May 3, 2024 • 16 mins
Ryan is an American country music artist born and raised in South Florida and his latest single is called "Whiskey and Smoke."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Taking a Walk.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I think writing music is very therapeutic, and playing music
and listening to music.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I really believe music is the most.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Powerful thing that we all have, you know, like when
you go to a concert or you throw it on
and it's such a connective experience with other people. It
doesn't matter how different you might be from somebody else,
or what you're going through in your life versus what
they're going through. Music is just such a connective experience.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is the Taking a Walk Podcast with your host
Buzz Night. Buzz talks with everyone from new emerging artists
to Hall of famers. On this episode, Buzz talks with
a young country music singer and songwriter building his path
to success. His name is Ryan Montgomery and he's next
on Taking a Walk.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Ryan Montgomery, thanks for being on the Taking a Walk Podcast,
a virtual edition. We like going for walks with folks,
but if we can't do it in person, then in
the world of virtual.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
We're game right.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thanks for having me and happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
So take me back Lake Worth, Florida.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Growing up, could you have imagined that you would have
had this career?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I really couldn't have.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know, music is the thing that I have loved
the most since I was a little kid.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I was that five year old little kid that my
parents would play the you know the YouTube, you know,
live concert movie and I would just like play air
guitar and sing. And I was so excited about music
ever since a little kid, and when I really got
started at eighteen, and I would bring my truck out
(01:43):
to our local ampitheter in West Palm and perform off
the back of it. My you know, goal was to
one day, you know, record something that was Nashville quality
music and you know, release it. And the fact that
we've got songs out now and you know, we get
to tour the country and do it at this level
(02:05):
has exceeded all of my expectations and I'm so grateful
every day, truly.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So do you remember that first experience though, when you
were performing in front of people?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
My first, My first performance that I had ever done
was twelve years old. It was a three hour gig
with a full band at this little bar down here,
and we played a bunch of rock songs and we
played some pop songs and a country song or two,
and man, it was I definitely got the bug for it.
(02:40):
That's for sure, And I don't know how we pulled
it off. To be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Did you have stage fright at all?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I I was very nervous leading up, like weeks leading
up to it, so I would just rehearse like hours
and hours and hours a day. Like by the time
I got there, my fingers were like almost you know,
like the skin was coming off my fingers playing so
much guitar, you know, leading up to it. So I
wasn't super nervous at the concert, but week's leading.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Up I was.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I was pretty nervous.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And who were those real important sounds that shaped ultimately
your sound to this day?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Wow? So many. Growing up in Florida, I had that.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It was a real kind of blessing to be surrounded
by so much music, you know, And so from a
super young age on my grandpa's boat in the ocean,
I got to hear Bob Marley, you know, which is
just something that people wouldn't expect, maybe from someone who
does country music. But Bob Marley was a very early
influence of mine. My dad is a super rock guy,
(03:46):
big metal head, so Metallica was a real early influence.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Lincoln Park is.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I still say my favorite band of all time. Lil
Wayne was a huge influence on me. I had Lollipop
as my ring tone when I was like five years old,
I think, and then yeah, as I started to kind
of find my own stuff. Florida Georgia Lines a huge
influence on me. And Jason Alden and yeah, I have
(04:14):
so many different influences.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
John Mayer. I love John Mayer.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So everything from hip hop to reggae to rock country
of course kind of make up my sound.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So what was your experience like when you first heard
one of your songs on the radio.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It was surreal.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
The first time I got to hear it was our
local station down here played my first single, Drop a Tailgate,
and I knew it was coming on. That was the
first time I heard something on the radio, and it
was just surreal, you know, like you grew up listening
to the radio and then you hear a little you know, tag,
and they're like coming up. You know, Ryan Montgomery's new song,
Drop a Tailgate, and it comes on. You're like, whoa,
(04:53):
you know, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Were you alone when you first heard it or were
you with folks?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I wasn't. I was with my family. Yeah, I was
with my family. Yeah, so it's a really cool moment. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
How many shrieks occurred?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Lots lots, Mom. Mom was real excited. My grandma was
even in the car. Grandma was real excited.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, my sister was video and everybody was, but he
was pretty pumped.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Is really cool and you must still to this day
get tickled by it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I do, I really do. It's it's so special. You know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Anytime what gets me is there's occasionally if I'm out
somewhere like this happened the other day at PDQ. I
was at PDQ and my song Tequila Limon Sunshine came
on like in the in the line, you know, and
You're just like, this is weird. You know, it's a
cool feeling. You know.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
How do you deal with the rigors of the road.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I I love being on the road, I really do.
It's being in the studio and being on the road
are my two favorite things. And but I think, you know,
there's a lot of uh, there's a lot of stuff
you could fall into and it can become it can
become a lot and I think for me, just having
some time in the morning to kind of get myself,
(06:08):
you know, centered and my workouts are really valuable.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And also I have really great people around me. You know.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I think the combination of those things is for me
really really really helpful to kind of stay stay on
track and be doing the right things and working hard.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
So there's people inside either your organization or your family
members absolutely are able to kind of go.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Hey, Ryan, dude, come on, you know what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Absolutely absolutely always yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
And they only have your best interest at heart.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Right, Absolutely, very very blessed for that.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So Ryan, take us inside the studio, how you approach it,
the collaborative process, how it works.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Give us the inside scoop here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Absolutely, In Nashville, it's such a cool process. What we
actually do is we get in a studio with the
session players who are just so phenomenal. They play on
everybody stuff, you know, from Luke Brian, you know, Keith
Urban to everybody, and it's all the kind of the
(07:18):
same guys. There's maybe two three four different guys that
play different instruments like you know, drums and bass and guitar, keys, steel,
et cetera. And we we kind of have a group
of songs that we know we're going to record that day,
and we get in with the players and we literally
will record the songs live as a band, and it's
such a cool experience. It's very different to the way
(07:41):
that you know they record in la and different other places.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's a we record together.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
As a band, and then after we get the song
tracked is what it's called, we'll go back in on
multiple different sessions and we'll do overdubs, so we'll do, uh,
play more guitars, and we'll play more acoustic instruments and
you know, mandolin and banjo and all these different overdub instruments.
(08:09):
And then I'll go in the studio for a few
more days and I'll sing vocals, and then we have
a background vocalist come in and do background vocals along
with my backgrounds. And then this song will get mixed
and it'll get mastered and then it'll get released.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
So it's a big it's a.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Big process, but it's really fun the way we get
to do it in Nashville with the live the live tracking.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's super cool in.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Nashville being a you know center, like you said, of
so many great studio players. Oh yeah, that are that
are unheralded. Let's harald those players and mentioned mention a
few of them by name.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Absolutely yeah, on this last group of songs that we did,
Whiskey and Smoke being the first single of I've worked
with so many amazing players, but we had on on
this session. We had Chris mckew on drums, who's nomenal.
We had Mark Hill on bass, who's absolutely unbelievable. We
had Tom Bukobak on electric guitars, who's an icon. We
(09:09):
had Chris Donegan also an electric guitar. We had let's
see who else we had. We had Charlie Jo Jon Keyes,
who's phenomenal. Of course, my producer, Brandon Hood is amazing.
I don't think I had missed anybody, But yeah, those
were some of the people that were on on the
session for those last songs.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I'm glad you highlighted them. That's pretty darn cool.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And what do you learn in a session that you
kind of take to the next session. What sort of
trial and error occurs from a session that benefits your
learning experience.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I think maybe two things. One, just how talented you
know those guys are.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's it's unbelievable how good those guys are. I mean,
it's it's crazy. That's probably thing one. But thing too
is I just think it's all about when you're in
a tracking session or any kind of recording session, especially
tracking with the band, there's like that moment where you're
kind of you're kind of fishing around with stuff and
(10:14):
people are playing things and you guys are kind of
throwing ideas out and then you kind of find that
that spark and that magic. And I just think it's
important to not try to rush that process or move
on too quickly or you know, or overthink it and
just keep going. It's kind of you start to find
that sound or that that thing, and when you find it,
(10:35):
you can kind of take it and run with it.
And I think that's what really could create the magic
in a session like that. So I try to really
find that every session we go into and my producer
Brandon is so phenomenal at doing that.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So, yeah, you have this sense of independence about you.
Where did you get that sense of independence?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Thank you? Man? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I'm coming from a good family, I really do, and
I think that's big and I don't know, man, I
feel like, you know, I'm a Christian personally, and I
just think that, you know, I feel like we all
kind of have, you know, the inner voice or a
(11:22):
way that you feel like you should do things. And
I think that, at least in my experience, the more
you listen to that a lot of times, the better
the better things go.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Do you have a position on what artificial intelligence means
to a musician?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I do, you know, I think, uh, I think it's cool.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think AI is really cool, but I think, you know,
so many people are worried about it taking over music
and whatever. And we'll see how it ends up being used,
and I think there's very valuable ways for it to
be used.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
But you know, I just don't think art is art.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What makes art art is the humanism in it, and
it's the imperfection in it, and it's the I think,
it's the authenticity, and it's the it's the.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The emotion that goes into it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And I don't think I don't think AI is ever
gonna be able to do that side of it. That's
never gonna be able to compete with the humanism of art.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
So you're on a desert island and you're able to
bring along.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Five of your favorite albums of all time? What do
you bring it along?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh my gosh, Oh that's so hard. I would probably
have to okay, ten, okay, ten man.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I would probably have to bring let's see ten, let's say,
probably Life on a Rock by Kenny Chesney. If I
was on an island, I would probably have to bring
Meteora and Hybrid Theory from Lincoln Park and probably minutes
to midnight. I would probably have to bring Course, Here's
(13:00):
to the Good Times from Florida, Georgia line. I would
probably also have to bring that anything goes Out from
Florida Georgia line?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Was that six?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
You could bring along some of yours if you want.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, and then I would do that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I would fill the rest maybe with with with my
with my catalog.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's not probably be a good little mix.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, you know, a desert island, and then everyone goes, well,
how do I play them?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
There's no electricity?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Right to bring your guitar instead?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Yeah, exactly. We produce this other podcast.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It's called Music Saved Mean, and it's about the healing
powers of music. From the standpoint of musicians. Do you
believe that music is therapeutic and has healing power.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I mean, I think everybody has felt that, you know,
one time or another. I think writing music is very
their can play music and listening to music. I really
believe music is the most powerful thing that we all have,
you know, like when you go to a concert or
you throw it on and it's such a connective experience
with other people. It doesn't matter how different you might
be from somebody else, or what you're going through in
(14:15):
your life versus what they're going through. Music is just
such a connective experience. And yeah, I absolutely believe that.
And as you tour the country.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You know, we look, we have a country that's divided
all over the place. Do you observe how music is
that one unifying force?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Oh? God, yeah, yeah, it is, absolutely It is so special.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
So in closing, who would you like to collaborate with?
If you could just dream that up that you have
not collaborated with, who would be on your your wishless
for that?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Oh my gosh, that would be well, Okay, my one
of my dream collaborations would probably have to beat Man.
There's so many, but one of them, and I've always
kind of thought this my song Windows Down that I
released I Have a pe verse two where I mentioned
George straight and I mentioned Lawayne, and I just always
(15:13):
thought it would be really cool to get both of
them on the song. I thought it'd be just be
so it would be a dream come true. So, George
and Wayne, if you're listening a lot, to do it.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
That'd be a mind blow, wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
It'd be pretty cool. Yeah? Wow.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Well, Ryan Montgomery, I so enjoyed having you on the
Taking a Walk podcast too. I wish you continued success
and thanks for your great spirit and your passion.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Man oh man, thank you so much. I really appreciate
you having me on.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
It was a blast.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I think writing music is very therapeutic, and playing music
and listening to music.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I really believe music is the most.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Powerful thing that we all have, you know, like when
you go to a concert or you throw it on
and it's such a connective experience with other people. It
doesn't matter how different you might be from somebody else,
or what you're going through in your life versus what
they're going through. Music is just such a connective experience.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is the Taking a Walk Podcast with your host
Buzz Night. Buzz talks with everyone from new emerging artists
to Hall of famers. On this episode, Buzz talks with
a young country music singer and songwriter building his path
to success. His name is Ryan Montgomery and he's next
on Taking a Walk.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Ryan Montgomery, thanks for being on the Taking a Walk Podcast,
a virtual edition. We like going for walks with folks,
but if we can't do it in person, then in
the world of virtual.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
We're game right.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thanks for having me and happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
So take me back Lake Worth, Florida.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Growing up, could you have imagined that you would have
had this career?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I really couldn't have.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know, music is the thing that I have loved
the most since I was a little kid.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I was that five year old little kid that my
parents would play the you know the YouTube, you know,
live concert movie and I would just like play air
guitar and sing. And I was so excited about music
ever since a little kid, and when I really got
started at eighteen, and I would bring my truck out
(01:43):
to our local ampitheter in West Palm and perform off
the back of it. My you know, goal was to
one day, you know, record something that was Nashville quality
music and you know, release it. And the fact that
we've got songs out now and you know, we get
to tour the country and do it at this level
(02:05):
has exceeded all of my expectations and I'm so grateful
every day, truly.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So do you remember that first experience though, when you
were performing in front of people?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
My first, My first performance that I had ever done
was twelve years old. It was a three hour gig
with a full band at this little bar down here,
and we played a bunch of rock songs and we
played some pop songs and a country song or two,
and man, it was I definitely got the bug for it.
(02:40):
That's for sure, And I don't know how we pulled
it off. To be honest with you.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Did you have stage fright at all?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I I was very nervous leading up, like weeks leading
up to it, so I would just rehearse like hours
and hours and hours a day. Like by the time
I got there, my fingers were like almost you know,
like the skin was coming off my fingers playing so
much guitar, you know, leading up to it. So I
wasn't super nervous at the concert, but week's leading.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Up I was.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I was pretty nervous.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And who were those real important sounds that shaped ultimately
your sound to this day?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Wow? So many. Growing up in Florida, I had that.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
It was a real kind of blessing to be surrounded
by so much music, you know, And so from a
super young age on my grandpa's boat in the ocean,
I got to hear Bob Marley, you know, which is
just something that people wouldn't expect, maybe from someone who
does country music. But Bob Marley was a very early
influence of mine. My dad is a super rock guy,
(03:46):
big metal head, so Metallica was a real early influence.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Lincoln Park is.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I still say my favorite band of all time. Lil
Wayne was a huge influence on me. I had Lollipop
as my ring tone when I was like five years old,
I think, and then yeah, as I started to kind
of find my own stuff. Florida Georgia Lines a huge
influence on me. And Jason Alden and yeah, I have
(04:14):
so many different influences.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
John Mayer. I love John Mayer.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So everything from hip hop to reggae to rock country
of course kind of make up my sound.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
So what was your experience like when you first heard
one of your songs on the radio.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It was surreal.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
The first time I got to hear it was our
local station down here played my first single, Drop a Tailgate,
and I knew it was coming on. That was the
first time I heard something on the radio, and it
was just surreal, you know, like you grew up listening
to the radio and then you hear a little you know, tag,
and they're like coming up. You know, Ryan Montgomery's new song,
Drop a Tailgate, and it comes on. You're like, whoa,
(04:53):
you know, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Were you alone when you first heard it or were
you with folks?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I wasn't. I was with my family. Yeah, I was
with my family. Yeah, so it's a really cool moment. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
How many shrieks occurred?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Lots lots, Mom. Mom was real excited. My grandma was
even in the car. Grandma was real excited.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, my sister was video and everybody was, but he
was pretty pumped.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Is really cool and you must still to this day
get tickled by it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I do, I really do. It's it's so special. You know.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Anytime what gets me is there's occasionally if I'm out
somewhere like this happened the other day at PDQ. I
was at PDQ and my song Tequila Limon Sunshine came
on like in the in the line, you know, and
You're just like, this is weird. You know, it's a
cool feeling. You know.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
How do you deal with the rigors of the road.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I I love being on the road, I really do.
It's being in the studio and being on the road
are my two favorite things. And but I think, you know,
there's a lot of uh, there's a lot of stuff
you could fall into and it can become it can
become a lot and I think for me, just having
some time in the morning to kind of get myself,
(06:08):
you know, centered and my workouts are really valuable.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And also I have really great people around me. You know.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I think the combination of those things is for me
really really really helpful to kind of stay stay on
track and be doing the right things and working hard.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
So there's people inside either your organization or your family
members absolutely are able to kind of go.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Hey, Ryan, dude, come on, you know what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Absolutely absolutely always yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
And they only have your best interest at heart.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Right, Absolutely, very very blessed for that.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So Ryan, take us inside the studio, how you approach it,
the collaborative process, how it works.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Give us the inside scoop here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Absolutely, In Nashville, it's such a cool process. What we
actually do is we get in a studio with the
session players who are just so phenomenal. They play on
everybody stuff, you know, from Luke Brian, you know, Keith
Urban to everybody, and it's all the kind of the
(07:18):
same guys. There's maybe two three four different guys that
play different instruments like you know, drums and bass and guitar, keys, steel,
et cetera. And we we kind of have a group
of songs that we know we're going to record that day,
and we get in with the players and we literally
will record the songs live as a band, and it's
such a cool experience. It's very different to the way
(07:41):
that you know they record in la and different other places.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's a we record together.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
As a band, and then after we get the song
tracked is what it's called, we'll go back in on
multiple different sessions and we'll do overdubs, so we'll do, uh,
play more guitars, and we'll play more acoustic instruments and
you know, mandolin and banjo and all these different overdub instruments.
(08:09):
And then I'll go in the studio for a few
more days and I'll sing vocals, and then we have
a background vocalist come in and do background vocals along
with my backgrounds. And then this song will get mixed
and it'll get mastered and then it'll get released.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
So it's a big it's a.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Big process, but it's really fun the way we get
to do it in Nashville with the live the live tracking.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's super cool in.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Nashville being a you know center, like you said, of
so many great studio players. Oh yeah, that are that
are unheralded. Let's harald those players and mentioned mention a
few of them by name.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Absolutely yeah, on this last group of songs that we did,
Whiskey and Smoke being the first single of I've worked
with so many amazing players, but we had on on
this session. We had Chris mckew on drums, who's nomenal.
We had Mark Hill on bass, who's absolutely unbelievable. We
had Tom Bukobak on electric guitars, who's an icon. We
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had Chris Donegan also an electric guitar. We had let's
see who else we had. We had Charlie Jo Jon Keyes,
who's phenomenal. Of course, my producer, Brandon Hood is amazing.
I don't think I had missed anybody, But yeah, those
were some of the people that were on on the
session for those last songs.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I'm glad you highlighted them. That's pretty darn cool.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And what do you learn in a session that you
kind of take to the next session. What sort of
trial and error occurs from a session that benefits your
learning experience.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I think maybe two things. One, just how talented you
know those guys are.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's it's unbelievable how good those guys are. I mean,
it's it's crazy. That's probably thing one. But thing too
is I just think it's all about when you're in
a tracking session or any kind of recording session, especially
tracking with the band, there's like that moment where you're
kind of you're kind of fishing around with stuff and
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people are playing things and you guys are kind of
throwing ideas out and then you kind of find that
that spark and that magic. And I just think it's
important to not try to rush that process or move
on too quickly or you know, or overthink it and
just keep going. It's kind of you start to find
that sound or that that thing, and when you find it,
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you can kind of take it and run with it.
And I think that's what really could create the magic
in a session like that. So I try to really
find that every session we go into and my producer
Brandon is so phenomenal at doing that.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So, yeah, you have this sense of independence about you.
Where did you get that sense of independence?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Thank you? Man? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I'm coming from a good family, I really do, and
I think that's big and I don't know, man, I
feel like, you know, I'm a Christian personally, and I
just think that, you know, I feel like we all
kind of have, you know, the inner voice or a
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way that you feel like you should do things. And
I think that, at least in my experience, the more
you listen to that a lot of times, the better
the better things go.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Do you have a position on what artificial intelligence means
to a musician?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I do, you know, I think, uh, I think it's cool.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think AI is really cool, but I think, you know,
so many people are worried about it taking over music
and whatever. And we'll see how it ends up being used,
and I think there's very valuable ways for it to
be used.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
But you know, I just don't think art is art.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What makes art art is the humanism in it, and
it's the imperfection in it, and it's the I think,
it's the authenticity, and it's the it's the.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The emotion that goes into it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And I don't think I don't think AI is ever
gonna be able to do that side of it. That's
never gonna be able to compete with the humanism of art.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
So you're on a desert island and you're able to
bring along.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Five of your favorite albums of all time? What do
you bring it along?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh my gosh, Oh that's so hard. I would probably
have to okay, ten, okay, ten man.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I would probably have to bring let's see ten, let's say,
probably Life on a Rock by Kenny Chesney. If I
was on an island, I would probably have to bring
Meteora and Hybrid Theory from Lincoln Park and probably minutes
to midnight. I would probably have to bring Course, Here's
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to the Good Times from Florida, Georgia line. I would
probably also have to bring that anything goes Out from
Florida Georgia line?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Was that six?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
You could bring along some of yours if you want.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, and then I would do that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I would fill the rest maybe with with with my
with my catalog.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's not probably be a good little mix.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, you know, a desert island, and then everyone goes, well,
how do I play them?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
There's no electricity?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Right to bring your guitar instead?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Yeah, exactly. We produce this other podcast.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
It's called Music Saved Mean, and it's about the healing
powers of music. From the standpoint of musicians. Do you
believe that music is therapeutic and has healing power.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I mean, I think everybody has felt that, you know,
one time or another. I think writing music is very
their can play music and listening to music. I really
believe music is the most powerful thing that we all have,
you know, like when you go to a concert or
you throw it on and it's such a connective experience
with other people. It doesn't matter how different you might
be from somebody else, or what you're going through in
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your life versus what they're going through. Music is just
such a connective experience. And yeah, I absolutely believe that.
And as you tour the country.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You know, we look, we have a country that's divided
all over the place. Do you observe how music is
that one unifying force?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Oh? God, yeah, yeah, it is, absolutely It is so special.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
So in closing, who would you like to collaborate with?
If you could just dream that up that you have
not collaborated with, who would be on your your wishless
for that?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Oh my gosh, that would be well, Okay, my one
of my dream collaborations would probably have to beat Man.
There's so many, but one of them, and I've always
kind of thought this my song Windows Down that I
released I Have a pe verse two where I mentioned
George straight and I mentioned Lawayne, and I just always
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thought it would be really cool to get both of
them on the song. I thought it'd be just be
so it would be a dream come true. So, George
and Wayne, if you're listening a lot, to do it.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
That'd be a mind blow, wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
It'd be pretty cool. Yeah? Wow.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Well, Ryan Montgomery, I so enjoyed having you on the
Taking a Walk podcast too. I wish you continued success
and thanks for your great spirit and your passion.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Man oh man, thank you so much. I really appreciate
you having me on.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
It was a blast.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
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