July 14, 2025 • 18 mins
He's from the QC and making the jump to Nashville...Let's check in and find out more about the new Red Dirt artist Tyson Schulte!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tis in shualty. Look at you being precisely on time
and early.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, try trying to be I uh, if you know
anything about the Schulties, which you probably don't, but the
first the first key to the Shulti family is, uh, well,
we'll be late to our own funeral, so I try
to be at least a little early.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh you did perfectly. Welcome to the Pat and Danny Podcast.
This is Danny right here. Uh. Pat normally just lets
me handle all the heavy work, So I'm just going
to do that today.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, and on the same vein as what you were
talking to. My dad was always the man and still
to this day. If you're on time, you're late. So
I mean, yeah, I hear what you're saying. Oh my goodness,
I hear. Everybody's got their own little quirk, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And to be honest with you, I don't know if
we're we're ever on time to anything. We're usually the
everybody everybody goes five minutes early, we're usually one of
the five minutes late, you know. And so yeah, I've
it's funny how you're always like everybody's raised in different ways.
My dad always like preaching, he goes, well, he goes,
if you're late, No, don't just be late to be late.
But if you're late, you know, it's probably because you
(01:10):
got you're doing something else, you know, and it's fun.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I slammed too much stuff in my day. You know.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's kind of where Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm trying to accomplish too much.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You're like the rest of us over scheduled.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah absolutely, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Huh well, if in case you're just checking things out
right now. On the Patent Daddy podcast, this is Tye
uh Tyson Shulty from Northern Illinois. Now, pat said for
me to ask you know about Turkey Hollow Road. He
think you, he thinks he knows where you might be from.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, I know, uh, I know Turkey Hollow Roads. I remember,
of all of all the back roads in the world,
I can't remember where that one's at, if that one,
if that one's between uh sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Is it that between sixty seven? And like Taylor Ridge, you're.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think you are so close, You're you're burning up,
You're hot, You're hot.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, no, exactly where Turkey Holler Road is actually
a better pictation where I grew up, and uh, I
mean I could I could hear the golf balls was
by a Pinnacle golf course. So yeah, yeah, that's out
there on Nashville Road.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Ah the other okay, all right, well hey that's fair
also very fair. We all know kind of where that
area is. Now. You you've come a long way from
growing up right there, and yet you're you're still very
connected to your roots. So talk about your growing up?
What makes you soew country?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh? Man, I don't know. I was described where I
grew up as the perfect rule, you know, to folks
that didn't know where I was really from, because I
was five minutes from McDonald's, you know. And and uh
and Mowleen has developed so much since then, you know,
and so now there's a there's a hobby lobby and
a dress for less and you know, we put that
(03:02):
new bridge in across the Rocker that wasn't there when
I was growing up. That was put in as I
was growing up, and so you didn't have to go
around by the mall or through rock Island. You could
just coat straight across. And so that areas developed quite
a bit. So I guess you know, I grew up
in a perfect part to be, you know, exposed to
the metropolitan things that the claud cities had to provide.
But you know, I was still out in the country.
(03:23):
I could jump on a four wheel and drive around
not make anybody mad. And you know, I was able
to raise cattle and hogs in our backyard and stuff
like that and show them at the county fair and
and so yeah, I guess I wouldn't say I'm no cowboy,
but definitely got the roots established, you know, and liveing
in a rural Rock Island County.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I do want to give you some kudos for
the self taught guitar playing that you do, because you
were a University of Illinois Urbana Champaigne grad or a
lum and during college you taught yourself how to play guitar.
Was was this to grab chicks? Just asking Tyson?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, yeah, I graduated from Scharard High School and a
lot of people assumed I would have went to Blackhawks,
but I actually went to Lakeland College and that too,
and uh and with from there to to the u
of I, and and you know it was I was
at a college party. You we were singing Strawberry Wine
and I was like, hey, you got you got a
good voice. I was like, nah, I just you know,
(04:23):
trying to impress people or whatever, you know, and uh,
and long story short, I was like, well, if I
could learn how to play guitar and sing, you know,
that's gonna you know, I'd be a whole other opportunity
to impress people. So I won't say it's to pick
up chicks and specifics, but uh, but but yeah, I
definitely you know, I didn't realize, you know, trying to
(04:45):
just become I don't know, more versatile and you know
some sort of random talent was going to turn into
what it's become today.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, because then it turned into a huge karaoke win
for you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, and so yeah, trying to just jump I guess
I'll jump right into that part of it. You know.
I thank some karaoke some local bars and stuff like that.
And then I had random strangers coming up and being like, ah,
you should American idol and do all that. And you know,
I've had some opportunities and talked to some folks that
like America's got talent and whatnot, and none of that
stuff really came to fruition. But this is all after
(05:21):
I did this state karaoke contest put on by the
Illinois State Fair and get to qualify through a county fair,
and not to draw off the whole process of its entirety,
but I qualified through one of those county fairs and
made the finals. I qualified at Marshall Putmam County Fair
the first time, and then I qualified at the Rock
Island County Fair the second time. I did it, or
ended up being victorious cinem I guess I did it
(05:44):
one other time the very first year, and they didn't
at night and I didn't win, but but nonetheless, yeah,
I got the opportunity opened up for Craig Morgan and
Tobe Keith when I was fortunate enough to win it
in twenty twenty one and to open up for them
at the State Fair. And then there's no rules city
couldn't do it again, And so I did it again
the next year and was fortunate enough to win again,
(06:05):
and the New York Times wrote a story on the
whole contest and stuff, and I got to open up
for Brooks and Dunn and a guy named Kendall Marvel
who's more commonly known for write and write where I
need to be made famous by Gary Allen. But yeah,
so that was the beginning of all of this. Honestly,
my County Fair Country roots is you know what exposed
the opportunity to, you know, maybe go and try and
(06:26):
be victorious at a karaoke contest. And I just saided, ay,
you know, maybe I can do something with this.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So yeah, yeah, and you have and I feel like
this is becoming a little more common. The fact that
you identify in the red dirt country, you know, in
the red dirt and the alternative country. Talk a little
bit about how you found your way into that.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, So you know, that was kind of the foundation
or at least the launching pad to you know, giving
me the confidence you know, maybe I can do this,
you know. And so I think step one of all
of it is believing in yourself. You know, if you're
trying to convince others to believe in you, you know,
why you trying to waste your time convincing other people
you can do something if you haven't even convinced yourself yet.
(07:14):
And so that was kind of the launching pad to say,
all right, you know, I think I can do this.
So I pushed social media and I had already been
writing some songs and had some stuff in my you know,
portfolio from that aspect, and I met some friends on
social media that had kind of had been networked a
little bit in Nashville already, and and so I went
(07:36):
down there and started recording songs. But you know, as
far as the genre, uh, you know, within country music
that I landed in, you know, country music has evolved.
It is because such a broad, you know, comb of
different types and styles of music. I guess, you know,
I I've always gravitated towards that Texas country, that red
dirt kind of style, and but then again, I'm guilty
(07:59):
of liking more and Walling and Luke Cohne's just the same.
And so I've tried to bring a little bit of
that red dirt concept and maybe some lyrical stuff from
a from a red dirt real country perspective, but also
you know, giving it a little bit of you know,
genuine maybe modern day sound. And I think honestly, what
we really came up with is bringing back to Jason
Aldean and Luke Cohne or Luke Bryant and some of
(08:21):
that good old boy country from the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But oh, which is so good yeah, yep, yeah, and
so yeah, I just want to point out six singles
right now, but you're probably working on a lot more.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, so I got stixed out right now. I'm actually
gearing up to release another one. I I'd be lying
to you if I told you I had one hundred
percent of this figured out and how you're supposed.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
To attack it, well, then I would I would want
to sign you to something because I would want to
pick your brain because and not everybody has the key,
and I think for every person it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Absolutely. And I still work a day job, you know,
I work a nine to five. I don't do this
full time. It Uh, it doesn't put bread on the
table necessarily. I gotta I got a you know, a
W two job to do that for me. But so
it's it's been, it's it's been open ended, and you know,
I can make it what I wanted to, uh, just
because I don't have to rely on it, you know,
(09:20):
to pay my bills and feed me every day. And
so I've I've tried to I've tried to bend it
and make it work, you know, and getting to that
end goal where we really want to be. But yeah,
I've got another song here already ready to rock and
roll and and get put out here probably pretty soon,
probably be sometime in August too, before harvest season starts.
(09:44):
But I've got a boat little music. I'm trying to
figure out how I can economically get them all, you know,
recorded and cut and and get them released sooner than later.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
But yeah, yeah, So if you're just checking things out again,
this is Tyson Sholty and you're like, wait a minute,
Tyson Shalty. Wasn't he just in our area opening for
David Nail? I was, Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That's crazy, this venture. This would be like, think the
third summer I've been doing shows, and so I can't
remember the name of the place where I played my
first show, and you know, trying to get my name
out there, but I played for free. I did it
pro bono. It was a little coffee shop, diner shop. Yeah,
and there might have been ten people there, you know.
(10:32):
And and so it's hard to believe that, you know,
a short short three years two years of you know,
but three years of summers doing this. That last year
I had the chance to open up for Tracy Lawrence
and Confederate Railroad. And this year so far, I've opened
up for Jaco and Uncle Cracker, and then David Nail
at the Henry County Fair and then just a couple
of weeks ago, Gretchen Wilson and uh whoo Doggies. So yeah, yeah,
(10:55):
it's been very, very fun, and I'm excited for what
the next one are in store, and uh, you know,
getting more of them opportunities that it's it's definitely fun.
Been able to stand on them stages in front of
you know, large crowds of people that just enjoy country music.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh my gosh, yes, I absolutely agree with you. So yeah,
as you're referring to this what is happening right now,
because I know you're going to be back in this area,
but you got a few things before then.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, so right now, actually today I leave a little
bit here. Later on, I'm doing do a little bit
of charity stuff the best as possibly can. And I'm
a big hunter as much as I'm a livestock guy,
and so I'm actually doing a deal working with the
State National Wildthear Confederation. So if anybody's going to be
in Peoria this weekend for the rendezvous down there, I'll
(11:46):
be there playing some songs and hanging out. Next weekend,
I got a listening lounge and playing at the guest
house in Pontiac, Illinois, So that'll be a real good
chance for us to have you know, one on one
and here a ton of original music. But then, yeah,
I'm actually getting back into the Quad Cities area here.
(12:06):
I play in my old watering hole quite a bit,
Dusky's Lagoon just down there past ANDALUSJA.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Say, superb place.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, So I'll be there August sixteenth, the day after
I play at the State Fair on August fifteenth, I'll
be down there. So if you're the State Fair in
Springfield and catch me on that Friday evening. But I
keep most of the stuff posted on bands in Town
and my Spotify and on my Facebook and social media
and my website, so if you're ever curious where I'm at,
you can check any of the sources that it'll be there.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, hit them for us in case people
are writing them down and they're just like or they're
traveling and they want to just you know, speak it
into their phone.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah. So Tysonshulfi dot com. There's my website and that
will be able to guide you to about anywhere you
need to go to find any of my shows or
any of my merch or any my social accounts. My
name is actually spelled Tyson like the chicken, but my
last name is Schulty s c h U l t E.
(13:09):
So if you if you type that in and follow
with one of those worldwide web dot com things, it'll
take you into a place that you can find the
rest of it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yes, and here are your singles, and hopefully order an
EP and and just see every place. You know, Tyson,
this is exciting for you. I'm so excited for you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I am. I'm beyond pump I I uh, it's crazy
where this is starting to go. I just put a
band together to and so I got a I got
a band that started back in February to try and
started taking advantage of some of those deals. And the
gentlemen that I work with in terms of booking some
of these county fair shows and stuff have told me
get ready and be ready because you know we're gonna
(13:49):
get you some opportunities and open it up for some
other folks maybe this fall and winter and next summer.
And so I'm super pumped to see where this is
gonna go. Uh, it's crazy where Actually as a band,
we're playing our first festival, a little Midwestern songwriter festival
deal that a guy named Chris Lewis and company a
(14:13):
bunch of other folks are helping put it on. It's
gonna be down at Danville or close to Danville, Oak
Oak Wood, so be just East Champagne. It's called the
Red Dirt Country Jam. Nice you get the chance to Yeah,
you'll get a chance to see me and my band
for our first show ever. And then there's gonna be
I think ten or eleven other uh Midwestern songwriters and
(14:35):
bands that you can come see terms of original music,
no cost anybody to get in. And so that's gonna
be the kick off to the band venture. Uh and
see them you know where that journey goes. So I'm
super puffed.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, it makes you so versatile. If you can just
be yourself with a guitar, that's cool. If you can
have a full band, that's cool too. So I love,
I love what's opening up for you.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, it's it's pretty awesome. And honestly, I got I
got to give you know a lot of credit back
to you know, W L L R right here, you know,
because uh, you know, it's country music. You know. I
used to listen to w l R like this was
my radio station driving back and forth to school, and
I always look forward to Mischigan Value Fair and Swinging
by your All stand and and uh and everything like that.
(15:21):
So you know, if I didn't if I didn't grow
up on country music right here on y'all's radio station,
I don't think, uh, you know, i'd probably have as
much passion for it as I do today.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, I do want to give your sister props because
I wouldn't have gotten connected with you if it hadn't
been for her right here in the area.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh yeah, Taylor, she's uh, you know, she's a go getter,
and she's driven just like the rest of us, and
she's looking for opportunities about anywhere she possibly can to
be able to drop my name and and uh, you
know what I'm doing here. She she got me a
chance to have a have a TV interview when they
released that I was opening up for David Milt County Fair.
(16:01):
And yeah, so she's she's definitely a huge asset.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
And in all of this, well keep her in your
corner because she is really good. She should be your
manager someday.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well, yeah, I honestly, I got to give credit where creditors.
My fiance is the backbone all of this. She if
you think I could put a website that looks like
that together, and it's nice you think I could? Oh
do you think I could keep up with all this
on my own? Oh? Man, I God, bless you for
(16:33):
having that much faith in me, because she is She's
the ticket. She she does a lot of this stuff
behind the scenes. That way I can focus on, you know,
having these conversations, booking these shows and building that fan
experience and and you know, marketing this thing. So she
h between my sister and the rest of my family,
my dad, my mom, my brother, and my fiance and
(16:55):
nieces and nephews, everybody, I think everybody's definitely pitched in
and and and you know, it's helped contribute to to
all of this and reaching that end goal. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Sometimes it takes a village, tyson, And we're so glad
you have such a great village around you.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Absolutely, yep, yep, yep. Yeah, it takes uh, definitely takes
more than one. I don't think I'd be where I'm
at today if it was just me, there's no doubt
about that.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Well, Tyson, we're looking forward to seeing you at Duckies
and the best up until then and beyond because we
look forward to, you know, being the people that can
say I knew him win.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. So coming out in Duckies, it'll be
just me and a guitar and and we'll be hanging out.
I think we'll try and do it by the tiki bar.
Oh so it'll probably be outside as long as it
ain't raining, as long as it ain't a hundred million
degrees outside, we'll do it out there. And the best part,
like you said about acoustics stuff, is I try to
treat it more like a conversation than a big old concert.
(17:57):
So we'll get a chance to visit and hang out
and you don't feel like you're you're a part of
making the show what it is. So but yeah, no,
this has been fun. I appreciate you having me on
here and give me the opportunity to, you know, kind
of get back in front of my hometown crowd.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, Tyson, thank you for calling, and we just look
forward to seeing you and all the best.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, appreciate it, Thank you very much. And if i'm
in the area. I'll have to swing by at the
booth that the Initiative Valley fairs
Tis in shualty. Look at you being precisely on time
and early.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, try trying to be I uh, if you know
anything about the Schulties, which you probably don't, but the
first the first key to the Shulti family is, uh, well,
we'll be late to our own funeral, so I try
to be at least a little early.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh you did perfectly. Welcome to the Pat and Danny Podcast.
This is Danny right here. Uh. Pat normally just lets
me handle all the heavy work, So I'm just going
to do that today.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yeah, and on the same vein as what you were
talking to. My dad was always the man and still
to this day. If you're on time, you're late. So
I mean, yeah, I hear what you're saying. Oh my goodness,
I hear. Everybody's got their own little quirk, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And to be honest with you, I don't know if
we're we're ever on time to anything. We're usually the
everybody everybody goes five minutes early, we're usually one of
the five minutes late, you know. And so yeah, I've
it's funny how you're always like everybody's raised in different ways.
My dad always like preaching, he goes, well, he goes,
if you're late, No, don't just be late to be late.
But if you're late, you know, it's probably because you
(01:10):
got you're doing something else, you know, and it's fun.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I slammed too much stuff in my day. You know.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's kind of where Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm trying to accomplish too much.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You're like the rest of us over scheduled.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah absolutely, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Huh well, if in case you're just checking things out
right now. On the Patent Daddy podcast, this is Tye
uh Tyson Shulty from Northern Illinois. Now, pat said for
me to ask you know about Turkey Hollow Road. He
think you, he thinks he knows where you might be from.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, I know, uh, I know Turkey Hollow Roads. I remember,
of all of all the back roads in the world,
I can't remember where that one's at, if that one,
if that one's between uh sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Is it that between sixty seven? And like Taylor Ridge, you're.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think you are so close, You're you're burning up,
You're hot, You're hot.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, no, exactly where Turkey Holler Road is actually
a better pictation where I grew up, and uh, I
mean I could I could hear the golf balls was
by a Pinnacle golf course. So yeah, yeah, that's out
there on Nashville Road.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Ah the other okay, all right, well hey that's fair
also very fair. We all know kind of where that
area is. Now. You you've come a long way from
growing up right there, and yet you're you're still very
connected to your roots. So talk about your growing up?
What makes you soew country?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh? Man, I don't know. I was described where I
grew up as the perfect rule, you know, to folks
that didn't know where I was really from, because I
was five minutes from McDonald's, you know. And and uh
and Mowleen has developed so much since then, you know,
and so now there's a there's a hobby lobby and
a dress for less and you know, we put that
(03:02):
new bridge in across the Rocker that wasn't there when
I was growing up. That was put in as I
was growing up, and so you didn't have to go
around by the mall or through rock Island. You could
just coat straight across. And so that areas developed quite
a bit. So I guess you know, I grew up
in a perfect part to be, you know, exposed to
the metropolitan things that the claud cities had to provide.
But you know, I was still out in the country.
(03:23):
I could jump on a four wheel and drive around
not make anybody mad. And you know, I was able
to raise cattle and hogs in our backyard and stuff
like that and show them at the county fair and
and so yeah, I guess I wouldn't say I'm no cowboy,
but definitely got the roots established, you know, and liveing
in a rural Rock Island County.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I do want to give you some kudos for
the self taught guitar playing that you do, because you
were a University of Illinois Urbana Champaigne grad or a
lum and during college you taught yourself how to play guitar.
Was was this to grab chicks? Just asking Tyson?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, yeah, I graduated from Scharard High School and a
lot of people assumed I would have went to Blackhawks,
but I actually went to Lakeland College and that too,
and uh and with from there to to the u
of I, and and you know it was I was
at a college party. You we were singing Strawberry Wine
and I was like, hey, you got you got a
good voice. I was like, nah, I just you know,
(04:23):
trying to impress people or whatever, you know, and uh,
and long story short, I was like, well, if I
could learn how to play guitar and sing, you know,
that's gonna you know, I'd be a whole other opportunity
to impress people. So I won't say it's to pick
up chicks and specifics, but uh, but but yeah, I
definitely you know, I didn't realize, you know, trying to
(04:45):
just become I don't know, more versatile and you know
some sort of random talent was going to turn into
what it's become today.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, because then it turned into a huge karaoke win
for you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, and so yeah, trying to just jump I guess
I'll jump right into that part of it. You know.
I thank some karaoke some local bars and stuff like that.
And then I had random strangers coming up and being like, ah,
you should American idol and do all that. And you know,
I've had some opportunities and talked to some folks that
like America's got talent and whatnot, and none of that
stuff really came to fruition. But this is all after
(05:21):
I did this state karaoke contest put on by the
Illinois State Fair and get to qualify through a county fair,
and not to draw off the whole process of its entirety,
but I qualified through one of those county fairs and
made the finals. I qualified at Marshall Putmam County Fair
the first time, and then I qualified at the Rock
Island County Fair the second time. I did it, or
ended up being victorious cinem I guess I did it
(05:44):
one other time the very first year, and they didn't
at night and I didn't win, but but nonetheless, yeah,
I got the opportunity opened up for Craig Morgan and
Tobe Keith when I was fortunate enough to win it
in twenty twenty one and to open up for them
at the State Fair. And then there's no rules city
couldn't do it again, And so I did it again
the next year and was fortunate enough to win again,
(06:05):
and the New York Times wrote a story on the
whole contest and stuff, and I got to open up
for Brooks and Dunn and a guy named Kendall Marvel
who's more commonly known for write and write where I
need to be made famous by Gary Allen. But yeah,
so that was the beginning of all of this. Honestly,
my County Fair Country roots is you know what exposed
the opportunity to, you know, maybe go and try and
(06:26):
be victorious at a karaoke contest. And I just saided, ay,
you know, maybe I can do something with this.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So yeah, yeah, and you have and I feel like
this is becoming a little more common. The fact that
you identify in the red dirt country, you know, in
the red dirt and the alternative country. Talk a little
bit about how you found your way into that.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, So you know, that was kind of the foundation
or at least the launching pad to you know, giving
me the confidence you know, maybe I can do this,
you know. And so I think step one of all
of it is believing in yourself. You know, if you're
trying to convince others to believe in you, you know,
why you trying to waste your time convincing other people
you can do something if you haven't even convinced yourself yet.
(07:14):
And so that was kind of the launching pad to say,
all right, you know, I think I can do this.
So I pushed social media and I had already been
writing some songs and had some stuff in my you know,
portfolio from that aspect, and I met some friends on
social media that had kind of had been networked a
little bit in Nashville already, and and so I went
(07:36):
down there and started recording songs. But you know, as
far as the genre, uh, you know, within country music
that I landed in, you know, country music has evolved.
It is because such a broad, you know, comb of
different types and styles of music. I guess, you know,
I I've always gravitated towards that Texas country, that red
dirt kind of style, and but then again, I'm guilty
(07:59):
of liking more and Walling and Luke Cohne's just the same.
And so I've tried to bring a little bit of
that red dirt concept and maybe some lyrical stuff from
a from a red dirt real country perspective, but also
you know, giving it a little bit of you know,
genuine maybe modern day sound. And I think honestly, what
we really came up with is bringing back to Jason
Aldean and Luke Cohne or Luke Bryant and some of
(08:21):
that good old boy country from the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But oh, which is so good yeah, yep, yeah, and
so yeah, I just want to point out six singles
right now, but you're probably working on a lot more.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, so I got stixed out right now. I'm actually
gearing up to release another one. I I'd be lying
to you if I told you I had one hundred
percent of this figured out and how you're supposed.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
To attack it, well, then I would I would want
to sign you to something because I would want to
pick your brain because and not everybody has the key,
and I think for every person it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Absolutely. And I still work a day job, you know,
I work a nine to five. I don't do this
full time. It Uh, it doesn't put bread on the
table necessarily. I gotta I got a you know, a
W two job to do that for me. But so
it's it's been, it's it's been open ended, and you know,
I can make it what I wanted to, uh, just
because I don't have to rely on it, you know,
(09:20):
to pay my bills and feed me every day. And
so I've I've tried to I've tried to bend it
and make it work, you know, and getting to that
end goal where we really want to be. But yeah,
I've got another song here already ready to rock and
roll and and get put out here probably pretty soon,
probably be sometime in August too, before harvest season starts.
(09:44):
But I've got a boat little music. I'm trying to
figure out how I can economically get them all, you know,
recorded and cut and and get them released sooner than later.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
But yeah, yeah, So if you're just checking things out again,
this is Tyson Sholty and you're like, wait a minute,
Tyson Shalty. Wasn't he just in our area opening for
David Nail? I was, Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That's crazy, this venture. This would be like, think the
third summer I've been doing shows, and so I can't
remember the name of the place where I played my
first show, and you know, trying to get my name
out there, but I played for free. I did it
pro bono. It was a little coffee shop, diner shop. Yeah,
and there might have been ten people there, you know.
(10:32):
And and so it's hard to believe that, you know,
a short short three years two years of you know,
but three years of summers doing this. That last year
I had the chance to open up for Tracy Lawrence
and Confederate Railroad. And this year so far, I've opened
up for Jaco and Uncle Cracker, and then David Nail
at the Henry County Fair and then just a couple
of weeks ago, Gretchen Wilson and uh whoo Doggies. So yeah, yeah,
(10:55):
it's been very, very fun, and I'm excited for what
the next one are in store, and uh, you know,
getting more of them opportunities that it's it's definitely fun.
Been able to stand on them stages in front of
you know, large crowds of people that just enjoy country music.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh my gosh, yes, I absolutely agree with you. So yeah,
as you're referring to this what is happening right now,
because I know you're going to be back in this area,
but you got a few things before then.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, so right now, actually today I leave a little
bit here. Later on, I'm doing do a little bit
of charity stuff the best as possibly can. And I'm
a big hunter as much as I'm a livestock guy,
and so I'm actually doing a deal working with the
State National Wildthear Confederation. So if anybody's going to be
in Peoria this weekend for the rendezvous down there, I'll
(11:46):
be there playing some songs and hanging out. Next weekend,
I got a listening lounge and playing at the guest
house in Pontiac, Illinois, So that'll be a real good
chance for us to have you know, one on one
and here a ton of original music. But then, yeah,
I'm actually getting back into the Quad Cities area here.
(12:06):
I play in my old watering hole quite a bit,
Dusky's Lagoon just down there past ANDALUSJA.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Say, superb place.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, So I'll be there August sixteenth, the day after
I play at the State Fair on August fifteenth, I'll
be down there. So if you're the State Fair in
Springfield and catch me on that Friday evening. But I
keep most of the stuff posted on bands in Town
and my Spotify and on my Facebook and social media
and my website, so if you're ever curious where I'm at,
you can check any of the sources that it'll be there.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, hit them for us in case people
are writing them down and they're just like or they're
traveling and they want to just you know, speak it
into their phone.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah. So Tysonshulfi dot com. There's my website and that
will be able to guide you to about anywhere you
need to go to find any of my shows or
any of my merch or any my social accounts. My
name is actually spelled Tyson like the chicken, but my
last name is Schulty s c h U l t E.
(13:09):
So if you if you type that in and follow
with one of those worldwide web dot com things, it'll
take you into a place that you can find the
rest of it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yes, and here are your singles, and hopefully order an
EP and and just see every place. You know, Tyson,
this is exciting for you. I'm so excited for you.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I am. I'm beyond pump I I uh, it's crazy
where this is starting to go. I just put a
band together to and so I got a I got
a band that started back in February to try and
started taking advantage of some of those deals. And the
gentlemen that I work with in terms of booking some
of these county fair shows and stuff have told me
get ready and be ready because you know we're gonna
(13:49):
get you some opportunities and open it up for some
other folks maybe this fall and winter and next summer.
And so I'm super pumped to see where this is
gonna go. Uh, it's crazy where Actually as a band,
we're playing our first festival, a little Midwestern songwriter festival
deal that a guy named Chris Lewis and company a
(14:13):
bunch of other folks are helping put it on. It's
gonna be down at Danville or close to Danville, Oak
Oak Wood, so be just East Champagne. It's called the
Red Dirt Country Jam. Nice you get the chance to Yeah,
you'll get a chance to see me and my band
for our first show ever. And then there's gonna be
I think ten or eleven other uh Midwestern songwriters and
(14:35):
bands that you can come see terms of original music,
no cost anybody to get in. And so that's gonna
be the kick off to the band venture. Uh and
see them you know where that journey goes. So I'm
super puffed.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, it makes you so versatile. If you can just
be yourself with a guitar, that's cool. If you can
have a full band, that's cool too. So I love,
I love what's opening up for you.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, it's it's pretty awesome. And honestly, I got I
got to give you know a lot of credit back
to you know, W L L R right here, you know,
because uh, you know, it's country music. You know. I
used to listen to w l R like this was
my radio station driving back and forth to school, and
I always look forward to Mischigan Value Fair and Swinging
by your All stand and and uh and everything like that.
(15:21):
So you know, if I didn't if I didn't grow
up on country music right here on y'all's radio station,
I don't think, uh, you know, i'd probably have as
much passion for it as I do today.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, I do want to give your sister props because
I wouldn't have gotten connected with you if it hadn't
been for her right here in the area.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh yeah, Taylor, she's uh, you know, she's a go getter,
and she's driven just like the rest of us, and
she's looking for opportunities about anywhere she possibly can to
be able to drop my name and and uh, you
know what I'm doing here. She she got me a
chance to have a have a TV interview when they
released that I was opening up for David Milt County Fair.
(16:01):
And yeah, so she's she's definitely a huge asset.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
And in all of this, well keep her in your
corner because she is really good. She should be your
manager someday.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well, yeah, I honestly, I got to give credit where creditors.
My fiance is the backbone all of this. She if
you think I could put a website that looks like
that together, and it's nice you think I could? Oh
do you think I could keep up with all this
on my own? Oh? Man, I God, bless you for
(16:33):
having that much faith in me, because she is She's
the ticket. She she does a lot of this stuff
behind the scenes. That way I can focus on, you know,
having these conversations, booking these shows and building that fan
experience and and you know, marketing this thing. So she
h between my sister and the rest of my family,
my dad, my mom, my brother, and my fiance and
(16:55):
nieces and nephews, everybody, I think everybody's definitely pitched in
and and and you know, it's helped contribute to to
all of this and reaching that end goal. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Sometimes it takes a village, tyson, And we're so glad
you have such a great village around you.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Absolutely, yep, yep, yep. Yeah, it takes uh, definitely takes
more than one. I don't think I'd be where I'm
at today if it was just me, there's no doubt
about that.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Well, Tyson, we're looking forward to seeing you at Duckies
and the best up until then and beyond because we
look forward to, you know, being the people that can
say I knew him win.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. So coming out in Duckies, it'll be
just me and a guitar and and we'll be hanging out.
I think we'll try and do it by the tiki bar.
Oh so it'll probably be outside as long as it
ain't raining, as long as it ain't a hundred million
degrees outside, we'll do it out there. And the best part,
like you said about acoustics stuff, is I try to
treat it more like a conversation than a big old concert.
(17:57):
So we'll get a chance to visit and hang out
and you don't feel like you're you're a part of
making the show what it is. So but yeah, no,
this has been fun. I appreciate you having me on
here and give me the opportunity to, you know, kind
of get back in front of my hometown crowd.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, Tyson, thank you for calling, and we just look
forward to seeing you and all the best.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, appreciate it, Thank you very much. And if i'm
in the area. I'll have to swing by at the
booth that the Initiative Valley fairs
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