#475 - Chris Lane + Mitchell Tenpenny + Tucker Wetmore + Joe Nichols

On this special episode, Bobby chats with Chris Lane, Mitchell Tenpenny, Tucker Wetmore and Joe Nichols from their studio visit for their radio show. Chris told a story about the time the Rascal Flatts pranked him on tour, Mitchell talked about his new music, up-and-coming artist, Tucker Wetmore discussed whether or not he can feel his momentum building, and Joe Nichols talked about celebrities coming to his shows over the years, and much more! 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Everybody, Welcome to episode four seventy five, a special feature
because of some awesome artists or bands we've had in
the studio lately on the radio show, and so we've
kind of been on an interview kick a bit on
the radio show, and since this is an interview podcast,
I wanted to make sure that you know if you
missed him over there, we patch them all together and
you can hear some here. For example, Chris Lane, who

(00:23):
I've known forever, Mitchell Tenpenny, who I've known forever. Mitchell
Tenpenny up for CMA for Best New Artist even though
he has multiple number ones, which is pretty funny and
also up and coming, but he's already like crushing it.
Tucker Wetmore and Joe Nichols, so three of those people
I've known for a long time. Tucker Wetmore's new, but
I wanted to make sure that if you missed him

(00:43):
on the Bobby Bone Show, we would just lay out
this interview only podcast, and I hope you like it.
If not, you're probably gonna skip it anyway. But thanks
for checking out the Bobby Cast. Here's like four interviews
from the Bobby Bone Show that's happened over the last
couple of weeks. There we go on The Bobby Show. Now, Buddy,
how are you good to see?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I guess I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I see on social media a lot, and I feel
like and then I saw in the parking lot a
couple a few weeks ago. It's weird. Social media is
weird because you feel like you kind of stay in
touch with people. And I guess you and I will
text and miss each other about playing pickleball about once
every two weeks. You're like, Hey, are you a down? Nope,
all right, I'm gonna say if you don't pay pickleball.
So yeah, I feel like I've seen you, but we
really haven't hung out or anything. But everything's good. Everything's good, man.

(01:27):
Just social media says you're good, and social media doesn't lie,
so that's true. That's true. I ran into Chris and
his wife and kids, my wife and I did. We're
in the parking lot of a place, and so we
hung out and talked for a while, and we naturally
did the junior high dance move where the boys went
to one side and the girls went and the girls
went to the other side, and and we were all
like talking, Yeah, what's what's family life like now kids

(01:49):
are older?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, it's good. Dunton's three. Baker is about to turn
two in about ten days. And then uh, Buttons in school,
we just did parent teacher conferences yesterday, which was very
funny for the first time. They were great. They spoke
very highly of him. They said he was a silent
leader in class and that he's really good at following directions.

(02:13):
And I'm like, man, I'm glad he's doing that at
school because he's terrible at that home. Who do you
think who's the role follower in your family?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Lauren?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Her and her dad are too much of a rule follower,
Like it drives me crazy because I don't break rules,
but I don't like follow them, follow them, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Maybe you just don't. Well, I would say I've been Yes,
that's the best story. I've been to them a little bit.
There are times where I will not learn the rules
on purpose. So therefore, if I don't follow them, it's
not because I didn't break them, I just never knew them.
So maybe that's what you are. You create your own
path because you didn't know how to drive a car.
Why didn't I say it? That's exactly like, did you

(02:56):
know you did the wrong? I'm like, no, tell me more.
I want to talk about the new song first of all,
because I get two sort. You got a single that's
climbing the charts, but you also have this new song
called If I Die Before You, So I'm gonna let
you You ever have those books back as a kid
where it's like, choose your own adventure? Which one would
you like to talk about first? You want to Find
Another Bar? Yeah, we can talk about that one. That

(03:18):
one's and I'm gonna play it. Yeah, I'm gonna play it,
So tell me about find Another Bar. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
So I feel like everybody kind of got to know
me as the love song guy over the years, you know,
with I Don't Know About You, take back Homegirl for
her big plans all in a row there, and I
kind of just felt like it was time to do
something different, show people a different side of me. Obviously,
I've been through heartbreak in my life, so it's something
I can easily sing about and relate to. And I

(03:46):
just felt like this was my take on a breakup
song that I felt like had. I mean, there's been
a million breakup songs, but I felt like this one
was different in a little different way.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
I was like, when artists, writers, creators try to find
a new way to say the same thing. And I
think that's the constant in song creation, even in writing
books or anything. It's love, heartbreak lost. There are these
certain fundamental elements, and it's how do you approach and
talk about it in a different way?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Right?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
And but we've not heard a song about how somebody
broke up with you and you killed them. Have you
guys thought about that? No? No, I don't know, just
a different way think about it, you know, or like
you stalk them. Your song wasn't that. But I was thinking, like,
how do you approach it?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
I love song.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
That, Chris, Right? Have you ever thought just trying to
think of different? Your hair is longer. I didn't recogonize
you standing in there. I was like, who's the hobo?
I looks good, No, it looks good.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I can't decide, like my wife wants it short. I
prefer it a little bit longer.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know. I can cut it shorter the older I get.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
But that kind of both because it's like short on
the sidelong.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
And the that's true, it's almost a mullet yeah, it's
kind of in between.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Did you ever have a mullet? Because you're from You're
from the South. I'm from the South. Everybody had a
mullet at some point. Do you ever have a good one?

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, honestly, it's about like it is now. I kept
it a little more tame. I can't go super long
like that wouldn't be my vibe. But uh, where's that
right now?

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Is?

Speaker 3 (05:18):
I probably wouldn't let it get much longer. But it's
in the shape of one kind of.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
When did you start playing music? And then when did
it get serious? And I want to ask how that
relates to because I know you were an athlete as well,
So what age did you start learning that you like
music as far as to play? And then when did
you go I'm committed to this.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, I loved music, you know, growing up. I love
singing along to the radio. But as a sports guy,
my brother and I both we we were just football, baseball,
basketball in season. That's all we did. And so it
wasn't until I was graduating college. I had to go

(05:58):
back for one class to graduate in that half year.
So four and a half years of graduated and during
the downtime where we didn't have baseball anymore.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
You know, I was done with my four years.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I started learning how to play the guitar, and I
became very passionate about that. I'd been to a ton
of Kenny Chesney concerts, Keith Urpan concerts, and honestly, watching
Keith just made me want to learn how to play
the guitar, and it kind of grew into a passion.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Did you ever sing there before playing guitar? No, I
mean just luckily, just along with the radio. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
So my last semester I got good enough on the
guitar that I could just play three or four songs,
and I would go to this open mic night right
there by the college, and all the fraternity sororities, all
my baseball guys would come up there and hang out,
and people would really encourage me. I would do this
little medley that had a bunch of hip hop songs
in it, and people seemed to like that a lot.

(06:58):
And then I would cover like an al Dean song,
I'm an Eric Church song, and people would just encourage
me that, man, you should try to do something with this.
So after I graduated, I moved back to Kernersville, North Carolina,
where I grew up at and just started putting a
lot of work into it, driving people crazy, trying to
sing and play at the same time, you know, which

(07:19):
is very hard. Yeah, when you're first trying to figure
out the guitar, it's hard to sing and strum at
the same time. But I think being an athlete kind
of helped me learned a little bit quicker on that.
And once I learned one song man, I became so
passionate about music. I just wanted to learn all of
my favorite songs, and that eventually led me into starting

(07:40):
a band. Back then, it was the Chris Lane Band.
I didn't put much thought into it, as I had
no idea that that would ever lead to a record deal,
but so pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Why did you get on say it the very first time?
I know you're playing it? That's a big move to
not spend years as a kid learning music and just like,
I'm gonna play guitar, but now I'm gonna go get
on stage where people can hear me sing. I don't know, like,
were you do you feel like you were called just
to get on stage? Were you nervous? Did you feel
like you were.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Going to do it?

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Once and then realize you maybe you didn't want to
do it.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
I think the first time I got on stage, I
was certainly very nervous.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Why would you even do it the first time? I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I think I just was so passionate about it and
having so much fun just playing in my bedroom every
day and no shyness, huh and no, and I just
kind of, you know, like I said, I was getting
encouragement from the people that would watch me play those
three songs every Wednesday night.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
It opened my night.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
And that's cool. Yeah, yeah, they would build me up.
So I kind of just ran with that a little bit.
But yeah, first show is incredibly nervous.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Could you sing?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I was shaky like the first four songs, and then
I relaxed in and after that night I had so
much fun. I was like, man, I want to do
this every night for the rest of my life. So
I just continue to put.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
The work in.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
It got some guys in the band that could actually
play really well.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
There for years in North Carolina. I just grinded it
out and got to the point to where I could play,
you know, four or five shows a week, mostly covers. Yeah,
of course, especially when you first start out, Yeah, and
then I started writing my own music, which eventually led
me to getting a record deal and moving to Nashville.
Because I'd never even been to Nashville prior to getting

(09:24):
all my first meetings.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, you didn't come a bunch of times, and that's
a weird order of it happening. How do they find you? Then?
Who found you?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
So I think some of the William Morris agents started
flying out to watch some shows, and word got around
because what had happened was much like Brantley Gilbert and
some of these guys, I had built up a massive
Southeast following, so not just in North Carolina, but I
was able to go out into like Florida, Georgia, South Carolina,

(09:54):
and I was able to sell out the same rooms
that a lot of the guys from Nashville who had
songs on the radio would come play. So I think
that's eventually how I ended up with the record deal
is people started flying out saying, who is this guy
doing it all on his own and selling out the
same venues.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
And that's pretty cool that that's how it happened, because
rarely does someone have people come to them and go, hey,
we really like you. We'd like to offer you some
sort of plan to have a record deal, but you've
never been to Nashville. You know most of the stories,
even people that are awesome have to come here. Oh
yeah and have and you would probably coommend people you
need to go to Nashville because that's kind of how
it happens. So, but you built it up by just
playing a whole bunch of shows. What was the first

(10:32):
song I'm gonna make you go back into the depths
of your brain here it was the first song you
ever played publicly on a microphone? Like, what would have
been the one you were so comfortable with that you thought,
I can do this my very first song. I'm going
to perform this like just cover song. Yeah, it covers
song that you ever did in front of people, like
at one of these open mics. Wow, that's a great question.

(10:55):
I know it was either al Dean hick Town. Is
that easy one to play? Like Corner? No? No, no,
it was. I was terrible at playing it.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm still terrible playing I Sometimes I go back and
I'm like, oh, I could not figure this song out
before because it's like got bar cords.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, if you're like throwing f's in there. I would
like I for me, it'd be like smash Mouth. I'm
a believer, but like the Monkeys.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Because it was like this, it's just CG the whole time,
but you're like going bar courts. If I could see
a video of my performance of that song, I'd be
on my knees dying, laughing. That's pretty fun. And then
an Eric Church song. I can't tell you what it is,
maybe your Love Love, your Love the Most or something
like that, but I remember playing that song a lot

(11:37):
could have been a Keith Urban song too. I mean, yeah,
he's trying to play solo.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's like, you know, I tackled a Keith Urban solo
and I look back and it wasn't that good. Your brother,
it's your twin brother, and you guys look very similar
because you are twins? Are you guys? Really? You have
the twins that come out? What's that called fraternal? You're
like in the same bunk turn I know what it's
called identical? Yeah, but then what's the other. Oh yeah,

(12:02):
eleven different bunks? Fraternal?

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is it for a p?

Speaker 1 (12:07):
So which one you and your brother are identical? Twins? Identical? Yeah?
Did he do music when you did or did he
see you were doing music, was like, hey, also should
learn how to do music. Uh.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, that's kind of exactly what happened. I think he
was experiencing some fomo of me being out there playing
music in front of peeps, even though it was just
a few songs on those wind at Wednesday nights. But
he bought an electronic drum set and started learning how
to play on that, and he was like, I'll just
start learning how to play the drums and we should

(12:38):
start doing something together. So I was like, all right,
So he just sat down started learning how to play
the drums. Was really bad for a very long time,
much like I was on the guitar. And this is
actually a funny story, but when I got a record deal,
he was still really bad in comparison to guys you
would get in Nashville who just crush back there. He

(13:01):
had a lot of learning to do. So when I
eventually signed there at Big Loud, which was at the
time kind of what Florida Georgia Line had done, it
was just a publishing production, uh and management deal. They
wanted me to hire somebody from Nashville, which I think
they had kind of had to do with the FGL

(13:21):
as well. But I'm like, this is my twin brother. Man,
the way I can do this to him, Like he's
put so much work in. I think he'll eventually get there.
And he put a lot of hard work in over
the years to get to where he is now, which
is great. He's great back there. He still keeps time
like sneakers in a dryer. But we make it through

(13:42):
the show.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
All right.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's a.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Dryer. That's a pretty funny term. You're going up to flats.
That's awesome. Oh my gosh. They were in their Friends
of Mine and I'm super happen screaming for a year
for them to get back together. And I saw that
you going out with them. That's really exciting, man, huge,
It's huge for me. I'm very excited. I toured with

(14:08):
those guys back in seventeen.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
I believe it was right when I had fix out
my very first song.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Kelsey Ballerini was a part of that tour as well.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I was the first of three, but I got to
know them really well, spent time with all of them
and just became great friends. We still kept in touch
all these years later, and now you know I'm with
Jay on his record label, on his record label, and
he kept telling me that they were considering going back out,

(14:41):
and I'm like, man, at all costs, I've got to
be a part of this tour because I was a
part of the twentieth anniversary tours direct support when COVID
happened and we didn't get to happen, you know, and
I was I felt like I was on.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
I want to call rocket ship.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
But I was definitely going into the peak of my
career at that point, off coming off of big plans
at the time, so it would have been an incredible
moment to be a part of that tour. So I'm
so thankful that they asked me to come back out
and be a part of this twenty fifth anniversary.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
I cannot wait to tour with those guys. That's gonna
be fun. That's gonna just the vibe and the energy
of the crowd is gonna be fun. I agree. And
they haven't been broken up for twenty years, but it
feels that way. Yeah, And so everybodys gonna react that
way like they're back together, Oh my god, and it's like, yeah,
we were fun.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
One of the funniest things that I remember when I
first toured with them is I would give Gary a
random word every single night, and he always had to
find a way to sing it into a song. And
I have to give my man credit. The first word
I ever gave him. It's a stupid word, but I
said raccoon. I'm like, there's no way he could literally

(15:55):
sing this into a song. Not only did he use
the word raccoon in a song, but he proceeded to
use it in every single song that he sang for
the rest of the night.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
That's funny. Broken Road brought the raccoons.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
I think the first song he used it in was
they were singing I wish I could rewind. He was like,
I wish I had a raccoon, but he would, you know,
do a bunch of runs on it.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
I was like, what, I don't know doing, Like I'm
not sure what he just said. So Chris has got
some dates of his own Waco, Akron, Ohio, Lexington, Birmingham, Alabama, Buffalo,
and Rochester all the way through November of this year,
So get tickets at im Chris Lane dot com. Then
The Life is a Highway tour which is coming up
with Rascal Flats. So what's the Rascal Flats Fixed story? Oh? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
So when I was torn with those guys, they would
do you know, they would go do their interview first,
Kelsey would do hers, and then I would go in
and do mine. They told this story, and you know,
those guys, they can make anything believable and they feed
off of each other and they're very good at it.
So they told this story about how they were so
proud of me and everything that I had overcome, that

(17:05):
they were, you know, honored to have me out on
their tour, and that my song. And the person who's
interview them, they're like, what exactly are you talking it?
What did he overcome? They're right, you didn't hear he's
singing about it and his song Fixed. You know, he
had a really bad meth addiction where he lost his
teeth and as part of the end of the tour gift,
we're going to give him a new set of teeth

(17:28):
and he's like overcoming, like just all this stuff, and
they made it really believable. So I get into my interview.
I have no clue that they've done that, and the
girl's like asking me about it, and I'm like, are
you trying to punk at me right now?

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Is this?

Speaker 3 (17:42):
And she's like, well, Rascal Flats just told me about
everything that you've overcome.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
And I'm like what. So she plays it for me
and I'm like, oh my god, I cannot believe they did.
That was very funny.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
So from there on out, every tour stop it turned
into them making up stories about me and me making
up stories about them.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Was so much fun. That is funny, and I learned.
I actually learned that sound dangerous because eventually it gets
to a point where it's like, you know, I murdered someone.
Garry Gary Wotxing Diddy were best friends. Yeah, it's like
you know him and Epstein used to fly together. But
it just gets to a place where it's like, not, yes,

(18:22):
that's that's funny. You still go to Planet Fitness and
just work out with random folks.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Man, I I do on the road, yes, but here
at the house, I work out at my country club.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Dang, that's cool. O what a flex? What a flex?
He wouldn't say, No, I go to my I go
to especially He goes no. You know, I might be
just small town boy from North Carolina, but I got
a country club now. Once you have three number ones,
you get a country club and look at you, fruit, Fruit?
Do you drink your team with the pinky out while
you're doing your curls or what? I don't have the

(18:56):
pinky out? Man, Dang this guy. Let's talk about the
song that just came out. If I die before you, so,
I don't know what'd you like about this song when
you heard it?

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh my gosh, everything there is to like about a song.
I loved about this one. This is going to be
one of those songs that I wish I had written.
It took two years or a year and a half
to two years for this song to make its way
to me because there were.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Other artists who had it.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
So when it got played for me on accident, I
fell in love with everything about the song, but then
realized I couldn't have it because somebody else was recording it.
So I had to wait this song out for a
year and a half. I prayed so hard that it
would eventually find its way back to me, and it did.
And I feel like this is a I'm praying that

(19:48):
it is, but I feel like this is a career
changing type song.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
We're gonna play it now here is if I die
before you from Chris Lane. Chris, it is always good
to see you, buddy. Great to see you as well, Bud.
In one day, we're just Chris and I are just
a relationship of Hey, are you in town? Nope, that's it.
It's one after the other. You know you a town? Nope.
At some point we're gonna play second. Yeah, we're gonna
be at the same place at the same time. Uh yeah,
really rooting for your Congrats on everything with Jay and

(20:14):
the new record deal. Thank you, brother.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
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Speaker 1 (20:33):
Now he's got a record that came out September twentieth.
He's here. He is an amazing singer. Mitchell, good to
see you, buddy.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh, it's good to see you.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Brother. Hey, since I like you and I feel like
I know you, I'm gonna ask you a question. Then
maybe I wouldn't ask you otherwise.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
I'm so happy that you were nominated for a CMA Award.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Thank you man now so much. I was ready for it.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
I've known you for a long time. Yeah, yeah, your
first number one number one back in twenty eight. That's right,
you have three number ones. How are you a new artist?
How are you nominated for Best New Like? What is
the criteria for that?

Speaker 6 (21:07):
I've never been nominated for anything? CMA, is that the criteria?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I think? I think so.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
I think it has to do with you can be
up to three albums and let and never been nominated
something like that. I mean, you look at Jelly, you
look at that shoot. I remember when you know, there's
a few few of us that have been around quite
a while and getting the nomination.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I'm happy. Yeah, it's awesome. But when I think about you,
I think you've been killing it for a while.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well, thank you, brother. I appreciate that. Yeah I was.

Speaker 6 (21:33):
I was surprised too, but I'll uh like any anything,
I'll take it, especially from the peers.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Were you surprised? Yeah, I was there like a second
level that you knew you were in it or all
of a sudden, it was just like Best New Artists.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
I had no idea when they were talking about when
it was coming out or announced again. And I woke
up to a couple of texts that said congrats, and
I texted texted my manager I was like, what are
they congratulating as work?

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Then I got on Instagram.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
And uh and saw it and that was, you know, awesome,
you know, in the waking up to those kind of
things are amazing. But yeah, I truly didn't know what
day or anything that was happening or.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Anything good. Not today, right Why did you choose that one?

Speaker 6 (22:11):
It's our single right now? Why did you choose I
just think it's an important message too. I mean, it's
kind of disguised around a breakup song, which I tend
to write a lot of breakup songs, even though I'm
happily married to Megan. But I like songs that, you know,
evoking emotion and but this song's kind of got a
bigger picture. It's it's about wearing an owning pain. It's
about saying hey and acknowledging it too. It's about saying, hey,

(22:34):
I know that this has happened. I'm I'm gonna get
over it, but not today. Today, I'm gonna acknowledge it,
accept it, and wear it. And you know, I'm doing
it in finger quotes. But as getting a little older
and maturing, I think that's the only way I've been
able to get through some things in life. It's truly
accepting things and then moving forward from it. And so
the not today term comes from that. It's like, hey,

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I'm gonna do this, but not today.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
How emotionally mature that sound, because it's I'm knowledging that
I am going to do it, but I'm also acknowledging that,
I mean, it will not be today because I'm not
in the healthy place to do that. Come on.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Time heels for sure.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
So the album is called The Third, which is I
mean the third it's the first song, but also why'd
you call it the third?

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Because I am the third as well?

Speaker 6 (23:20):
My name is James Mitchell Timpenny the Third, And I
wanted to say thank you to my dad and granddad
for believing to me, and unfortunately, you know, they're not
here anymore. So I wanted to encompass all that. It
being my third record as well, it just all kind
of made sense, but to say thank you for for
believing to me and letting me do music for as
a career. I have a lot of friends that moved
to town that their parents and families that don't do that.
That's really stupid, and I'm just very grateful my family

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never did that.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
You have new music out. But also I do want
to bring up the fact that Brooks and Done ask
you to be on Reboot Part two with a huge
compliment that I mean that. Here's the question. Was that
as awesome as it seems.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Even cooler, even more awesomer it was?

Speaker 6 (23:55):
It was amazing, man, what a full circle moment I've
so we got me into country was Ronnie and Kicks.
And to get to work with Dan huff in them
and have the trust and faith to take one of
their songs and make in mine was a little intimidating
at first, but when I got in there and I
was playing nights, I was like, yeah, whatever y'all want
to do, of course, and Ronnie and khe like, we're
not gonna put on the record if you don't do

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it the way you do it.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
And that was so awesome.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
The confidence that they instilled and just made me feel
made me feel warm and special, man. So that was
really really cool.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
And you did that Ain't No.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Eighty?

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Yeah, it's one of my favorite songs of all time,
and I'm surprised no one's ever done that one with them,
So it just made sense.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
You're right though, that would be kind of intimidating. Yeah,
something they did so well. They're like, now you do it. Yeah,
I get it in there with a guitar part and
Dan huff too. It's like no, no, no, no, I like
that guitar.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
You do your thing. And I was like, oh, okay,
all right, And yes, it was a nerve wrecking.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
When you play all these shows all around the country,
you've been doing it for years and they give you
like you know, some places will give you like a
jersey of a local team, college team. How many of
those do you have?

Speaker 2 (24:53):
I have a whole I have a whole, like closet
a full of jerseys. Man.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
I've been collecting jerseys since I was a kid. But yeah,
over the over the past few years, getting the ones
with the names and stuff. I like it, their memories.
I call myself a collector. Wife calls me a hoarder.
But uh, I like, just like you sports cards. Uh
you know, it's it's a problem. Like I love sports
and so jerseys are a big deal to me.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
And this is how we do it without getting injured. Yes, yeah,
that's how we stay involved.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
That I get the field part of the team without
actually going out and getting crushed.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
What do you feel like as your favorite piece of memory. Oh, yeah,
like that you personally have of your career. And then
do you have anything at the house that you have
from somebody else? Oh?

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Man, uh, of my career. That's uh, that's wild.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
I think for me it's you know, the Opry sign? Uh?
When can they give you the parking sign?

Speaker 6 (25:35):
You know, like for people that don't know when you
when you have your debut at the Opry, they they
give you a parking spot and they make a sign
that says your name on it. And I have mine
right up next to my wives now. So it's that's
a pretty special one. It's pretty cool to have that
with her. And then I mean, I gotta I played
Atlanta a couple of years ago, and I'm a I'm
a Braves fan as a kid because growing up in

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Nationalist Braves or Saint Louis, I chose Braves and Chipper
Jones is my favorite play her. I did not know
he was at the at the show, and I had
his jersey on, and he came up and we coughed
and did all the things. He signed the back of
it Hall of Fame shipper, So I put that in
the frame and I've got it up there in that
memory and that we know he was at the show
and I was gonna the show. That a really cool

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We're in the Jersey and that was that was cool.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
I felt.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
I felt like, you know, such a huge fan fangirl
on it. But he was like, he's so nice. He
gave me his number. I appreciate that. Like Chipper Jones,
I text every now and then with him and it's like,
that's cool. I don't get it, but I'll take it.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Did he come up? Did you find out after the show?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Uh? Yes, I found out. Well, no, I found out
right before I was going on.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
See I don't want to know that. I don't want
to know after and then.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
I saw I saw him over in the corner, and
then I didn't meet him. And then after that I
got to meet him and spend some time and do
the thing.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
And I'd have been like, don't don't stand him in
the eyes? Yeah, don't.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
I was. I was looking at the whole time. Does
he like this?

Speaker 1 (26:52):
What was he thinking about this? Kobe calais on one
of the songs on your new record, So why Kolby?
How'd that come together?

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Man, I've been singing with her in my car since
since college, and uh, I you know, recently the last
couple of years have gotten to know her. We weren't
like super close, we got to know her and I
did one of those things. I actually wrote that song
with Teddy Swims, another incredible singer, and but when I
got into the studio to record it, I just kept
hearing Kobe's voice on it, and I did that thing
where you text the artist.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
I was so nervous, Oh so you asked yourself.

Speaker 6 (27:21):
Yeah, I'm so scared, Like I hate asking any favors
of anybody or any you know, no, that song is
not for me. But I did and she responded back
pretty quick and was like I've been wanting to ask
you for something one time, and I was like, oh
my gosh. So it ended up working out organically and perfect.
And I'm just such a fan of hers, and it
was so cool to get in the studio and like
be mixing something and hearing her voice come back through

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the speakers instead of just like in my car. I
was like I had to stop her a couple of
times and be like, hey, I'm listening to Kobe Lay
right now.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
On the other room because it's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
You could be like, hey, we do we count me in?

Speaker 6 (27:50):
Yeah, that joke got overdone a few times.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
I want to play a little bit of that. Here
is Trek seven on the new record. It's called Guests
We'll Never Know with Kolby Kela covered Iris from Googo Dolls.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, man, how to do it? It's one of my
all time faves.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I've heard you play it.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
It's a like such a fun song anyway, and everybody
kind of knows it.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
Everybody knows it's such a nostalgic song and I don't know,
it just makes It's just that song that brings out
the fields no matter what. So we had some extra
time in the studio that day and I was like,
let's do our version.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Woke up in a dream the tour, so I don't know,
tell me about like what what do you do? You
have a when do you play your hits? Because you
have multiple hits now, Like what's the strategy? That's that
was the hardest part this year is figuring that out.
Because I'm I'm a big proponent of play the songs
that got you there. I'm not I'm not gonna name names,
but I've gone a couple of concerts recently where they

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didn't play this the songs, and I'm like telling you that.
So we definitely have our songs in there that that
have given us a career, and but we wanted up
throwing a few new ones. So the hardest part was
finding the order where it's not enough too many new
ones in a row. So we play them throughout the
whole thing. We in the we in the set with
like you know, I'll.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
Godrunk drunk me at the end, we do you drunk
me into IRIS, and it's just such a virus.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
It works great.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
And that's how we ended up doing Iris was one
day I was on stage and I finished the chords
and drunk Me and just kept playing the chords and
Iris lyrics came to my head and I just tried
it once and everyone sung it and I was like,
let's do that again tomorrow, and did that for about
two years and I was like, let's just cut it.
So it kind of it kind of works into that song.
But yeah, I mean, we we we try to. We
do polls and stuff like what do you want to hear?
And now I have a I have a part of

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this set where I I just grabbed my guitar and
I ask people, what do you want to hear? If
there's some deep cuts or other songs that you want
to you know that we might not play anymore.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
I want to try to give them some of that.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
He used to do that. Eddie and I would do
that on our comedy tour. But we would it didn't matter.
Everybody would yell everything, so you couldn't prove what they
were saying, so we would just know what we were
gonna play.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
That is, you definitely have some in the back of
your head. But you know everyone has her cell phone
now with the type on it. Yeah, so though if
I can see a song that that helps, you can't.
You definitely can't hear when they're yelling. That is a
good point.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
We'd be like, oh, you want to hear walk five
hundred miles? Yeah, okay, and no but he said it.
We'd be like, when I wake up, I'm gonna be
we know that one and like nobody has ever a
requested in the history of our life, but that's what
we would do.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
That's a good cough done that before.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
I'm glad.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I think that's the way to go on.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
In a good place. Twenty tracks on this thing. That's
a lot of songs.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, it's half of Morgan's.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
So we're getting what's fun right now? Like, what what's
fulfilling for you right right now?

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Golf right now.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
I've been loving playing golf, getting outdoors, but being home
a little bit, a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
And this tour, this tour has been a lot of fun.
This is our headline tour.

Speaker 6 (30:31):
Anytime I get to do a headline tour, it's it's
the most fulfilling thing. We've been out with Jordan Davis,
which is amazing, and we're about to do Canada with him.
I love Jordy, he's one of my best friends. And
and then Luke Colms. Getting to do stadiums this year
was insane, so I'm not taking an away from that.
But there's nothing like having a crowd it's there for
a year that's yours. Yeah, man, it's so much fun.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
And you're just a brand new art, just a baby artist,
baby artist. See even you had to laugh a little
bit because it's awesome be nominated.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Trust me, six years when I knew.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
It was a possibility, I laugh and yeah, I know,
and I tell, but it's you know again like I'm
not complaining.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
I'll take it.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
But yeah, we've definitely, especially for the people that have
been with us from the beginning, I'm like, thank you.
This is a testament to y'all truly. But uh yeah,
I'm not the newest of new.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Mitchell again launched his headlining Woke Up in a Dream
tour earlier this month, and so go and go to
his instagram. You can see it all there. All the
dates are up there. Congrats with Brooks and Doune. Congrats
on the new record. Are we still we play? We
still play golf the same place?

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:31):
I still remember there.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah I am. I'm still remember there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I don't have any friends there. So let's go. And
now now that I have my my shoulder, I tore
my shoulder for a long time, so I didn't play.
So I played one time, but now I'm ready. Okay,
get on the toe, you guys, go follow Mitchell and
Mitchell tenpenny. He's awesome. Follow him at M the Number

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ten penny, M the Number ten penny and go check
him out on tour and check out the new album,
The Third Mitchell. Get to see buddy.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Thank you guys always cheers.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
There we go on the Bobby Bone Show. Now fucker
go to see Man, we haven't met. It's good to see.
I know we had five seconds ago. Yeah yeah, so
I guess we have met officially, it just met. But man,
I've been kind of following, like watching you slowly kill it.
I wonder being in it, Like do you feel momentum
or is it like every day I'm just showing up
trying to get ahead.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
I mean sometimes I'll feel momentum for sure, Like especially
on stage during the live shows are just they're getting crazy.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
But people singing songs more. Oh yeah, oh yeah, dude,
that's cool. Dude, it's getting it's getting pretty wild out there.
But you know, most days I'm just trying to catch up,
you know. Just I literally got back from New York
last night at like, you know, nine pm. So it's
like I'm always go, go go. So it's just a lot.
But what's your how do you say the name of
your town? Kalama, Kalama, Washington? What's what's what's that town? Like?

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If I drive in, what do I see? If you
blink you'll miss it.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
It's literally right on eye five going you know, northbound,
and there is much. I mean, we got the Columbia
River right there, which it's really pretty. It's like the
prettiest place you'll ever go to.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I'm from a town of seven hundred people, but to
go there you have to purposefully go there. There's no
going through. Okay, So but your town. When I think
of your town, how you describe it? Is that where
the cops sit and just nail everybody for driving a
little too fast to a small town. Oh yeah, yeah,
I hate those towns. Yeah, no matter where it is.
On driving, I'm like, I'm about to get a ticket
because because that it'll go like seventy sixty forty for

(33:34):
like three blocks. And that's when they just nail folks
and make their money. So I want to play a song,
and they have a lot of like personal questions. But
what's song you want to do? Can I pick the song?

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah? Cool? Can we do wind up Missing You? Is
that is that what you're doing with? Yeah, it's easier
if that was what he's already to do. Okay, good, perfect,
all right, talking what Morris here? Let's do wind up
Missing You? And this song's awesome and whenever you guys
are ready. Thanks man.

Speaker 8 (33:58):
Oh I'm sorry we can't post a live performance on
the podcast, but if you go to our YouTube page
you can watch it.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
There or maybe listen live. Okay, all right, now back
to the podcast, talking about more nice Sean, thanks man.
Question about your family. Your your grandpa was a preacher.
You're se what do you call up there in Washingtoncause
we say preacher. In Arkansas you say preacher, pastor, pastor. Okay,
I say coke or popper?

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Oh pop?

Speaker 1 (34:26):
So it's all regional, right, I mean the same thing,
but it's all regional. Your grandpa was a pastor? Did
you sing in church at all?

Speaker 4 (34:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (34:33):
I didn't, but my whole family did, like my grandma.
They did or didn't they did?

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:37):
When when could you sing? Because I learned I could
not sing while singing in church? Okay? So when if
you didn't sing in church, when did you learn you
could sing? Oh?

Speaker 7 (34:46):
Dude, I started singing twenty nineteen after kidding me like
five years ago.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
It's stupid. And then this five years already killing it
like this, this is a I'm trying. That's awesome. So
why did you start singing? Ah?

Speaker 7 (35:00):
I had nothing else, man, I was. I was right
off dropping out of college. I just broke my leg
for the third time. So I dropped out of school
because I was playing football there and music found me again.
I started playing when I was eleven, so I like,
I love music. What do you mean you started playing
to some may give you a guitar piano? Oh cool,
Oh that's even better. I had a little keyboard in

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my room and I would just sit back there and
just play and for hours, and nobody knew that I
could play.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
I just played for myself. And I wouldn't have thought
you could play piano because you have a single mustache.
Unfair of me to feel that way. It's absolutely unfair.
But most people were just a cool single mustache. Don't
go I play piano. Oh thanks, Yeah, that's right. You're
surprising us in every way. You broke your like three
times playing ball, Yes, sir, yeah, first time.

Speaker 7 (35:44):
First time was I was pretty young, like seventh grade
or something like that. Twice on my left knee and
then once on my rent ankle.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Slash leg classic, weak legs hoey yeah, classic. So just
some stuff that I was reading about you. It says
you won four state championships, sir, And what three in track?
Then one in football? What did you run in track?

Speaker 2 (36:10):
One?

Speaker 7 (36:10):
Tens? Actually I didn't get first one tens. I got second,
but that much, but I was pull vault four x one.
Then we won as a men's team, like a whole
men's team. And then football your parents athletes?

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, back in the day, my.

Speaker 7 (36:27):
Dad was a pretty good football player. Then my mom
was an animal. She was just working out a lot,
and like, she's awesome.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
When did you win your football state championship? What year
twenty eighteen? I think was that? What year in high school?
Was that my senior year? That's awesome, like your senior year.
Because what sucks is if you went like your sophomore year,
in the next two years, you don't meet expectations. Like, yeah,
that was so what position did you play? I was
a receiver and so you went from playing receiver winning

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state championship to play collegeball. Where'd you go Montana Montana
Tech University? Is it just cold? Every game?

Speaker 7 (37:04):
It's so cold, dude, Like probably nine months out of
the year there's like two feet of snow on the ground.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
I'm assuming you didn't have a dome. Montana Tech no.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
So when you go play at Montana Tech, are you like, hey,
I'm Tucker. I have three broken legs. I guess yeah, yeah,
so but how did you break the third? One football?
So dude, But like what happened was across the middle. Yeah,
I I was running post of the middle, butte game.
It was during practice.

Speaker 7 (37:31):
So it was during spring ball, towards the end of
my my freshman year, because I read tcheated my freshman
year and I was doing good.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Dude, Like I got Scout Player of the Year that year,
and they're like, hey, for the next four years is
going to be like the number one receiver. I was like,
all right, let's roll. But it's what's crazy about the
story is the.

Speaker 7 (37:46):
Day before that, I was sitting down and I just
hadn't been feeling right for like months. And then I
sat down as soon as I got home from practice,
walked into the bathroom, shut myself in there, and I
just started bawling.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Dude. I was like, God, I need to sign. I
know it's been a while, but I just I need help.
The very next day of the first player in a
post in the middle and snapped my leg in three places.
So God, broke your leg. God broke my leg, and
now here you are on this stage. He broke your
leg to meet me. Did you hear that it's all
for you?

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (38:14):
This happened.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
I didn't. That's what you heard. That's exactly what I heard.
I was talking to Thomas Ford a couple of weeks ago.
As with him. He's singing your praises you know Thomas right.
I love Tom He's like the greatest dude. But he
said the same thing about you. How did you guys
get in a chaw? Did you guys start working together
a little bit? He reached out to me.

Speaker 7 (38:33):
Uh, I was like, hey, you want to come open up?
I was like sure, and then no, he just texted
me like hey, I hate doing or look at this.
I'm doing this, and I'm like, oh, that's cool man.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
But when you moved to town, what was the process
pack up a car and come without thinking much about
it or was it a real all right, let's weigh
the options and let's get a r V. What'd you do?
Pretty much just packed up my stuff.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
I mean I visited Nashville to make sure, but when
it came down to like crunch time moving here, I
packed on my stuff in one of those shipping containers
that you can ship across the country, like a pod
type thing.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, like a pod thing.

Speaker 7 (39:07):
All of my stuff that I owned fit in that
little pod. And then I just packed up my car
and then me and my mom drove down here.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
And where do you move? Do you find an apartment
with a roommate? What was the living situation for you?
Every new artist is a different story. Well, I didn't
know anybody.

Speaker 7 (39:22):
I didn't know anything about anything really, so I moved
right across tin roof onto mumbrooon.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Well for a new artist, good looking guy, you know
what that's going to get you in trouble or really awesome?

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah, and it did.

Speaker 7 (39:36):
Yeah, but yeah, that was my first apartment when I
first moved to town.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
And it was a culture shock for sure. So when
you come to town and you see other people, because
this is the land of giants, even when you first
move here and you see people that are just struggling
and they're still they're awesome, right, Like you gotta be
awesome to just make tips in a bar when you
come when you start to see other people that are
playing and they're really great, and to make it you say,

(40:01):
culture shock was it? Holy cow, I've got some real
competition here one.

Speaker 7 (40:04):
Numb percent dude, And like literally everywhere you turn in Nashville,
there's just someone that can shred like you know, crazy,
and I'm like or sing like crazy. I'm like, dude,
I gotta I gotta work my ass off to do
what I want to do.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
And I noticed that really quick. So that's what I did. So, yeah,
what does that mean? Do you start just writing a
whole lot? Do you like who do you find that
kind of walks you through the process a little bit?
Did you find like a friend early on that's like, hey,
I've been here a couple years, I can help you.
Not really, uh I. What I did was just like
meet a bunch of people. I would go out to bars.

Speaker 7 (40:39):
I was twenty at the time when I first moved,
so I'd go out to bars.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
But he was during COVID, so like, hey, we just
want business.

Speaker 7 (40:44):
We're not checking IDs right now, you know, And uh
So I would just meet people and then I met
I was super blessed to meet like a super solid
group of people.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
But they weren't in the music industry. But you know,
we'd go out and mingle and whatnot. And then I
started meeting a bunch of songwriters and then I signed
my publishing deal with Backblocks, and that's when I first
really started like getting into writing every single day, sometimes
even twice a day for three years straight. Did you
do the writers rounds at all? At first?

Speaker 7 (41:13):
I did, like one when I first moved to town
and I realized, I don't know what I'm doing at all.
It was that ten roof on Broadway, and I was
the most nerve wracking thing I've probably ever done in
my life because because I've never done it, and I've
never really played in front of people other than, you know,
than playing around a kitchen table with my buddies or

(41:35):
a campfire, you know, back home, and it was nerve wracking.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Did you play any shows back home where you got paid? No?
So here were your first paying gigs. My first paying
gig was last week. Last week.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Sounds like just kidding, Oh.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Gosh, it was. It was probably like two years ago.
And it was because the radio station heard what I
was doing down here back home. You know, it's a
super small radio station, but they're like, hey, let's just
have a hometown show. And I just played cover of
songs and they paid me and my band to come out.
That's pretty awesome. Yeah, you get paid to do something
you love to do. Yeah, so you committed. Now you're

(42:16):
going to do that. You can be an artist forever.
Oh yeah, okay, good, I hope so you should. You're
real good. Thank you, man, I appreciate it. Is it
different than you thought though, a little bit? Like the
amount of effort that goes into having to be a
new artist. It's a lot of missing sleep, It's a lot. Yeah,
I haven't.

Speaker 7 (42:31):
I've slept probably ten hours in the least seventy two plus.
You know, it's just go, go, go go, and when
you get rest, you take it because you don't really
have the energy to do anything else.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Just take care of your legs. Man. Oh yeah, that's
my advice to talk about more three times. We don't
need another one. You know. I did take the third
one to get him here. You're doing a headlining tour
the Waves on a sunset tour. Yes, that's pretty exciting.
It's nuts already headlining. Do you get nervous because now
it's you? Now it's you on the on theatal, on
the website, like people got to go. I want to
go see Talker web more. Do you are the tickets

(43:06):
to the show? Have they? Have they been sold yet?
Have you put them up as an on sale? Did
you get nervous watching the on sale a little bit?
It's all sold out though, Well that's a good flex.
Like I wish I was a kiss. So when I
will sell tickets like my comedy shows, I will. I
will log on right and I'll watch every theater and
look at seats and I'm hyper hyper obsessed with being

(43:28):
a loser again because I think that's what's gonna happen
to me. But you've never been a loser, so yeah,
one way to go, Like twelve years from now, when
you've had super success, you're on your loser cycle. We'll
talk about it, all right, dude, congratulations you guys. You
go to Tucker's instagram. The tour sold out. That's crazy.
That sold out. It's nuts.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
Due that's that moment in the bathroom we talked about earlier, crying.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
That's That's what I'm going to do after you leave,
because I'm like sold that.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
No, that that moment is what led to sold out shows.
But if we could circle back to that because I'm curious,
like what you sort of just went there, if you
can share a little bit more about that vulnerability of
like what was going on that made you break and
say like, hey, god, it's been a while.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (44:14):
So, like I said, like for a few months, I
just wasn't feeling right, even though everything that I wanted
emotionally was happening. Yeah, emotionally and spiritually. You know, I
grew up super shrow on my faith. Like we said,
my grandpa was a pastor, so I grew up in
the church, but I hadn't been praying, you know.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
When I moved to college and I've just been partying
a lot. Literally, I would wake up, skip class, go
to practice, partying out with my buddies, hang out, and
then do the same thing, wake up, work out, That's
what I would do.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
And I was like, this is not how I want
to live, you know. And then I sat down and
opened myself up, and then he gave me a sign
and I listened.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Is it cool to hear people singing back songs that
aren't like the singles?

Speaker 7 (44:55):
Yeah, that's like the coolest part of it all, Like you, honey,
people poor loving that one break first, when I am Luking.
You know, it's not like a huge collection of songs,
but people are listening and licking them.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
You guys. Check out Waves on a Sunset and Tucker
web More all over. You did some loop stuff too,
right Jud's farm tour? Did you that would? Oh? Yeah?
With that? Was he sick? Was he doing it?

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Did you have terrible? Terrible allergies while he was out
on that one a little bit? But he got it out,
fought through it. Yeaheah, yeah, that's it. He's Luke. You
got Luke and t R like the greatest guys like
You've such good been so fortunate to be with those
those guys. They're good guys like you, like even model
like who you are in this industry as a person
because they do it right. Uh, Tucker, good to see you, man,

(45:37):
It's good to see. It's super cool to finally mean
you guys followed Tucker at Tucker web More and hey,
don't worry about going to show sold out suckers and
check out uh Waves on a Sunset that hep came
out just a couple of weeks ago, and there he is,
Tucker web More, nice shot.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Nice.

Speaker 9 (45:53):
The Bobby cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby cast on the Bobby Bones Show.

Speaker 8 (46:09):
Now, Nichols, Joe, how's it going, Buddy's going great, man,
Good to see it's.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Been a long time. Good to see you too, maybe
like a year. I mean we see each other raised
back football game, so I guess, but here we haven't
seen each other.

Speaker 8 (46:18):
We're in good moods today, yeah, because we didn't see
each other a razor back game.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah, that's you're right, that's true. I have a question.
We were talking about you. I was at Stone Cold
Steve Austin's house. We were doing some work with him.
He brings you up. He went to your show, and
he was did you know this? Did not know that?
So he mentioned going to one, he mentioned going to
one of your shows. He's a big fan of yours. Wow.
We were talking about music and he was like, you know,
I like Joe Nichols and he said he and his

(46:43):
wife went to your show. And I thought that was
pretty cool. And I know if you're a Stone Cold
fan or not, but I thought, yeah, who doesn't love
Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Speaker 8 (46:49):
Right, I was a fan before Third Downs at Arkansas became.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
You know, the stone called Steve Austin. Yeah, like he's
one of the most famous people of our childhood.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
Inky, y'all didn't know that's what Arkansas does. On third downs,
they played the Stone call Steve.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
I'm sorry. I had to explained that that's okay. Him
and I having a private conversation and you don't read him.
He never said what's up. He just came to the
show and right, have you ever met Stone Cold? I've
never met him, so I don't know. Maybe, yeah, he
was at a show. You're like, it was him and
George Strait. You know, he brought up. He brought you
up at George Strait.

Speaker 8 (47:19):
For a long time, I did drink a lot, So
it's possible that some of those years I didn't know anybody.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
I didn't meet anybody. Really, I feel like it was
pretty recent though, don't you think I think he said
it was recent? Well, then I have no excuse. Yeah,
but I think he just wanted to go to the
show as a normal guy. Huh. And he did, and
he was like he loves Joe Nichols.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
That is awesome.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
I know. I thought you'd want to know that because
I woun't want to know that. Well, uh, if you
see him again. You probably won't, but if I do,
I'll tell him. You ever have like people reach out
and come to a show, like who's been the coolest
like athlete or like other artists or celebrity to ever
come to a show?

Speaker 8 (47:54):
Uh, you know, it's a weird group of people, I
gotta say. And most of the time they canceled the
last minute. Uh Tebow was supposed to come to a show.
I think he canceled the last minute. I don't know
what it is about me they cancel last minute.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
I tried to say, something's life on the side of
the road, something like he was probably coming to the
show and had to like stop and that's broke.

Speaker 8 (48:11):
Yes, absolutely, Uh, let's see.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
You know, there's some some strange stuff.

Speaker 8 (48:16):
I think in act Sean Penn, I think was supposed
to come to the show we did in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Somebody's supposed to come. Is it may ever show up?

Speaker 8 (48:22):
No, I'm like I've been a show. Time'm like we're showing.
He's supposed to be here, Like, ah, yeah, he gets stuck,
he couldn't make it. He's with the governor or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
It was. It was something like that, who have you
found out was a big fan of yours? Then let's
say that, because I guess t Bow and Shan Pinn
would count. If they wanted to come to a show,
they must have known who you were.

Speaker 8 (48:38):
I would imagine that conversation was like, who am I
going to see tonight?

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Who's that guy again? Why am I? Why am I there?

Speaker 8 (48:43):
It was for a performing arts place out there in
San Francisco. Man, you know a lot of football players.
That DJ Moore that plays the Bears. Yeah, he's He
was at a show recently and I was like, it's
cool to meet you, big NFL.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
NFL fans you ever get do you get people to
sign stuff if they come to us? Or do you
play it cool? Man? No, I don't.

Speaker 8 (49:02):
The only time I've ever done something like that was
when I did the thing with with Posts not too
long ago, and I had him do a video for
my daughter's You know, my my ten year old and
my twelve year old. Girls in middle school can be
a little rough, you know. I I've learned this as
a as a girl dad. And that would have, you know,
made them like super super popular in at school because

(49:24):
post Malone's cold to the postmone is awesome and yeah,
so they found I was doing that and they're like why,
uh they why Just.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
A long story.

Speaker 8 (49:34):
So anyway, I was like when I met him, like,
oh man, I hate I hate doing this. I'm sorry.
But instead of like a sign thing, you mind taking
a little video, you know, for my kids. You know,
sometimes they have rough days and this might cheer them up.
And he's like, oh, yeah, we shot this video. He's
super cool by the way, he shot this video and
he totally cussed her.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
And I was like, they're not gonna be a show
that they go to a Christian school. Look at you know,
look at the fun. So you did posted a show,
post only did a show and you played at it.
Is it Marathon Music works here right in town, right?

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (50:07):
So how did that come together? I was gonna ask
you that, man. It was a weird thing. I was
ironing closed one day.

Speaker 8 (50:12):
There's no kidd and I like to iron in the middle
of the day because it kind of, you know, gives
me a time to think about stuff. And uh my,
one of my management company people called me and said, hey,
Post Malone's trying to get ahold of you. And I'm like,
I'm sure you got the wrong number. I'm positive I'm
not the guy. You meant to say that too. And
they're like, no, he's he's a big fan and and
uh loves loves you stuff and wants you to come

(50:34):
out and do a show with him at stage Coach
and I was like, I was like, Saturday, right, He's
said yes, And I said, I have a show in
Texas Saturday.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
And he's like, well, we'll just get out of it.

Speaker 8 (50:44):
I have an actual tour and fans and they pay
me money to go to a show and I can't
just sorry, guys, I gonna go see Post. So I
was I wasn't able to do that. I was like,
I tell him, I'm sorry, I give him a number,
you know. And I was that was the last I
expected to hear anything about that. And fast forward a
few weeks, his guy reached out again, like, hey man,
Joe Post really wants to talk to Joe, invite him

(51:07):
to another thing. What days you got available. I'm like,
I'm starting to think you really are a fan of start,
really think you know my name. And so anyway, we
got together and came to soundcheck. We wanted to do
Broken Heartsfield for his album release, and so went to
soundcheck and I was ready, and I was so ready.
In situations like that, you never know what to expect.
I was so expecting. I got to go, yeah, didn't

(51:29):
you sing this one song? You know, and then have
to learn broken Heartsfield. We're not really a fan. But
he kind of knew who I was a little not
that guy at all. He was like, man, this is
such a cool deal. And I knew all of it,
and he kind of knew a lot of stuff that
I wasn't expecting to know. And I came out there
and you know, soundcheck, sang the first line, wore that
cowboy hat, and he's like, ah.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
This is amazing.

Speaker 8 (51:51):
I was like, oh man, this makes me feel like
I'm singing this for the first time, Like.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Is this impressive? Is this good? That's great? That's really cool. Yeah,
that's super cool guy. Did you get your close iron though?
Like all my wrinkles are all gone? The question that
story is they did get ironed?

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (52:05):
I don't know if you've ever done this. I had
to learn this lesson the hard way. But don't ever
iron naked that it's a terrible habit. I learned, and
I had to unlearn it quick.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
I would imagine it was the hot water would get
you the steam water? Yeah, because I put water when
I iron That's not what I was thinking about.

Speaker 8 (52:21):
Yeah, unless you're not coordinated and just bumping stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Oh my god, I feel yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
never have. I don't do a lot of ironing. I go,
I go to the dryer. I'm just a dude, you know.
I go to the dry Yeah. I just throw in
the dryer and it is what it is when it
comes out. You know, if it survives, it survives. I
was reading it's nineteen years and since Tequila makes her

(52:44):
clothes fall off? Oh my god, right, is it nineteen
years years? That's wild. It feels like that that I
would just listening to that song like living life. Yeah,
does that feel like many lives ago or yesterday? Both?
It feels like it happened last year. You know. It's
such a big kind of career song for me. Man,

(53:04):
I don't know. Sometimes many of those things happened to
somebody else.

Speaker 8 (53:07):
It feels like, you know, the Broken Heartsville era of
my life and then Tequila and then you know the
later hits. Like I said, it all kind of feels
like different people for different different reasons. I was crazy
in two thousand and five and two thousand and six,
I mean crazy and uh, I'm going to work fur
coats and stuff.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Like that kind of season. This guy's lost his mind.

Speaker 8 (53:28):
Like I show up like middle of the afternoon in
a suit, like I'm here to.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Do something Iron two and iron burn coat.

Speaker 8 (53:37):
But no, I was a little crazy. But yeah, it
does feel like many lives ago.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Nineteen years I mean, it makes me start to feel
like that's many lives ago because that's a song that
I can remember where I was in my life. Like
there are nine or ten, twelve of those songs that
you hear and you're like, oh man, it kind of
puts me in that place where I was now nineteen
years ago and now here you are. I don't know.
For you, I feel like you could just play all
the hits and be good. Yeah, but also there's an

(54:02):
artist part of you that wants to keep creating. How
do you balance that? Uh?

Speaker 8 (54:07):
Well, I keep finding myself wanting to cut new music,
and I've heard some of my friends that have kind
of walked away a little bit that goes away, like
I don't really want to cut anything else I've done
what I've done. You know, it's a it's kind of
a grind to do new music, you know, from the
production of it to you know, the promotion of it.
It's just a long, busy process. And like you're right,

(54:29):
and like you said, you're right, I could probably set
sail a little bit if I wanted to.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Yeah, be fine.

Speaker 8 (54:38):
I remember that moment my book, and Agy told me
that he's like, all right, at this point, we justly
have this conversation with our artists. If you never had
another hit, never had another thing, you'd be fine. Here's
what you're gonna do, here's the money you get, blah blah,
blah blah. And I'm like, all right, that sounds a
lot like you want me to hire and no, no, no,
just saying if you're ever thinking about, you know, where
you're at in life, where you're at in your career,
you could end it today and you'd be fine, And like,

(54:59):
oh go, it makes me want to start over again.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
I don't want to get to that point. And so
honky tonks and country songs and do all the songs
kind of sound because I've heard some of the songs.
They all kind of feel like you're in a hockey talk. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (55:11):
Yeah, I think for the most part, we got a guitar, guitar. Yeah,
we got still guitar. We got a even fiddle on this.
Can you believe that we got fiddle steal guitar.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
It's a lot of dance stuff. You know.

Speaker 8 (55:22):
When I started playing in clubs in the mid nineties,
we used to do a lot of you know, Beaches
of Cheyenne and a lot of George Straight songs that
you dance to, two steppers and even some line dancing,
and so this album has a lot of those on there.
That's that's what I remember about the nineties being cool
is we had a lot of stuff you could dance too.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
I go Electric Cowboy. Oh yeah, yeah, they play Nelly,
but I would freaking nail some George Straight. I two step.
My grandma taught me a two step. I was multi
dimensional at the Electric Cowboy because I can't grind. I
can also two step. I needed to. I want to
play the new song here better than you. So Annie
Bosco part of the song, Yeah tell me about this,
watch you pick the song.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
So.

Speaker 8 (56:01):
The song is co written by one of the co
producers of My record, and it's kind of rare that
you see a song that's actually written for as a duet.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
You know.

Speaker 8 (56:11):
That's what they did with this song, and we knew
it was a hit. We felt like it was a
hit anyway if we just didn't screw it up. It
felt like one of those Aldan duets that he's had
a lot of success with. And so we're like, all right,
now we need a good duet partner. And we kind
of talked about some of the younger artists and like, an,
I wouldn't feel right. You know, I'm not sixty, but
I'm not twenty, so you know, kind of age appropriate here.

(56:33):
Let's let's get somebody that would be believable. And so
they crossed, like the mega Maroney's off the list, so
like that's creepy.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Like the love of your life, right, So we.

Speaker 8 (56:44):
We kind of started talking about artists and Benny Brown
who just signed this this girl any Bosco from California,
great singer, phenomenal singer and a phenomenal personality, like a
super charming lady. And he's like, man, check out her
live show and see what you think. And we did
a show together in El Paso, Texas, and she sang
like Chris christoffers and songs. And I was expecting like

(57:06):
the young you know, let me talk about Max's boyfriend
all that kind of stuff, and she was like super
into the old stuff like I get into. And so
I was like, Okay, we got this is a little
bit of magic, and so I asked her to be
a part of that. We asked her to be a
part of that, and she's like, absolutely, let's do this.
And you know, she sang it great. She works her
tail off, works really hard. She's super pretty, you know,

(57:27):
which makes you know who she is. Makes it awkward
with my wife, and.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
I feel like I've seen her or like I like
watch her videos on TikTok or something. Yeah, because as
soon as I saw that you did the song with her,
I was like, how do I know, Annie? I think
that's how like like because I obviously follow a lot
of country music people on TikTok. Yeah, I think I've
just seen her perform. She's good. She is good. Yeah,
she's really good.

Speaker 8 (57:48):
And she does great on the social media stuff, which
I do not do well. I think my the things
that I think are funny, I'll send to the people
that post stuff and like this is funny, right, and
they're like, oh God, don't even say that, Like.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Why are you ironing naked? Why did you say a
video you ironing naked?

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Joe Hotel?

Speaker 1 (58:06):
All right, Joe's got this album Honky Talks and Country Songs.
It comes out October twenty fifth. He's got some songs
out from it now. But country Boy Can Survive is
that's like a legendary song obviously in country music. But
you talk about just Arkansas, where we come from. On
a Friday Saturday, I mean just playing like even at
when Walmart parking lot, somebody's got their windows down playing
this song loud. So you covered this?

Speaker 8 (58:29):
It did, yeah, completely not a dancer, not a dance
song really more of a tailgate or a bonfire.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Song, Walmart parking lots song. Yeah, why this one of boy?
It's a great song. But I wonder what drew you
to cover this?

Speaker 8 (58:41):
So it's it began with something I did live. I
did a cover of Rooster, the Alison Chains song.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Nick called the Rooster. I said, what you did, yeah, dude,
And that's cool.

Speaker 8 (58:52):
It was because the character kind of seems like the
same guy, like this guy come back from Vietnam and
he's just a country boy Cancer Vibe guy, a little
can't mess with megs, I'll mess with you kind of guy.
We've known a lot of those people, you know, from
being where we're from, and so I mashed it up
live and it works great because a lot of country fans,
a lot of older country fans today know Alison Chains

(59:14):
music and like they've come over to the country a
little bit like me. I love Alison Chains back in
the nineties, So.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
That mashup was cool.

Speaker 8 (59:25):
Lives wanted to do it in the studio when we
got a studio doing a mashup, and like, I don't
know if we can make this work without cutting it
separately and then doing some magic, you know, technology wise
and making that happen. And so we ended up cutting
two separate tracks and getting a really good cut on
the entire country Board Cancer Vive track, and I'm.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Like, well, this is pretty cool. Maybe we should keep this.

Speaker 8 (59:44):
I'm usually I'm like, let's not cut Hello Darling or
Friends of Little Places, or you know, any kind of
signature song. You stay away from those things, you know,
because you're gonna make everybody mad and it's never gonna
be as good as the original. I feel like we
got a good enough cut where it's not like, oh god,
we did this. The energy's right. It's got a cool,
like break away from the album moment. You know, there's

(01:00:06):
something recognizable in there. Got a little bit grit.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
You still live away from Nashville, right, Yeah. I feel
like if you don't live here, you can actually separate
and have a real human life and then a real
professional life. Yeah why did you seek that out? I
had no choice on the matter. Really.

Speaker 8 (01:00:22):
I got married in two thousand and seven, and my
wife made it about a year in Nashville, and she's like,
I'm going to Texas. So you can come with me
or not, but I'm going to Texas. And I don't
think she fit in really a lot here, and I
was gone a lot, so I was on the road.
She'd be home, you know, at the house, and you know,
we've talked about raising kids, and so she's like, you know,

(01:00:42):
I got my family in East Texas. You know that
ain't really fair to me to kind of let make
me raise a kid alone here in Nashville where I
don't really like anybody.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Yeah. Yeah, that's and you're gone all I mean it's
a great point. You're not here that much anyway.

Speaker 8 (01:00:56):
Yeah, and and there's just a lot of stuff that,
you know, I want to raise the kids in a
normal life, normal normal crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
You know that they can kind of get through.

Speaker 8 (01:01:05):
Not anything knock against Nashville, but that you do have
to kind of fit into a groove here. That's you know,
people are kind of related to the business somehow.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
It's not all reality all the time. Yeah, it's a
it's a weird place. I would imagine to have kids too,
because I mean, you got like other celebrity kids running
around and probably yeah, yeah, I know. I admire the
fact that you know, you chunk deuces and got out
of here, like that's awesome. Uh so is she from there?
Is that like her family? She's from Longview? Right, that's
where you want to be in your family anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
Oh yeah, save on childcare, that's all I hear. Save
on childcare. It's easy to do. That's right. Well, it's
been really good to see you man, Good to see
you too. Congrats on the new song and can't wait
for the full record to be out. And the cover
is really cool that hangs you and your cover. I'm
going to have you sign on the back of this
Arkansas helmet here. Yes, so so far it's just you

(01:01:57):
and Tracy Lawrence. Oh cool, there's a here, here's the
the well. Yes it is actually so there's a theme here.
It's only people from Arkansas, all right, and so if
you sign that and then we're gonna auction it off eventually,
so I can sign it pretty big. Then is there's
only like four of us? Yes? Can you see it? Yeah? Okay,
not as good as Tracking and Lawrence. Okay, all right,
do we have a do we have a Yeah? That's good.

(01:02:19):
You can see that, okay, and then I'll auction and
keep all the money for myself, all right, perfect, Yeah, veryfact. Yeah.
Great to see you. I hope the record just crushes.
I appreciate it, man, Thank you man. Keep being you.
Whenever they were like Joe's coming by, like I love Joe,
so you know, it's it's always an automatic. Yes, So
thanks for coming by and we'll see you soon, buddy.
Thank you man. You guys be sure to check out

(01:02:40):
Hockey Talks and Country Songs comes out October twenty fifth,
but there are some songs that are out now, like
as Doing Life, with You out now. Yeah, we've released
two of them to DSPs and that and know if
I had them or if they were out yeah doing
live with you?

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
What do I?

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
Bottle it up? Bottle it up is the other one. Yeah,
And so Country Boy Can't Survive, though not yet.

Speaker 8 (01:02:58):
I think that's going to drop with the album, kind
of like a one of the meat and potatoes things
from the album.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
You know, I love meat potatoes. You guys love me potatoes,
love potatoes all right at Joe Nichols and Joe go

Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
To see you, buddy, Thank you for coming me you,
thank you, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production