Aaron Watson stops by the studio. He shares the moving reason he cried at a Taylor Swift concert. He shares how he is having the most fun ever performing now that he's getting to do shows with his 19-year old son. He shares the secret to being married for 24 years and how they lost a child together. Aaron talks about his new record "Horse Named Texas" and what it means to be an independent artist.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
On the Bobby Bones Show. Now is Aaron Watson. Everybody,
come on, come on here he is.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
He's making the rounds. You can see this guy will
shake hands with everybody. I like it at the sake
of our ratings. He will shake hands with everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You should have thought about your ratings before you invited
me on here.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm just throwing that out there. What's up, buddy. I'm good.
I'm glad I didn't wear that shirt obviously. Were you
gonna wear the same cardigan? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh, you mean the one behind you or the one
the one behind me. I'm glad I didn't wear that shirt.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I thought he was taking a jab at your pink
shirt and your cardigan.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I would have accepted that and said, I'm glad you
didn't wear my pink shirt and cardigan as well.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I do have a cardigan one. I have one at home.
My daughter bought it for me, and you wear it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I wore it once when we went to a Taylor
Swift concert, and uh.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Because that's the Taylor Swift thing. How did you like
going to a Taylor Swift concert?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It was fun. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I'll tell you I've I've cried at two concerts in
my career, and one was at Paul McCartney when he
got up there and sang a song that he wrote
for John And then the other one was the Taylor
Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I cried, what moved you about that?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Just this music that I've been enjoying with my daughter
her whole life, from when she was little, and then
seeing her just lose her mind, going crazy having fun,
and she started crying, and I think I just I
looked at her at some point and I was like,
my little girl is growing up quick, and I just
(01:32):
I realized I was having like a moment like I
realized I had. I was having a moment and it
was pretty special, and it was it was a fun concert,
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
My daughter was very impressed that, like I was getting
recognized and took some selfies. But I did tell her,
I said, hey, I want you to look at this
where this section we're sitting, go down, because your dad's
already done the math for what I paid for the tickets,
I said, go down a rose from here, down eight
rows all the way over to the next walkway aisle.
(02:06):
I said, those seats your old man has to play
about one hundred and fifty shows a year to make
that much money. So just letting you know how amazing,
like I was, like, girl, I'm thinking the math. Of course,
you know, there's no telling what her production costs, but
it was it was a fun show, and.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, the big show.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
People love the not obviously the songs, but how she
pulls off that show.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's so impressive. And I mean, I've always been a
Taylor Switch fan. I grew up my buddy Scott. His
mom is Liz Rose, so like wrote, I remember in
like the early nineties going over to Liz's house and
there was some guitars, and I remember asking Scott, like,
what's up with the guitars? And I remember Scott going,
(02:51):
I don't know. Mom thinks she's going to be a
songwriter or something. And so that's just such a great
story in itself. So but the weirdest thing in my
ever happened to me. And at the Taylor Swift concert,
I guess there was one of the openers was like
b Ba Dooby or something.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm gonna bet you're not pronouncing that right, but I
don't know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Know, I'm probably not saying it right. I mean, my
daughter here. She really helps. You might be saying it
right though, I've just not heard that. So after b
Ba doo ba or bbadoobee.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Mike, we're gonna come to you in a second for
an official explanation of who it is.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It is bbadooby you're right, congratulations, All right, thank you, Mike.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'm not familiar with that artist. So my daughter goes Dad.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So after Bbadoobey's performance, Jolie looks at me and goes, Dad,
if you need to go to the bathroom, now is
the time because Taylor shows like three hours. So I
was like, okay, let's go. So we go up to
the bathrooms. There is a mile long line in the girls' bathroom.
The guy's bathroom there's no line. So I was like,
(03:57):
thank you lord. I walk in about the same time
as this, like high school dude. We walk through the
first set of doors, we walk in the next set
of doors. This this bathroom is packed full of high
school girls. Oh wanting to get a quicker way into
the bathroom. Oh yeah, they're in the men's bathroom. And
that high school boy was like he said I remember,
(04:19):
he goes oh heck no me, I'm in my forties
and I don't have that kind of negotiating power with
myself anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's like, I'm not gonna make it three hours, dude.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
There are there are four other dads pulled up to
these journals, right and I'm looking at all these girls
and I'm looking at this situation and like my mind's racing,
like what do I do? What do I do? A
dad walks away from one of the urinals. It's my turn,
and he kind of gives me this like I don't
know what to do? You know, do you what do
(04:53):
you do? Kind of look.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So I'm like, okay, we're doing this. We're doing this.
So I pull.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Up to the urinal to do my thing, and in
the middle of the process, some girl behind me says, Hey, Aaron,
why don't you sing.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Us a song?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, nice?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And I was like, that's really that was pretty messed
up and I and I literally said that. I said, girls,
and they're all laughing, and I said, girls, that's messed up.
That's messed up, girls. And I mean, but we had
so much fun. I love going to concerts and it's fun.
That's kind of me and I got to go.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
To many concerts though, because you're on the road a lot,
not a lot. I don't get to go to a lot.
Every time I see you on TikTok, you're on the road,
You're no, you're doing a show?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Are you doing a lot of shows? Oh yeah, that's
all I'm saying, Like, you're on the road a lot
playing shows.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
We always my daughter has the bands in town app
and so I'm like, find the dates where you know,
we're going to a George Strait concert. We bought tickets
this week and it's on a day that I have off,
and so we have a lot of fun. She has
a lot list of artists we're gonna go see, and
(06:04):
I'll be honest, I know a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
About as well as you know. Bbadoobey. I do not
know Bibadoobey. That's the thing I never even heard of Bebadooby.
Like I'm out I'm out here.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, I'm sometimes just like I am. I She's taken
me to places where I look like that dad, like
I'm like, let's go. But just seeing her smile and
singing like I whatever it takes.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Do you.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Feel though, like when you go to these shows with
your daughter, Like does she like any of the music
that you also liked, and that does that ever hit you? Like,
it's so cool that she likes music that I also like,
like older stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oh yeah, like she's she loves the Beatles, she loves
Elton John she's I mean, I posted a video a
while back she's in there at night. You know, I
can hear her in there in the bathroom getting ready
for bed, and she is just singing Kith Keith Whitley
at the top of her lungs.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So it's cool.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Like we did this little cover album just for fun
a couple of years back, called cover Girl, and I
did it actually as a project with Jolie because all
Jolie was listening to was Taylor Swift and I said, well,
Taylor's great. I go, there are so many like you
need to know, the Emmy Lou Harris of the world like.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And so it's fun for she and I.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
We take a lot of drives, whether it's in my
truck or the Corvette or the jeep. We take these
drives just to listen to music. And she's in control
of the radio, so you never know what I'm want
to be listening to.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What about your son? He plays with you. He's I
think he's.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Good, dude, Well already have labels calling about him, and
I'm like, the boy hasn't even recorded anything yet. He's
so good. He's older though, Yeah, Jake is nineteen, and
so Jack. And then there's Jack who's eighteen. Jack is
too small art to be in the music industry. Jack
is already Jack Hardy has like two hundred ounces of
(08:05):
silver and a couple of ounces of gold, like he
works by stock. Like I was showing Jack some of
my most horrible investments I've ever made, thinking that would
show him like, hey, you win some, you lose some.
And he looked at me and he goes, why would
(08:26):
you have ever thought that that company was a good idea?
And I was like, okay, well now you actually think
Pops is even probably dumber than you already did, so
that backfired on me.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But I'm having more fun.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm telling you right now, if they gave an award
out for a country artist that has the most fun
at their shows, I would win it because I love
what I'm doing. But now I'm literally like on stage
with my son and we're jamming out. I'll go over
there and you know, mess with him and undo a
(09:00):
pearl snap or I'll go up and button the top
pearl snap, And I just love messing with him. And
then I just hand him the mic and I'm like,
Pops is tired, you know, Death's tired, and dude, he'll
just and they go nuts for him. And he's a
great songwriter. He's he's he's gonna be dangerous.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Was there a point where he was actually good enough?
Did you ever let him play with you when he
wasn't quite there to help him get there? And then
there was a point where you realize, oh, now he
can actually play with this. I don't really have to
like prop him up anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I was very protective for a while, like if he
would be if he was singing a song, I'd have
the mic just waiting to see, like if he kind
of stumbled, I could jump in and sing with him.
But he's been getting on stage with me since he
was I mean five or six, because he just loves
to play.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And now he has my whole show memorized.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And like a couple of weeks ago, my drummer his
flat got laid and we had soundcheck, so my son
just jumped in there behind the drums. He knows the
entire show on the drums too. He knows the entire
show on the guitar. He's he's super talented and it's
fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Is he a better guitar player than you? Oh like
when he was twelve?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean but Jake, Jake started with
the Beatles, you know, then got into like Mark Knoppler,
dire Strait and the I mean, he just started learning
all this crazy stuff and honestly, you know, and I'm
not like the biggest John Mayer fan, Like I have
a great appreciation for his music, and I like a
(10:40):
lot of his songs, but a lot of John's acoustic
stuff is so like Chad Atkins. It's just got that
country fingerstyle guitar picking. And Jake learned all that stuff.
So his playing is so good and he's hungry.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He calls me.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You know, he's in college, so he'll call me late
at night. I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, well,
I should be studying, but I'm working on a song.
And I'm like, well, just I know your mom says
you want you to make good grades. I'm like, if
you could, just like, you know, have good attendance and pass,
but don't tell your mom.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I said that. What's Amarello like? Now, it's been probably
two years since I've been there. Well, you know, I
live I grew up there. Are you not there? No,
I've been in Abilene for a while now, in three
years since i've been there. What's Abilene like? It's it's
growing like crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
They've got like it's it's it's supposed to like double
in size over the next ten years because like Google
and has showed up and AI some aideals showed up.
I mean we live about, I don't know, twenty minutes
south of town, kind of where the hill country starts,
Buffalo Gap, Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's a thriving is it only you guys? No, it's
actually started growing.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
But it's we're we're out in the middle of nowhere,
so it's it's pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
What about you. You got a pretty big ranch big? Yeah,
he's of land out there. Yeah, I've got a We've
got a big ranch out there.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We built a ranch house on that edge of this
little canyon that has a bluff behind it, and I
wrote I built that place just to write songs. So
we we use that house for a lot of different reasons.
I have rids come in, uh, my bus driver band
guys will stay there sometimes.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You know, if that's not your primary house, no.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
It's kind of like the doghouse. Like also if I
get kicked out of the house, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Not property. No, it's about.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Five or six miles away. So but it's a really
cool place. And like if if someone at church, you know,
needs a place to stay, I'm like, well, you can
go to the ranch house. So we do a lot
of riding at the ranch and we I've recorded a
lot of vocals there, but that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
It's just kind of my it's my happy place.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And also to like, whenever I go out to the ranch,
I will look around and I'm like, you know, I
bought this with a song, like a lot of songs,
not one, but like a lot of songs.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But it always makes me go wow. You know.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
People always say you think someday you'll ever like make it,
and I was like, that's an interesting you know, that's
an interesting statement because what is make it? And I've
always told people the reason why I'm successful is because
I made sure that I made goal, that my goals
were achievable, Like if I would have started off my
career saying I want to be bigger than George Strait
(13:41):
someday or as big you know, that's a pretty big dream.
But my goal was it would be really awesome if
someday I had a career where I could write my songs,
record my songs, play shows, and do well enough that
I can provide for my family. And so that's you know,
(14:04):
I've I've been able to achieve that. When you talk
about seeing your house going, I got that because I
wrote song. Sometimes I look at my swimming pool and
go I was able to get that because I just
say stuff that's crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I'm the same way.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I'm the same way that I'm like, what in the
world it feels like it should be against the law
because a swimming pool to me meant somebody made it.
Do they even call swimming pool? They call it pols cool?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Okay? Is that weird? When I say swimming pool, I
call it a swimming pool?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Well do you say washing powder?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
What?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Okay? Inturgent?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Obviously I'm from Arkansas, but I have things that I
haven't been able to shake consciously. So I will just
say things for example, that wasn't on purpose. I say
swimming pool, and if I'm talking about doing the laundry,
I think I've been better, but it's always been like, yeah,
we'll use some washing.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Powder and bull poo, that's awesome. I'm gonna start using that. No, no,
it's never on purpose.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But that's what they're alluding to is at times I
can't shake some of that fundamental Arkansas language.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I like it though.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
It's I mean, it's like I'm gonna use that when
I get home that I'm gonna be like, Babe, where
are the flips of washing powder?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
She can be like, what are you talking about? Yeah?
So no, I'm the same way.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I'll say I'll say something and I don't I can't
think of a.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Word right now.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
But I'll say something and people be like, what did
you just what did you just actually say? And I
don't know if it's you know, being raised in West
Texas and my.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Mom for sure, West Texas vernacular for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How long you guys been married?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Gosh, twenty four years. She's put up with me for
twenty four years?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What's what's the what's what?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's hard to say, like why or like, what's the reason,
But what do you feel like is the common threat
in relationships like yours that have lasted.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
A good woman that's a patient and you know, I think.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I think the best way I can describe it is
like I remember when I was like four or five,
my mom and dad got into a knockdown, dragout argument.
And I remember Mom slammed the front door and I
was in bed and my bedroom was the closed in
(16:18):
single car garage that my dad, you know, when my
sister was born, he turned that into my bedroom. So
when Mom fired up the car that night, I remember
the headlights like lit up my room, and I was
pretty upset about it. And when I'm sure my mom,
I'm sure Mom drove down the street to her sister's house,
my aunt Be. I have an aunt Be, and I'm
(16:41):
sure they had like a diet coke and they she
cooled off and she came home. And when she came
home that night, she came into my room. And I
was so little, but I remember this.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
She said.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I asked her, I said, what what happened with you
and dad? And she said, well, we had an argument.
And I was like, well, what happened?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Like what was going on? And she said, well, I'm
just going to tell you this, she said, right now.
I do not like your daddy, she said, but I
love him with all my heart. And I think that's
the mentality that like, you know, because that's the mentality
(17:22):
you got to have, because I'm not naturally like that,
Like I'm more dramatic, like the sky is falling. If
there are times where I'm like, if it wasn't for
the kids, like I just want to pack my bags
and hit the road. Of course I'd get ten miles
down the road and be like, where am I actually going?
You know, But that's how that's how I work, That's
(17:45):
how my mind works. And you know, I just think
it's one of those things where, you know, for me
in this phase of my life, you know, it's just
you know, I it's not easy. I mean just say this,
It's just not easy. It not not easy. Sometimes I'll
say like impossible, So.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know you're really selling this, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I mean, but it's one of those things and you
feel like the villain and she's the greatest superhero of
all time, Well.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Well he was the one that was.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
He's he's gonna pack that's what I'm saying, Like, he's
the one that's like, I gotta go.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I think maybe if she's here, she'd be like, well.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I was already, she was here. She's just slap him
and say, Aaron, stop talking.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, should give him a shovel.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No, it would be this this this look she gives
me where it's like, please stop talking, where she just
does the side.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I like it. You have to say anything.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It sounds like there's moments where y'all don't like each other,
but you love each other absolutely.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
But that's that's any relationship. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
If the true love is there, unconditional.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Love, the secret though, I mean I don't I don't
know the secret. You know, if if we're gonna be married,
if we make it fifty something years, bro, we still
got the other side of the mountain to go. So
it's like, but I think it's just that it's just
trying to trying really hard to work through the tough stuff.
And man, we've had some you know, we've had some
(19:16):
tough stuff. You know, I mean we lost a child together,
and you know, I think if we were to like
probably dig deep into counseling, I do think that that
probably that was hard on she and I both just
you know, there were and at that time we had
like a literally a.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Like a four year.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Old, a two and a half year old, and like
we had three little ones already, So I mean, I
don't know. It does make for good songwriting material, you know,
and that's life and a lot of times I try
to capture those feelings and put it into a song.
(19:57):
And I really I try to do that with a
lot of my music. Like, man, I'm if I'm feeling something,
I try to be real about it because you have
to think there's other people out there that are going
through those kinds of things. And I've always found music
to be very therapeutic.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So even to write.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh, writing, writing is my favorite thing. Writing is It's
what I live for. Like I wake up in the
morning excited to make coffee and go sit on the
back porch and write. And I tell you there's like
me writing right now. I'm a different writer. Like I know,
I'm not supposed to talk about the next record. We've
(20:35):
got this new record, Horse Now, just about to do
one with twenty six songs here, yeah, and it's gonna
have forty on it. When it's all said and done,
but I've already finished the next record and.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Don't say that one's even better. You know, we're focused
on this one.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Can't help it, can't help it. But the thing about
it is is that like, I don't know why why now?
I feel like my mom's always said I was like,
I remember saying, mom and my ever going to grow sideburns,
and she was like, baby, you're just a late bloomer.
So I don't know if it's my songwriting has been
kind of a late bloomer. I'm so proud of all
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my past twenty five years of songs, but I just
feel like I'm seeing things differently. I don't know if
it's just a combination of where I'm at in life
or probably too it has a lot to do with
the fact that I have two kids that are writing,
and I want them to see my work ethic, I
want them to see how hard I work at my craft.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Those kind of things.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Explain, like I'm five, what it means to be an
independent artist, which you are.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
A lot of freedom and that's one reason why I'm independent.
Also survival. I mean, if you have a dream and
you want to be a country singer, and you know,
no labels in town. I think you're good enough, Well
do you just give up on your dream? And it's
a much different environment than it was. I mean even
(22:04):
when we first met, you know, almost ten years ago
or whatever. I mean back then. I mean go look,
go go back and look at Country Music Awards shows
in two thousand and fifteen, sixteen seventeen, like it's me
and about three other dudes that have buckles and cowboy
hats and boots on, and back then that they called
(22:28):
me a hat act. Back then, you know, I was
Texas music and it wouldn't work outside of Texas, and
you know, and so I love now when Ella Langley
has a song that right off the bat talks about
my two hometowns Amarillo and Apley. In the first second
I heard that song, I made a video and I
(22:48):
was like, this is gonna be the big song.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's gonna be a number one hit. So I mean,
I don't know. It's like I.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I think that I do take a little pride in
being able to talk to a lot of independent artists
to saying, hey, what's your business model? It's about running
a good business, making good business decisions. But I also
love the fact that, like I'm recording, I've got sessions
in the March, We're recording some fun little side projects.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I'm recording again in May.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I just love the fact that I don't have to
ask some record label like is it okay?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
If I do this, is it? You know? If I
get excited about the music, that's what matters.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So sounds like the good is you as a creative
can do the creative things that you want to do.
It sounds like the difficult thing is, especially early, is
nobody's funding it. You're having to fund everything yourself. You're
having to find all the money to make all the
things happen. Yeah, that's like we are.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
We've got this five year plan and this new album,
Horse named Texas is day one, and we're going to
be going to radio over the next five years.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
You're here now, I'm here when you're literally here now
day one, Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I'm just making.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Sure day one you know where you are. We're not
at Chick fil a, like we're we're here. This is
day one, okay. I was like day one of my
five year plan. We must be on the Bobby Bones Show.
There are twenty six songs on this record, it's a
lot of songs. Did you not part with some of them?
Did you want?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Why that? Why?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I'm just always when it's an odd number, like twenty six.
If it were eleven or twelve, I get it standard, Yeah,
if it were forty, and you're like, it's a double album,
but twenty six is kind of an odd number of songs.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Why, Well, we had them recorded. They're all songs I'm
proud of, and those are all songs that I wrote.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Dear in that phase. What would you call that phase?
What was that season called? Well?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
The last four years a lot of ups and downs.
I had two vocal cord surgeries. I had a lot
of time off, And for me, it's like I wrote
all these songs together, and you know, it's it's for me.
I don't want to sit here and be like, I'm thankful.
I've had this long career. I've done enough for me.
(25:10):
I want to do more than I've ever done in
the next five years. And so I love those songs.
Those songs are finished, those songs need to go out.
I'm passionate about them right now. But I'm already having
a hard time not wanting to push this next record.
I've already finished, and Greg is over there like stup
do not.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well so am I. I'm like, stop talking about the
next record.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
We got twenty six songs here record it's out now,
it's my art and it's like, it's it's it's one
of those things. It's it's almost like talking about your kids,
like I found myself, especially when they were little and
baseball and like we go in somewhere next thing. You know,
I'm like, I talked about my kids the whole time
and did not talk about the record. But it's just
(25:52):
you get you get excited about the music and so
but yeah, Horse named Texas. It's it's a story about
my career. It's it's where I've been, where I'm at,
and where I want to go and and why I
do it. Like the second verse says, came up short,
been bucked off, had my heart stomped in the dirt,
(26:13):
but I got back up, got back on Tom and
Tom again, and after all these years, I've learned a
winner's just a loser who keeps on losing till the
day they finally win.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
And that's just the story of It's a lot like
your story fall until you don't. It's one of my books.
Absolutely I should have made you a co writer on there.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Or you just could have said, hey, Biby's book Fall
Until You Don't on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Herry, where's where's what camera? Do I look at? Pick one?
Go down? Aaron Watson here by Bobby's new book Peil
until You Don't.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It old book actually inspired me to write this whole
new album, Horse named Texas, and it will change your life.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's my camera. Okay, hey, it's Bobby here.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I wrote that book Fail until You Don't inspired by
the rectred horse named Texas Marion Watson that came out
years later, but I really felt it in my heart
what it was gonna say. So please check out Horse
named Texas. Now that's my dog right back and forth,
that's my dog.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
We both did that, and it's like you're a loser
till you're not.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, it's fell until you don't don't. It's like fellingtil
you don't no horse named Texas.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
But it's also it's just one of those things like
like I love baseball. I love baseball. Hall of Fame
hitter fell seventy percent of the time. So what do
you It's like I tell my boys, you went over four.
Were you gonna cry about it or we're gonna work
on the next game, Like what what are you gonna do?
I mean, if you have, you have to understand that's
(27:41):
just part of that's just part of the process. And
also why do you do it? Like if I'm doing
this to have big hits and number one records and
all that stuff, win awards, Like if that's if that's
the reason I'm doing this, I'm gonna be disappointed at
the end of the day. But like the Bridge says
(28:02):
something like if I choke er, wind up broke, God knows,
I do it all over again, because if I wrote
one song that saved a life, wouldn't that be worth
it in the end?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
And that's why you do what you do. You're I
get up on that stage.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Those people have paid their hard earned dollar to come
see a show, and my job is real simple, just
to give them a good time.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And that's what I do every night.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
If we played a show in Knoxville a couple of
weeks ago, not gonna lie when you see that you
only pre sold eight percent of the tickets. You feel
that like ugh feeling inside, But at some point you
suck it up. You go out there and you give
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them the best you got and then you know the
next night is a sellout and that's easy.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
But it's you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
It's I'm just in a really good place with my
music right now, and it's exciting. And like I said,
my boy is watching me. Man, he's watching me, and
so I haven't I've got a lot to teach him.
And also too, I'm not gonna I am fixing. I
have some big moments because his old man's not gonna
(29:15):
go down without a fight. I'm not gonna just start
opening up for him out of nowhere like he's got
you know what I'm saying. It's like it's like getting
out there and playing basketball with them. They're better than me,
and I know that. I think I may have pulled
something and pulled something right here. Can't let them show.
I can't let them see that, you know, and I
box them out a little harder, get a little more aggressive,
(29:36):
fight dirty. You can't let those boys beat you. You
got to the old man. It's the old man thing.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I feel like you think you're dying. Dude. You're scaring me.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You're like, I got five years and I'm out of here.
Just say to me that you're not dying.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I'm not dying. Okay, good, that's all I want to hear.
Here's the deal. Okay, here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
No, but he's acting like I got five years and
then they're gonna spread my ashes at sea.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I'll come back in in five years and be like, Okay,
that five year plan didn't work, but.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
This year playing this next five year, this is the one.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
That's the one where you're opening for your son.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
That's the one where I'm opening for Jacob. I've got
so much exposure. Just really glad we had that kid.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Tell me about Pontiac. What I think is interesting and
I love it. You wrote the song by yourself? Yeah,
so is that one of those you just grab a
guitar at home and you really didn't have it set.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
This is Can I do my romantic version of you
writing this song? Then you tell me how wrong I was? Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Whenever people write songs by themselves, I feel like there's
just some sort of inspiration that happens and they just
pick up a guitar and it wasn't in the calendar
for a rite because they're not writing with somebody and
they're like, I have this idea, let me see how,
and maybe you're even coming up with something for a
rite that you have coming up in the future, and
you're like, oh man, this is just kind of falling
out of me. And the next thing you know, you're like,
I don't think I need anybody. This is everything exactly
how I want to say it. Anybody else putting it
(30:49):
on it would change how i'd say it. So I
think I'm gonna record this as a work tape, and
then eventually you fall in love with it so much
you're like, I'm going to record this as a song,
and then it becomes a single. That's the romantic version
in my head.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
That's very close my whole life.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
When there's something going on in my world, like I
will call my mom and I remember I was like, so, Mom,
tell me, like Dad, if he did this and it
upset you, what would like, like, what do I do?
(31:25):
And so that's where that song came from. That came
from me, I don't know, doing something stupid, upset my wife,
something's going on, and me just going to my mom
and saying, hey, now there are a few you know
they say country music is like three three chords in
(31:45):
the truth, so that song has like five chords. So
and my mom drove a Monte Carlo and an occasional lie.
Got it, got it, my chords and an occasional lie.
I like it that five chords and a fib I'll get,
you know. And I've never heard my mom cuss. And
I actually called and my mom. She's such a wonderful lady,
(32:08):
and she's so straight laced. Like I had to take
down an Instagram post two nights ago because my mom
didn't like it and it annoyed me so much. But
that mama's boy inside.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Of me went, fine, well what did you do?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Well I did?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I did an interview with my buddy and he asked me,
what was the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me
at my show? And I said, well, it's happened several times,
but like having a lady breastfeeding her baby right in
front of me. I was like, there was the cutest
little baby baby boy you ever saw, and he's got
on little headphones and he's breastfeeding right there as I'm
(32:50):
singing Honky Tonk songs. I was like, and the whole
thing is I'm like, stare at the woman in her eyes,
but I know something is going on down there, right,
So we talked about it. So my wife when she
was breastfeeding. It's a brand called hi to Hooter. It's
actually that's what. It's just something that a woman will
drape over herself. And so we jokingly were like, we
(33:14):
need to get some Aaron Watson how to Hooters at
the merchandise booth. So I made a funny post about it,
and my mom literally commented on my post like I
don't like this. I don't think this is appropriate. And
I was like, oh, I was like, Mom. I was like, Mom,
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
She goes.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I just don't she goes. I just don't think that's funny. Shees,
I just don't like that. And she was like, I
don't think And I was like fine, and whatever her
mom control that she has over me. I just went
up to the little three dots at the top and
delete and sorry.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You know, merch coming know how to Hooter merch is coming.
So the song is about your mom, Yeah, it's about
leaning on her, you know. You know what, how did it?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
It's kind of the same question you asked me earlier,
like how long have you been married?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Like what's how did you get through that? Or how
have you gotten this far? Like what's the secret?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
It's me leaning on my mom, like you know, and
I think a lot about my granddad. My granddad was
a great guy, but apparently he had a phase of
his life where he was drinking, making a lot of
bad decisions. And I think about my sweet grandmother that
just somehow kept that family together. And I mean, I think,
(34:37):
without a doubt you have to give credit to my
grandmother for keeping that thing together.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So it's it's.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Talking to mom about like what did dad do? How
did you do it? How did y'all do it? And
so that's just kind of a special thing when you
can take a memory a moment in your life and
just kind of it's like a it's like a snapshot
of that moment in a song.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
So that one's and it's also a song is fun
to play live. It also got added by a ton
of radio stations. Your five year plan is working.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
It's working.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, congratulations, were play We're gonna play your brother. Yeah,
it's good to see you. Horse named Texas is out
twenty six songs. You're proud of it, say yes, say it,
say yes, yes, yes, don't save that a second thing
you're writing now.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
But I think it's fair to say too, since we've
talked a lot about my wife and now she's been
putting up with me for a long time. I think
it's it's we need to be honest, that everyone needs
to know that all the proceeds from the Horse Named
Texas album goes straight into her purse and.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
That's the White Foundation. Yes, that's good. I get nothing.
That's good. I like that. Good to see you again, man.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Dude, it's great to see you guys. Proud of y'all,
and I love your new place. It's really cool. Thanks,
thank you. Yeah, this is Radio Day one. Radio Day
one that was confusedly for a minute. Yes, all down
the hell from here. Aaron Watson music as Instagram is.
I don't say your TikTok. I follow you on tiktoks.
I don't know what it is. Yeah, it's same thing, dude,
I told you this last time. Your tiktoks are great.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Thanks brother.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Even do you ever get annoyed when they don't hit
and you think it's really funny and or do you
even look back to see.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
If they hit. I think of it as I'm just
throwing darts.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Because I've posted stuff that I thought was stupid, Like like,
I'll give you a quick example. I was holding this
lady's baby at the rodeo in Vegas, and I'm holding
this little boy and his pacifier pops out of his
mouth and goes down into this crevice. And I reached
down to get the pacifier and when I reached when
I when I found it, there's literally a beer, a
(36:38):
full beer, next to it.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
So I pulled out a beer in a pacifier and.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I was like yes, and the mom video of that,
I was like, oh, it's kind of funny. So I
posted it and the thing had like thirty million views
and I'm like what. And then I'll post something good
and it's like to hundred views and I'm like, oh
that sucks. Anyways, and I just I think about throwing darts.
(37:05):
Maybe one will hit. I don't think much of it,
I'm but but I want to be consistent with I
got some I got some good ones coming up this
next week.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
It's like the ones I've got today good, Wait till
you see the ones that are coming down. A few weeks. Yes,
you know, but you do good too. Man. Hey you're
one yesterday? Oh yeah, popping. Look it's popping, bro, let's go.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I'm calloused at this point with negative feedback. It doesn't
bother me anymore. I've just had so much of it.
I've got to grow with it.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Do you know what I say to people, Like, if
somebody says something awful to me, I have two responses.
It just shuts them down. Either I say you're not wrong,
or I'll say you're not my mom. And I just
posted on there and it's just like you you have
they have nowhere to go. If you agree with them,
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they have nowhere to go. That just stops them.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Dead in your track. And then and like just telling
someone you're not my mom just says it all. You're
not my mom. You can't. Only my mom can make
me take down a post. And then say, listen to
Pontiac streaming now. Listen to Pontiac streaming now.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Uh, you guys, check out the record It is that
It's a horse named Texas. Twenty six songs all written
by Aaron, A lot by himself with other co writers
that are excellent, but all written by Aaron and Uh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
It's good to see you man. It's good to see
you too, buddy. Great great appearance as always.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
And what also we talked a lot about now, but
Aaron and I did like way over an hour a
few months ago just kind of like about his life
and how he came up. I encourage you go check
that out on the Bobbycast because I learned a lot
about you a person there. This here is very much like, hey,
what's up now? What tells some funny stuff?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
That was a lot of fun again, and we did
it nude what.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
People didn't know.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, because we really wanted to like get back to
the core of humans.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah, we wanted it. We wanted I had a bolo one.
But other than that, we were good.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
The bolo that was a nice it was it kept
me from getting distracted.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yeah, but I didn't wear around my neck just for everybody. Yeah, yeah,
it's a whole. But the bowler was just enough to
let me relax.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
And it was shaped like his head. It was a
bowl of his head with a dude, that's a great
merch idea of your head my face on it. People
would buy that. People would literally buy that.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I only do one hundred and see how like an
a w No, no, no no, do his face but
the high cowboy hat.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Yeah, do it?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I think that'd be awesome. Okay, all right, there he
is Aaron Watson. The album is out. Go listen to
a Horse named Texas and the Horse named Texas. Tour continues,
and then it continues all the way up until month ten,
which is hold on eight nine September. I know that
like terrible thing that happened to us, but it's hower.
Remember nine tenth October. October ntil October Aaron Watson clapped
(39:49):
your hand, Frian Watson.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Good
On the Bobby Bones Show. Now is Aaron Watson. Everybody,
come on, come on here he is.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
He's making the rounds. You can see this guy will
shake hands with everybody. I like it at the sake
of our ratings. He will shake hands with everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You should have thought about your ratings before you invited
me on here.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm just throwing that out there. What's up, buddy. I'm good.
I'm glad I didn't wear that shirt obviously. Were you
gonna wear the same cardigan? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh, you mean the one behind you or the one
the one behind me. I'm glad I didn't wear that shirt.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I thought he was taking a jab at your pink
shirt and your cardigan.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I would have accepted that and said, I'm glad you
didn't wear my pink shirt and cardigan as well.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I do have a cardigan one. I have one at home.
My daughter bought it for me, and you wear it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I wore it once when we went to a Taylor
Swift concert, and uh.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Because that's the Taylor Swift thing. How did you like
going to a Taylor Swift concert?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It was fun. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I'll tell you I've I've cried at two concerts in
my career, and one was at Paul McCartney when he
got up there and sang a song that he wrote
for John And then the other one was the Taylor
Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I cried, what moved you about that?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Just this music that I've been enjoying with my daughter
her whole life, from when she was little, and then
seeing her just lose her mind, going crazy having fun,
and she started crying, and I think I just I
looked at her at some point and I was like,
my little girl is growing up quick, and I just
(01:32):
I realized I was having like a moment like I
realized I had. I was having a moment and it
was pretty special, and it was it was a fun concert,
you know.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
My daughter was very impressed that, like I was getting
recognized and took some selfies. But I did tell her,
I said, hey, I want you to look at this
where this section we're sitting, go down, because your dad's
already done the math for what I paid for the tickets,
I said, go down a rose from here, down eight
rows all the way over to the next walkway aisle.
(02:06):
I said, those seats your old man has to play
about one hundred and fifty shows a year to make
that much money. So just letting you know how amazing,
like I was, like, girl, I'm thinking the math. Of course,
you know, there's no telling what her production costs, but
it was it was a fun show, and.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, the big show.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
People love the not obviously the songs, but how she
pulls off that show.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's so impressive. And I mean, I've always been a
Taylor Switch fan. I grew up my buddy Scott. His
mom is Liz Rose, so like wrote, I remember in
like the early nineties going over to Liz's house and
there was some guitars, and I remember asking Scott, like,
what's up with the guitars? And I remember Scott going,
(02:51):
I don't know. Mom thinks she's going to be a
songwriter or something. And so that's just such a great
story in itself. So but the weirdest thing in my
ever happened to me. And at the Taylor Swift concert,
I guess there was one of the openers was like
b Ba Dooby or something.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm gonna bet you're not pronouncing that right, but I
don't know, I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Know, I'm probably not saying it right. I mean, my
daughter here. She really helps. You might be saying it
right though, I've just not heard that. So after b
Ba doo ba or bbadoobee.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Mike, we're gonna come to you in a second for
an official explanation of who it is.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It is bbadooby you're right, congratulations, All right, thank you, Mike.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'm not familiar with that artist. So my daughter goes Dad.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So after Bbadoobey's performance, Jolie looks at me and goes, Dad,
if you need to go to the bathroom, now is
the time because Taylor shows like three hours. So I
was like, okay, let's go. So we go up to
the bathrooms. There is a mile long line in the girls' bathroom.
The guy's bathroom there's no line. So I was like,
(03:57):
thank you lord. I walk in about the same time
as this, like high school dude. We walk through the
first set of doors, we walk in the next set
of doors. This this bathroom is packed full of high
school girls. Oh wanting to get a quicker way into
the bathroom. Oh yeah, they're in the men's bathroom. And
that high school boy was like he said I remember,
(04:19):
he goes oh heck no me, I'm in my forties
and I don't have that kind of negotiating power with
myself anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It's like, I'm not gonna make it three hours, dude.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
There are there are four other dads pulled up to
these journals, right and I'm looking at all these girls
and I'm looking at this situation and like my mind's racing,
like what do I do? What do I do? A
dad walks away from one of the urinals. It's my turn,
and he kind of gives me this like I don't
know what to do? You know, do you what do
(04:53):
you do? Kind of look.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
So I'm like, okay, we're doing this. We're doing this.
So I pull.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Up to the urinal to do my thing, and in
the middle of the process, some girl behind me says, Hey, Aaron,
why don't you sing.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Us a song?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, nice?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And I was like, that's really that was pretty messed
up and I and I literally said that. I said, girls,
and they're all laughing, and I said, girls, that's messed up.
That's messed up, girls. And I mean, but we had
so much fun. I love going to concerts and it's fun.
That's kind of me and I got to go.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
To many concerts though, because you're on the road a lot,
not a lot. I don't get to go to a lot.
Every time I see you on TikTok, you're on the road,
You're no, you're doing a show?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Are you doing a lot of shows? Oh yeah, that's
all I'm saying, Like, you're on the road a lot
playing shows.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
We always my daughter has the bands in town app
and so I'm like, find the dates where you know,
we're going to a George Strait concert. We bought tickets
this week and it's on a day that I have off,
and so we have a lot of fun. She has
a lot list of artists we're gonna go see, and
(06:04):
I'll be honest, I know a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
About as well as you know. Bbadoobey. I do not
know Bibadoobey. That's the thing I never even heard of Bebadooby.
Like I'm out I'm out here.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, I'm sometimes just like I am. I She's taken
me to places where I look like that dad, like
I'm like, let's go. But just seeing her smile and
singing like I whatever it takes.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Do you.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Feel though, like when you go to these shows with
your daughter, Like does she like any of the music
that you also liked, and that does that ever hit you? Like,
it's so cool that she likes music that I also like,
like older stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oh yeah, like she's she loves the Beatles, she loves
Elton John she's I mean, I posted a video a
while back she's in there at night. You know, I
can hear her in there in the bathroom getting ready
for bed, and she is just singing Kith Keith Whitley
at the top of her lungs.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So it's cool.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Like we did this little cover album just for fun
a couple of years back, called cover Girl, and I
did it actually as a project with Jolie because all
Jolie was listening to was Taylor Swift and I said, well,
Taylor's great. I go, there are so many like you
need to know, the Emmy Lou Harris of the world like.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And so it's fun for she and I.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
We take a lot of drives, whether it's in my
truck or the Corvette or the jeep. We take these
drives just to listen to music. And she's in control
of the radio, so you never know what I'm want
to be listening to.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What about your son? He plays with you. He's I
think he's.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Good, dude, Well already have labels calling about him, and
I'm like, the boy hasn't even recorded anything yet. He's
so good. He's older though, Yeah, Jake is nineteen, and
so Jack. And then there's Jack who's eighteen. Jack is
too small art to be in the music industry. Jack
is already Jack Hardy has like two hundred ounces of
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silver and a couple of ounces of gold, like he
works by stock. Like I was showing Jack some of
my most horrible investments I've ever made, thinking that would
show him like, hey, you win some, you lose some.
And he looked at me and he goes, why would
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you have ever thought that that company was a good idea?
And I was like, okay, well now you actually think
Pops is even probably dumber than you already did, so
that backfired on me.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But I'm having more fun.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm telling you right now, if they gave an award
out for a country artist that has the most fun
at their shows, I would win it because I love
what I'm doing. But now I'm literally like on stage
with my son and we're jamming out. I'll go over
there and you know, mess with him and undo a
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pearl snap or I'll go up and button the top
pearl snap, And I just love messing with him. And
then I just hand him the mic and I'm like,
Pops is tired, you know, Death's tired, and dude, he'll
just and they go nuts for him. And he's a
great songwriter. He's he's he's gonna be dangerous.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Was there a point where he was actually good enough?
Did you ever let him play with you when he
wasn't quite there to help him get there? And then
there was a point where you realize, oh, now he
can actually play with this. I don't really have to
like prop him up anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I was very protective for a while, like if he
would be if he was singing a song, I'd have
the mic just waiting to see, like if he kind
of stumbled, I could jump in and sing with him.
But he's been getting on stage with me since he
was I mean five or six, because he just loves
to play.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And now he has my whole show memorized.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And like a couple of weeks ago, my drummer his
flat got laid and we had soundcheck, so my son
just jumped in there behind the drums. He knows the
entire show on the drums too. He knows the entire
show on the guitar. He's he's super talented and it's
fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Is he a better guitar player than you? Oh like
when he was twelve?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean but Jake, Jake started with
the Beatles, you know, then got into like Mark Knoppler,
dire Strait and the I mean, he just started learning
all this crazy stuff and honestly, you know, and I'm
not like the biggest John Mayer fan, Like I have
a great appreciation for his music, and I like a
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lot of his songs, but a lot of John's acoustic
stuff is so like Chad Atkins. It's just got that
country fingerstyle guitar picking. And Jake learned all that stuff.
So his playing is so good and he's hungry.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He calls me.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You know, he's in college, so he'll call me late
at night. I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, well,
I should be studying, but I'm working on a song.
And I'm like, well, just I know your mom says
you want you to make good grades. I'm like, if
you could, just like, you know, have good attendance and pass,
but don't tell your mom.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I said that. What's Amarello like? Now, it's been probably
two years since I've been there. Well, you know, I
live I grew up there. Are you not there? No,
I've been in Abilene for a while now, in three
years since i've been there. What's Abilene like? It's it's
growing like crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
They've got like it's it's it's supposed to like double
in size over the next ten years because like Google
and has showed up and AI some aideals showed up.
I mean we live about, I don't know, twenty minutes
south of town, kind of where the hill country starts,
Buffalo Gap, Texas.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's a thriving is it only you guys? No, it's
actually started growing.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
But it's we're we're out in the middle of nowhere,
so it's it's pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
What about you. You got a pretty big ranch big? Yeah,
he's of land out there. Yeah, I've got a We've
got a big ranch out there.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We built a ranch house on that edge of this
little canyon that has a bluff behind it, and I
wrote I built that place just to write songs. So
we we use that house for a lot of different reasons.
I have rids come in, uh, my bus driver band
guys will stay there sometimes.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You know, if that's not your primary house, no.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
It's kind of like the doghouse. Like also if I
get kicked out of the house, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Not property. No, it's about.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Five or six miles away. So but it's a really
cool place. And like if if someone at church, you know,
needs a place to stay, I'm like, well, you can
go to the ranch house. So we do a lot
of riding at the ranch and we I've recorded a
lot of vocals there, but that I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
It's just kind of my it's my happy place.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And also to like, whenever I go out to the ranch,
I will look around and I'm like, you know, I
bought this with a song, like a lot of songs,
not one, but like a lot of songs.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But it always makes me go wow. You know.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
People always say you think someday you'll ever like make it,
and I was like, that's an interesting you know, that's
an interesting statement because what is make it? And I've
always told people the reason why I'm successful is because
I made sure that I made goal, that my goals
were achievable, Like if I would have started off my
career saying I want to be bigger than George Strait
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someday or as big you know, that's a pretty big dream.
But my goal was it would be really awesome if
someday I had a career where I could write my songs,
record my songs, play shows, and do well enough that
I can provide for my family. And so that's you know,
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I've I've been able to achieve that. When you talk
about seeing your house going, I got that because I
wrote song. Sometimes I look at my swimming pool and
go I was able to get that because I just
say stuff that's crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I'm the same way.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I'm the same way that I'm like, what in the
world it feels like it should be against the law
because a swimming pool to me meant somebody made it.
Do they even call swimming pool? They call it pols cool?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Okay? Is that weird? When I say swimming pool, I
call it a swimming pool?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Well do you say washing powder?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
What?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Okay? Inturgent?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Obviously I'm from Arkansas, but I have things that I
haven't been able to shake consciously. So I will just
say things for example, that wasn't on purpose. I say
swimming pool, and if I'm talking about doing the laundry,
I think I've been better, but it's always been like, yeah,
we'll use some washing.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Powder and bull poo, that's awesome. I'm gonna start using that. No, no,
it's never on purpose.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But that's what they're alluding to is at times I
can't shake some of that fundamental Arkansas language.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I like it though.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
It's I mean, it's like I'm gonna use that when
I get home that I'm gonna be like, Babe, where
are the flips of washing powder?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
She can be like, what are you talking about? Yeah?
So no, I'm the same way.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I'll say I'll say something and I don't I can't
think of a.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Word right now.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
But I'll say something and people be like, what did
you just what did you just actually say? And I
don't know if it's you know, being raised in West
Texas and my.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Mom for sure, West Texas vernacular for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How long you guys been married?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Gosh, twenty four years. She's put up with me for
twenty four years?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What's what's the what's what?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's hard to say, like why or like, what's the reason,
But what do you feel like is the common threat
in relationships like yours that have lasted.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
A good woman that's a patient and you know, I think.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I think the best way I can describe it is
like I remember when I was like four or five,
my mom and dad got into a knockdown, dragout argument.
And I remember Mom slammed the front door and I
was in bed and my bedroom was the closed in
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single car garage that my dad, you know, when my
sister was born, he turned that into my bedroom. So
when Mom fired up the car that night, I remember
the headlights like lit up my room, and I was
pretty upset about it. And when I'm sure my mom,
I'm sure Mom drove down the street to her sister's house,
my aunt Be. I have an aunt Be, and I'm
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sure they had like a diet coke and they she
cooled off and she came home. And when she came
home that night, she came into my room. And I
was so little, but I remember this.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
She said.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I asked her, I said, what what happened with you
and dad? And she said, well, we had an argument.
And I was like, well, what happened?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Like what was going on? And she said, well, I'm
just going to tell you this, she said, right now.
I do not like your daddy, she said, but I
love him with all my heart. And I think that's
the mentality that like, you know, because that's the mentality
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you got to have, because I'm not naturally like that,
Like I'm more dramatic, like the sky is falling. If
there are times where I'm like, if it wasn't for
the kids, like I just want to pack my bags
and hit the road. Of course I'd get ten miles
down the road and be like, where am I actually going?
You know, But that's how that's how I work, That's
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how my mind works. And you know, I just think
it's one of those things where, you know, for me
in this phase of my life, you know, it's just
you know, I it's not easy. I mean just say this,
It's just not easy. It not not easy. Sometimes I'll
say like impossible, So.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know you're really selling this, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I mean, but it's one of those things and you
feel like the villain and she's the greatest superhero of
all time, Well.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Well he was the one that was.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
He's he's gonna pack that's what I'm saying, Like, he's
the one that's like, I gotta go.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I think maybe if she's here, she'd be like, well.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I was already, she was here. She's just slap him
and say, Aaron, stop talking.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yeah, should give him a shovel.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No, it would be this this this look she gives
me where it's like, please stop talking, where she just
does the side.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I like it. You have to say anything.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It sounds like there's moments where y'all don't like each other,
but you love each other absolutely.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
But that's that's any relationship. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
If the true love is there, unconditional.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Love, the secret though, I mean I don't I don't
know the secret. You know, if if we're gonna be married,
if we make it fifty something years, bro, we still
got the other side of the mountain to go. So
it's like, but I think it's just that it's just
trying to trying really hard to work through the tough stuff.
And man, we've had some you know, we've had some
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tough stuff. You know, I mean we lost a child together,
and you know, I think if we were to like
probably dig deep into counseling, I do think that that
probably that was hard on she and I both just
you know, there were and at that time we had
like a literally a.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Like a four year.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Old, a two and a half year old, and like
we had three little ones already, So I mean, I
don't know. It does make for good songwriting material, you know,
and that's life and a lot of times I try
to capture those feelings and put it into a song.
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And I really I try to do that with a
lot of my music. Like, man, I'm if I'm feeling something,
I try to be real about it because you have
to think there's other people out there that are going
through those kinds of things. And I've always found music
to be very therapeutic.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So even to write.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh, writing, writing is my favorite thing. Writing is It's
what I live for. Like I wake up in the
morning excited to make coffee and go sit on the
back porch and write. And I tell you there's like
me writing right now. I'm a different writer. Like I know,
I'm not supposed to talk about the next record. We've
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got this new record, Horse Now, just about to do
one with twenty six songs here, yeah, and it's gonna
have forty on it. When it's all said and done,
but I've already finished the next record and.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Don't say that one's even better. You know, we're focused
on this one.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Can't help it, can't help it. But the thing about
it is is that like, I don't know why why now?
I feel like my mom's always said I was like,
I remember saying, mom and my ever going to grow sideburns,
and she was like, baby, you're just a late bloomer.
So I don't know if it's my songwriting has been
kind of a late bloomer. I'm so proud of all
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my past twenty five years of songs, but I just
feel like I'm seeing things differently. I don't know if
it's just a combination of where I'm at in life
or probably too it has a lot to do with
the fact that I have two kids that are writing,
and I want them to see my work ethic, I
want them to see how hard I work at my craft.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Those kind of things.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Explain, like I'm five, what it means to be an
independent artist, which you are.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
A lot of freedom and that's one reason why I'm independent.
Also survival. I mean, if you have a dream and
you want to be a country singer, and you know,
no labels in town. I think you're good enough, Well
do you just give up on your dream? And it's
a much different environment than it was. I mean even
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when we first met, you know, almost ten years ago
or whatever. I mean back then. I mean go look,
go go back and look at Country Music Awards shows
in two thousand and fifteen, sixteen seventeen, like it's me
and about three other dudes that have buckles and cowboy
hats and boots on, and back then that they called
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me a hat act. Back then, you know, I was
Texas music and it wouldn't work outside of Texas, and
you know, and so I love now when Ella Langley
has a song that right off the bat talks about
my two hometowns Amarillo and Apley. In the first second
I heard that song, I made a video and I
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was like, this is gonna be the big song.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's gonna be a number one hit. So I mean,
I don't know. It's like I.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I think that I do take a little pride in
being able to talk to a lot of independent artists
to saying, hey, what's your business model? It's about running
a good business, making good business decisions. But I also
love the fact that, like I'm recording, I've got sessions
in the March, We're recording some fun little side projects.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I'm recording again in May.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I just love the fact that I don't have to
ask some record label like is it okay?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
If I do this, is it? You know? If I
get excited about the music, that's what matters.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So sounds like the good is you as a creative
can do the creative things that you want to do.
It sounds like the difficult thing is, especially early, is
nobody's funding it. You're having to fund everything yourself. You're
having to find all the money to make all the
things happen. Yeah, that's like we are.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
We've got this five year plan and this new album,
Horse named Texas is day one, and we're going to
be going to radio over the next five years.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
You're here now, I'm here when you're literally here now
day one, Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I'm just making.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Sure day one you know where you are. We're not
at Chick fil a, like we're we're here. This is
day one, okay. I was like day one of my
five year plan. We must be on the Bobby Bones Show.
There are twenty six songs on this record, it's a
lot of songs. Did you not part with some of them?
Did you want?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Why that? Why?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I'm just always when it's an odd number, like twenty six.
If it were eleven or twelve, I get it standard, Yeah,
if it were forty, and you're like, it's a double album,
but twenty six is kind of an odd number of songs.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Why, Well, we had them recorded. They're all songs I'm
proud of, and those are all songs that I wrote.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Dear in that phase. What would you call that phase?
What was that season called? Well?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
The last four years a lot of ups and downs.
I had two vocal cord surgeries. I had a lot
of time off, And for me, it's like I wrote
all these songs together, and you know, it's it's for me.
I don't want to sit here and be like, I'm thankful.
I've had this long career. I've done enough for me.
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I want to do more than I've ever done in
the next five years. And so I love those songs.
Those songs are finished, those songs need to go out.
I'm passionate about them right now. But I'm already having
a hard time not wanting to push this next record.
I've already finished, and Greg is over there like stup
do not.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well so am I. I'm like, stop talking about the
next record.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
We got twenty six songs here record it's out now,
it's my art and it's like, it's it's it's one
of those things. It's it's almost like talking about your kids,
like I found myself, especially when they were little and
baseball and like we go in somewhere next thing. You know,
I'm like, I talked about my kids the whole time
and did not talk about the record. But it's just
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you get you get excited about the music and so
but yeah, Horse named Texas. It's it's a story about
my career. It's it's where I've been, where I'm at,
and where I want to go and and why I
do it. Like the second verse says, came up short,
been bucked off, had my heart stomped in the dirt,
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but I got back up, got back on Tom and
Tom again, and after all these years, I've learned a
winner's just a loser who keeps on losing till the
day they finally win.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
And that's just the story of It's a lot like
your story fall until you don't. It's one of my books.
Absolutely I should have made you a co writer on there.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Or you just could have said, hey, Biby's book Fall
Until You Don't on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Herry, where's where's what camera? Do I look at? Pick one?
Go down? Aaron Watson here by Bobby's new book Peil
until You Don't.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It old book actually inspired me to write this whole
new album, Horse named Texas, and it will change your life.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's my camera. Okay, hey, it's Bobby here.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I wrote that book Fail until You Don't inspired by
the rectred horse named Texas Marion Watson that came out
years later, but I really felt it in my heart
what it was gonna say. So please check out Horse
named Texas. Now that's my dog right back and forth,
that's my dog.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
We both did that, and it's like you're a loser
till you're not.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, it's fell until you don't don't. It's like fellingtil
you don't no horse named Texas.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
But it's also it's just one of those things like
like I love baseball. I love baseball. Hall of Fame
hitter fell seventy percent of the time. So what do
you It's like I tell my boys, you went over four.
Were you gonna cry about it or we're gonna work
on the next game, Like what what are you gonna do?
I mean, if you have, you have to understand that's
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just part of that's just part of the process. And
also why do you do it? Like if I'm doing
this to have big hits and number one records and
all that stuff, win awards, Like if that's if that's
the reason I'm doing this, I'm gonna be disappointed at
the end of the day. But like the Bridge says
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something like if I choke er, wind up broke, God knows,
I do it all over again, because if I wrote
one song that saved a life, wouldn't that be worth
it in the end?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
And that's why you do what you do. You're I
get up on that stage.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Those people have paid their hard earned dollar to come
see a show, and my job is real simple, just
to give them a good time.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And that's what I do every night.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
If we played a show in Knoxville a couple of
weeks ago, not gonna lie when you see that you
only pre sold eight percent of the tickets. You feel
that like ugh feeling inside, But at some point you
suck it up. You go out there and you give
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them the best you got and then you know the
next night is a sellout and that's easy.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
But it's you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
It's I'm just in a really good place with my
music right now, and it's exciting. And like I said,
my boy is watching me. Man, he's watching me, and
so I haven't I've got a lot to teach him.
And also too, I'm not gonna I am fixing. I
have some big moments because his old man's not gonna
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go down without a fight. I'm not gonna just start
opening up for him out of nowhere like he's got
you know what I'm saying. It's like it's like getting
out there and playing basketball with them. They're better than me,
and I know that. I think I may have pulled
something and pulled something right here. Can't let them show.
I can't let them see that, you know, and I
box them out a little harder, get a little more aggressive,
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fight dirty. You can't let those boys beat you. You
got to the old man. It's the old man thing.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I feel like you think you're dying. Dude. You're scaring me.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You're like, I got five years and I'm out of here.
Just say to me that you're not dying.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I'm not dying. Okay, good, that's all I want to hear.
Here's the deal. Okay, here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
No, but he's acting like I got five years and
then they're gonna spread my ashes at sea.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I'll come back in in five years and be like, Okay,
that five year plan didn't work, but.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
This year playing this next five year, this is the one.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
That's the one where you're opening for your son.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
That's the one where I'm opening for Jacob. I've got
so much exposure. Just really glad we had that kid.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Tell me about Pontiac. What I think is interesting and
I love it. You wrote the song by yourself? Yeah,
so is that one of those you just grab a
guitar at home and you really didn't have it set.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
This is Can I do my romantic version of you
writing this song? Then you tell me how wrong I was? Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Whenever people write songs by themselves, I feel like there's
just some sort of inspiration that happens and they just
pick up a guitar and it wasn't in the calendar
for a rite because they're not writing with somebody and
they're like, I have this idea, let me see how,
and maybe you're even coming up with something for a
rite that you have coming up in the future, and
you're like, oh man, this is just kind of falling
out of me. And the next thing you know, you're like,
I don't think I need anybody. This is everything exactly
how I want to say it. Anybody else putting it
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on it would change how i'd say it. So I
think I'm gonna record this as a work tape, and
then eventually you fall in love with it so much
you're like, I'm going to record this as a song,
and then it becomes a single. That's the romantic version
in my head.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
That's very close my whole life.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
When there's something going on in my world, like I
will call my mom and I remember I was like, so, Mom,
tell me, like Dad, if he did this and it
upset you, what would like, like, what do I do?
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And so that's where that song came from. That came
from me, I don't know, doing something stupid, upset my wife,
something's going on, and me just going to my mom
and saying, hey, now there are a few you know
they say country music is like three three chords in
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the truth, so that song has like five chords. So
and my mom drove a Monte Carlo and an occasional lie.
Got it, got it, my chords and an occasional lie.
I like it that five chords and a fib I'll get,
you know. And I've never heard my mom cuss. And
I actually called and my mom. She's such a wonderful lady,
(32:08):
and she's so straight laced. Like I had to take
down an Instagram post two nights ago because my mom
didn't like it and it annoyed me so much. But
that mama's boy inside.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Of me went, fine, well what did you do?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Well I did?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
I did an interview with my buddy and he asked me,
what was the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me
at my show? And I said, well, it's happened several times,
but like having a lady breastfeeding her baby right in
front of me. I was like, there was the cutest
little baby baby boy you ever saw, and he's got
on little headphones and he's breastfeeding right there as I'm
(32:50):
singing Honky Tonk songs. I was like, and the whole
thing is I'm like, stare at the woman in her eyes,
but I know something is going on down there, right,
So we talked about it. So my wife when she
was breastfeeding. It's a brand called hi to Hooter. It's
actually that's what. It's just something that a woman will
drape over herself. And so we jokingly were like, we
(33:14):
need to get some Aaron Watson how to Hooters at
the merchandise booth. So I made a funny post about it,
and my mom literally commented on my post like I
don't like this. I don't think this is appropriate. And
I was like, oh, I was like, Mom. I was like, Mom,
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
She goes.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I just don't she goes. I just don't think that's funny. Shees,
I just don't like that. And she was like, I
don't think And I was like fine, and whatever her
mom control that she has over me. I just went
up to the little three dots at the top and
delete and sorry.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You know, merch coming know how to Hooter merch is coming.
So the song is about your mom, Yeah, it's about
leaning on her, you know. You know what, how did it?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
It's kind of the same question you asked me earlier,
like how long have you been married?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Like what's how did you get through that? Or how
have you gotten this far? Like what's the secret?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
It's me leaning on my mom, like you know, and
I think a lot about my granddad. My granddad was
a great guy, but apparently he had a phase of
his life where he was drinking, making a lot of
bad decisions. And I think about my sweet grandmother that
just somehow kept that family together. And I mean, I think,
(34:37):
without a doubt you have to give credit to my
grandmother for keeping that thing together.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So it's it's.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Talking to mom about like what did dad do? How
did you do it? How did y'all do it? And
so that's just kind of a special thing when you
can take a memory a moment in your life and
just kind of it's like a it's like a snapshot
of that moment in a song.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
So that one's and it's also a song is fun
to play live. It also got added by a ton
of radio stations. Your five year plan is working.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
It's working.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, congratulations, were play We're gonna play your brother. Yeah,
it's good to see you. Horse named Texas is out
twenty six songs. You're proud of it, say yes, say it,
say yes, yes, yes, don't save that a second thing
you're writing now.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
But I think it's fair to say too, since we've
talked a lot about my wife and now she's been
putting up with me for a long time. I think
it's it's we need to be honest, that everyone needs
to know that all the proceeds from the Horse Named
Texas album goes straight into her purse and.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
That's the White Foundation. Yes, that's good. I get nothing.
That's good. I like that. Good to see you again, man.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Dude, it's great to see you guys. Proud of y'all,
and I love your new place. It's really cool. Thanks,
thank you. Yeah, this is Radio Day one. Radio Day
one that was confusedly for a minute. Yes, all down
the hell from here. Aaron Watson music as Instagram is.
I don't say your TikTok. I follow you on tiktoks.
I don't know what it is. Yeah, it's same thing, dude,
I told you this last time. Your tiktoks are great.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Thanks brother.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Even do you ever get annoyed when they don't hit
and you think it's really funny and or do you
even look back to see.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
If they hit. I think of it as I'm just
throwing darts.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Because I've posted stuff that I thought was stupid, Like like,
I'll give you a quick example. I was holding this
lady's baby at the rodeo in Vegas, and I'm holding
this little boy and his pacifier pops out of his
mouth and goes down into this crevice. And I reached
down to get the pacifier and when I reached when
I when I found it, there's literally a beer, a
(36:38):
full beer, next to it.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
So I pulled out a beer in a pacifier and.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I was like yes, and the mom video of that,
I was like, oh, it's kind of funny. So I
posted it and the thing had like thirty million views
and I'm like what. And then I'll post something good
and it's like to hundred views and I'm like, oh
that sucks. Anyways, and I just I think about throwing darts.
(37:05):
Maybe one will hit. I don't think much of it,
I'm but but I want to be consistent with I
got some I got some good ones coming up this
next week.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
It's like the ones I've got today good, Wait till
you see the ones that are coming down. A few weeks. Yes,
you know, but you do good too. Man. Hey you're
one yesterday? Oh yeah, popping. Look it's popping, bro, let's go.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I'm calloused at this point with negative feedback. It doesn't
bother me anymore. I've just had so much of it.
I've got to grow with it.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Do you know what I say to people, Like, if
somebody says something awful to me, I have two responses.
It just shuts them down. Either I say you're not wrong,
or I'll say you're not my mom. And I just
posted on there and it's just like you you have
they have nowhere to go. If you agree with them,
(37:55):
they have nowhere to go. That just stops them.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Dead in your track. And then and like just telling
someone you're not my mom just says it all. You're
not my mom. You can't. Only my mom can make
me take down a post. And then say, listen to
Pontiac streaming now. Listen to Pontiac streaming now.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Uh, you guys, check out the record It is that
It's a horse named Texas. Twenty six songs all written
by Aaron, A lot by himself with other co writers
that are excellent, but all written by Aaron and Uh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
It's good to see you man. It's good to see
you too, buddy. Great great appearance as always.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
And what also we talked a lot about now, but
Aaron and I did like way over an hour a
few months ago just kind of like about his life
and how he came up. I encourage you go check
that out on the Bobbycast because I learned a lot
about you a person there. This here is very much like, hey,
what's up now? What tells some funny stuff?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
That was a lot of fun again, and we did
it nude what.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
People didn't know.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, because we really wanted to like get back to
the core of humans.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah, we wanted it. We wanted I had a bolo one.
But other than that, we were good.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
The bolo that was a nice it was it kept
me from getting distracted.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yeah, but I didn't wear around my neck just for everybody. Yeah, yeah,
it's a whole. But the bowler was just enough to
let me relax.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
And it was shaped like his head. It was a
bowl of his head with a dude, that's a great
merch idea of your head my face on it. People
would buy that. People would literally buy that.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I only do one hundred and see how like an
a w No, no, no no, do his face but
the high cowboy hat.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Yeah, do it?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I think that'd be awesome. Okay, all right, there he
is Aaron Watson. The album is out. Go listen to
a Horse named Texas and the Horse named Texas. Tour continues,
and then it continues all the way up until month ten,
which is hold on eight nine September. I know that
like terrible thing that happened to us, but it's hower.
Remember nine tenth October. October ntil October Aaron Watson clapped
(39:49):
your hand, Frian Watson.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
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