Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:12 What is up? How we doing? Welcome back to the In the Round podcast, you got Matt
Speaker 2 00:00:17 And Tyler and we're back to normal this week.
Speaker 1 00:00:19 We are back to normal this week. It's episode number 10. I'm excited for this one to share this with y'all. A guy that we know very well, Tyler, a guy that we have had some good times with. A guy that came to your birthday party this year.
Speaker 2 00:00:32 Yeah. He really, uh, came through with some top golf
Speaker 1 00:00:35 This year. Oh yeah. Oh, at top golf. It was awesome. And, uh, he also showed up with a bottle of, uh, bottle of whiskey for this recording, which is, uh, good
Speaker 2 00:00:45 Old Jamison,
Speaker 1 00:00:46 Good old Jamo. And, uh, it's our buddy Skyler Anderson. And, uh, if you don't know who Skyler is, he's an awesome individual. He's a talented writer, one of the better performers that you can find in this town. He's on the road a lot, so we're glad we were finally able to sit down and have a conversation with him. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:01:02 I think we tried to get in, uh, Skyler in probably what episode three or four.
Speaker 1 00:01:07 Yeah. And it just kept getting pushed back cuz he's all over the place. He's out in Belize, he's in Las Vegas, he's in Milwaukee, he's in San Diego, he's in Ohio. He's in Texas. He's literally everywhere. And uh, this week he happened to be in Nashville.
Speaker 2 00:01:21 He's probably one of the hardest, uh, working guys that I see on Broadway. Like that dude is always out on Broadway. You always see him and he is always playing a show.
Speaker 1 00:01:28 Yeah. And he is a guy that has an incredible backstory. And, uh, you guys will sit back and enjoy this one at the end. He plays a song off his upcoming ep. We got to break some news that, uh, we got to break some news that, um, that Skyler's gonna be putting out a new EP at the end of this month, may of 2019. And he plays us a track that'll be featured on there called I Would Now without further ado, episode 10, let's go in the round with Skylar Anderson. Tyler, hit that music Boy.
Speaker 1 00:02:08 What is up everyone? How we doing? Welcome back episode 10 of In The Round. You got Matt and Tyler, you got Dakota Bear. The podcasts are no longer here. We'll get into that at another time. But we got a great buddy with us, a guy that is one of the coolest dudes that we've gotten to meet here in Nashville. A guy that, uh, we talked about episode one of this, uh, of this podcast with our good buddy, Colton Parker. A guy that is, puts on one of the best shows that you can see. One of the most patriotic guys that I've seen in Nashville, Tennessee as well. And he's also a damn good songwriter. It's none other than our good buddy. Skyler Anderson. Skyler, how you doing, bud? What's up man? Well, it's a Monday. We've, he's got me out here on a Monday every, every f on a Monday at one o'clock, which is basically like 9:00 AM 10:00 AM
Speaker 2 00:02:53 Oh no, it's like 6:00 AM right now
Speaker 1 00:02:54 For me. It's six. It was, yeah. We, we tend to have good nights on Sunday nights. And, uh, last night was, uh, was one of those nights where it got a little, got a little wild, got a little crazy. I
Speaker 3 00:03:05 Wish Sky
Speaker 1 00:03:05 Wasn't there. Oh, dude. You've been, we've been out with you plenty of times though. We've had some good, I've actually yet to be out with Skylar. I've enjoyed Miracle. I've enjoyed Whiskey Jam with Skylar. I've enjoyed post Whiskeys Jam with Skyler, where you go over to losers and go down the red do and do the strip down to <laugh>. And you know, you know how to have a good time though. How long have you been here in Nashville?
Speaker 3 00:03:24 Uh, I've been playing in Nashville for probably, uh, um, I don't know, four years now. I think four, four and a half years. Uh, I've been living here for, since September. I don't know how many months that is. It's month.
Speaker 1 00:03:36 Really. So you got here around the same time that I did As far as moving here? Yeah. I moved here October. I I thought you had been
Speaker 3 00:03:42 Here for like Yeah, me and Colton got here on the same day. We stayed in the same house in Jackson, Tennessee, and we moved ourselves the same day. Wow.
Speaker 1 00:03:48 Holy shit. I had, I thought you've been with the way that you, you are around town and the way that people know who you are and, and the, the relationships you have. I thought you've been here for years. No,
Speaker 3 00:03:58 Honestly, I've been playing here for a few years, but no, I just moved here. I finally just moved here. So
Speaker 1 00:04:02 Were you part of that crew that was driving from West Tennessee to come and play gig here and then driving all the way back home
Speaker 3 00:04:08 And Colton, me and Coton, yeah, we, uh, every about four nights a week. I think we did it two hours here, two hours back. Sometimes we would stay most of the times it was two hours there, two hours back. So we were spending so much money on gas and food and we were just like, we gotta just, we might as well just move. We have to Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:04:25 Yeah, dude. Yeah. Now. Yeah. For real. Now, so you were living in Jackson, Tennessee. You're originally from a little bit south there, right?
Speaker 3 00:04:32 Yeah. Yeah. Miss South a Mississippi.
Speaker 1 00:04:33 Mississippi a Mississippi boy Mississippi right now. There's a lot of cool things going on with Mississippi, particularly with a guy named Hardy who
Speaker 3 00:04:41 Yes. Thank you, Hardy. Listen, if you hear this, I love you. They're, I, I've been saying this for so long, Georgia and Caroline boys have taken over and I'm finally glad somebody from Mississippi. Yeah. I was hoping it was gonna be me first, but that's cool. Yeah. I'm next. So hopefully, so <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:04:55 Now that, that, that Mississippi scene, a huge part of that is crossing over the border in the Memphis. Yeah. Yeah. What what's that scene like out there in west Tennessee? I've been out there with, with our buddy Ethan Willis once I was out at, um, one of the, we were out playing a show with a guy named Frank Foster, who's crazy Cajun, Louisiana country. And then we were out in Martin, Tennessee, out in West Tennessee. What was it like coming up in that scene in the northern Mississippi to western Tennessee area?
Speaker 3 00:05:21 Man, it's a lot. Um, it was, it was cool. I was raised on, uh, you know, bluesy over there in Memphis, you know. Yeah. So when I was raised on, uh, smokey Robinson Temptations, always Redding, David Ruffin, all that. And, um, coming up like that was, was really good. My, my dad was born in Mississippi and my mom was born in Alabama, so I'll always have the Southern, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:05:44 You, you are a southern <laugh> a southern man. And it's cool you say those influences. It makes total sense when you wa when we watch your show, whether it be somewhere downtown, whether it be opening for somebody, whether it be out in a city, ex city, city, whether it be Belize or Milwaukee or wherever you go all over the place, those influences definitely show it. It's not just a country, it's a, like a Skyler Anderson show is different from most other shows that are out there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:06:09 That's what I want.
Speaker 1 00:06:09 Like your version of Tennessee Whiskey is just, and you got the boys singing in the back singing, singing that, singing in the background vocals on that.
Speaker 3 00:06:17 Lemme tell y'all something. Yeah. We have never had a rehearsal.
Speaker 1 00:06:21 Really?
Speaker 3 00:06:22 Yeah. Never anybody you see me play with now, even though Coton is, it was Hunter Hayes and Coton still come back and play with me a little bit, but only time we've had, we have a rehearsal is when we opening up for somebody. But we, the shows we do, when y'all see us, everything that, that happens on that stage, we literally make it up as we go. Like, I swear to God,
Speaker 2 00:06:42 <laugh>. Yeah. Know Skyler's definitely like one of the only guys that I see on Broadway that will like, flow through songs and then bring one back. And then like, you know, I think I've seen you, you know, vamp on a song for 20 minutes before. Oh yeah. And you bring like different stuff in and you're only the only guys that I know that's doing that kind of stuff. And that's definitely, you know, that kind of blues like Yeah. Mississippi, Memphis,
Speaker 1 00:07:04 It's a jam.
Speaker 3 00:07:05 Yeah. Yeah. It's a jam. It's fun. I, my my thing was when I got in the music business, um, always said if I'm gonna put on a show, if I'm really gonna do this. Cause I took a year off when I got off the TV show X Factor, I took a year off cause Yeah. I wanted to make sure it was someone I wanted do. And when I finally got a chance to get back in it, I said, if I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna put on the show. And I want to, I want to, my thing is I wanna put on the show the way I wanna see a show. I don't wanna just see you standing there with your sixth string in your hand and thinking somebody owe you something. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody owes you nothing. Yeah. You know what I mean? You know, you, you chose this life.
Speaker 3 00:07:37 That's why when you hear me on Broadway say, we do not work for tips. I don't want you feeling sorry for me. We don't work for tips. You know, that's not, that's not our job. Yeah. You know, don't feel sorry for me, sorry for me for something I picked to do for my life. Yeah. You know, if you want to, if we say I gonna play good tip us. But no, I want, I wanna put on a show the way I think a show should be played. And I don't wanna just come if I, like I said, if I walk into a bar, if I don't feel nothing, the first five minutes I'm there from you singing or your band playing, I'm leaving. Yeah. I don't care. Because
Speaker 1 00:08:04 There's plenty of other, there's plenty of other options here. Your music sitting now, you talked, you brought it up X Factor. What was that experience like for you? Cause I've seen the videos from that. I've seen, I've seen some of those clips, dude. And that, that is awesome. And, and that's going back quite a few years, isn't
Speaker 3 00:08:18 It? Yeah. I was 16, never knew I could sing or, or even play an instrument. Didn't even play instrument when I was on that show when I was 16. Yeah. I, I didn't even know how I played guitar then. Um, yeah. It was cool. It was, it was fun. I will never do it again. Yeah. Um, but it was, it, it taught me a lot of business and, you know, taught me all about different music scenes. Just don't be stuck on one thing. If you drive in the car with me, you would hear me listen to reggae Latino music, rap I to everything. Cause I wanna learn. Yeah. I wanna, I mean, maybe I can put this into a song or, you know, so, but, uh, that was cool. It taught me to just love every, every type of music, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1 00:08:56 Grow a lot. Yeah. Now, does that reflect in your writing, you think, being that you have all these different influences, like you're going from say, listening to, to Drake to then throwing on Eric Church? Like those are two such opposite things, but I'm sure that's the kind of thing you're talking about. Yeah. When you're, when you're jamming in the car.
Speaker 3 00:09:11 Um, yeah, it, it, I think it has a lot to do with my writing because when I was growing up, when I started writing, you know, uh, I used to write about partying a lot, you know, that was my thing. Yeah. I was all about partying. And until, you know, he was like, man, you wanna make it in Nashville love songs, you know? Yeah. And my first love song I wrote, I felt, I was like, oh crap. You know, you can actually make a lot of money about doing this <laugh>. Yeah. Love songs.
Speaker 1 00:09:37 Now how old were you when you wrote your first song where you were like, this, this can be a song. I can sing this.
Speaker 3 00:09:42 I wrote my first song about my brother. My brother had, um, got killed in New Orleans. And, uh, it was, it was really cool. And I wish I could find lyrics. I think I still remember lyrics, but it was really cool. And, uh, it was called Missing You. Okay. Yeah. And it was actually off like, kind of like a Marvin Gaye beat.
Speaker 1 00:09:59 Really?
Speaker 3 00:10:00 But I added some guitar to it and it was, it was really soulful, you know. Damn. I wish I could still remember that song, but yeah, I could, I remember that song. I can remember that song. It's my first song I wrote.
Speaker 1 00:10:11 Yeah. And how old were you when you were doing that?
Speaker 3 00:10:14 I wrote that song, I was probably 13. Okay. 12 or 13.
Speaker 1 00:10:18 12 to 13. Wow. Damn it. Now today you're, you're getting in writing rooms, you're getting in studios, you're doing that kind of thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:10:24 I just got back into the writing, to be honest
Speaker 1 00:10:27 With you. Yeah. So you've been, you've been out on the road. How, what's it like getting back off the road? Cuz you, you were road dogging for a long time. Oh my God. You were, you were out and about. You and the boys were everywhere. Yeah. You, you guys were going out, earning your living, doing what you gotta do, building the base. What's it like coming back home and getting in a room and, and changing that focus, flipping that switch? Well,
Speaker 3 00:10:47 I, I just said we were out so much. Um, I got so used to be the bad dog on stage, you know what I mean? I got, I got, I love the lights, so I just, I just, I don't know why, I don't know why I did. I just stopped writing cuz I just got so used to being on stage, you know? And, um, but it feels damn good to be back with the piece of paper and peeing in my hand because I forgot how good of a writer I was. You know, I forgot. Me and Coton, we've wrote some amazing stuff together. Coton is the best to me. One of the best very underrated love songwriter. That guy, that guy can write love song man.
Speaker 1 00:11:22 Yeah. He's got soul. He's got
Speaker 3 00:11:23 A heart. That man Ram me co sat down when we first met and he just started pulling out stuff and he's good with hooks and I'm good with verses. So he had a hook and I would just, our mind is just spinning. That's awesome. So, I mean, like, uh, but it feels good to be back, you know, I just wrote a song, um, the other day called Lynchburg Buzz. And that's crazy because Lynchburg Buzz, that title has been on my mind for the last, like, three years. And I finally got a chance to sit down and start writing it the other day. And I was like, holy shit man. I, I'm still good at this, you know? So, so I think when I get back from Belize, I'm gonna take some time and, and start writing more.
Speaker 2 00:11:59 Yeah. So speaking of Lynchburg, I see right there, you know, on your arm and all the tattoo. How long have you had that until
Speaker 1 00:12:05 That, that is country as fuck <laugh>? Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:12:07 So for the ones that can't see it, he has a, uh, Lynchburg number seven tattoo, which is the Jack Daniels logo right above his, uh, hand on his wrist. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:12:18 On my guitar. Permanent. Yeah. Yeah. I don't everybody know that. I'm a Jack Daniels fan. I've had this, I don't know, I just wanted to, I've always wanted the tattoo. Uh, uh, number seven, tattoos. I've always loved Jack Daniels. That's the only thing I really drank. But, um, uh, I don't know. I think I've had this probably, uh, three years. I got in Florida, my buddy Gary, he was on, um, stone, called Steve Austin, had a TV show out. What was it? Um,
Speaker 2 00:12:39 Uh, the Ranch Show.
Speaker 1 00:12:41 It was like Heartbreak Ridge or, or Heart Something Stone. It was something where he had to be a badass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And get through a group of
Speaker 3 00:12:47 Challenges. My buddy Gary was on that show and uh Oh wow. And he's a cool tattoo artist. He's done a lot, a lot of work on me. But, uh, I was just in Florida one day and I was just like, I'm wearing tattoo. And my buddy, uh, Gary, I saw that he was in Florida like 15 minutes from where I was staying. And I was like, oh man, I saw, I went over there and I was like, I just, I want something number seven. And he drew it up and yeah, it's been my favorite.
Speaker 1 00:13:10 There you are <laugh>. So Jack, is that your, so if you're out, is Jack Dan, Jack Daniels is a drink of choice.
Speaker 3 00:13:16 Yeah. We're sponsored by Jack Daniels. Really? We're sponsored by Bud Light Music. Shout out to Bud Light Music West Tennessee party and, uh, Jack Daniels. Yeah. We were sponsored by Jack Daniels. We got that sponsorship. It, it blew my mind. How,
Speaker 1 00:13:28 How does one acquire a Jack Daniels sponsorship? Like when did, when did that start going down for you? Uh, that's, that's cool. And that's hard to do. That's
Speaker 3 00:13:37 Very, I never thought when I got it. Seriously. That's a big brand. Oh my God. When I got it, it was just like, Jesus is real
Speaker 1 00:13:43 <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:13:43 Like seriously. Uh, we were playing at Titties a late night show. We had just started playing in Nashville, Tennessee, and we did a late night show in Tennessee's. And we were, it was probably one o'clock in the morning. Of course it's 10 to three or something. And, um, of course everybody having a good time. And on the third floor of Tennessee, I mean of, uh, titties Got that back. Yeah. Where people can stand behind you and not knowing that Jack Daniels' reps were standing behind me when I sang Tennessee whiskey. Yeah. And of course you hear this every night, Hey man, blah, here's my card. I can do this, I can do that. Of course, I got the card not thinking anything of it. He got my number. I gave him my address. Three days later there's boxes and boxes at our door, me and Co loft in La Jackson, Tennessee.
Speaker 3 00:14:26 And I'm like, what in the world? And it was T-shirts. I got a Jack Daniel's guitar. I got a, I mean, they were, and then after that I was like, okay, this guy's serious. So, and it was like crazy. I was like, this guy. And we got, um, cases, you know, a whiskey, you know, it, it was crazy. That's awesome. <laugh>. I mean, so, and then we started playing at the Christmas parties and they have this thing every year. It's called, um, it's like the world biggest barbecue festival or something like that, where people come from China all over the world to, to do their barbecue and, uh, in Lynchburg at the Jack Daniels. Yeah. And we play there and their Christmas parties and all that. It's pretty cool sponsorship. So
Speaker 1 00:15:03 You get to meet a lot of cool people doing
Speaker 3 00:15:04 That. Oh my God.
Speaker 1 00:15:05 And now talk about barbecue parties. Something that you got to do. I believe it was like last weekend or something. So me being from up north, I don't know anything about a crawfish. Oh my God. I saw you, you had put this up on, you, put this up on, can we edit that out? No, no. Oh my God,
Speaker 2 00:15:18 Don. Let, let, let this, let let the Yankee be
Speaker 1 00:15:21 The Yankee. I know about pizza and bagels and all kinds of other shit, but I don't know. I don't know. No <laugh>, I don't know nothing about, I don't know nothing about no crawfish boil. What is playing a crawfish boil? Like, and also explain what is a crawfish boil? They just take a bunch of fish and like put in a big pot.
Speaker 3 00:15:36 First of all, don't you disrespect crawfish by saying fish. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:15:39 It's hot. It's hot, but it's, it's called the crawfish. What, like cr
Speaker 3 00:15:42 Daddies? Yeah. Getting caught 'em daddies or cr daddies. But don't call 'em fish. Just fish. They're not fish. That's totally different. Listen. So crawfish, my fiance, uh, she, when I met her, we've been together for, I dunno, three years now I think. And, uh, she didn't know anything about crawfish. She, I don't, she hated crawfish and I told her to try 'em and she loves them now.
Speaker 2 00:16:02 Seriously. Oh, they're great.
Speaker 3 00:16:03 And playing a crawfish bowl. I don't know if y'all, um, know Johnny Cochran. Uh, he plays with me a couple times. Um, he's from Louisiana. So if you hear me say ball, you know I got it from Jonathan. Cuz he's a real Cajun. Yeah. I mean he's a Cajun coon. I mean, I'm telling you like he, he's, but, um, a crawfish bowl is some of the best eating you ever did. If you got a nice cold beer and you got some crawfish and if they make it right with the corn and the sausages. And some people I put on me and coen, we had a crawfish bowl. Uh, yeah. We put on one, a huge one. Our motor went out in the truck that we were driving back and forth. And it finally went out one night on the way to a gig to on the way to Ashville. It was on 90. We were on like 1 92. Yeah. And the motor just stopped. And we, we did a crawfish board to raise the money to, and people, people go crazy over it, man. It
Speaker 2 00:16:51 Is. Yeah man. It is. So there's a restaurant back home, um, where I'm from and they, one weekend a year do all you can eat crawfish. And my uncle will go down there and like do it. And they literally will bring out, you know, the bus tubs we have. Yeah. They will bring out like at least one if not starting on the second one of those of just crawfish for him. Like,
Speaker 3 00:17:12 You can ask about how many
Speaker 1 00:17:13 Are, are they, are they big? Is it, does it like a lobster or like
Speaker 2 00:17:16 Think of like a bigger shrimp. Like that's, that's kind of what it sizes.
Speaker 3 00:17:19 Well you go So, and do something like that. It's just like people can eat. I mean, I can probably eat four or five pounds.
Speaker 2 00:17:24 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:17:25 Oh man. And some people I know a buddy, you know that back home he can eat. I seen him eat 12 or 13 pounds. Yeah. Dude.
Speaker 1 00:17:31 So that's a craw daddy. That's a guy that can eat. That can eat. That's the king of the crawfish. I,
Speaker 3 00:17:35 I could do it, but I'll be sick.
Speaker 1 00:17:36 Now what, what's, what's the environment like at one of those shows though?
Speaker 3 00:17:39 Yeah, we did that show a couple weeks ago, two weeks ago. And it was my first big crawfish bowl. And it was so hard. We did it, uh, for good causes for, um, sacred Heart, St. Mary's Sacred Heart. Okay. And the kids. And, um, huge fun raising. It was just so hard. I thought I wouldn't be able to do it because they asked me to do it. I was already booked, but I kind of moved some stuff around. But it was really cool because I'm gonna tell you this, and I'm probably spoiled now because I've gotten so used to just going in and playing and just plugging in and playing. Yeah. That I did hire my own <laugh>. I hired my soundman, I hired a Soundman Byron. And um, it was great cause I had to show up and I didn't have to do anything but play. And when I say these are all Catholics and my fiance, she's a Catholic, and I didn't know what to expect. Really? Yeah. These some guns can party. Oh
Speaker 1 00:18:26 Yeah. Oh, I see. I know. Something about the Catholics. God, that's a big thing. My God. God. Those are, that's our, that's the people.
Speaker 3 00:18:31 Listen, they have the principal of the school on the dance floor.
Speaker 1 00:18:36 <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:18:37 I mean, it's outside. We're in the middle. We're literally in the middle of nowhere. I mean, it's, we got the stage right there and they got tents set up, but we're in the middle of nowhere. And I mean, the principal of the school is out there getting it, you know, I mean, I mean that was just, wow. I mean, all these teachers and Catholics can drink and party. God bless you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:18:54 <laugh>. God bless.
Speaker 3 00:18:55 God bless
Speaker 1 00:18:55 You man. So, so I'm guessing you're not Catholic. I'm not. Well, which, what of the variety of Christians are you from down here? Cause I've learned there's so many different kinds of Christ of Christian faith down here in Tennessee. They're down here in the south.
Speaker 3 00:19:07 I'm not denominational.
Speaker 1 00:19:08 Non nomination. Yeah. Okay. Okay, cool. Okay. So I'm, cause again, I'm learning, which by the way, so something else that I got to experience, I got to experience my first like, big time concerts in Nashville. Like where I got to go to the Ryman for the first time and I got to go to Ascend for the first time over the weekend. And the way that the, that the live shows are and stuff here, does that kind of inspire you at all? Like when you get to see a big concert like that down here?
Speaker 3 00:19:33 Oh man. Yeah. I don't, I don't get a chance to really do go to a lot of concerts anymore. Yeah. But, uh, my first concert, uh, I went to, before I even started doing music and um, it's back in my hometown, south Haven, Mississippi. And my buddy Austin took me to see, uh, it was, it was Love and Self. It just came out. Ooh. Eric Church was open up for Jason Aldean.
Speaker 1 00:19:52 <laugh>. Wow.
Speaker 3 00:19:52 Jesus and Eric Church is just coming out. Yeah. You know, so, and I've always, I always with Eric Church fans and my buddy's surprised with a ticket, you know, to go see him. And I seen him live, man. And when I, like, I didn't even care about Jason. I love Jason now. Yeah. But I, I didn't care about Jason when I saw Eric Church through that show. I, my buddy he'll tell you to this day, I said, that's what I wanna do. That's it. When I saw the energy, like, you know, me Eric Church is, if you know me outside Eric Church is my, I'm like, that's my fan. I'm a fan girl. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:20:19 No.
Speaker 3 00:20:19 And it's his birthday. I know. He almost died three times. I know. He got land like two hours from me. I like, I'm, I'm a fan. Yeah. I'm, I'm weird. Don't judge me. No.
Speaker 1 00:20:27 How many, how many kids does he have?
Speaker 3 00:20:30 I don't know. Two,
Speaker 1 00:20:31 Two. I, I don't know. That's why I'm asking you. Yeah. You're the fan girl.
Speaker 3 00:20:35 Okay. We can look that up though. Damn.
Speaker 1 00:20:37 So he's got so damn. So you, you really, you really do know. I'll be right back. Yeah. So for, so for, for you, a guy like Eric, what's your favorite Eric Church song? Cuz you play, you play a couple of 'em on your, on your sets downtown. Um,
Speaker 3 00:20:49 You know what I, I really enjoyed Desperate Man, but he had, he had a song, um, man, he got so many D Man is probably my new favorite one. But the guys like me. And that was a cold one, you know. Yeah. That, that was a cold one. That song is just, if you lift the lyric, if you're a lyrical person like me. Yeah. Oh, it's cold. You know, it's Sky. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:21:09 The results are in and Skylar is correct, he has two kids.
Speaker 1 00:21:12 <laugh>. Yes. Skylar Anderson, the king of Eric Church. Trivia. Damn. That's awesome. So, so, um, so for you right now, uh, what's kind of the next, in terms of, in terms of your music career for what you're looking to do? Oh, what are you looking at? Are you putting something out maybe?
Speaker 3 00:21:28 Yes. Yes. Brand new EP man coming out. I'm, I'm very excited thank you to my buddy Johnny Cochran, who's actually producing, uh, the musicians owner, Trevor McKay, Derrick, uh, Derrick playing drums
Speaker 1 00:21:39 Now for one, for one. I gotta sidetrack here. The guys that you have played with you are outstanding. Yeah. And the chemistry that you have with your, with your boys on stage, whether it's playing at Whiskey Jam or whether it's out wherever or it's downtown, the show's phenomenal. Oh
Speaker 3 00:21:56 Yeah. From
Speaker 1 00:21:56 Guys. From guys like Trevor and Derek. Yeah. Trevor
Speaker 3 00:21:58 Derek and all those guys. Every guy that you see that play with me has played with me before. Yeah. Um, they're all talented. Andy Dixon, who, uh, took CO's Yeah. Or not took his place, but of course
Speaker 1 00:22:09 Yeah. Filling in. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:22:10 Yeah. Filling in for coding. But, um, that's, you know, co looks up to him.
Speaker 1 00:22:13 Really?
Speaker 3 00:22:14 Yeah. They're, they're like, they're, they're really good guys. So co really got 'em for me to fill in for me. And, uh, and I didn't want anybody else. I really, I was gonna be like, man, I'm probably just gonna start doing acoustic shows cause Coton is about to leave. And I'm like, I don't want anybody else with that guy. I'll put them on salary if I have to. Yeah. Because he's, he's a CO and too, you know, and just, and Andy is just something serious. So, um, they're all for them. They're all musically. Like they, they know where I'm going. They know me. Yeah. They know exactly where I'm going. And the show is different almost every night. But, but they know like, okay, he's about to go here. You know,
Speaker 2 00:22:45 I'll say this too, I said, you know, earlier about the vamping stuff and honestly, like, the times that I've got to see you, it almost has like a gospel feel.
Speaker 3 00:22:52 Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:22:52 So like, like how you like flow and stuff with that. Like how you just, you know, you might honestly sing a course like 10 or 12 times. Yeah. And like how you just like vamp on like stuff and keep going with it. And you keep the party alive. Like, you know, you're def it's
Speaker 3 00:23:08 A feeling man. Yeah. It's a feeling. I, and I, that's why I think music is, you know, it's something serious. I, I don't, I don't think you should be doing it if you're not feeling it. I mean Right. Like, I go on Broadway. That's why when you see me on Broadway, I show up on Broadway an hour or two before my show. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:23:23 Oh, you, you always do. Yeah. Because
Speaker 3 00:23:24 I always walk around and I tell the guys this too. Like, the guys that's new in Nashville that I'm kind of helping out, I guess Chris Hill and Johnny and, um, what's, um, Jacob Lutz, you know. Yeah. Uh, done a few shows with me. I tell him, Manny, every time you get a chance, you wanna walk around and see, you wanna walk around and learn. That's what I do all the time. Every single day. If I'm on Broadway, I walk around and learn what not to do and what to do. What can I add and what can I take out? What is this guy doing that I'm not doing? What is the guy doing that I shouldn't be doing that I know not to do? You know? Yeah. Yeah. So that's what I do. Every time you see me on Broadway early. Cause I'm, I'm checking your scoping things out. I wanna learn, I wanna grow, you know? Yeah. I don't wanna be like nobody on Broadway. I'm actually here to get a record deal. <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:24:04 Yeah. Now, now for now you're a guy that play like, like I've said a bunch of times now, plays all over the place. Yeah. Whether it's outside of Nashville or here downtown or wherever. What do for you, that stigma of playing on Broadway, there's, there is that stigma there. You're a guy that plays some gigs on Broadway and stuff. How is it balancing that kind of stuff where you're, where you're going out on the road, but you've also got your, your gigs Yeah. That you play downtown?
Speaker 3 00:24:29 Man, I, I like Broadway and, uh, I, I don't know really. It's, it's, it's kind of like it feeding me Broadway because I was, when I first got here, you know, I started playing. I always wanted to, of course everybody wants to play on
Speaker 1 00:24:44 Broadway. You want to play tootsies, you want to play the stage, you wanna play those plays, you wanna play this. And
Speaker 3 00:24:48 That was a dream come true. When, when I finally got that email back after emailing them for two years, three years. And I finally got that chance to show my self. And it wasn't like it was cracked up to be. Yeah. You know, it really disappointed me to be honest with you. Yeah. Uh, Nashville really did in, in the musical way. As in you got these guys on Broadway, man that just, everybody is just trying to be at this person or beat that person, you know, do this and it's like, work together. Yeah. Some people think they're better on Broadway cuz you've been playing on Broadway for 20, 25 years. What the, that the,
Speaker 1 00:25:23 But then what, then what, what do you have to show for that?
Speaker 3 00:25:25 Yeah. What? Yeah, like, like I don't wanna do that. You know, and, and, but you, you walk into some of these places and you got these amazing singers and it's just like, why, why is, why is this band at this spot more popular than this band? Like, what if this band, you know, doing wrong? Yeah. And it's like, well, you got those people who absolutely suck. Yeah. Oh my God. There's, and they, they're the ones that getting the record deals these days and it's like, what in the world? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:25:51 It's going home. Yeah. And that's something that, that, um, when we had, uh, when we had Jacob Lutz, our, our good mutual friend, our good buddy, he was saying that he's hoping the country's going back in a way of really showcasing the vocalists. Yes. You know? Yes. Yeah. Where, where it you gotta be, you gotta be able to sing. Yeah. You, you want to hear music that's good with, with good vocals. Yeah. And that seems like that's something important to you.
Speaker 3 00:26:13 It's just, that's very important to me, man. Cuz I think just like me, you know, they say that, um, hard work, outbeat talent any day. I don't believe that. I don't believe hard work outbeat talent any day. Yeah. Because I've been doing this for eight years and I'm, I'm happy where I'm at. I'm excited where I'm going, where there's people who just come and, and that luck, you know, just like that, you know. So it don't need talent any day. Yeah. But me, I, I believe that, I mean, I give my show, like I say, each and every night I give my show and I love what I do. So it's just like me being a vocalist, I can move around on stage and, and, and still control my
Speaker 1 00:26:49 Wira. Watching you with a guitar is so much fun by the way. Like, I'll be working a day shift at, at the bar and then you'll be gigging that night. Um, and I'll stick around to see your show. Like, I'll, I'll stick around after a 10 hour shift to watch you run around with the guitar. Because you just fly. You just fly
Speaker 2 00:27:06 With somebody that's like a guitarist. It's, it gives me anxiety sometimes, but I like, I know you know what you're doing, but at times I'm like, oh God
Speaker 3 00:27:13 No. Sometimes I don't know what doing
Speaker 1 00:27:15 He's gonna drop it. Oh no, no,
Speaker 3 00:27:16 No, no. Sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. Listen, I have fell off stages.
Speaker 1 00:27:21 <laugh>. What's your, what's your, um, your most like, crazy story from something like that where it was like, oh shit, that just
Speaker 3 00:27:28 Happened. It was, it was, oh shit that just happened, I think, um, about to be dead. That moment was not long ago. I fell off Luke Bryan's sushi bar stage. Oh no. Now this, whoever built the stage, fired them. But anyways, is
Speaker 2 00:27:42 This the one that's behind the bar?
Speaker 3 00:27:43 This is the one that's behind the, they have no stairs. You have to climb on top of the bar, which is chest high. So you have to get on the chair to climb on top of the bar. Then you have to climb on top of the stage. So it's like, there's no stairs. So one night we're gigging, I pull the double and I went to my buddy Chris Hill. I took a nap two to six, then we play a 10 to two. It looks six bar and I mean, it's fine. It's like my fourth song. The band is singing. There's people, it's crazy. And you know me, I'm always crazy on stage. So the more energy, the more crazy I get. Yeah. I'm getting off the stage. I get on the bar, I'm putting my foot in this chair and this chair just gives out of me. And I fall face first right on my face. My earring fell. My diamond fell outta my earring. I broke the mic. That's how hard I fell and crushed my knee. And I get up and it's so crowded. Only a few people saw me. The bartender saw me and the bed saw me <laugh>. And I just started laughing. And I just get back up and go again. Next morning I wake up and I cannot move my knee.
Speaker 1 00:28:39 Oh.
Speaker 3 00:28:40 Cannot move it. So I had to, like, my fiance had to like rush him to the hospital. Come to find out I broke a few, uh, tore a few ligaments in my knee and all that. And it healed kind of, sort of, I guess it didn't heal all the way, like I should let it hear. But I was, you know, two days and I'm on stage, two days I'm, I'm going crazy. Yeah. Oh yeah. There's something wrong if I'm not doing music, uh, on stage. But, uh, yeah, about a week later I get back on stage and I'm playing at Blake Sheltons and I rolled my fucking ankle. Oh. And I ha I finished. I mean that, and that hurt me the most. That hurt me more than my knee. And I like, there was tears in my eyes cause I thought I broke it. Yeah. And I fell into coat. And then we, and we had three hours left. I had to finish the show.
Speaker 1 00:29:19 Yeah. You
Speaker 3 00:29:19 Had to do it. You had to do it. And you did it tears in my eyes. I'm like crying like a little
Speaker 2 00:29:23 Baby. Yeah. No, there, I've broke my left ankle three times, but I roll it all the time and that's probably still, ugh.
Speaker 3 00:29:29 It's horrible. That's my first time ever rolling
Speaker 2 00:29:30 My ankle. Yeah. The only thing that's worse is breaking a rib. Like, I'll just be honest. Like rolling an ankle. You think you break it every time
Speaker 3 00:29:38 Anyway. I don't wanna never go through that painting. Yeah, no.
Speaker 1 00:29:40 Hopefully if we never see you go through something like that again.
Speaker 3 00:29:42 It's fun though. It's cool though.
Speaker 1 00:29:43 Like, like it's, it's cool to, it, it makes for a great story. Yeah. Makes for a great story. Now something I noticed. You got, you got on your, on your hand. What's that big ass ring you got on there? It looks like a Superbowl ring. Oh. Or is that a class ring? No. If don't, if you don't mind me asking.
Speaker 3 00:29:56 No, I don't care. I get that a lot. Um, so when I was on the TV show X Factor, um, I played football in ninth grade. I had to quit because on a TV show, I, I mean I had to go on the road all the time. Yeah. So I was doing homeschooling for a couple of weeks in LA or New York or something. Yeah. Come back to school and I found out y'all off the show. I needed a fourth class and I mean, I couldn't go back to football because it's already been two years or something. So all my buddies are playing baseball basically. So I just went to like, basically manage the baseball team and, um, coach had Parkinson's. And so basically I would just give the speeches, anding, the national anthems whenever I was home. Yeah. You know, if I could be there or like, you know, help with the dirt or whatever and just help coach out with the players. Cause he had Parkinson's. Yeah. Just became a big thing. And we all, I mean, and they gave me a ring for it, you know?
Speaker 1 00:30:44 That's awesome.
Speaker 3 00:30:44 It was cool. Yeah. That's
Speaker 1 00:30:45 Awesome. And that, that's, that's down in South Haven.
Speaker 3 00:30:47 That's in South Haven. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:30:50 <laugh>. That's awesome dude. Yes. So that, that's, that's what's cool about you too, man. You, you hang out with, I mean, like, you're, you're a whole, you're a wholesome guy. Like coming from, that's something I've noticed a lot from coming up from coming down from New York. Nothing to bad mouth my people from New York, my damn Yankees. But, um, but coming down here, there's something. And, and that's what's cool about you being, you being here in Music City too, is like you were talking about, there's that competitive stigma or whatever. Yeah. But with you, it's, it's, let's all, let's work together. Let's be friends. You have that, that compassion kind of feel. We're all here for music, you
Speaker 3 00:31:20 Know, I love seeing people being happy, whether it's with music or not, man. Like people are just, you know, like that coding deal, you know, a lot of people, just how it's crazy how people are just, it's crazy. They was like, oh, coding is going hunter hay. You know, are you mad? Are you like,
Speaker 1 00:31:36 Why, why would you be
Speaker 3 00:31:37 Mad? Why this? We know we're getting ourself into every single day we do this. Yeah. Anybody can get picked up this music. I I describe this music business as the most amazing, crazy shitty, you know, business ever get in. Because it is. I mean, it's, it's just, we know we're getting our ourself into anybody can get picked up any day. It's, it's, we already knew that if I got picked up, I probably couldn't take my band with me. We, we just knew we, but we're brothers, you know, we don't get, we wanna see people doing good. And I think that's what's wrong with a lot of people. They want to. It's crazy, man. Just, I like seeing people happy. Just like with Jacob Lu, you know, he got in town, Hey bro, come and do a show with me. Come on, let me, let me help you out a little bit. You know, just with Johnny Cochran, he needed some, Hey, come on. I can help you a little bit. Yeah. Anything I can do to make somebody happy or to get somebody to the next level. Cause I wish I had that when I was starting off. Yeah. You know, nobody didn't do that for me. I, I had to do everything by myself. So. Yeah. I always said if I could help somebody, I don't care either,
Speaker 1 00:32:31 Man. Yeah. Now you're talking about Colton. Now the, what's the full backstory on how you two met each other? Cause I believe we touched on it way back in episode when we were recording upstairs on the kitchen table. How did you and Colton get together?
Speaker 3 00:32:42 I needed a bass player. Uh,
Speaker 1 00:32:46 And this is going back, what's the timetable on this? I'm guessing this is back in Jackson?
Speaker 3 00:32:49 No, no, no, no. I was, I was in Mississippi. He was, I think in Jackson or on this end. Okay. Um, but I needed a bass player and he had played, I guess for my buddy Greg Pratt before
Speaker 1 00:33:00 A, oh shit. Now it, it's all, now it's all connected. K Sar dude, dude, <laugh>. We all, we all know. Yeah. We know Greg really, really well. That's funny.
Speaker 3 00:33:08 Greg is, uh, yeah, he played for my way to Greg and Greg did a show me, I think his first ever show. He played with me. He, uh, that's another thing about me, like if I can help you, he played a show me in Dan McGinnis. And, and you tell his first show he had his head down and he was just singing his own songs. And I'm like, Hey, I like your style. You need to move to Nashville. You know, and yeah, I think he played a couple more shows. Anyways, he played with, uh, Greg and I needed a bass player Real, I was doing a tour. I don't know, I was doing some, uh, a few shows. I had a shitty manager then. So I was doing a few shows at Myrtle Beach. And yeah, he came to play with me and, um, basically code and fired every fucking guy I had on my band. He did. He was like, Hey.
Speaker 1 00:33:46 Yeah. I think he touched on that whenever he came on the show. Yeah. Well, what, what made you, how did, how did you guys build that trust? How did you, how'd that circle of trust start? For, for, for a new guy to, for a guy to come on. And Colt, I love, I love him like a brother. He's a great dude. Yeah. But how you just, you were just meeting him. How,
Speaker 3 00:34:03 How do you, and that's pretty weird. I thought. I think about that all the time. But I think when we met, we just, you know, I I wasn't really musical inclined until I really met Coton. You know, Colton taught me so much shit, man. I mean business musically and like, everything. And, um, and I'm glad he taught that because now I'm helping myself out lot, you
Speaker 1 00:34:22 Know? Yeah, yeah. It's, it's, it's paid off that all showing.
Speaker 3 00:34:25 Yeah. And, um, but when he, I don't know, I just, I believed him. I just believed him. I didn't know what I was doing. I was young. I was just ready to just go, go at it. I, I mean, then you're young then and you say, man, I'm just ready. I just want a record deal. I just, I just want to get signed, you know, whatever it takes. And that's what I was, my mindset was when I first first started off doing this, you know, I just wanted to get money. I just want to get a record deal. I want my face known. Now. It's just coding has taught me, you know, not only coding, but a few musicians I play with has taught me to, to level yourself, to build your craft. And I learned more and more about, and I'm still learning about craft. You know, I'm, I'm, I'm still learning how to build my craft each and every day. Cuz I learned something new about music every day. And when he said that, I just, I don't know. I believed him and he fired every fucking guy. And he said, look, if I'm gonna play with you, this is, this is it. And I, I'm, I don't regret it to this day. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:35:23 Look at, look at it now.
Speaker 3 00:35:25 I do not regret it. And he has put me, I mean I've put him, we've, when you put me and co in the room, we're fucking untouchable together. Me and him together. We've, cuz that brother, big brother, little brother, like, you know. Yeah. Seriously. He, he puts me in my place. And cuz you know, CO was always musically inclined. And I think with me being country and knowing a little more about country, I helped him on the country and he helped me on the musical, like showing me my numbers and all that, you know, stuff and blues. He on the show, he, man, let's throw, let's throw this in there, man. Man, he'll be on stage. Let's just throw this boom, boom, let's just throw something in there, you know? And I'm like, oh my God, do that again. And he'll make me remember, you know, and he just, when I trusted him, I just took, I mean, and he got me all the right guys, every guitar player. Since, since then, every drummer I've played with, every bass, everybody that sits in with me, Colton has led me to them.
Speaker 1 00:36:19 So Trevor, so Trevor, you met Trevor through, through Colton.
Speaker 3 00:36:22 Yeah. Trevor is a pain in my ass.
Speaker 1 00:36:23 <laugh>. <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:36:25 I love Trevor. No, I love Trevor man. Met and Trevor, everybody tell you every, I think when Andy Dixon started playing with me and Trevor. Yeah. And me and Trevor was just, you know, we bitching each other all the time. We were just all like that, you know, it's nothing harsh. We never got into a fight or argument or anything. But Andy was like, um, Andy was like, um, uh, what's wrong guys? It was at Whiskey Jam. And he was like, what's wrong guys? And Chris, Chris Dickerson's back there on drums, like, oh, they do this all the time. Like this
Speaker 1 00:36:49 Is, this is just, this is just Trevor and
Speaker 2 00:36:51 Scott. Nothing's wrong. This is just them. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:36:52 Yeah. This is just us. He's, Trevor is, uh,
Speaker 1 00:36:55 Another Mississippi guy, right?
Speaker 3 00:36:56 Yes. Well, Trevor was born in Alabama. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:36:58 Really?
Speaker 3 00:36:59 Yeah. Uh, and lemme tell you something about Trevor. Trevor, he, he should have not been born in Alabama. Okay. Because Trevor don't eat what Alabama folks should eat. Like he don't eat shrimp. And uh, the hell is he, um, he don't eat like barbecue. I mean, he don't eat hot dogs or baloney or like a grill. Baloney sounds you're
Speaker 1 00:37:19 Making, you're making Tyler cry,
Speaker 3 00:37:20 Man. I'm like, how,
Speaker 2 00:37:21 Dude,
Speaker 3 00:37:22 How is that even, how,
Speaker 2 00:37:23 How did you survive in Alabama? Because like, I, so I'm from originally in Atlanta, but I grew up most of my life in South Alabama. And going home, like, I'll be like, yeah, so I've been eating grilled chicken lately. And they're like, okay, cool. Here's a bologna sandwich. And I'm like, what? And they're like, this is what we have, eat it. And I'm like, cool.
Speaker 3 00:37:41 Yeah. Trevor is a, he cannot be from Alabama, but no, he's, he's in Mississippi now. He's Mississippi. So he is, I mean Alabama, Mississippi boy. So, yeah.
Speaker 1 00:37:49 So he's, so he's coming from Mississippi to gig with you?
Speaker 3 00:37:52 No, he lives here
Speaker 1 00:37:53 Now. Oh, he does live here now. Okay.
Speaker 3 00:37:54 Yeah. He lives here now, but, uh, yeah. Um, but he would play in Memphis and go to Mississippi and then have to be in Nashville. Like, we'd like just travel to Nashville with us in Atlanta, Jackson, Tennessee. He would just go back to Mississippi. We would do 10 roof on Thursdays. He'd be like, go back to Mississippi and then drive to Nashville and drive back to Mississippi and then have to have, play a show in Jackson, Tennessee. Dude
Speaker 1 00:38:14 Just drives, he's,
Speaker 3 00:38:16 He's, I thought I was a slow one in the band, but Trevor got me beat <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:38:21 We love him every time. Trevor McKay great, great guitar
Speaker 3 00:38:25 Player. But the best, lemme lemme tell you something. I've never played with a guitar player like him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. He the best tone to me that, uh, I don't know. He's just something slick on it. He's so smooth. You know, he's, he don't even care though. He's one of those guys that don't care. Like,
Speaker 1 00:38:40 Now, now knowing what, what we know about you two together, you've been going to Belize quite a bit and you've been bringing Trevor with you. What have, what, what have the adventures of Skylar and tr in? Well, the first
Speaker 3 00:38:51 Abroad, oh my God, look, the first adventure, uh, venture, we got stuck in Belize City. Okay. Of course, it was the first time outta the country. And my worst fear is to be stuck out of the country. And my first time outta the country, we got stuck in the most dangerous part of Belize City. Oh. And it was the scariest thing in my life. And I'm not gonna blame it all on Trevor, you know, I'm gonna blame 96% of it on Trevor <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:39:20 We got stuck and we had to stay the night, we had to stay the night at Lisa, I had to get us some hotel room. I mean, they had to lock the, I mean this, it was the scariest thing in my life. And when I say I've never experienced anything like that, and I never want to because we're literally out of the country. None of these people know us. We look like we Americans. You know, like Trevor's walking around here with like some like, I don't know, polo stuff on. And I'm got boots on and like, they know we're not from here. So it's like we walk to the store, we try to get something to drink, we walk into this dark bar. It is, oh it is, it's got swinging doors on it. And it's our first night. We had to, I was like, Trevor, if, if I could, if I gotta sleep in this hotel, I mean it was some nasty jailhouse.
Speaker 3 00:39:59 They had bars on the Windows Hotel and it was just, it was so sketchy, sketchy. We go try to find something to drink. Cause I was like, if I'm gonna sleep in this country tonight. And I was like, I gotta have a buzz. I gotta put, get something to put me to sleep because I I'm not gonna be able to sleep. So we go, we ask these couples that's there from somewhere, I don't know, we go, well we think it's a story walking to these swinging doors and there's this dark bar and there's these two guys just looking at us and you can tell they're ready. Like to pop off at any moment. I'm like, this is bad. This is, this is white guy and a black guy and these guys are locals. You can tell they wasn't having it good with us at all cuz they would just kept looking.
Speaker 3 00:40:37 And I just ordered like two Johnny Walkers and a beer and I was like, all right, I'm gonna my room, I'm never leaving again. And I didn't, Trevor apparently left to go to the store actually <laugh>. And, and he said he was walking and there's like cops, these people down, people are making these blah blah blood sounds like, it's like dogs barking. He was like, one of the guys like, you better keep running boy or something. And he was like, I, he's like, I came upstairs and I didn't move and I was like, I you should have went to sleep. I went to sleep, bro. <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:41:03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 00:41:04 Nobody's been beating.
Speaker 2 00:41:05 Well that's the thing, like with me and Matt, like, we go out and stuff and I'll go home. I'll be like, I, I will say like, you know what I'm calling tonight? Matt goes out and he goes have some like weird adventure somewhere else. And I'm like, yeah buddy, you should have, you should have came home. Like, I, I understand that relationship
Speaker 3 00:41:20 Now. When we went, when we went to, when we got to the island finally, after all that, it was very nice. You know, Trevor, of course he's, he's been doing this and Trevor lived it up. He did. He, he was on vacation. But Trevor also, he don't have to sing a lot like me. Yeah. But this time I know we should not leave the airport. I know what to do. I know everything, how to get there. So when we leave Wednesday it'll be, it'll be cupcakes, you know?
Speaker 1 00:41:42 Yeah. Now what, now you, you played the, the winners and losers like that circuit, you've gone out to Vegas. What's got, yeah. What have those Vegas trips been like? Cuz we've got,
Speaker 3 00:41:51 Vegas is a a lot of fun now. When I, when I first went to Vegas, it wasn't what I, what cracked up to be like everybody was talking about. It's the city that never sleeps and this and that
Speaker 1 00:42:02 Isn't everything like really spread apart. I've heard that from people. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:42:06 People, it's, yeah, it's very spread apart and um, it's, it's very dry. So it's not really that great for singers. So if you don't try to go outside and do all that crazy stuff because it's, it's really dry there. It'll mess up your vocals. Especially if they're playing 13 shows in seven days. It's a lot of singing
Speaker 1 00:42:22 That that's a big circuit. Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 3 00:42:24 Yeah. But it's, it's cool. Uh, but you know, to be honest with you, I don't like it. It makes me miss Nashville. Yeah. Nashville is a city that never sleeps. It's not the party crowd. Like everybody thought it, it's really not. You know, it's fun. It's cool. It's a go there for two days and you're probably ready to come back home.
Speaker 1 00:42:39 Yeah. But it's a, but it's a good gig for it, right? Oh, it's a great gig. Oh, you love, you love the gig.
Speaker 3 00:42:43 It's like two years. Get the gig, man. I mean, I mean, when I say I bug people, I'm, I'm sending emails almost every day. I'm on my phone sending emails, telling people where my show is at. You know, cuz you just never know. You know, it's always networking and just never stop. I was grown on to never stop. So.
Speaker 1 00:42:57 Yeah. Yeah. Favorite, favorite place to go play a show?
Speaker 3 00:42:59 Whiskey Roll. I say that all the time guys. I'm serious. Like, people think I'm joking when I say that. Whiskey Road. I mean, when, even when I'm not playing. I mean, you gotta see me at Whiskey Rose. They money Yeah. Mean you
Speaker 1 00:43:11 Walk in
Speaker 3 00:43:11 All the time. I
Speaker 1 00:43:12 Mean, you're regular.
Speaker 3 00:43:13 I'm gonna say I spent a lot of money at Whiskey Road, so, but no, it's Whiskey Road, family Ward. That whole ward got me in the deal that got us over, you know, the Yeah. Whiskey Jam and Thank you. Big shout out to Ward. I, I say thank him. He probably gets sick of me texting him.
Speaker 1 00:43:27 What, when was the first time you played Whiskey Jim? It's gotta be, I've seen you there once, but I'm sure you've played before that. Oh
Speaker 3 00:43:33 Yeah. It's, it's, it was a, uh, Jonathan Singleton, uh, got me in touch with Ward and, um, he was like, you got, and Ward said, I don't, I never get a call really from John Singleton asked me to put somebody on stage. He's like, so I knew you was important. And he was like, and I, I don't know, I think it's been two, three years ago, I think. I don't know, man. And it was the best moment. You get do three songs and in those three songs you feel like you are the superstar of the room when you're at Whiskey Jam. Because,
Speaker 1 00:43:58 And and that's a room filled with people, people
Speaker 3 00:44:01 Who love music
Speaker 1 00:44:02 And they, and they're in or or they're in the industry. Oh yeah. Or they're, or they're doing,
Speaker 3 00:44:05 Yeah. They're very important. They're very important people in that room. Yeah. But there's also people who actually sit there and listen instead of just there for the drinks and the parties. Yeah. You know, you can actually go there and sing a heartfelt song and people will like be, get in their motions. I've seen it. I've been there and it's the Whiskey Jam Family is is such a cool family.
Speaker 1 00:44:22 Yeah. So talk fill people in, um, because we got a lot of people listening back home, back home from me up in New York that don't, aren't sure, don't know about the Whiskey Jam thing. So for you, if you could describe Whiskey Jam, how would you describe it?
Speaker 3 00:44:34 Whiskey Jam is, is the best group of family in Nashville. Uh, I mean, like, people, like when I was talking about the competing, they don't compete. These people actually enjoy music. They love music. They'll sit there and listen to your three songs. It's,
Speaker 1 00:44:48 It's, it's it's support. Yeah. It's people. People support each other and
Speaker 3 00:44:52 It's, it's a support system that will never, ever, like fail, fail at all. Because there, when you're there, you can hand out. People will help you out. Man, I've met so many people. Hand out cards. You go there and you can network and you can be there one night and meet just the right person to meet. You know, it's just, you just never know who's, who's gonna show up. I mean, for the last couple, few ones, I think it was, uh, Randy, Randy, Randy,
Speaker 1 00:45:13 Travis, Randy freaking Randy Travis is hanging out at, at Whiskey. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:45:17 You just never know. Randy Hauser have seen me play there. Randy Hauser. Uh, yeah. Uh, seen me play there. So, uh, it is just,
Speaker 1 00:45:23 And, and for the, the alumni of that Whiskey Jam family of guys and girls that started as they were coming up and got an opportunity be on that stage. Now they're selling out stadiums. I mean, Luke Combs, Luke Combs, old Dominion, you've got Morgan Wallen on there. You've got so many different people man, that are on, there's, there's crazy. Um, I mean, guys from Zack Brown Band come back and jam if anybody like, people will just get up and play with people and it's,
Speaker 3 00:45:47 It's the family. Yeah. I mean, when, man, it's a family event and it's so cool because like when you go there, you might not like really know the person that's standing next to you, but you know, they know what you're feeling when you know, they know you're there for the same thing. Yeah. And that's the feeling of the music and that's the lyrics and the, I mean, I, I went there, um, I don't know, y'all probably seen me on the video, but I went there one night and, uh, stealing, stealing Oceans. A group of guys, uh, shout out Stealing Oceans. They, when I say I've never seen anybody that caught my attention, when I say there's somebody have like a few videos of me, like my mouth just dropped the whole time. Yeah. These guys put on, I mean like that show, you can only get that at Whiskey Jam, you know what I'm saying? Like that's, you can't find it on Broadway like that, you know, it was just, you get that feeling. It's like, well Greg Pratt and Greg Frank on that stage it whiskey. Oh my God, man. Who's,
Speaker 1 00:46:39 Who's Greg's fiddle player again? Who? Ryland Ryland. Ryland
Speaker 3 00:46:42 Fowler. He's a Wow. One is
Speaker 1 00:46:44 Crazy. Son of a bitch. <laugh>. That Ryland crazy. But when those two, I think one of my, oh dude, I think the first, I think, um, your first Whiskey jam, they were there, they were playing. Cause I remember you, I remember getting a video of you with the bo why was playing the Fiddle. Yeah. Tyler's first Whiskey Jam was Thanksgiving of this patch. That's the thing I love about Whiskey Jam. Yeah. They don't stop for holidays. They don't stop for like that. No, no. In this past year they've had Thanksgiving Jam. They have had, uh, new Year's Eve Jam. Yeah. They have had, um, all kinds of different ones where no matter what, it's gonna continue. What keeps the show going? Lemme
Speaker 3 00:47:17 Tell you something about Ward and um, the Whiskey Jam found, cuz Ward is the one who got it started. And like I said, ward probably gets sick, sick of me texting him. I text him probably two times a week just thanking him because without him I wouldn't be in Belize. Yeah. Wouldn't be any losers. I wouldn't be able to do all the opportunities. Ward. That's when I met Ward, he took me like I go to him. It is only him and Co and I go to like, with musical problems, if I needed a situation or help on something and that guy don't stop. I mean, that guy works. Yeah. He works. And that's some shit behind the scene that y'all don't even see that this guy does man. He just, he works. He wants to, he wants to go to the next level each and every week. Not each and every year. Each and every week. He wants to go to the next level. And that's how, that's how, that's what I love about Ward and the Whiskey Jam family. They just, they want to keep striving helping other people. You know what I'm saying? Just if you build, like, like Tim Gross said, help the next one in line and that's what they do. You know, they literally reach back and help you, pull you up like, Hey, I got you. Come on.
Speaker 1 00:48:11 Yeah. And those and uh, the whi whiskey jam, they got their, they got their um, their own drinks too, where they go and Yeah. When people are there at winners and losers, what's really dangerous and I've seen Tyler have em, I've seen Coda Bear have em, I've seen countless friends. My buddies from New York, uh, Joe and Seymour came down, those Capri sons. Oh yeah, yeah. That late. Those, those infused Capri sons. Yeah. And those damn Jello shooters. Oh God. Tho those, those make for a good time. That makes your Monday or your Thursday or whatever night you're down there and gives you that extra
Speaker 3 00:48:43 Kick. No matter if you had a shitty day on a Monday or Thursday. If you go to whiskey jamming, you do the, the pre sons or the shots or even the, the Blackberry Whiskey Jam, which I always drink. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I've, I bought bottles of those that whiskey roll. Cause I always drink the whiskey roll. But if you go there and you've had a shitty day or something, I'm telling you that your whole night would be turned once you enter the place, like that feeling you get it is just like chill.
Speaker 1 00:49:04 It's just that sense that, my god, that sense of community and it, and I've, I've had some shitty days where I've, and I've gone and I'm like, I'm still gonna go to Whiskey Jam. And then those have been some of the best nights that I've ever had. Um, where's Yeah. A lot of fun. It's awesome, dude. So, so what, you got your guitar with ya? You got, you got it. You're a songwriter. Do you write a lot of stuff? Is there a particular one that you'd like to play for us today? Because we, um, we always end this thing with a song of the week where we have our guest
Speaker 3 00:49:30 Play. Yeah. I can play you in. Um, yeah, I play a song that's gonna be on the EP called I Would, it's a real personal song.
Speaker 1 00:49:36 All right. What's that one about? See,
Speaker 3 00:49:37 I never thought I would come out with this, this song because it's very personal. You'll see the lyrics, but uh, it's just, it's a true story about, uh, my dad dying. It's just basically you have those things where you wish you can go back in life and change a few things. You know, you just, I wrote this song as a few things in this song. I wish I could go back and change. And, uh, I took me years. I wrote this song when I was in, I think a freshman I think in, um, in high school. And I never thought I'd be putting it out, but it finally took me years to be like, okay, I think this song needs to be heard. Yeah. You know, somebody's probably going through this same thing I'm going through that needs to get through it. And it's, it's just my way of telling people just a few things I wish I could go back and change and we all got a few things we can go back and, you know,
Speaker 1 00:50:14 That's gotta be a feeling to, to feel like, to let a song kind of sit and marinate a little bit. That's
Speaker 3 00:50:21 A long time.
Speaker 1 00:50:22 And to, to put it out because you feel that way that somebody else can be doing it. Like now's the time.
Speaker 3 00:50:28 Yeah. I think it's the right time to put it. Cuz it took me, I always said I would never put this song out cuz it was, you have those songs where it's very personal.
Speaker 1 00:50:33 Yeah. Oh yeah. No, Tyler's talked about it before where he's got his di he's got his notebook back home in Alabama where it, where it just sit where it sits in. His mom was like, Hey you do you still want this? Like
Speaker 2 00:50:44 Yeah. No, like it's don't touch it. Yeah, don't touch it.
Speaker 1 00:50:47 Yeah. But you got your personal songs. Simple. That, that's awesome man. So, uh, where can people find you on uh, uh, Facebook, the social media? You're very active on social media. I do
Speaker 3 00:50:56 All my social
Speaker 1 00:50:56 Media. I enjoy your social media.
Speaker 3 00:50:58 I do all my social media, man, because I mean, like I said, when I'm on the road or sit on the plane or why not? I'll do all my social media. I mean, I don't, I don't, yeah, some people don't like some of the stuff I post, but it's social media people, you know, the world is so these days the world is just so we're brought up the parents, you know? Yeah. Just bring the kids up. So soft and everybody's so political. Correct. Everybody gotta have like, just I was censor fucking live.
Speaker 1 00:51:23 Love the shirt by the way. Yeah. Love the shirt. You'll see, you'll see it in, uh, the photos that the Dakota Bear's getting. Uh, it's, it's got, uh, Abe Lincoln. And you are Mr. America by the way. I am. You are. Oh dude,
Speaker 2 00:51:33 I love his um, I
Speaker 1 00:51:34 Love your scarf that you wear. You wear the
Speaker 2 00:51:35 Scarf. Yeah. Wore the school, but I love his shoes. Yeah, those custom shoes that you have.
Speaker 3 00:51:38 Yeah, I, yeah. How
Speaker 1 00:51:39 The, yeah, how'd you get the custom shoes?
Speaker 3 00:51:41 It took them three weeks to make it. It was, it was a thing called Tactical supply. Uh, yeah. And you have to go on there, man. And I went on there and of course my fiance, she knows that anything American Flag, if I seen, I like it. Like she just ordered me a new leather guitar strap. I think it was like 200 something dollars and it was American Flag and I've been wanting one for a while. Leather one. That's awesome. But, uh, anything American Flag that I like and it stands out to me, um, I'm spending money on it, so that's like my go-to. Like that's your, yeah. Hey. Yeah. So my closet is full of, I don't know, I think I got two or three pair of American flag shoes. I got jacket when you
Speaker 2 00:52:12 Open opened the closet. The, uh, national Anthem starts
Speaker 1 00:52:14 Playing. Yeah. The eagle
Speaker 3 00:52:15 Fucking flies out.
Speaker 1 00:52:17 No, no. I look inside Skylar Anderson's walk-in closet. Well guys, we're gonna let Skyler pick up the guitar here in a minute. Wanna thank you guys listening. Episode 10, Tyler. We've done 10 of these bad boys now. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:52:32 We're in double digits now.
Speaker 1 00:52:33 We're in double digits. Oh shit. Hopefully it can only go up from here. Where,
Speaker 3 00:52:37 Where I was hoping I was number 10 by the way. Really?
Speaker 1 00:52:39 Was that really
Speaker 3 00:52:40 Serious? Uh, cuz I don't know, for some reason I, when I said I was gonna do this, I knew you had an episode you posted or something and I didn't know what number it was. I was like, I think, I hope I'm number 10. I don't know why, but maybe I can go gamble or something and that'd be my lucky number. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:52:53 Well, there you go. There you go. Yeah. Hopeful. Play the lottery buddy. Yeah, go, go play the lottery and whatnot. And thank you for listening too, Skyler. I know, always. Listen, you've been, you've been a supporter and you're out on the road all the time and podcasts are a great way to pass the time. So thank you guys for listening at home as always. Um, check us out on the socials in the round podcast in the round on Facebook, in the round podcasts on YouTube. You can see those good videos that, uh, the, uh, Mr. Koda Bear who's, uh, looks like he's never working, but he is working and making us all look pretty in pictures and videos as he's taking photos. He's not working right now where it is. Dan, he,
Speaker 2 00:53:25 He sits over there.
Speaker 1 00:53:26 Jesus's a sandal flip flop. I seen
Speaker 4 00:53:27 His fucking haircut. He got.
Speaker 1 00:53:29 Oh yeah, dude. Yeah. Oh yeah. No, we'll, we'll put that up. We'll, we'll put a uh, we'll, we'll have Cody take a selfie, put that up on the Instagram. Oh yeah. As well. But search for in the round and uh, wherever you guys are listening, make sure you click subscribe. Give us a little rating, uh, throw some stars on there and write a review if you want. Let us know what you think. You
Speaker 2 00:53:44 Know, what cuddle looks like. He should be wearing right now. He looks like he should be wearing like a skirt. Well, yeah, that too, but like, uh, like, you know, like a button down with like the sort like khaki, like frat boy pants sweater. Like
Speaker 4 00:53:57 Wearing those most old miss sweater Oxford kids. That's looks he hit me. My dad a fucking see you.
Speaker 1 00:54:04 Hotty. Hotty tidy
Speaker 4 00:54:05 <laugh>. Halloween.
Speaker 1 00:54:07 Halloween. You gonna do it? Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 00:54:10 You already got his outfit picked out. Halloween is like four months.
Speaker 2 00:54:13 I mean last year he was Jim from the office, so
Speaker 1 00:54:15 Yeah, I was here. I was right when I moved in. He shaved, shaved those his damn, uh, his beard off and yeah. But anyway guys, we're gonna let Skyler take it away. What'd you say the name of this one was again, I got distracted. I would, I would Skyler Anderson, I would coming up and it's gonna be on his upcoming ep, which will be out. Can we get a hopefully
Speaker 4 00:54:33 At the end of this month? Ooh.
Speaker 1 00:54:35 End of this month. We're getting Skylar when the music is coming. Well thank you guys for tuning in. We'll see you next time here.
Speaker 4 00:55:02 Ever crossed mind that time that girl left my side because of my foolish pride for the time I shook my best friend's hand and knowing I was lying to you. Your a knowing may again, instead of kicking as you have, if you, we have those days where we go through that phase wondering something could changed. You could turn, change last memory in your mind. I can just turn back the.
