May 14, 2025 • 9 mins
We talk about his new album, new music, collaborations and what it was like being on Family Feud.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is Scotty. We got Boots in the Park coming
this weekend. So many great artists gonna be here, Corey
Can't Jackson, den Ian Munsig, Scotty McCreary, Parker McCollum, Cody Johnson, Luke, Colmbs,
and John Party is back in the five oh five. John.
Thank you so much for coming back to New Mexico.
I want to start a conversation today with how festival
(00:21):
shows compare with the regular shows that you do.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I mean, they're fun, they're it's kind of everybody's coming
to party, kind of a do so the later you
play throughout her get.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Of course that is a country show, right yeah, And
then of course you've got your Honky Tonk Hollywood Tour underway.
You got a bunch of dates and arenas and amphitheaters.
So how is it playing an arena or an amphitheater
compared to a smaller venue.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, we got a lot of productions, so you know,
we got pyro videos, all kinds of stuff. So in
the arena setting, it's nice because you can you know,
you're not tricked into weather. You always get a good show.
Everything's rocking, So I mean, I love arena, especially in
the summertime. Get the AC going makes it nice.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
There you go AC on the stage too, right.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh yeah, just fans blowing all sweaty. But you know,
I love a good sweaty country music accessible too.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So when when you're playing those big arenas, do you
get nervous when you look out there and see twenty
thirty forty thousand people staring at you? Or do you
just focus on the music and doing a good show.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You just soak it all in. You always soak it
in and the energy of the crowd and the what
we're putting off stage usually the next and it's just
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And so one of the things I was thinking about
about your you know, I love so many of your songs.
They're definitely on my you know, on my playlist, Dirt
on my boots, Heartache, Medication, night shift, beer Can't Fix.
I think Tequila Little Time was one of my favorite
of your songs. I loved it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I loved Tequila Little Time. That's a is a song.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So the question is, you know, we're all familiar with
all of all the stuff you've done so far. How
does the new stuff compare to what you've done before.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I mean, I think it's the same as what we've
done before, is it's a little more grittier. It's just
got a different vibe too this time. And I don't know,
it's a step up. I feel like it's an elevation
from my last records and going in with Jay Joyce.
I mean, he just just one album of the year
on Lady, you know, and he did that record, So
it's just dealing with different producers and great songs. I mean,
(02:28):
it's a win win, So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So you wrote a bunch of the songs on the
new album, So when you get in the studio with
a new producer, do things get changed up? You know,
from what you originally envisioned the song might be like
versus what it actually came out.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, this record we recorded, we tracked for a long time,
so we did one week of just like basically jamming
and pre production, and it was amazing how many of
the pre production stuff we did, and then we went
the final like we'd listened back and then with the
final like our final recording, it sounds nothing like what
we did the first week, and that was a really
(03:05):
cool experience. So you get a second chance of like
changing the song, and so it worked out good. I
mean it was. It was a really cool way that
Jay does his production. Like it's it's pretty awesome. It's
an awesome record. One of my favorite records I ever made.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I just tell the world, you'll see You'll see world.
I'll get you once you start listening more like, yeah,
this is a great record.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, I think, you know, sometimes I think that that
can happen a lot in the studio because then you
get new energy, new ideas and stuff and all of
a sudden, hey if we do this here and then
you know, and that's how sometimes you get a big
number one hit out of it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, you just you's never know music music, and it
just I know. One thing is this record felt good.
We recorded whatever felt good and delivered the best. So
that was a one on this record.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's nice. I think your gut feel is right on
with all the great songs you released so far.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, no, it's it's it's not too far from the
other records. It just a little more elevated.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So now that you're a dad, has that changed anything
about the way you approach songwriting or content of your songs.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean we got we got a couple you know,
family songs on Honky Kunk Hollywood, but we also got
a lot of dancing, drinking, having fun too. You know,
I don't want to you can get lost in that
stuff too. But like for the most part, you know,
I wasn't. My career is not built on being a father.
I try to like serve to singing about the family
stuff and also all the other stuff. We love the
(04:31):
party too too, you know. It's kind of a good balance.
But we got some killer like dad songs, father daughter
songs on the new record, but also we got a
lot of dancing and having fun songs too, So I
like a good balance. You know, you don't want to
get too much. You want to go to mister mom.
You can't go to mister mom.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Right exactly. So seventeen songs on the new album, any
duets in there? Those are so popular these days. Of
course you've done some before with Thomas Rhtt and others.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, I tried to stay away from collaborations. It's very popular,
and it just wasn't. You know, all the collabs I've
had wasn't really working out for me. Man, I don't know,
ever since Beer Cam Fix, just haven't really had anything
that's stuck. So I just stopped doing them. I get
asked all the time, and I'm like, I just don't
feel like it the songs are you know, you're just
kind of putting artists on songs that the songs really
(05:22):
just needs one artist. And so but I'm not saying
I'll never do it. I just wait for the right song.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think that's really great because sometimes that you know,
as a you know, as an on air talent, right,
It's like it seems like every song or every other
song I'm playing is a collaboration, and I think sometimes
it's a nice break to have something that's just John
Party having fun.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
You know, many program directors and DJs we're clapping when
I told them my damn collaborations. And the worst part
about collaborations, I mean, this is the worst part is
that you're always by yourself live most of the time.
You know, like when you play them live, like you're
but he's not there, or you're you know, you're Thomas
(06:02):
Rhet somewhere else. You're lowering of the lane is somewhere else.
Like if you never really get to sing them all
the time, so you got to have somebody else seeing them,
or you just sing the second verse. So I don't know.
They're good on the media, but not on the live front.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I feel like, you know what, you know, what's funny
you mentioned that because I was thinking the same thing.
Chris Young was here for Boots in the Park last
year in Albuquerque, and of course famous Friends huge song,
Kane Brown's on it with him, And it's funny because
there was a video in the background with Kane Brown
singing his parts, but it just didn't really seem to
resonate at a live show.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It doesn't. And you know, I shoot, I mean, I
grew up going to the concerts and never once thought
George Strait had needed somebody, you know, like or Alan like.
It was just like, I don't know, there's there never
wasn't a collaboration. The collaboration came from the hip hop
and streaming world. That's that's where it's big. But hey,
like I said, it's not say I'll never do it,
but as of right now, I'm happy just just rocking.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Out right exactly. You on the stage doing your thing,
which you're so good at. Yeah, he I did get
one fun question for you from one of my listeners.
I told everybody yesterday I was gonna be talking to
you this morning. They sent me a couple questions. So
one of my favorite shows actually, and apparently one of
my listener's favorite shows, is Family Feud. You were on
(07:16):
that back in twenty nineteen. What was that like being
on a game show with Steve Harvey?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Man, it was the Steve Harvey Show off off camera. Well,
he started, he just started doing stand up and that
was the coolest thing I remember besides the game show.
And I was so sick. I had the worst cold.
It was like running nose, just like so bad, and
that kind of really put a damper on it. But
I will say Steve Harvey is one funny guy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You know it's funny because I absolutely believed that that
was true, and now you validated that because you know,
I think we only get maybe five percent on the
final edit of the show of some of the you know,
the kind of riff that he does in the freestyling
that he does.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh, he was cussing like it was Steve Harvey. Like
he just turned around and thought right to the audience,
and we were just I mean, we were all laughing.
It was such a cool experience.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I need to see if I could find the episode
that you were on. When I was thinking about that,
I thought, you know, I remember that back in twenty nineteen,
but I didn't see the show. I got to see
if I can find it on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's easy to find. It's what Bobby Bones just put
like Bob Bones John Parties or lay in to Down
nineteen and pop up.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Well, and then you're under the lights and the audience
is there, and it's a format you're not used to,
and you know all of that, right, So were you
nervous on the game show because you don't have your
guitar and you know all that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He's just a little nervous because you don't know what
questions you know what you're gonna get, and that makes
it a little nerve wrecked, you know you kind of
when you got to show, you're prepared, you know what
you do, You got your set list. On game show,
You're like, all right, what question am I gonna mess up?
Or how am I gonna let this game like our
team down because I got the wrong answer.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Well, I think the hard part about that show also
is that the person before you just got the answer
that you had in your head right, and they got
on the board or whatever, and then now you have
to think on your feet real quick about you know
something else on the silly question.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah. No, it was fun though, good experience.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Nice, glad to hear anything else you want your your
fans here in Albuquerque to know before I let you go?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I don't know. I just say Albuquerque, New Mexico. I mean,
we've been playing there quite a bit the last two
years and it's always a great audience. So I'd like
to say thank you to all our friends out here
and for coming. Hell. We played in all over New
Mexico and it's always been a good time, Rowdy people
and a lot of fun people.
It is Scotty. We got Boots in the Park coming
this weekend. So many great artists gonna be here, Corey
Can't Jackson, den Ian Munsig, Scotty McCreary, Parker McCollum, Cody Johnson, Luke, Colmbs,
and John Party is back in the five oh five. John.
Thank you so much for coming back to New Mexico.
I want to start a conversation today with how festival
(00:21):
shows compare with the regular shows that you do.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I mean, they're fun, they're it's kind of everybody's coming
to party, kind of a do so the later you
play throughout her get.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Of course that is a country show, right yeah, And
then of course you've got your Honky Tonk Hollywood Tour underway.
You got a bunch of dates and arenas and amphitheaters.
So how is it playing an arena or an amphitheater
compared to a smaller venue.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, we got a lot of productions, so you know,
we got pyro videos, all kinds of stuff. So in
the arena setting, it's nice because you can you know,
you're not tricked into weather. You always get a good show.
Everything's rocking, So I mean, I love arena, especially in
the summertime. Get the AC going makes it nice.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
There you go AC on the stage too, right.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh yeah, just fans blowing all sweaty. But you know,
I love a good sweaty country music accessible too.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So when when you're playing those big arenas, do you
get nervous when you look out there and see twenty
thirty forty thousand people staring at you? Or do you
just focus on the music and doing a good show.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You just soak it all in. You always soak it
in and the energy of the crowd and the what
we're putting off stage usually the next and it's just
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And so one of the things I was thinking about
about your you know, I love so many of your songs.
They're definitely on my you know, on my playlist, Dirt
on my boots, Heartache, Medication, night shift, beer Can't Fix.
I think Tequila Little Time was one of my favorite
of your songs. I loved it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I loved Tequila Little Time. That's a is a song.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So the question is, you know, we're all familiar with
all of all the stuff you've done so far. How
does the new stuff compare to what you've done before.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I mean, I think it's the same as what we've
done before, is it's a little more grittier. It's just
got a different vibe too this time. And I don't know,
it's a step up. I feel like it's an elevation
from my last records and going in with Jay Joyce.
I mean, he just just one album of the year
on Lady, you know, and he did that record, So
it's just dealing with different producers and great songs. I mean,
(02:28):
it's a win win, So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So you wrote a bunch of the songs on the
new album, So when you get in the studio with
a new producer, do things get changed up? You know,
from what you originally envisioned the song might be like
versus what it actually came out.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, this record we recorded, we tracked for a long time,
so we did one week of just like basically jamming
and pre production, and it was amazing how many of
the pre production stuff we did, and then we went
the final like we'd listened back and then with the
final like our final recording, it sounds nothing like what
we did the first week, and that was a really
(03:05):
cool experience. So you get a second chance of like
changing the song, and so it worked out good. I
mean it was. It was a really cool way that
Jay does his production. Like it's it's pretty awesome. It's
an awesome record. One of my favorite records I ever made.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I just tell the world, you'll see You'll see world.
I'll get you once you start listening more like, yeah,
this is a great record.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, I think, you know, sometimes I think that that
can happen a lot in the studio because then you
get new energy, new ideas and stuff and all of
a sudden, hey if we do this here and then
you know, and that's how sometimes you get a big
number one hit out of it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, you just you's never know music music, and it
just I know. One thing is this record felt good.
We recorded whatever felt good and delivered the best. So
that was a one on this record.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's nice. I think your gut feel is right on
with all the great songs you released so far.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, no, it's it's it's not too far from the
other records. It just a little more elevated.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So now that you're a dad, has that changed anything
about the way you approach songwriting or content of your songs.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean we got we got a couple you know,
family songs on Honky Kunk Hollywood, but we also got
a lot of dancing, drinking, having fun too. You know,
I don't want to you can get lost in that
stuff too. But like for the most part, you know,
I wasn't. My career is not built on being a father.
I try to like serve to singing about the family
stuff and also all the other stuff. We love the
(04:31):
party too too, you know. It's kind of a good balance.
But we got some killer like dad songs, father daughter
songs on the new record, but also we got a
lot of dancing and having fun songs too, So I
like a good balance. You know, you don't want to
get too much. You want to go to mister mom.
You can't go to mister mom.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Right exactly. So seventeen songs on the new album, any
duets in there? Those are so popular these days. Of
course you've done some before with Thomas Rhtt and others.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, I tried to stay away from collaborations. It's very popular,
and it just wasn't. You know, all the collabs I've
had wasn't really working out for me. Man, I don't know,
ever since Beer Cam Fix, just haven't really had anything
that's stuck. So I just stopped doing them. I get
asked all the time, and I'm like, I just don't
feel like it the songs are you know, you're just
kind of putting artists on songs that the songs really
(05:22):
just needs one artist. And so but I'm not saying
I'll never do it. I just wait for the right song.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think that's really great because sometimes that you know,
as a you know, as an on air talent, right,
It's like it seems like every song or every other
song I'm playing is a collaboration, and I think sometimes
it's a nice break to have something that's just John
Party having fun.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
You know, many program directors and DJs we're clapping when
I told them my damn collaborations. And the worst part
about collaborations, I mean, this is the worst part is
that you're always by yourself live most of the time.
You know, like when you play them live, like you're
but he's not there, or you're you know, you're Thomas
(06:02):
Rhet somewhere else. You're lowering of the lane is somewhere else.
Like if you never really get to sing them all
the time, so you got to have somebody else seeing them,
or you just sing the second verse. So I don't know.
They're good on the media, but not on the live front.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I feel like, you know what, you know, what's funny
you mentioned that because I was thinking the same thing.
Chris Young was here for Boots in the Park last
year in Albuquerque, and of course famous Friends huge song,
Kane Brown's on it with him, And it's funny because
there was a video in the background with Kane Brown
singing his parts, but it just didn't really seem to
resonate at a live show.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It doesn't. And you know, I shoot, I mean, I
grew up going to the concerts and never once thought
George Strait had needed somebody, you know, like or Alan like.
It was just like, I don't know, there's there never
wasn't a collaboration. The collaboration came from the hip hop
and streaming world. That's that's where it's big. But hey,
like I said, it's not say I'll never do it,
but as of right now, I'm happy just just rocking.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Out right exactly. You on the stage doing your thing,
which you're so good at. Yeah, he I did get
one fun question for you from one of my listeners.
I told everybody yesterday I was gonna be talking to
you this morning. They sent me a couple questions. So
one of my favorite shows actually, and apparently one of
my listener's favorite shows, is Family Feud. You were on
(07:16):
that back in twenty nineteen. What was that like being
on a game show with Steve Harvey?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Man, it was the Steve Harvey Show off off camera. Well,
he started, he just started doing stand up and that
was the coolest thing I remember besides the game show.
And I was so sick. I had the worst cold.
It was like running nose, just like so bad, and
that kind of really put a damper on it. But
I will say Steve Harvey is one funny guy.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You know it's funny because I absolutely believed that that
was true, and now you validated that because you know,
I think we only get maybe five percent on the
final edit of the show of some of the you know,
the kind of riff that he does in the freestyling
that he does.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh, he was cussing like it was Steve Harvey. Like
he just turned around and thought right to the audience,
and we were just I mean, we were all laughing.
It was such a cool experience.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I need to see if I could find the episode
that you were on. When I was thinking about that,
I thought, you know, I remember that back in twenty nineteen,
but I didn't see the show. I got to see
if I can find it on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's easy to find. It's what Bobby Bones just put
like Bob Bones John Parties or lay in to Down
nineteen and pop up.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Well, and then you're under the lights and the audience
is there, and it's a format you're not used to,
and you know all of that, right, So were you
nervous on the game show because you don't have your
guitar and you know all that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He's just a little nervous because you don't know what
questions you know what you're gonna get, and that makes
it a little nerve wrecked, you know you kind of
when you got to show, you're prepared, you know what
you do, You got your set list. On game show,
You're like, all right, what question am I gonna mess up?
Or how am I gonna let this game like our
team down because I got the wrong answer.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Well, I think the hard part about that show also
is that the person before you just got the answer
that you had in your head right, and they got
on the board or whatever, and then now you have
to think on your feet real quick about you know
something else on the silly question.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah. No, it was fun though, good experience.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Nice, glad to hear anything else you want your your
fans here in Albuquerque to know before I let you go?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I don't know. I just say Albuquerque, New Mexico. I mean,
we've been playing there quite a bit the last two
years and it's always a great audience. So I'd like
to say thank you to all our friends out here
and for coming. Hell. We played in all over New
Mexico and it's always been a good time, Rowdy people
and a lot of fun people.
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