me just check your id real quick. Hey, we're about to do a shotgun in contest, and y'all grab me one of them trucker hats. Give me a foam trucker hat. Foam trucker hat. One more beer.
There you go. All right, Antonio. Hell, yeah. From Chicago. I like Chicago. That's a cool city. Well, we are about to do a little shotgun contest right here for this orange trucker hat. So Ike's gonna video it on what looks like a camera that is as old as he is. I can't. Yeah. Do you guys need keys? You guys gonna bite it open or what? Keys? Okay. They need a key. All right. Give them a key.
We'll do it. So, who do we think is going? We got. We got Braden, we got walker, and we got antonio. Who do we think we got our money on over there? Antonio. Antonio. They're all picking Antonio.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: They must know something.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: They must know something that we fucking know. We got our boy Nate Kenyon coming over. Nate's going to be playing on the side stage today. He's going to be coming over here. Joining us, for those of you watching right here, we are raised rowdy. We're a country music, lifestyle branded media company out of Nashville, Tennessee. You'll see me on stage Mc ing the main stage tonight, and you will see Nikki T. On the side stage emceeing everything, so. All right, here we go. All right.
Let's see the countdown. Ready? Here we go. Three, two, one. Salud. Uh oh. Uh oh. Uh oh. Uh oh.
Man. Y'all were betting on Antonio. You fucking lost.
[00:27:56] Speaker C: All right.
[00:27:56] Speaker A: Come on and say hello.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: And were you Walker? Were you Braden Walker? Braden. You're Braden Walker? Whatever your last name is. Hell, yeah. That's awesome, dude. Hey, you guys go over there, pick out some koozies. You guys each get a koozie for participating, and go on over, check out our razor outdy merch tent. We're running a deal on the hats. They're 35 apiece, or you can get two of them for 60. We're also giving away that orca cooler right there if you join our mailing list. So go on over, check out our stuff, keep the girls busy. We brought them all the way up from Nashville with us on a long drive, and then, Landon, let's get you back out of your boy.
We got our boy Landon Smith right here.
Landon has been our correspondent in the tailgate, in the parking lot party.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: Hold on.
[00:28:42] Speaker B: See if we can get his headphones on there. Yeah, we're good. We got it. All right. Take a seat there, young buck.
Landon, how you feeling?
[00:28:53] Speaker E: Great.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: Great.
[00:28:54] Speaker E: A lot better than yesterday, honestly. It's bright, it's sunny.
[00:28:57] Speaker A: Less rain. Less rain, which is great.
[00:28:59] Speaker E: Hopes are high. Hopes are high.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: I think we're good, this one?
[00:29:03] Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
[00:29:04] Speaker B: Yeah. I think that we're doing. We're doing very well. I mean, the lack of clouds in the sky. Now, how has you been out in the parking lot with Sir Ike, who was in rare form yesterday, when you bring, when you bring a content guy out on the road and there ends up not being music and he kind of. He or she has free range to just go, hey, guys.
Our oldest saying with raise, rowdy, is drink all the beers. And Ike did more than drink all the beers. He drank whatever was put in front of him and spilled it, too. And spilled it and had a great time. So what was the, what are the vibes out there in the, in the camper area?
[00:29:40] Speaker E: There are a lot more day drinkers today. Ten times more day drinkers than last. Hey, there we go. There's one. Yes, sir.
Big day drinker.
But, yeah, like, the day drinkers are insane right now. There was people playing beer dye and corn hole.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: What is beard?
[00:29:55] Speaker E: I guess a beer dye. It's like a. It's like if you get a ping pong table and then raise it up maybe about, like six inches. And so it's like about. It's about nip high, I would say.
[00:30:04] Speaker A: Nip I. Good measurement angle.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:30:06] Speaker E: Maybe a little lower, you know, who knows? But there's a. There's four cups, one on each corner, and there's a divider line in the middle, and you get a die a dice, and there's two players on each team. You have to throw it up. It's got to go 6ft above the table, and it's got to land on the opponent's side. The die does. And what you want to do is either let it bounce on their side and go off the table. They can try to catch it, and that's one point, it can hit the red solo cup, and that's two points. And if it goes in the red solo cup, that's three points. And it's really hard. You can do, like, lofting stuff. So, like, for not lofting or whatever it's called, it, like, hits the table and the. The other team, like, needs it up and grabs it. That's their point. Oh, so there's, like. It's a con.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: It's a game of offense and defense. Yes.
[00:30:54] Speaker E: And, like, you can't. You can't, like, catch the die against yourself. You have to catch it freehand interest, and you have to have a drink in your hand.
[00:31:02] Speaker B: Wow. Wow.
[00:31:03] Speaker E: So you only get one hand. It's crazy.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: That's a lot of game to drink. A couple cold beers.
[00:31:09] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. And cornhole.
[00:31:11] Speaker B: Yeah, lots of cornhole. I'm sure we got our cornhole boards out here. They are red, white, and blue, so therefore they are the best.
And then what bits were you doing out there? What were we asking people today?
[00:31:20] Speaker E: We were just really partying with people. We had a spelling bee.
[00:31:23] Speaker B: Oh, God. You did so great in the spelling bee.
[00:31:26] Speaker E: Landing mayhem. M a h a m. Mayhem.
[00:31:33] Speaker B: How you got into Georgia Southern University, it is beyond me how you got in there, but I'm glad the vibes have been going well.
[00:31:42] Speaker E: No, the vibes are great. I can't wait to go back out and see what's going on.
[00:31:45] Speaker B: Pure chaos.
[00:31:47] Speaker E: Pure chaos. Probably. I gotta find out. Find a cornhole game to be a part of.
[00:31:52] Speaker B: Sweet. Yeah. We're waiting on Nate Kenyon. Oh, he's got a celebrity guest with him. He's got the one, the only, Mister Mark Addison Chandler this week. So Mark. Mark should be coming over here soon, which will be cool. How you guys doing over there? You guys doing well?
Hell, yeah. Ready to party? Looking awfully right. I like those pink converse over there. Solid. Big, big, big. So tonight we get to see Eric Church at a festival, which doesn't normally happen. We don't know what iteration of Eric Church we're going to see. Are we going to see the full band? Are we going to see Justin? Eric Church acoustic?
[00:32:31] Speaker A: I don't know, man.
[00:32:32] Speaker B: Either way, he's gonna be awesome.
[00:32:33] Speaker A: Thing with Eric Church, you just never know.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: You never know what you're gonna get. It's like a box full of chocolates. Eric church box full of chocolates. And then you get to see big velvet. Paul Cawthon gets l. King. I'm very excited to introduce Paul Cawthon tonight. Very, very very excited to watch Paul Cawthon tonight. He puts on an incredible show. He's gonna be sweating his ass off just like we are at the table.
[00:32:56] Speaker A: Hey, man, it's all for the love of the music.
[00:32:58] Speaker B: I know, dude. It's all for the love of the music. I don't know. Nate's gonna wear. Nate Smith's gonna wear his jacket tomorrow. Yeah, Nate always wears the jacket, so he might have to go t shirt. He might have to come up with a raccoon shirt or something.
Maybe he'll. Maybe he'll wear that under the jacket before he takes his jacket off. But we got our boy Nate Kenyon coming up here in just a little bit, so y'all stick around. Great scenery.
Cowboy boots are out in full force right now. We see those. How y'all doing? You guys looking. Looking raised rowdy. We love that. That's awesome. And. And, yeah, we'll be right back when we get our boy Nate Kenyon over here. This is outside the round, live on location at Tailgate and Tallboys 2024. See how we doing today?
I said tailgate and tall, boys. How we doing today? There we go. She's listening. At least there's someone. What's good? It's Matt Perill. We're getting ready to get the things going. Happy to have some freaking music today. Day two is going to be awesome. Who's excited for Eric Church?
Fuck, yeah.
We got l. King coming up. We got Paul Cawthon. We got our boy Tyler Braden soundchecking right now. He'll be on the main stage, and we got some really good friends of ours on the side stage as well. We got my man right here. You're gonna see him on the side stage a little bit. Hey, do we have any of these that are cold? Can we get a cold? Surfside? Come and take a seat right here. We got our boy, mister Nate Kenyon right here.
[00:34:26] Speaker D: What's going on?
[00:34:28] Speaker B: How you doing, my guy?
[00:34:29] Speaker C: Good, buddy.
[00:34:30] Speaker D: I just. Terrible at travel plans, bro.
[00:34:33] Speaker B: Hey, it's take one of those two if you haven't had one yet. That's our new. Our new sponsor raise, Rowdy. It's called Surfside vodka. Yeah, dude, drink it. Drink it up, bub. Drink it up.
[00:34:43] Speaker D: How are y'all doing, you guys?
[00:34:45] Speaker B: There we go. Our crowd. A crowd of a couple people right there. We got Mark, Addison, Chandler right there. What's up? Grindout? Shout out. Grindouts in the house, baby. Yeah. It's like a vodka iced tea. It's a brand new sponsor with raised rowdy so they're known to be pretty tasty.
[00:35:01] Speaker D: It tastes dangerous.
[00:35:03] Speaker B: Yes, sir. How's the ride? How was the ride getting up here? It was good.
[00:35:06] Speaker D: It was just. Yeah, ended up having some. A little bit of vehicle trouble and so. But thankfully, we also too. I thought I was playing at 233 15, so God was looking out.
[00:35:15] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:35:16] Speaker D: And then. So I thought I had, like, a 25, 30 minutes window that I was gonna make it here.
[00:35:20] Speaker B: But we're good.
[00:35:21] Speaker D: We got to relax a little bit.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: That's the beauty of festival season. It is. It is chaos with no order, but somewhat of an order. Oh, the save a horse, ride a face guys are back.
They've been a staple for us all weekend.
They're part of the truck show. So have you been up. You've toured in Illinois before, right?
[00:35:44] Speaker D: I've been up here before. I actually did Tailgate and Tallboys years ago. Not. Not too long, but back when I was rolling with the LAx boys.
[00:35:51] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Back in, like, back in Peoria, the old school days. Yeah. That's awesome, dude. And it's funny you bring up the lax. That was actually where you and I first met. We met at a theater in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2016 or 17. Yeah, I was still redneck, Matt. That's how far back this goes.
And, yeah, it was a wild night, and you were out on the road with those guys and to see kind of how you transformed over the years and really kind of found yourself as an artist because you were out there. How are you doing that? How old are you?
[00:36:24] Speaker D: I'm 33 now.
[00:36:25] Speaker B: You're 33? So that was it. You were like, like, late twenties, like, figuring it out. Kid from South Georgia, from Baxley. And to see, like, where you're at right now, dude, do you think you've kind of, like, found yourself as a writer? Like, what the Nate Kenyon sound really is 1000%.
[00:36:41] Speaker D: That time that I was back home when I met, you know, when me and the lacks linked up, that's when I really honed in on exactly how I wanted to write songs. And then when I came back to Nashville, because I had that little, like, year and a half, two year, like, hiatus where I was back on dirt roads. When I came back, I just, like, I knew exactly where I wanted to be.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. How would you kind of describe your. Your journey of, like, getting to where you're at now? Being in. Being in your early thirties and being like, an og to some other guys, like, you've. You're helped bring along these kids that were in the position you were in like a decade ago, making a lot of mistakes.
[00:37:15] Speaker D: And so, and that's, I feel like that's with the, with the new kids and stuff like that who are coming to town, who kind of came right after me. It's like, it was like, hey, literally do as I say, not as I do because like it's, you know, it's, it's a weird industry to be in and every once in a while you do take missteps and the best thing you can do is keep somebody else's boots out of that shit.
[00:37:35] Speaker B: Yeah, 100%. Now doing festivals like this. Something you've had some experience doing this place today. I'm watching the time too. So I'm gonna be, we're gonna be going, we're gonna be going over there, introducing you on the stage too, which is a real full circle moment for us.
Which is. Dude, it's, it's cool. And tailgating told us we were out in Clinton, Iowa with these guys last week. And the midwest does it right. You know, it's different. We do a lot of the southern festivals and Nikki T and I both being northeastern guys, but there's something about being out in the heartland and it's good fucking people out here in the midwest and blue collar folks. We got the truck show as a part of this. Campers for days out there. The good fair food festivals are fun, aren't they?
[00:38:17] Speaker D: Thousand percent. That's actually, it's more often than not. It is my, my favorite things to do. And also too, I think that we ended up bonding over the fact that. So I claim Georgia because that's kind of like where like the big years happen. Yeah, I'm from, I'm from the northeast. I'm from New England.
[00:38:34] Speaker B: Oh really?
[00:38:35] Speaker D: Yeah, I moved to Georgia when I was like twelve.
[00:38:37] Speaker B: I didn't know that.
[00:38:37] Speaker D: All my family's up in like western Mass.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: I didn't know that. I did not know that you were a western Massachusetts guy. My guy. Yeah. So that's wild. So you spent more time in Georgia or more time up there?
[00:38:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:38:50] Speaker D: So I mean like the childhood years went like the really, really young was down in, or was up in Massachusetts, but, but I feel like the really like.
[00:38:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:38:58] Speaker D: When I fell in love with music for real and when I got my heart broke for the first time or stole my first beer like it was all down in Georgia.
[00:39:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. What is it? What is it that's in the water? Specifically in south Georgia? There's so many of you guys and girls that come up. I've fallen in love with towns like Statesboro, Tifton, Valdosta, Savannah. I haven't been through Baxley, but there's something about just a wave of songwriters and an appreciation for. For country music and portraying that. That lifestyle through song that you guys do so well in South Georgia. What is it about a place like back sleeve or that. That South Georgia region that just produces monsters in the writing and music industry? Man?
[00:39:40] Speaker D: I really don't honestly, like, I think so it's a mixture of two things. I think it's because the things that you hear on the radio and some of these, like, hit massive songs, we literally live. What are in those songs.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:39:56] Speaker D: Even though if people are like, oh, the song is so cliche. No, it's actually.
[00:39:59] Speaker C: This really happens.
[00:40:00] Speaker D: So I think that. And I think just, like, I mean, slightly, there's also, too, a mixture of the idea of going to. Being a famous country singer, like, going and writing songs in Nashville. We love our towns. But also, too, like, sometimes you do want to get out and you want to be able to do bigger, better things and pay some homage to. To where you're from. So I think that that inspires a lot of people to take the lead.
[00:40:20] Speaker B: Who were some of the guys that you kind of looked up to? Because I think, like, the kids that are coming right now, like, we have a kid back there. We have Landon Smith. He's a Statesboro kid. That's coming up. You have, like, the Gavin Adcox. You have, like, the guys, like, Dylan Marlowe, who are really starting to break through. But, like, for your era coming up, was it like the Swindells?
[00:40:35] Speaker D: I moved to Nashville because Cole was the straw that broke the camel's back. I didn't know him. I actually. What's funny is we just met each other officially, like, maybe a year ago.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:40:46] Speaker D: But at this point, he has still had a Facebook that you could, like, get ahold of.
[00:40:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:52] Speaker D: And, like, he. What? He wasn't, like, the big, big swindle that he is now, but I literally reached out to him when I was in at GSU, and I was like, I want to move to Nashville. What do I do? And the only advice that he gave me, he was like, you just got to do it. There's no trick. There's no backdoor. He's like, you just got to go. And so. And, like, him saying that, I was like, all right, I'm going. Going.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Absolutely doable. What do we got as far as new music? And stuff to look forward to this year.
[00:41:14] Speaker D: Working on a new album, working on stuff that's going to be coming out, some new touring, and just like, man, just really excited for everything. So.
[00:41:21] Speaker B: Hell yeah, buddy. Well, I'm excited. And let's catch up more in Nashville and hang out. We're getting ready. Nate Kenyon about to go on the side stage here at Tailgate in Tall Boys, Bloomington. Literally, you are the first music. You are the first artist that we are hearing all fucking weekend here. So that's awesome. You're literally kicking it off. You're kicking off the damn party now.
[00:41:40] Speaker D: I got. I got some surfside of me, so.
[00:41:43] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, crank it up. Enjoy. We're good. We'll see you over there at that side stage, y'all. Give it up for a boy, mister Nate Kenyon.
[00:41:49] Speaker D: Thank you. Love you, buddy.
[00:41:50] Speaker B: And be sure to go over. Nate goes on starting out kicking this thing off acoustically. 315. So in about eight minutes, Nate will be on the stage and we will be rockin and rolling. It's gonna be awesome. So we'll bet we're getting ready to go over there. Appreciate you guys and girls for hanging out with us another day. We'll be back here tomorrow for another round of live pods at Tailgate and Tallboys.
Tomorrow. We have got the boys from Lakeview, Jesse and Luke, two of our good brothers.
We've also got Locade, a new artist, coming out of Nashville. And we've got Wayne Klein and Austin Jones, who are members of USA concerts. They put this whole event on. So very excited to have them joining us. Well, for my man, for my man, Ike. Behind the camera for our hype man, the boy wonder, Landon Smith, Nikki T. Over at the sidestage, all the girls, all the crew. You gotta go. Go buy some shit. Go buy some stuff. Love the shirt land and sell him a t shirt. But anyway, we will see you guys tomorrow, and we'll see you. Let's get this day going. Day two of tailgate and Tallboys, Bloomington, Illinois, baby. Let the. Let's get the party going. Eric Church, L. King, Paul Cawthon, Tyler, Braden, Laney Gardner, Clayton Shea, and our boy, Nate Kenyon. Plus DJ Clippy D's after party tonight from midnight to 02:00 a.m. for those that can hang all day. So we'll see you all tomorrow. We'll see you all later over there at the stage. My name is Matt Barrel. This has been outside the round.
I ain't never been the kind for stiff in one place for too long. I ain't never been the best at sin?
I love you to a girl I love only got a couple tricks on my sleeve? They usually just make em leave? So if you love 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 suit trick on it, yeah?
