December 29, 2023 • 41 mins
If you have been following throughout the fall or are just joining in now, we appreciate you. We have much more coming in 2024 but this is the last episode of 2023.
This next artist is a Georgia native and air force veteran. He taught himself how to play guitar and write songs while enlisted. Nashville is known to be a 10 year town but in the case of this artist, he cut that in half... and then half again. Since he moved in 2022, he has been named a Sirius XM Highway Find and an accelerator artists on Sirius XM. He signed a record deal with River House Artists and Warner Music. With over 145 million global career streams, a Grand Ole Opry debut and headlining tour under his belt, it is safe to say this artist is just getting started. Please welcome Austin Snell to the podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I was going to ask if there was one country
artist that you could date, who would it be? But
you have a girlfriend, so you know what I'm going
to say to you that one Carrie?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Anyone look at that?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's your host, Chris Rudeger.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
If you've been following us along throughout the fall or
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thank our folks over at iHeart for working with us.
We have a lot more coming in twenty twenty four,
but this is the last episode to air in twenty
twenty three, so we have to close it out with
a bang.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
This next artist is a Georgia boy who was an
Air Force veteran but taught himself to learn guitar and
write songs. Well enlisted, he moves to Nashville. Nashville is
known as a ten year town, but he said, we're
gonna cut that in half, and we're gonna cut it
in half again. Because he was named a highway find
on Serious Exam, signed a record deal with Riverhouse Artists
(01:05):
and Warner and I believe has one hundred and fifty
million global career streams now, which is insane. He made
his Grand Old opry debut last month. We're gonna have
to talk about that as well as his headlining tour,
which is the Muddy Water Rockstar Tour. This guy is
absolutely crushing it. He's a good friend of mine. So
please welcome into the house. Awesome Stow's it man.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Last podcast of the year, Last podcast is a year pressure.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It is a lot of pressure, man, But I had
to I had to make make the calls to get you.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
On because we got to close out with the banks.
So oh yeah, well I appreciate you for having me man.
Oh of course I'm talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I know you're probably exhausted after your first headlining tour
this fall.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
But yeah, dude, well yeah, so I didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I didn't grow up like playing three four hour bar
gigs like a lot of the people here did. Yeah,
and so me going on a headline tour was the
first taste ahead of me playing more than thirty minute sets,
forty five minute sets. So it was a lot to learn, dude.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And when you got off with your voice just it
was shot shot. It was shot.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And that's something I didn't even think about, like playing shows,
like people talked about it and stuff in my interviews
and stuff, but I just never really thought that it
could get to that, you know, right, like just actually
like getting sleep on the road and saying, especially in
the sprinter van. Yeah, sprining van's top spriner van going
seventy five down the interstate, Dude, it's hard to get
a sleep on.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I think for a lot of people that aren't in
the industry, they forget. They just think, like tour life's
glamoroush You're in these great.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Hotels and this tour.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But I think they think that just like people just
show up to the show, like they don't they don't
know that like people drive to play the show.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, you're saying, you don't have a private jet that
can just take you to all your different shows.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What are you doing, dude?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
There's something about the club grind and with your guys.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't know how close you are with your band,
but the late hours of like being in the sprinter
and driving to the next place in the middle of nowhere,
and just like I don't know that that culture does
and it's bring you're pretty closer.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, I mean that was my main thing with like
finding my band, and I've told everybody in it, and
I was like, obviously, like they're all super talented people,
but I told them before they came on. I was like, dude, like,
I feel like you could be the most talented dude
in Nashville. But if you can't come on the road
and be cool to hang out with or like you're
causing problems, Like it's not gonna work because when you
think about it, you're you're traveling and living with these
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guys more than you're playing shows. You know, the show
is only an hour and a half long. Like the
rest of all of that is just literally you guys
sitting in the back of a van, crenched in like
freaking dude.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I had a shower today. Just yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I mean, if you can't like, you know, be chilling
and a good hang like I mean, and that's every
avenue of Nashville. I feel like, if you can't be
a good hang then that's like eighty percent of it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I feel like, dude, relationships matter, and I'm glad that
you have found found a good team and a good
band to work with.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Dude, hey man, So you grew up in Georgia, but
I was I was reading a.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Little bit about how you you enlisted and you're doing
work in the Air Force.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
How long were you there in the Air Force? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Uh well I went right after high school, which would
have been twenty sixteen. I joined and got out twenty twenties.
I did four years. I was stationed in California up
around like the Bay Area. It's chill.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, our complainings was that something that a lot of
people from your hometown were doing or what? We're not
really inspired your decision. Not really.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I always knew that I wanted to join, on top
of the fact that I wasn't getting into college at all,
Like I didn't have the money, nor did I have
anywhere near the grades to get into college.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Like I think I grastulated with like a two point four.
Yes you are against tough. It's tough. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So I knew I always wanted to do that, and
that's probably why I didn't ever try in school. Really,
I just I knew I was when I was getting out,
I was going to the Air Force or the military.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You had a plan that was maybe different than like
some other students. But yes, so that were you playing?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Were you playing guitar and singing in high school or
did that kind of start?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No. Later, I picked up a guitar in training, Uh
so I joined.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I went to basic training, which is where they yell
at you for two months, and then after basic you
go to your follow on training, which you're training for
like your job, which I was an aircraft plato or
a mechanic. So you go to your follow on and
you learn how to work on planes, and they put
you in a dorm room with like one other guy,
and we hated each other, so we never talked if
we were in the same room. I was on the
other side, and like he was on his side of
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the room, and I was just like watching videos of
people playing shows and like Ed Sheeran doing his loop pedal.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Have you ever seen him do that? Insane dude. I
saw it live. I was watching it one night at
like probably one am.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's cool as shit, brother, I'm buying a guitar. And
I bought a guitar the next day. And like we
weren't getting paid anything to be in training, Like it
was right after I joined, I was making I was
making maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Five six hundred dollars every two weeks. Damn.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
But your meals were paid for us. You don't have to,
you know, in housing. So I spent like my last
four hundred dollars I had on a on a guitar.
You're like, I got food, I got a roof, and
now four hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Frigus. Do you know what guitar was? It was like
it was a Martin Mini Minnie Martin. Yeah, there you go.
Bought that and then just I mean I was literally
just bored, dude.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I didn't like, I didn't buy a guitar thinking like, oh,
I'm going to be a songwriter or oh I'm going
to be an artist. I was just bored and wanted
to learn how to play guitar. And I always like
loved music. I feel like I had like a like
a deeper appreciation of it. I guess you'd say, than
like the people I grew up around. So I always
loved music and I just did it because I was
bored and wanted to learn something new, and I did.
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I got on YouTube and taught myself how to play it,
and I got to where I was playing like covers
like half assed, you know, And I was sending videos
to my mom and she was like, you should post
these on Facebook for our friends and family to see.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I was like, no, do that, and I.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Just kind of kept doing that, and she finally taught
me into posting a video on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's like a I don't remember what cover it was
to dig back and find this.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's probably like a simple man or something to do that.
I don't I don't know what it was that was.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That was the big moment.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, And I posted it and then like our
friends and family loved it and like they were, you know,
sharing it around and stuff. So I was like, cool,
this is like not horrible. I guess if people are
sharing it or it is horrible, it's either one or
the other. You know, it's either pretty good or it's
fucking horrible.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And they're just.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Sharing around with this funny but that's cool. That's kind
of just what I did in my free time. And
I did that, and yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Gonna say, I imagine, I mean, air Force training is
no joke, right, I'm sure that's not I'm sure they're
working you pretty hard, too hard, and now it's it's
not too hard, so you're all right. So you were,
you were, you were doing anything, you had free time,
and you were like to get a class.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It was like mainly just classes, like we'd go sit
in the class. Okay, so it is after basics, it
was after all the hard stuff. But I was going
to class at like six o'clock in the morning. We
were getting off at three, and then maybe we had
to go work out, and then you were done pretty
much for the day.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Like all right, Martin Minnie, here we go.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So we had a golf course on on base and
so he'd either play golf, read good to my room
and play guitar.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So so you were, you were, you were living it
up and learning, and then you post you post simple
Man or whatever song was. I'm sure, like you know,
people react probably like when did when did it become
like all right, I'm at Air Force training and I'm
just playing guitar to like, okay, I'm going to actually
like pursue this. Because you you made the move to
(08:23):
Nashville in what twenty twenty two, yeah, last year, Yeah,
last year, So there had to have been a moment
where you were like, yeah, I'm pretty.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Sure it was.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I mean, I think social media played a lot of
like a huge role in that as as it does
for everybody now. But like I said, like that's what
I was doing in my free time, and then I
never really started writing songs and writting my own stuff
until so that was follow on training. I was in
South Carolina for that, and then after that I moved
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to California, which is where I was like permanently stationed
at from my enlistment. But same thing, really, I mean,
it just kind of transitioned to me like learning covers
and posting it to then like let me write songs
and do the same thing. And at the time it
was just Instagram, but like soon after that, like TikTok
came around, and like I did the same thing on there.
(09:12):
I was just writing songs and posting them. And I
actually did a cover of Ray Fulcher's song Ghost and
posted it on my TikTok and Instagram and then he
reposted it onto his story and like at the time, dude,
I was in the Air Force and like didn't know
any had no connection to anything music related, Like I
didn't know anybody in Nashville, didn't know how it worked,
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didn't know anything about it other than like the interviews
that I would watch the people talking about it. But
I posted this thing and Ray reposted it, and I
remember I was freaking out, dude, Like my heart dropped
in my freaking ass, and.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I was like, you did you know who Ray Fulter? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
He made me want to start. Yeah, he made me
want to start writing songs, like I found out. When
I remember when I found out he wrote a lot
of Luke's like first big project. I was like, yeah,
let me just study this guy for a second and
like figure that out. So yeah, when I posted one
of the songs and you posted, I was like, it
was like a hero of mine like reposting it. So
he reposted it, and then the vice president of my
(10:06):
label now saw it, and this is in It's five
years ago. The president of my label now saw that
video that he reposted and followed me, reached out and
was kind of just saying, like, when you move to Nashville.
I was like, brother, I got I got three more
years in the Air Force. I'm not going anywhere. And
so he kind of just like stayed in my ear
(10:27):
about it, and like I just continued to do the
same thing. Really, I wasn't playing shows. I was just
like I said on my free time just writing songs
and posting them, and gained a little bit of a
TikTok following off of that, and had a couple of
videos do pretty well. And then yeah, he just stayed
in my ear. And when I got out, it slowly
become more of like or less of a hobby and
(10:48):
more of like what I was doing if I wasn't
doing anything air Force related.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I just fell in love with it, dude. I was like,
I don't know, I.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Was addicted to it, like if I wasn't working or
I wasn't getting drunk, was like writing songs and like
trying to do that. Did you ever throw concerts? At
Air Force training? They play around a barmfire, but like, nah,
it would have been cheesy.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I think, yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well, I'm sure not everyone in the Air Force can
just whip out a guitar and sing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So I imagine these these guys at least make.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Sure I brought a guitar to like to get togethers
and stuff. But now I was never playing shows? Did
I remember I went? I mean the first show I
played was the year before I got out of the
Air Force.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And it was.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Like a small little bar in my hometown went and
played and really other than that, like I'd never played
a show before moving to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That's wild, It's insane. Damn. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So you do move to Nashville, and you talked about
the power social media and ray sharing your stuff. I
will say I think the first I had seen, I
think a couple of your videos, but when I really
became familiar was when you had that the Cassidy the
Pope song where you do wasting all these these tiers
and you kind of put this like you have this grungy,
(12:01):
like gritty interpretation of that. Did you know that you
were going to put out that song or we sort
of like I'm just gonna It's another one of the
covers that.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I can know. I mean it was.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It was a song that like so like my take
on TikTok and like I think probably helped me get
the follow out I did is because like everybody was
doing the same thing, Like everybody was covering the same songs.
When Zach Brown put out something in the Orange, you
scroll through your feed and it was nothing but like
twenty five before you get something else, and it was
just a bunch of people covering the same stuff or
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like singing the same stuff. So like my take on
it was like I'm going to try to do songs
that like you don't hear people sing on TikTok and
like not just do the popular stuff. And that was
just one of those songs that I think I heard
on the way back home. I mean I was in
Georgia at this point, so I was out of the
Air Force. It's just one of those songs that I
heard come on my playlist and I like forgot about
it because it came out in like twenty thirteen and
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I got home and covered it and it didn't really
do anything until like I'm moved to Nashville and it
randomly popped off one day. And I always loved the song,
so like I was when we had put out it
Excuse the Mess, and we were looking for a follow up,
and I was writing a ton, but we were like,
let's just put out this cover because it was so
different and like it was such a one eighty from
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Excuse the Mess, you know, just sonically, and we wanted
to hit that early on as far as like letting
people know that I don't just do like the rock thing,
like I have, like I'm passionate about other stuff as well,
So it was it was the perfect, you know, little
thing to do following up the song that kind of
got me my start.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
One thing I'm curious to get your take on because
you know, TikTok's great and Instagram's great, but they're run
on these algorithms, so sometimes when people see something, they
want like the exact same thing. So you feel like
you almost have to like box your box yourself into
like one lane. Did you feel like did you feel
like pressure like after because excuse the mass for those
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that have a listener, if you have listen like huge
song like it's got it's got this like just this
big guitars in the chorus, like it's just fun, it's rocking,
But then you have like, I don't know, wasting all
these tears a little probably a little bit more of
the emotional side for you, Like did you feel like
the pressure to stay more in the excuse the mass
box or do you feel no, Because I think there's
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a place for all of it for me at least. Yeah,
and especially like in a time where a lot of
the people like our age grew up in a time
where iPods were a thing, and like I know, like
me growing up, I had an iPod and I listened
to literally every type of music, you know, Like I
didn't have like just country or like just rock or
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just rap. Like like my playlist went from.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Who were like your top three?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, I mean Jason Aldan was one of them, Like
he was he was on my list, and like it
would go from literally Jason Aldan to Lil Wayne to
like Rihanna to to JB and then I mean Nickelback
and Three Doors Down and like just I had everything
on my playlist. So I think, especially now, like you
shouldn't fill bucks into anything, in my opinion, because I mean,
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if it's if it's good music, I'll listen to it.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I agree, man, just.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I think to your point, it's just more accessible, right
Like when you I'd imagine, you know, back in the day,
and you're picking out a CD and you spend your
money on it, and it's like, all right, I got
that that ship to listen to. Now you mean you
go Spotify, Apple Music, get whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I love that you're blending all of those different inspirations together.
I mean that's what I think is probably making your
sound sound unique. Yeah, so that's awesome, dude. So yeah,
so you put out I mean you put out those songs?
Uh did you ever do Cassidy ever hear? Has she
heard wasting? All these started?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
For sure?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You guys, you guys played it together. I've never met her,
really never met her.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
If you're listening to this.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I think we were originally supposed to do like content
and stuff together for promotion of the song, like she was.
They were all on board with me doing the cover.
It just never happened. But I mean, well, new year,
maybe a new version of it too, did she she
just did like Cassidy's version or something. Really, are you
going to follow up and do Austin?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Probably not? Were called drus on that right? Yeah, I'm good.
I love what I needed to do. I'm cool.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah yeah, you're like, well, dude, it set you up
for this, you know, the next year of your life,
which is a massive EP, a big headlining tour, and uh,
a grand old opera debut, which we're gonna have to
talk about.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
We're gonna be uh, we're gonna be right back here
on the six one five hours podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
What is up? Guys?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We are back six one five hours podcast my buddy
Austin Snell in the house. Coming off a huge year.
They say Nashville is a ten year town and you,
I mean literally the past year, you have gone from
here to here.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You get to play one of.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
The biggest stages, the Grand Old Opery last month.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, what was that? Like? Well, I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I mean, I'll just say that, but I mean, first off,
I'm I've never taken for granted. I'm super blessed to
be where I'm at and I'm super blessed to have
had this happen as fast as it has. But I
mean I've had to learn a lot in the last year.
And that's like I feel like, not what a lot
of people think of when they think of somebody just
doing that, is like there's so much stuff that you
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have to learn, like on the fly, because like I
said earlier, I like didn't grow up playing the three
hour bar gigs and on Broadway, and you know, didn't
know how the music industry worked at all when I
moved to town, and it kind of just had I
had to be thrown into the fire a little bit,
so which I prefer to learn that way anyway. I
learned best when I just kind of have to figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, if you could.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
If there was one hurdle, because you grew so fast
this past year, imagine you've being thrown a bunch of stuff.
If there's one, what was the biggest hurdle you felt
like you had to.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Overcome trying to blend the business side of things and
with the emotional side of things. I feel like and
I feel like the music industry is so like one
of one in the fact of like it's built off
of emotions pretty much, you know, Like I mean, people
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are like pouring their hearts out in these songs, but
it's also a business. And it like took me a
little while to figure out, like and like even understand that,
like Okay, yeah, I'm making my music and like I'm
pouring my heart out and like I'm speaking how I
feel and it's like a therapy thing for me. And
that's how it started for being with therapy to like, now, Okay,
I'm kind of somewhat in a way running my business
(18:40):
and you have people on your payroll and like you're
paying these people to do certain things, and like, yeah,
it was just a weird little thing to kind of
come across, and I didn't never think about it. I
didn't think it would have to ever be that, but yeah,
probably that that'd probably have to be it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Man, it's interesting to hear because from an outsider, you
see megastar and then you don't see a lot of
the people that are in the trenches and growing, and
you forget, like I think it's this cool thing that's
fun to do.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And then you boil it down. You go, wait, no,
I have people to end it on it.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I have you know, in today's world, you got to
hit certain metrics and the data is so important, right which,
and then you got to wrestle that with the fact
that you still want to put out stuff that you
care about.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I mean, the worst thing you do.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Is and even just to still like stay motivated to
do like what you originally want to do, cause like
I mean, I know, at least for like in my perspective,
like I didn't get into music to make money. I
got into music because I enjoyed music and I love
music and like to keep that at the forefront of
everything while also trying to like have a business mindset
and like like strategize on what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's like kind of a task.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
But I mean I think as long as you can
remember like why you originally started doing it, you'll be fine.
But yeah, that was definitely a hurdle for sure. But yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well the topic of the opera, Yeah, we did play
the opera this year. Yeah, unreal.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
It was unreal, dude, it was I mean, were you nervous?
I was shaking out of my boots.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Brother, Yeah, I would be too.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And like it's such a weird little experience, dude, because
like I'd obviously never seen anything happen backstage at the
opera before. I didn't know how it worked. But like
when you do your debut, you walk out and like
these cameras are waiting on you when you show up
to the to the door, and like they're like, okay, cool,
it's like a TV show. It's like out of the
reality show. And you walk up and they're like, okay, cool,
we're gonna walk up. We're gonna get a shot of
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you looking up at the sign. You're just gonna take
it in and like okay, cool, cut, We're gonna have
you walk twenty more feet and like get the shot
of you like walking up the little the walkway and
like you're gonna walk in like security guys gonna hand
you a little pant foot and cut cool, like walk
five more feet, we're gonna get this shot here, and like,
up until I walked on stage at the Opery, there
was zero time for like me to like actually just
(20:48):
sit sitting like which is probably a good thing to
be honest with you did like the fact that I
didn't have a lot of time to think about like
the gravity of what was about to happen was probably best. Yeah,
honestly because I walked on stage and that we were
sitting side of stage and then uh, stage got turns
and he's like, all right, brother, good to go, and
you walk on stage and like we just plugged in
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like got us quick little like line check and then
we were off and you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That's unreal, man.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I think they probably keep you busy for that reason,
where you know, it's such a great experience, but hopefully
when you do step in that circle, you have kind
of a moment take in. I do want to I
want to show this one grand old Opry clip.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
No matter what you're struggling with in life, whether that's heartbreak, anxiety, depression,
any sort of mental health.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
God has got you every.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Step of the way, and I promise you that. And I,
for one of have struggled with self confidence my whole life. Man,
I've struggled with believing in myself and believing that I
belong in what I'm doing, and honestly, looking out here
tonight man, my mom and my parents are here, my brother,
my fans, my friends, my family. I can honestly say
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looking out tonight man, for once in my life, and finally,
I feel like I belonged somewhere. I feel like I
belong in country music and it's all thanks to God.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Man, you get pretty emotional and you talk about mental health,
self confidence, and then you also talk about your faith
in your relationship with God.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
What is What does that mean to you? Means everything, dude.
I mean.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I so my mom raised me in the church, like
we I grew up going to church, But I feel
like I didn't never really think about what that really
meant until I had to kind of find it on
my own, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And like when you.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Move out of your hometown when you're you know, just
graduated from high school, never had to figure anything out
like I had everything done for me, Like my clothes
were washed and my food was on the table, and
like thankfully, you know, I was blessed to have have
parents that you know, provided for me and like did
the best they could. But like I mean I never
had to experience life, and like it was just cut
(23:00):
off like that, you know, like right after high school,
I went in and then you're on your own. You
learn a lot. You learn a lot and had to
figure a lot of stuff out. And I mean mental
health is the reason why I got into songwriting anyway,
because I'm not the most you know, vocal guy. I'm
not a center of the room guy. Like I don't,
like it's hard for me to have those deep conversations
(23:23):
with just a random person. And so that's why I
got into songwriting. Was like I could just kind of
dump all of that out and like I didn't have
to really talk about it. I could just dump it
all out in the song and then like Okay, I
got that off my chest.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, it was a different view. I mean it was
literally therapy for me.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And I mean going through breakups and like going through
like you know, financial struggles and you know, anxiety and
all this and that like, that's how I was getting
that off of my chest, was just through the songs
that I was writing, and so yeah, it's super important
to me.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Dud. Yeah. Man, well this, I mean, I think this
clip sums it up.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I mean, you're clearly emotional and you talk about you know,
trusting and believing in God and how that has led
you to where you are now. And hopefully you're more
confident with the fact you know you as a person
and your abilities with music, man, because people are clearly
connecting to it. So absolutely well man, for those that well,
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for those that don't know Austin, Austin did put out
an EP.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Muddywater Rockstar. We did do this.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It's got some killer songs on it, dude, and you
just got off your headlining tour.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You guys got to check that out.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I want to talk about another smaller or a three
song project that you put out this year, which is
called Songs from My Phone.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
My favorite song Things I Shouldn't Do is a ripper.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But you put out the song like lines and there's
intro and it's like I'm at eleven percent battery, like
let's rip this or whatever, Like it seemed like you
guys recorded those and then just put them out like
the next day, Like what was the I feel like
it was so quick from the writing process to just
like it felt so authentic, like it was like day
one day.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
What was the thought possis? Well, they were, I mean
they were technically demos. Like the songs that got put
out on Spotify were demos. They were beefed up a
little bit, like we sent them and got them like
you know, like brushed off. But like the songs that
came out were like the demos that I had sitting
in my phone, which is why we named it Songs
from my Phone because it was literally just you know,
(25:21):
like what I had in my phone. And like, we
went into a song meeting and I was I think
I was. I was pretty newly signed at Warner and
we had our song meeting and we were trying to
figure out you know, like really schedule and what we
were gonna do, and like we had big plans for
like everything, but I was like, I want to get
music out as fast as possible, and like that's one
thing that I'm pretty set on.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
It's like having a pretty steady release schedule.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
And and when I write something, I love like just
putting it out. And so we were going around the
room just kind of fishing around ideas and how we
were going to like market that and figure that out.
And we were kind of just like we'd have these
songs like that I wrote that I love and like
for no particular reason, like it doesn't fit any sort
of you know, storyline.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It just was there were three songs that I fell
in love with and love listening to them, so I
was like, and I loved them the way they were.
What I loved about it was it felt like.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You were using Spotify or Apple Music as like a
canvas or a feed, just like you would like TikTok
or Instagram. I think right now we're consuming so much
music and our attention span is so short that you
don't you might post something. If you don't put it
out for two months, people might forget about it, and
I think, like in your case, it was like, hey, guys,
(26:39):
I wrote this, I want to put it out right.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Now, like go check it out. It just felt very authentic.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Do you and you mentioned in your release strategy, you
know you do you feel like do you feel like
every artist should be putting out more music. Where do
you stand?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I mean, it depends on where you're at, obviously, if
you can afford to put out and me, like I mean,
when I moved to town, I couldn't afford it, you know,
like I was broken, like didn't have a job and
was living off with a little bit of savings account
that I had, But I moved here because I wanted
to do it as full time as I could. When
I moved here, like I just like refrained from getting
a job as long as possible and thank god that
like by the time i'd run out of money, like
(27:20):
I had had some success and like signed my publishing
deal and that was kind of just my first job
in Nashville. But yeah, like if if I could do it,
then I would. Yeah, I would put out as much
music as as I could. But for me, and like
where I was financially at the time when we wrote
Excuse and Mess, like I didn't have the money to
put that song out at all. Yeah, So like I mean,
(27:44):
I spent like the last bit of money I had
on like the hopes of this song doing well.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You're like, this isn't like I wanted to do well.
It's a it happened.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Well yeah, And I mean it's funny because like I
put that song out, and like I was literally like
about to start a job at Amazon. And I went
from my interview at Amazon into my training and like
drove the big like box truck and had to back
through like twenty cones and stuff. Yeah, left that went
directly to Riverhouse, which is my publishing label, and had
(28:15):
a meeting because they you know, had saw Excuse a
Mess and like love with like the sound that we
were going for and like it was different and cool.
But the only info that I had on that meeting
was like, and I had taken like some publishing meetings before,
like I had talked to some people, and so I
knew pretty much what I thought I was going to expect.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
My I got there was just like, oh, what are
your goals? Like cool? Okay, cool, We'll keep an eye
on you.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
And so I went from Amazon and went to Riverhouse
and they offered me a deal on the spot.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Wow. And so I mean I never had to have
really a job here. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It was down to the wire, but it was which
was perfect timing because I mean, with Excuse the Mess
doing as well as it did, like, I didn't want
to let that just fluster out and like disappear.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
The way it needed to be done was, you know,
the way we did it, which was you have this song, Okay,
now let's keep this going and keep the momentum invest
back in, which I didn't have the money to do
so like, which was why it was. I mean a
blessing that it worked out the way it did in
like the timing of things.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's that's amazing, dude. I love that story. I want
to talk more about music in a little bit, but
I do. H. We've been doing this new segment. I
think Austin's a good canon for it. What do you
think producer mats not in this had a little bit. Uh,
here's the way this works, all right, this is this
is ranked five these five things. This segment's very very simple.
(29:43):
You got to rank these five things one through five,
but you don't know what comes next. So for example,
if we were ranking water, I said, Fiji, you could
put it one through five and put it up three,
but you don't know the next water it's coming. Okay, okay,
rank these five things without knowing what comes next.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
And the category is fast food first up. We have
Chick fil A.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Three, one through five, right, yeah, three, you're you're quick
with that, all right, you're saving you're saving some spots.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Uh Taco Bell. Mm hmm, I'm gonna go smooth four
on Taco Bell. Okay, Chick fil A over Taco Bell.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
What about raising canes Chicken? You know you've had raisin canes?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, they got one in Nashville now too. I don't
I might get that for lunch. Yeah, I don't want
to put a number five. Can't be five. I'm good,
I gotta go three. You already had Chick fil A
at three, two, two, all right. We got two for
raising Canes, three for Chick fil A, four for Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
We got Burger King. That's five for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Did he do this right? He's got one spot left.
It has to be the one. The last one on
the list was Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Did I mean? That's pretty sick?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I actually I actually left it last because I was
I was reading beforehead. Uh, your manager him and I
were talking, and he had he had said that Crackerbarell
was one of your favorite.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
So that was pretty it was pretty well died. I
respect that. I used to work at burger King. First job.
No wonder you put it at five. Get that out
of here, swear.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
My manager used to send me to the freezer like
every day, like after the first day, she sent me
to the freezer to organize boxes. Yeah, and like I
was back, Like she would let me out of the
freezer all day. She didn't lock me in, but like
she's like, you have this to do, and like if
it's not done, then like you're fired. But she's like,
so You'm not. Just want to bring your jacket to
work every day. So I just have this thing for.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Burger King now, I just yeah, you just won't go there.
Screw the junior Whopper. Yeah, well it is.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
We got one more round here, and that's because it
is the holiday season. I'm hoping that you've seen all these,
but we're going to do this rank these five.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Without knowing what comes next.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
In the category is holiday Christmas music, movies movies movies. Okay,
first one is the Polar Express.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Have you seen it? I'm gonna go four.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okay, There's there are some other good ones on the list.
I like that take Home Alone Original Home Alone number one.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Dude, it's unreal.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
There's a lot of controversy about this, but die hard
because it is a Christmas movie. I haven't seen it, dude,
never seen it. I mean I've heard the word die hard. Yeah, dude,
it's an unbelievable movie. You get to watch it. That's
what you're gonna do when you have your time off.
It is a Christmas movie. Some people say it's not,
but it is a Christmas movie. I stand by that. Okay,
(32:43):
we'll put that as well. We'll put that at three.
I guess how the Grinch stole Christmas?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
M M. You got two and five left. Those are
your spots. It's gotta go two. And this is a movie.
Grinch is a good movie. I like that take.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
The only problem is the last one on the list
was Alf, and you just buried Alf at number five.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It wouldn't have been number one.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I wouldn't have put at one, all right, If you
stand by that, yeah, it wouldn't have been number five.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
But yeah, yeah, we can review the tan and figure
out where where we need to adjust.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, streen on that one, die Hard.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
That's what happens when you don't know what comes next
to that was well done. I think your I think
your Fast Food game was pretty solid. I thought the movies. Well,
we'll talk about that offline, because I have a bone
to pick with you about how you haven't seen Diehard.
All right, guys, we're gonna be right back here on
six and five House Podcasts with Austin Snell. What's up, guys,
(33:39):
We're back Austin Snell in the House. Last podcast of
twenty twenty three for us, but speaking of big things
in twenty twenty four, many more podcast episodes are coming,
and also speaking of twenty twenty four for Austin Snell,
many more shows.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Right, what's what's the deal for twenty twenty four? You're
going on to our Yeah, we're doing a lot of shit, dude.
I mean we're we played what eighty I think they
said eighty shows this year. Next year's gonna be even bigger.
We're doing Chase Matthews in February.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Let's go Chase body.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I think we're doing fifteen shows with them, and then
freaking Jason Iwdan in July.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, we're first to four on Jason.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
So when you got that, when you got that call,
well walk me through, dude.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I mean, Jason is like God in Georgia. So like,
of course, I mean, Jason is the guy that you
look up to, Like he's like the hero of Georgia.
Like he's from Making, which is thirty minutes from where
I'm from, and he's the dude that made it out
and like my mom was a huge fan, my dad's
a huge fan. I was a huge fan. Yeah, So
I mean, dude, to get that call was like unreal. Yeah,
I feel like I feel like I belonged. Like I
(34:49):
also feel like I have no clue how the hell
this happened.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
No, you shouldn't feel like you belong and you deserve it,
but it's still it's a crazy opportunity and one that
I know you're gonna capitalize on.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Are you playing in Georgia on that.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
On that run, we're playing to Macon. We're doing Making show.
That's unreal. I love Making. I actually went down to Macon.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Do you like Making?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well, I have a hilarious story. Then probably shouldn't, shouldn't
live on this podcast. But I went down to Macon.
I played at a bar called Crazy Bowl. You know
what I'm talking about. Yeah, And let's just say the university, Well,
there were some college kids out that night and it
ended with me on the side of a street later.
(35:29):
But again, we're this is a family friendly podcast, so
we'll move on. It's not about me, It's about Austin,
all right. So you got dates with Chase Matthew, you
got dates with Jason Aldan. I assume you got new
music coming out too as well. We're working on a
lot of the Yeah, yeah, any plans for an album
or are you kind of still sticking to I think
that's yeah, that's what we're working towards. Working towards an
album with some releases in the tween there for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
But yeah, ude, we've been I've been running my face
off the last two months. We got off the tour
a couple of months ago, and I'm glad that I've
finally gotten to dive back into the writing things, because
I mean, I was writing dearing the tour, like I
was coming off the road. But like you come off
the road and get home, you know, at like four
o'clock in the morning on a Monday, and then you
(36:14):
ride on a Tuesday and Wednesday, and then you leave
Thursday to play shows again, it's hard to kind of
like stay in that mindset.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
So I mean, you're busy man.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, so we'll we're dialed back a little bit now
and let's get more time to focus on that.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
So I'm I'm enjoying that. Yeah, dude, I can't wait
for the new music.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I definitely am looking to catch you on on this
tour next year as well.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I gotta ask h.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Dms have to be flooded, all right, they're all right,
yeah there are Yeah, what's uh what's the uh what's
the lady situation going on for Austin Cell right now?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, I mean I got girlfriends. I look at that.
He's a he's a he's a he's a family man.
I like that. That's fair. But uh no, dude, the
dms are wild.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I mean as far as yeah, give me give as
far as everything else as well, Like I mean, they're
just wild in general. Like I mean, I mean, people
like spill their whole life story in dms. So like
every now and then I'll scroll through and I read
some and like, I mean, you got a few minutes free,
You're like, oh, check out the DM.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yeah yeah, but I mean he's the craziest DM you've
ever gotten.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Probably all of your relatives coming back out, you know,
like people you've never heard of, or like this dude
that says I know your your dad or like your
your mom, like we're related. Yeah, and you ask around
and nobody has any clue that is yeah, So I
mean probably, I mean there's been some We'll have to
talk about that, probably off camera, but yeah, you have to.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Go to like ancestry dot com and fact check these
people that are in your in your dms.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Well okay, well that that takes away from my next
question because I was going to ask if there was
one country artist that you could date, who would it be?
Speaker 2 (37:55):
But you have a girlfriend, so you know what, I'm
gonna save you that one. Carrie Underwood.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
But you have a pack where you got it? Yeah,
we're good. I love that. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Well, we do have one segment presented by a good
friends at area. I'm wearing their sweater right now. They
got some awesome apparel country Western apparel. And this segment
is super easy. Uh. It is called rapid fire Questions.
Someone tells me you're gonna be able to handle this.
Maybe it's from from all your your training and in
the Air Force, just you you're able to deal with
the pressure because this is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
I'm throwing you these questions no matter what hits. I
just need I need rapid fire answers.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Are we ready? Three? Two? One? Most embarrassing thing at
a live.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Show forgetting the words? Probably scale of one to ten.
How good are you at keeping secrets?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
None? Are you a talker or a texter? Mm? Texture?
Do you wear boots or sneakers? More? That was a lot?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Sorry, he takes it back right, boots are sneakers sneakers?
If Baltimore offered you a hug, would you accept it?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Yes? Or no? I agree it is double dipping loud?
Yes or no? No?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Would you rather cudd old baby panda or a baby penguin?
Peng penguins are so cute. If Kim Kardashian and Donald
Trump were both drowning and you can only save one.
If Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump were both drowning, but
you can only save one.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Who would it be Trump jump? If you could? Uh,
that's amazing. I don't even know what else. Oh a
dream venue right Bridge Stone? Hell? Yeah, Nashville, baby, I
love that. And let's see dream collaboration post belone. Fuck.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah, you might be doing country stuff now, which is
pretty cool to do his stuff though you want to
do you can make his stuff anything, but I want to.
I want like a post Malone Class Snail post Malone
twenty twenty four. I'm here for it. That was is
wrapping area. There were some good ones in there that
was awesome. You did not You did not came into
the pressure man that was solid.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
That was solid.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Well out some of that that was too funny. All right, man,
it's been awesome following your journey. Thanks for thanks for
hopping on.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
The year.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Everyone can check you out across socials and awesome Snell online.
Big tour next year, which I can't wait for anything
else I'm missing.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Man, I don't think so. Brother.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You gotta come out to some of them though, I
would love to. Would I would really love to. Yeah,
where are you from?
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Aga?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I'm from Boston, Massachusetts, So I don't know if you
guys are going up there, but out there at some point,
I'm sure. I'm sure you will be dude, you got
I mean imagine you guys are gonna do another big
run next year off the Chasing and Jason dates as well.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
But if not maybe down and Macon Crazy Bull Brother. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Thanks again to our friends here at iHeart for making
this happen. Thanks to everyone that's hopped on on twenty
twenty three. It's been a pretty crazy run of guests
and twenty twenty four is just going to be bigger
and better. It's also going to be bigger and better
for Austin, so make sure you guys check them out
and once again, Austin's Now.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Thanks Bro, appreciate you.
Okay, Well that takes away from my next question because
I was going to ask if there was one country
artist that you could date, who would it be? But
you have a girlfriend, so you know what I'm going
to say to you that one Carrie?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Anyone look at that?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hey, guys, thanks for tuning in to the six one
five hours podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's your host, Chris Rudeger.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
If you've been following us along throughout the fall or
just joining now, we do appreciate you. I want to
thank our folks over at iHeart for working with us.
We have a lot more coming in twenty twenty four,
but this is the last episode to air in twenty
twenty three, so we have to close it out with
a bang.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
This next artist is a Georgia boy who was an
Air Force veteran but taught himself to learn guitar and
write songs. Well enlisted, he moves to Nashville. Nashville is
known as a ten year town, but he said, we're
gonna cut that in half, and we're gonna cut it
in half again. Because he was named a highway find
on Serious Exam, signed a record deal with Riverhouse Artists
(01:05):
and Warner and I believe has one hundred and fifty
million global career streams now, which is insane. He made
his Grand Old opry debut last month. We're gonna have
to talk about that as well as his headlining tour,
which is the Muddy Water Rockstar Tour. This guy is
absolutely crushing it. He's a good friend of mine. So
please welcome into the house. Awesome Stow's it man.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Last podcast of the year, Last podcast is a year pressure.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
It is a lot of pressure, man, But I had
to I had to make make the calls to get you.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
On because we got to close out with the banks.
So oh yeah, well I appreciate you for having me man.
Oh of course I'm talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I know you're probably exhausted after your first headlining tour
this fall.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
But yeah, dude, well yeah, so I didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I didn't grow up like playing three four hour bar
gigs like a lot of the people here did. Yeah,
and so me going on a headline tour was the
first taste ahead of me playing more than thirty minute sets,
forty five minute sets. So it was a lot to learn, dude.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And when you got off with your voice just it
was shot shot. It was shot.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And that's something I didn't even think about, like playing shows,
like people talked about it and stuff in my interviews
and stuff, but I just never really thought that it
could get to that, you know, right, like just actually
like getting sleep on the road and saying, especially in
the sprinter van. Yeah, sprining van's top spriner van going
seventy five down the interstate, Dude, it's hard to get
a sleep on.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I think for a lot of people that aren't in
the industry, they forget. They just think, like tour life's
glamoroush You're in these great.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Hotels and this tour.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But I think they think that just like people just
show up to the show, like they don't they don't
know that like people drive to play the show.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, you're saying, you don't have a private jet that
can just take you to all your different shows.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What are you doing, dude?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
There's something about the club grind and with your guys.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I don't know how close you are with your band,
but the late hours of like being in the sprinter
and driving to the next place in the middle of nowhere,
and just like I don't know that that culture does
and it's bring you're pretty closer.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, I mean that was my main thing with like
finding my band, and I've told everybody in it, and
I was like, obviously, like they're all super talented people,
but I told them before they came on. I was like, dude, like,
I feel like you could be the most talented dude
in Nashville. But if you can't come on the road
and be cool to hang out with or like you're
causing problems, Like it's not gonna work because when you
think about it, you're you're traveling and living with these
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guys more than you're playing shows. You know, the show
is only an hour and a half long. Like the
rest of all of that is just literally you guys
sitting in the back of a van, crenched in like
freaking dude.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, I had a shower today. Just yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I mean, if you can't like, you know, be chilling
and a good hang like I mean, and that's every
avenue of Nashville. I feel like, if you can't be
a good hang then that's like eighty percent of it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I feel like, dude, relationships matter, and I'm glad that
you have found found a good team and a good
band to work with.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Dude, hey man, So you grew up in Georgia, but
I was I was reading a.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Little bit about how you you enlisted and you're doing
work in the Air Force.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
How long were you there in the Air Force? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Uh well I went right after high school, which would
have been twenty sixteen. I joined and got out twenty twenties.
I did four years. I was stationed in California up
around like the Bay Area. It's chill.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, our complainings was that something that a lot of
people from your hometown were doing or what? We're not
really inspired your decision. Not really.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I always knew that I wanted to join, on top
of the fact that I wasn't getting into college at all,
Like I didn't have the money, nor did I have
anywhere near the grades to get into college.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Like I think I grastulated with like a two point four.
Yes you are against tough. It's tough. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So I knew I always wanted to do that, and
that's probably why I didn't ever try in school. Really,
I just I knew I was when I was getting out,
I was going to the Air Force or the military.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You had a plan that was maybe different than like
some other students. But yes, so that were you playing?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Were you playing guitar and singing in high school or
did that kind of start?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No. Later, I picked up a guitar in training, Uh
so I joined.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I went to basic training, which is where they yell
at you for two months, and then after basic you
go to your follow on training, which you're training for
like your job, which I was an aircraft plato or
a mechanic. So you go to your follow on and
you learn how to work on planes, and they put
you in a dorm room with like one other guy,
and we hated each other, so we never talked if
we were in the same room. I was on the
other side, and like he was on his side of
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the room, and I was just like watching videos of
people playing shows and like Ed Sheeran doing his loop pedal.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Have you ever seen him do that? Insane dude. I
saw it live. I was watching it one night at
like probably one am.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's cool as shit, brother, I'm buying a guitar. And
I bought a guitar the next day. And like we
weren't getting paid anything to be in training, Like it
was right after I joined, I was making I was
making maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Five six hundred dollars every two weeks. Damn.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
But your meals were paid for us. You don't have to,
you know, in housing. So I spent like my last
four hundred dollars I had on a on a guitar.
You're like, I got food, I got a roof, and
now four hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Frigus. Do you know what guitar was? It was like
it was a Martin Mini Minnie Martin. Yeah, there you go.
Bought that and then just I mean I was literally
just bored, dude.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I didn't like, I didn't buy a guitar thinking like, oh,
I'm going to be a songwriter or oh I'm going
to be an artist. I was just bored and wanted
to learn how to play guitar. And I always like
loved music. I feel like I had like a like
a deeper appreciation of it. I guess you'd say, than
like the people I grew up around. So I always
loved music and I just did it because I was
bored and wanted to learn something new, and I did.
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I got on YouTube and taught myself how to play it,
and I got to where I was playing like covers
like half assed, you know, And I was sending videos
to my mom and she was like, you should post
these on Facebook for our friends and family to see.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I was like, no, do that, and I.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Just kind of kept doing that, and she finally taught
me into posting a video on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's like a I don't remember what cover it was
to dig back and find this.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's probably like a simple man or something to do that.
I don't I don't know what it was that was.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That was the big moment.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, And I posted it and then like our
friends and family loved it and like they were, you know,
sharing it around and stuff. So I was like, cool,
this is like not horrible. I guess if people are
sharing it or it is horrible, it's either one or
the other. You know, it's either pretty good or it's
fucking horrible.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And they're just.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Sharing around with this funny but that's cool. That's kind
of just what I did in my free time. And
I did that, and yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Gonna say, I imagine, I mean, air Force training is
no joke, right, I'm sure that's not I'm sure they're
working you pretty hard, too hard, and now it's it's
not too hard, so you're all right. So you were,
you were, you were doing anything, you had free time,
and you were like to get a class.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It was like mainly just classes, like we'd go sit
in the class. Okay, so it is after basics, it
was after all the hard stuff. But I was going
to class at like six o'clock in the morning. We
were getting off at three, and then maybe we had
to go work out, and then you were done pretty
much for the day.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Like all right, Martin Minnie, here we go.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So we had a golf course on on base and
so he'd either play golf, read good to my room
and play guitar.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So so you were, you were, you were living it
up and learning, and then you post you post simple
Man or whatever song was. I'm sure, like you know,
people react probably like when did when did it become
like all right, I'm at Air Force training and I'm
just playing guitar to like, okay, I'm going to actually
like pursue this. Because you you made the move to
(08:23):
Nashville in what twenty twenty two, yeah, last year, Yeah,
last year, So there had to have been a moment
where you were like, yeah, I'm pretty.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Sure it was.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I mean, I think social media played a lot of
like a huge role in that as as it does
for everybody now. But like I said, like that's what
I was doing in my free time, and then I
never really started writing songs and writting my own stuff
until so that was follow on training. I was in
South Carolina for that, and then after that I moved
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to California, which is where I was like permanently stationed
at from my enlistment. But same thing, really, I mean,
it just kind of transitioned to me like learning covers
and posting it to then like let me write songs
and do the same thing. And at the time it
was just Instagram, but like soon after that, like TikTok
came around, and like I did the same thing on there.
(09:12):
I was just writing songs and posting them. And I
actually did a cover of Ray Fulcher's song Ghost and
posted it on my TikTok and Instagram and then he
reposted it onto his story and like at the time, dude,
I was in the Air Force and like didn't know
any had no connection to anything music related, Like I
didn't know anybody in Nashville, didn't know how it worked,
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didn't know anything about it other than like the interviews
that I would watch the people talking about it. But
I posted this thing and Ray reposted it, and I
remember I was freaking out, dude, Like my heart dropped
in my freaking ass, and.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I was like, you did you know who Ray Fulter? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
He made me want to start. Yeah, he made me
want to start writing songs, like I found out. When
I remember when I found out he wrote a lot
of Luke's like first big project. I was like, yeah,
let me just study this guy for a second and
like figure that out. So yeah, when I posted one
of the songs and you posted, I was like, it
was like a hero of mine like reposting it. So
he reposted it, and then the vice president of my
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label now saw it, and this is in It's five
years ago. The president of my label now saw that
video that he reposted and followed me, reached out and
was kind of just saying, like, when you move to Nashville.
I was like, brother, I got I got three more
years in the Air Force. I'm not going anywhere. And
so he kind of just like stayed in my ear
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about it, and like I just continued to do the
same thing. Really, I wasn't playing shows. I was just
like I said on my free time just writing songs
and posting them, and gained a little bit of a
TikTok following off of that, and had a couple of
videos do pretty well. And then yeah, he just stayed
in my ear. And when I got out, it slowly
become more of like or less of a hobby and
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more of like what I was doing if I wasn't
doing anything air Force related.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I just fell in love with it, dude. I was like,
I don't know, I.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Was addicted to it, like if I wasn't working or
I wasn't getting drunk, was like writing songs and like
trying to do that. Did you ever throw concerts? At
Air Force training? They play around a barmfire, but like, nah,
it would have been cheesy.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I think, yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well, I'm sure not everyone in the Air Force can
just whip out a guitar and sing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So I imagine these these guys at least make.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Sure I brought a guitar to like to get togethers
and stuff. But now I was never playing shows? Did
I remember I went? I mean the first show I
played was the year before I got out of the
Air Force.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And it was.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Like a small little bar in my hometown went and
played and really other than that, like I'd never played
a show before moving to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That's wild, It's insane. Damn. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So you do move to Nashville, and you talked about
the power social media and ray sharing your stuff. I
will say I think the first I had seen, I
think a couple of your videos, but when I really
became familiar was when you had that the Cassidy the
Pope song where you do wasting all these these tiers
and you kind of put this like you have this grungy,
(12:01):
like gritty interpretation of that. Did you know that you
were going to put out that song or we sort
of like I'm just gonna It's another one of the
covers that.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I can know. I mean it was.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It was a song that like so like my take
on TikTok and like I think probably helped me get
the follow out I did is because like everybody was
doing the same thing, Like everybody was covering the same songs.
When Zach Brown put out something in the Orange, you
scroll through your feed and it was nothing but like
twenty five before you get something else, and it was
just a bunch of people covering the same stuff or
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like singing the same stuff. So like my take on
it was like I'm going to try to do songs
that like you don't hear people sing on TikTok and
like not just do the popular stuff. And that was
just one of those songs that I think I heard
on the way back home. I mean I was in
Georgia at this point, so I was out of the
Air Force. It's just one of those songs that I
heard come on my playlist and I like forgot about
it because it came out in like twenty thirteen and
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I got home and covered it and it didn't really
do anything until like I'm moved to Nashville and it
randomly popped off one day. And I always loved the song,
so like I was when we had put out it
Excuse the Mess, and we were looking for a follow up,
and I was writing a ton, but we were like,
let's just put out this cover because it was so
different and like it was such a one eighty from
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Excuse the Mess, you know, just sonically, and we wanted
to hit that early on as far as like letting
people know that I don't just do like the rock thing,
like I have, like I'm passionate about other stuff as well,
So it was it was the perfect, you know, little
thing to do following up the song that kind of
got me my start.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
One thing I'm curious to get your take on because
you know, TikTok's great and Instagram's great, but they're run
on these algorithms, so sometimes when people see something, they
want like the exact same thing. So you feel like
you almost have to like box your box yourself into
like one lane. Did you feel like did you feel
like pressure like after because excuse the mass for those
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that have a listener, if you have listen like huge
song like it's got it's got this like just this
big guitars in the chorus, like it's just fun, it's rocking,
But then you have like, I don't know, wasting all
these tears a little probably a little bit more of
the emotional side for you, Like did you feel like
the pressure to stay more in the excuse the mass
box or do you feel no, Because I think there's
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a place for all of it for me at least. Yeah,
and especially like in a time where a lot of
the people like our age grew up in a time
where iPods were a thing, and like I know, like
me growing up, I had an iPod and I listened
to literally every type of music, you know, Like I
didn't have like just country or like just rock or
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just rap. Like like my playlist went from.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Who were like your top three?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, I mean Jason Aldan was one of them, Like
he was he was on my list, and like it
would go from literally Jason Aldan to Lil Wayne to
like Rihanna to to JB and then I mean Nickelback
and Three Doors Down and like just I had everything
on my playlist. So I think, especially now, like you
shouldn't fill bucks into anything, in my opinion, because I mean,
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if it's if it's good music, I'll listen to it.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I agree, man, just.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I think to your point, it's just more accessible, right
Like when you I'd imagine, you know, back in the day,
and you're picking out a CD and you spend your
money on it, and it's like, all right, I got
that that ship to listen to. Now you mean you
go Spotify, Apple Music, get whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I love that you're blending all of those different inspirations together.
I mean that's what I think is probably making your
sound sound unique. Yeah, so that's awesome, dude. So yeah,
so you put out I mean you put out those songs?
Uh did you ever do Cassidy ever hear? Has she
heard wasting? All these started?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
For sure?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
You guys, you guys played it together. I've never met her,
really never met her.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
If you're listening to this.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I think we were originally supposed to do like content
and stuff together for promotion of the song, like she was.
They were all on board with me doing the cover.
It just never happened. But I mean, well, new year,
maybe a new version of it too, did she she
just did like Cassidy's version or something. Really, are you
going to follow up and do Austin?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Probably not? Were called drus on that right? Yeah, I'm good.
I love what I needed to do. I'm cool.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah yeah, you're like, well, dude, it set you up
for this, you know, the next year of your life,
which is a massive EP, a big headlining tour, and uh,
a grand old opera debut, which we're gonna have to
talk about.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
We're gonna be uh, we're gonna be right back here
on the six one five hours podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
What is up? Guys?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We are back six one five hours podcast my buddy
Austin Snell in the house. Coming off a huge year.
They say Nashville is a ten year town and you,
I mean literally the past year, you have gone from
here to here.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You get to play one of.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
The biggest stages, the Grand Old Opery last month.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, what was that? Like? Well, I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I mean, I'll just say that, but I mean, first off,
I'm I've never taken for granted. I'm super blessed to
be where I'm at and I'm super blessed to have
had this happen as fast as it has. But I
mean I've had to learn a lot in the last year.
And that's like I feel like, not what a lot
of people think of when they think of somebody just
doing that, is like there's so much stuff that you
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have to learn, like on the fly, because like I
said earlier, I like didn't grow up playing the three
hour bar gigs and on Broadway, and you know, didn't
know how the music industry worked at all when I
moved to town, and it kind of just had I
had to be thrown into the fire a little bit,
so which I prefer to learn that way anyway. I
learned best when I just kind of have to figure
it out.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, if you could.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
If there was one hurdle, because you grew so fast
this past year, imagine you've being thrown a bunch of stuff.
If there's one, what was the biggest hurdle you felt
like you had to.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Overcome trying to blend the business side of things and
with the emotional side of things. I feel like and
I feel like the music industry is so like one
of one in the fact of like it's built off
of emotions pretty much, you know, Like I mean, people
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are like pouring their hearts out in these songs, but
it's also a business. And it like took me a
little while to figure out, like and like even understand that,
like Okay, yeah, I'm making my music and like I'm
pouring my heart out and like I'm speaking how I
feel and it's like a therapy thing for me. And
that's how it started for being with therapy to like, now, Okay,
I'm kind of somewhat in a way running my business
(18:40):
and you have people on your payroll and like you're
paying these people to do certain things, and like, yeah,
it was just a weird little thing to kind of
come across, and I didn't never think about it. I
didn't think it would have to ever be that, but yeah,
probably that that'd probably have to be it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Man, it's interesting to hear because from an outsider, you
see megastar and then you don't see a lot of
the people that are in the trenches and growing, and
you forget, like I think it's this cool thing that's
fun to do.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And then you boil it down. You go, wait, no,
I have people to end it on it.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I have you know, in today's world, you got to
hit certain metrics and the data is so important, right which,
and then you got to wrestle that with the fact
that you still want to put out stuff that you
care about.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I mean, the worst thing you do.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Is and even just to still like stay motivated to
do like what you originally want to do, cause like
I mean, I know, at least for like in my perspective,
like I didn't get into music to make money. I
got into music because I enjoyed music and I love
music and like to keep that at the forefront of
everything while also trying to like have a business mindset
and like like strategize on what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's like kind of a task.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
But I mean I think as long as you can
remember like why you originally started doing it, you'll be fine.
But yeah, that was definitely a hurdle for sure. But yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well the topic of the opera, Yeah, we did play
the opera this year. Yeah, unreal.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
It was unreal, dude, it was I mean, were you nervous?
I was shaking out of my boots.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Brother, Yeah, I would be too.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And like it's such a weird little experience, dude, because
like I'd obviously never seen anything happen backstage at the
opera before. I didn't know how it worked. But like
when you do your debut, you walk out and like
these cameras are waiting on you when you show up
to the to the door, and like they're like, okay, cool,
it's like a TV show. It's like out of the
reality show. And you walk up and they're like, okay, cool,
we're gonna walk up. We're gonna get a shot of
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you looking up at the sign. You're just gonna take
it in and like okay, cool, cut, We're gonna have
you walk twenty more feet and like get the shot
of you like walking up the little the walkway and
like you're gonna walk in like security guys gonna hand
you a little pant foot and cut cool, like walk
five more feet, we're gonna get this shot here, and like,
up until I walked on stage at the Opery, there
was zero time for like me to like actually just
(20:48):
sit sitting like which is probably a good thing to
be honest with you did like the fact that I
didn't have a lot of time to think about like
the gravity of what was about to happen was probably best. Yeah,
honestly because I walked on stage and that we were
sitting side of stage and then uh, stage got turns
and he's like, all right, brother, good to go, and
you walk on stage and like we just plugged in
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like got us quick little like line check and then
we were off and you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That's unreal, man.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I think they probably keep you busy for that reason,
where you know, it's such a great experience, but hopefully
when you do step in that circle, you have kind
of a moment take in. I do want to I
want to show this one grand old Opry clip.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
No matter what you're struggling with in life, whether that's heartbreak, anxiety, depression,
any sort of mental health.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
God has got you every.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Step of the way, and I promise you that. And I,
for one of have struggled with self confidence my whole life. Man,
I've struggled with believing in myself and believing that I
belong in what I'm doing, and honestly, looking out here
tonight man, my mom and my parents are here, my brother,
my fans, my friends, my family. I can honestly say
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looking out tonight man, for once in my life, and finally,
I feel like I belonged somewhere. I feel like I
belong in country music and it's all thanks to God.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Man, you get pretty emotional and you talk about mental health,
self confidence, and then you also talk about your faith
in your relationship with God.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
What is What does that mean to you? Means everything, dude.
I mean.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I so my mom raised me in the church, like
we I grew up going to church, But I feel
like I didn't never really think about what that really
meant until I had to kind of find it on
my own, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
And like when you.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Move out of your hometown when you're you know, just
graduated from high school, never had to figure anything out
like I had everything done for me, Like my clothes
were washed and my food was on the table, and
like thankfully, you know, I was blessed to have have
parents that you know, provided for me and like did
the best they could. But like I mean I never
had to experience life, and like it was just cut
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off like that, you know, like right after high school,
I went in and then you're on your own. You
learn a lot. You learn a lot and had to
figure a lot of stuff out. And I mean mental
health is the reason why I got into songwriting anyway,
because I'm not the most you know, vocal guy. I'm
not a center of the room guy. Like I don't,
like it's hard for me to have those deep conversations
(23:23):
with just a random person. And so that's why I
got into songwriting. Was like I could just kind of
dump all of that out and like I didn't have
to really talk about it. I could just dump it
all out in the song and then like Okay, I
got that off my chest.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, it was a different view. I mean it was
literally therapy for me.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And I mean going through breakups and like going through
like you know, financial struggles and you know, anxiety and
all this and that like, that's how I was getting
that off of my chest, was just through the songs
that I was writing, and so yeah, it's super important
to me.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Dud. Yeah. Man, well this, I mean, I think this
clip sums it up.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I mean, you're clearly emotional and you talk about you know,
trusting and believing in God and how that has led
you to where you are now. And hopefully you're more
confident with the fact you know you as a person
and your abilities with music, man, because people are clearly
connecting to it. So absolutely well man, for those that well,
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for those that don't know Austin, Austin did put out
an EP.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Muddywater Rockstar. We did do this.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It's got some killer songs on it, dude, and you
just got off your headlining tour.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You guys got to check that out.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I want to talk about another smaller or a three
song project that you put out this year, which is
called Songs from My Phone.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
My favorite song Things I Shouldn't Do is a ripper.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But you put out the song like lines and there's
intro and it's like I'm at eleven percent battery, like
let's rip this or whatever, Like it seemed like you
guys recorded those and then just put them out like
the next day, Like what was the I feel like
it was so quick from the writing process to just
like it felt so authentic, like it was like day
one day.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
What was the thought possis? Well, they were, I mean
they were technically demos. Like the songs that got put
out on Spotify were demos. They were beefed up a
little bit, like we sent them and got them like
you know, like brushed off. But like the songs that
came out were like the demos that I had sitting
in my phone, which is why we named it Songs
from my Phone because it was literally just you know,
(25:21):
like what I had in my phone. And like, we
went into a song meeting and I was I think
I was. I was pretty newly signed at Warner and
we had our song meeting and we were trying to
figure out you know, like really schedule and what we
were gonna do, and like we had big plans for
like everything, but I was like, I want to get
music out as fast as possible, and like that's one
thing that I'm pretty set on.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
It's like having a pretty steady release schedule.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
And and when I write something, I love like just
putting it out. And so we were going around the
room just kind of fishing around ideas and how we
were going to like market that and figure that out.
And we were kind of just like we'd have these
songs like that I wrote that I love and like
for no particular reason, like it doesn't fit any sort
of you know, storyline.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It just was there were three songs that I fell
in love with and love listening to them, so I
was like, and I loved them the way they were.
What I loved about it was it felt like.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You were using Spotify or Apple Music as like a
canvas or a feed, just like you would like TikTok
or Instagram. I think right now we're consuming so much
music and our attention span is so short that you
don't you might post something. If you don't put it
out for two months, people might forget about it, and
I think, like in your case, it was like, hey, guys,
(26:39):
I wrote this, I want to put it out right.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Now, like go check it out. It just felt very authentic.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Do you and you mentioned in your release strategy, you
know you do you feel like do you feel like
every artist should be putting out more music. Where do
you stand?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I mean, it depends on where you're at, obviously, if
you can afford to put out and me, like I mean,
when I moved to town, I couldn't afford it, you know,
like I was broken, like didn't have a job and
was living off with a little bit of savings account
that I had, But I moved here because I wanted
to do it as full time as I could. When
I moved here, like I just like refrained from getting
a job as long as possible and thank god that
like by the time i'd run out of money, like
(27:20):
I had had some success and like signed my publishing
deal and that was kind of just my first job
in Nashville. But yeah, like if if I could do it,
then I would. Yeah, I would put out as much
music as as I could. But for me, and like
where I was financially at the time when we wrote
Excuse and Mess, like I didn't have the money to
put that song out at all. Yeah, So like I mean,
(27:44):
I spent like the last bit of money I had
on like the hopes of this song doing well.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You're like, this isn't like I wanted to do well.
It's a it happened.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Well yeah, And I mean it's funny because like I
put that song out, and like I was literally like
about to start a job at Amazon. And I went
from my interview at Amazon into my training and like
drove the big like box truck and had to back
through like twenty cones and stuff. Yeah, left that went
directly to Riverhouse, which is my publishing label, and had
(28:15):
a meeting because they you know, had saw Excuse a
Mess and like love with like the sound that we
were going for and like it was different and cool.
But the only info that I had on that meeting
was like, and I had taken like some publishing meetings before,
like I had talked to some people, and so I
knew pretty much what I thought I was going to expect.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
My I got there was just like, oh, what are
your goals? Like cool? Okay, cool, We'll keep an eye
on you.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
And so I went from Amazon and went to Riverhouse
and they offered me a deal on the spot.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Wow. And so I mean I never had to have
really a job here. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It was down to the wire, but it was which
was perfect timing because I mean, with Excuse the Mess
doing as well as it did, like, I didn't want
to let that just fluster out and like disappear.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
The way it needed to be done was, you know,
the way we did it, which was you have this song, Okay,
now let's keep this going and keep the momentum invest
back in, which I didn't have the money to do
so like, which was why it was. I mean a
blessing that it worked out the way it did in
like the timing of things.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's that's amazing, dude. I love that story. I want
to talk more about music in a little bit, but
I do. H. We've been doing this new segment. I
think Austin's a good canon for it. What do you
think producer mats not in this had a little bit. Uh,
here's the way this works, all right, this is this
is ranked five these five things. This segment's very very simple.
(29:43):
You got to rank these five things one through five,
but you don't know what comes next. So for example,
if we were ranking water, I said, Fiji, you could
put it one through five and put it up three,
but you don't know the next water it's coming. Okay, okay,
rank these five things without knowing what comes next.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
And the category is fast food first up. We have
Chick fil A.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Three, one through five, right, yeah, three, you're you're quick
with that, all right, you're saving you're saving some spots.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Uh Taco Bell. Mm hmm, I'm gonna go smooth four
on Taco Bell. Okay, Chick fil A over Taco Bell.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
What about raising canes Chicken? You know you've had raisin canes?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, they got one in Nashville now too. I don't
I might get that for lunch. Yeah, I don't want
to put a number five. Can't be five. I'm good,
I gotta go three. You already had Chick fil A
at three, two, two, all right. We got two for
raising Canes, three for Chick fil A, four for Taco Bell.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
We got Burger King. That's five for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Did he do this right? He's got one spot left.
It has to be the one. The last one on
the list was Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Did I mean? That's pretty sick?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I actually I actually left it last because I was
I was reading beforehead. Uh, your manager him and I
were talking, and he had he had said that Crackerbarell
was one of your favorite.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
So that was pretty it was pretty well died. I
respect that. I used to work at burger King. First job.
No wonder you put it at five. Get that out
of here, swear.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
My manager used to send me to the freezer like
every day, like after the first day, she sent me
to the freezer to organize boxes. Yeah, and like I
was back, Like she would let me out of the
freezer all day. She didn't lock me in, but like
she's like, you have this to do, and like if
it's not done, then like you're fired. But she's like,
so You'm not. Just want to bring your jacket to
work every day. So I just have this thing for.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Burger King now, I just yeah, you just won't go there.
Screw the junior Whopper. Yeah, well it is.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
We got one more round here, and that's because it
is the holiday season. I'm hoping that you've seen all these,
but we're going to do this rank these five.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Without knowing what comes next.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
In the category is holiday Christmas music, movies movies movies. Okay,
first one is the Polar Express.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Have you seen it? I'm gonna go four.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okay, There's there are some other good ones on the list.
I like that take Home Alone Original Home Alone number one.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Dude, it's unreal.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
There's a lot of controversy about this, but die hard
because it is a Christmas movie. I haven't seen it, dude,
never seen it. I mean I've heard the word die hard. Yeah, dude,
it's an unbelievable movie. You get to watch it. That's
what you're gonna do when you have your time off.
It is a Christmas movie. Some people say it's not,
but it is a Christmas movie. I stand by that. Okay,
(32:43):
we'll put that as well. We'll put that at three.
I guess how the Grinch stole Christmas?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
M M. You got two and five left. Those are
your spots. It's gotta go two. And this is a movie.
Grinch is a good movie. I like that take.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
The only problem is the last one on the list
was Alf, and you just buried Alf at number five.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It wouldn't have been number one.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I wouldn't have put at one, all right, If you
stand by that, yeah, it wouldn't have been number five.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
But yeah, yeah, we can review the tan and figure
out where where we need to adjust.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, streen on that one, die Hard.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
That's what happens when you don't know what comes next
to that was well done. I think your I think
your Fast Food game was pretty solid. I thought the movies. Well,
we'll talk about that offline, because I have a bone
to pick with you about how you haven't seen Diehard.
All right, guys, we're gonna be right back here on
six and five House Podcasts with Austin Snell. What's up, guys,
(33:39):
We're back Austin Snell in the House. Last podcast of
twenty twenty three for us, but speaking of big things
in twenty twenty four, many more podcast episodes are coming,
and also speaking of twenty twenty four for Austin Snell,
many more shows.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Right, what's what's the deal for twenty twenty four? You're
going on to our Yeah, we're doing a lot of shit, dude.
I mean we're we played what eighty I think they
said eighty shows this year. Next year's gonna be even bigger.
We're doing Chase Matthews in February.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Let's go Chase body.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I think we're doing fifteen shows with them, and then
freaking Jason Iwdan in July.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, we're first to four on Jason.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
So when you got that, when you got that call,
well walk me through, dude.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I mean, Jason is like God in Georgia. So like,
of course, I mean, Jason is the guy that you
look up to, Like he's like the hero of Georgia.
Like he's from Making, which is thirty minutes from where
I'm from, and he's the dude that made it out
and like my mom was a huge fan, my dad's
a huge fan. I was a huge fan. Yeah, So
I mean, dude, to get that call was like unreal. Yeah,
I feel like I feel like I belonged. Like I
(34:49):
also feel like I have no clue how the hell
this happened.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
No, you shouldn't feel like you belong and you deserve it,
but it's still it's a crazy opportunity and one that
I know you're gonna capitalize on.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Are you playing in Georgia on that.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
On that run, we're playing to Macon. We're doing Making show.
That's unreal. I love Making. I actually went down to Macon.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Do you like Making?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well, I have a hilarious story. Then probably shouldn't, shouldn't
live on this podcast. But I went down to Macon.
I played at a bar called Crazy Bowl. You know
what I'm talking about. Yeah, And let's just say the university, Well,
there were some college kids out that night and it
ended with me on the side of a street later.
(35:29):
But again, we're this is a family friendly podcast, so
we'll move on. It's not about me, It's about Austin,
all right. So you got dates with Chase Matthew, you
got dates with Jason Aldan. I assume you got new
music coming out too as well. We're working on a
lot of the Yeah, yeah, any plans for an album
or are you kind of still sticking to I think
that's yeah, that's what we're working towards. Working towards an
album with some releases in the tween there for sure.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
But yeah, ude, we've been I've been running my face
off the last two months. We got off the tour
a couple of months ago, and I'm glad that I've
finally gotten to dive back into the writing things, because
I mean, I was writing dearing the tour, like I
was coming off the road. But like you come off
the road and get home, you know, at like four
o'clock in the morning on a Monday, and then you
(36:14):
ride on a Tuesday and Wednesday, and then you leave
Thursday to play shows again, it's hard to kind of
like stay in that mindset.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
So I mean, you're busy man.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, so we'll we're dialed back a little bit now
and let's get more time to focus on that.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
So I'm I'm enjoying that. Yeah, dude, I can't wait
for the new music.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I definitely am looking to catch you on on this
tour next year as well.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I gotta ask h.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Dms have to be flooded, all right, they're all right,
yeah there are Yeah, what's uh what's the uh what's
the lady situation going on for Austin Cell right now?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, I mean I got girlfriends. I look at that.
He's a he's a he's a he's a family man.
I like that. That's fair. But uh no, dude, the
dms are wild.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I mean as far as yeah, give me give as
far as everything else as well, Like I mean, they're
just wild in general. Like I mean, I mean, people
like spill their whole life story in dms. So like
every now and then I'll scroll through and I read
some and like, I mean, you got a few minutes free,
You're like, oh, check out the DM.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yeah yeah, but I mean he's the craziest DM you've
ever gotten.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Probably all of your relatives coming back out, you know,
like people you've never heard of, or like this dude
that says I know your your dad or like your
your mom, like we're related. Yeah, and you ask around
and nobody has any clue that is yeah, So I
mean probably, I mean there's been some We'll have to
talk about that, probably off camera, but yeah, you have to.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Go to like ancestry dot com and fact check these
people that are in your in your dms.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Well okay, well that that takes away from my next
question because I was going to ask if there was
one country artist that you could date, who would it be?
Speaker 2 (37:55):
But you have a girlfriend, so you know what, I'm
gonna save you that one. Carrie Underwood.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
But you have a pack where you got it? Yeah,
we're good. I love that. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Well, we do have one segment presented by a good
friends at area. I'm wearing their sweater right now. They
got some awesome apparel country Western apparel. And this segment
is super easy. Uh. It is called rapid fire Questions.
Someone tells me you're gonna be able to handle this.
Maybe it's from from all your your training and in
the Air Force, just you you're able to deal with
the pressure because this is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
I'm throwing you these questions no matter what hits. I
just need I need rapid fire answers.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Are we ready? Three? Two? One? Most embarrassing thing at
a live.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Show forgetting the words? Probably scale of one to ten.
How good are you at keeping secrets?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
None? Are you a talker or a texter? Mm? Texture?
Do you wear boots or sneakers? More? That was a lot?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Sorry, he takes it back right, boots are sneakers sneakers?
If Baltimore offered you a hug, would you accept it?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Yes? Or no? I agree it is double dipping loud?
Yes or no? No?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Would you rather cudd old baby panda or a baby penguin?
Peng penguins are so cute. If Kim Kardashian and Donald
Trump were both drowning and you can only save one.
If Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump were both drowning, but
you can only save one.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Who would it be Trump jump? If you could? Uh,
that's amazing. I don't even know what else. Oh a
dream venue right Bridge Stone? Hell? Yeah, Nashville, baby, I
love that. And let's see dream collaboration post belone. Fuck.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah, you might be doing country stuff now, which is
pretty cool to do his stuff though you want to
do you can make his stuff anything, but I want to.
I want like a post Malone Class Snail post Malone
twenty twenty four. I'm here for it. That was is
wrapping area. There were some good ones in there that
was awesome. You did not You did not came into
the pressure man that was solid.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
That was solid.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Well out some of that that was too funny. All right, man,
it's been awesome following your journey. Thanks for thanks for
hopping on.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
The year.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Everyone can check you out across socials and awesome Snell online.
Big tour next year, which I can't wait for anything
else I'm missing.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Man, I don't think so. Brother.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You gotta come out to some of them though, I
would love to. Would I would really love to. Yeah,
where are you from?
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Aga?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I'm from Boston, Massachusetts, So I don't know if you
guys are going up there, but out there at some point,
I'm sure. I'm sure you will be dude, you got
I mean imagine you guys are gonna do another big
run next year off the Chasing and Jason dates as well.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
But if not maybe down and Macon Crazy Bull Brother. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Thanks again to our friends here at iHeart for making
this happen. Thanks to everyone that's hopped on on twenty
twenty three. It's been a pretty crazy run of guests
and twenty twenty four is just going to be bigger
and better. It's also going to be bigger and better
for Austin, so make sure you guys check them out
and once again, Austin's Now.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Thanks Bro, appreciate you.
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