May 17, 2023 • 18 mins
Bobby sat down with Delaney, Zach and Erika a sibling trio known as Daves Highway to talk about their journey to Nashville! We did a deep dive on why they left Mississippi, being homeschooled, how they went viral, going on tour with Jake Owen, the grind of making it in this town, their dynamic as a sibling band and so much more!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
On the Bobby Bone Show now Dave's Highway. Good to
see you guys again, and I think, yeah, with this,
we're gonna talk a lot about you guys' journey to
Nashville and kind of your career journey now. But you know,
let's start with being in Mississippi. Did you, guys when
you came to Nashville come all together and Zach, I'll
start with you, or did you come one at a time?
(00:22):
What happened there?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We all moved up together, so we had kind of
planned from the beginning for us to all stick together
in terms of like school, So I graduated on time
because I'm normal.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Erica graduated high school early a year.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We were homeschooled in high school, and Delaney went to
community college for a couple of years in order to
keep us level. And we all moved here to quote
go to college. But that's not really what we moved
here because college.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You're saying, you really like the reason was that we're
gonna move to Nashville and go to school, but you
really didn't, Well, we did, yeah, because that wasn't the
reason that you moved here. It was just the how
it got you here. I don't know because your parent,
I don't know what your parents it was.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That ticket our dad got it. Our dad was an
electrical engineer for thirty five years. And you know, you
have to go to college. So we went to college.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Who's the youngest of all and how much how much
young are you the oldest?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Ade I'm the middle.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, So with the what's the age gap between all
you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
There was like hardly an age gap.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It's kind of weird if you all look the same.
I mean, that's what I'm saying. He was like, well,
she's going this time. So you guys are probably a
lot closer than normal siblings because you are kind of
living the same age at the same time.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And so Erica, you're the youngest, you're the youngest.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And so when they're like, all right, as soon as
you're ready, we're going to Nashville. We're all going together.
You felt good about that.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I was like totally ready in the moment. And now
whenever I look back and I'm like, wow, I was
barely eighteen. Whenever I moved to town, I'm like, that's
pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Like look at me.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
When you move here, Delany you all move and decide
to stay in the same you live together, I'm.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Assuming, And we lived in an eight hundred square foot apartment,
two bedroom, one bath. The laundry room was Zachary's closet.
It was like very close quarters.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, you know, that's on par though with people who
you know. There are two kinds of people that move
to town. People that have a whole bunch of money
and can move to town and focus on it because
they got all all mom and daddy's money. And there
are people like you, guys like me, they have to
move and go, well, we don't got a whole lot,
but we got nothing to lose, and it's a dream,
so we're just gonna move and hit it and live
in an eight hundred square foot apartment shack dwelling, you know,
(02:30):
shared a room.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
And I'm surprised we didn't kill each other.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, and do you guess we did good?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
We did good.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You're not all living together now, though we are. We
are still really have you have you up to square footage?
It's a little bit okay, And but yes, you moved
here and Erica kind of what what was the mindset
of what you were going to do once you got here?
Was it, We're just gonna start playing all these shows,
you're gonna write Like you move here, obviously you're gonna
go to school. But what what did you start doing professionally?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Mostly it was college.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
We came and we were we were studying music in school,
so we were able to make a lot of connections
through doing that.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
But we were just trying to grow our knowledge at
music and like get really good.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And figure out like what do we want to be
because we grew up doing a lot of like Christian
Gospel CCM kind of stuff, and then we were kind
of at a weird transition point where we were like
ready to shift, but we didn't know how to, and
so we just kind of homed in on our craft,
and by the time we were out of college, we
were like, all right, we're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Were you guys like practicing playing together while you were
in college? Were you out doing any sort of like
how did you get better or to any as you
guys were together?
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Well, we were already a band when we moved here.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But were you playing though when you're here in school?
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yeah? Okay, so this is a long story, give it
to me, now, let's go. We posted a video in
two thousand and nine when we were just kids and
didn't think anything about it, but it went viral on
YouTube and Facebook when Facebook was like the.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Cool thing of what what were you doing in the video?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Jesus Messiah Tomlin and Chris Tomlin saw it and posted
it on his Twitter and something else YouTube maybe.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And then well, and that was also back when viral
meant something like now everything everything's viral?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Right, Viral was like one hundred thousand, it was, It
was a lot, but yeah, but now viral's like five billion,
right right.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Right right, So it went so what happens to you
guys when your kids and that blows up? And does
anything happen?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Then we started playing churches every single weekend. Wow, we
were traveling from what two thousand and nine to twenty
fifteen when we moved here. And then when we got here,
we just kind of like focused on school. So we
played shows on campus and we were like the presidential
band at Lipscomb or whatever, So.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
They what does that mean?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
We got a scholarship really to be like kind of
the face of the music program at Lipscomb, so actually resenting.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well, so like whenever they had new student dinners and stuff.
A lot of times they did it at the Country
Music Hall of Fame, which at the time for us,
which is still very cool. It was like, we're playing
at the Country Music Hall of Fame and.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So we uh, we would go and play a couple
of songs for the all.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Of the new incoming freshman students that they had, and
that was just that's what we did.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Most of the shows that we played.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
From twenty fifteen to two thousand, I'd say seventeen really
was Let's.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Come, which we did get to meet a lot of
cool people doing that, like we got to play with
Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith and all the people
that are I guess donors at Lipscombe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
But well, yeah, so you're so. That's how I was
wondering how you stayed sharp if you were just focused
on school, but school made you stay sharp because they
gave you a scholarship exactly representing what was it always
to be a trio and only a trio pretty much?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yes, we've all like got our thing that we do,
Like I love to write and sing my like singer songwriter,
sad songs by myself and Zachary is an amazing guitar player,
and Delaney like could be Shania Twain if she wanted
to be.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And she plays bass whenever we play like a full band.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Real yeah, but like why wouldn't we, you know what
I mean? Like we're siblings and we sound good together,
and we love each other as well.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
We get along most of the time.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
What do you guys do for percussion? If that happens?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
We the only person we hire whenever we do a
full band thing as a drummer.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So you got all the instruments covered as far as
power acoustic even, I mean, you could just play and dang.
So how'd you feel about the bass? Was that?
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Well? You know, I really didn't pick it no one.
I grew up playing mandolin actually because we were doing
the southern gospel kind of thing and we needed a
bass player. So in college I decid did to take
bass lessons, and then I actually liked it and stuck
(07:04):
with it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I tried to play bass a little bit in high school.
We had the first kind of iteration of our terrible band,
and we had a good guy think can played guitar
pretty well, and so I was like, I guess I'll
just learn to play the bass, and it was tough
for me because there are a lot of places that
you have to play notes that notes don't normally go.
Whenever you feel like you're listening to the song, yeah,
(07:24):
that's not what the song sounds like. So I did
not take to it, and I was terrible, but I'm
not near as musical as you are. Did you feel
like you moved over to the bass pretty pretty easily?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah, I mean I don't know, did I I don't know?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I mean, well, Delanny played guitar before I did.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
True, so that kind of helps you too.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, it's an interesting journey for you, guys, because now
you're still with Ja co Owen's Good Company Entertainment And
how did that happen to where you end up over
on Jake's roster where he's basically A and R.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's really funny. A lot of our connections really go together.
It's like this is the connection made this connection, and
this connection made this one. And so we met Ron Fair,
who we've talked to you about before in college, so
he was our professor and he decided that he wanted
to give us a shot basically, and.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
His his list of credits is so long, and so.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He we had a bunch of meetings at his studio
to workshop and see if anybody, if they gauge the
interest really in the town of what we do.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
So he had Keith Gail.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Come over, who is manager at Good Company, and he said,
I love this.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We should get Jake over here.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So Jake came over and listened to graciously listen to
our music, and they decided.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That they wanted to have us on the you know,
on the team.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And where did you play for him yourselves or do
you play him music?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Both?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Oh cool?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Both Ron had like a whole thing that he liked
to do. What did he call it, like the experiment
or something. It was something some like weird like crazy
mastermind term that he used. And he would like play
a snippet of the record and then he'd be like, okay,
now do it live.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Like it was so funny show that you guys could
sound like the record And was that the point of it? Yeah,
talk about your name for a second. Dave's Highway because
it actually means something people probably don't I didn't know.
I was like, who's Dave? Why is this road so cool? Basically?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, So Dave's is our last name, and we're siblings,
and we talked about Dave's. Dave's Yes, so I get
I still get called Dave all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
So, hey, I'm Zach. Nice to meet you, Dave. You
were listening to me, So Dave's is our last name.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
We decided that we from a very young age, that
we always wanted to have our family name involved in
whatever the We didn't never really, we didn't never really
decide that Dave's Highway was going to be the name
we stuck with for long term. It was kind of
something that we need to have a name, So let's
put a name together, kids. I think I was twelve
when we came up with it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So you had the same even before, even in Nashville. Yeah,
were you touring the churches under Dave's Highway? Yeah, Oh,
you've had it for a long time.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, it's a long time. God since like two thousand
and eight, I think.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So we also decided we're Christians, and we we that's
a big part of our lives, and so we when
I was twelve, we decided that we wanted to incorporate
God in our in our message as well, and we
chose Highway because we always want to stay on the
high road. We want to not We never want to
be people that sell out for fame or money or
(10:47):
and if that stuff comes then great, we're you know,
we're welcoming of that, but you know, we want to
stay on the highway and we think that that's that's
what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
How would you describe your journey in the last couple
of years.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Uh, it's been the best years so much.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, but the hardest too. Probably.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
We're we're seeing all kinds of opportunities come up for
us in the near future that we're so thankful for.
And it's unexplainable really that.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We uh, we're.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Touring kind of right now, some some smaller venues. We
have ten dates at like ten roof around the United States,
and some of them are i think in cities where
you're where you're broadcasting. But and then in the fall
in September, Jake has invited us to come and join
his Fall tour.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's crazy, op, Yeah, that's really cool. By the way, Indy, Detroit, Columbia, Raleigh,
Myrtle Beach, Orlando, Delray Beach, Florida, Fort Lauderdale. If you
want to get tickets to go watch them at d
the ten roof Dave's Highway dot Com. So you're right,
a lot of we're in a lot of these cities.
And then Jake has you guys coming out, which will
be super cool.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, we're very excited.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That's exciting. And so you say, it's been awesome, but
it's also been really hard. Why has it been so
hard to lannel?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Mostly to do with our full time jobs and managing
like a forty hour week at work and then also
doing music too. It's it's it's exhausting, but we have
this system. Mondays are our music days and we all
take off of our jobs.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You can do that, so none of your school teachers.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
No, absolutely no, we worked that into our contract at work.
But yeah, Mondays are our music days. We have co writes,
we record music, we you know, do whatever we need
to do. And then also you know things like this it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Is Monday, so you guys are not say yeah, but
we would have. Thank you very much. I appreciate that,
and so the goal always is and I mean most
of my friends that moved here. I was with Jordan
Davis yesterday, just a similar story. Jordan and I are
very close, one of my really good friends, and he's
killing it right. Yeah, you just got an aunted for
best new our best male mail at the ACMs. Just
(12:54):
want a CMA. But he was living here five years,
bartending five years, which now you look back and you're like, okay,
but when you say five years, that is such when
you're in it, that feels like forever. And that's what
he did. He had to go and work just so
he could pay the bills, just so he could keep
on scratching and clawing away at the dream. You know,
(13:17):
not six months, not a month and a half, five years.
He had to. You know Haley Witters, Yep, she did everything.
She's been for ten years and it's finally cracked. And
so yeah, that's gonna be a real difficult part of
it because you have to pay the bills. So you
work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday, And if you're
(13:40):
not on the road, what if you're like, we got
to go, we have a show, we're doing the Tin Roof.
Are they gonna let you off?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Yeah? My boss is very lenient.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Are you hiding the tour dates from them? I don't
feel good.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
No, I haven't told my job about Jake Turia.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well, I.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Haven't requested off yet.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That's like a real life situation. Yeah, and the goal
is hopefully not have to deal with that part of
real life. You moved to a different part of real life.
Do you guys feel like you're getting closer?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Yes, yeah, every day though it's a grind.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Can you see it like a light at the end
of the tunnel.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, I mean it's it's always there.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's not it's not right in front of us right now,
but we see it and we're running towards it as
fast as we can, trying to do everything we can
to get there. I mean, we've been in this town
for eight years and.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
So it's opportunities like this though, that help us see
the end of this.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Like a little splatter here, a little splatter there, all
of a sudden, let's splatter hereto. It gets a little quicker,
like less in between. What do you think you guys
would have done had you not moved to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Well, before you you were studying.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
I was studying accounting and I hated it. It was terrible.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
I didn't get far enough to declare a major. Honestly,
there was no other thing for me because like you
went to school like up until high school, so you
had like you were a cheerleader.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Home school, high school. That's what she means.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Did all of them you had the like school experience.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I was like nine years old.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Well actually no, I was like five years old and
we started doing music, and like I never did anything else.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So is that why you're homeschool because you were just
gone so much?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, we got tired of having to tell our parents,
having to tell teachers like, hey, uh, they're gonna be
gone on Friday and Monday because.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
My day's music day. Miss Johnston.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, well kids are mean too, Like whenever kids found
out that I could sing, they would like make fun
of me on the playground. I'm like, I don't have
time for this, So I'm glad we didn't go to
real school.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
The song that the single, or one of the songs
is why do we need them? You have that out now?
I want to beady to check out Dave's Highway And
so what do you do today for the rest of
the day. Since we're recording this on a Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
We're probably gonna get in our car and make tiktoks
for a song that we have called First Rodeo.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, we're also picking our album title.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
We are that's going to go sit down and figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
So First Rodeo is about what It's a funny story.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
We all three have this thing where we date our
exes again. Like it's like we knew it didn't work
the first time, but we have to go back make
sure you didn't it worked out that.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I'm out of the game. I'm out of the game completely.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I just want.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Everybody to know what game the dating x's game.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh got it.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
That's a good game to be, except.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I'm also out of the dating game just for the
time being.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You're just taking out, taking a break. He's taking a break. Yeah,
Jack marked out pretty good for you, It did?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It did?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I dated this girl in college for not a long
period of time. I had just gotten out of a
bad relationship and I thought I was ready to jump
back into it. I wasn't, And I, you know, was
a dumb twenty two year old kid that didn't know anything.
And you know, by the grace of God, it came
back around to me and we're, you know, talking about
(17:06):
getting married.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
We've bought rings and oh you bought rings.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, she knows, so this we need to beat this
part of it.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
We both approve, so that's good.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And she sings too, right, Yeah, yeah, she she does
Christian music.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You guse her name.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Her name is Brittany Wood. She's she's amazing. She really
is her.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, you guys like her too, obviously if you like
follow her.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Me and her have matching tattoos. We're like besties.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You guys can never break up, Danny, No, because they
have matching tattoo.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Now, well that was before, that was before they started
dating again.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, because we were all, wait a minute, you got
a tattoo with her while they were she was the
ex of your brother.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah, trader.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Fault.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Okay, look guys, here we go at Dave's Highway. Go
follow them Instagram. What's your TikTok name? Same hopefully at Dave.
It's all the same at Dave's Highway.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
The new song is called first Rodeo Boom and go
watch them. They're doing all those ten roof dates all
through May and June from those cities and then out
with Jake Owing when he tours in the fall.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You guys, feel good. Feel guys, feel good, to I
appreciate you guys sitting with me and again go follow
at Dave's Highway. Thank you guys, Thank you Bobby The
Bobby Ball Show.
On the Bobby Bone Show now Dave's Highway. Good to
see you guys again, and I think, yeah, with this,
we're gonna talk a lot about you guys' journey to
Nashville and kind of your career journey now. But you know,
let's start with being in Mississippi. Did you, guys when
you came to Nashville come all together and Zach, I'll
start with you, or did you come one at a time?
(00:22):
What happened there?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We all moved up together, so we had kind of
planned from the beginning for us to all stick together
in terms of like school, So I graduated on time
because I'm normal.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Erica graduated high school early a year.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We were homeschooled in high school, and Delaney went to
community college for a couple of years in order to
keep us level. And we all moved here to quote
go to college. But that's not really what we moved
here because college.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You're saying, you really like the reason was that we're
gonna move to Nashville and go to school, but you
really didn't, Well, we did, yeah, because that wasn't the
reason that you moved here. It was just the how
it got you here. I don't know because your parent,
I don't know what your parents it was.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That ticket our dad got it. Our dad was an
electrical engineer for thirty five years. And you know, you
have to go to college. So we went to college.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Who's the youngest of all and how much how much
young are you the oldest?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Ade I'm the middle.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, So with the what's the age gap between all
you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
There was like hardly an age gap.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It's kind of weird if you all look the same.
I mean, that's what I'm saying. He was like, well,
she's going this time. So you guys are probably a
lot closer than normal siblings because you are kind of
living the same age at the same time.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And so Erica, you're the youngest, you're the youngest.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And so when they're like, all right, as soon as
you're ready, we're going to Nashville. We're all going together.
You felt good about that.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I was like totally ready in the moment. And now
whenever I look back and I'm like, wow, I was
barely eighteen. Whenever I moved to town, I'm like, that's
pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Like look at me.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
When you move here, Delany you all move and decide
to stay in the same you live together, I'm.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Assuming, And we lived in an eight hundred square foot apartment,
two bedroom, one bath. The laundry room was Zachary's closet.
It was like very close quarters.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, you know, that's on par though with people who
you know. There are two kinds of people that move
to town. People that have a whole bunch of money
and can move to town and focus on it because
they got all all mom and daddy's money. And there
are people like you, guys like me, they have to
move and go, well, we don't got a whole lot,
but we got nothing to lose, and it's a dream,
so we're just gonna move and hit it and live
in an eight hundred square foot apartment shack dwelling, you know,
(02:30):
shared a room.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
And I'm surprised we didn't kill each other.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, and do you guess we did good?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
We did good.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You're not all living together now, though we are. We
are still really have you have you up to square footage?
It's a little bit okay, And but yes, you moved
here and Erica kind of what what was the mindset
of what you were going to do once you got here?
Was it, We're just gonna start playing all these shows,
you're gonna write Like you move here, obviously you're gonna
go to school. But what what did you start doing professionally?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Mostly it was college.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
We came and we were we were studying music in school,
so we were able to make a lot of connections
through doing that.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
But we were just trying to grow our knowledge at
music and like get really good.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
And figure out like what do we want to be
because we grew up doing a lot of like Christian
Gospel CCM kind of stuff, and then we were kind
of at a weird transition point where we were like
ready to shift, but we didn't know how to, and
so we just kind of homed in on our craft,
and by the time we were out of college, we
were like, all right, we're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Were you guys like practicing playing together while you were
in college? Were you out doing any sort of like
how did you get better or to any as you
guys were together?
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Well, we were already a band when we moved here.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But were you playing though when you're here in school?
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yeah? Okay, so this is a long story, give it
to me, now, let's go. We posted a video in
two thousand and nine when we were just kids and
didn't think anything about it, but it went viral on
YouTube and Facebook when Facebook was like the.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Cool thing of what what were you doing in the video?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Jesus Messiah Tomlin and Chris Tomlin saw it and posted
it on his Twitter and something else YouTube maybe.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And then well, and that was also back when viral
meant something like now everything everything's viral?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Right, Viral was like one hundred thousand, it was, It
was a lot, but yeah, but now viral's like five billion,
right right.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Right right, So it went so what happens to you
guys when your kids and that blows up? And does
anything happen?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Then we started playing churches every single weekend. Wow, we
were traveling from what two thousand and nine to twenty
fifteen when we moved here. And then when we got here,
we just kind of like focused on school. So we
played shows on campus and we were like the presidential
band at Lipscomb or whatever, So.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
They what does that mean?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
We got a scholarship really to be like kind of
the face of the music program at Lipscomb, so actually resenting.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well, so like whenever they had new student dinners and stuff.
A lot of times they did it at the Country
Music Hall of Fame, which at the time for us,
which is still very cool. It was like, we're playing
at the Country Music Hall of Fame and.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So we uh, we would go and play a couple
of songs for the all.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Of the new incoming freshman students that they had, and
that was just that's what we did.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Most of the shows that we played.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
From twenty fifteen to two thousand, I'd say seventeen really
was Let's.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Come, which we did get to meet a lot of
cool people doing that, like we got to play with
Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith and all the people
that are I guess donors at Lipscombe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
But well, yeah, so you're so. That's how I was
wondering how you stayed sharp if you were just focused
on school, but school made you stay sharp because they
gave you a scholarship exactly representing what was it always
to be a trio and only a trio pretty much?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yes, we've all like got our thing that we do,
Like I love to write and sing my like singer songwriter,
sad songs by myself and Zachary is an amazing guitar player,
and Delaney like could be Shania Twain if she wanted
to be.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And she plays bass whenever we play like a full band.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Real yeah, but like why wouldn't we, you know what
I mean? Like we're siblings and we sound good together,
and we love each other as well.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
We get along most of the time.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
What do you guys do for percussion? If that happens?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
We the only person we hire whenever we do a
full band thing as a drummer.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So you got all the instruments covered as far as
power acoustic even, I mean, you could just play and dang.
So how'd you feel about the bass? Was that?
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Well? You know, I really didn't pick it no one.
I grew up playing mandolin actually because we were doing
the southern gospel kind of thing and we needed a
bass player. So in college I decid did to take
bass lessons, and then I actually liked it and stuck
(07:04):
with it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I tried to play bass a little bit in high school.
We had the first kind of iteration of our terrible band,
and we had a good guy think can played guitar
pretty well, and so I was like, I guess I'll
just learn to play the bass, and it was tough
for me because there are a lot of places that
you have to play notes that notes don't normally go.
Whenever you feel like you're listening to the song, yeah,
(07:24):
that's not what the song sounds like. So I did
not take to it, and I was terrible, but I'm
not near as musical as you are. Did you feel
like you moved over to the bass pretty pretty easily?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Yeah, I mean I don't know, did I I don't know?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I mean, well, Delanny played guitar before I did.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
True, so that kind of helps you too.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, it's an interesting journey for you, guys, because now
you're still with Ja co Owen's Good Company Entertainment And
how did that happen to where you end up over
on Jake's roster where he's basically A and R.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's really funny. A lot of our connections really go together.
It's like this is the connection made this connection, and
this connection made this one. And so we met Ron Fair,
who we've talked to you about before in college, so
he was our professor and he decided that he wanted
to give us a shot basically, and.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
His his list of credits is so long, and so.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He we had a bunch of meetings at his studio
to workshop and see if anybody, if they gauge the
interest really in the town of what we do.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
So he had Keith Gail.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Come over, who is manager at Good Company, and he said,
I love this.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We should get Jake over here.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
So Jake came over and listened to graciously listen to
our music, and they decided.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That they wanted to have us on the you know,
on the team.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And where did you play for him yourselves or do
you play him music?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Both?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Oh cool?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Both Ron had like a whole thing that he liked
to do. What did he call it, like the experiment
or something. It was something some like weird like crazy
mastermind term that he used. And he would like play
a snippet of the record and then he'd be like, okay,
now do it live.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Like it was so funny show that you guys could
sound like the record And was that the point of it? Yeah,
talk about your name for a second. Dave's Highway because
it actually means something people probably don't I didn't know.
I was like, who's Dave? Why is this road so cool? Basically?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, So Dave's is our last name, and we're siblings,
and we talked about Dave's. Dave's Yes, so I get
I still get called Dave all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
So, hey, I'm Zach. Nice to meet you, Dave. You
were listening to me, So Dave's is our last name.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
We decided that we from a very young age, that
we always wanted to have our family name involved in
whatever the We didn't never really, we didn't never really
decide that Dave's Highway was going to be the name
we stuck with for long term. It was kind of
something that we need to have a name, So let's
put a name together, kids. I think I was twelve
when we came up with it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
So you had the same even before, even in Nashville. Yeah,
were you touring the churches under Dave's Highway? Yeah, Oh,
you've had it for a long time.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, it's a long time. God since like two thousand
and eight, I think.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So we also decided we're Christians, and we we that's
a big part of our lives, and so we when
I was twelve, we decided that we wanted to incorporate
God in our in our message as well, and we
chose Highway because we always want to stay on the
high road. We want to not We never want to
be people that sell out for fame or money or
(10:47):
and if that stuff comes then great, we're you know,
we're welcoming of that, but you know, we want to
stay on the highway and we think that that's that's
what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
How would you describe your journey in the last couple
of years.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Uh, it's been the best years so much.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, but the hardest too. Probably.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
We're we're seeing all kinds of opportunities come up for
us in the near future that we're so thankful for.
And it's unexplainable really that.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We uh, we're.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Touring kind of right now, some some smaller venues. We
have ten dates at like ten roof around the United States,
and some of them are i think in cities where
you're where you're broadcasting. But and then in the fall
in September, Jake has invited us to come and join
his Fall tour.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's crazy, op, Yeah, that's really cool. By the way, Indy, Detroit, Columbia, Raleigh,
Myrtle Beach, Orlando, Delray Beach, Florida, Fort Lauderdale. If you
want to get tickets to go watch them at d
the ten roof Dave's Highway dot Com. So you're right,
a lot of we're in a lot of these cities.
And then Jake has you guys coming out, which will
be super cool.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, we're very excited.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
That's exciting. And so you say, it's been awesome, but
it's also been really hard. Why has it been so
hard to lannel?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Mostly to do with our full time jobs and managing
like a forty hour week at work and then also
doing music too. It's it's it's exhausting, but we have
this system. Mondays are our music days and we all
take off of our jobs.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You can do that, so none of your school teachers.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
No, absolutely no, we worked that into our contract at work.
But yeah, Mondays are our music days. We have co writes,
we record music, we you know, do whatever we need
to do. And then also you know things like this it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Is Monday, so you guys are not say yeah, but
we would have. Thank you very much. I appreciate that,
and so the goal always is and I mean most
of my friends that moved here. I was with Jordan
Davis yesterday, just a similar story. Jordan and I are
very close, one of my really good friends, and he's
killing it right. Yeah, you just got an aunted for
best new our best male mail at the ACMs. Just
(12:54):
want a CMA. But he was living here five years,
bartending five years, which now you look back and you're like, okay,
but when you say five years, that is such when
you're in it, that feels like forever. And that's what
he did. He had to go and work just so
he could pay the bills, just so he could keep
on scratching and clawing away at the dream. You know,
(13:17):
not six months, not a month and a half, five years.
He had to. You know Haley Witters, Yep, she did everything.
She's been for ten years and it's finally cracked. And
so yeah, that's gonna be a real difficult part of
it because you have to pay the bills. So you
work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday, And if you're
(13:40):
not on the road, what if you're like, we got
to go, we have a show, we're doing the Tin Roof.
Are they gonna let you off?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Yeah? My boss is very lenient.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Are you hiding the tour dates from them? I don't
feel good.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
No, I haven't told my job about Jake Turia.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well, I.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Haven't requested off yet.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That's like a real life situation. Yeah, and the goal
is hopefully not have to deal with that part of
real life. You moved to a different part of real life.
Do you guys feel like you're getting closer?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Yes, yeah, every day though it's a grind.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Can you see it like a light at the end
of the tunnel.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, I mean it's it's always there.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's not it's not right in front of us right now,
but we see it and we're running towards it as
fast as we can, trying to do everything we can
to get there. I mean, we've been in this town
for eight years and.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
So it's opportunities like this though, that help us see
the end of this.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Like a little splatter here, a little splatter there, all
of a sudden, let's splatter hereto. It gets a little quicker,
like less in between. What do you think you guys
would have done had you not moved to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Well, before you you were studying.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
I was studying accounting and I hated it. It was terrible.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
I didn't get far enough to declare a major. Honestly,
there was no other thing for me because like you
went to school like up until high school, so you
had like you were a cheerleader.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Home school, high school. That's what she means.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Did all of them you had the like school experience.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I was like nine years old.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Well actually no, I was like five years old and
we started doing music, and like I never did anything else.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So is that why you're homeschool because you were just
gone so much?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, we got tired of having to tell our parents,
having to tell teachers like, hey, uh, they're gonna be
gone on Friday and Monday because.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
My day's music day. Miss Johnston.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yeah, well kids are mean too, Like whenever kids found
out that I could sing, they would like make fun
of me on the playground. I'm like, I don't have
time for this, So I'm glad we didn't go to
real school.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
The song that the single, or one of the songs
is why do we need them? You have that out now?
I want to beady to check out Dave's Highway And
so what do you do today for the rest of
the day. Since we're recording this on a Monday.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
We're probably gonna get in our car and make tiktoks
for a song that we have called First Rodeo.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, we're also picking our album title.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
We are that's going to go sit down and figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
So First Rodeo is about what It's a funny story.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
We all three have this thing where we date our
exes again. Like it's like we knew it didn't work
the first time, but we have to go back make
sure you didn't it worked out that.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I'm out of the game. I'm out of the game completely.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I just want.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Everybody to know what game the dating x's game.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Oh got it.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
That's a good game to be, except.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I'm also out of the dating game just for the
time being.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You're just taking out, taking a break. He's taking a break. Yeah,
Jack marked out pretty good for you, It did?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It did?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
I dated this girl in college for not a long
period of time. I had just gotten out of a
bad relationship and I thought I was ready to jump
back into it. I wasn't, And I, you know, was
a dumb twenty two year old kid that didn't know anything.
And you know, by the grace of God, it came
back around to me and we're, you know, talking about
(17:06):
getting married.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
We've bought rings and oh you bought rings.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, she knows, so this we need to beat this
part of it.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
We both approve, so that's good.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And she sings too, right, Yeah, yeah, she she does
Christian music.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You guse her name.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Her name is Brittany Wood. She's she's amazing. She really
is her.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, you guys like her too, obviously if you like
follow her.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Me and her have matching tattoos. We're like besties.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You guys can never break up, Danny, No, because they
have matching tattoo.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Now, well that was before, that was before they started
dating again.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah, because we were all, wait a minute, you got
a tattoo with her while they were she was the
ex of your brother.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah, trader.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Fault.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Okay, look guys, here we go at Dave's Highway. Go
follow them Instagram. What's your TikTok name? Same hopefully at Dave.
It's all the same at Dave's Highway.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
The new song is called first Rodeo Boom and go
watch them. They're doing all those ten roof dates all
through May and June from those cities and then out
with Jake Owing when he tours in the fall.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You guys, feel good. Feel guys, feel good, to I
appreciate you guys sitting with me and again go follow
at Dave's Highway. Thank you guys, Thank you Bobby The
Bobby Ball Show.
Hosts And Creators
Bobby Bones
Amy Brown
Lunchbox
Eddie Garcia
Morgan Huelsman
Raymundo
Mike D
Abby Anderson
Scuba Steve
Popular Podcasts
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.