Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:14 What is going on? Everyone? Welcome back to the In The Round podcast. Got Matt. Today we are hanging out in East Nashville. We've got a great guest, our boy Tyler Halverson. Before we get into that conversation, gotta tell y'all about our sponsors, including a brand new one that we have here in Nashville, Tennessee. Of course, shout out to our friends at Whale Tail Media, our boy Whales, he gets the job done. You're looking for content here in town, you're getting hitched, anything of that nature. Hit up our friends at Whale Tail Media. They will get you covered and taken care of. Shout out to our new sponsor, our boy Grady Sackman from Sackman Studios. They're a staple here in Nashville. Uh, he's a guy that if you're looking for demos, if you're looking to have great quality work on a very affordable budget, um, a guy that's been a part of a lot of big projects here in town and a guy that above all just is happy to be a part of the scene and a big supporter of what goes on here in Nashville, Tennessee, especially the up and comers.
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Speaker 2 00:02:20 Yes.
Speaker 1 00:02:20 What's going on, buddy?
Speaker 2 00:02:22 Oh, just, you know, east side chilling here,
Speaker 1 00:02:24 Bro. The east side. I don't spend enough time here in East Nashville. Like, I don't, I like it. I don't come over to the east side enough.
Speaker 2 00:02:31 I don't really like crossing the interstate, honestly. Like
Speaker 1 00:02:33 You got everything you need here. And also, today is not a podcast, today is a garage. Yes, exactly. We've established that, man. Yes, we have.
Speaker 2 00:02:41 We're chilling. This is my garage studio, bro. You
Speaker 1 00:02:43 Got, you got everything you need. You got a bench press, get nice and swollen. Yeah. You got washer and dryer. You got the table. You got a tape deck player, man. Hell
Speaker 2 00:02:50 Yeah. And the jukebox.
Speaker 1 00:02:52 And the jukebox. You got a freaking jukebox. Absolutely. In your garage, bro. Freaking sick. Now, something I've noticed, I'm noticing just coming over to your pad here, the old school vibes.
Speaker 2 00:03:02 Yes. You're big. It is. It's a little, uh, yeah, it seems a little retro around here. I think that's, most of my roommates though, they do a pretty damn good job of decorating this spot.
Speaker 1 00:03:10 Yeah. But it's such, it's such a cool vibe and like, especially, I mean, like what, what tapes do you got right there? Oh, I haven't listened to tape cassettes in a, in a minute.
Speaker 2 00:03:17 So my grandma has, she has this, like, she's given me the bad habit of stopping at every goodwill that I go by, it seems like. But she's been like collecting tapes for me. So I got everything from like the Marlboro Country music mix to farther down the road. Some shell gas tape, like mixes. Like, it's just, it ranges from all over the place. And then a bunch of like, I don't know, old cowboy stuff that I'd steal from my grandpa and whatnot.
Speaker 1 00:03:39 That's sick, dude. Yeah, I mean, so you and me come from incredibly different backgrounds. Like I'm from the northeast, like New York where it's like they're, it, there's so many people and it's so crap. Yeah. You come from big sky country, like you're, you're they're spread out. Yeah, man. You're repping the West, like the, the western style, which is something that is kind of not represented as much here in Nashville, man. Talk a little bit about South Dakota and what kind of brought you here. I mean, um, what's it like if I show up in South Dakota, what do I got to expect?
Speaker 2 00:04:07 It's gonna be a little slower, a little more spread out, a little more slowed down. Um, I think that's definitely one thing I like about it the most, but, uh, yeah. What, like, coming here from South Dakota? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:04:18 Well that, that too, I mean, just growing up out there. Like what now what, what town are you from?
Speaker 2 00:04:23 I'm from Canton, South Dakota originally.
Speaker 1 00:04:25 So how many people in that
Speaker 2 00:04:26 Town? Uh, that was about 2000. Yeah, a little more. I think you graduated like maybe 50 kids in my class. Wow. Yeah. So it was small. Um, so yeah, definitely coming here is a bit of a culture shock. It's just different. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:04:38 Yeah. Just, just a lot of, lot of people and just having the city, like having traffic, everybody being, there's like
Speaker 2 00:04:44 Constant stimulation and that's like, yeah. Whether it's like, you know, a car buzzing by or sirens or the plane going above your head. Like that's not a thing where I'm at. So it's just, it's odd getting used to. And I, I don't still think, I don't, I'm not used to it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:04:57 How long have you been
Speaker 2 00:04:58 Here? Uh, about six years.
Speaker 1 00:04:59 Six years. And you go back, will you go back and forth quite a bit? Will you?
Speaker 2 00:05:03 Yeah, I go back, especially with like the pandemic. I've been back like once or twice a month, just going back to gig. That's the only thing, you know, going on. Just that's odds all open is out there to go gig. So are you driving
Speaker 1 00:05:14 Or flying?
Speaker 2 00:05:16 Uh, a lot of driving. How
Speaker 1 00:05:17 Long is that drive?
Speaker 2 00:05:19 My fastest is 13 flat.
Speaker 1 00:05:21 13 hours flat. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:05:23 <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:05:23 Damn. That's what it's like for me to New York is like 13, but that's what like some little bit of traffic and stuff and you're, you're out there. That's a different time zone, right?
Speaker 2 00:05:31 No, it's the same and Oh, it is? Okay. Yeah. Once you get, um, like West River, then it's mountain time, but then East River side, the Dakota, it's still central, so Okay. Yeah. But 13 flats my fastest. That's, uh, not stopping until your eyes are floating and, you know. Yeah. Just keeping on <laugh>, what's
Speaker 1 00:05:43 Your go-to snack on the road? Like what's your, your pulling in? I'm starting to be tired. Oh man, I gotta stay the fuck up. Like we gotta make it.
Speaker 2 00:05:50 I'm a big bang guy.
Speaker 1 00:05:51 Okay. I am too. Yeah. <laugh>. I am too. I, I i, those things
Speaker 2 00:05:55 Get me like shaken. I'm like, all right, we got a couple more hours. Tell ya, what's
Speaker 1 00:05:58 What's your go-to bang flavor?
Speaker 2 00:05:59 Ooh, the blue Raz dude.
Speaker 1 00:06:01 You're a blue Raz guy. Yeah, I'm a black cherry vanilla. Cuz it, hell ta it tastes so much like a, like a Dr. Pepper bro. Yeah, yeah. For me it's like, I, I I won't feel as bad about drink taking 300 milligrams of caffeine to the face. No. If it tastes like a Dr. Pepper. Exactly.
Speaker 2 00:06:15 I feel that. Yeah, those shit, they get you rolling too.
Speaker 1 00:06:18 They do, man. My record, I, it's, I'm ashamed to say it. I drank you stop
Speaker 2 00:06:22 Your heart.
Speaker 1 00:06:22 Well, I've had three in one day <laugh>, you know, like, uh, did you
Speaker 2 00:06:27 Sleep that night?
Speaker 1 00:06:28 No. Well, it was when I was on the road with, uh, with Gary and Chuck, um, with the Muske eye gang and bangs were like a part of the crew. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> like, it was like they were posting out on their socials. I was like, that's
Speaker 2 00:06:38 How I first like saw 'em. I was like, Gary kept drinking them damn things. I was like, I'll try it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:06:42 And they taste good and stuff, but I forget where the hell we were. It was, we had, it was a long day of like driving and there wasn't a lot of sleep. And it was one of those shows where when you're, when you're the merch guy, you, you gotta be working when doors open. Yeah. So it was like doors opened at like six or seven <laugh> and they didn't go on till like 1130. Yeah. So I was like, fuck, I'm tired. I'm gonna need something to power through. So it was nicotine and caffeine man or my things. We were thaw, dogging and bang hanging very, very hard that, uh, that weekend.
Speaker 2 00:07:13 I think that's how a lot of things get done here, isn't it? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:07:15 It's just finding, I mean, finding the way of just, just continuing the grind. So for you six years Yeah. Being here. So you moved here, you're 26 now. You moved in when you were 20. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:07:24 Moved here when I was 20. I transferred down from, uh, South Dakota State to Belmont and went there for two years and finished up and, um, learned a lot there. Probably learned more stuff that I didn't care to be a part of than what I did care to be a part of. Yeah. Which I think is just as important. Um, but yeah, went to Belmont and then graduated there and then um, when I graduated I kind of stuck around here and was bouncing around, um, just South Dakota, Wyoming, and uh, Tennessee and just kind of playing and going back and forth and then finally came back and decided better stay here and try and make a run at this damn thing. So,
Speaker 1 00:07:59 And we and we've had a couple name changes along the way. Right, yeah.
Speaker 2 00:08:02 Identity crisis, <laugh>. Yeah. All that shit. I don't know. I don't know who I am or what I'm doing. We're just figuring it out. Nah,
Speaker 1 00:08:07 Dude. Dude. I mean I think that in the past like year, I think that like your crew, your whole kind of crew of folks.
Speaker 2 00:08:14 Oh dude. Well your
Speaker 1 00:08:15 Was such a strong crew. It's funny, we were, we were talking about this on the most recent episode of the Grapevine Pi, it's a little spoiler alert for you cuz it hasn't dropped yet. Okay. We were talking about like up and comers or whatever and, and Gary brought up your name and, and all that. But talking about how that whole, like you guys hold story,
Speaker 2 00:08:30 It's a whole dynamic that everyone supports and Yeah, it's, it's awesome dude. Like, I remember like last year it was me, Nate, and Ben just like drinking beers, hanging out, just talking shit. And we were like, man, we want a fucking record. We all want records, we wanna start recording stuff. And then like, it was really cool. Like, I dunno, like Nate just put his out. Yes. And then it's just like all this big moment of like, we were all sitting there and we were like, you remember when we were like fucked up talking sad and, you know, wanting records and all this and like here we are. Like, Ben's got a project, Nate has a project, I have a project. Like it's cool. Yeah. And like, yeah. And like our friend Harper O'Neill, Meg McCree, Colin Nash, they're all doing the same thing. They're getting those projects rolling and it's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:09:08 Dude isn't like, and it's a crew that we're,
Speaker 2 00:09:10 And like the Vinny and the Gabe and Yeah. I don't wanna leave anybody out. They're all badasses,
Speaker 1 00:09:15 Bro. You guys do it your way. Yeah. That's what's so cool is that the, the big thing I think that's coming back to country music and that I hope really comes back in this town in general is authenticity. Hell yeah. Like I love the real shit when peop but when you
Speaker 2 00:09:30 Get real shit when you're around real people ex
Speaker 1 00:09:32 And that's what your crew Yeah. Exemplifies man. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 00:09:35 I think
Speaker 1 00:09:35 So. So how'd you meet all those cla all those cats?
Speaker 2 00:09:38 Um, I think my first friend in that group was Meg. Her and I had an internship together at the Holland Group and she was at Sony Red and that was when I was at Belmont. She's at Vandy and I think we were both like board of shit one day, not doing what we were supposed to be doing. Probably just like, uh, checking out each other's SoundClouds. And we were like, hell we should, we should probably write sometime, you know? And then, um, she kind of gathered some more friends and I had moved out of town for a while and then when I came back she, you know, was hanging out with Harper and had, I don't know, knew a couple more people and just, you know, I was like all kind of strung together in the weirdest, roundabout way. And then, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 00:10:14 No, that's, that's,
Speaker 2 00:10:15 Everyone kinda knew everybody and the rights just kind of kept happening.
Speaker 1 00:10:18 Yeah. And for you guys, I mean we do our, like I have my writer's round at Li book and stuff, but, uh, the staple of writers' rounds in Nashville is a little old thing called Revival that goes down on Tuesday nights. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:10:30 And that's a big spot too, where we all hung out and got to know each other and Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:10:33 Yeah. I mean, you guys are like the latest crew to come out of it, I think where you, well like, if you look at like revival, you, you rewind four or five years ago. Yeah. That's, that's Musk and I and that's Luke Combs, that's Rob Snyder, that's, um, John Langston. That, that's like folks that are Ray Cher, those guys that are those guys and girls that are like doing shit doing shit now. Yeah. Were doing that a few years ago. And then that's when the balls start rolling. I think you guys are the latest like, as a collective unit. Like, I mean it helps the I hope so.
Speaker 2 00:11:02 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:11:03 No, no, but it's just, you like, it's all, it's a, it's a round that you guys are so proud of. Like that's, I think of revival in 20 20, 20 21 I think of all those names that we were just naming off. Yeah. You know? Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:11:16 I think that's true. I think, yeah. And it's, and that's the cool part too, is just watching it like all stem too from revival and everybody kind of playing their part in that and Yeah, it's cool. It's a, it's a, it's a humbling crew to be a part of too, cuz it makes you keep, I don't know, chasing cuz everyone's doing cool shit. We all wanna keep
Speaker 1 00:11:33 Up, but, and everybody's so fucking talented.
Speaker 2 00:11:36 Yeah. Everyone's really fucking talented. So you really gotta try to keep up. Like, if you
Speaker 1 00:11:39 Just move to town to be a guitar player and you walk in and you, you see Ben Chapman. Yeah. You're like, you're like,
Speaker 2 00:11:44 Fuck, I don't know how to play guitar at all. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:11:46 <laugh>. Yeah. When you see, when you see a guy like that, or, or you see the, the storytelling that a guy like you, a guy like Colin, a girl, like Meg girl like Harper. Yeah. I mean that, that whole crew just the, the style that you guys are doing is, is it's not the mainstream thing. You guys aren't giving anything up in your creativity.
Speaker 2 00:12:05 No, I think it's all very authentic and original. It's a, it's a, yeah. It's all an original thought. Well, of it. It's, it's different I hope anyway, as people think of it that
Speaker 1 00:12:13 Way. No,
Speaker 2 00:12:14 Absolutely. I don't know how to talk about it, but
Speaker 1 00:12:15 Yeah. And speaking of like the, of the real shit and whatever, your first single bro, this latest one, this, this one you just dropped Beer Garden baby.
Speaker 2 00:12:23 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:12:24 We, I know I, I can speak for myself. I've been bumping it a lot because it Oh yeah. Because it has this vibe. I mean, you're, you're telling a story. You're, you're singing to this, singing to this girl. You're at the, at the end where, um, who's gonna buy your Coors Tonight, honey? Like, don't, you know, the, the singer gets, gets the check at the rodeo. Yeah. Like it's,
Speaker 2 00:12:41 Can't afford much. We can buy you Coors. Yeah. <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:12:43 No, no, but dude, it's like that, that song is so cool. And um, and like your style of the Western style, you got like this punkish kind of voice when you sing too. Yeah. I dunno if you've been told that before, but it's, it's pretty dope.
Speaker 2 00:12:57 Well, I, I did not, uh, pick up an acoustic guitar probably until I was like 14 or 15. Like it was, I was hardcore into like, I was a warped tour kid, man. Really? I fucking
Speaker 1 00:13:06 Loved
Speaker 2 00:13:07 That scene. Who
Speaker 1 00:13:08 Were did now did, like, did Warp Tour come through South Dakota or where would you have to go?
Speaker 2 00:13:12 Shakopee in Minnesota. We would drive up from like Sioux Falls up to Shakopee. But like, I remember growing up, like my next door neighbor played in a metal band called Life's Breath. And they got to go tour and open up for Under Oath and I thought it was the coolest fucking thing ever. Yeah. So like I always wanted to like be into that scene, but then I figured out I couldn't scream or play any of that punk shit.
Speaker 1 00:13:31 <laugh>. So
Speaker 2 00:13:32 We started going to more bluegrass festivals. <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:13:34 But still like, just the way, the way that your, that your voice is it just, it's cuz like Nate has like that guy Clark thing going where it's like the, the deeper kind of thing. And like everybody in that group's voices too are like so unique. A different
Speaker 2 00:13:47 Tone, different Yeah. No one's stepping on each other's toes. That's what's cool about it. It's all its own lane.
Speaker 1 00:13:51 Yeah. And, and y'all all right together. I mean, you were saying you wrote a song Macon in this freaking garage earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:13:56 Yeah, yeah. <laugh> hell yeah. The Garage Studio. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:13:59 The Garage Studio. Which was freaking dope. So for you, what was the big incentive to come down here? Were you doing music back home? Like what, what um, what inspired the transfer?
Speaker 2 00:14:09 I don't even, I don't even know what I think I've always been curious about coming down here. Um, growing up we would drive to Florida every couple years just for vacation. And one year we stopped through here and I just remember walking up and down on Broadway and just like hearing everything, you know, it's, I don't know, it's a typical story. You just wanna be a part of something bigger. And then, um, I had a girl I was dating at the, um, once upon a time her mom had mentioned something about Belmont and then, so I looked into that and like found like the songwriting program and stuff like that and like submitted all that stuff and like, um, I don't know, it was just like, uh, if you want to try and do something a little bigger than just playing some bars at home, I guess was the big thing. Like just try and make something a little more out of it. I don't know
Speaker 1 00:14:52 Why Nashville, not Texas, because Texas has a country music scene as well. And I feel like a lot like seeing like how Highway 30 Festival in Idaho is mostly that, that Midwestern. So I feel like Texas and Up is very red dirt country. Like that style gets played a lot in, and correct me if I'm wrong cause I've never been up there. Yeah. Like, I haven't been to the Dakotas, Minnesota, Idaho.
Speaker 2 00:15:13 I think Why Nashville not Texas? Because I think if you're truly trying to write songs, this is the place to be. Like even the biggest Texas guys come here to write and record these songs.
Speaker 1 00:15:23 That's true. That's very true. You know, like,
Speaker 2 00:15:24 That cannot be as Texas as you want to be. That cannot be like taken lightly. Like they come here for the good stuff and I think that's cool. And I think if you really wanna hone that this is the place to be.
Speaker 1 00:15:36 Yeah. Cause if you're, if you're wanting to write with Yeah. With
Speaker 2 00:15:39 With you don't, you don't meet the writing community like the Ben Chapmans and the Megan Cre and the Har Prones and all them down there. Like, that's it. I think that's the only you can find here. Yeah, I truly do.
Speaker 1 00:15:49 Yeah. No, absolutely dude.
Speaker 2 00:15:51 Yeah. I, I don't, I've always said too, like, my favorite thing about Nashville is leaving Nashville. And the only reason I like Nashville is cause my people like, I love my people, but yeah, I could, I'd love to go to Texas, man. Absolutely. It's a more western, but this is the place to be for writing music.
Speaker 1 00:16:05 Yeah. And the and it helps so much to have a, to have a crew Yes. Around you. Like Absolutely. Yeah. It, do you ever feel like when you're gone that you feel like you miss stuff back here? Ab Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:16:15 I get fomo big time, right? Yeah. But I get FOMO about home too. I'm always like worried I'm missing out on shit. What
Speaker 1 00:16:21 Are, what are some things you really miss about home?
Speaker 2 00:16:23 Uh, my family big time. I'm the oldest of eight kids, so. Wow. Yeah. My littlest brother, he's like in second grade. Yeah. So I, I always try and keep up and like, you know, you want him to like, think he's had a big brother growing up rather than being gone all the damn time. So yeah, it's stuff like that. But then you don't wanna miss like rounds and stuff. Someone asks you to play some gig or hop on something, you're like, shit, I'm over here. Like, I don't know, always going back and forth. But
Speaker 1 00:16:47 Are you close with your family? Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:16:49 I think you gotta be when there's that many people in one, one spot. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:16:53 Eight. Damn dude. Yeah. That's pretty, that's pretty, that's pretty wild, man. What, what um, what are some like, so what's like the typical growing up in South Dakota like that you might be from South Dakota? If
Speaker 2 00:17:05 Oh
Speaker 1 00:17:05 Kind of shit.
Speaker 2 00:17:06 If you eat a lot of Chis lick, uh,
Speaker 1 00:17:08 What, what's Chis Lick
Speaker 2 00:17:09 Chi? Oh, Chis Lick is like cuts of steak, like cube steak basically. But then it's like either fraud or grilled and it, dude it's the shit. It's the be it's either you can have it, uh, like lamb chisel or beef Chis lick, but it's a big South Dakota thing.
Speaker 1 00:17:23 Big. So I go, I go, I go up to South Dakota. I'm You
Speaker 2 00:17:26 Want some chisel? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:17:27 Pull up, pull up to somewhere. Ask where, where's the best Chis lick at?
Speaker 2 00:17:30 Yeah. Ask Ben Chapman. He's a Chis Lick addict now. Oh I'm
Speaker 1 00:17:32 Sure. <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:17:34 <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:17:35 I'm sure. Has it been cool to bring some of your friends up there for gigs and stuff? Like to just see, oh, because I been a guy from Lafayette, Georgia to go up there. That had to be pretty cool to, to show someone who's not experienced that. Yeah. It is what your home's like, like, and
Speaker 2 00:17:49 I think that's a cool thing about music. Cause like I've went down to Georgia with Ben and he's come up to South Dakota with me. Like, it's just cool to exchange what you grew up around and what shaped you as to, you know, what path you're taking with your art. You know, like, I think it's kind of cool. Like, I took him up to play this folk festival with me and I think, uh, folk music plays a very big part in what I do. Um, so it was cool to just, you know, put that on spot and I don't know, I'm tripping over my words. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:18:16 No, you're good. No, you're, you're you're good dude. So we were talking about the Warp Tour stuff. Who were some, what were some bands that you listened to growing up?
Speaker 2 00:18:23 Oh shit. I'm like almost ashamed to answer this stuff. What
Speaker 1 00:18:25 Do you mean you're almost ashamed? You answered
Speaker 2 00:18:28 I was a little hot topic punk kid for a while. Nothing
Speaker 1 00:18:30 Wrong with that man. How
Speaker 2 00:18:31 Was that weird kid that brought like my skateboard to the cattle show and then my uncle was like, what the fuck are you doing with that thing? <laugh>? You know, it made no goddamn sense. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:18:39 Yeah dude. But I mean that's, you think about it. So you graduated high school 2013? Yep. Yeah. Same year as me. Yeah. So like, thinking about what was big back then, like,
Speaker 2 00:18:47 Oh dude, I was like big into the main all-time low. Yep. Uh,
Speaker 1 00:18:52 You ever
Speaker 2 00:18:52 Been to a Yeah. Under oath if you wanted to get a little heavy Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:18:55 Issues.
Speaker 2 00:18:56 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:18:56 Some of those bands. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You ever been to an all-time low concert? No, I went once and it was cuz the, the girl that I was dating at the time in college was, um, a big, like we had, we went to some, like, it was back when, um, f y e and like record stores were still a thing, <laugh>. And they had like a signing and like the guys were there or whatever. And we had to like get there like five in the morning and go wait in line for those fucking signing or whatever. Yeah. Like the fans of the pop punk thing, like that's dude, they're
Speaker 2 00:19:22 Diehard. You follow? Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:19:24 And, and all time loads still do it. They put out a record last year, right?
Speaker 2 00:19:27 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think my favorite, my favorite band that I've ever seen it was, um, it was taking back Sunday in the used. I saw them together and they went through Sioux Falls and that was like that, that was, that was it. I love that shit. I was like, I think I was like 18, but middle school Tyler would've been in heaven. Like, that was, that was my gig right there.
Speaker 1 00:19:45 Yeah. Were you, were you jamming on like the iPad or the iPod back in the day? Oh hell
Speaker 2 00:19:49 Yeah. Oh yeah. I think I went through like, I don't know how many iPod nanos I had from like leaving 'em in my sweatpants after like track or wrestling practice. Yeah. They go through the wash. Yeah. Yeah. And fucking things, track
Speaker 1 00:20:00 And wrestling. So wrestling's a big thing back home in New York. Yeah. A lot of people do that. And I know it's
Speaker 2 00:20:04 A big Midwest and northeast thing. Yes.
Speaker 1 00:20:06 Which is kind of, kind of interesting, you know, that it would be up there. But like I know like Iowa, Minnesota. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I guess South Dakota there's some real shit
Speaker 2 00:20:14 Though. There's
Speaker 1 00:20:14 Also some big corn, cornbread, fed, cornbread fed folks up there, you know.
Speaker 2 00:20:18 Exactly. No. Yeah. Wrestling's pretty big in my town growing up and my families gets into that. So
Speaker 1 00:20:24 What was your, what was your uh, weight class for that?
Speaker 2 00:20:26 Uh, I don't think I ever got over 1 32.
Speaker 1 00:20:28 Oh, so you were wrestling lightweight then, then Quick them, quick little guys running around.
Speaker 2 00:20:32 I was a fast little shit. <laugh>. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:20:34 Single double constant motion. Yeah. Just going. That's cool though, dude. Cause you hear a b lot about, I mean cuz I don't know a lot of people down here that like, grew up with that. Cause like the south doesn't do any of that stuff.
Speaker 2 00:20:44 Hey, last I got, they're hanging right there, <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:20:46 Oh, you still got your Asics. Nice. Hell yeah, dude. Hell yeah. And you got, is that like a jump rope right
Speaker 2 00:20:52 There? Hell yeah, dude.
Speaker 1 00:20:53 You still work, you still do those wrestling workouts?
Speaker 2 00:20:55 Uh, not near as much as I should. <laugh> not near as much as I should.
Speaker 1 00:21:00 How hot did they, uh, did they jack up your, um, your wrestling room, man? Oh
Speaker 2 00:21:03 Dude, I, that thing would be a sauna. I forget like how hot that thing would get, but the, I, it would get 80, 85 real easy. I bet. Like, and then just keep on rolling from there and Yeah, just the, yeah, wrestling is a great sport, but probably super unhealthy for that age.
Speaker 1 00:21:18 Yeah, man. I mean like
Speaker 2 00:21:19 Dropping that much weight all the time.
Speaker 1 00:21:20 Yeah. I had a, I had a buddy who dropped like 10 pounds or something during a school day. Yeah. And he just would constantly ask to go to the bathroom and every class and he would just go to the wrestling room, run around full hoodie. Yeah. Like everything.
Speaker 2 00:21:31 Yeah. See I wasn't even that cra like crazy in, in it, but yeah, just there's some, there's some shit that goes on with that sport
Speaker 1 00:21:38 Man. Yeah, man. And the wrestling parents are so, oh God, yeah. Into it. They are loud.
Speaker 2 00:21:42 Oh dude. I've seen like, little kids wrestling tournaments, like, not even like adult or like high school, like the real stuff, like little kids wrestling tournaments. You wanna watch some crazy shit. Like, there it is. You see like parents come out and like, tackle like the refs on the mat damn near like some of these times. It's wild.
Speaker 1 00:21:59 Yeah. They, they get really into it. And, and those, those,
Speaker 2 00:22:02 You gotta like win for daddy's love kind of thing. Exactly.
Speaker 1 00:22:04 Dude. It's so messed up. It's just like, it's like little league dads on steroids. It is, it is.
Speaker 2 00:22:09 Yeah. It's way worse, dude. I don't know. Lot of emotion builds up in that sport.
Speaker 1 00:22:14 Yeah. Oh absolutely. For sure. For sure, man. Um, did you do that all through high school?
Speaker 2 00:22:19 Uh, yeah, I did that in high school and then I thought I was a football player once upon a time and was doing that and hit my head and couldn't do no more sports. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:22:26 I, I got concussions too.
Speaker 2 00:22:27 Oh yeah, dude, I, I took a nice little dive on my face and yeah, we were outta school for a while,
Speaker 1 00:22:33 <laugh>. Really?
Speaker 2 00:22:33 Oh yeah, I think it was, yeah, my junior year. I was like out, like academically the whole first semester. Like I, dude, I just stared at a wall most of the time. Really?
Speaker 1 00:22:42 Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:22:43 Got
Speaker 1 00:22:43 Real screwed up. See, I had, I had a couple, but mine were like very like mild, like Yeah. Lighter. I mean like, I forget shit now. And that could be from some other things I do. <laugh>. Like I, that's just how never know it works. Yeah. But tips. What, what was that during the game?
Speaker 2 00:22:57 Yeah, it was, yeah, I was just like, uh, it was like the first quarter, just like got a little pitcher on the outside, had the safety to beat, got around the corner and as I did that, he just gave a little tap outta bounds, you know, tripped up like dive, like fell right on my face and like my neck crunched and I like slid on my face for like good four or five yards. Geez. I just remember like hitting the ground, everything going black. And I wake up and it's like third quarter and I was just confused as shit.
Speaker 1 00:23:21 Damn.
Speaker 2 00:23:22 But it was like, yeah. And then I just remember like, it was like you were like drunk or just messed up for like a week, like in your head, like Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:23:28 The fogginess just the
Speaker 2 00:23:29 Fall took a long time to like get out. Yeah. It was wild. Damn. But yeah, no more, no more sports <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:23:35 So were you, so you were playing running back back then?
Speaker 2 00:23:37 Yeah. And then that's, that's when I decided better pick up a guitar a little more. Really? Yeah. Getting a little more serious about music when all that shit shit was kind of taken away.
Speaker 1 00:23:46 Did you have like bands and stuff that you were in growing up? Or like, anything like that where you jam with folks? Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:23:50 Like I would jam with my next door neighbor play guitar and like his, like I said, his brother was a guitar player too. Um, but we would jam and always try and do stuff. But I never really had, like the band thing, I never really got into that because
Speaker 1 00:24:02 Like, I feel
Speaker 2 00:24:03 I couldn't fit in
Speaker 1 00:24:03 Like this, like this garage. Like people like jam out jamming, like people jamming out in the, or the uh, the redneck frat house that Ryan Nelson's got people or it's just in the fucking living room. You can't even open the front door. There's an amp sitting there. Yeah. Um, but, um, like the, like a lot of people grow up and they're like, or I I was thinking maybe you did with the rock scene background. Yeah. Like growing up want or were there not a lot of kids that were into that? Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:24:26 I don't know if there was a lot of kids that were into it. Like, or maybe I was just the weird kid that would rather just go home and play guitar to his wall and sing, you know, just for hours by myself. Fir
Speaker 1 00:24:36 First song you learned on guitar? Oh
Speaker 2 00:24:38 Shit. I don't even know. It was probably like Smoke on the Water or something lame, you know. But the actual, the actual first song,
Speaker 1 00:24:45 Like the, like the first one where you were like, I wanna learn this. Like, I like I'm, I genuinely enjoy this song. I wanna know how to play this. Oh
Speaker 2 00:24:51 Shit. I don't even know. I really don't.
Speaker 1 00:24:55 Do you think it would've been something like were you playing country stuff or were you playing more, were you playing Country song? Cause it's only the three chords? Or were you trying I
Speaker 2 00:25:02 Was playing a lot of like, I remember <laugh>, this is, um, I remember taking one song, I was like, uh, taking guitar lessons. Like I learned the chords and cover the scales and all that shit. And then my teacher was like, all right, what song you wanna learn? I think it gave him some like lame Green Day song. I don't remember what the hell it was, but yeah, I'm pretty sure it was something like that.
Speaker 1 00:25:20 Some something like that. Yeah. A Green Day. Yeah
Speaker 2 00:25:22 Dude it was, yeah cuz I was probably like in fifth grade or some shit. I don't remember <laugh> when I started taking lessons. Yeah. Then.
Speaker 1 00:25:29 Cool. That's cool. Yeah, we got, we, it's cool that we're like the same age cuz like we grew up like with the same kind of music, like growing up on the national scale and Exactly. MTV was still worth the shit till like middle school. True till like middle school. Yeah. Once, once middle school hit and reality TV took over, that's when MTV changed and CMT and all that stuff. But like for a band like Green Day too, we kind of got to see like that American idiot on
Speaker 2 00:25:52 Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:25:52 Because like that they had a whole career before. Before
Speaker 2 00:25:55 Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:25:55 Yeah. When we were like in diapers and shit.
Speaker 2 00:25:57 Yeah. Cause I never really got into the super early stuff. It was like right about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:26:00 Yeah. Cuz it was like, uh, wake Meal one September end. Yeah. Yeah. American Canadian it
Speaker 2 00:26:04 Dude, I remember Yeah. Playing that
Speaker 1 00:26:06 Holiday. That dun dun dun dun uhhuh
Speaker 2 00:26:08 <affirmative> that Bva Broken Dreams. Yes. And all that stuff, bro.
Speaker 1 00:26:11 That's sad. Boy, shit. Hell yeah.
Speaker 2 00:26:13 That's the stuff. Maybe
Speaker 1 00:26:14 That's why we're all so fucking sad. Like we just, it's not our fault. It's not our fault. No, but it's just it. Yeah. No, no. But like, not
Speaker 2 00:26:21 Our fault. They planted those melodies in our head. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:26:23 Melodies and just like the internet and all, all that shit. Like it's, we grew up in a very interesting time. Like absolutely. Nineties babies. We're we're in a weird world right now.
Speaker 2 00:26:33 It's Yeah. Are Yeah. What's the whole millennial Gen Z thing? Like the cutoff? Like, have you ever talked about that? I don't,
Speaker 1 00:26:41 I think we're, I might even have to freaking look up. I've talked you, I'm
Speaker 2 00:26:44 Pretty sure we're millennials.
Speaker 1 00:26:45 We're borderline millennials,
Speaker 2 00:26:46 But I that's what I mean. We're pretty close.
Speaker 1 00:26:49 Let me see. Millennial,
Speaker 2 00:26:50 I've heard many a debate about this.
Speaker 1 00:26:52 Yeah. And I'd like to kind of figure it out right now. Millennial age range. So we are actually, yeah, we're right there. So, um, Jen, y aka millennials, they're born between 1981 and 1994. 96.
Speaker 2 00:27:07 Ooh. All right.
Speaker 1 00:27:08 So between 25 and 40 years old we're right at that time. So does that mean
Speaker 2 00:27:11 We can identify as whatever? Which one?
Speaker 1 00:27:14 I guess so I guess we have a choice. <laugh>. <laugh>. Yeah. But like you think of all, all the shit that's popped up like in our lifetimes. True,
Speaker 2 00:27:22 True. Like
Speaker 1 00:27:23 Apple took off. Like the world didn't have, the world didn't have like these
Speaker 2 00:27:27 I'm glad we grew up without these damn things. Honestly. Phones.
Speaker 1 00:27:30 Yeah. Like being a, being a kid and like actually having to go outside or like
Speaker 2 00:27:34 Yeah. Or like having to like call someone someone's landline. Like asking if, you know, your
Speaker 1 00:27:38 Parents still got a landline at home.
Speaker 2 00:27:40 Nah, I don't think we do. No,
Speaker 1 00:27:41 I don't either. That's
Speaker 2 00:27:42 Honestly my goal in life though, is to get to a point where I can just put a phone on the wall and have an email and just tell the world to fuck off.
Speaker 1 00:27:49 That'd be kind of that, that's kind of nice at times. I don't know if I,
Speaker 2 00:27:52 Uh, it's great cuz my favorite places to be in this world where there's no cell service. Is
Speaker 1 00:27:55 That a lot of South Dakota. There is a
Speaker 2 00:27:57 Lot of places like that there. Hell yeah. God bless it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:28:01 No, that's, that's cool. So talking about, um, talking about your, uh, your music and stuff, you got to go in and record with Gary. Yeah. And, um, and Ryan Yeoman's. Um, what was that experience like for you? How'd that all kind of come about? And, um,
Speaker 2 00:28:15 So that all started, uh, at Revival actually. Um, somebody had a video of me playing Beer Garden Baby. And Gary hit me up and said that him and Ryan were doing some producing and, uh, just went in and met with those guys. And I've, I don't, I don't know, I've always been like a little like, skeptical about going in and like, meet with people, but like, with that, like the vibe, I've always felt good. Like everyone was, I don't know, just like, I don't know, like, uh, fuck. No, I'm lost.
Speaker 1 00:28:41 No, you're good dude. <laugh>, you're, you're good. Like what, how long ago was that conversation? Uh,
Speaker 2 00:28:46 That was, that was actually last February.
Speaker 1 00:28:48 So it was right before Yeah. Before World
Speaker 2 00:28:50 Then. Yeah. It was right before everything like hit. Yeah. So we started in February, then everything went to shit. And then we recorded a couple more later on. But like, they're just working with them, like their ear on stuff is crazy. It's so like onto what I was trying to do and they understood it and I trusted it. And I think it turned out great. But like, I, like I was saying like Ron, like usually like when someone sends me a mix of something, like I have a long ass list of shit that I don't like or something to fix, but like, I don't think I've ever told him to fix anything. I really don't like he just, he gets it. He does it and it's cool. Like it's awesome.
Speaker 1 00:29:23 They're just on the same wavelength. You
Speaker 2 00:29:25 Yeah, it's on the same pa Yeah. It's, everything's on the same page.
Speaker 1 00:29:27 And I think that's part of, again, the the authenticity thing and the kind of doing it your way. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:29:32 Well, yeah. And like, I love like, the setup of it too. Like, um, I think that was my favorite part. Like, I got to, like, I know that I sing a lot better when I'm playing. Like there's a different emotion into what, what I'm doing. So like most like all that, like I'm playing guitar and singing all the same time and then Grady's playing drums and we had someone playing, you know, do Bro and Mando and Upright Bass. It's like, it's all a jam feel, which is what I like. So it felt a little more live and a little more going. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:29:56 It doesn't feel the same. I mean, I, I have no musical ability. Like, I've never done, I, I can talk my ass off. That's about it. I can't do that. And I, and I'm a, and I'm a, I'm a, I'm a decent enough hang of hangout with all you dope songwriters, but like, being in a recording studio, it's, there's, I think you're, you're right, there's something about that vibe of just jamming out and Yeah. Everything kind of being in sync and like playing with the band. Well
Speaker 2 00:30:18 I think too, like we didn't really know, like, have a clear cut formula how we were gonna get to where we were going. Like we just knew like, good things to add. Like we knew we wanted a strip down kit, we wanted the upright bass. We wanted like certain instruments on certain songs and like, it's just putting those things together and seeing what happens. I think that's kind of what we let like happen. Like it wasn't so like, this has to be here, here, here. Like it was just get in there, sing along jam. We'll feel it out because I remember like going through like, we kind of like rearranged a couple things right then and there. Like I think most people would be kind of nervous about that going in on the studio and rearranging a bunch of shit the day of, you know. But like, I don't know, throwing this chord here. Cause it felt good there. Like, I don't know, just, just little stuff like that. Like, it was cool just watching it all kind of come together.
Speaker 1 00:31:02 Do you have a favorite song off that project? Which I know that project. I don't know when, when the whole thing will be coming out or what. I dunno know. It's all coming out. What, what your plan, but what's, what's your favorite track on there?
Speaker 2 00:31:10 Uh, probably your bar now. What's my,
Speaker 1 00:31:14 What's that? What's that one about? Uh, I've heard you play this out a couple times.
Speaker 2 00:31:18 That's, that was, uh, me calling Nash and Harper O'Neill. That's just my favorite little duet. Um, I don't know. I think it's just, uh, about kind of playing someone and getting karma biting you in the ass and seeing it all want come down right in front of you. Um,
Speaker 1 00:31:32 Do do you have any female harmonies on the record?
Speaker 2 00:31:35 Yeah. Harper's doing most of this. Oh,
Speaker 1 00:31:36 Har Oh, so Harper's.
Speaker 2 00:31:37 Yeah, she's doing most of the harmonies then. Uh, her and I got the duet, so.
Speaker 1 00:31:41 Oh, so she's on there as a duet? Yeah. Yeah. Dude, that's so sick. Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:31:44 Shit. Her face is on the beer garden baby thing. <laugh>. Oh, that's
Speaker 1 00:31:46 Her?
Speaker 2 00:31:47 Yeah, it's just some old picture from, I think we're all hanging out at like Germantown Pub or some shit. And I was like, honestly, the cowboy hat, the Coors tipping it back. It works. Yeah, it's, yeah, I just sent my buddy Jason Martin that picture and then he drew it up and yeah,
Speaker 1 00:32:00 He did a sick job. The album Art on that. It's cool. He's sick.
Speaker 2 00:32:03 Yeah. So it's all gonna be that same vibe. Really. Really? That's cool. Like Mack Miller has the same kind of like, illustration and then Yeah. Like the whole album's gonna have just, I, I don't know. I think it's cool to showcase that side of art too, within, I don't know, it's art show and art
Speaker 1 00:32:17 Basically. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that man. It's the full creativity that let's, it lets the the music consumer kind of into your head space. Yeah. What you, how you view, like, that's how you view the beer garden baby, right there. Yeah. Like,
Speaker 2 00:32:29 And I don't have to like awkwardly stand in front of a camera and come to Right.
Speaker 1 00:32:32 I I kind hate photo shoot. I, I kind of hate that shit.
Speaker 2 00:32:36 I th I
Speaker 1 00:32:36 Like, I get why maybe I
Speaker 2 00:32:38 Like more if I, if I was better at it, but I think, yeah, I'm just not,
Speaker 1 00:32:41 Yeah. Like I'm, I mean, I don't know. I, I like
Speaker 2 00:32:44 Whale is good at what he does. Oh dude. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:32:46 Oh, whale is the shit. Otherwise I
Speaker 2 00:32:47 Look like a fucking moron most of the
Speaker 1 00:32:49 Time. No, no, no. Dude. The problem of photos look fine. You look great. But the, um, the thing with the, um, with like album art, like actually being like something other than just the artist on the front. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:33:01 Like,
Speaker 1 00:33:01 I like seeing the imagery of that.
Speaker 2 00:33:04 Yeah. It's simple. It's very simple. Like, I don't even think I have my name on it. It just says Beer garden baby. Yeah. Which is probably shitty marketing on my part. <laugh>. But you know what? Fuck
Speaker 1 00:33:12 It. No, the stream, the stream numbers. Stream numbers have been looking good on it.
Speaker 2 00:33:15 Just a songwriter, not a marketer. <laugh>,
Speaker 1 00:33:18 When did you, um, when did you write your first song? When did, when did Tyler Halverson or Tyler David Halverson the writer become a thing?
Speaker 2 00:33:27 Ooh, I don't know. I mean, I think I took it a little more seriously. Like I said, like in high school when sports kind of were not a thing, like actually sat down and wrote some stuff. And I don't know if I would've ever, I don't think I sang it really to anybody, but like, I mean, it took me a while to sing my own songs. I was probably like, I, I'd just started like writing real, I don't know, about 16, 17 then probably wasn't until I was like 20 till I actually played it out, like my own stuff maybe.
Speaker 1 00:33:53 Yeah. What was, um, co-writing, like for you? Because that's such a thing where you gotta be vulnerable. Like Yeah, you gotta really open up and if you're gonna get a good song, which is why it's so cool. Like, people have their crews and like you and your crew.
Speaker 2 00:34:06 That honest opinion. Yeah. Yeah. Like
Speaker 1 00:34:08 You're not afraid to tell someone I think that's a shitty idea or Yeah. Or bro, I'm, I'm, or to tell them about something where you got your heart ripped outta your chest. Yes. Or an embarrassing moment or something. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:34:18 Like I, I remember one time like the tough criticism was like a hard like, lesson, like, not even criticism, but like a redirection of your idea. You know what I mean? Like, you don't wanna get too caught onto it. But like, I remember one time it was me, Harper and Vinny, it was like the first time I had ever met Vinny and wrote with him, barely knew Harper. Like, I remember I was like, I kept fucking up this guitar part. Vinny just like looked me dead in the eyes and he was like, do you not get it or do you not like it <laugh>? And like, it like shook me and like, right then I was like, I don't know if I like co-writing this shit's weird. Like, you know. But yeah, it's like, I don't know, it's just learning to flow with that. And I don't know. It, it's a, it's an interesting thing too because I still do a lot of writing on my own. But
Speaker 1 00:34:59 How many, how many songs on the, on the project come in were solo writes that were pretty much all of them co-writes.
Speaker 2 00:35:04 Um, there's only, I want to say because
Speaker 1 00:35:07 Beer Garden Baby was who that was You?
Speaker 2 00:35:09 Ron Nelson and Nate Frederick. Yeah. And then I think there's only like one solo ride on there. There's quite a few co-writes on there. Yeah. I should say actually I start a lot of songs on my own is what I should say.
Speaker 1 00:35:22 So if someone's going in writing with you, what, what's your kind of thing you do? Do you come in with a lot of ideas? Do you I can,
Speaker 2 00:35:27 I can come.
Speaker 1 00:35:28 Do you like to pick on the guitars or you melodies? Like what's, what, what's, what's a right with Tyler Halverson I think, which I know it's an awkward question cuz you're, cause you're Tyler Halverson <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:35:37 Well, I think it depends on who you're rotting with. Uh, um, but I can sit there and throw ideas at people quite, I don't know, I got lots of ideas. My notes are stacked full here, but I can also go in and just kind of flow with something and see what we can spark up. But I'm a big melody guy. I like melodies a lot. That has to, I'll come in humming something. And yeah,
Speaker 1 00:35:58 I think that has to do with your, um, your musical upbringing of liking that pop punk stuff, man. Oh yeah. All time loads. Just me. It's just melodies, melodical. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:36:06 It's just melodies and moods. That's all it is. Yeah. That's what I like. Yeah. But I, yeah, I'm a big melody guy. I like that a lot too.
Speaker 1 00:36:13 Who are some of your country influences? Who are some people that you were bumping either in South Dakota or that you found and really enjoyed once you got down here to Belmont?
Speaker 2 00:36:21 Um, I'm a big, I was a big Hayes Carl fan before I moved down here.
Speaker 1 00:36:25 Okay.
Speaker 2 00:36:26 Big Hayes Carl fan. Still Big Hayes Carl fan. Um, I think that's, he was like the first songwriter. I was like, people do this songwriting thing for like a living. Like, it not like the big, you don't have to be a big country name youo rockstar thing. Like, but I mean, he still is, but Yeah. Yeah. But I just think, uh, yeah, definitely Hayes was one of them. Um, yeah, that, and then lately too, there's been a lot of whale and pain, A lot of whalin paint and like Keith Gaddis and like some of that stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:36:55 Yeah. You're tapping into a whole world that I like. I I've heard of Hayes, but like Yeah. You're tapping into a whole world. And I consider myself like trying to be the most d like as diverse of a music consumer as I can be. Yeah. Just cause I work on the, in on, I guess it's like the industry side. I mean, I kind of do my own thing and I, I don't work for anybody Totally. When it comes to like this podcast stuff. Like, we're doing our own shit here. Yeah. But I like to kind of know what's out there. But what you're talking about, like, I've got, that's just how big and diverse country music is. Yeah. There's so many little sub things about it. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. How would you describe that style?
Speaker 2 00:37:28 Uh, I think that's definitely a little more singer songwriter, A little more stripped down. Um, but I think that's why I kinda like it too. It's a little more authentic, like, um, instrumentation wise it's a little more simple song. I don't know. I don't know how to describe it, honestly. I don't
Speaker 1 00:37:44 How'd you find it? How?
Speaker 2 00:37:45 Ooh. Um, I had a buddy of mine show me some Hayes Carl in high school, and that was just like the go-to sit around, drink a beer too, <laugh> kinda shit. Cruise around in South Dakota, listen to some Hayes. Carl. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, the old Hayes Carl. Um, number two, like, um, I was probably like a freshman, I believe in college. I like flew out to Boulder and got to watch him and I don't know, that was just cool. I, I think I got to meet him even
Speaker 1 00:38:15 That's
Speaker 2 00:38:15 Sick. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:38:16 What was your first concert growing up?
Speaker 2 00:38:18 Oh, it was a Montgomery Gentry concert
Speaker 1 00:38:21 Dude. Yeah. See, see an old, uh, old, uh, I know it was, it was Troy. It was Troy Gentry. And what's what's Montgomery's first name? Do you know?
Speaker 2 00:38:30 I don't even know.
Speaker 1 00:38:30 Well, Montgomery freaking move whipping around if whipping around the mic stand. Yeah. His mike stand just whipping around the fucking ax,
Speaker 2 00:38:38 Bro. Eddie Montgomery.
Speaker 1 00:38:40 Wasn't Eddie Montgomery? Yeah, Eddie Montgomery. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:38:42 Yeah. That was, uh, I think that was my first little concert. Won some tickets at a cattle show. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:38:48 Did you grow up farming and stuff? Like did you do the rodeo thing? Uh,
Speaker 2 00:38:51 My cousin did the rodeo thing and then, um, so like my dad's side was all horses and that stuff. And then my mom's side was all cattle and farming and I kind of fell more into that. So I grew up showing cattle while my cousins would run around. And is that
Speaker 1 00:39:04 Like that, is that like four H kind of stuff?
Speaker 2 00:39:06 Yeah, four H, ffa, all that stuff. Nice. Yeah. So I got to, I got to go back and, um, I got to play the Iowa Beef Expo a couple weeks
Speaker 1 00:39:14 Ago. How was that?
Speaker 2 00:39:15 Oh dude. It felt good to be back at a cattle show them people party their asses off.
Speaker 1 00:39:19 Yeah. Man. I'm sure they do
Speaker 2 00:39:20 The beer garden at a cattle show. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1 00:39:22 <affirmative> now, where's the term? I see. I didn't grow up here in the term beard garden.
Speaker 2 00:39:26 I think that's just a fair thing.
Speaker 1 00:39:27 Yeah. We don't, we we, we talk about like, so what is a beer garden?
Speaker 2 00:39:31 I think it's just a like, I mean like at the South Dakota State Fair, it's just like a shitty corral put up with some beer on the inside and then that's your beer garden. Like, it just, yeah. Just a bunch of drunk sitting around hanging. Yeah. It's nothing fancy. It's
Speaker 1 00:39:46 Like the bar at a
Speaker 2 00:39:46 Fair, it's not even fancy enough to call it a bar. And bars aren't fancy, you know what I mean? Really. So it's just, it's just the trashiest version of a bar I think is a beer garden. Yeah, that's,
Speaker 1 00:39:56 And it's a spot where peop everybody hangs out. Like at the just big tent.
Speaker 2 00:39:59 Yeah. Like a lot of times's. Just a big tent with a stage and a band. And it's the beer garden Baby <laugh> <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:40:06 Hell yeah. No, that, that's freaking, that's awesome. I love this jewel, by the way. This thing. Yeah, indeed. These, these things feel, feel really good. I do it. Yeah. Shout out to, uh, Trailside C and whatnot. Now, for you, um, when it comes to songwriting, do you prefer sad songs? Do you prefer more happy songs or do you prefer sad, like songs where you're, where you're sad, but they sound happy? I
Speaker 2 00:40:29 Try and get a little bit of a mix. I don't know, I think it all depends on too what's going on your world and where you're at. But I remember growing up it was a lot of just sad, sad little breakup love songs or whatever. Sad something. I remember like, I think it was like my grandpa that was like, all you saying is sad shit. So like, ever since then I've been like really conscious about trying to mix it up a little bit, you know? But
Speaker 1 00:40:54 Yeah. What vibe, what, what have, um, what's, what's your vibe been like here lately? Because like the, cause your vibe's been putting out music that you recorded a whole year ago. Yeah. Which is what's kind of interesting. It's
Speaker 2 00:41:04 Weird
Speaker 1 00:41:04 Because it's like what you're writing now is like,
Speaker 2 00:41:08 Is not what you were writing a year ago. Yeah. And like, I remember there's
Speaker 1 00:41:11 Whole vibe's different. You, we went through arguably one of the weirdest years in human history. Yeah. Modern human history especially. So like, we're all of a different, everybody's of a different mindset than they were a year ago. Yeah, totally. I got a different job than I did a year ago. I'm living in a different place than I did. Yeah. I'm a completely different person from what I was a year ago. Yeah. Cause of last year.
Speaker 2 00:41:31 I think that, yeah, I think, um, lately we've been trying to tap into a little more of like, uh, just trying to get a little more western with like the lyrics is what we've been trying to do.
Speaker 1 00:41:41 So how, so like throwing in like western kind of jargon stuff or
Speaker 2 00:41:44 Like Yeah, stuff like that. Like, yeah, like me and Colin Nash wrote a song this morning called Bulldogging, like, stuff like that. Like it's just about some girl like, wrestling down your heart and, you know what I mean? Like that kind of thing. Like, um, I don't know. And I don't, yeah. Like, I think too, like, it's odd like figuring out like, um, like there's songs on this last album that I had wrote like three years ago, three or four years ago. Like, there's like one that's on there, like, kind of like, so it's weird like the, the start and stop as to like, when the songs are on there. And then like, also too, like, you're still excited about everything, but it's, you're really, fuck, what am I trying to say? I don't know what I'm trying to say. <laugh> damnit.
Speaker 1 00:42:32 No, you're good. I mean, cuz it is
Speaker 2 00:42:34 Like, your style changes Definitely. Cuz you, you also mature as a writer, like as you, like every song you write it's a progression, like getting
Speaker 1 00:42:41 A little better. You find out what you're trying to say. Do you think, you know fully what you're trying to say it, like what Tyler Halverson sounds like? Are you still figuring this shit out? I think
Speaker 2 00:42:48 I'm definitely still figuring it out. I think I'm on a better track, but I don't think I know where it's going. That's for damn sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:42:54 I think that's an important thing too for, for writers and artists, especially because artists are recording music, but even writers kind of develop a style.
Speaker 2 00:43:02 Yeah, I think that's real. It's um, yeah, I don't know. Like the, that's the thing with it's all being in progression. And I think also too, it depends on like what you're listening, what your crew's listening, what they're into. Like, I don't know, there's so many different variables on it.
Speaker 1 00:43:17 Yeah, no, for sure. Now, something we like to talk about on here too is, uh, we like to talk about food. I like eating here in this town. What are some of your go-to spots? If someone were to come to Nashville and you could only send 'em to three places, where would you send them?
Speaker 2 00:43:30 Three places? Oh man, I would go, uh, top place to eat around here is Garden Fresh in Madison. Have you ever been there?
Speaker 1 00:43:41 I've been been the where? Garden
Speaker 2 00:43:43 Fresh in Madison. I have,
Speaker 1 00:43:44 I have not been to Garden Fresh. All right. What is it? Is it Asian or is it salads?
Speaker 2 00:43:48 It's, no, it's like, um, it's a, it's a grocery store really, but it's like a Mexican market. And then they got like a couple tables in the back corner and it is hands down the best thing you will eat around here. So big fan of that. Still love my Rose Pepper. And then, oh man, it's either between, uh, I'm gonna have to go Martin's on Belmont Boulevard.
Speaker 1 00:44:14 Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a big Martin's guy too when it comes to stuff you
Speaker 2 00:44:18 That Alabama white sauce.
Speaker 1 00:44:19 Yeah, dude. Do you, do you, do you, do you fuck with hot chicken at all or do you not do spicy?
Speaker 2 00:44:22 I do not like hot chicken. Really? Hell no. Uhuh
Speaker 1 00:44:26 Have, have, did you, did you at least try it when you got here?
Speaker 2 00:44:29 I don't really like hot shit all that much. And then the greasy chicken on top of the hot shit, that's like two strikes and I'm out, you know?
Speaker 1 00:44:36 Yeah. It's just heartburn city. You're just
Speaker 2 00:44:38 Fucked. Yeah. You only get one asshole in life, you know? <laugh> not trying to burn through mine. I'm out.
Speaker 1 00:44:45 I, that's, I gotta, I gotta remember that. I'm changing my diet up a little bit. Um, what advice would you have for somebody coming to Nashville from say a, a a, an area far away? Not from the Alabama's, Georgia's Carolinas, or even like, just some, like coming from like your background. Yeah. You're coming from a very, like, it's pretty different up. There's world. It's a whole different world. Exactly. What advice would you give for someone? Like what would you, what or what would you tell 20 year old Tyler Halon when you think?
Speaker 2 00:45:16 I think tap into a little more of what you're about and where you're from, rather than getting worried about what everyone's doing and yeah. It's, it's finding what makes you different and milking into that, you know, just diving right into that. And it took me a long time to do that. Like I said, like I think it's taken me 25, 26 years to figure out who the hell I am and like what I'm about and what I'm trying to say. And I don't know, I think a lot of it's just milking in or tapping into who you are and just writing into that and, um, yeah. If it don't feel right, it probably ain't right. You know, you can tell when you're faking something.
Speaker 1 00:45:50 Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 00:45:50 I really think you can like your gut and your, your heart is the biggest guy to all this, I think. Like
Speaker 1 00:45:55 That's very true.
Speaker 2 00:45:56 It really is. If it doesn't feel like it's you, it's not, but yeah. And it's taken me a long time to figure out what the hell feels like me, so.
Speaker 1 00:46:05 Yeah. No man, but I, I think you're definitely like, shit's, shit's happening and, and crews come up together and like, just where things are at. It's like there's a new wave of of people coming up. Me, I'm seeing it with working with Trey right now. Yeah. You know, and it's cool. And that whole crew of like Trey, Maxwell, McKinney. Yeah. Um, all Joy, Beth, Ella Clay. Absolutely. That whole crew is starting to come up. Your whole, like, everybody's just coming up together, you know, and it's, it's all those,
Speaker 2 00:46:33 I think that's what it takes too. And that, and that's one thing too that I would tell people is that you aren't not, you're not gonna do any of this shit on your own. You're not, yeah. Like, you can't be inspired. You can't get your shit done. Like, it's not on, like, it takes a whole village and that's what's cool is find your people that you love and yeah. See
Speaker 1 00:46:49 What happens. Best networking bar in Nashville. Best place to go and meet people, especially when you need a town. Oh,
Speaker 2 00:46:54 You can always drunkenly run into people at Red Door. Red
Speaker 1 00:46:56 Door, yeah. <laugh>. Which one? I feel like you
Speaker 2 00:46:58 Can't No. In, in Midtown.
Speaker 1 00:46:59 Now are you a red Door east guy too, since you're here? No.
Speaker 2 00:47:02 I don't know if I can do that one. Why
Speaker 1 00:47:04 Can't you do that one? It's on your side. It does the river.
Speaker 2 00:47:05 It doesn't seem like the right vibe.
Speaker 1 00:47:07 It's just not.
Speaker 2 00:47:09 I'm a big village pub fan. Where's that? Right down the road here. Oh, that's
Speaker 1 00:47:13 Fan.
Speaker 2 00:47:14 Sit down. Not loud. Yeah, I like the bars that don't really feel like bars any, I, yeah. I think that's kind of lame, but I do.
Speaker 1 00:47:22 Yeah. Like, you're not a Broadway guy.
Speaker 2 00:47:24 No, that's too many damn people.
Speaker 1 00:47:25 Did you ever play on Broadway?
Speaker 2 00:47:26 Yeah, A little bit. Like on second and yeah, I'd play, I wouldn't really play too much on, on Broadway, but like, yeah, second, fourth, get on.
Speaker 1 00:47:34 Did you gig a lot when you first came to town?
Speaker 2 00:47:37 Um, no. I worked, I worked at Martin's when I first came to town. I like had a bunch of little like, part-time jobs.
Speaker 1 00:47:44 How many, how many, how many jobs have you had since moving to town? Oh
Speaker 2 00:47:46 Shit, dude.
Speaker 1 00:47:48 <laugh>,
Speaker 2 00:47:49 I don't know, probably a good five, six. I don't, I can't remember.
Speaker 1 00:47:52 Just stringing shit together. Yeah, that's what I did. I was just fine
Speaker 2 00:47:55 Stuff. I got into like selling boots and then got into making hats for a while and stuff like that. Like, I like the Western wear stuff. That's pretty simple or it's pretty easy to get to. Yeah. That stuff, especially on Broadway, like slung boots on Broadway.
Speaker 1 00:48:08 Does it feel weird being a, being a guy who grew up in Western culture to come to Nashville and just see, watch people watch? Yeah. People think people come here from all over the place and think that you gotta dress up in Nashville, Tennessee. I don't
Speaker 2 00:48:19 Even think I'm a cowboy. So when everybody else tries to play cowboy, I think it's funny as shit. I love it.
Speaker 1 00:48:24 I
Speaker 2 00:48:24 Love it.
Speaker 1 00:48:25 We had, um, I was out with, um, with a couple of my buddies and one of my buddies out on cowboy boots. Yeah. And somebody told him, don't wear boots if you little cowboy. Yeah. You got all pissed at him one night. <laugh>. I was like, damn. You know,
Speaker 2 00:48:37 All hat no cattle kind of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:48:39 All hat, no cattle. Yeah. <laugh>, there you go. That's, that's a, that's a saying right there. Yeah, man. That's awesome buddy. Well, what are we, what are our goals for 2021, looking at the rest of this year? What do we, what do we got? We got one single out. What are we playing more music. What
Speaker 2 00:48:52 Man, I would like to get a couple more singles and maybe EP or a record out by the end of the year, but really I just want to go out and spread the beer garden, baby gospel. Just go play that to as many people that I can. Yeah. That's what I want, 20, 21 to be about playing live.
Speaker 1 00:49:05 Yeah. How many, how many shows have you done so far? With, or not Well, not how many Has, has it been, have you had a tough time getting shows in the current climate or being be having home? Yeah. Be more kind of an open, less affected area. Have you been able to get stuff? Thankfully
Speaker 2 00:49:20 South Dakota's been open this whole time and I've been able to go back there and gig most of it. Like the first couple months of when it all shit hit the fan, nobody knew what was going on. Definitely slowed down, but it stayed open the whole time basically. So I've been, like I said, been going back there like once or twice a month. And, um, yeah, it's been just a lot of, lot of cover bar gigs, man. Do
Speaker 1 00:49:42 You, do you hit, do you hit cities and towns along the way on that trip?
Speaker 2 00:49:45 Yeah. Yeah, we'll do that every now and then. Like, like, yeah, like a couple weeks ago we did Des Moines and then Omaha and then went up. Like it's, it's just piecing together shit. Like that's taking whenever I can find right now. But, um, next month, um, yeah.
Speaker 1 00:49:58 What do we got? Plug some shows? Well,
Speaker 2 00:50:00 Next month, uh, my buddy Roger from 40 West, uh, entertainment has been helping me line some stuff up in Texas. We're gonna be in Lubbock and Amarillo and Grandberry and a couple other places. Hell yeah. Trying to do some radio stuff and I don't know, just see if people like it. I guess. <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:50:16 That's awesome, bro.
Speaker 2 00:50:17 Yeah, dude. Just trying to get the hell outta Nashville and go play it. Yeah. That's, that's really the goal for everything.
Speaker 1 00:50:22 Yeah. Spreading, spreading the word around and yeah, there's, I think there's tons of clubs and places on the Southeast that would do great with that too. Yeah. And, and peop places Oklahoma. I mean, hell, you could just, I mean I, yeah,
Speaker 2 00:50:33 Anything. I'm just trying to go west Tennessee. Yeah,
Speaker 1 00:50:35 <laugh>. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not, not necessarily.
Speaker 2 00:50:37 No, but I'd love to that that's the thing. Like anywhere, dude, anywhere, I'm just trying to go play it wherever they'll have me. That's
Speaker 1 00:50:42 Awesome, man. Uh, well bro, really, uh, really appreciate you having me come over and, uh, sorry, I'm, I'm kind of like in a weird spot of trying to like, I've, I've got this little portable little, little like carry on suitcase that I put all this shit in that I, I just happen to find somewhere. I don't even know, I don't even know whose it is. I just kinda like jacked it so we have it. I
Speaker 2 00:51:01 Mean, it held it together. Yeah. It
Speaker 1 00:51:02 Keeps all, keeps all the shit in the, in, in there. But, um, I
Speaker 2 00:51:05 Hope I, uh, you know, made a little bit of sense somewhere. No, dude,
Speaker 1 00:51:08 You did great. Would you be, would you be cool playing a song or two?
Speaker 2 00:51:11 Yeah, let me go find the guitar. All right,
Speaker 1 00:51:13 Sweet. Awesome. Well, while Tyler goes to find that guitar, thanks again everybody for listening to the In The Round podcast. Hey, real quick, real quick. Hop back on that mic real quick. Um, what are your social media accounts? We can plug real quick. I don't wanna fuck those up. Ooh,
Speaker 2 00:51:27 Uh, Tyler Halber, who on Instagram? I do a lot of Instagram stuff. That's mostly where I do it. You're
Speaker 1 00:51:32 Not on Twitter. You don't, you don't, you
Speaker 2 00:51:33 Don't, I don't got much to say.
Speaker 1 00:51:35 You don't do Hot Takes on Twitter. Maybe
Speaker 2 00:51:36 I should de bro, maybe I should start
Speaker 1 00:51:38 Hot Takes on Twitter. All right. Fucking let, just let, just let it rip. Just hang out with Ryan Nelson and tweet out some, tweet out some of his shit. You know, just quote tweet, why Ryan Nelson? That sounds like make it your make make it your persona. You know,
Speaker 2 00:51:51 That's how you kick off your Twitter right
Speaker 1 00:51:52 There. That might be it, you know, but I can't see it. Also
Speaker 2 00:51:54 The world, someone tell me about TikTok, but I haven't really bid on that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1 00:51:58 Yeah. That I, I haven't figured that out either, but I
Speaker 2 00:52:00 Don't really know. I barely know how to run Instagram, dude.
Speaker 1 00:52:02 Hell yeah. So Tyler Halber, who, and then, um,
Speaker 2 00:52:05 Facebook is just Tyler Halverson,
Speaker 1 00:52:07 Facebook, Tyler Halverson, and then the single right now Beer Garden Baby, it's out. Thank you. Anywhere you can get your music y'all. Make sure to go check that out. Uh, make sure you follow along with the In The Round podcast as well. We've got our social handles, um, at in the Round Pod on Twitter. We're bringing that one back in the round podcast on Instagram in the round on Facebook, working on some cool video content for y'all as well with our buddies at Whale Tale Media. Stay tuned for that. And uh, yeah, make sure to leave five stars as well. Tell your friends, tell your family. Tell your grandma, tell your friend at church, your friend at school, whatever. Spread the word about the In The Round podcast. And our good buddy, Mr. Tyler Halverson. Now that further ado, we're gonna let Tyler sing some songs here. Y'all have been listening to the In the Round podcast.
Speaker 3 00:52:54 You wildest the be You Bear Alone. Daddy wrote that check and you were gone. Seems like it's always been that way. Now you looking for a man who can do the same and that's why you ain't looking back at me adjusted. Perfect. You Rodeo queen. More about buckle center dirty old strings. You are riding full of the money. I got songs to sing. Hey girl, don't you know The Sanger gets check every rodeo. Hey, make sure go at the beer garden baby. Yeah. Show.
Speaker 0 00:53:39 Oh,
Speaker 3 00:53:39 I'll be playing all night to the drinks. Run outer drunk to fight happy dream of the grandstand lights down the road. But we still tonight, still tonight before, before you were holding Thes back when you just like the way I sang and it band a while, band together. But there ain't and to do better. So stick around, I play your song and after the show we go get stone back behind the shoots. We could loose and do it like we used to do. Hey girl Don, she know the gets a check every rodeo. Make the sure go add the beer garden baby and the show. Will I be playing all night to the drinks? Run outer drunk, starting to fight. I be the grandstand lights down the road. Still got tonight. Still got tonight Will. Looks like you were just outta the money. So who going to buy your Coors tonight? Honey Will. Don't. You know, the Sanger gets check every rodeo. Make at the beer garden. Baby show I be all night to Thes. Run at her drunk. Start to fight. I dreaming the grandstand lights down road. We still got tonight. Still God, tonight.
Speaker 0 00:55:56 Yeah.
