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Speaker 1 00:03:08 Yeehaw, yeehaw <laugh>. So Trevor Lawrence, officially a Jacksonville, Jaguar, what the fuck? Trevor Lawrence, dude, I love this guy. Yeah, man, it's been a wild, uh, wild 24 hours for you, man. I mean, we were, we were kicking it last night over at the, uh, Casa De job, Nikki t Dobro, Chris and yourself now hanging out there right now. Um, yep. Watching the draft and then fricking all my dances comes out, dude, <laugh> crazy stuff, dude. I didn't even plan that. I didn't even think about that. It's almost like, yeah, the drafts Thursday. I'm like, damn, my singing was coming out Thursday. Six. And you're like the world's biggest Jacksonville Jaguars fan. I'm the biggest Jags fan. You know, biggest Jags fan. You're in Na. I mean, hey, you and JD Groover. I mean, dude, my family's literally owned season tickets since the first year, which there's only, uh, you know, so many people that, you know, pledge to do that.
Speaker 1 00:04:02 So my dad, to be able to get the team, we had to have x number of people in Jacksonville basically pledge to b season ticket holders. So how, how old were you when you went to your first game? Three. You were three years old at your Yeah, I don't even remember it. We played the Oilers, I think. Yeah, we played the fucking Oilers. You know, now you're just aging yourself, bro. I think I, come on, I think I, I think I was like two years old when they moved to, when they moved the, uh, the Oilers in the Kim Titans here in Nashville, bro. Fucking old <laugh>. Fuck dude. It's freaking awesome to have you here. Cause uh, you were one of our first episodes. You were for me personally, um, you were the first guy I ever saw play Whiskey Jam. Like, I remember the, cause I moved here October, 2018.
Speaker 1 00:04:45 I remember coming to visit September, 2018 and leaving like, yo, this Ryan Nelson guy is the shit. Like, I would love to at some point do an interview, like get to know this guy. And now we're like, best buds. We hang out on the regular, bro. Yes. And it's freaking cool to have you here, man. And uh, you've, uh, you've got a lot of cool shit coming out. The first song off the new project, two Trick Pony is out. And, uh, bro, life life's pretty good, huh? Yeah, man, it's, it's, it's uh, it's been a wild ride. This all, all these record, like writing everything, then recording everything, then you're talking about releasing everything then starts to come out. It's like a, it's a surreal feeling. It's crazy. And, uh, you know, I'm, I'm just, honestly, I'm thankful that, you know, so many people were waiting for this stuff and were, you know, on my ass about it, getting it out.
Speaker 1 00:05:35 And, uh, I'm glad they're listening today, you know? Yeah, dude. Yeah, man. Awesome. The big, the biggest release, cuz we're recording this the day after this song came out, uh, on, uh, on Friday and, um, Friday, April, uh, the 30th. So you, if we were looking at the numbers earlier, like big one of the bigger releases you've had, right? Oh, for as far as like, you know, how fast it's climbing. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, we're at a thousand, we're at over a thousand streams right now on just Spotify. Yeah, dude. And it's like 1115. That's awesome, man. That's freaking badass. So, so that's awesome, man. That's so cool. So, so between the last time you put out music and now you've, you've developed having a team around you, like Yep. You've gone out there and, and been playing, playing a couple shows since then, like you've been just busting your ass, the content game's been high.
Speaker 1 00:06:22 Talk about this last year for you, uh, the new folks that you're working with and what's been going on in the world of Ryan Nelson? Yeah, it's, you know, it's weird cause uh, 2020 was such a, such a weird and, and fucked up year for so many people and including myself, uh, you know, at times, especially earlier on in the year when I didn't really have anything going on. And then the world shuts down and I, I see the impact it's gonna have on myself and my friends' careers and on really all artists at all, anybody in entertainment. So it, I was really down about it, uh, early on. And then, um, like about like halfway through the year, uh, we just kind of, myself and Matt Wallace and Jelly Roll just kind of fell into this d deal. How, which is cool. How'd you first get to meet those guys?
Speaker 1 00:07:07 Because those guys, they, although they're, they're involved in, in the countryside and they're trying to get more involved by bringing a guy like you around, um, how'd you get to know those guys? Because they're kind of in a, they're in a different lane than what you've been, the crews you've been like hanging with, like how'd come to be I really Matt Wallace. I mean, he's the connecting figure there. Cuz when I, when I first moved to town and was first really getting to know anybody, that's when I met the Muscadine guys. And Riley Green and all that stuff was at Matt Wallace's office. So, I mean, I've known Matt a really long time. He's always liked my stuff, but, you know, I needed to develop more as an artist before he could seriously consider working with me. But he always liked what I was doing and, you know, was encouraging me to keep going.
Speaker 1 00:07:44 He wrote with me a bunch, we wrote, show up drunk together, we wrote, I'd still love her together. So, I mean, we wrote a bunch and, and, and just, you know, maintained a friendship through, you know, all the years I've been here. And then I told him about, you know, a contract that I had received that I thought was pretty lopsided and I didn't, I didn't like it, I didn't wanna sign it. And I was like, am I crazy for not wanting to sign this? You know? Cause it's a, it's a good opportunity, you know? So I sent it to Matt, which I did with every contract I ever received. I sent it to Matt and, uh, he was like, yeah dude, <laugh>, if you sign that I'm gonna kick your ass. In fact, if you sign that, I'm gonna kick whoever's ass, like send you that, you know?
Speaker 1 00:08:26 And I was like, totally man, I hear you. So then like the next day he called me and he was like, Hey, um, what would you think about like signing over here with me and Jelly? You know, basically like the day after I sent him that, you know, pretty, pretty lopsided contract. And he was like, you know, just like, damn, still ain't nobody gave Ryan Nelson a chance in this town. Like, shit, I guess I'm gonna have to do it, you know, <laugh> damn it. Yeah. So when was that? That was, was that before the world shutdown? So we, we tracked the, we tracked the two trick pony project in June, so that was like, it, we talked, talked on the phone in June and by the end of June I was in the studio. Yeah. That's like, we got right on the music side. Damn.
Speaker 1 00:09:09 You know? And then I didn't sign the deal till August, so I was in the studio, you know, they're spending money on me. We hadn't even signed a deal cuz we're, we're fucking boys. That's the difference. It's, it's a, it's a gentleman's agreement, just bros who've been in the game for a little while. Right. And, you know, there's a ton of mutual respect between myself and, and Matt Wallace and, uh, and, you know, he's taught me so, so, so much. Um, and we write together and like I said, we, we have a great relationship. So, you know, I wasn't worried about any of the contractual stuff. I was like, let's get in the studio and we'll figure out a contract. Yeah. Because he knows I'm not gonna sign a shit contract <laugh>, you know? Yeah, no, but you, if he's the guy you're gonna show it to anyway.
Speaker 1 00:09:48 I mean, like, that's, that's your point. So we gotta, we got a really fair deal that we pretty much and our lawyers design together. That's awesome. It's not like other deals, you know? Yeah. Which is awesome. I mean, damn, that's yeah's it been, what's it been like creating with Jelly Roll? Because you've, you had a feature on, um, his latest release. Um, he's been, he's been kind of blowing up as like, as like a figure too. I mean, I, yeah. I didn't really know too much about him until I moved to town, but like now you see him like, kind of everywhere, so he's kind of blowing up too as you're about to start putting shit out. Right. What's it been like kind of creating with a guy from here in Antioch and in the, in the rap game, like it, you know, it's, it's, I it's super awesome.
Speaker 1 00:10:28 I mean, he's super talented. He can sing rap, he can, I mean, he can do all sorts of stuff with his crazy voice and I love it. And he's still himself on every track, even if it's a completely different genre, which I feel like I can do the same thing. And that's why when I'm writing with Jelly, dude, we're writing hip hop and we're running r and b stuff, I'm writing r and b hooks and I've always done that. I've, I've been on several rap tracks at this point, like, but the one with Jelly Roll, that was like a, you know, not just a fun like, time I get to do hip hop music, but like, that was one of the bigger tracks. I've been a part of it all. So that was really cool to get to work on that. And dude, I mean, like, he, he's super fun to work with, man, if you got something that's dope, he's gonna like it.
Speaker 1 00:11:11 And then you, and then you listen to him go freestyle on that thing for a couple seconds and Yeah. Sounds like he already wrote a verse. Maybe he did. I don't even know. <laugh>, he just starts spiting out words. I'm like, how does he do this? Like, I don't get it. Yeah. So, yeah, he, he kicks ass man. And um, you know, I, I really love being on a team with a bunch of guys who are in hip hop. Cause country's always been behind hip hop in so many ways, always. Like, literally they're chasing it. And they didn't start blatantly chasing it until, you know, maybe more recently, but hell, there's, there's elements of it that have always kind of permeated, especially, especially the business. Um, right. The bus, the business has been getting more there and just like the streaming and the way the music's taken in and all that stuff, we were definitely, we, we, we do things our own way here and kind of catch up.
Speaker 1 00:11:56 Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, but, uh, dude, like I was saying earlier, like you were one of the, when I moved to town, I was potentially wanting to go into radio. I bounced on Broadway and I was just trying to get out to as many like, whiskey jams and all that stuff, right. And wherever I was going these places, it's funny because it was like, it was you, it was Joby, it was Rowdy Rob, it was farin, it was all these people now that like, it's, it's cool to like kind of think about back then and now freaking be like partying with you guys, man. And we, hell yeah. We're glad to have you that second half of 2020, bro. We, I think you and I became boys and I'm a, I'm a I'm a Yankee. You you, you're the Florida man from Jacksonville. You're Ryan Damn Nelson.
Speaker 1 00:12:36 Um, and we like the second half of 2020, bro. Kickball bro. Let's talk about kickball. Kickball for a sec. Six in the outfield baby. I rolled up the first day. I was late, the first day of kickball. I rolled up super late, no, not super late, maybe like 10 minutes after y'all started. And I had a sig in my mouth and a bunch of beers in my, in my, uh, like shirt that I was like keeping in my shirt. So no one saw 'em <laugh>. And then I like went to the dugout and like put all the beers down and had this sig in my mouth and I ran out there. I'm like, what side am I on? They're like, you're in the field. I'm like, okay. Fucking SIGs in the outfield baby <laugh>. And I just was ripping SIGs in the outfield all the time.
Speaker 1 00:13:15 And then Maddy started ripping SIGs in the outfield. And then, yeah, dude, we were just ripping heaters, like playing in the outfield. Dude, it's fucking great <laugh> dude. Honestly, like the, the crew. That to me was like the saving grace of 2020. Cuz as, as a guy who tours and does a lot here in town and, and I mean just in general, everybody's life was fucked in 2020 at some point. It was tough at one point in time. That second half though, bro, some of the best months, the second half was very redeeming my life. Yeah. It was redeeming. And I, I think, well I think we all settled into the, the reality of the situation, which early on you, you just like are getting bombarded by it, you know? So I think maybe after you settle into an idea of something, it gets a little less bleak.
Speaker 1 00:13:57 But at the same time, the kickball and then I had just signed this deal and I was already recording music, so I was like on a high, like, damn well I got all this music coming out and like, I mean dude, I'm, I'm not like making money right now. <laugh>. Okay. Like, it doesn't mean you make money just cuz you sign a deal. If you sign like a huge deal and they give you a huge signing bonus, then you're rich. But if you don't do that, you know, you don't really make a lot of money. So it wasn't like I was like drowning in money, but I was just stoked to be working in the right direction with artistically and like getting the music done and not having to worry about like the prize. Just making it happen. Yeah. Which was super cool. Yeah. And then, you know, then we had the kickball and uh, bro, we were all just partying every week at, at somebody's house, like different parties at different houses.
Speaker 1 00:14:45 I mean, dude, you think about sitting around the fire at your place singing Dick down in Dallas for the first time over at Nick Haynes place. <laugh> dude that was fucking, it's wild. Great dude. It's wild, ain't it? I still remember that night. That's like him playing that song for the first time. And I jumped up, I was screaming, I was like, hell yes. I was like, you better cut that. You better cut that. Or I'm gonna cut it. <laugh> dude. Wild. Wild. Uh, wild, wild shit. Um, and then dude, summer camp, let's talk about, so it's funny, I think in that first episode, cause I was listening back to it, we had talked about how you were like tight with the raised, rowdy guys and they, most of 'em were still in Pittsburgh. I think Derek was down here. Yeah. Possibly a few others.
Speaker 1 00:15:24 But like Nikki wasn't down here yet. Right. And like Heather and Brandy weren't like involved. Like it wasn't what it is now. Yeah. And you think about like summer camp, bro. Ray's rabbit Summer camp was summer camp, bro. What a good time. Summer camp was so awesome dude. And let's talk about those guys for a sec because I feel like we definitely grew in 2020 as a writer's round, like with what we were doing. You were part of a lot of that. Absolutely. You were one of the guys that was not afraid to go out there and play. And we thank you for that. I remember that first round we had you, we had Jordan Fletcher, I think Tyler Chambers was on there. Like we had a, we had a solid lineup that that first one back and the raised rowdy folks have been coming in. You're the fucking logo <laugh> for Rowdy on the Row.
Speaker 1 00:16:03 One of Nashville's biggest writers around. Yeah. That's crazy. It's a picture of you holding the most accurate Ryan Nelson song. Let's play for beer. Dude, that's totally it, man. I mean, shit, I'm a rowdy guy, you know what I'm saying? I like, when I, when I first met those people, when I first like messaged Nick on Instagram, I didn't even know anything about Raised Rowdy. I was just like, I love that name. And Oh, rowdy Rob, I saw him wearing a raised rowdy hat one night. I was like, damn, what is that dude? He like, I don't know, they just sent me it, it's like a company. I'm like, oh, that's pretty cool. And then I seen him on Instagram like posting stuff and I was like, damn, I gotta figure out who this like, it's gotta be somebody we know. And it totally wasn't, it was Nick and he lived in Pittsburgh, but like, you know, just right away me and Nicky got along cuz we're both like legitimately like raised, rowdy son bitches.
Speaker 1 00:16:54 Like <laugh>. I was, yeah. I was raised by a crazy father who's a rowdy son of a bitch, right? Yeah. He's a rowdy sum bitch. The man. And my, my mom's a rowdy sum bitch. I mean, <laugh>. Oh, Rab Rab Rab is a good time, man. Yeah, that's crazy. And something other, something else that, uh, we've gotten to do together. Um, I've, I've spent some time out on the road with you now and when we were in Florida, bro, and, uh, it was, um, it was where it was Middleburg Sanford first and then we went to Gainesville and then the next weekend was Middleburg. Yeah, bro. We did Gainesville was like, so all those, all those shows were a lot of fun and, and awesome. But the one in Middleburg near your hometown. Oh yeah. When, when, when Old Rab Rab Patterson just, just gets up there and plays the harmonica, bro, dude like a gangster.
Speaker 1 00:17:41 What a cool freaking moment. He's good at it too. He's good. What was that like? Oh, that was awesome. I I told him a couple days before I was like, Hey, when we do this Middleburg, you know, show I'm gonna have you come do a song. So let's figure out, had he ever done that with you before? Uh, yeah. He, like, whenever we'll play, like locally there, like we'll play up at Monkey's Uncle in Jacksonville or like little local spots. Like he'll come and like do a song, but never on like a big like artist show that I'm doing, you know what I'm saying? Like a ticketed show, right. Like a real big show. Like, nah, he's never done that before. So that was really cool. I mean, that was probably the biggest crowd he's played in front of so far. You know, <laugh>, it was just awesome.
Speaker 1 00:18:20 It was badass. I was like, yeah, yeah, man, the, the Ryan Nelson, even though it was just acoustics still rocked, like still freaking just, you're up this thing. Well I've to do that for so long, you know, I've had to do, I've had to be able to entertain a crowd of, at times thousands of people with just an acoustic guitar. So I mean, I, I'd put myself up there with the best of 'em at doing that. Yeah. I feel like I can do that. Where was your, where was your first time doing that? Your first opening, opening date? Man, I guess it would've been like opening for job when we were first touring with Job. Like we, I was playing bass and singing harmonies, uh, job Fortner by the way, if you don't know who I'm talking about. Um, yeah. But it was like myself on the bass doing harms, uh, Jordan Fletcher's drumming and then Dobro Chris playing Dobro and Pedal Steel.
Speaker 1 00:19:09 And then like, since me and Jordan both like were singers and everything, he would let us open the show and we would open it as a duo called Rayford at the time. And like, we would open the show acoustic and then be the band for job right. Afterward, you know, <laugh>. So it was fun. It was a lot of fun though. We had a really good time. Um, I've been playing acoustic at little bars and like doing little cover gigs and making tips and shit for, you know, a decade or more, but, but really getting to play real shows, like opening for people and there's a, like a pretty decent crowd and you actually gotta entertain those people that, that probably started with the job stuff. And then I did that with, with Riley Green Camp for a while and uh, you know, found my way onto random shows here and there.
Speaker 1 00:19:54 Had a booking agent for a while, so then I gotta play with a band band and like actually tour and that was cool. But, um, where were you going on the Ryan Nelson tour? What were, what were, what were some of those first dates? Man, so my booking agent was actually out of the Midwest, so I played a ton of Midwest dates. I got a bunch of fans in the Midwest now cuz I, I toured there and I mean like where I'm a southern boy, I wanna play for the South, but dude, unless you know a certain somebody uh, really wants you to play down south, you probably ain't gonna be playing too many times down south. So I didn't have the favor of that particular person. And so I was like with a boutique, you know, booking agent outta Indiana and he was putting me in Chicago and putting me in Wisconsin and Ohio and I was in in New York, York.
Speaker 1 00:20:36 What was, what was, what was the wildest place that you were as far as those Northern dude? I really, I really liked, uh, I really liked the Turning Stone in New York, uh, in the middle of New York, uh, by Verona, right? Or Yeah, yeah, Verona. Yep. Yep. Dude, that place was sick cuz all the casinos down south and on the Ohio and Mississippi River, don't let 'em hear me say this, but they kind of suck. I don't like, I don't really, really love casinos that much down south. Then I went to a casino in the north and I was like, oh, this, this is what it's supposed to be like. Like it, it was very lax in comparison. People weren't like, on edge, like all the security, like staring a hole through you and shit the whole time. It was, yeah, we don't, yeah, it's not like that.
Speaker 1 00:21:19 It was very lax. It's very, it's very chill. It was very lax and I had a really good time. I played people fucking loved It tipped me really well. It was, it was in, it was insane. I loved it. Now, who was in the Ryan Nelson band who was playing with you? You had Hudson playing with you? So I had Hudson on the road with me playing drums. Um, I had Aaron Thompson playing bass, um, and Dalton Stanley on guitar and then Dobro playing, uh, Dobo Bass Field. Oh yeah, that's a pretty freaking tight band, bro. Yeah, a bunch of Jacksonville dudes. Yeah. And then a and then a Louisiana guy and, you know, it was great. And, uh, we had Aaron, he's a Georgia guy, but we, I think we had somebody else on Bass two a couple times. I can't remember who it was, but yeah, it was, it was fun, man.
Speaker 1 00:22:00 I I, I want to get back to that. That's, that's really the goal right now and putting out this music is how I do that, you know? Yeah, dude, for sure. And there's a demand for you, you know, they'll find a way to get you there. Yeah. So let's talk about this project a little bit. The, the, the first single off of it, um, all My Dances, what went into that one? Um, what's like the, the story behind that and why lead off the, the whole project with that? Well, you know, the first, the first project I did with Grady with to sh was show up drunk and like, breaking the leather and stuff that was like songs that a lot of people had been like, if you don't cut that, you're an idiot, you know? And I just was like cutting these songs that I had just heard a lot of people be like, Ryan, you need to cut that song.
Speaker 1 00:22:44 And I'm like, okay, yeah, y'all probably should. So I did. That was what I did for the first one. And that's why they were all singles too. It was like, I don't know, these are kind of all separate songs, but they're kind of the, we, we recorded these in the same couple days, so it kind of is a project. But, so then on this new on on Two Trick Pony, I basically, you know, I talked with Grady and I was like, look man, I wanna do something that's more stripped down because like in Nashville, you know, you go in, there's like five or six guys in this band, in the studio band, and they're all incredible players and they just, like, they hear the song twice or once and they're just like killing it and tracking it for you. So it, they're incredible musicians, but a lot of times you lose a little bit of the artist's own thing because it is kinda like an assembly line fashion of doing music.
Speaker 1 00:23:37 Like, we can crank four songs out in four hours. So I told Grady, I was like, look man, let's do me, you and Saul, Saul Philcox, um, Littlefield, uh, he's amazing dude. <laugh>, he's like amazing and Grady's amazing and a, a super, super super, like he's one of a instinctual drummer. He's, he's the, that studio's one of our sponsors now, you know, oh, badass Studios they sponsor in the Round and Oh, great. Help out with the writers rounds and stuff. Hell yeah. So I mean, like, dude, I told, I told Grady, I was like, man, what I'd really love to do is just me, you and Saul and uh, you know, get in there and, and go through each song together and kind of just play our version of it. And I, I was like, I wanna play Bass <laugh>. And he's like, most producers would be like, fuck no, you're outta your fucking mind.
Speaker 1 00:24:30 And Grady's like, alright, <laugh>, I like it, you know, but I've been, I've been playing lots of different instruments for a long time, so I mean, and I, I've been tracking for a long time, so I'm pretty good at it. So I'm like, dude, I'll, I'll play the bass. You play the drums, Grady, and then we'll have Saul play guitar and then I'll go cut a vocal and if we need to put some overdubs, we can do it. And I think on this project there might have been two overdubs total on the whole project. All right. So I got a couple questions like about the project just real quick. So yeah, so Rowdy is song on the Project Rowdy a song probably two Trick Pony Over Me and Mine, me and Mine's rowdy too. That's what I'm saying. Me and mine's rowdy too. There's some rowdy shit.
Speaker 1 00:25:08 Same Mistakes is Pretty Rowdy. Yeah, yeah. Same Mistakes is there's some pretty rowdy shit on there. Yeah. Um, the song that's the most, like, the one that people are gonna be surprised to hear, I think all my dances, I think that's why we put it out first to be honest. I always love to do that. I put out Show Up drunk and everyone's like, oh, hell yeah, fucking, this is crazy Banger. Then I put out the way My Heart Breaks Next <laugh>, and they, but you rip every, you rip all of our hearts out, bro. And it's like the, those songs couldn't be more different from each other. And I love the juxtaposition of completely different feelings. I think that's so much cooler than me going in and putting out, you know, a song and then, oh, okay. People like that song. Okay, well let's, let's just make that song again.
Speaker 1 00:25:49 Like, fuck no, man. That's where so many of the guys in this town mess up. They're chasing something or they're chasing a fan group, or they're chasing something that, you know, if they just did them, it would na they would naturally find the people that really gravitated toward them. Oh, when, when you think Ryan Nelson, you definitely think authenticity, you know, like, thank you man, I appreciate you, you, you are you and, uh, and all and all that. So Rowdy is song, um, oldest song on the record, the one you've had the longest oldest song. You know, I wrote most of these songs at the very beginning of 2020, uh, by, by March 16th when I went to Florida for the quarantine, I had written like 35 songs or something like that. And so a lot of these came from that. Like two Trick Pony was in that, um, me and mine was in that same mistakes was in that, uh, losing things was maybe the oldest one wasn't the truck I wrote right around then too.
Speaker 1 00:26:47 Okay. So all my dances, oh no, all my, all my dances was 2019. So all my dances might have actually been the oldest one, but it wasn't even that old, like it was only a couple years old. And um, you know, the other one that was older, which one was that? Uh, losing things that was only maybe like a year old at the time. So, you know, they were all pretty young songs for me, songs I had done of recent. But I just like, I saw a sound kind of, sort of coming together and the fact that I had written them all in that short frame of time where I was in that same mindset, um, I I could see they just like looked like a, like an entity to me, like a project, you know? Yeah, no, I think it definitely is a, as somebody who's heard multiple mixes of it and uh, they, they sound like those songs all sounded great when we were freaking driving a bum fuck Ohio back in like September or whatever and you were getting those initial mixes back, like they're yeah, they're like mixed ones and they sound like trash.
Speaker 1 00:27:44 And we're like, dude, these sound great. <laugh>, I, I think they sound great. You're, you're, you're the guy making the music for a reason. I'm the guy who does what I do cuz I can't make the music, you know? Yeah. But, um, that's great. But dude, it's, it's freaking sick. Now, something I don't think we talked about in round one with Ryan Nelson back in the day, which by the way, very different vibe on this one. Remember, remember the first time you did a podcast with us <laugh>? Do you remember? Yeah. We were drinking liquor and, uh, yeah, you and smoking weed and stuff. You, you and Boudreau were were pounding a you were like, Hey, you got a beer, you got any beer? And Tyler pulls out a ginger beer and a bottle of whiskey. Yes. I was like, dude, perfect. And you make the most Ryan Nelson cocktail, but he gives you like a pint glass, you toss a couple ice cubes in and you make yourself a little little drink and you hear yourself sipping it on the episode.
Speaker 1 00:28:30 Now, today the ice cubes clanking around you. Now today we're chilling drinking coffee like, or is I gotta say it, back home. Coffee, um, coffee. We're drinking the coffee <laugh> because I knocked the damn microphone over and just chilling, man. Uh, which, which is pretty freaking dope. But that first episode, and I didn't know about this until now, being on the road with both you and, uh, and Jordan Fletcher, I didn't know about the, uh, when she comes home tonight, I didn't really like know about that when I first moved to town and stuff. Right. So this is a songwriter podcast. That's a pretty big cut for you mean you, you still play it in the, in the live show and stuff like Yeah, yeah. If I'm playing like one of those ticketed shows, yeah, I'm definitely gonna play. Yeah. What was, how long ago did you write that?
Speaker 1 00:29:14 Like what's the story behind all that stuff? So that was like 2017, I guess that was probably like early summer, like in May or something like that. And I had heard from Matt Wallace and, and Jordan that they wanted us to write with, um, with Riley cuz he, he was living in Alabama and stuff and writing, pretty much writing all of his songs by himself. And, uh, they wanted to get him with some, some Nashville co-writers and whatever. So they brought him into our circle. So he was writing with the Muscatine guys, he was writing with, you know, uh, Randy Montana and stuff like that. And Tyler Reeve who ended up producing his, uh, that project. But me and Jordan somehow wound up in that mix of writers and uh, we probably wrote like four songs in that year. And, um, I really, honestly, I love all of 'em.
Speaker 1 00:30:05 Riley Green's a hell of a writer. Jordan Fletcher's a hell of a writer. Both of them are just great writers. And so us three together kinda <laugh>, I mean we kind of smash songs. So I think all, all four of the ones that we wrote are, are super rad. Um, but the, uh, when she comes home, the night was the very first one and I didn't even know him at all. And they were like, yeah, dude, it's Riley Green guy. And I'm like, yeah, okay, okay. I looked him up and like listened to his stuff and it was like, it was like Guy Country, which I like Guy Country. I like Eric Church and Josh Thompson. That's like, that's like stuff I like. So I, I'm to not, not knocking that at all, but I'm like, dude, this guy's like a big handsome sum bitch. Like he need, he needs some like, you know, some, some lady songs, some songs for women, you know.
Speaker 1 00:30:52 And I'm, I, I'm sure he probably already had some, but just in the short sample that I heard, you know, I heard some guy stuff that I would probably listen to, you know, but I was like, that's what I was telling Jordan the morning we went in, I was like, dude, we need to write this guy. We need to write with this dude. Like, and get like a sick like song that women's gonna like. And uh, yeah, started out just Jordan was strumming the guitar. I just started shitting out the melody and Little line and they were all like, yep, <laugh>, that's it. And dude, we, I'm just meeting the guy right now and here we are. We're already like three lines into this song. I'm like, well, hell yeah. I don't even, Hey, I'm Ryan by the way, <laugh>, you know, and that's awesome.
Speaker 1 00:31:31 Uh, and like, dude, we wrote that song in like 45 minutes. It was crazy. No shit. And the long, the longest ride I ever had with Riley felt like, like it was long compared to all the other ones. Cuz the other ones were like 45 minutes. But we had one that was like an hour and a half and like, you know, I mean, writer's sessions are four hours, so we always just quickly just demolished songs. Me, Jordan and Riley. That's awesome. It was fun. It was really fun. But he ended up cutting that song on the project, uh, Outlaws Like Us, which what an awesome project to be a part of too. I love a lot of those songs and uh, those are some of the classics. So, uh, yeah, I'm, I'm glad to have been a part of what is considered one of the classics of Riley Green.
Speaker 1 00:32:11 That's great. <laugh> Hell yeah. You got, hopefully one day they'll single it. <laugh> <laugh>. Um, what was the, what was the road life like, uh, those days? Oh man. I mean, shoot, I've, I've done so many different like, versions of road life. It's crazy. Well, I'm saying with ri with Oh, with the Riley Cam. Yeah. Cuz like you guys, oh man, I'm guessing that relationship grows after those rights and you guys are like, hell, we write good songs together and Yeah, totally man. And, uh, his, his band, like I'm really, I I was really good friends with a lot of those guys. Like almost every dude in the band. Like they be, I mean, I've seen it with you and Ben Miller, you know? Yeah. Ben Miller, like dude, like, like him and, and Tyler Galloway and Andro and like, that whole band, like Quinn was really one of the only guys I was like meeting for the first time going out on the road with them.
Speaker 1 00:32:58 And Quinn's awesome, love Quinn, easy dude to get along with. So it was great, man. Like they always showed me a really good time. Ben Miller always took really great care of me. And, um, you know, we were playing big crowds, we were playing big rooms and I was going out there with acoustic guitar having to entertain, you know, thousand, 2000 people. And, um, shoot, it was a hell, it was a hell of a lot of fun. Dude. <laugh>, I just had as much dude. I would, I would drink their, what they call football in his little camp. I don't know if they still drink those, but it's Gatorade and vodka. I'd have two full solo cups of that and then I'd bring my third one on stage so I wouldn't be like, hammered, but I'd just be like, jeez, sauced up just enough to be like super fun.
Speaker 1 00:33:41 And I'd go out there and just have a blast, man. And I think everybody could tell I was having a blast. So if I'm having a blast, they're gonna be having a blast. That's my mindset, you know? Yeah. That's, that's freaking, that's freaking mind. That will show up drunk out at that point? Or is this before? No, that would've been, this would've been all pretty much before Show Up Drunk. I think my last show that I played with him, I had put out Show Up Drunk. Like I think my last time with playing with Riley was like 2019. And I think, yeah, by then I had, I'd had show Up drunk out for a few months, like maybe four months. Yeah, no, and because for me it's like Show Up Drunk was my first taste of Live Ryan Nelson, which also, well that whiskey jam that you made that time would've been Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:34:24 Uh, the September 7th. Yeah, it was right before nine 11, which was, uh, the day it came out. So that was the, that was me playing the Thursday night Whiskey Jam and it comes out at midnight and I'm like finishing off the show, like, yeah, hey, show of drunks coming out. Like it's on your phone right now. Go look at it. Yeah. I mean, I mean that Whiskey Jam, I mean that was that cause that visit, that trip when we came down here, it was, what, what the hell did we do? We, we went to a writer's round at Frisky Frogs, now Live Oak. Yep. Yep. We went to fricking see, see your, see your whiskey jamming shit, dude. And now, now we're down here. It's fucking cool looking back on. It's, it's awesome. Yeah, man, for sure. And seeing you full band, what'd you think of our, um, our four 20 takeover?
Speaker 1 00:35:05 Oh, that was so dope. You, you have a good time, man. That was so great. It was so nice to play with a band again. I hadn't played with a band in, in a long time and like over a year before that and, you know, I mean that's what I, that's what I'm in this for <laugh>, you know, I mean, it is fun to record. I do like to record and, and be part of the producing and, and, and get to make it, you know, like you're building it with Clay. Um, so that is a lot of fun. But man, the live aspect is a, is a, that that room, you can't separate it from that room. Rocks. And I was, the Sunday school thing kind of predated me a little bit. Yeah. And then I ended up, I would, I was always working on Sundays, so I would never see it.
Speaker 1 00:35:44 Um, I'd never get the opportunity to go. But seeing Grady and his and his boys rocking well they kill it dude, bro. They kill. I mean, you killed it too. And just seeing you with an electric guitar and like foot on the monitor at freaking light, like you're just going for it. Yeah. Baby. At, at a place where it's mostly writer's rounds. Like y'all took that stage and like completely changed it from what we were doing earlier in the night. Which those rounds were all great too. It was really fun. They were great rounds. Yeah. Having the Texas Boys Out, those boys are wild. I love, I like those guys a lot. They're, they're a hell of a time I gotta pick and choose my wild people cause uh, <laugh> we'll get arrested together. <laugh>. Yeah, yeah. No, I, and I agree with you on that for you.
Speaker 1 00:36:23 Absolutely, bro. Absolutely. Um, speaking of wild people, um, you've done some time out in the road with, with us and, uh, you and Terry together, you and Terry Adams, bro, me and Terry talk about, talk about Terry Adams for a second. Terry Adams is a, is a great man. I, I love him. And uh, dude works so hard. We a big fan of Terry Adams. Yeah, dude. He's a, he's a free spirit man. He just, uh, he just, he he does what he feels and uh, and he uh, he's a great player. He's a great musician and um, and a really, really smart guy. And I love that cuz we're both wild, you know, individuals. But we both like, think about a lot of, you know, deep shit all the time. So we can have these like crazy philosophical conversations and then go out and like get naked and jumping bushes and shit.
Speaker 1 00:37:10 So, I mean, it's just kind of like dude, like whatever, dude, me and this guy will go to both sides of the spectrum of, of, uh, <laugh> of, of life. Yeah, man. It's, it's cool. And it was, it was a lot of fun having you out with us too. It was dope. Um, really, uh, really enjoyed that. Um, and uh, another thing that was wild and we talked about kickball and stuff, watching a football game with you is pretty wild. Watching the draft with you last night was a fucking experience, bro. <laugh>. And that was just the draft. We're talking about players that you can't even play yet. I'm a vocal guy, you know what I'm saying? I'm a vocal guy. No, man. Like, I don't know when you play, I mean, I grew up playing football in Florida. Okay. Like, it's, it's different than growing up playing football anywhere else, you know, it's like people are chirpy bro.
Speaker 1 00:37:58 People yell at you and in, uh, shit talk you even when you're kids. Like I, I, I stopped playing when I got to high school, so I played from the time I was like old enough to run to like, you know, right when high school began. Yeah. I basically quit and like, dude, it, I don't know, it's like, it's a loud, I don't know when you've experienced the real thing and people are yelling and shit talking like, it just stays with you, dude. And I watch football, dude. I want to yell at shit. Talk. Who's your, I want shit talk, you know, <laugh>. So you're, so your teams, you're, you're a Jags fan for NFL Love Jags, bro. Fs U Go Noles. Go Knowles baby and then a couple other teams, right, Tennessee? Yeah. So I got, I got random ties here. So I, I love football so I don't, I don't go, this is my team and I'm sticking to them and no one else is good.
Speaker 1 00:38:47 Like I love all, all kinds of football. Well, with that being said, yeah, who's your favorite team to hate? Who's like your yo fuck those guys. Alright, so I'll just say for clarification, my other teams are the Tennessee volunteers, which I was indoctrinated by, uh, family members of mine very young into loving the Vols. Peyton Manning was there, I'm dating myself again. But yeah, Peyton Manning was there. I was watching, uh, young Peyton play at Tennessee and uh, I was about seven years old or something, so I was just like completely enthralled by that. Um, so I've been watching the VARs my whole life, actually been a Vols fan longer than a Knowles fan, even though I, I did graduate from FS U and I love F S U but I've been watching the VARs my whole life. And then my mom went to Southern Miss and pretty much all of my family from Mississippi went to Southern Miss.
Speaker 1 00:39:32 We got a couple that went to State, but Southern Miss is the big So you, so so you have Allegiance for Southern Miss you have Allegiance. Yeah. I love Southern State. Over, over Ole Miss. Oh, state over Ole Miss all day, baby. Hell no. Hell no. Sorry for You're an Ole Miss fan, but fuck. Nah, <laugh>. So, so of, so of, of those teams, which rival do you hate the most? Would it be Florida? Dude, Ole Miss is one of those teams I can't fucking stand and I, I don't say that a lot cuz I'm, I'm not like a big like, uh, rivalry guy. I, I honestly like, I don't like, personally I don't hate the Gators. I, my mom put me really, my mom put me through school by working at University of Florida. So I mean, I don't, I can't hate the Gators. They literally paid for my school. What about, I went to Florida State and I grew up a Tennessee fan, but I don't like completely hate the Gators like most fans of both those schools and I'm a literal graduate of one of 'em, you know. Have you seen games at all those stadiums? Yes. Yeah. What's the loudest one?
Speaker 1 00:40:31 I saw Dope Campbell when we played Clemson and that was loud as shit. Okay. That was a, that was an extra special loudness in that stadium that night. I think we were over capacity. It was loud as hell and it's shaped like a bowl, so it, you know, it, it gets really loud. I will say though, and like I've never been on that, on the field level when it's going down there, but dude, the swamp in Gainesville is so fucking loud cuz those big walls, you know, have you ever seen the big walls? They have the orange walls. I feel like those walls like reflect the sound back and forth between each other. I think that's the purpose of 'em really, to be honest. I'm like, I can't figure out any other reason why they'd have this big fucking wall for no reason. Like why not have seats there?
Speaker 1 00:41:15 You know? Yeah. Why not make some money on? Right, right. So I'm like, why these big fucking walls? And then it all started, occurred to me cuz I went and watched the balls play in Gainesville and Nathan Peterman from my high school was starting for the Vols that day. So I was like, where are my vols gear? My fucking quarterback from my high school is starting for the balls and we go in there and get our ass beat, bro. It was, it was embarrassing as hell. Well, it's been, it's been a lot of that if you're a Tennessee fan. No, Nathan, Nathan Peterman broke his hand. <laugh>. It was fucked. Did you play for the Bills for a little bit, yeah. And now he's on the Raiders and he just gets his nice is gRED, the dude is just taken like some of the most serious hits that dude, he, he broke his hand in that Florida game.
Speaker 1 00:41:56 Yeah, I think he's broken like five other bones in his body. He's he's taking pros some hits, man, he's taking some hits. Yeah. But you know, it was just like that day too. I think part of the reason that they were so ineffective at moving the ball is how fucking loud it was. It was full capacity. It's Tennessee, Florida. It was full capacity my first time ever seeing a Tennessee, Florida game in Gainesville. And I was like, holy shit. It was so loud. I was like, damn the, and, and dude kneeling Stadium is fucking, but I was gonna ask why is kneeling not on that list? But, but we haven't had the fan like give a fuck in a while. We haven't had the dude maybe before I ever got to go there. Like maybe back in the nineties when Peyton was there. Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 00:42:34 It probably was the loudest around. But we're just like, we've been so sorry for so long. Like most of the games I've gone to were like not even filled up all the way, you know what I'm saying? And when that, when you got a hundred, 2000 people in there, hell yeah, I bet that's the loudest shit you ever heard in your life. But damn. I mean like, well what about, what about, uh, what about state? Oh, Mississippi State, the fucking cowbells dude. It gets loudest. Shit. When I played, one of those shows I played with Riley was at Rick's in Starkville and it was during the Alabama, Mississippi State game. It was afterward, like it was the after party basically. Oh, Jesus. And Alabama won of course, but dude, Mississippi State played them so tough. They almost Mississippi State almost pulled that win off. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 00:43:17 Everybody in the stadium thought it was gonna happen. Like it, they were damn close to pulling off the win. And you could hear every time Mississippi State would score or get a sack or anything, you could hear from two and a half miles away, that stadium just go nuts. You could hear it like playing to day. It was crazy. And you could hear the cas like, they're just this ring, like in the air <laugh>. It's crazy dude. Yeah man, that is fucking crazy. Good times. Gotta love s e c football baby. Yeah, I still haven't been to a game and I've been down here long enough now. And you like gotta go. I, I could go to Vanderbilt but Vanderbilt aint Vanderbilt. I guess it depends on who they're playing cuz the other, the other school usually brings more people than are attending on the Vandy side.
Speaker 1 00:43:57 Right. From what I understand at least. Or has Vandy been good in the past? You think? Vandy never been rowdy <laugh> in football. I know basketball and baseball, they, they're solid. But I live in Nashville so I can't talk too much shit on Vandy, but I'm a Vols fan too so far. Vanderbilt <laugh>, they're trash dude. Do you know the best thing about Vanderbilt is it's in Nashville and every fan base loves Nashville. So they all show up in droves. Yeah. Oh dude, I used to work on Broadway. Yeah, they paint know all about this. They paint Broadway with their color shirts all up and down the street, all night flags and shit. Yeah. And then the next day there's like six Vanderbilt fans and about a 50,000 of the other team fans there. Yeah. Especially when it's like Bam or UGA or Tennessee the, like, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 00:44:39 Like when the, when the opposing team scores a touchdown, the whole stadium cheers. <laugh>. It's like watching the Yankees Orioles game, you know? It sucks. I feel, I mean, it's same time though, I mean like, I know like a, a lot of like, you know, really intelligent, nerdy, like kids are not like super into football. Um, and so I the amount of like extremely intelligent people at Vanderbilt, I'm sure that not that many people give a fuck. Hey Duke. Right? Duke draws a crowd though. Duke's very similar. Yeah, duke is, that's true. But if ba but basketball's what Duke's thing, right? Yeah. Like football. They do. Okay. They do. Okay. They've, they've, they've beaten Virginia Tech in Florida State a lot in the last 10 years. Yeah. They're they've been good in the last 10 years. Yeah. They've been better, better. Almost better than our programs, which is, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 00:45:25 Yeah, they've, man, it's been a brutal what of thought Virginia downturn for the, for the nose. Well and the Hoochies, bro. I mean, you guys have been a little worse than us, but we've been worse <laugh>. We've been, I mean the ho the Hokies have still been a struggle too. I remember growing up watching those Florida State Virginia Tech games when it was Beamer and Bowden. That was a big deal. Yeah. It was like the, some of the best football going on in the country at the time. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Man. Crazy stuff. Yeah, dude. Absolutely man. So for, for you now, so we got this song that, that just dropped. Um, what are we looking at for the rest of the project? Do we know? Can we share it? Um, classified information, so I think I can share it. I don't know. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 00:46:06 Uh, the next song's gonna be, uh, an up one. It's gonna be, uh, pretty rowdy. All right. I, I, I've got, I've got my suspicions on which one it is and I'm sure I'll ask you off the mic. <laugh> just can't say it out, out to the podcast verse. Um, let's, oh geez. I've knocked this freaking microphone over three, four times. You can tell I have not podcasted in a damn month, man. Been, uh, been, uh, been rough, man. Um, now talk about the draft again. Where do you think the Jaguars are gonna go? I know this episode's gonna come out after the practice over, but I got my chance to predict right now. Yeah. You got your chance to predict. Um, you know, I really, uh, I really think that we need to shore up the defense. I was very, uh, surprised by the Travis etn pick last night with our second, first round pick at 25.
Speaker 1 00:46:53 Um, I was, I was very surprised with the Travis etn pick, because we have a top five back in the league right now. He literally finished fifth in the league. He's so good, dude. Uh, and he's a sledgehammer and he's quick feet 5 9, 2 20. James Robinson is a freakazoid athlete and really good. So I was like, why, why another running back? But at the same time, man, at the same time as I thought that it's, it's fucking Travis etn dude. He's like one of the most, he is the number one back in the history of the acc. He is, uh, like so fast for his size. Dude, if you watch the tape of him, everyone looks like they're running in slow motion around him. And he's like not small. He's big as fuck. Like that's, I don't know. I think they're trying to put that, um, Maurice Jones drew Fred Taylor combo back together in our backfield with Yeah, it would make sense.
Speaker 1 00:47:43 James Robinson looks like the little MJ d guy, Travis et N's got the kind of size build of Fred Taylor. He's fast. Do, do you guys not have Elden anymore? No, we, we sent him to the bills Oh. A couple years ago. But, um, you know, I think, I think third though, we're gonna definitely have to go defense. Uh, um, say the name you tackle though, say the name that you were, you were, you made a prediction last, last night. We, so we either need to take Barmore, I think we're gonna take Barmore from Alabama, the tackle. Um, or maybe he is a big end. I don't know which exact position he plays, but he's a d lineman for the, for the Crimson tide. Um, and that kid's good dude. He's very good. So I would love to bring him in on the line. We need some help on the line, but we also need help in the secondary in general.
Speaker 1 00:48:29 I think we got the corners we need. It wouldn't hurt to have one more, but I think we do have the corners we need. What we don't have is the safeties we need. So I would not be stunned if we take at 33, which is the first pick tonight. I wouldn't be stunned if we took as safety. They've been talking about the kid outta tcu, I can't remember his name last night. You were so jacked up and pump up for Asante Samuel Jr. But I, but I was just about to say, I, I really, really, I don't wanna jinx it almost. I really hope we take Asante Samuel cuz uh, you know, Florida state guy, you know, got love for him. His dad was a incredible corner. Yeah. Uh, played for some big teams too. Uh, you know, he's a historic corner. Asante Samuel Sr.
Speaker 1 00:49:11 So Asante Samuel Jr. I've gotta watch him through his college career. And the kid has a motor dude, he's not the biggest guy, but he's got a motor dude. He cracks people, dude blows up screens, does the dirty work that corners don't wanna do. And then when you put him in three, uh, uh, like a cover three or you put him in man coverage, the dude is really good. Like, like he's only like five 11 or something. But dude, like, he could, he could play with a, he could play with a big dude, probably. Like he, he's got ups man. He's got motor. He looks for the ball. I mean, he was trained by his dad. Yeah, no, reminds me, honestly, reminds me of Marshawn Latimore from the Saints, who isn't the biggest guy. Yeah. But just has crazy good instincts and he'll do the dirty work that a lot of corners don't wanna do.
Speaker 1 00:50:00 Yeah. So I think that's what I see in Asante as well. I, I would just love for you and just the, the reaction that it would draw for you to see Asante Samuel Jr. Playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars. That would be cool. I'm freaked, you know. Well, we, I gotta see that with Jalen Ramsey, you know. Yeah. He was playing for Florida State. I was like, God, we gotta take Ramsey. And then we took Ramsey and I was like, yes. I was like, I got my guy. And we took Kelvin Smith the same year. Yeah. Who was the captain of that defense at Florida State? Yeah. The Jags got a lot better this year. This is a big this, could it? Oh yeah. Oh for sure. Yeah. If you guys win, if you guys, I just want to go 500. Oh, I guess you can't anymore.
Speaker 1 00:50:35 Cause there's 17 games. I just want to go, uh, what, nine and eight? Yeah, nine and eight. If we go nine and eight. Dude, bro, bro, I will be very happy, bro. As a Jaguars fan, you gotta be happy with like seven and 10, you know? Or like, but the stakes are different this year. Cause you do got a generational talent at quarterback. You got Urban Meyer, you got, you got a top five running back in the league and you just added Travis etn and all these great receivers. So there is expectation to win right now. I think there definitely is. People are like, oh, it's gonna be a building thing. They gotta, you know, take a couple years and shit. Nah, nah, not with Urban Meyer. He doesn't do that shit. He wants to win right now. Yeah, you showed me that. And nor nor does Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1 00:51:10 So I definitely think, uh, hitting expectation for me would be nine and eight. If we go nine and eight or even eight and nine, I won't bitch I won. See us win eight games. That would be a, a really nice, you know, thing to see. Yeah. I mean I remember I think last night you had said, um, if you were with us, uh, if you weren't with us at one 15, don't be with us at four and 13. Four and 12 or four and 13 <laugh>. It's like, uh, Duval, Duval, Duval Duval. Dude. Can you tell we're used to losing? I mean, it is a Giants fan. I've gotten pretty used to it too, which is I hear you. Which is rough. At least y'all got some Super Bowls out of a manning, you know, that's pretty cool. Yeah. But then we just get told that we, we live in the past, which we do as New Yorkers, but the Knicks are looking really fucking good right now.
Speaker 1 00:51:54 Not to get on basketball. Nicks are looking better than my damn Yankees, but we'll get off that. So I'm gonna try something now. So again, this is the first pod we've put out in about a month, which is, uh, kind of crazy. We were doing really good there for a while, but touring happens, shit happens, you know, you get busy. Yep. So a new segment I wanted to do, I was just gonna ask you some rapid fire questions. Let's do it. I didn't, I didn't pre-plan this. I've never done this. So we're just gonna try to run through it. We're gonna do it for like a minute. So here we go. Favorite city to tour in? Ooh, damn. I don't even know. Uh, love Texas. I love, uh, honestly the Midwest is a lot of fun. I don't know this favorite Midwest city? Uh, Chicago.
Speaker 1 00:52:37 Let's go Chicago. There you go. Deep Chicago's fun. Favorite co-writer? Favorite co-writer, man, I've written a ton with Tyler Chambers. Written a ton with James Kelly. Um, written a ton with Jordan Fletcher. Love all those dudes. Uh, there's probably some people I'm leaving out cuz I'm just going rapid fire. But yeah, those are guys I probably wrote my most songs with. Chad Bishop too. Rowdiest Bar in Nashville. Rowdiest Bar in Nashville. Um, shit, probably, uh, what's like a, I don't know, cahoots. That's not really a Nashville, but that's a real rowdy motherfucker out there. I was gonna say cahoots are, uh, shooters. Yeah, shooters is rowdy as hell. Hell yeah. I like shooting shooters. Rowdy as hell. Yeah. Shooters is rowdy. Favorite late night Munchie in Nashville. Like, like, yo, where the boy, the boys are lit up. Where are you going? Dude, maybe I'm, maybe I'm just being too like standard here, but fucking Waffle House baby.
Speaker 1 00:53:35 Which one? Um, I really like the one on Harding and 65. The newer one. That one's dope. But I spent a lot of time going to the one on Nolansville, uh, next to that Walmart, which is like the really trashy one. Yeah. But I love it. I love it. Yeah. It's so trashy. The shit you see there is just insane. What's your wildest Waffle House story? I played a chauffeur, a bunch of geriatrics in a waffle house. One time they asked me to play country. I was touring in a hardcore band and they were like, Hey, do y'all know any country? And I was like, yeah, I do <laugh>. So what you So I played a show for these old people in a waffle house. They were there playing a show for themselves with a, with a mic and everything in a waffle house. What the fuck?
Speaker 1 00:54:15 And we roll in like after playing this show, you know, and they're like, they're like, y'all know any country? And I'm, and we're in South Georgia. We're like folks in Georgia. And I'm like, yeah, I know some country. And I came in and they're like, well, sit down boy and play us some songs. And I was like, well, hell yes. Uh, play bro. All these old men are dressing like cowboy hats. They're like dressed to the nines. It's like Friday night in folks in Georgia. You played a fucking waffle house. Yeah, I played a show in a waffle house. You are the rowdiest motherfucker. I know, dude. That's the rowdy shit. <laugh>. Uh, I also, uh, I've also, um, been just stupid intoxicated and very many waffle houses. So there's been some crazy drunken, uh, wild stories. The people you meet in there, some of the staff you meet in there. Uh, always, always a story, dude. It's great. <laugh>. Hell yeah. And then, um, we'll do, uh, one last one. Um, biggest achievement you ever want to hit?
Speaker 1 00:55:11 Oh man. Biggest achievement that I ever want to hit. You know, I want to be, uh, I want to be, uh, like, happy with myself and happy with where my career is, uh, as I go forward. And I never wanted to get, uh, too outta my hands where I'm, where I become unhappy with it and I'm, and Im, uh, you know, frustrated and worried about, uh, things that my mind doesn't need to worry about. You know, I wanna be, I wanna be happy, I guess at the end of the day. And I want to, I want to have some land in Florida too. <laugh>. Okay. I just thought of one last one too. Um, best player in, best teammate in kick kickball. Worst teammate in kickball. <laugh>. Got the Thess drama going. Oh shit. Best. Okay. Best and worst. Alright. Worst has to be one of the girls.
Speaker 1 00:56:01 I don't know, there's a couple girls out there. Uh, some they would have, they would've really good games and really bad games. Um, I'm not gonna call out any of the girls, but sometimes I'd be like, we're balls flying through the air and I'm like, just catch it. Just catch it. Just catch it. And then it like bounces off their face or some shit. <laugh>. So that's, that's fun. But I love all the girls. Who would, who would the worst be of like, we play coed baby. Yeah. Who would the worst be of like, of the, of the other, the other guys. Guys? They're just picking on the girls here. Oh man. Uh, it's gotta be Trey or Todd cuz they're slow <laugh>. Oh dude. Yeah, the pictures, the designated the pitchers. Cause they're slow. Um, uh, who's the best dude? Best teammate. Okay. I think it was maybe only one or two times, but Dylan Marlowe and I, we patrolled the outfield bra.
Speaker 1 00:56:51 You weren't getting shit in the outfield. If it was me and Dylan back there, I basically told all the girls that were in the outfield, like, yeah, just go up in the, in the field. We're gonna play out <laugh>. Like we were flying around, dude. So yeah, Dylan's great. Uh, Alex Maxwell. Dude, the so fast. The commission. The commission. Dude, he's so fast. He's so agile. Who wins? Uh, have you played basketball with Maxwell? Oh hell no. Dude, I can't play no basketball, bro. Who do you think wins one-on-one? Him or Trey Bonner? Oh, dude, I don't, I haven't seen Trey play, so I don't really know, but I feel like, I feel like Maxwell's just got a nasty shot, probably. Allegedly. He looks like he would allegedly, they play on like a, like a seven foot hoop and they like dunk on each other. <laugh>. So I've heard that that happens and next time it does. Oh, oh my god. I gotta see that. It's like miniature basketball. <laugh>. I would love to watch one of them just posturized the other. That's we, we love those guys. Well, Trey Bonner's, like, I'm gonna dunk on you. Ryan Nelson <laugh>. I'm like, dude, I cannot wait for Trey Bonner to dunk on me. Red. Red.
Speaker 1 00:57:54 Damn dude. Well, this has been a fucking blast pro. Um, you cool playing a song for us, dude? Absolutely. All right, sweet. Well, well while you're, um, while you're getting that guitar and shit, um, real quick too, where can people go to find you? Yeah, so, uh, all my tags and stuff is usually under, its Ryan Nelson at Its Ryan Nelson. Uh, that's on Instagram's like that I believe on like Twitter. It's like that. Um, you tweet. What else do I got, man, at times I do. Sometimes I forget about it. I I want like you're a guy who needs to be on Twitter. Yeah. You know, I think about it sometimes and I postpone stuff and then I don't think about it for a while and I don't, I'm not a huge Twitter guy. Yeah. Cause like, like the Muon guys are like, do like our big Twitter guys.
Speaker 1 00:58:36 Rey's starting to get more into the Twitter. Like you're in a bit. I just think I would appreciate, I think the world would appreciate Ryan Nelson. Just some little blurbs from me every now and again. Just little Ryan Nelson. Ryan, Ryan isms. Ryan Nelson isms. Yeah. That's funny. Nelson ism. Hell yeah. Yeah. So it's Ryan Nelson. Um, so yeah, it's Ryan Nelson on all that. You can find me on the YouTube, just type in Ryan Nelson and I'll probably pop up. Um, and uh, Spotify, go follow me Apple Music, go follow me. Whatever you like to do. I'm on all that stuff. You could tell, uh, your little Lex say, Hey Lex, play Ryan Nelson. And boom, show up. Drunks playing in your living room. Hell yeah. So yeah, all that stuff. Love to, love to see that. And, uh, all my dances, it's out now. It's available everywhere. Y'all gotta check it out.
Speaker 1 00:59:18 A a different kind of sound from one of Nashville's rowdiest and one of our favorites, Mr. Ryan Nelson. And, uh, he said he is got a rowdy one coming next. Uh, the whole project will be out later this year. So, um, you all stay tuned for what he's got coming and all of that stuff. As always guys, thank you for listening to the In The Round podcast. Uh, big uh, big thanks to Ryan Nelson for being here. Big thanks to our sponsors as well. Our friends at Whale Tale Media, whales, Tony and his crew, they've always got you covered. You're getting hitched, you're looking for content. And uh, they're our partners on the songwriters nights as well. Shout out to Saxon Studios, our boy Grady Axman. Um, saw the whole crew over there. Um, they're usually at our writer's round, so if you're wanting to talk with them, get some information you can.
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Speaker 1 01:01:26 Spinning around and, and all I can think about is how every mile road you run, every kiss and every wish you have under that, I wanna, and you got a lot of love, just loose. So maybe I wanna jump, wanna jump all yours and I wanna take, wanna take all my chances cause I wanna dance. Dance all my dances with you, shook your daddy's hand, made him a promise that I was going be that man to get some rice flying on a noon day, couple Coke cans, old Chevrolet. And here we are now. And all I can think about is how every inch mile you run that. A lot of love. Just gotta let loose. So maybe I wanna jump, wanna jump all yours? I wanna take, take all my chances cause I wanna dance, dance all my dances with you. Oh, here we are now. And all I can think about is how every inch mile road you run under that. So maybe wanna jump all yours? Want my chances? Cause I want dance. Wanna dance? Dances. Dances with you.
Speaker 2 01:04:32 Yeah.
