Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:14 What is up? How we doing? Welcome back to the, in the Round podcast, episode 12.
Speaker 2 00:00:20 Yeah, buddy. You
Speaker 1 00:00:21 Got Matt and Tyler here. And Tyler. We had another Tyler our first time having Tyler's in the room.
Speaker 2 00:00:25 Yeah. You know, it's not my first time <laugh>. Um, it tends to be a trend, um,
Speaker 1 00:00:31 Popular name down here in Dixieland, huh? Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:00:33 I've been lard. Uh, Ty,
Speaker 1 00:00:37 Steven.
Speaker 2 00:00:38 Yeah. Some people call me Steven. Um,
Speaker 1 00:00:42 Some people call you Maurice.
Speaker 2 00:00:44 Our boss calls me Laz.
Speaker 1 00:00:46 Laz. Yeah. Laszlow. That was a character. I
Speaker 2 00:00:49 Think he, I think he thinks my last name is Lazar
Speaker 1 00:00:54 Lard. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:00:54 I think that's what he
Speaker 1 00:00:55 Lizard, but with a name. I think that's what he thinks,
Speaker 2 00:00:57 But who knows man. Oh boy. Boy. It stuck.
Speaker 1 00:01:00 But anyway, so episode 12 of the In the Round podcast had our good buddy, Tyler Canfor join us for this one. And the boy drove five hours. Yeah. Just to come and record an episode with us in this basement studio that we are in here in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 00:01:14 Yeah. Whenever he, uh, got to my studio here, he, um, he, I opened the door and he goes, man, it was a long drive. I drove from South Carolina. I was like, oh. And you know, we were talking all and I initially thought like, wow, he came off a tour. Cool. That he's here with us this morning. Cause I know when I come off a tour, I wanna die for like three days. Yes. <laugh>. So like, I was like, dang man, he came off a tour, came straight here and then we gotta talking. He was like, yeah. So I still live in South Carolina and I was like, oh. So you drove to Nashville to be with us.
Speaker 1 00:01:48 Yeah. And uh, it was well worth it. It was a very good episode. Very cool episode. Get to hear a lot about Tyler's upbringing in South Carolina. Some baseball,
Speaker 2 00:01:57 Stupid Yankees fan shit.
Speaker 1 00:01:59 You'd be quieter, stupid Clemson fan. We are in first place and we have got 18 guys on the deal and we're still kicking everybody's ass in the major leagues right now. So suck it Tyler. Just wait
Speaker 2 00:02:09 Till your're in. Judge gets back and he strikes out 400 times again this year
Speaker 1 00:02:12 And he hits another 50 home runs. But anyway, Tyler Can 40, he at the end plays a song called Slow that he co-wrote with some heavy hitters here in town. Taylor, Phillips, Brock, Berry Hill, and Sam Grow really cool kind of vibes. So stick around for the end, the episode. You can check that one out now. Without further ado, before Tyler gives me any more shit are my beloved Yankees.
Speaker 2 00:02:31 Chop on and roll tide, man. Chop on
Speaker 1 00:02:33 And roll Tide. That's not even mean. Anyway. Hit the damn music. Tyler, let's go in the round with Mr. Tyler. What is up? Welcome back to the In the Round podcast. We got a great guest with us today. We got a guy that drove five hours to be here. A guy that is really tearing up the new style country scene. A guy that is an a uh, entrepreneur. He has his own business where he is hustling and grinding and he's still writing great songs and out there performing on the side, doing, doing it all, making it work. It's our good buddy. Tyler Can 40 Tyler, how you doing buddy?
Speaker 3 00:03:11 I'm fabulous. How are you guys?
Speaker 1 00:03:12 We're fabulous. Now your weekends. So we record these on Mondays and we usually get into crazy shit. Uh, on Sunday nights. Last night we didn't, we did pretty good time. You
Speaker 2 00:03:22 Kinda did.
Speaker 1 00:03:23 We kind of did a little bit. I mean, not really. We were, we were in bed by like, we were out of there by like 11 30, 12 o'clock. Wow. Which was impressive. Usually our Sunday nights cuz these two don't work. I gotta usually go into work pictures
Speaker 3 00:03:36 Or it didn't
Speaker 1 00:03:36 Happen. Yeah. Oh dude. Oh dude. Oh, we'll show you those. We'll show you those man. Uh, but our Sunday nights you typically get really crazy, but last night we didn't get super, super nuts.
Speaker 2 00:03:46 I mean, I worked till 10 30 and then I went over to a friend's house and I think I got home around like 1 32. Did
Speaker 1 00:03:53 You, you were at late in the look at you. Yeah. But like, you were the party animal of the group last night.
Speaker 2 00:03:57 I appreciate that. There was no party
Speaker 1 00:03:59 <laugh>. But now, so for you out in South Carolina, what were you doing on a, uh, beautiful weekend?
Speaker 3 00:04:06 Well, we have a lot of beautiful lakes in the upstate. Um, lake Kija, Cassie. We hit the lake up all day Saturday and then we went diving on Sunday. I'm, I do scuba diving. We go explore some cool stuff, some wrecks, some deep water stuff and just hang out underwater, which is a really different thing.
Speaker 1 00:04:21 Craziest shit you've seen underwater.
Speaker 3 00:04:23 Oh man. Snakes on you is always a good surprise.
Speaker 1 00:04:27 Oh man. What are they coming up on you like get on your back kind of thing.
Speaker 3 00:04:30 They'll be on your shoulders when you come up. If you're around docks man, they'll be, you know, playing with you. It's kind of always a good surprise, <laugh>. Everything else I can handle. I
Speaker 2 00:04:39 Don't know if that's a good surprise.
Speaker 1 00:04:40 I see Tyler, well Tyler's from the land, land of the land of the gators and stuff down there.
Speaker 2 00:04:44 Yeah. We just don't get in the water.
Speaker 1 00:04:45 How long have you been doing the diving stuff?
Speaker 3 00:04:47 Very, actually, very new hobby. Um, so about four months. Oh wow. Up just kind of fell in love. It's a lot of
Speaker 1 00:04:52 Fun. What made you wanna do that?
Speaker 3 00:04:54 It was something that actually kinda scared me and I love doing things that scare me. So I'm like, I'm gonna get over this.
Speaker 1 00:04:59 Have you been skydiving? Never. Never. See I don't think I could ever do that. That's some shit that scares me.
Speaker 2 00:05:04 I have afraid of heights and a falling.
Speaker 1 00:05:07 You imagine. I'm wondering if we can get listeners to sponsor if they were to pay for it. I would do it. Me and you skydiving. I have an airplane together int do
Speaker 2 00:05:14 You remember me yelling in the boat whenever Koda was driving? Yeah, imagine that. But from 40,000 feet.
Speaker 3 00:05:19 Oh man. I just don't understand. Jumping out. Have a perfectly good airplane. Yeah, just
Speaker 1 00:05:23 Go for the ride
Speaker 3 00:05:23 When you have a maybe. Okay. Parachute
Speaker 2 00:05:26 <laugh>. So, uh, there was a old pastor of mine whenever I lived in Atlanta and he went over to, uh, Ukraine on a mission trip. And they literally like looked at him and they still had the parachutes from like the Soviet Union and shit. And so the guy like, as they're about to jump out goes, if you open parachute and you see little holes, you're good. <laugh>. If you see a lot of holes, not good <laugh>.
Speaker 3 00:05:51 I can fucking imagine.
Speaker 1 00:05:53 Oh man. So sky. So definitely scuba diving over skydiving for sure. Absolutely. For absolutely. Now talking about the music stuff. So how old are you? Where are you from exactly. Fill people in a little bit about you.
Speaker 3 00:06:04 I'm 25 years old. Um, like I said, I'm from Greenville, born and raised there my whole life. Um, lived all around the area though. Never, never in one spot for more than a few years. My family always moved. Okay. Um, okay. So yeah, that's where I'm from. We have a lot of fun out there.
Speaker 1 00:06:19 South Carolina now, now a lot of people, they talk about the Carolina Boys and what they're doing in this town here in Nashville with guys like that. We know like Taylor Phillips and Combs and all that whole crew that that's out there doing, doing what they're doing. Really repping North Carolina right now. South Carolina. A lot of people don't realize there's some great music in South Carolina as well. Guys like Lee Bryce, Darius Rucker, and
Speaker 3 00:06:41 Lee Bryce. Old Clemson boy. See?
Speaker 1 00:06:42 Yeah. Yeah. So go Tigers. Yeah. That answers the football question cuz we know toddlers go tide. Dirty, dirty ass. Were all tied over there. Alabama. Alabama not dirty.
Speaker 2 00:06:49 We played by the books.
Speaker 1 00:06:51 You just, you all just haven't been caught yet, but, um, it's fine. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But so Clemson Tigers, congrats on, um, on having another freaking great year for football. How long you been following Clemson football?
Speaker 3 00:07:03 Ooh, I've always kind been a fan in the background, but the last couple years I've really kind of plugged in and gotten myself into
Speaker 1 00:07:08 It. What's, what's going to a game at Clemson? Like?
Speaker 3 00:07:11 It's the most fun you'll ever have that People are awesome man. Watching the hill. Yeah. When they run down and come in, you just get your heart pumping. Like it's, it's a great time. I've been to a lot of college football games, but that's nothing like it.
Speaker 1 00:07:22 Yeah. For, see for me it's Inner Sandman in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech. That's my favorite. Cuz that, that's for, that's the team that I follow. Which for that Clemson, you guys always freaking, always freaking be We're we're having, tech will be having a great year and then we'll be like, oh, this is the year we're finally gonna beat Clemson. And it never freaking
Speaker 2 00:07:39 Happens. Y'all have great years. It
Speaker 3 00:07:40 Hadn't been like that forever.
Speaker 1 00:07:41 Hey,
Speaker 2 00:07:41 Hey, hey. I didn't know y'all had great years
Speaker 1 00:07:43 Since
Speaker 2 00:07:43 The Big
Speaker 1 00:07:44 Brothers Tech had a tech had the longest streak for a while where they were the only, they were the, they had the longest running streak of 10 wind seasons. Yeah, yeah. For a long time. It hasn't been like that for a little while, but hey, I still,
Speaker 2 00:07:57 You know, like a decade, but it's okay.
Speaker 1 00:07:58 No, it has not been a decade. It has not been
Speaker 3 00:08:00 A decade. Hey, we haven't been on top for very long. Yeah, it was a long time coming. It was hard work. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:08:05 Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Especially with a, in the acc,
Speaker 2 00:08:09 Another Alabama alum, you know, having to save another college, you know, it's, it's getting to be a thing now,
Speaker 3 00:08:15 Just running away for it where he doesn't wanna be <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:08:19 In terms of the music stuff, when you got guys like that that are coming outta South Carolina, like Darius and Lee Bryce and even going way back like Marshall Tucker Band and like, there's some real musical history for you, was that kind of inspired you at all? Or is that like an in influential kind of
Speaker 3 00:08:34 Thing? I never really thought about how many people came out South Carolina to honestly, I mean, you started talking about it, there's a lot more than you think. Um, but yeah, definitely an inspiration. The music scene in, well in Greenville, South Carolina is kind of not where I think it could be. So a lot of people don't, you don't hear a lot of people from there cuz they, they leave quick to go chase it somewhere else, but
Speaker 1 00:08:52 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Now for you with the music stuff, how long have you been doing that?
Speaker 3 00:08:57 Only about three and a half years.
Speaker 1 00:08:58 Really? Yeah. So you're, so when was what, what made you think or what made you wanna get into writing songs and singing and putting tracks out? Like for people to hear like, like you're on Spotify and Apple Music and all that shit, like you're, you're doing it now. What made you want to make that step to want to do that?
Speaker 3 00:09:16 Well, I'll just kind of give you the, the whole, the whole background. I really, I got a one, my first guitar when I was really young, maybe eight, nine years old. Played it for a year, didn't really learn much, kind of put it away, never thought anything of it. And then I moved outta my parents' house, uh, when I was 20 years old and I was like, I wanna pick up a new hobby. So I just went to my local guitar store, bought my first acoustic guitar, didn't remember how to play, didn't know how to play, taught myself how to play. Um, and I was like, well, it's kind of fun. I'm gonna try to, you know, singing with it. Let's try to sing some. So I started singing, never let anybody hear me or anything like that until a few friends close people like, Hey man, you, you can sing.
Speaker 3 00:09:51 You should start doing that. You should start playing more. I'm like, you know, waving it off. Nah, you're crazy. You're thanks, you're super nice. You're a nice guy. And then just kind of fell in love with it more and more and started becoming a fan of music. I was, I started, I became a country music fan before I ever thought of even doing it or writing. Oh yeah, it out. Um, I hadn't even been in country music for a long, I wasn't raised around country music, so probably not until I was 17 years old that I hear my first country song that I, you know, enjoyed and then fell in love with it and just wanted to be, be involved.
Speaker 1 00:10:19 What was that first song?
Speaker 3 00:10:21 Oh man, I don't even know if I can remember what first, what that
Speaker 1 00:10:24 Was. Cause you, you said you were 17, so that's about eight years ago. So that would be,
Speaker 3 00:10:28 So something about a truck. Okay. Y'all know that song was one of the, one of the first songs that was like, I can dig this because, well maybe it's cuz the first one I really heard, I was like, this is cool. It's something I can roll the windows down to and get down to. Um, that was, that was probably one of the first summertime country songs I got into. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:10:44 It's something growing up in South Carolina that you, that you'll see, you know, like, like that country you're in Dixie being in South Carolina. Yeah. There, there are some country ass people in South Carolina when I was
Speaker 3 00:10:54 Oh yeah. When I got into it, I was like, what do you got keeping me from my dad? My parents, none of them were in the country. Me, I hated it. Like, if I put it on, it was get outta the car. And I'm like, really? This is what you kept me from all this good stuff.
Speaker 1 00:11:05 So yeah. Well, what, what were you growing up listening to then?
Speaker 3 00:11:08 Dude, most mostly Christian contemporary stuff and some eighties and nineties rock.
Speaker 1 00:11:12 Never. So what? So I, we That's crazy. The last like, four guests dude that we've had on. Yeah. I, I ask everybody. So what were you raised on? And it like, Christian contemporary and me being from New York, I just wasn't around that. Right. Like, I went to church, I, I got baptized, I went communion, I had got confirmed, I did all that stuff. But like I, the Christian music thing. So what Christian artists were you listening to? Because there's some that are like, everybody so far is mentioned,
Speaker 3 00:11:36 Right? You know, you got Hillsong, you got old Toby Mack back in the day. Um, oh, what's, what's the rap guy's name that? Lecrae. Lecrae. Yeah. Um, yeah, you know, all that good stuff. So being a Carolina boy, did you
Speaker 2 00:11:52 Listen to a lot of like, uh, elevation? I know they came out. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:11:55 Yeah. Elevation always. Our church was always playing that. Yeah. So it was a big, big band we listened to. So
Speaker 1 00:12:01 I'm just even gonna ask him. I'm just gonna assume everybody as soon as they're from a certain point southward. It just grew up listening to the Christian music Bible. I know. Welcome to the Bible Belt. Exactly. Cody, thank you.
Speaker 2 00:12:11 Coat of Bear. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:12:12 Coda Bear. He's not a mute. He can't actually talk though. You never see him or hear him.
Speaker 2 00:12:17 We try to press a mute button, but it doesn't always
Speaker 1 00:12:19 Work. We, we try to keep him in the corner with the podcasts. You know, r i p podcasts. They're not dead. They're just at, we
Speaker 2 00:12:24 Only have the pout dogs today. We don't have, it's a boring day.
Speaker 1 00:12:26 Yeah. Last week we had like three, four dogs here and they were just all working around and then straight
Speaker 3 00:12:30 Background noise.
Speaker 1 00:12:31 Yeah. Oh, it was, it was ambiance. All right. Yeah. That's, that's for sure. So, so other music besides Christian music that you listened to?
Speaker 3 00:12:39 Oh, my dad was a big Van Halen fan. Um, big, uh, Motley Crew fans. I heard that Michael Jackson always going. That was when mom didn't know about it. Okay. You know, that it was always, we only listened to Christian Contemporary unless we were with Dad. So <laugh> Yeah. That's kinda how it went. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:12:56 Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3 00:12:57 Hopefully she won't hear this. I don't know if she even knows that. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:13:00 Yeah. Yeah. The um, the, uh, did you, did you see the um, Motley Cruise Show on uh, Netflix? Did you watch The Dirt? No. You gotta watch that shit. Yeah. Especially if you're a Motley Crew fan. Freaking all, I think we watched it. We, we found it on Netflix and then we watched it and I think we watched it like three or four more times that week.
Speaker 2 00:13:17 I think I've seen it about 20 times so far.
Speaker 1 00:13:19 Yeah. Like we, like, we've just,
Speaker 3 00:13:20 I guess I'm have to watch it then.
Speaker 1 00:13:21 No, you are, dude, you are. So watch
Speaker 2 00:13:22 It first and then go read the book. Cause
Speaker 1 00:13:25 M mg Yeah, cuz MG K's in it. He plays Tommy Lee. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, like they, they, it's all, it's, it's
Speaker 2 00:13:31 Really good. And like the actual like, recreation of the characters. Like, they found people and like actually look like young, like motley crew. Like there was like a setback sides and they're, I mean, they're not identical. Like obviously like Hollywood is done, it's magic, but they're like really close.
Speaker 3 00:13:46 That's
Speaker 1 00:13:46 Awesome. Yeah. So have to check it out. So that arena rock stuff. So for you influencing your, your writing and whatnot, and you've got the single out right now, it feels like the first time mm-hmm. <affirmative>. That's, that's it. Right? Feels like the first time. First
Speaker 3 00:13:57 Time. Every time. Yeah. First
Speaker 1 00:13:58 Time. Every time. First time. Every time. Yeah. Um, so with that kind of sense, very melodic, it's badass song. I was listening to it on the way over here. And, um, but for you, you got that melodic stuff that comes from like a Heavy Van Halen song or a um, or a Motley Cru song. Does that go into your writing at all, like melodies and whatnot? Um, I
Speaker 3 00:14:17 Don't know if it, if it would, it may. Um, ma most of my writing flight would come from just being a fan of country music, the last, you know, eight years. Okay. Um, but I could definitely see some of that going into it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:14:28 Okay. Now that song, the single what went into that?
Speaker 3 00:14:30 So I actually didn't write that song. Oh, you
Speaker 1 00:14:32 Didn't?
Speaker 3 00:14:33 I had a great opportunity to put that out. I was looking for a single, um, several of my good buddies wrote it and they showed it to me. I'm like, I really wanna be a writer on the song that I put out first, but this fits me and who I am. And I just fell in love with it. And they were like, put it out dude. So
Speaker 1 00:14:45 Now shout out. Who were the buddies on that?
Speaker 3 00:14:47 Uh, Taylor Phillips. Oh shit. Brock Berry Hill. Um, hunter Phelps and Logan Turner wrote that one. Damn
Speaker 1 00:14:53 Shit. That is a bad. But yeah, no, that was good. If those guys offer you a song, you have an opportunity to cut a song with with those names on it. You can't, you can't say no. You made a good call. Yeah. How'd you meet those guys? Because those are some heavy hitters right there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:15:05 Um, so I came to Nashville my first time ever just visiting. Um, and we of course hit Broadway. We didn't know anything about Nashville. We didn't know anything about music. I was green as can be. And we was like, well, let's go to Broadway. And um, I actually ran into Taylor Phillips the first night in Broadway and we just became friends and think that's how I got kind of pulled into that whole crew of guys, which is crazy. So,
Speaker 1 00:15:27 Yeah. What bar was it at, do you remember? Uh,
Speaker 3 00:15:29 Honky Tonk.
Speaker 1 00:15:30 Oh Lord. Oh, honky Tonk man. I had nights had Honky Tonk. Yep. With that crew and with Shell Dangerous that. Yeah. No, they're, they're a great time. I love them. Love them to death. But yeah, you never know where the night can lead. Never when you're out with that. So how long ago was that? About
Speaker 3 00:15:42 Three years. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:15:43 About three years. So this journey, so this kind of steps, so you're, so Nashville started for you three years ago. Yeah. That was your first time coming here. What were your initial thoughts of it?
Speaker 3 00:15:54 I, obviously, I fell in love with it, but what does everybody say when you come to Nashville? You can't, it's always gonna be a part of you now after that. Yeah. Um, it was way different than I thought. Um, all the people mixed, very big mix of of crowd here cuz everybody moves here I feel like. Yes. So nobody's the same. Which is really cool.
Speaker 1 00:16:09 We certainly do as, as a, as somebody that moved here I six months ago, I feel. Yeah. I
Speaker 3 00:16:15 I never meet somebody that's from Nashville. Well
Speaker 1 00:16:17 You got one right there. One right here. You got Coda Bear. Look at that. Horns up for the unicorns. That's what I like to say. There's so few of them. So they do
Speaker 2 00:16:23 Exist. He looks like unicorn today, that's for
Speaker 1 00:16:25 Sure. Does look like a unicorn with, with his little stash. We'll put that on. Actually I don't
Speaker 2 00:16:29 All so let's, let's just mention that real quick. Coda, me, Dave Hangley and another one of our friends, Jacob. Jacob who does our internet stuff. We are all in this bet right now. We have to keep a mustache and clean shaven or else it is a, uh, Ron Swanson tattoo on the ass cheek.
Speaker 1 00:16:47 Oh shit. So that's why you're keeping it? Oh yes. I knew there was a reason. I knew there was a reason, but yeah, we'll put up a, we'll actually put up a photo of Tyler and Coda Sporting their Reno 9 1 1 slash seventies porn sts that they're rocking right now. But, um,
Speaker 2 00:17:01 Koda kinda looks like, uh, the dad off the wild thorn Mary's
Speaker 1 00:17:04 He, yeah. He doesn't look smashing. Yeah, he's something something. Alright, <laugh>. So, so, so you, so you at, um, so your first time in Nashville, you love it. Um, what was the next visit like? When did it become like a business thing where these trips are for rights and for
Speaker 3 00:17:20 Well, my first trip I wasn't even sure, sure. I wanted to do music yet. I was just still in the learning process of playing and just having fun with it. And then when I came up here and realized, you know, what goes into it and all the work people put in, I'm like, this could be really fun. And then just kept coming back, came back think a few weeks later, um, network met some more people, started getting in on some rights and learning how to write and still learning how to write and, you know, just wanted to pursue it. So that's where we are.
Speaker 1 00:17:46 Yeah. You the first song you wrote, how old were you? What were you, where, what was that song about if you can remember? Cause I'm sure you're writing a lot right now.
Speaker 3 00:17:53 I can't, I don't know. I could tell you the first song. I probably threw it away. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:17:57 But when, when did you sit down and do that? Was that before Nashville? Was that before
Speaker 3 00:18:00 Nashville? Yeah, that was before Nashville. I probably tried to write my first song. Um, probably took me days and hours cuz you don't, you know, the more you do it, the better you get. Um, I can't honestly couldn't remember it if I have to
Speaker 1 00:18:10 Tell you. Okay. Okay. But that, but it was back home in, in
Speaker 3 00:18:12 Greenville? Yeah, it was back Greenville before I ever came to Nashville, so.
Speaker 1 00:18:16 Okay. And, and it was, it was definitely like more like countries what you wanted to do. Absolutely. Was there ever thought about doing like rock or pop or Christian music? Was there ever thought
Speaker 3 00:18:26 That No. It was country all the way as if it wasn't wasn't gonna be country. I probably wouldn't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:18:30 Yeah. Yes. No, your, your style. So you really fall in with that, that new wave of, that new wave of what country music's become and, and how it's brought in a huge audience. Like were arena rock and like mixed with like whatever else was in the two thousands comes together and, and becomes like, like that with a twang. Who were some of your big influences for your style of writing and country music?
Speaker 3 00:18:54 My first influence I actually really focused on and like looked their story was Sam Hunt. Okay. I loved his writing. I loved his songs. Yeah. He was, he kind of made me a more of a country fan than ever. Um, just the way his lyrics paint pictures, I just loved it. So I kind of studied him and his story and I'm like, I feel like I can, you know, relate and just wanted to start doing my own stuff.
Speaker 1 00:19:13 So. Okay.
Speaker 3 00:19:14 That's, that's one. Um, Chris Young's kind of a big influence on my sound and kind of type of songs that he writes. I love that. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1 00:19:21 Okay, cool. Yeah, cuz that, that's what's, uh, that's what was really cool about when I, when we were able to set this all up and whatnot. Everyone that we've kind of had on so far is like a little bit of a different style to it, man. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and in terms of like modern country, you're right in there. And that and that style with what's getting played on radio and like, what's really hitting like, like that style of where people sometimes do the throw the bro country term in there from what came out of Broadway and, and what mor what guys like Morgan Wallen are doing right
Speaker 3 00:19:48 Now. Yeah. I'm trying to like fill that, that that gap. Like don't
Speaker 1 00:19:51 That
Speaker 3 00:19:51 In between. I'm not going bro country, but Morgan Wall's like style, like I wanna like kind of fill that in between.
Speaker 1 00:19:56 Yeah. That just, yeah, that's just happy because he's got some songs that are super deep. Yeah. But he's also got some just banger party songs, like,
Speaker 3 00:20:04 And some like swampy songs too, you know, like
Speaker 1 00:20:07 Yeah. He is got some that are just like heavier in rock and his, his latest record that he had put out a little while back was freaking awesome. So the music thing as far as as doing stuff. So are you doing live shows and, and shit right now? Or?
Speaker 3 00:20:21 Not a whole lot. Okay. Every now and then I'll take one. I have one back home coming up in October, um, for charity event, but, oh, sweet. I'm not playing out a whole lot right now, just kind of focusing on getting material and writing, spending my time doing
Speaker 1 00:20:32 That. So you, so you wanna build the catalog and instead you wanna really focus on doing the, doing the writing thing Right. And putting together a catalog to EP singles.
Speaker 3 00:20:42 And like you said before, I am a business owner, so I do have a full-time business that I run. Yeah. So like, I can't, you know, I don't, you know, most musicians that write and sing, that's what they do for their living. So they're playing out, having to make money and income, so kind of don't, you know, have to be out, you know, every weekend grinding the road yet. Um, so I'm kind of focusing on, you know, taking stuff that I feel like would be beneficial to the career and beneficial to building fans and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 00:21:05 Okay.
Speaker 2 00:21:05 Yeah. So, uh, whenever you sit down to write, what does your process kind of look like? Are you more like lyric driven or melody driven? Like what do you kind of do whenever you sit down to actually write?
Speaker 3 00:21:15 Man, that totally depends on one, who you're writing with and what, you know, what the idea I idea is. I, I'm a title right. I love like just taking a title and writing from there. Um, and then I usually pull a melody at the same time. Um, but totally depends, like I said, what you're doing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:21:32 What was your first co-writing experience like? Cuz that's something that people, a lot of people before they come here, they're, they're just hanging out in their room or they're wherever and they're jotting down notes and they're doing it by themselves. Cause there's, there's not many songwriters I would imagine in Greenville, South Carolina. There weren't, there weren't a whole lot in, in, up in, up in like New Jersey where, where our buddies were and stuff. So when they come to town, that's their first co-writing opportunity or did you get to co I actually met in Carolina.
Speaker 3 00:21:57 I connected with somebody, you guys might know him. Noah Smith. Oh shit.
Speaker 1 00:22:00 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:22:01 Yeah. He's from, you know, well not originally, but he was living in South Carolina when I was there. We actually made that first trip up here together. Oh really? Um, so yeah, we, we actually sat down and tried to do a few co-writes before we ever came to Nashville. And obviously it's nothing like here. We didn't, we didn't really know what we were doing. Yeah. We just, let's get together, write a songs, what you do. Right. And we sat there and kind of figured out a few things and, you know, got our feet wet with it, but didn't really know much about what we were doing. So.
Speaker 1 00:22:24 Yeah. So your first co-writing, who were you remember your first co-write in Nashville?
Speaker 3 00:22:29 Oh, man, I don't, it's been so many. I don't remember my first one
Speaker 1 00:22:33 Because the, because like, there's, so for you coming from outta town, is it just, are you coming in and I'm guessing you know, these people pretty well. Like, you make friends with 'em kind of first mm-hmm. <affirmative> or is it, or how, what's the process of finding people to co-write?
Speaker 3 00:22:44 It depends. Like, if, usually at my level, which is not very high, I'm asking people Right. I'm having to get in the rooms with people that, you know, I feel like can bring something that help me and help me learn that are willing to take the time and write with me. Um, but I like, I like to write with my friends, so I like to, you know, be friends and be boys with somebody. I feel like you'll get more genuine stuff than having to sit down with somebody you don't, don't really know or don't connect with.
Speaker 1 00:23:07 So, yeah. Like you're kind of, you're kind of just throwing it up to chance if you don't know, like if you have no idea what they're, what they're about, what they're like kind of thing. Right. That chemistry's gotta be,
Speaker 2 00:23:16 It's also an to it, you know, like if you're boy's with 'em or something like that, or like they're your friend. Like
Speaker 3 00:23:20 There's a lot of walls that are gone, you know? Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:23:22 Yeah. Like, you walk in the room and you go, Hey man, how's your week been? Like, you can ask some like, personal shit, like off the bat and then like, you know, like, all right, let's bang out the song, you know, with somebody that you don't necessarily know. Like there's like tiptoeing around like, you know, some stuff every now and then.
Speaker 3 00:23:38 Absolutely. Yeah. When you're sitting down with somebody you don't know you're gonna have walls, you're gonna be scared to say things you would say with your boys, you know, throughout rooms. I mean, you're being, being vulnerable with somebody you don't know honestly. Right. So,
Speaker 1 00:23:48 Yeah. And that can, I'm sure that can, that can be pretty difficult, right? Absolutely. For uh, for sure. Absolutely. Now, for you, what's, what's kind of next with the music thing?
Speaker 3 00:23:58 I'd really like to get three more songs ready to put out and then just release singles over the next year.
Speaker 1 00:24:03 So Is, is there a certain one that you might be in the process of working on right now? There are a few. There are a few. Okay.
Speaker 3 00:24:08 Yeah, we got one. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna, I'm gonna cut and put out, um, but it'll probably be the next one.
Speaker 1 00:24:13 Interview you got, you got a title on that?
Speaker 3 00:24:15 Yep. It's called Slow
Speaker 1 00:24:16 Slow. And who'd you write that one with? Or who was that one with?
Speaker 3 00:24:19 Taylor, Brock and, uh, Sam Grow.
Speaker 1 00:24:22 Oh shit, that's gonna be a fun one cuz Sam grow a guy. Sam grow's a man. Talk about Sam Grow a little bit. So Sam Grow another, another guy I've, I had known from being, doing the country scene up north. I had known, I had seen what he was doing in Maryland in Pa, Delaware, Northern Virginia. And I was just like, this guy's gonna gonna make it. He's not down in Nashville yet. But then he made the move and you see what he's doing. Yeah. And he's a hell of a time, dude. He's a, yeah,
Speaker 3 00:24:47 He's a great dude. Great time, great, great singer, man. Like, he's super
Speaker 1 00:24:50 Good and, and the guy that's taking the chance on him and, and it's paying off and, and I'm and it's a great partnership is Colt Ford, who's right's another just awesome badass dude. Um, love that, uh, love that guy and to see what they're doing. How'd you get to meet Sam? Grow,
Speaker 3 00:25:06 Uh, in the right? I hadn't met him. That was the first day I been Oh really?
Speaker 1 00:25:09 So, wow. Oh shit. How long ago did you guys write that one? Uh,
Speaker 3 00:25:12 Probably a year and a half, a year ago maybe.
Speaker 1 00:25:13 Oh shit. Yeah. So you're so it can take that long. We're like, you write it a year, year and a half and then the, the the process of it.
Speaker 3 00:25:22 Yeah, I mean you could, we could write a song, who knows? I could write a song, you know, Wednesday on a right. And be like, this is the one I'm putting out. And or you could pull a song from two years ago cuz it fits what's you know out now and what your style is. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:25:33 Right. You know, like cycles happen in music and sometimes you write something on the back end of a cycle that doesn't necessarily get picked up. But, you know, 10, 15 years from now, that cycle comes back around. Um, it's a really popular Christian song, revelation song. It was first done by Carrie Jo, but that song was written for 14 years before it was released. <laugh>,
Speaker 1 00:25:54 No shit.
Speaker 2 00:25:54 Crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the woman that wrote it wrote it 14 years and then wrote it and then 14 years later, Carrie Jo came along and was like, I wanna cut that song. And, uh, it got cut and it went, I mean it's huge, you know, but sometimes the song takes, you know, I forget which song it is, but that was hearing a song on a story, on a song that's on radio right now. And it was wrote 10 years ago, you know, and it's just now coming to radio like, you know, catalogs and stuff. Like, that's why publishing companies keep catalogs. Cause you never know when a song's gonna come back into a cycle.
Speaker 1 00:26:28 Damn. Yeah. See, I, I don't know, I don't know a whole lot about that world. So that's really, that's really cool to, cool to hear and interesting cuz it goes to show like, you're right, something might right now might not be the time, but maybe there will be a time down the road. Yeah. We talked about you being a business owner. Right. So what's your business? It's pools, isn't
Speaker 3 00:26:45 It? I'm a little, I I'm an old pool boy, man. You're an old pool pool <laugh>. No, no. I, we, I own a swimming pool company back in Greenville. So we do all kinds of swimming, pool work and maintenance and renovations, repairs, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 00:26:57 So I'm sure bus business is good in terms of it's hot. It's, it's springtime. It now is your time. We're crazy.
Speaker 2 00:27:04 This isn't nothing buddy.
Speaker 1 00:27:06 Yeah. Is it getting hotter down here because it's already pretty freaking hot.
Speaker 3 00:27:09 I hope not.
Speaker 2 00:27:11 <laugh>, this is just warming up.
Speaker 1 00:27:13 Okay. Yeah, yeah, because like down, cuz coming from up north, the humidity, humidity in New York just isn't a thing. We think of humid and it's like 45% humidity. I looked the other day, it was like 85% humidity here. Yeah. And it, the weather around like, there's like, I've never been in the south for a summer before, so I'm kind of nervous. I'm gonna, there's
Speaker 2 00:27:30 Gonna be days where it's gonna hurt to breathe
Speaker 3 00:27:32 Is Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2 00:27:33 Absolutely. It gets thick,
Speaker 1 00:27:35 It gets that the air quality just,
Speaker 2 00:27:37 Oh yeah. Like you feel like somebody's like pushing on your chest, like restricting your breathing. It gets hot and thick. Fuck. Just wait till August buddy. I'm fucked. You might want to just go back north. <laugh> do the reverse. Snowbird.
Speaker 3 00:27:50 I feel that's what we all say from the south there. It was like, it's almost like it's a cliche thing. It's the humidity that gets you, I feel like it's something we always say. Yeah, <laugh>. Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Until they come experience it.
Speaker 1 00:28:01 Yeah. Yeah. And then I'll come. Yeah, we'll see. But, well
Speaker 2 00:28:03 I got like a buddy from Phoenix and he's like, dude, I can survive 110, 115 out there all day. Like, it doesn't feel that bad, but like 90 here I'm like wanting to die.
Speaker 1 00:28:12 Yeah. Yeah dude. Yeah. So, so you were saying you got some songs that are, that are in the process that you had written. You said you got, what is it two, three or four?
Speaker 3 00:28:22 Uh, no, it's, it's three. Three probably three. Definitely gonna put out one of them. Um, and the
Speaker 1 00:28:26 Other two are, what's that putting out process like? So you're in, I'm, I'm assuming you're independent right now? Yes, correct. I am. Okay, so you're independent right now. So what's that process like? Are you recording out in South Carolina? You recording here in Nashville? What's I
Speaker 3 00:28:38 Record here? Okay. So, you know, record here, get a day, get a vocal day. Um, the guy I work with is obviously amazing. Um, so just knock it out and do it all myself. Self-funded, self, self everything. Pretty much. So,
Speaker 1 00:28:50 Yeah. Yeah. Now for, for that, that's gotta add like another hunger to it. Like, like something like where you really, you're proving yourself and because you're putting your, like for you to be putting your, what you're doing, you're making the money, doing the pool stuff, like to fund yourself. That that's, that shows you, you want, you want to do it.
Speaker 3 00:29:07 Yeah. Puts a lot more value on everything you do <laugh> when you're forking out the bill. For sure.
Speaker 1 00:29:11 Yeah. For like decisions. Now how often are you, are you making that five hour trip? Uh, from Greenville, South Carolina.
Speaker 3 00:29:18 I'm up here almost every other week for a few days. So, you know, every other week driving that, I feel like I live here. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:29:23 Yeah. No, I honestly thought that you lived there when I first, when, when I first got to meet you.
Speaker 3 00:29:28 That's not, that's not the first time I've heard that. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 00:29:29 No, I'm, I'm sure it's not because if you're, if you're in the right spot, like if you're in the right spots downtown or in Midtown and you, you know who to meet and you know, like to go to Whiskey Jam or Revival. Right. Or any of those kind of big events that go on here in Nashville. If you're there like a consistent amount that's, that's as good of networking as it is. Anybody living here. Like that's where everybody goes. And if you are there for those opportunities Right. You don't lose anything from not living here right now. Like you're able to.
Speaker 3 00:29:59 Yep. That's why I make the drive. Yes.
Speaker 2 00:30:01 Yes. Look, whenever you said this morning, whenever you walked in and said, yeah, it was a long drive. You came from South Carolina, I was like, oh, you just came off tour like <laugh>. I
Speaker 3 00:30:08 Didn't, I didn't know. Maybe, maybe one day. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:30:12 Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 00:30:13 Shit man. That's funny. That's crazy. So, so South Carolina, um, how's your barbecue in South Carolina? Pretty, is South Carolina pretty good? Is South Carolina, is that a barbecue staple state or? No? Cause I hear, uh, I hear Memphis Nash, I hear Memphis and like Carolina and that's like North Carolina.
Speaker 3 00:30:30 It's good. I mean we got, we can, we can compete. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:30:33 What's your, what's your, are you, are you a ribs guy pulled pork?
Speaker 3 00:30:37 I'm, I'm a pulled
Speaker 1 00:30:37 Pork guy. Pulled pork guy
Speaker 3 00:30:39 Know bread, loose meat. Some sauce, man. Yeah. Loose
Speaker 1 00:30:42 Meat. What are you doing for your sides? What are you doing for your fixings?
Speaker 3 00:30:44 Mac and cheese and fries.
Speaker 2 00:30:46 Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 00:30:47 That's honestly what we get at Martin's
Speaker 3 00:30:49 <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:30:50 Day's. South Carolina. Cause I know we'll, uh, north Carolina's kinda like split where you have like, I think it's the mustard base and the vinegar based. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. What's South Carolina?
Speaker 3 00:31:00 It's neither, neither, neither. It's just regular old barbecue stuff. I mean we have it all, but Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I don't know vinegar, why.
Speaker 2 00:31:07 Yeah. Yeah. I mean it has its place I guess, but yeah.
Speaker 3 00:31:11 Yeah. The trash can <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:31:15 Oh man. So what, what's Greenville, South Carolina like now as I'm not familiar, I know the two towns that I, I know like the, like the beach area is cuz that's where all my people come down to vacation's. Hilton Head and all that. Are you close to that or?
Speaker 3 00:31:27 No, we're so Greenville's like upstate. We're just, you know, about 45 minutes from North Carolina. So.
Speaker 2 00:31:31 So you're up by like, uh, starts with an s uh,
Speaker 1 00:31:38 He's
Speaker 2 00:31:38 In Spartanburg. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3 00:31:40 Yeah. Greenville's and, you know, neighbors and Spartanburg,
Speaker 2 00:31:43 So yeah.
Speaker 3 00:31:44 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:31:45 What was growing up in South Carolina? Like?
Speaker 3 00:31:48 It was, it was a lot of fun. A lot. Like I said, we got lakes are what we do out there. We got four major lakes in the upstate.
Speaker 1 00:31:53 So fishing, so good fishing in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 00:31:55 Yeah, it's crazy. I didn't, I wasn't raised with the country lifestyle much when I was young. That's something that I kind of found my place in and grew into through middle school and then started fishing. My, my dad, my grandparents, none of them hunted or fished. That was all self-taught and self passion learned. Okay. So yeah, absolutely. After, after I grew up I really got involved with that. But,
Speaker 1 00:32:15 So growing up, did you play any sports or anything like that?
Speaker 3 00:32:17 I played a little bit of football, a lot of baseball and a race. Motocross.
Speaker 1 00:32:21 You're so I'm guessing you're a Braves fan.
Speaker 3 00:32:23 I know, I'm actually, this is weird. I'm a Yankees fan.
Speaker 1 00:32:26 Oh, fuck ya. Gimme, I'm
Speaker 3 00:32:27 A Yankees fan. You're like that. Here's why
Speaker 1 00:32:29 Tyler,
Speaker 3 00:32:30 My dad was born and raised in New York and moved down also. So that's kind of who I've been following. But I don't know if I'd say fan. I'm not, I'm not like, like if they lose like I'm okay the next day and I forget. Well
Speaker 1 00:32:43 It's 162 game season. It depends if they lose to the Red Sox or the Mets, I'm gonna be like, fuck. But if they, if, if it's just like a random game, I'm
Speaker 2 00:32:52 Red Sox every day, man,
Speaker 1 00:32:53 I fuck the Red Sox. You.
Speaker 2 00:32:55 Nah, I'm a brave fan. Yeah. Hate the Yankees.
Speaker 3 00:32:58 S e c Braves. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:33:00 He's a southern boy. He's a good old boy.
Speaker 2 00:33:02 Yeah. I'm originally from Atlanta, so like, you gotta, you know, that explains it. We used to have season tickets to the Braves, like, you know, back in the good old days when we had GL and smokes,
Speaker 3 00:33:12 I mean Brave and,
Speaker 1 00:33:13 And the Yankees were beating my,
Speaker 3 00:33:14 I'm a little bit of a Braves fan. I mean that's where, that's the closest baseball team we had.
Speaker 1 00:33:18 Yeah. That's why, that's why I was like, you're a Braves fan. I just assume that if you're south of the Mason Dixon line, you're, if you're in like Virginia, you can be an Orioles fan. But everybody's south or
Speaker 2 00:33:27 DC
Speaker 1 00:33:27 Or DC I mean the National
Speaker 2 00:33:28 Washington. I mean, who, who cares about the Nationals? They
Speaker 1 00:33:31 Fuck the Nationals.
Speaker 2 00:33:32 They lost Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 00:33:33 Yeah. They got, yeah, they got,
Speaker 2 00:33:34 They're in the bottom of the league right now kind of. So yeah. They're,
Speaker 1 00:33:37 They're, they're done. So I've got, so how long did you play baseball?
Speaker 3 00:33:40 Since I could walk until last year of high school.
Speaker 1 00:33:44 What were you at Pitcher?
Speaker 3 00:33:46 I was first baseman relief pitcher.
Speaker 2 00:33:48 Nice baseman.
Speaker 1 00:33:49 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:33:50 Nice. Right-handed first baseman <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:33:53 It's a rough, it's a rough job being right hand first baseman. It is. I did learn that my uh, junior and senior year of high school cause I messed up my knees and then blew up my shoulder. So I had to learn first base so that I could still play. Wow. And uh, doing that turn and like having to locate the ball is really, it's tough. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:34:14 It's tough for sure.
Speaker 2 00:34:15 Yeah. So why a lot of the good first basemen are left-handed? Because you don't like when you run into the bag, you don't have to make a turn. You just literally step on it. Yeah, no.
Speaker 1 00:34:24 Yeah, yeah. No, absolutely. Absolutely. For sure. So now with the music, um, with the music stuff, um, what are you digging now? If you pull out your phone right now and you look on your Spotify mm-hmm. <affirmative>, what's gonna pop up? What do you got on there?
Speaker 3 00:34:36 Oh, let's see. Are we listening? Listening to all kinds of jams on the
Speaker 1 00:34:38 Way. Yeah. You got your five hour trip. I'm sure you're listening to something.
Speaker 3 00:34:42 Oh, was listening to a playlist. Oh, chicks dig it. That's the last song I was playing. Chris Kegel.
Speaker 1 00:34:50 Whatever happened to Chris Kegel?
Speaker 3 00:34:51 I don't know, but he was a jam. He
Speaker 1 00:34:52 Was like, he was the shit. I don't know whatever happened to him. I believe he's still Tyler. Go to the interwebs. Of course we send to South Alabama. Send, uh, we send Darryl's cousin over here to, to go and, uh, search, search for, uh, search for on the interwebs. I have
Speaker 3 00:35:06 A long lost friend
Speaker 1 00:35:08 <laugh>. Chris Kegel. Chris Kegel. Yeah. So what, what, what other songs are on there?
Speaker 3 00:35:13 I'm a huge Morgan Wallen fan. I love that dude. Like I could listen to him all day long.
Speaker 1 00:35:16 Yeah. Now the first time I got some Morgan Wallen stories, the first time that I met Morgan was, he was playing up in Jersey and I was working radio up there. And, um, it was like pre mullet while he was on tour. He just started going on road on the road with um, fgl. Right on um, doing their theory tour. And it was like before he'd even put out, up, down. Yeah. So like up, we're hanging out backstage doing, doing whatever we're doing, having a good time. And um, and yeah, if we, um, he's good freaking dude. And the songs that he puts out are, are awesome. Especially it's not everybody just, I, that's what I hate about like, the single world, like where everything's like singles and then now, now the streaming's so big full length. The full length of the albums are like not getting as much respect because people aren't listening to the whole CDs anymore. So the deep cuts, it's like Right. Nobody's talking about had me by halftime or Happy Hour or any of those. Yeah. Which Happy Hour's A fucking Jam Fucking love that song. Yep.
Speaker 3 00:36:13 If I know me, that's one of my,
Speaker 1 00:36:15 If I know me is a, see that's a jam thing. That is a catchy one. That is a really catch one. Is that actually just showing that to somebody the other day? Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:36:21 That's under his song right here. This
Speaker 1 00:36:23 Is like, it's a title track, quality title track. And they're not even gonna bother to put it as a single, which is just blows my mind done the way all that stuff works. I understand, sir. So what do we got?
Speaker 2 00:36:32 So in 2015 he uh, posted a picture of like his daughters and said, I hate missing moments like this. And then shortly afterwards he uh, announced that he was gonna be coming off the road and quitting his music career to go be a stay at home dad and be a father.
Speaker 1 00:36:47 That is very admirable. Well, you
Speaker 3 00:36:49 Can't hate on that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:36:51 I wanna be like Chris Kegel. No. Like I want more music. He music was
Speaker 2 00:36:54 Also music like 46 of the time too, so Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:36:56 He's been doing it
Speaker 2 00:36:56 For a minute. Yeah, he's been doing it since like 2000. So that was 2015. So it's a good 15, 16 years career. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:37:02 That, that he's missed. That he could be missing time with his daughter, like guess. Yeah. Yeah. Totally.
Speaker 3 00:37:07 I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm glad it wasn't like a terrible story or something. I
Speaker 1 00:37:10 Thought you were gonna say hear something terrible. He fell off a cliff or something like that. I was gonna be like, shit, fuck Tyler. Dunno why you saying that? No, no,
Speaker 2 00:37:16 No. He, uh,
Speaker 1 00:37:17 Yeah, he would've forgotten about it. He wouldn't
Speaker 2 00:37:19 Be a dad, so
Speaker 1 00:37:20 That's good. That's admirable. But yeah, Chris Kegel chicks Dig it. Fucking banger. That's a jam. That's a good, that's a good song. Now, others, other kind of music that you listen to, are you still a big classic rock guy? Will you still bump them? No, not really. I Or are you more into like the pop or like,
Speaker 3 00:37:35 Did I get into hip hop and rap? I, I can
Speaker 1 00:37:37 Down to what are your thoughts on Old Town Road? What are your thoughts on Old Town Road? Because I've had people,
Speaker 3 00:37:42 My thoughts now and my thoughts the first time I heard it, well, I
Speaker 1 00:37:45 Got quick. It involves, and it involves Taylor, it involves, uh, t Phillips. We were at the, he was, he was hanging out at um, at the bar at work and he asked the DJ to play Old Town Road and the DJ wouldn't play it. So there's certain DJs like in the hiphop community that hate the song. Right. But it's doing so well within hip hop. But then you got a country guy like Taylor that's fucking, and I know he loves all styles of music. He's very well-rounded with his musical tastes and whatnot. He'll get down to whatever, but that you got a country guy asking the hip hop guy to play a hip hop song and the hip hop guy doesn't wanna play it because he doesn't think the song's any good because
Speaker 3 00:38:19 Like stepping on his turf with a, a song like that, he doesn't feel like playing it or like
Speaker 1 00:38:25 No be well just because the guy's like, I don't like the song. The DJ was like, I don't, I don't like that song. I don't, I'm not gonna play like I don't play that song. Okay. <laugh>. So which, but it's like Old Town Road. It's like a song that people are kind of like divided on.
Speaker 3 00:38:37 Absolutely. When I first heard it, I was like, what in the world am I listening to? And
Speaker 1 00:38:42 Then Billy read,
Speaker 3 00:38:42 But then I did, I did the uh, the download of shame, you know, after what's
Speaker 1 00:38:46 The download of shame
Speaker 3 00:38:47 When you go download it <laugh> you're like, this is crazy. Why is anybody listen to this? And then two days later you're putting it on your playlist and you're like, shoot. And then you listen to it and you get a bunch of funny memes from it. And now I'm over it. If I hear it, man, I'm done. I can't, I gotta skip it.
Speaker 2 00:39:07 Wow.
Speaker 1 00:39:08 But it, it's crazy cause I was my first time listening to it, I just heard them. I, I've, I've heard of this and I'm like, this guy sounds like a weird owl. Like Wheeler Walker Jr kind of thing. <laugh> where he's trying to make fun of being, make fun of being country kind of thing. That's what I heard you talking this and then all of a sudden you're fucking Billy Ray Cyrus coming. He's like, Billy Ray Cyrus, what the fuck are you doing? It's, they're like, just cuz Morgan Mullin drew the mullet out. Doesn't mean it's time. Like, what are you doing
Speaker 2 00:39:32 Back? Like, what's going on? They brought him out of like, you know, the nursing home.
Speaker 1 00:39:36 Have you watched the music video where they're riding around on the horses? No,
Speaker 2 00:39:39 I haven't.
Speaker 1 00:39:39 Billy Ray. Billy Ray Cyrus,
Speaker 2 00:39:41 I think I showed you this, but have y'all saw the music video for basically the last thing that Billy Ray Cyrus did? It was the, uh, achy Breaking Heart part two.
Speaker 1 00:39:50 Oh no, there's a part
Speaker 3 00:39:51 Two. There's a part two.
Speaker 2 00:39:52 Have you saw that yet? No. Okay. After this episode, we will like show you this greatness.
Speaker 1 00:39:58 We're gonna post it on our Facebook page too. So you guys jump on. Yeah, we are, we're posting it on our Okay. Posting it on the other round Facebook content. We'll see how many people are listening. If people go to look for it, they'll
Speaker 2 00:40:09 Let us know. It's, it's a, he did a AQ Bray part too, but like, there was a rapper that the main guy that did it,
Speaker 1 00:40:17 It's horrifying. Sounds horrifying.
Speaker 2 00:40:19 And yeah, it's just the music video. The first time I watched it, like I seriously thought I was high and I was like, wait, I've never done drugs in my life. But like, it's, it's trippy. It's out there.
Speaker 3 00:40:32 Billy Ray just drops the smash and then disappears forever and then drops another one. He's just gonna disappear again. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:40:38 He's just gonna go ride off and, and make, make make the money that he's making. They wheeled
Speaker 2 00:40:41 Him back into the nursing home. He's, uh, oh
Speaker 1 00:40:43 My God, he's back. He made it, made it back in time for bingo, you know? Yep. Um, but, but so for hiphop stuff, who are some of your favorite, uh, favorite people in that, in that genre? All right.
Speaker 3 00:40:54 This is some Drake. Um, Migos. Yeah, I get down, I tend to listen to hip hop and rap, which when I'm working out, that's pretty much my go-to workout
Speaker 2 00:41:02 Stuff. You gotten in uh, Anderson pack yet?
Speaker 3 00:41:05 I don't think so. He's more like, I might know the songs.
Speaker 2 00:41:07 He's more like on the RB side of stuff, but like, he plays drums while he sings like live. Uh, he, yeah, dude, his stuff's like, that's
Speaker 3 00:41:17 Impressive. Anybody that plays drums and does vocals, I don't know how. And
Speaker 2 00:41:20 It's like really like groovy like in the pocket and then like goes to like a weird like timing thing and then like comes back in. He's amazing drummer and amazing. Vocal. Vocal. Check it out. Vocal. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:41:32 He's great. Now that I know that's going on. Yeah. A different way to lens to
Speaker 1 00:41:35 Listen to it. So, so hip hop's very, very lyrical obviously with all the rhyming and stuff there. Does that come in as an influence for your writing?
Speaker 3 00:41:42 It can. Yeah, absolutely. I think you, you can take, I, there's so many words in a hip hop song cuz it's usually so fast and you, you can get inspired for so many different ideas that you may hear in hip hop all the time, but, oh well how can I twist, you know, kind of twist that idea and maybe like make it, you know, a country thing or something like that. So
Speaker 1 00:41:59 Yeah. And it's, and that balance, I mean the last five to 10 years seen where Sey where just the genres gone and how it's opened up a whole new, whole new audience to, I mean I think, I honestly think that like the um, the like the pop country stuff coming in that added to what Nashville is today in terms of people just coming. Cuz I know when you first moved here, which was what Tyler, five years ago.
Speaker 2 00:42:22 It's almost
Speaker 1 00:42:23 Six now. Almost six. That, that was like when all that stuff was kind of really getting started. Yeah. But there's the bro country and the pop country and stuff and it, it kind of blew up again. Like country had blown up in the nineties with McGraw and, and, um, Travis Tr and Shania and Garth and all those huge names. Yeah. That, that kind, that that opening that opens the door right now for people that wanna be coming in and they're loving country music. They, they want to go to Nashville and now you see Nashville,
Speaker 2 00:42:48 Well don't come country to a new like sect of people.
Speaker 1 00:42:52 Yeah. Like you had festivals, you had a, you had a couple years ago there was a country festival, a huge ass festival in the middle of New York City. Yeah. Cause the middle of New York City that they're doing that of all places. And I mean, New York City is, is country's biggest market. Part of that is because it is the biggest market in the world, but like, it's, it's cool. So I'm just saying it's cool that you're that style, like that's something that's really doing well right now, right. And everything. So speaking of your style of music, you got your guitar with you?
Speaker 3 00:43:20 I do. You
Speaker 1 00:43:21 Ready to wanna play us? You wanna play us a song? Sure. What? I'll give a shout. What kind, what kind of song do you want to, what kinda song you got for us today? What are you thinking? Um,
Speaker 3 00:43:30 Want hear the slow song?
Speaker 1 00:43:31 I want to hear the one that, um, what's the one you did with, uh, t Phillips and Brock? Yeah,
Speaker 3 00:43:36 That's the one that I'm probably gonna cut next. Okay.
Speaker 1 00:43:38 So what's the story? What went into that?
Speaker 3 00:43:41 Uh, I believe it was Sam's idea. He just kinda started playing a melody and then, you know, the song Slow is kind of just about, you know, living slow, like having fun, but the countryside living slow. So it's kind of, kind of a twist on that. But I'll play it for you guys if you wanna hear it. Yeah, dude.
Speaker 1 00:43:58 Absolutely. So the full, the full list of writers on that. So you were in the room with
Speaker 3 00:44:03 Brock, Barry Hill, Taylor, Phillips, Sam Girl, and
Speaker 1 00:44:06 It's slow. That is awesome. Can't wait to hear that one. Well, you'll grab your guitar. Um, guys, thank you for listening episode. What number Tyler?
Speaker 3 00:44:13 Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 00:44:14 12. 12. Yeah, dude, dude, it was an absolute pleasure. Thank you for making the five hour drive, man. Absolutely. What that man, thank you. Yeah. Really, really greatly appreciating and cannot wait to see where, where your stuff's going, man. Cuz seriously, you're, you're still, you're just getting started with it and you're already getting traction. You got a good falling on social media til or Tyler Conforti music, right? Yep. Is that, that's it. That's the account. And uh, people can find you, Spotify, apple Music, everywhere, everywhere. All your shit's out there, which is great. Guys, thank you for listening. Episode 12. We confirm that Tyler? Yep. And count to 12. Good <laugh>. Yeah, I'm happy. I can count to 12, honestly. Yeah. Um, but yeah, so you guys, thank you for listening in. Make sure that you hit subscribe if you enjoyed it. Give us a rating, give us some stars and uh, make sure you go check out Tyler Conforti and what he's got going
Speaker 2 00:45:01 On. Go check us out on Instagram and uh, Facebook and the Round podcast. Also, Matt Bar on Instagram, just a wandering Tyler on Instagram. Follow.
Speaker 1 00:45:10 It's wandering like moving, not wandering, like thinking the way you say wandering with that freaking draw. I don't know if it's wandering or wandering. It took me forever and I was trying to add him on Instagram and I was putting wandering like w o n D. No. And then he's like, it's wandering. I'm like, oh, say wandering. Then
Speaker 2 00:45:27 I do
Speaker 1 00:45:28 <laugh>. But yeah. So without further ado, here is Tyler Canfor. Tyler Canfor was slow. Thanks for listening to the In The Round podcast.
Speaker 4 00:45:46 This life we've been living caught up in it. So fast service ain. Deer front porch, you know, baby. Yeah. You know, baby you. John Deere two Lane Road Radio.
