Gavin Adcock

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[00:00:49] [SPEAKER_00]: This is Shelby and Quinn, backstage of the Grand Ole Opry with Gavin Adcock.

[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Congratulations on the new album first of all.

[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Your first song I ever heard by you was I've Been a Stranger and I think that one really stuck out as like

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I like this guy because it was just such a strong voice and then you definitely have that Georgia twang,

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Southern twang in it, but I really respected and that was probably early 2023. It's now

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_00]: mid-end of 2024. So much has happened since then.

[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Can you kind of give us the rundown of exactly what has happened in your life and career and how you find yourself sitting backstage at

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_00]: the Grand Ole Opry with us?

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, I've Been a Stranger was my second song of 2023.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I think I had around

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_02]: 250,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. I like to let out a song about every

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_02]: six to eight weeks. I like say every month if I can. Shortly after that, I let out Deep End,

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_02]: which is just an unapologetic rock song. It's just a big sing-along. It took me up a notch,

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_02]: let out my first album, which was basically just

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_02]: compilation of a bunch of different songs I let out over the past year before that. And then

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_02]: November come along, I'd played a handful of shows, sold them out.

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I was real excited about them and I let out a song,

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Cigarette that I wrote on an airplane headed to open up for Park of McCallum. Let that song out.

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_02]: It had a huge reaction. Took me to that million monthly listeners Mark on Spotify.

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Had a lot of momentum. Let out Four Leaf Clover, which is a rock song.

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_02]: First song of the year and then let out a handful of singles up until this album that just dropped

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_02]: last Friday, four or five days ago.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's been great. Hit the top of the charts on a couple of things and it's been a hell of a ride.

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_01]: So is that why you call this most recent album your debut album?

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Because you consider the first one almost a compilation of the songs that you'd already released.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I just thought that singles were the way to go.

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't want to write, write, write and just put all that time and effort into it to say

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_02]: here's an album when I didn't think my fans were ready.

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I felt like it was more beneficial to let out a song a month.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And after this album has come out, I've let out 40 songs in the first 36 months

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_02]: of me starting to let out music. That's crazy.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think as a fan, that would be such a great experience to not expect,

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_01]: but, you know, be gifted with a song every month.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Like that's something that is that something that you put yourself in the shoes of a music fan and said,

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I think fans would really enjoy this.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I just got really irritated in the early 2000s when social media wasn't around

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_02]: and my favorite artists would let out a song every year and a half, two years

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_02]: or I mean, an album, but it have like maybe one or two singles.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_02]: And it really, really pissed me off.

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_02]: And I was I saw a good opportunity and I was on fire writing some songs.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I wrote about myself for a lot.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_02]: And I was like all these old heads that have been doing it for a while.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_02]: They're kind of slacking on releasing because they've been doing it how they

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_02]: how they've always done it.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm about to just let out a song every single month and just sneak up

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_02]: roll right in there with them.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And with social media, it's probably even a better strategy because, you know,

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: on TikTok, a new song goes viral every month and it's like, well,

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll get sick of it after a month.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, something new to like keep it fresh in their minds.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you got to be letting out music nowadays, stay relevant and country music.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_02]: If you go six to eight months and you're not already a superstar,

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_01]: people are like, who gives a shit?

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And to backtrack a little bit on kind of how you got started.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_01]: If my research serves me right, you were a former student athlete.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: You played football at Georgia Southern.

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Is that right?

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Do you feel as though like playing sports in college helped you or

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_01]: prepared you in any way to better handle the music industry?

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: It was funny.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, that my high school head coach called me probably like 20, 30

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_02]: minutes before I got here and talked to him.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And like, since I went to his son's wedding, probably like a year ago,

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_02]: called me, said he's proud of me about the album.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_02]: That's that.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_02]: He saw, said he saw a billboard right in through right near my hometown.

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I think college football really, high school and college football really gave

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_02]: me a good work ethic.

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_02]: It's probably the only reason I passed college is because if you didn't

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_02]: pass classes, you didn't get to play.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And I would have probably dropped out along before that.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, 2021 rolled around April.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I tore my knee up in spring.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm an outside outdoors type person.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't want to get bogged down inside.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Parents go to work.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I was back at my parents house and it just mean the dogs.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_02]: And I just, I was like, you know what?

[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I'd enjoyed writing in high school.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to start writing.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Probably wrote eight songs in the first six weeks of being at home.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, all right, this is like, let's keep it rolling.

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_02]: So let out a song in August, played my first show two days before

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_02]: they were singing along to it, which is ain't no cure.

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_02]: What should be going gold before the end of this year?

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I got, I was still playing football.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Fourth game was my first game back.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_02]: We'd ride the school buses around campus and go

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_02]: by the frats and sororities and they'd stop the buses

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_02]: and they just douse us with champagne and beers

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_02]: and just crazy ass South Georgia shit.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_02]: It's one of it's one of the craziest party schools in the country.

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_02]: And I get on top of the bus and I'm surfing the bus

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_02]: driving down the road and a bouncer, I know.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I looked down and I saw him down there.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't planned at all.

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_02]: It just happened.

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_02]: He threw me a beer and I just took it down, slung it

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_02]: and it went viral on bar stool.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Next day and they brought me in and said, look,

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_02]: we're one in three.

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_02]: We're not doing very good.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_02]: We don't need this.

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_02]: We don't need this attention.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_02]: If you don't stop advertising your music, you're going to have to go.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, well, you know what?

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm pretty banged up.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Not really feeling anymore.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Kind of saw the business side of things.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_02]: When everything's going good, everybody's like,

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_02]: oh, we're all best friends when it's going shooty.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_02]: They're like, everybody's pointing fingers.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_02]: So I was like, I'm going to have this toxic ass bullshit.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to get out of here and do not feel like that's the same thing

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: in kind of the music industry as well.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. But if for a long time I was in, I was independent.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like you're playing baseball, you're playing football,

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_02]: you're playing basketball.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Somebody else don't hold up there in the bargain.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_02]: You have somebody to bitch about.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_02]: But if you don't hold up your end of the bargain in the music industry,

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_02]: you can really only bitch yourself.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Right? You know, I like stuff that I can put on me and go.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't good enough, you know, not, not pointing the finger and blame

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_02]: to anybody. You know?

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So writing was just a hobby at first.

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And you realize like it was something that you were actually good at

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and probably probably felt the same around football as well.

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Are there any other like hobbies or anything else that you feel like

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_00]: you're passionate about?

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you might won't make it a career,

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_00]: but just something that people might not know about you.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, when I was the first guy out of college,

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_02]: twenty twenty one, I showed the beer, graduated spring of twenty twenty

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_02]: two, got out, had a few songs out, was making like a little cash,

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_02]: like not enough to really just stop doing everything.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_02]: So I was my grip on the cattle farm and I was hauling cattle for the first

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_02]: up until the spring of twenty twenty three.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I was hauling cattle full time and just to pay for recordings

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, my producer in studios in my hometown

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_02]: of Walkinsville. And I was and there was something

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I wrote a lot of songs in the middle of the night hauling cows

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_02]: across the country.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And I look back and I really miss that sometimes.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: The simplicity of like doing the job and being done or it was just

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_02]: that and also you got Snapchat, you text and you're talking to people,

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_02]: friends, family, this, that and the other.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_02]: But midnight rolls around one o'clock in the morning rolls around.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's just you in the highway and it's just you're getting the job done.

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's kind of like I'm tired as hell.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I can fall asleep, but it's just kind of like you got to be bad ass right now

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and make this trip, you know, or I'm going to hit something on the side road

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_02]: and die. And there was just me and me and the road and God, you know.

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a lot of energy drinks.

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. I'm not the energy drink guy, but I drink a lot of coffee.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of coffee. Yeah.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, when you go from talking about some solitary stuff,

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: like hauling cattle to playing the Grand Ole Opry,

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_01]: this is the second time that you're playing the Grand Ole Opry.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Are there any besides maybe tonight because we're talking to you

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_01]: before you go out on stage, are there any like short term venues that you're

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_01]: looking forward to? I saw that you've got a couple shows in Georgia.

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_01]: So some hometown shows, I guess you could call it.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And then are there some long term venues that you have on your bucket list?

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess as an artist.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we were starting off the tour in my hometown.

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_02]: My hometown is Walkinsville, Georgia, but Athens is where you go to play.

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. And a year ago, we sold out the 40 watt,

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_02]: which is about a 700 cap club.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And then a year later, we sell out George Theater,

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_02]: which is the biggest place to play in Athens,

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_02]: venue eyes and sold out two nights in a row.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to start it off.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm really excited about that.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been to a handful of shows there.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Really excited about headline Billy Bob's.

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_02]: We put it up about a month ago,

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_02]: and it's definitely going to sell out.

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And I really like going to the Midwest.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm excited about going to California.

[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_02]: We're going to go in spring.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_02]: We're actually going to announce tour dates the 19th,

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I think 30 something dates for January to, I don't know, April.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_02]: And we're excited about going out West and putting our boots out there.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a long time on the road.

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And tonight will be my first time seeing you live,

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_00]: but I've seen plenty of videos and you on stage

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and kind of the personality I get through your music is that you're rowdy.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_01]: If we couldn't already tell that from your

[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Beard Shugging Firewood and Beer in Hand.

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: But what do you attribute that energy to?

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I just want the fans, no matter if they bought the tickets from a scalper

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_02]: or they got the twenty to fifty dollar ticket that we sell

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_02]: to leave and go, damn, my ears hurt.

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And that shit was crazy.

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I want people to feel like they didn't spend anything.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I want people to feel like I've been to some shows and if

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_02]: depending on the show, it's fine to stand behind the mic.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_02]: If you're George Strait, you good looking son of a bitch.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_02]: You stand there and you you play the guitar and you play your songs.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's awesome.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_02]: But I like to get away from the mic stand.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_02]: I like to get up in the crowd's face.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I jump over the rail into the pit

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_02]: got management pulling the hair out and side stressed.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I just I just want people to know that I'm very personable.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, and not I'm not this conceited artist

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_02]: that goes off stage and I'm better than them.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_02]: This, that and the other.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, I feel like I see from time to time.

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So you probably have some really crazy

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_00]: road stories to show stories of things happening.

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_00]: What is like the one that comes to mind?

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, last weekend was kind of crazy.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_02]: We went to Bucky's and and I'm from Georgia.

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_02]: You drive up 24.

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_02]: There's a couple of Bucky's on the way.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I usually stop.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_02]: You have to.

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I've never been spotted at Bucky's probably 20, 20, 25 times.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I've ever been in the Bucky's over the past two years.

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_02]: I've never been stopped, spotted, taken a picture.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And we we get a we go in there.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_02]: They're like, you're going to get seen.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, no, we go in there.

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_02]: I take a pass, grab my stuff.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Get out of there.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_02]: They're like, how did you know?

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I don't know.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's just so hectic that it didn't happen.

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_02]: So we get down the road about three or four more hours.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Bus AC breaks.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_02]: We pull over in Flomenton, Alabama, which is

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_02]: po-dunk Alabama, like in the middle of nowhere.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And I must have took 15 pictures in that parking lot

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_02]: with random like high schoolers that pulled up

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_02]: and saw the bus and saw me out.

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_02]: We got out and lifted.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_02]: We got a little like a little white boy.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_02]: We got out, did a little workout.

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's just crazy where where people are going to stop in,

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_02]: take a picture and stuff.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned Bucky's.

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I have to ask what's your go to snacks

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_00]: that you pick up every time you're there?

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I got a I got a coffee

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_02]: and I got a Philly cheesesteak burrito.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, those two things that, you know, Adley Chether.

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_02]: It'll clean you out.

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_01]: It gets you ready for the show.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a dual use for getting this.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, obviously, you're coming off of the release

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_01]: of your debut album, Acting Up Again.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Can you speak on the process?

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Because you already talked about with your first album

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_01]: that you maybe consider like a compilation

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_01]: of all the singles that you put out.

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Are you trying to write and put out songs

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_01]: that all cohesively fit together?

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Or is it, you know, you write the song, it's out there

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and then it finds its place in an album?

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I like to leave everybody guessing what's next.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Also in the early 2000s, 90s,

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_02]: even in the late early 2000s,

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I listened to albums that be the big hit on the album.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_02]: If somebody had a big hit

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_02]: and the rest of them all kind of sounded real similar

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_02]: to that one song.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And nowadays, I just feel like you don't have to do that.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I want every song to have its own lane.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like it keeps the listeners more excited

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_02]: about what you got coming out instead of just being in this rut

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_01]: that I feel like some people create.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's I mean, I'm all for this.

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully other artists can adopt to this where they don't wait,

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, for a year and a half to put out 10, 15 songs.

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_01]: And they just go ahead and put out one song per month.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, I think I'm speaking for a lot of fans there.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_01]: So you're definitely treating your fans pretty well.

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_02]: If you let them out on an album

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_02]: or you let them out singles, if you just consistently letting out

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02]: that that'll just I feel like that would help a lot of younger artists

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_02]: trying to get started if I was going to give them any advice.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just you got to compete with the best

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_02]: and you got to be letting out quality and quantity.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, your album is one I definitely listen to at the gym

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: or like when I'm trying to like get in a upbeat mood.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_00]: There they go.

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll wrap up by doing some rapid fire,

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: which is brought to you by ammunition whiskey.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So my first question is how do you drink your whiskey?

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Like that.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Right out of the bottle.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_01]: For those listening on the podcast,

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_01]: he opened the bottle, drank it right out of the bottle.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's how you drink. Perfect.

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_00]: No pregame.

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_01]: No mix-ins or anything necessary.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_02]: No, Coke kind of gives me a hangover.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_02]: OK.

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll make some with a little Sprite from time to time.

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_02]: But Coke's a little syrupy.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Then it's got that caffeine.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_02]: You can't go wrong right out of the bottle.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's pretty good.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Good.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Send me some.

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I will fill in the blank, sad country songs and blank make me happy.

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Women.

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_01]: There you go. Fair.

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Who was your favorite artist that you listen to?

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I hate that question.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_02]: It's it's a really good question.

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_02]: But every time I tend to say somebody different,

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_02]: which is fine. Yeah, yeah.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_02]: I just I love Alan Jackson.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I love Bon Jovi.

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_02]: I like a lot of early Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean.

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_02]: More modern, big Parker and co-wetsel fan.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Listen to Green Day growing up.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Pink Floyd, ACDC, Tom Petty, Hank Jr., Murrow, George, Wayland.

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm just I can just I can't I feel disrespectful saying one.

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I can't do it. That's basically anything good.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Anything good. You know, yeah.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_01]: What's something that's still on your bucket list?

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I know I asked earlier about maybe venues,

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: but doesn't have to be music related.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_01]: It could be that you're looking to skydive at some point.

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I want to own a big ranch.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_02]: So once I hit my hit my leg and have my good

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_02]: 10 to 20 year career, I can go feed some cows

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_02]: and smoke a little pot and do it my time.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, there you go.

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I have another favorite question for you.

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: What is your favorite sad country song?

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: What one comes to mind?

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Something that makes me cry nearly every time.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I find myself singing it from time to time

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_02]: because it's just such a classic, I said, Alan Jackson earlier.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_02]: But remember when like I went back and forth on covering that song,

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_02]: especially as I've got older.

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I really enjoyed it when I was in high school.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_02]: But as you you roll around 25 years old, you're like,

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: shit, I'm not I'm not this young, young kid anymore.

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Turning into a man just thinking about all the times

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_02]: that made me and people I've lost along the way.

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know if I can cover that song

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_02]: because I just I find myself getting choked up every time I sing it.

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love that one.

[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And then karaoke song, what would be your go to karaoke song

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_01]: if you had to get up on the karaoke stage?

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_02]: We used to go to this place in Statesboro, Georgia

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_02]: when I was down in Georgia Southern on Wednesdays, Nats Landing.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I'd sing a handful of different things.

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_02]: But I really like singing Hello, Darling.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_02]: It's always my grandpa's ring tone on his phone for my grandma called.

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_01]: So I always like singing Hello, Darling by Conway Twitty.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_01]: So you probably don't even have to look at the screen for the words,

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, you could close your eyes and yeah,

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_01]: I definitely like to cover them.

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm set to go on.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. OK. And last one is what are you doing

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: nowadays when you're not playing music?

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Just trying to go home, see the family.

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And the last the last month really hadn't been home.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_02]: They've come out to a couple of shows to see me,

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_02]: but I hadn't got to go sit out on the back porch with them as soon as down

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_02]: and just talk and hang out and grill some steaks or something.

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm actually going home next Monday for the first time.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's probably the longest I've been since college really.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's just it's nice to go home.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. Well, thank you so much for sitting with us.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Congratulations on the new album.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm really looking forward to seeing you tonight.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much.

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you all for having me. Of course.