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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, Chason from the Fred Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Back with another artist that I want you to know
that I think we should play Tyler Nance.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
How are you today? Thanks for joining me today.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm doing good. Just got done with a right and
no I'm back at the house.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Okay, Okay, So I want to talk about because I
got a little a couple of notes from your team
and we share something that I want to talk about
because like we got to talk about keeps me saying right,
because that's a song that's like blowing up everywhere.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You can't open TikTok without hearing it.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Everyone's saying that it's like the biggest country song right
now on the app, like it's crazy. But I want
to talk about where you sort of came from. Right,
So you you worked slash work on a farm?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I I grew up on a family farm. I'm the
fourth generation farmer, and I'm from Missouri, southwest Missouri, and
I grew up farming my whole life until I started
working on the road welding.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Okay, wow, would you suggest the farm life?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Because I always said if radio doesn't work, I want
to like move the middle of nowhere and like have
a farm.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It's a lot quieter.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
It's it's peaceful, and it's honest living, and I don't know,
it's where I belong.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, I mean your voice is so authentic, it's so raw,
it's so real, Like your music is like you could
just tell that.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
You mean what you're writing and you mean what you're singing.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Do you remember when you were like, wait, like I
can sing and it sounds good and I want to
do this. Do you remember that moment or do you
always just remember sounding like you do?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I mean I always always kind of sounded like this,
but less confident. I remember whenever I like first started singing,
I just started just writing songs down and posting them
on TikTok and just and just seeing what happened, just
for fun, because I had I had nothing better to do,
because I'd get off work and I'd go into a
(02:02):
camper and I'd sit there and I was like, you
know what.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I can only watch so much Netflix, and so so.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Let me just write a couple hit songs real quick.
That's not normal, that's not normal, Just so you know what,
what was it like when you started getting the traction,
like online, you started getting the followers and you know,
getting the streams.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
What did that mean to you? What did that feel like?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It was crazy?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
So about about this time last year, I had my
very first song I ever put out, bad News.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It went crazy and it was like the same kind
of thing, but on a smaller scale. It keeps me
saying yeah, which I think was good for me because
it kind of it kind of like gave me that
glimpse of like virility and and like what it's like
and got me kind of in the mindset that now
(02:59):
this is doing even better and it's not like, oh
my gosh, like what do I like, what do I
do now?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, it's a steady build.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You're letting out music, and it was a steady climb
till I think keeps me saying, sort of pop through
is what it seems like. How do you deal with
like the I guess just like the social media of
it all, right, Like how people consume music music now
is so different from how it was five years ago, right,
and yeah, you got to keep pushing the content. And
and I know just from our world, right, we're constantly
(03:28):
being pushed. Okay, you do it for our radio show,
but now I gotta film videos, and I gotta do
this and that of all for social and it's tiring,
Like how do you sort of stay motivated and make sure,
like you know, you're constantly sort of pushing out content.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't really like see it as a job.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I just like try to have as much fun as
I can with it, honestly, Like what makes it less
hard is looking at like where I was and what
I was doing a year ago to what I'm doing now.
This is a lot more enjoyable and then freezing my
butt off in the winter time and dying of heat
(04:05):
exhaustion during the summertime. So that kind of motivates me
to like, you know, just keep going. And I just
don't like.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I don't I try not to overthink it, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's hard, but you know you're
killing it, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I want to talk about one song.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That I sort of dove into everything you have out
but I'm not him, And the reason why I want
to touchdown on that song is because I think it's
so raw and open or someone that's new in the game, like,
that's a pretty.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
An honest song.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Like what I get what made you sort of write
that and want to release it because it seems so personal.
But I like it's something that I think everyone thinks of, right,
Like everyone does shit that might be out of character
or might be you know whatever, that's not who you
are as a person, but it's kind of be like, Okay,
yeah that happened, but that's not who who I am, right,
(05:00):
And I just thought that was so deep and so
prolific and and just a cool angle to sort of
take in a song. What means you sort of write
that and decide to release it?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Well, you know, I I was a kid, and I
did a lot of stupid stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
As we all do, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And whenever I was working, I got I got two
DUIs and you know, like it was it was a
huge turning point in my life to where I was like,
like really down on myself.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I had nothing. I was like, I was.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Broke is all get out and like and it kind
of came in. The idea came farther along, like in
the future from those events because we were just writing
and like we we had the title I'm Him. I
was like, but I'm not him, you know, Yeah, So
(05:56):
we wrote I'm not Him, and it was just like
It's such a song true to like my past, because
like I've done so many things that like doesn't define
who I am, and like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yeah, the I gotta talk about.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You were probably the newest most famous mustache to hit
country music, right, do you realize that?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I don't. I didn't. I didn't haven't realized that yet.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
But is that always been the look or what made
I can't do that? I'm jealous. I could never get
that leg, So I gotta ask you, were you just
blessed that way or or what made you sort of
rock that look?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
My dad gave me the good mustache jeans, so I
didn't want to look exactly like my dad, and I
didn't want to look like a baby.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So I I just like, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I watched I watched Tombstone. It's an old Western okay,
and Balkilmer had a mustache. I was like like this, yeah,
and in the movie, and.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I don't know. I did it in high school just
for just for fun.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But then in high school.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, I started it in high school, like my senior year,
and then I just kind of like it was like how.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
People remembered me whenever I was working on.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
The road, and now it's kind of how people remember
me now.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So yeah, I haven't seen your merch yet, but if
it doesn't have mustaches on it, then yeah, missing out
that needs to be the design.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
We've talked about that.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
No doubt. So okay, let's talk about keeps me sane? Right.
So we touched on a little bit how you felt.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I guess when you really saw that it was taken off,
did you know it was gonna be this song that
sort of did it like when you were putting it together.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I mean, you never really expect for a viral moment
happened like it did.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Whenever I wrote it, I was it was probably my
favorite song that I had written at the time, which
it wasn't even that long ago.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I probably wrote it like six to eight weeks ago,
and we I didn't.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Really expect anything of it, but I knew it was
like one of my catchest songs I'd written, and like
it was cleverly written, and I just I just really
loved it, like, which means a lot, because like I
don't usually love all of my songs. Like it's very
rare that I like I have a song that I'm
like you know what this is like a smash and
(08:30):
whenever we got the sound around it and everything.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And like all the lyrics, it was.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Just like it's like, yeah, this like it's not gonna
surprise me if it does something good.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, Well I was like I can't open my app
and swipe three times without hearing the song. I'm like,
I have to talk to this guy because it it's
got to feel so cool to like open an app
that everyone uses and hear your.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Song like in people's video.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Its like if you've seen one that was like do
you remember when those just like the weirdest, like why
did you use my song?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Do you have you experienced that someone?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
There's there's been a there's been a bunch to a
lot of my sounds, but this one specifically like lots
of lawnmowers, lots of just random stuff, lots of just
just weird stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
But I'm like, hey, you know what the heck, yeah,
you're listening to the song. I'm going so the.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Exactly. I mean, this song is so good.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I mean, obviously your voice is nuts, it's so unique,
and you're a guid in country who is you know,
talking about stuff? But it's meaningful stuff and you could
just tell that what you're doing is authentic. And what
I also love is like on all your songs, like
the instrumentation is so cool, Like are you super involved
with how like it's layered? And and I loved to
you that you could hear like instruments shine Like it
(09:51):
gives me that old school sort of like backwards sort
of country feel where it's like, Okay, now you're gonna
have like a you know, like a fiddle moment or whatever.
Like is that important you to sort of be involved
in that process too?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, it definitely is important to me.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I mean, I got to give the band player, the
the player's credit for what they do because like they're
so good and the producers are so good at doing
their job to like get everything layered correctly.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah. And it's an art for sure.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah, And so I have I do try to imput
myself into that in my opinion and as much as
I can. And it's important to me because I don't
want it to like be dole. I want it to
be bright, whether it's sad or happy, and I want
it to be bright like throughout the whole entire song,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, for sure, no, you and you achieve that not
just in keeps Me saying, but a lot of your
work you can tell that you care and that you're involved.
So what's coming out? Twenty twenty five? So keeps Me
Saying is blowing up everywhere? What are we doing? Are
we doing shows?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Do we have more music that you could tell me about?
What's the plans?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah? My plan is to be.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Putting out music into twenty twenty five, from through this
throughout this year, put out more singles and hopefully drop
an album in twenty twenty five. And I'm also getting
a bunch of more a bunch more shows in the
books and hopefully hopefully getting in front of a lot
(11:27):
more people and actually meeting fans and shaking hands and
selling merch and singing for people.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So yeah, well I have a request to put in
for a Chicago date.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Okay, Yeah, what's the what's the There's a there's a
small little bar that I played out there one time?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Uh was it Carrol's Pub? That's pub? Yeah, yeah, you
need to do you could do that again, or you
you need to.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Do Joe's on Weed That's like the spot Joe's on
Weed Street on Weed Joe's on Weed Yeah it's on
Weed Street. But yeah, yeah, you gotta do that.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
No, I I think that was That was my very
first live show was in at Carol's Pub.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Really, holy crap, that's awesome. Like I had one.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I had like a one off deal one time and
it was a smaller event, but that was like my real,
like actual performance in front of a large group of people,
and it was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well when you're when you're coming around again, make sure
you at Chicago. But then when you're selling out Soldier
Field one day, remember remember us.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Right, yeah, when you were talking.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, Well, thank you so much for joining me today, Tyler.
You're so talented. I can't wait to I can't wait
to watch you just blow up. Your voice is insane.
It's literally impossible for you not to be like the
next huge superstar. So congrats on everything. If you haven't
checked out, keeps me saying check that out. That's a
song that's all over your TikTok. My personal favorite I'm
(12:57):
Not Him that you have out right now too. Just
listen to it all because why not? Tyler, nance thanks
for joining good luck on everything all.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Right, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Thanks for having me have a good one.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah Bye.