October 25, 2024 • 6 mins
Canadian Country Music break through artist of the year Owen Riegling talks new music, US tour and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
So Bro Mario Lopez Jordi right now Canadian Country music
Breakthrough Artists of the Year, Owen Wriggling.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's going on on?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Nothing is going on.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm just getting ready for your show this evening in
Nebraska and happy to be here talking with you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, I appreciate you taking the time. Congratulations. I know
you recently got married. Did you go did you go
big wedding intimate? What'd you think of the whole trebang?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It was a much bigger wedding than I ever thought
I would have.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I guess never put.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Too much thought into my wedding as a kid growing up.
But we had, like, there was over three hundred people
at my parents' farm. We had outside the big time,
the middle of a cornfield. It was a pretty pretty
awesome day. And yeah, I'm still still riding the high.
It was only two months ago, so it's still pretty fresh.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Brand new. Well, congratulations, welcome to the club. The latest single, Moonshines,
is climbing the charts right now. What inspired this one?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You have moonshiners in your family or what I mean?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I've I've definitely dabbled with moonshine growing up in high school.
I'm from a town of a thousand people up in
the middle of nowhere in Ontario, Canada called mild May,
and certainly lots of moonshine footing around there. But no,
I definitely didn't run moonshine. Like the song kind of insinuates.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's sort of a.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Just, you know, a bit of a story song about
you know, sort of what it what it might have
been like as a moonshine runner back in the day.
And it's just kind of a fun, fun song to
open up the show. And it's cool that it's climbing
the charts in Canada.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And I wrote up.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
My buddies, Jesse Slack and Dale Scott, who I've read
a lot of songs with, and we actually wrote like
four or five songs over the course of two days
last year, and that was one of the songs. So yeah,
it's cool that it's it's out and doing his thing.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Nice man. I actually like me some moonshine.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
When done you too? I had I had pickle moonshine
in Nashville. Wee oh pickle very good. They got all
kinds of flavors of moonshine now the moonshine.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I remember having at like a high school party back
in the day. Was it tasted like gasoline? It was disgusting. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, I had someone like fermented and peaches or something
that was good. I was gonna put me on my
StAst too, so that was good. Congrats. I know you
recently won two Canadian Country Music Awards, one of which
was Songwriter the Year for your song Old Dirt Roads.
What about that song? What's what's the backstory there?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I wrote Older Roads in twenty nineteen in my college
apartments and it was my first time experience when what
it was like living in a city. I come from
a small town, like I said, and I was going
to school, and I was driving to school every day,
and I was waiting for like, you know, thirty forty
five minutes in traffic, and you know, doing that for
(02:49):
a year.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
For the first time. It kind of was a bit
of like a shock, I guess because the only.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Traffic I was used to is riding down a back
road behind like a tractor or a horse and buggy.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And I think it just kind of that song fell
out of me.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I was it was like a thirty minute right by
myself in my bedroom in twenty nineteen, and.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I was just missing home. I wrote a lot of
songs about missing.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Home, and it's just cool that that's sort of the
song that's allowed me to do a lot more touring
and you know, win that award, and it's a song
that I just never would have thought it would have
taken me there, you know, six years later or whatever
it is.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So yeah, you never know, man, which one's gonna pop
right there in your new EP. Bruce County dropped earlier
this year, But tell me about the song dropping on
November first, The Call.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yes, yeah, so The Call is a very special song
to me. I wrote this one back in twenty nineteen
as well, I believe, which is crazy that, you know,
we're so much farder than the line and it's finally
coming out and I'm super happy about that. But I
you know, I've lost some people growing up, friends, family,
(04:01):
lots of family and stuff like that, and this song
is just a buddy of mine had passed and I
started writing the song. After that, I got a verse
and you know the chorus, and then a couple months
later my aunt had passed away and it just kind
of fell.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Out of me, and like, I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I mean, everybody deals with grief sort of differently, and
for me, writing songs is always kind of in a
way to just get it all out there and kind
of say what I'm feeling. And that's where this song
came from. It's about a call that you never want
to get, but one that you definitely won't forget, and
it means a lot to me.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
We just did a one take recording of it in
the studio.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I just acoustic and a guitar, kind of stripping it
back to where I started in music.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So I'm super scared to finally have it out. Well,
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You're able to kind of channel all that into work,
so good for you. And I know you got a
bunch of US tour dates over the next month. What
can fans expect when they come see you a lot?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, we're travel on around.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
We got another like thirty shows I think to the
end of the years, or we're keeping busy. But our
live show is I said, dynamic. We you know, we
start out pretty rocking, and there's some loud guitars and
some loud drums and and you know, we kind of
go through all the phases of what I think a
good live show should be. A lot of stories, a
lot of new songs that I've been writing that you know,
(05:22):
are just post memos on my phone at this point
that I'm sort of trying out on the road, and
I would say, I kind of I bring a lot
of me in my hometown and the way that I
was raised to these crowds, which I think is the
most important part of our show.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I'm sure, yeah, can resonate. Does her wife go
with you or yeah she does.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
She's actually she was just in the bust before, but
I think she's now. But yeah, she's around with us
and help them with social media, which is very nice
for me.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know, she's great out here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
She keeps me saying, cool, you a Halloween guy?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You dressing up this year? I have thought about it
too much. I kind of realized that Halliman's coming up quick.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I got to figure that I'm definitely gonna get a
costume of some sort, but I don't know what yet.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
We'll see. Have you ever heard of the show Trailer
Park Boys.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I don't think I have TV shure.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's a Canadians. The Canadian TV show. It's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Trailer Park Boys.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Okay, but I always I always dress up as as
somebody from.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The Trailer Park Boys. Okay, so maybe maybe I'll do
that this year again.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Pain the Wise, I like it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Congrats on everything, man. Be sure to check out all
of Owen's music right now on your iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get music. Thanks for checking in, Man, good
luck on the road.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Thank you so much for taking that time. Man, appreciate it.
You got a brother. Take care, Take Care Loud with
Mario Lopez
On with Mario Lopez.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
So Bro Mario Lopez Jordi right now Canadian Country music
Breakthrough Artists of the Year, Owen Wriggling.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's going on on?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Nothing is going on.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm just getting ready for your show this evening in
Nebraska and happy to be here talking with you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, I appreciate you taking the time. Congratulations. I know
you recently got married. Did you go did you go
big wedding intimate? What'd you think of the whole trebang?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It was a much bigger wedding than I ever thought
I would have.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I guess never put.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Too much thought into my wedding as a kid growing up.
But we had, like, there was over three hundred people
at my parents' farm. We had outside the big time,
the middle of a cornfield. It was a pretty pretty
awesome day. And yeah, I'm still still riding the high.
It was only two months ago, so it's still pretty fresh.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Brand new. Well, congratulations, welcome to the club. The latest single, Moonshines,
is climbing the charts right now. What inspired this one?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You have moonshiners in your family or what I mean?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I've I've definitely dabbled with moonshine growing up in high school.
I'm from a town of a thousand people up in
the middle of nowhere in Ontario, Canada called mild May,
and certainly lots of moonshine footing around there. But no,
I definitely didn't run moonshine. Like the song kind of insinuates.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's sort of a.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Just, you know, a bit of a story song about
you know, sort of what it what it might have
been like as a moonshine runner back in the day.
And it's just kind of a fun, fun song to
open up the show. And it's cool that it's climbing
the charts in Canada.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And I wrote up.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
My buddies, Jesse Slack and Dale Scott, who I've read
a lot of songs with, and we actually wrote like
four or five songs over the course of two days
last year, and that was one of the songs. So yeah,
it's cool that it's it's out and doing his thing.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Nice man. I actually like me some moonshine.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
When done you too? I had I had pickle moonshine
in Nashville. Wee oh pickle very good. They got all
kinds of flavors of moonshine now the moonshine.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I remember having at like a high school party back
in the day. Was it tasted like gasoline? It was disgusting. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
No, I had someone like fermented and peaches or something
that was good. I was gonna put me on my
StAst too, so that was good. Congrats. I know you
recently won two Canadian Country Music Awards, one of which
was Songwriter the Year for your song Old Dirt Roads.
What about that song? What's what's the backstory there?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I wrote Older Roads in twenty nineteen in my college
apartments and it was my first time experience when what
it was like living in a city. I come from
a small town, like I said, and I was going
to school, and I was driving to school every day,
and I was waiting for like, you know, thirty forty
five minutes in traffic, and you know, doing that for
(02:49):
a year.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
For the first time. It kind of was a bit
of like a shock, I guess because the only.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Traffic I was used to is riding down a back
road behind like a tractor or a horse and buggy.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And I think it just kind of that song fell
out of me.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I was it was like a thirty minute right by
myself in my bedroom in twenty nineteen, and.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I was just missing home. I wrote a lot of
songs about missing.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Home, and it's just cool that that's sort of the
song that's allowed me to do a lot more touring
and you know, win that award, and it's a song
that I just never would have thought it would have
taken me there, you know, six years later or whatever
it is.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So yeah, you never know, man, which one's gonna pop
right there in your new EP. Bruce County dropped earlier
this year, But tell me about the song dropping on
November first, The Call.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yes, yeah, so The Call is a very special song
to me. I wrote this one back in twenty nineteen
as well, I believe, which is crazy that, you know,
we're so much farder than the line and it's finally
coming out and I'm super happy about that. But I
you know, I've lost some people growing up, friends, family,
(04:01):
lots of family and stuff like that, and this song
is just a buddy of mine had passed and I
started writing the song. After that, I got a verse
and you know the chorus, and then a couple months
later my aunt had passed away and it just kind
of fell.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Out of me, and like, I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I mean, everybody deals with grief sort of differently, and
for me, writing songs is always kind of in a
way to just get it all out there and kind
of say what I'm feeling. And that's where this song
came from. It's about a call that you never want
to get, but one that you definitely won't forget, and
it means a lot to me.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
We just did a one take recording of it in
the studio.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I just acoustic and a guitar, kind of stripping it
back to where I started in music.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So I'm super scared to finally have it out. Well,
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You're able to kind of channel all that into work,
so good for you. And I know you got a
bunch of US tour dates over the next month. What
can fans expect when they come see you a lot?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, we're travel on around.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
We got another like thirty shows I think to the
end of the years, or we're keeping busy. But our
live show is I said, dynamic. We you know, we
start out pretty rocking, and there's some loud guitars and
some loud drums and and you know, we kind of
go through all the phases of what I think a
good live show should be. A lot of stories, a
lot of new songs that I've been writing that you know,
(05:22):
are just post memos on my phone at this point
that I'm sort of trying out on the road, and
I would say, I kind of I bring a lot
of me in my hometown and the way that I
was raised to these crowds, which I think is the
most important part of our show.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I'm sure, yeah, can resonate. Does her wife go
with you or yeah she does.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
She's actually she was just in the bust before, but
I think she's now. But yeah, she's around with us
and help them with social media, which is very nice
for me.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You know, she's great out here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
She keeps me saying, cool, you a Halloween guy?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You dressing up this year? I have thought about it
too much. I kind of realized that Halliman's coming up quick.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I got to figure that I'm definitely gonna get a
costume of some sort, but I don't know what yet.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
We'll see. Have you ever heard of the show Trailer
Park Boys.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I don't think I have TV shure.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's a Canadians. The Canadian TV show. It's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Trailer Park Boys.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Okay, but I always I always dress up as as
somebody from.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
The Trailer Park Boys. Okay, so maybe maybe I'll do
that this year again.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Pain the Wise, I like it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Congrats on everything, man. Be sure to check out all
of Owen's music right now on your iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get music. Thanks for checking in, Man, good
luck on the road.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Thank you so much for taking that time. Man, appreciate it.
You got a brother. Take care, Take Care Loud with
Mario Lopez
Host
Mario Lopez
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