February 13, 2024 • 31 mins
As a Texas born singer songwriter with a country roll and roll energy mixed with honest country storytelling, his music has racked up millions of streams and been placed on the TV show, Yellowstone. Inspired by everyone from George Strait, Tom Petty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Rolling Stones to his favorite band Whiskey Myers, he has written countless songs and cut his teeth at gigs anywhere with a stage. His song “Beautiful Lies” serves as a standout track with over 20 million streams on Spotify. He recently put out the song as a duet with country riser, Ella Langley, on his album “Crossing Lines." Please welcome Atlantic recording artist…. Tanner Usrey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fact that you just played those three venues in
the span of three months. I mean, that's got to
be a twenty five to thirty point game fantasy that show.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Guys, Chris Erger here on the six one five House podcast.
This next guest I am so pumped to have in
the studio. He is Texas born singer songwriter. He's got
rock and roll style mixed with just authentic storytelling, which
his music has racked up millions of streams. He was
placed on a TV show I don't know if you've
heard of it. It's called Yellowstone, and he signed a
deal with Atlantic Records. He's been inspired from George Stray,
(00:41):
Tom Petty, Leonard Skinner Rolling Stones, and I guess his
favorite band is Whiskey Myers, which I want to talk about.
And he's written countless songs as well as cutting his
teeth and playing hundreds, maybe even thousands of gigs starting
in Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
His song Beautiful Eyes it's my personal favorite.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And he also just put out a rendition with Nashville
true singer Ella Langley good friend and also crushing it.
So I want to talk about that. Uh, he's got
fifteen songs of straight heat on this album. It's called
Crossing Lines, and we're gonna have to get into it
and talk about it right now.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So please welcome Tanner Erson.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah. How's it going, man?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How are you good? Good to see you.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
How was that for an intro? Did I hype you
up at this?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I try my best. I did what I say. I
got so nervous. Dude, you're such a big guy here,
you know, I'm freaking out. Us Ray, I know us Ray, Yeah,
US three us Ree. It's got like that little that
little kick at the end there. I've been digging your
music for a while, first popped up, started listening, you know,
kind of over the past few months, and then this
(01:38):
album drops and man, it's just fifteen songs. It's just
straight heat, and I love it. Talk to me a
little bit, man, like, Uh, where'd you get your start?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, I've always kind of, you know, been been the
singer of the family and dot me to go back
home in the beginning, beginning, give me the beginning, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We got we got time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm sitting in the couch right here. Yeah. I always
been the the singer of the family, and uh, I'd
run around, run around, to the house and run around
school singing and all the songs I could, and Daddy
used tell me to shut up, and and then, uh,
you know, I was always that kid. And then my
senior year of high school, I was at a Wade
(02:21):
bowling concert and I was like, yeah, this is what
I want to do. So I picked up a guitar,
and you know, nine months later I was playing gigs.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Nine months later. How did you teach yourself guitar off
off chords?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, just started learning and learning chords and stuff like.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That's amazing. Do you remember the first song? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It was a backgrounds by Brandon Ryder. Yeah. Yeah, playing
those four hour uh cover gigs and acoustic gigs and
stuff like that with my brother and uh. In twenty nineteen,
I quit my job. I was a skip tracer and
(03:04):
uh they never looked back. Look back. Man.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's a big deal though, to quit quit a job. Yeah,
it's definitely stable. Probably probably the best decision that I
ever made. But it was definitely a decision that I
didn't take lightly. Like, it took me six months to
build up the courage to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You know, I've talked to a lot of artists.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I think a lot of people have had to sacrifice time,
and in some cases it's it's taking another job to
pay to the bills until they can do it on
their own. When did you know that it was time
to quit your job and just focus on music.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Man, I mean I'd already been doing it, you know,
for like six or seven years, for like six yeah,
six seven years, I don't know. And uh, I was
having to turn down gigs that were paying better than
my job, or showing up or having to like drive
back and like be exhausted in the morning. And I hated.
(03:59):
I didn't like the job that I was doing. There's
a miserable desk job, you know, getting cussed out by
people that didn't want their cars repode, which is you know,
that's not that I'm a nice guy, so I don't
like I guess that's it was a hard job. And
one day I pulled into work and went upstairs and
I couldn't make another phone call. I was just like,
(04:21):
I can't do this anymore. Yeah, soire you know, well
do or die? It's one thing COVID right exactly?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Who said's one thing when you're getting paid a lot
of money to do a job that you don't like
it's another thing when you could be making more money doing.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
A job that you love.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Right, Right, so you quit, you said twenty nineteen, right,
you point out something nineteen.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, damn you see, Yeah, this is a big day.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Right right after I just dropped the medicine and EP. Yeah,
and you know things are looking up and yeah, and
then COVID. Then COVID hit, and uh even then, Like,
I think COVID was a blessing in disguise for me
because you know, I could still play the small places
and we couldn't play in Texas, but me and the
(05:07):
guys we rehearsed like hell and got the show ready
from when everythings did open back up, and then played
wherever we could outside of Texas, which really helped a
lot on the national scene for us, right And yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Man, it's interesting because of course everyone was hit by COVID,
but particularly the music industry. A lot of people don't
realize artists their income is dependent off of live shows,
and the people in their camp are dependent on that too. Right,
you go on the road, it's not just Tanner, but
it's your band, it's your management, it's your production. All
(05:44):
this stuff I felt like COVID was a time where
a lot of artists sort of packed it up, found
a second, you know, different job, and left the scene.
Or there were people that like saddled up and said, man,
I'm going to really do it. It sounds like you guys.
You guys said let's go, let's make our show the
best it can be.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
We didn't. We didn't give Ussels an option. My whole
mantra have been not to ever have a backup planned. Yeah.
I'm only good at one thing, you know, man, plan
It's got to be playing you know exactly well, It's awesome, man,
because that I mean in that.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
EP, of course was the start. But since then you've
just continued to crush it. I want to go back
before we talk about the new music. I want to
take you mentioned playing the cover gig. Yeah, so you
were playing four hour cover gigs in Texas whenever you could.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah. Thenk Coddy Canada said, it's in an interview, and
that's it's the formula that I've followed, which is not
necessarily you know, with the formula that everybody's fallowing now.
It's a you hit the road, you play wherever when
you can, whenever you can forever much Candon for hover
many people, you can just to get out there and
(06:52):
that's what that's what Rad we did, and you know
that's kind of what we're doing. Well. It's interesting, man.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
We're at a time where you can build a fan
base online, right, but there's something about building a fan
base when you play live shows.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean, what's your what's your take on that.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I think there's not a necessarily a right or wrong
way to do it, and I think there's definitely something
to be said about hitting the road and honing your
craft because you can practice on you can practice how
much you want, but it's not gonna be the same
as a as getting out there and playing a live show.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I agree, Man, it's face to face man.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
People people I know, people with millions of followers online
and then they go hit the road and they say,
this is just a game changing experience that you know people,
real people are singing their songs. It's like that level
of connection. I don't know if we're it. We're gonna
get close online, right, but I don't know if we're
ever going to get there. Yeah, well, dude, that's awesome.
What I'm curious because everyone has a well, what cover
(07:48):
song do you never want to have to play again?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh, whiskey.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's a heck of a song.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's a great song, but I just don't I don't
want to ever do it again.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
How many times do you think you played Tennessee Whiskey?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Hundreds hundreds of times?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I think I might be right there with I like
I got rid of wagon Wheel early on. You're smart,
You're like, you're like, let's get wagon Wheel off the
menu right now?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah? Yeah, and yeah. I did a lot of Childer
children's children's covers, some Shane Smith covers.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, Well, let's talk about it. Since you're here in
Nashville right now. Who's got better barbecue? Texas or Nashville.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That's not even a question.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It's Texas, man, what's so special about Texas barbecue?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
This is what we do.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's bigger in Texas, and it's better in Texas.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It's what we do.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Do you have a certain do you have a certain
style of barbecue that you love if you're going.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
To get like a rib, I don't like the vinegar sauce,
vinegar based barbecue sauce, Yeah, neither. I like the ketchup
base or is it ketchup? It's ketchup base, right, they
have one of that. Yeah? Yeah, I like brisket, brisket. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
If you're doing ribs, are you doing dry rub or
you getting are you getting them with soft?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I like sauce.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
D he likes Tanner likes the sauce. I respect it, man.
Nashville has some good barbecue, but I do.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Got to get down to Texas and check it out.
He's got a great bunch of great clubs too. You
play you played Billy Bobs yep.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Fate what's you're actually? Uh, we're playing Billy Bob's really
uh the of December, December twenty third, So let's go, dude.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's awesome. Check out Danner's playing December twenty third. Is
that your favorite Texas venue you have? You have?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What's your what's your favorite show you played in Texas?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I'm gonna go with Hanks and McKinney. Uh, because that's
where I got That's where I played my first gig ever. Yeah,
I gotta go with Hanks.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, it's my hometown show. It's my hometown venue and
home bar and stuff like that. I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, we're gonna play a game before we talk about this.
New music is a new game on the podcast. I'm
very excited about it. Rank this it's very simple. I'm
gonna give you a list of five things. You have
to rank them one through five. But here's the kicker.
You don't know what comes next? Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah? Rank? This topic is musicians you could beat in
a fight? Oh shit?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
First up, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I was talking about like all the Swifties. You got
the whole Swifties. It's Taylor and all the Swifties and
now Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, I couldn't be here enough. So like, is it
one I could?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
One would be the one would be the hardest to
beat in a fight.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Five would be the easiest.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Probably probably. I'm gonna go with two two.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Next one is whoever is still alive on the Rolling Stones.
We'll go with We'll go with Mick Jagger one. MC
Jagger's one.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, I'm oping that all right?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
So we got we got one mc Jagger to Taylor Swift.
You still got a rank three through five. Next up
Jelly Roll who probably three?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Three? All right?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I think that was the right pick. Your next one's
post malone. Four.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'm going in order right now you are, But I
think you made the right joice. Five as the walmart
yode old kid.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Five.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, I think another it gets basic, but I think
you could take it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
That's good. Jeeral is a big dude. But I don't know. Yeah,
I hear you. I'd be scared of them for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That was pretty good. That was I always pick five man,
Thanks for piling with me.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Swifties that that that's the whole thing you don't want
to get involved with.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I think I think you made the right choice there
because the Swifties are there. They rolling a pack man
and that pack is not small. Well heck yeah, well, Uh,
we're gonna be right back here. Tanner's on the podcast.
We'll be right back here six one five hours. What's up, guys,
We're back tanner Us on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
We were talking during the break. Uh, you said, Mick Jaggery.
You realize that you put them on you think you
can actually take mc jaggery.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, I was gonna put I'll put Jelly Roll at
one and then mc jagger at three.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay, so we have a modified standing here. We're gonna
move Jelly roll up to one. I didn't understand the
ranking system. You learn now people you can take in
a fight. We have jelly roll. One is jelly roll.
It's the hardest. I couldn't take a fight jelly rolls
one Swifties or two Taylor and the Swifties.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Three Travis Yes, and then Mick Jagger.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That feels that feels right. I'll let you. I'll amendment approved.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I want to talk about your music making it into
a very small, probably not.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That well known show called Yellowstone.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yea man, What was it like when you got the
call that said your music is going to be in Yellowstone? Dude?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I was I was playing I was playing war Zone
one night and I tweeted like a year before I
was like, hey, Yellowstone be cool if I you know,
got some songs in jeoson and it was like, I
don't know. Six months to a year later, it was
like nine thirty at night and the uh the music
(13:10):
a Venger for Yellowstone like emailed me at like late
and was like, hey, we want you to submit this
song for Yellowstone the Light and I was like what
the hell?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah? And fake email.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah. I was like this is real deal, Like it
can't be And sure enough it was and I was,
you know, jumping up and down, you know, and uh,
this is a wild moment for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Had you seen any of the show.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Oh yeah, yeah. As soon as I found out that
Whiskey Myers was on it, I was like I was
and Ryan Bingham was on it, I was in.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, because Whiskey Myers is your yeah, top top for sure.
What's your favorite Whiskey Myers song?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Oh man, I'm gonna have to go with the Early
Morning Shakes. I know it's kind of deeper, but the
deeper cut, but.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
No, it's yeah, you go. So you have you see Yellowstone,
Whiskey Myers on it, and then now in the same
credits as your song is right next to it, I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, what was it? What episode was the first song
that you landed?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I've only had one. It was the season four finale.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
That's what I thought, right, Yeah, Okay, I don't want
to give any spoilers to people that haven't seen Yellowstone,
but a heck of a finale.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We're gonna play a game, and this game is called
Pick one, Cut one, and the theme is Yellowstone. So
I'm gonna name two characters. You have to keep one
and then you can cut one. You're ready, Yeah, here
we go three two one. First up, we got John
Dunnan or Jamie Dutton.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Cut Jamie.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, I agree, John Dutton or Walker. I'm cutting John
Walker or Rip cutting Rip Cutton Rip.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
That's a shocker. This guy Walker, I'm saying, man, Rip
just rips the fun out of every scene. Sometimes we
have an answer, We have an answer, Rip guy. What. Yeah,
I'm not an anti Rip guy, but like there's gotta
be some moments where he's like chilling in the bunk
house and he's chill.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
You know for sure he needs to be more chill. Yeah, okay,
you got Walker? What about Walker or Monica.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Walk?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
No, yeah, Walker, Okay, we'll get a ride Walker or Casey.
Now we're getting good and you know they both sing.
I know, Casey's my favorite character. I'm gonna have to
cut Walker.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
In case and then last up Casey or Beth.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I'm cutting Beth Casey.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Dunn for the wind look at that. Yeah, that's amazing.
If you could collaborate.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Also a rhyme Bingham, I'm biased on Ryan Bingham for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
If you could collaborate with.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Walker, Ryan Bingham or Casey Luke Grimes on a song
for Yellowstone.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Who would you?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I think Ryan? So he's one of the best. Ryan
the best shows I've ever seen, and I've seen him
twice and both times he's just.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Amazing, incredible, Dude, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well man, you got this album out crossing lines, fifteen songs,
crushing it out with Atlantic Records.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Talk to me about the process of putting together this album.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Man, it was It was pretty grueling actually last year.
We've had it ready for like a year now, but
we would have to We were playing one hundred and
eighty five days a year that last year while recording
the album, So we would.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You're playing one hundred eighty five shows and recording an album.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah, we didn't. We'd have to come in from a gime,
come in from a show, or run next day, hit
the studio at eight am, you know, while I was
still riding the record. So I would come in early,
finish a song with my producer Bo and then we'd
cut the wreck, cut that song that day, and we
(17:02):
just did that until we had, you know, enough songs. Amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Do you have a favorite song on the project.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'm gonna say Evan's Eyes right now. It's changed quite
a bit. Sometimes it changes, but it's Evan's Eyes is
probably my favorite right now. Evan's Eyes.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's what that track track thirteen.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, it's a it's a weird one. It's trippy. No,
it's good.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You got to work your way through the album to
get there. And it's also with uh it's correct if
I'm wrong, but it's with Jesse.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, she did some uh, I guess harmony noises. Oh
I heard it, Yeah, I could.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I could hear.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I could hear in the background. Yeah, are are you
guys friends? Oh? Yeah? Yeah? She did make it out
a live with me as well off the Off the
Medicine ADP.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Another collaboration you did, which is with artists in Nashville,
Ella Langley over at Sony Music.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
And it was cool because uta our house for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
When you took a song Beautiful Eyes that you had
released by yourself and then she comes on, what was
it like collaborating with somebody on a song?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It was great. I mean I've done it before with
Grace ofw York, but I think we changed it up
enough to you know, bring new life into it. We
put the full band on there, kind of made it
into something that I think could be a radio single,
and you know, appealed to new a new audience for sure,
with Ella's, especially with Ella's fans and crowd. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Do you are you and Ella close?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah? We've gotten close over the course of this whole thing.
Do you guys think you could tour together? I think
there's talks of doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That would that would be a tour.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I know she. I haven't seen her full band yet,
but I know she puts on a rock and show
for sure. She puts on a killer She scares me sometimes,
but yeah, she's a badass. She's kind of intimidating, like
because she's just such a badass.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
That's the sign of a badass. You're a true badass.
You can intimidate Tanner.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I don't know about that. Do I intimidate you? Yeah?
For sure?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Look at that?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Look at that?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Well, Crossing Lines is out everywhere. Yep, you guys gotta
check it out. It's fifteen tracks. It's phenomenal. I want
to talk about something that not many artists are able
to say that they have done, and you are now
in that category, which is you are able to say
that you played the Rhyme and Auditorium historic venue in Nashville.
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What does it mean to you to play the Rhyme.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
This particular show because it's with Shane, means a lot
to me because Shane, Shane Smith and Sayings they're my
boys and they were one of the first people to
kind of help us out or help me out when
I was coming up, and one of the first shows
that I really opened was for them. So to play
such a historic venue with some of the guys that
(19:53):
I love, my brothers, it's it's it's probably my the
show that I've most looked forward to all year, and
I played when we played Red Rocks and the Opry
this year, so we're hitting a hat trick. But Ryman's
definitely probably the top top of the list for me.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Dude says it so casually, like you just hit the
big three Red Rocks operating in the Rhyme and you're like, yeah,
you know, I played them all just you know, thinking
about what's next.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
What the what the fuck? Man? It's amazing, Like three months,
three four months, that's insane. Since August, I played, played,
I played the operating in August, and then Red Rocks
in September, and then now playing the Rhymen.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Did you think you would play the Opry, Red Rocks,
and the Rhymen in the span of three months.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
No, No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's insane, dude.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
But it just started coming in one right after another,
and just you know, I.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Want to keep I want to start like keeping stats
on artists in country music, sort of similar to how
like sports books and fantasy football is if we were
playing Fantasy Nashville where you drafted a team of singers,
I'd have to put you in a quarterback. The fact
that you just played those three venues in the span
of three months, I mean, that's that's got to be
(21:11):
a twenty five to thirty point game Fantasyville.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Maybe there is something to that. What do you think
of me?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
A little?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'm getting the novel producer producer, Matt Maybe Fantasy Nashville.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Who did you go with that running back?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Man?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I'd probably just stick to like I probably Stapleton, because
I feel like Stapleton embodies the running back right up
the gut. Every album he does is just good. He
reminds me, here's a take for you. Is Chris Stapleton
the equivalent of Christian McCaffrey when it comes to the
Nashville country music.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Scene, like as far as standing out, as far as
standing after. I think so, I just think, I think,
I think, But I think Chris Stapleton has like ushered
in a new era for sure. I agree for like
guys like me, I mean rock and roll and soul,
you know, right, definitely made it okay to be rock
(22:02):
and roll again. I like that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
If you could choose a if you could choose like
a quarterback for Fantasy Nashville, who would you.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Choose, oh man quarterback?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
If you have your Pat Mahomes for Fantasy Nashville, who
would it be?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I would go with Stapleton.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Stapletons your quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I like that because, like I said, he's he's probably
he's changing the scene.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Give me, give me a flex, Give me give me
like a like a flex player in Nashville Fantasy. Somebody
that's like up and coming you think is gonna have
like a big career.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yes, that's a great pick.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Like Rookie of the Year Red. If you pick up Red.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Off the waiver wire, you might be a busines that
might be that might be a championship team.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah. Uh, well, receiver might be like Zach Bryan or
something like that. It's gotta be Zach, right, and maybe
maybe you throw in.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like a maybe like a Kelsey Ballerini.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
You know, Hayleys is a big.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It could be a good tight end.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
At that corn corn fed.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Yeah, yeah, exactly that. Hey, that's where all the tight
ends are from. Oh man, that's awesome, dude. Well, hey man,
we uh we have the sponsorship with Aria and they're
amazing Western apparel. Ram I'm sure you're familiar with the Ariat.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I we do this segment called rapi Fire Questions for
the area.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's very simple.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
We're gonna put sixty seconds on the clock and I'm
gonna ask you questions. First thing that comes to mind,
you just got to answer. Right there we go. You're
so chill about this. No one else is this chill.
You gotta hype you up all right. Here we go
rap Fire Questions Area three two one. If you could
collaborate with one artist.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Who would it be?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Whiskey Myers? If you could switch lives with someone you
know for a day, who would it be? Oh dang,
social rapid fire, I switch last. I don't know if
i'd switch last. You don't think it's switch lives.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I like that confident man dream venue to play even
though you played them.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
All man, I gotta go with uh Royal Albert Hall.
What's the weirdest food combination that you've enjoyed? You're gonna
You're gonna grill me for this pizza rolls and catch up,
don't knock and see you try it, pruiser.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Matt's not in his head too, am I out of
the Yeah, you gotta do it. How many ten year
olds could you beat up in a fight?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Are they coming in waves or at once?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
In waves?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Oh? Man, I probably do, like probably seven waves of
like each adding on ten year.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Old, Like we're playing college zombie. Seven waves of ten
year olds?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Uh you baseball cap or cow cowboy hat just depends
depends on the trucker.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Trucker hat for casual and cowboy hat for I like that.
What about toe shape? I have to go with square
toe boots. That's only a type of boots that I
can wear because I got hobbit feet.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Hey, I get you gotta play. You gotta play the
player right, Yeah, it makes sense, all right. Last one
go to karaoke song.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh Never Been to Spain by Elvis. Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I did not expect that out of Tanner, But pretty
dang good job out of Rapid Fire questions.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Man, we got to talk about that ten year old
fight though.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
If it's seven seventeen year olds, yeah, that's that's a
lot of ten year olds. For sure.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It's a lot of ten year olds. But you know what.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I'm not, I'm not shapes true ten year olds.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Ten year olds are some of the stuff that they're
putting in the water these days. Some of them ten
year olds look like thirty year olds.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Especially if they're ten ten year olds from Texas. I mean, yeah, yeah, unreal.
Well that was rapid Fire Questions by Ariot. We're gonna
be back here and we got just a few minutes
left here on a six one five House podcast. What's up, guys,
we are back. We got to talk about this upcoming
tour you have, Man talks about it.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
My first official album tour probably feels pretty good to say, yeah,
no for sure, because like I mean, I've been on
tour and stuff like that, but I haven't done an
official tour for a project. So it's definitely a like,
it's cool.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Man, how many you know how many cities you're playing?
I know it's like thirty six states or something like that,
and then we're gonna add some more, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
But we're pretty much doing the same route that we
just did with Paul Coffin up the East coast, but
we're also hitting some Florida stuff and Alabama stuff that
we didn't hit.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, so that's I mean, you have a city you're
really looking forward to play.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
So we just played Boston and I am. I love Boston.
I fell in love with it. I love the history,
the food was amazing. Boston loves you, Boston loves country.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
You know front Boston.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I really yeah, you have an obstacle, of course, what
do you think.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I couldn't decide which one I like. I tried one
with butter, the hot one. I tried one with, uh,
the nail based the cold one. Gotta lean more towards
the cold one, cold one over the butter.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Wow, hot take something to help people from Boston help
us out.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
What's better?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Is it the butter or the cold one?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
You tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
We'll see what people comment on this.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I had to have clam chowder. Of course, I have
some oysters. Do you have Sam Adams beer?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I did not. Got to get back up to Boston then, yep,
that's great. What was your favorite thing about Boston? Went
to Cheers? That was pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, but probably
probably the oysters and the clam in the clam chowder.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That's killing chowder, the chowder. Yeah, yeah, get to give
a little Boston. Actually pocket have it yet until they
do it up there.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You know, everybody thinks that people are mean up there
up on the East Coast, but like they're not. They're cool.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Let's talk about that. But people people in Boston are
known as being the most angry, aggressive people ever.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah, but no, I don't think that's true. It's not.
And they they got great Italian food.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Too, they do.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I think they're just passionate.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I think I think that's I think something and I
think sometimes passion leads to anger. I'm not saying that
the nicest people. Let's let's let's not let's not get there. Yeah,
but they're supportive. I mean, they're gonna show up for you. Yeah, exactly,
that's not you know, it was great that's awesome. Well,
I wanted to shout out my own down, but there's
thirty six dates, so you guys got to check it out.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Where can they find it on your social.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Socials website everything and tickets go on sale and I
don't know when it's gonna air, but on Friday.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Cool, so okay, well this there they'll probably be on sale,
which is good.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Well, so we're also bringing Kat Hasty oh yeah, and
JD Clayton, Claty Hollis and Nolan Taylor on some dates
as well. So nice, it's be a good time.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
That's awesome, man, And uh, thirty six dates with the
band with opening acts.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, and then some more as well. I'm sure in April, damn,
you're gonna be maybe some Texas stuff, smoke California stuff.
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
There's some people that are I feel like there's some
people that are road dogs, and then there's some people
that play like one weekend the shows that like I
want to just chill for a year.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, are you a road dog? I'm a road dog
for sure. What does it mean to be a road
dog in the music industry? I mean it's just hopping
in a van and doing the damn thing. I guess, uh,
hotel after hotel after hotel, packing up your life every day.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, you know, I just like you ever miss home, maybe.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
At like the end of a run, I'll miss home
and then you know, three days later, I'm like, all right,
can we go back out now or right? And you know, yeah,
that's it's just, it's such there's something to be said
about hopping in the van with your boys and grinding
it out every night playing it. And you know, I
(29:53):
play music to play music for people, and if I'm
not playing music in front of people, that just didn't
feel the same.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So that's real.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I love the high that I get, you know, playing
on stage and.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It's the best high, dude, I mean, better than any drug.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Well, well I don't know. Well that's the that's the
Polay way to put it. No, dude, it's been awesome
having you in here. You guys got to check out
Tanner's album Crossing Lines, which is out now. Tickets are
on sale. Get them on your socials. What's your is
your social handle?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It's t U stream music or tanner est Music, any
form of that. I think it's tannerstry dot com for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Or I think we're doing Spotify ticket sales as well, so.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Killer Man well tanner Us right, you guys got to
check them out. Thanks for coming on the podcast, dude.
I can't wait to see you, whether it's in Boston
or back at the Ryman, or we're at Red Rocks,
you name it, but keep crushing it, dude, and you
got our support, man, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Thanks guys, we'll see you next week.
The fact that you just played those three venues in
the span of three months. I mean, that's got to
be a twenty five to thirty point game fantasy that show.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Guys, Chris Erger here on the six one five House podcast.
This next guest I am so pumped to have in
the studio. He is Texas born singer songwriter. He's got
rock and roll style mixed with just authentic storytelling, which
his music has racked up millions of streams. He was
placed on a TV show I don't know if you've
heard of it. It's called Yellowstone, and he signed a
deal with Atlantic Records. He's been inspired from George Stray,
(00:41):
Tom Petty, Leonard Skinner Rolling Stones, and I guess his
favorite band is Whiskey Myers, which I want to talk about.
And he's written countless songs as well as cutting his
teeth and playing hundreds, maybe even thousands of gigs starting
in Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
His song Beautiful Eyes it's my personal favorite.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And he also just put out a rendition with Nashville
true singer Ella Langley good friend and also crushing it.
So I want to talk about that. Uh, he's got
fifteen songs of straight heat on this album. It's called
Crossing Lines, and we're gonna have to get into it
and talk about it right now.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So please welcome Tanner Erson.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah. How's it going, man?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How are you good? Good to see you.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Man?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
How was that for an intro? Did I hype you
up at this?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I try my best. I did what I say. I
got so nervous. Dude, you're such a big guy here,
you know, I'm freaking out. Us Ray, I know us Ray, Yeah,
US three us Ree. It's got like that little that
little kick at the end there. I've been digging your
music for a while, first popped up, started listening, you know,
kind of over the past few months, and then this
(01:38):
album drops and man, it's just fifteen songs. It's just
straight heat, and I love it. Talk to me a
little bit, man, like, Uh, where'd you get your start?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, I've always kind of, you know, been been the
singer of the family and dot me to go back
home in the beginning, beginning, give me the beginning, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We got we got time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm sitting in the couch right here. Yeah. I always
been the the singer of the family, and uh, I'd
run around, run around, to the house and run around
school singing and all the songs I could, and Daddy
used tell me to shut up, and and then, uh,
you know, I was always that kid. And then my
senior year of high school, I was at a Wade
(02:21):
bowling concert and I was like, yeah, this is what
I want to do. So I picked up a guitar,
and you know, nine months later I was playing gigs.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Nine months later. How did you teach yourself guitar off
off chords?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, just started learning and learning chords and stuff like.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
That's amazing. Do you remember the first song? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It was a backgrounds by Brandon Ryder. Yeah. Yeah, playing
those four hour uh cover gigs and acoustic gigs and
stuff like that with my brother and uh. In twenty nineteen,
I quit my job. I was a skip tracer and
(03:04):
uh they never looked back. Look back. Man.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's a big deal though, to quit quit a job. Yeah,
it's definitely stable. Probably probably the best decision that I
ever made. But it was definitely a decision that I
didn't take lightly. Like, it took me six months to
build up the courage to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You know, I've talked to a lot of artists.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I think a lot of people have had to sacrifice time,
and in some cases it's it's taking another job to
pay to the bills until they can do it on
their own. When did you know that it was time
to quit your job and just focus on music.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Man, I mean I'd already been doing it, you know,
for like six or seven years, for like six yeah,
six seven years, I don't know. And uh, I was
having to turn down gigs that were paying better than
my job, or showing up or having to like drive
back and like be exhausted in the morning. And I hated.
(03:59):
I didn't like the job that I was doing. There's
a miserable desk job, you know, getting cussed out by
people that didn't want their cars repode, which is you know,
that's not that I'm a nice guy, so I don't
like I guess that's it was a hard job. And
one day I pulled into work and went upstairs and
I couldn't make another phone call. I was just like,
(04:21):
I can't do this anymore. Yeah, soire you know, well
do or die? It's one thing COVID right exactly?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Who said's one thing when you're getting paid a lot
of money to do a job that you don't like
it's another thing when you could be making more money doing.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
A job that you love.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Right, Right, so you quit, you said twenty nineteen, right,
you point out something nineteen.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, damn you see, Yeah, this is a big day.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Right right after I just dropped the medicine and EP. Yeah,
and you know things are looking up and yeah, and
then COVID. Then COVID hit, and uh even then, Like,
I think COVID was a blessing in disguise for me
because you know, I could still play the small places
and we couldn't play in Texas, but me and the
(05:07):
guys we rehearsed like hell and got the show ready
from when everythings did open back up, and then played
wherever we could outside of Texas, which really helped a
lot on the national scene for us, right And yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Man, it's interesting because of course everyone was hit by COVID,
but particularly the music industry. A lot of people don't
realize artists their income is dependent off of live shows,
and the people in their camp are dependent on that too. Right,
you go on the road, it's not just Tanner, but
it's your band, it's your management, it's your production. All
(05:44):
this stuff I felt like COVID was a time where
a lot of artists sort of packed it up, found
a second, you know, different job, and left the scene.
Or there were people that like saddled up and said, man,
I'm going to really do it. It sounds like you guys.
You guys said let's go, let's make our show the
best it can be.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
We didn't. We didn't give Ussels an option. My whole
mantra have been not to ever have a backup planned. Yeah.
I'm only good at one thing, you know, man, plan
It's got to be playing you know exactly well, It's awesome, man,
because that I mean in that.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
EP, of course was the start. But since then you've
just continued to crush it. I want to go back
before we talk about the new music. I want to
take you mentioned playing the cover gig. Yeah, so you
were playing four hour cover gigs in Texas whenever you could.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah. Thenk Coddy Canada said, it's in an interview, and
that's it's the formula that I've followed, which is not
necessarily you know, with the formula that everybody's fallowing now.
It's a you hit the road, you play wherever when
you can, whenever you can forever much Candon for hover
many people, you can just to get out there and
(06:52):
that's what that's what Rad we did, and you know
that's kind of what we're doing. Well. It's interesting, man.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
We're at a time where you can build a fan
base online, right, but there's something about building a fan
base when you play live shows.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean, what's your what's your take on that.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I think there's not a necessarily a right or wrong
way to do it, and I think there's definitely something
to be said about hitting the road and honing your
craft because you can practice on you can practice how
much you want, but it's not gonna be the same
as a as getting out there and playing a live show.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I agree, Man, it's face to face man.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
People people I know, people with millions of followers online
and then they go hit the road and they say,
this is just a game changing experience that you know people,
real people are singing their songs. It's like that level
of connection. I don't know if we're it. We're gonna
get close online, right, but I don't know if we're
ever going to get there. Yeah, well, dude, that's awesome.
What I'm curious because everyone has a well, what cover
(07:48):
song do you never want to have to play again?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh, whiskey.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's a heck of a song.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's a great song, but I just don't I don't
want to ever do it again.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
How many times do you think you played Tennessee Whiskey?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Hundreds hundreds of times?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I think I might be right there with I like
I got rid of wagon Wheel early on. You're smart,
You're like, you're like, let's get wagon Wheel off the
menu right now?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah? Yeah, and yeah. I did a lot of Childer
children's children's covers, some Shane Smith covers.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, Well, let's talk about it. Since you're here in
Nashville right now. Who's got better barbecue? Texas or Nashville.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That's not even a question.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It's Texas, man, what's so special about Texas barbecue?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
This is what we do.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's bigger in Texas, and it's better in Texas.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It's what we do.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Do you have a certain do you have a certain
style of barbecue that you love if you're going.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
To get like a rib, I don't like the vinegar sauce,
vinegar based barbecue sauce, Yeah, neither. I like the ketchup
base or is it ketchup? It's ketchup base, right, they
have one of that. Yeah? Yeah, I like brisket, brisket. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
If you're doing ribs, are you doing dry rub or
you getting are you getting them with soft?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I like sauce.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
D he likes Tanner likes the sauce. I respect it, man.
Nashville has some good barbecue, but I do.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Got to get down to Texas and check it out.
He's got a great bunch of great clubs too. You
play you played Billy Bobs yep.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Fate what's you're actually? Uh, we're playing Billy Bob's really
uh the of December, December twenty third, So let's go, dude.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's awesome. Check out Danner's playing December twenty third. Is
that your favorite Texas venue you have? You have?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What's your what's your favorite show you played in Texas?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I'm gonna go with Hanks and McKinney. Uh, because that's
where I got That's where I played my first gig ever. Yeah,
I gotta go with Hanks.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, it's my hometown show. It's my hometown venue and
home bar and stuff like that. I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, we're gonna play a game before we talk about this.
New music is a new game on the podcast. I'm
very excited about it. Rank this it's very simple. I'm
gonna give you a list of five things. You have
to rank them one through five. But here's the kicker.
You don't know what comes next? Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah? Rank? This topic is musicians you could beat in
a fight? Oh shit?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
First up, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I was talking about like all the Swifties. You got
the whole Swifties. It's Taylor and all the Swifties and
now Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, I couldn't be here enough. So like, is it
one I could?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
One would be the one would be the hardest to
beat in a fight.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Five would be the easiest.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Probably probably. I'm gonna go with two two.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
All right.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Next one is whoever is still alive on the Rolling Stones.
We'll go with We'll go with Mick Jagger one. MC
Jagger's one.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, I'm oping that all right?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
So we got we got one mc Jagger to Taylor Swift.
You still got a rank three through five. Next up
Jelly Roll who probably three?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Three? All right?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I think that was the right pick. Your next one's
post malone. Four.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'm going in order right now you are, But I
think you made the right joice. Five as the walmart
yode old kid.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Five.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, I think another it gets basic, but I think
you could take it.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
That's good. Jeeral is a big dude. But I don't know. Yeah,
I hear you. I'd be scared of them for sure.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That was pretty good. That was I always pick five man,
Thanks for piling with me.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Swifties that that that's the whole thing you don't want
to get involved with.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I think I think you made the right choice there
because the Swifties are there. They rolling a pack man
and that pack is not small. Well heck yeah, well, Uh,
we're gonna be right back here. Tanner's on the podcast.
We'll be right back here six one five hours. What's up, guys,
We're back tanner Us on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
We were talking during the break. Uh, you said, Mick Jaggery.
You realize that you put them on you think you
can actually take mc jaggery.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah, I was gonna put I'll put Jelly Roll at
one and then mc jagger at three.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay, so we have a modified standing here. We're gonna
move Jelly roll up to one. I didn't understand the
ranking system. You learn now people you can take in
a fight. We have jelly roll. One is jelly roll.
It's the hardest. I couldn't take a fight jelly rolls
one Swifties or two Taylor and the Swifties.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Three Travis Yes, and then Mick Jagger.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
That feels that feels right. I'll let you. I'll amendment approved.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I want to talk about your music making it into
a very small, probably not.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That well known show called Yellowstone.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yea man, What was it like when you got the
call that said your music is going to be in Yellowstone? Dude?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I was I was playing I was playing war Zone
one night and I tweeted like a year before I
was like, hey, Yellowstone be cool if I you know,
got some songs in jeoson and it was like, I
don't know. Six months to a year later, it was
like nine thirty at night and the uh the music
(13:10):
a Venger for Yellowstone like emailed me at like late
and was like, hey, we want you to submit this
song for Yellowstone the Light and I was like what
the hell?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah? And fake email.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah. I was like this is real deal, Like it
can't be And sure enough it was and I was,
you know, jumping up and down, you know, and uh,
this is a wild moment for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Had you seen any of the show.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Oh yeah, yeah. As soon as I found out that
Whiskey Myers was on it, I was like I was
and Ryan Bingham was on it, I was in.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, because Whiskey Myers is your yeah, top top for sure.
What's your favorite Whiskey Myers song?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Oh man, I'm gonna have to go with the Early
Morning Shakes. I know it's kind of deeper, but the
deeper cut, but.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
No, it's yeah, you go. So you have you see Yellowstone,
Whiskey Myers on it, and then now in the same
credits as your song is right next to it, I'm playing.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, what was it? What episode was the first song
that you landed?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I've only had one. It was the season four finale.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
That's what I thought, right, Yeah, Okay, I don't want
to give any spoilers to people that haven't seen Yellowstone,
but a heck of a finale.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We're gonna play a game, and this game is called
Pick one, Cut one, and the theme is Yellowstone. So
I'm gonna name two characters. You have to keep one
and then you can cut one. You're ready, Yeah, here
we go three two one. First up, we got John
Dunnan or Jamie Dutton.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Cut Jamie.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, I agree, John Dutton or Walker. I'm cutting John
Walker or Rip cutting Rip Cutton Rip.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
That's a shocker. This guy Walker, I'm saying, man, Rip
just rips the fun out of every scene. Sometimes we
have an answer, We have an answer, Rip guy. What. Yeah,
I'm not an anti Rip guy, but like there's gotta
be some moments where he's like chilling in the bunk
house and he's chill.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
You know for sure he needs to be more chill. Yeah, okay,
you got Walker? What about Walker or Monica.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Walk?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
No, yeah, Walker, Okay, we'll get a ride Walker or Casey.
Now we're getting good and you know they both sing.
I know, Casey's my favorite character. I'm gonna have to
cut Walker.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
In case and then last up Casey or Beth.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I'm cutting Beth Casey.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Dunn for the wind look at that. Yeah, that's amazing.
If you could collaborate.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Also a rhyme Bingham, I'm biased on Ryan Bingham for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
If you could collaborate with.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Walker, Ryan Bingham or Casey Luke Grimes on a song
for Yellowstone.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Who would you?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I think Ryan? So he's one of the best. Ryan
the best shows I've ever seen, and I've seen him
twice and both times he's just.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Amazing, incredible, Dude, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well man, you got this album out crossing lines, fifteen songs,
crushing it out with Atlantic Records.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Talk to me about the process of putting together this album.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Man, it was It was pretty grueling actually last year.
We've had it ready for like a year now, but
we would have to We were playing one hundred and
eighty five days a year that last year while recording
the album, So we would.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You're playing one hundred eighty five shows and recording an album.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah, we didn't. We'd have to come in from a gime,
come in from a show, or run next day, hit
the studio at eight am, you know, while I was
still riding the record. So I would come in early,
finish a song with my producer Bo and then we'd
cut the wreck, cut that song that day, and we
(17:02):
just did that until we had, you know, enough songs. Amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Do you have a favorite song on the project.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'm gonna say Evan's Eyes right now. It's changed quite
a bit. Sometimes it changes, but it's Evan's Eyes is
probably my favorite right now. Evan's Eyes.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's what that track track thirteen.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, it's a it's a weird one. It's trippy. No,
it's good.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You got to work your way through the album to
get there. And it's also with uh it's correct if
I'm wrong, but it's with Jesse.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, she did some uh, I guess harmony noises. Oh
I heard it, Yeah, I could.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I could hear.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I could hear in the background. Yeah, are are you
guys friends? Oh? Yeah? Yeah? She did make it out
a live with me as well off the Off the
Medicine ADP.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Another collaboration you did, which is with artists in Nashville,
Ella Langley over at Sony Music.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
And it was cool because uta our house for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
When you took a song Beautiful Eyes that you had
released by yourself and then she comes on, what was
it like collaborating with somebody on a song?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It was great. I mean I've done it before with
Grace ofw York, but I think we changed it up
enough to you know, bring new life into it. We
put the full band on there, kind of made it
into something that I think could be a radio single,
and you know, appealed to new a new audience for sure,
with Ella's, especially with Ella's fans and crowd. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Do you are you and Ella close?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah? We've gotten close over the course of this whole thing.
Do you guys think you could tour together? I think
there's talks of doing that.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That would that would be a tour.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I know she. I haven't seen her full band yet,
but I know she puts on a rock and show
for sure. She puts on a killer She scares me sometimes,
but yeah, she's a badass. She's kind of intimidating, like
because she's just such a badass.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
That's the sign of a badass. You're a true badass.
You can intimidate Tanner.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I don't know about that. Do I intimidate you? Yeah?
For sure?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Look at that?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Look at that?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Well, Crossing Lines is out everywhere. Yep, you guys gotta
check it out. It's fifteen tracks. It's phenomenal. I want
to talk about something that not many artists are able
to say that they have done, and you are now
in that category, which is you are able to say
that you played the Rhyme and Auditorium historic venue in Nashville.
(19:26):
What does it mean to you to play the Rhyme.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
This particular show because it's with Shane, means a lot
to me because Shane, Shane Smith and Sayings they're my
boys and they were one of the first people to
kind of help us out or help me out when
I was coming up, and one of the first shows
that I really opened was for them. So to play
such a historic venue with some of the guys that
(19:53):
I love, my brothers, it's it's it's probably my the
show that I've most looked forward to all year, and
I played when we played Red Rocks and the Opry
this year, so we're hitting a hat trick. But Ryman's
definitely probably the top top of the list for me.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Dude says it so casually, like you just hit the
big three Red Rocks operating in the Rhyme and you're like, yeah,
you know, I played them all just you know, thinking
about what's next.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
What the what the fuck? Man? It's amazing, Like three months,
three four months, that's insane. Since August, I played, played,
I played the operating in August, and then Red Rocks
in September, and then now playing the Rhymen.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Did you think you would play the Opry, Red Rocks,
and the Rhymen in the span of three months.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
No, No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's insane, dude.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
But it just started coming in one right after another,
and just you know, I.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Want to keep I want to start like keeping stats
on artists in country music, sort of similar to how
like sports books and fantasy football is if we were
playing Fantasy Nashville where you drafted a team of singers,
I'd have to put you in a quarterback. The fact
that you just played those three venues in the span
of three months, I mean, that's that's got to be
(21:11):
a twenty five to thirty point game Fantasyville.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Maybe there is something to that. What do you think
of me?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
A little?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'm getting the novel producer producer, Matt Maybe Fantasy Nashville.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Who did you go with that running back?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Man?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I'd probably just stick to like I probably Stapleton, because
I feel like Stapleton embodies the running back right up
the gut. Every album he does is just good. He
reminds me, here's a take for you. Is Chris Stapleton
the equivalent of Christian McCaffrey when it comes to the
Nashville country music.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Scene, like as far as standing out, as far as
standing after. I think so, I just think, I think,
I think, But I think Chris Stapleton has like ushered
in a new era for sure. I agree for like
guys like me, I mean rock and roll and soul,
you know, right, definitely made it okay to be rock
(22:02):
and roll again. I like that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
If you could choose a if you could choose like
a quarterback for Fantasy Nashville, who would you.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Choose, oh man quarterback?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
If you have your Pat Mahomes for Fantasy Nashville, who
would it be?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I would go with Stapleton.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Stapletons your quarterback.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I like that because, like I said, he's he's probably
he's changing the scene.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Give me, give me a flex, Give me give me
like a like a flex player in Nashville Fantasy. Somebody
that's like up and coming you think is gonna have
like a big career.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yes, that's a great pick.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Like Rookie of the Year Red. If you pick up Red.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Off the waiver wire, you might be a busines that
might be that might be a championship team.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah. Uh, well, receiver might be like Zach Bryan or
something like that. It's gotta be Zach, right, and maybe
maybe you throw in.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like a maybe like a Kelsey Ballerini.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
You know, Hayleys is a big.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
It could be a good tight end.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
At that corn corn fed.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Yeah, yeah, exactly that. Hey, that's where all the tight
ends are from. Oh man, that's awesome, dude. Well, hey man,
we uh we have the sponsorship with Aria and they're
amazing Western apparel. Ram I'm sure you're familiar with the Ariat.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I we do this segment called rapi Fire Questions for
the area.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's very simple.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
We're gonna put sixty seconds on the clock and I'm
gonna ask you questions. First thing that comes to mind,
you just got to answer. Right there we go. You're
so chill about this. No one else is this chill.
You gotta hype you up all right. Here we go
rap Fire Questions Area three two one. If you could
collaborate with one artist.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Who would it be?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Whiskey Myers? If you could switch lives with someone you
know for a day, who would it be? Oh dang,
social rapid fire, I switch last. I don't know if
i'd switch last. You don't think it's switch lives.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I like that confident man dream venue to play even
though you played them.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
All man, I gotta go with uh Royal Albert Hall.
What's the weirdest food combination that you've enjoyed? You're gonna
You're gonna grill me for this pizza rolls and catch up,
don't knock and see you try it, pruiser.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Matt's not in his head too, am I out of
the Yeah, you gotta do it. How many ten year
olds could you beat up in a fight?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Are they coming in waves or at once?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
In waves?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Oh? Man, I probably do, like probably seven waves of
like each adding on ten year.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Old, Like we're playing college zombie. Seven waves of ten
year olds?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Uh you baseball cap or cow cowboy hat just depends
depends on the trucker.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Trucker hat for casual and cowboy hat for I like that.
What about toe shape? I have to go with square
toe boots. That's only a type of boots that I
can wear because I got hobbit feet.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Hey, I get you gotta play. You gotta play the
player right, Yeah, it makes sense, all right. Last one
go to karaoke song.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh Never Been to Spain by Elvis. Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I did not expect that out of Tanner, But pretty
dang good job out of Rapid Fire questions.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Man, we got to talk about that ten year old
fight though.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
If it's seven seventeen year olds, yeah, that's that's a
lot of ten year olds. For sure.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It's a lot of ten year olds. But you know what.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I'm not, I'm not shapes true ten year olds.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Ten year olds are some of the stuff that they're
putting in the water these days. Some of them ten
year olds look like thirty year olds.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Especially if they're ten ten year olds from Texas. I mean, yeah, yeah, unreal.
Well that was rapid Fire Questions by Ariot. We're gonna
be back here and we got just a few minutes
left here on a six one five House podcast. What's up, guys,
we are back. We got to talk about this upcoming
tour you have, Man talks about it.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
My first official album tour probably feels pretty good to say, yeah,
no for sure, because like I mean, I've been on
tour and stuff like that, but I haven't done an
official tour for a project. So it's definitely a like,
it's cool.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Man, how many you know how many cities you're playing?
I know it's like thirty six states or something like that,
and then we're gonna add some more, I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
But we're pretty much doing the same route that we
just did with Paul Coffin up the East coast, but
we're also hitting some Florida stuff and Alabama stuff that
we didn't hit.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, so that's I mean, you have a city you're
really looking forward to play.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
So we just played Boston and I am. I love Boston.
I fell in love with it. I love the history,
the food was amazing. Boston loves you, Boston loves country.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
You know front Boston.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I really yeah, you have an obstacle, of course, what
do you think.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I couldn't decide which one I like. I tried one
with butter, the hot one. I tried one with, uh,
the nail based the cold one. Gotta lean more towards
the cold one, cold one over the butter.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Wow, hot take something to help people from Boston help
us out.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
What's better?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Is it the butter or the cold one?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
You tell me.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
We'll see what people comment on this.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I had to have clam chowder. Of course, I have
some oysters. Do you have Sam Adams beer?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I did not. Got to get back up to Boston then, yep,
that's great. What was your favorite thing about Boston? Went
to Cheers? That was pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, but probably
probably the oysters and the clam in the clam chowder.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That's killing chowder, the chowder. Yeah, yeah, get to give
a little Boston. Actually pocket have it yet until they
do it up there.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You know, everybody thinks that people are mean up there
up on the East Coast, but like they're not. They're cool.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Let's talk about that. But people people in Boston are
known as being the most angry, aggressive people ever.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah, but no, I don't think that's true. It's not.
And they they got great Italian food.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Too, they do.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I think they're just passionate.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I think I think that's I think something and I
think sometimes passion leads to anger. I'm not saying that
the nicest people. Let's let's let's not let's not get there. Yeah,
but they're supportive. I mean, they're gonna show up for you. Yeah, exactly,
that's not you know, it was great that's awesome. Well,
I wanted to shout out my own down, but there's
thirty six dates, so you guys got to check it out.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Where can they find it on your social.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Socials website everything and tickets go on sale and I
don't know when it's gonna air, but on Friday.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Cool, so okay, well this there they'll probably be on sale,
which is good.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Well, so we're also bringing Kat Hasty oh yeah, and
JD Clayton, Claty Hollis and Nolan Taylor on some dates
as well. So nice, it's be a good time.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
That's awesome, man, And uh, thirty six dates with the
band with opening acts.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah, and then some more as well. I'm sure in April, damn,
you're gonna be maybe some Texas stuff, smoke California stuff.
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
There's some people that are I feel like there's some
people that are road dogs, and then there's some people
that play like one weekend the shows that like I
want to just chill for a year.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, are you a road dog? I'm a road dog
for sure. What does it mean to be a road
dog in the music industry? I mean it's just hopping
in a van and doing the damn thing. I guess, uh,
hotel after hotel after hotel, packing up your life every day.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, you know, I just like you ever miss home, maybe.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
At like the end of a run, I'll miss home
and then you know, three days later, I'm like, all right,
can we go back out now or right? And you know, yeah,
that's it's just, it's such there's something to be said
about hopping in the van with your boys and grinding
it out every night playing it. And you know, I
(29:53):
play music to play music for people, and if I'm
not playing music in front of people, that just didn't
feel the same.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
So that's real.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I love the high that I get, you know, playing
on stage and.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It's the best high, dude, I mean, better than any drug.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Well, well I don't know. Well that's the that's the
Polay way to put it. No, dude, it's been awesome
having you in here. You guys got to check out
Tanner's album Crossing Lines, which is out now. Tickets are
on sale. Get them on your socials. What's your is
your social handle?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It's t U stream music or tanner est Music, any
form of that. I think it's tannerstry dot com for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Or I think we're doing Spotify ticket sales as well, so.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Killer Man well tanner Us right, you guys got to
check them out. Thanks for coming on the podcast, dude.
I can't wait to see you, whether it's in Boston
or back at the Ryman, or we're at Red Rocks,
you name it, but keep crushing it, dude, and you
got our support, man, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Thanks guys, we'll see you next week.
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