June 5, 2025 • 37 mins
Bristol Coon joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”. Originally from Newport Beach, CA, Bristol shares how a lifelong love for writing and storytelling progressed into a career in country music. Today, you can find Bristol in Nashville, TN where he is busy writing, performing and living out his dream.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to That Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Patrick mcasac from Roby Commercial and Services on with
Trent Hason from the Roby family of Companies. We are
your hosts podcast. Here we come. We got Bristol Coon
on the show. Trent's gonna be cool. Second time we've
had a country music performer. First time with Sam Shannon.
Remember from Make a Wish that, oh yeah, make his
(00:22):
own country music song.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I hadden need to check him out. See where he's
at chilling that out? You pulled that out? I was like,
what he He straight up was performing in the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That was pretty cool, had his guitar and everything. We
got that on podcasts somewhere, I'm sure, but man, that
was that was cool when we were just listening to
to Bristol's song that he wrote called the Wolf. Can't
wait to talk to him about that and see what
else he's up to. Not to mention he is also.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Connected to Heart Radio and Jeff Naper, who we've had
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think that's a pretty pretty smart move on his
part to try to get into the industry and get
the other connections that he could have from being on
the At Home with Ruby show.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
See, you're smarter than me. I didn't even think about
the wisdom there that he works in the industry. He's
performing in the industry, he's writing in the industry. He's
gonna make it in the industry. I hear you. I'm excited. Well,
how you doing today, Patrick, I'm doing wonderful. This is
a yeah, it's a beautiful day here in the Queen City. Yeah, man,
(01:27):
my girls, my girls made it. It's raining. Patrick's being facetious,
but uh, my girls rowing in. Piper's soccer team, Gaston
Christian Eagles made it. They're they're playing tomorrow in the
fourth round in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh, well, okay in Wilmington.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, so they won Saturday two to nothing, playing good
playing good ball, making me a soccer fan. Never thought
that was possible. But yeah, I'm proud of I'm proud
of my girls. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So wait a minute, So fourth round in Wilmington. How
many rounds are there?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Do you know? I mean, where do they go? Probably?
Guess would Raleigh be where you play?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I think they're in the quarter finals, in the semifinals,
in the championship, says be six rounds. I don't know
where they're playing. They play each game at the top
seeded home field of the game. So this Wilmington team
is seated number one in their bracket. And uh, I
(02:25):
think our girls are seeded eighth. But we won two
to nothing playing away the other day and played hard
and scored early and held the lead, and it was
good and they were all excited. I might have dropped
a tear. I don't know, but been kind of a
been kind of That was Saturday. We're recording this on Monday,
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so that game is on Tuesday. It's been kind of
a robust weekend in my in my family, coming off
a Mother's Day. Got a proud mama there and uh
and then Ford, I'm the assistant coach, talked a little
bit about that. On his baseball team. He is supposed
to be playing his tournament game. Nine and ten year
old baseball. This sitting is big as the soccer but
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they already rained it, rained it out, moved it. So
I will get to go to Wilmington tomorrow. I'm excited
about that, but I will have to I will have
to leave our EOS entrepreneur operating system quarterly of off site.
We'll have to leave it about halfway through tomorrow and
catch it on the catch it on the road, buddy.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well, no, that's cool. You know, it's pretty neat. So okay,
they're the eight seed, they're playing the number one seed.
They will remember this for the rest of their lives,
which is really cool to think about. When when I'm
gonna give you two examples, when I when I played
football my senior year, we were the four seed, or
we were the one seed and the four seed knocked
us out, and it's I mean, I still remember that
(03:52):
like it was yesterday. And then my nephew is in
a similar situation. It's just cool these kids to watch
them go through it. There their high school baseball teammate
to the semi finals, lost to the to the number
one seed.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But it's just like, man, there was a sign.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I told you this on the show before but before
we would go on to play football, it said forty
eight minutes to play a lifetime to remember. And when
you're a high school where you're like whatever not, I'm
not I'll forget it, but they don't remember this time.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
These kids don't think like that. They believe it and
they will remember it. Uh, that's cool. Their team only
has I think two seniors. The team that they just
beat had eight seniors, so I mean they are pumped.
I hear it in the house. We're such a young team.
We got the momentum. I mean, Piper's into eighth grade
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and and uh, it was cool they put her on.
It seemed like the top offensive girl on the other
team that had had some nice shots on goal in
the first half. Second half. We had a two to
nothing lead at halftime. Second half. Piper pet plays up plays,
typically plays right wing forward, offensive player, and they put
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her in the back man on and guarded that lady.
And uh, she's pretty tough man. She's hard on me.
It's good to see her be hard on other people
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Dude, that is so cool. I mean it's got to be.
And you know you're Reagan was the heck of a
soccer player. You talked about that before. I'm sure she
just is on cloud nine being able to watch the
girls do what she loved to do so much when
she was there.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Here.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, she loves it. She gets all crazy. I don't know,
I'm crying, but she does. She's all into it. I
told her, I'm enjoying smelling the baseball at hert again,
even if it's nine ten year old. I kind of
get into that. I'm getting into all of it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's what she's supposed to do, but embrace it. That's
some good big lead chew days right there. That it
gets a big lead cheer here there. They do have
a big league chew at the game.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So that stuff hadn't changed one bit. It's I don't
like to see it. Fords had about eight avity's.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I don't need to see the big league chew being
passed around. I know what, I know what it happens.
It's not sugar free. We uh we grow up on
a well and uh we don't have fluoride coming out
to earth. So uh, I don't understand. But I don't know.
What do you do chew, big lead chew. Dang it,
(06:21):
they have sugar free, big lead chewed, yet they don't
have sugar lead free big lead shoes. That's like care
free that care Free gum used to choose. Tell me
that of sugar, that stuff would lose its flavor in
about ten seconds in just and this flavor tastes like
pepto bismo. To start, goodness, gracious.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's like those remember those pieces of gum that came
to the tops baseball cards that we were Oh yeah,
but I mean those things were pretty taste. It tasted
like paper.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know. I have a whole attic full of unopened packs.
I can probably bring you in one of those. Wow,
I'm bringing one of those next show. Let's chew on it.
Probably that's a great it'd be the greatest thing ever. Audience.
It shut him up. You might hear his jaw cracked.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You can only hope to contain.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
My jall used to crack pretty good. It doesn't crack.
I don't. I must not choose, choose hard of stuff anymore.
But I used to have some real tmjay. I think
it's corrected itself for a lot of I remember the
most part.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You would get into be painful for you.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, sometimes I got my jaw locked up. I don't know.
You know what, you just don't go to the doctor.
It'll go away.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, you know, I'll lose my voice about once every
two years. And when that happens, I think it's God's
way of telling me to be quiet and listen. And
maybe that's when your jaw hurts. Maybe that's what's happening
on your side?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Are you trying to tell me something? I did not
think that. I just thought I had a bad run
of jaw cracking. I don't know, man, tell me, I
need to hush up.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I got you know what I'm talking about? Like it
sounds like he swallowed a porcupine.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I don't have that problem, Patrick, I got. I
got baby feet. That's a problem. Actually, actually I do
have a problem. My foot has grown. So when I
go online and order shoes, I like, I'm always like
a half a size too small.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You know, so you have to buy two pairs.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
No, Now, I just well it took me like three years,
but I learned to order. I order a size larger
and I ordered you know, my chicken shoes. You order
them from Europe, the low croquete that I like, and
you can't send them back a shipping costs more than
the Dagon shoe costs.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And I just got to give them away. I've got
a story of my friends with small feet. Tim Bear
might get mad at me for telling you, but yeah,
ship from Europe. It's not cheap, not cheap.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You got a story?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, I think we'll have to, especially with.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
These new terraffs, and it's gracious, I.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Don't know, man, after seems like they're starting to work
it out a little bit. Yeah right, it's augusto man.
Then they fight again, then they work it out. The
side market goes up and then goes down, then goes up,
then goes down.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I think our current current political leadership likes to be
more outwardly and vocal and boisterous in their negotiations than
some other tenures of politicians United States politicians. I think
some some people do it more behind the scenes. I
think I think now in the day of that of
(09:27):
the tweeting, he tweets it out there. I find it crazy.
And you know that the government got in trouble because
they let some secrets out. They tweet them to the enemy.
I don't know that the wrong person, to the new source.
I really can't keep up with it, but I mean
it's crazy. Call me old school, but they're tweeting out
facts like it's like could this not get intercepted? Like
(09:51):
you know, we just negotiated with so and so. Well
that's that's now all being reported by tweeting.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's like their self reporting.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
But it's the fact it's the new machine that reports
the news from the government, which is well, I guess
I'm just too old school. I need to get up
with it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You want Walter Cronkite to come back.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I want some Sunday night news man the news. I
don't know now. I'm watching everything I watch is my
kids shows on TV. I'm like, can we please watch
something that has a human I mean, goodness, gracious and
a human that's over eighteen. So I don't know. Well,
Patrick introduced our guests because you were talking about mister Coon.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
This is the first time we've met Bristol, but Bristol
is very familiar around here in the halls of iHeart.
We're finding out and he's an aspiring country music singer songwriter,
so check him out. We'll be back with us here
in a second. But the song that we were given
to listen to Bristol is called the Wolf, and maybe
he can tell us what he was writing about.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I'm excited that songs got a vibe and my man
is gonna be something special. I can't wait to hear him,
hear his story when we return on that home with
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Speaker 1 (11:28):
We're your hosts.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
If you miss the last segment, go back check us out.
Always having fun here on at Home with Roby Show.
Hopefully you laugh a little bit, you learn a little bit.
And today we're gonna listen a little bit. Trent, We've
got Bristol Coon who we teased at the at the
end of the first segment there or he has written
a song Bristol. Maybe we could start with this that
we have had the opportunity to listen to tonight. You
(11:50):
made a comment trend and it does. It has got
a nice tune to a very catchy and Bristol is
called the Wolf. I know it's probably one of many
that you've written, but tell us little about that.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah. Absolutely, First of all, it's just I'd like to
say it's a pleasure of being on the on the show.
I've been listening along now since I started working with
y'all on the iHeart side, So thanks for having me on.
But yeah, the Wolf. The wolf really came to me
after finishing the I'm a big I don't know about y'all,
(12:22):
but I'm a big fan of the show Yellowstone, and
after watching the prequel that they did a couple of
years ago called eighteen eighty three that started Tim McGraw
and a few other I think Sam Elliott was in it.
I was inspired by the story and McGraw's character, who
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was I guess, the first Dutton of the Dutton family legacy,
And after being a fan of this the Yellowstone series,
I thought it would be a cool idea to kind
of like take his story and tied in with kind
of the modern narrative of Yellowstone and the youngest, more
modern character played by Luke grit Grimes, who I don't
(13:08):
know if you know, is also a country star or
a country singer, and so I kind of I tied there,
I guess lives together through the narrative of the song
and the theme of the song, which is kind of
brought to life by this depiction of a wolf you
know that they kind of go back to throughout the
(13:31):
course of the Yellowstone series. So so yeah, I don't know,
it's just something that was kind of came to me,
and that was I was inspired by the watching the show,
you know, and I know a lot of different songwriters
and artists are take full inspiration from different places, but yeah,
I kind of, you know, it struck me enough, and
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then the writing of the series where I felt, you know,
called to write a story about it. And that's kind
of what I feel like my calling is in general,
is I love telling stories and the best way that
I do that is is through song. And so yeah,
that wolf then came to be, and I actually ended
(14:12):
up pitching it to the show for to get place
as a as a song on the soundtrack and no, no,
no bites yet. But we're still, uh, we're still you know,
crossing our fingers and toes and and hopefully something will
come of it in a in a future series or
another spinoff, since I know Taylor shirt And is doing
(14:32):
a lot of those ways, So.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
That is cool. Where are you from?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
So originally I'm from uh, a small town that I
joke about just nestled on the on the coastline the beach,
the beach coast of West coast of Orange County and
Newport Beach, California is where I'm from.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Originally, dang you from the West coast.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I hear you yeah, which which which throws a lot
of which throws a lot of people off.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
But I've been in Nashville now for about four years
and everyone, I guess, maybe to jump ahead here, and
they typically ask how I kind of came about to
be like the country music singer and why I kind
of chose that path, And I think really the idea
(15:29):
was that, like I've always loved telling stories, as I've said,
I've I grew up as a writer, and you know,
I think that style of songwriting kind of lent itself
to country music in a way, you know, where there's
a story being told and it's about life. And so yeah,
(15:52):
I found myself here in Nashville now and been doing
it for about four years, putting music out and it's
been good time.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So how old are you?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I'm thirty one and yeah, it will be thirty two
here in September.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So yeah, and growing up you said you were always
a writer, would did you always write songs or would
you write.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
So I started writing songs at about seventeen, But back
in school, growing up in high school, I used to
write pros and essays mostly about things that I would
read about or watch, you know, I was a big,
you know, music fan growing up. I love music of
the sixties, you know, so I would write papers on
(16:37):
the doors and you know how music of that time
and analog recording compared to like, you know, the popular
music of today, which I guess at the time I
was growing up in high school justin Bieber was that figure.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That is a lot different than Jim Morrison and the Doors?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Oh yes, exactly similarities. Well, that was that was the
whole point of the That was the whole point of
the paper was to kind of you know, miss what
was popular back back, back back then compared to what
you know, people are ingesting now. So yeah, I guess
you could say, you know, my writing style in a
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way is kind of reminiscent of you know, the sixties
or the seventies, where it's you know a little bit
more it's not as cook driven. You know, country singers,
country writers here in Nashville today are very hooked driven,
you know, like I'm sure you guys are well familiar
with your your Carolina boys, you know, Luke Holmes, Eric Church,
like those are amazing ridols of mine and influences in
(17:43):
a way. But you know, they they they really land
on those big, like anthemic hooks, which which I think
is a little bit of a you know, a difference
to to you know how I'm approaching it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So have you always been a musician as well?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, I started playing My first instrument was the drums
at eight years old. My folks got me a drum
kit and put in the living room. Believe it or not,
I don't know how they were able to put up
with that for as long as they did, but yeah,
coming home after school, sitting down on the kit was
a great way of getting out some steam and teenage angst,
you know, as I as I you know, grew up
(18:21):
through the you know, through high school and then at
about fourteen fifteen when they realized my folks realized that
I could, you know, sing and I had a little
bit of a voice. They're like, I'd put a guitar
in my hands. They're like, you you should be up
at the front of the stage. You know, like get
out from beyond that kit, you know, and and and
give this a try. So I kind of, you know,
(18:42):
tried to cut corners as I as I was already
you know, I had played the drums for ten years
and was pretty proficient at that instrument. It was very frustrated.
I couldn't stand being being bad at an instrument, right,
So I I tried to get as good as a
as a guitar as I could, and and uh and
I and I haven't really left it, you know, so
it's stuck with me this far.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That is cool.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
My daughters started at a young age playing the violin.
I am not musically inclined. I was a snare drummer
in the sixth grade. I think I was the most
improved snare musical guy in my public school in the
seventh grade, I think because I started playing the bass
drum too, and maybe the kettles. But uh, but my
daughters have recently and and they don't have a nice
(19:29):
guitar or anything, but there's a good couple of guitars
around my house and they've recently started just playing the
guitar and singing and and doing that as well. So
it's really kind of cool to see a very similar
genre that that that you're that you like country, you know,
folk or or what have you. But but I love storytelling.
(19:52):
I'm not musically inclined, but I think that's great. How
did you so, you said in your low thirties and
you I had to jump to Nashville about four years ago.
I mean, well, what drove that? Where'd you get the
courage to do that? I mean, what'd you say? What was? Where?
Where'd that decision point come from?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah, that's that's a good question, and you know, not
to get too I'll kind of type back into I
guess the writing exercise that I was doing for my
twenty seventh birthday. One of my best friends had bought
me a book called The Morning Pages, and it's a
(20:34):
journaling exercise. For twelve weeks, you write three pages a day,
stream of consciousness, right, so nothing you're really supposed to
make sense at first, until it does, if that makes
any sense, you know where you're just kind of getting
it all out. It's kind of almost like cleaning out
the cobwebs. And it's just a practice of morning journaling.
(20:56):
And this is back when I was living in Los
Angeles working in tech sales. You know, had a great
girlfriend at the time, and you know, life was was
heading in one particular direction, and you know, he kind
of came to me on that on that day, on
my twenty seventh birthday, he goes, hey, man, what happened
about music? What happened? What happened to that? You know, like,
you know, I feel like you might have lost sight
(21:18):
of it. So I started doing these morning pages and
then about twelve weeks in, broke up with the girlfriend,
told the parents I was moving to Nashville, and and yeah,
it was a pretty radical, uh, pretty radical life change.
And I stayed with the company that I was with
just because it was, you know, means to my livelihood
(21:40):
at the time. It was it was a company by
the name of Snapchat, not not sure a few dollars
still familiar with that, but worked for them remotely for
about nine months. After I had moved to Nashville. I'd
been with them for five and a half years, still
having mus as a through line. I I first joined
(22:03):
the company stress fresh out of college. I went to
UCLA and then started working for snap back in twenty sixteen.
They they would have these holiday parties and these like
social happy hours that I would bring my guitar to
and like, you know, be basically the musical entertainment, and
I'd pull in other people that were you know, in
(22:24):
acting or did other creative hobbies and they would join me,
and that you know, eventually grew into me playing diversity
group events that were a little bit bigger in size,
you know, or like company luncheons, and then they invited
me onto their talent show you know, you know, a
couple of years in so that it was a little
bit of an incubator effect when I was when I
(22:47):
was there at at SNAP for the five and a
half years, so I was slowly kind of like building
my confidence, building an audience. And then when I made
the decision to move to Nashville to kind of give
it the old college try, Everyone's like, okay, this makes sense.
It checks out. The only thing Nashville doesn't have is
(23:07):
a it's a beach, which you know, and water, which
you know if you're from the coast and that's all
you've known your whole life. That is definitely a huge shift,
you know, and huge adjustment to have to get used to.
So that's been a challenge. But yeah, after about nine
months here in Nashville, I left the company and began
(23:32):
focusing on my first record and took about six months
to just focus all my energy into you know, getting
on writers' rounds, which here in Nashville are a big
deal because it's you know, where you kind of cut
your teeth, and it's where you meet other writers, and
it's where it's almost the iron sharpening, iron effect, you know,
(23:54):
where I would go to these rounds and you know,
here I am thinking, Okay, I got some pretty decent songs,
but then you hear the best do it and you're like, wow,
I got a lot of work to do. You know,
it's and and and you could either tuck your tail
and go home or or you know, pony up and
and uh and and get you know and improve, you know,
and start and start writing more. So that was kind
(24:15):
of what happened. And then after about six months of
doing that and putting time in on the record in
the studio, uh my, my folks were like, all right,
so how about that job. And that's when that's when
iHeart came on the radio or on the uh on
the on the radar, and it was nice about the
(24:38):
fact that iHeart uh, you know, kind of came on
my radar was because of the fact that they were
here in Nashville, they had had an office presence, and
so I joined their digital team for about a year,
working them on some enterprise stuff with them, and then
you know, about two years ago, I switched over or
(25:00):
too uh to project management or the account management client
success out of the business and uh enter l haf Naper.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I hear, keep going, keep going, kick going.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, I've been working with now for two years, but
along with his colleague Moby who's based out of Moby
Moore who's based out of Charlotte as well, and uh
and then another iHeart account executive out of Orlando.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
What do you think about all that? Patrick?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's cool. So I'm going through.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I'm going through kind of I gave it all at you.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I'm reading a lot a lot of what you just
said makes a lot of a lot of your songs
now make sense. I don't know what a Z eighteen
eighty one is, but Ain't No Surf is one of
his songs, breaking Breaking, breaking Up with l a Wow,
free Fall, Tennessee Skies, Tears, and the Whiskey the singer
and the song uh obviously told us about the wolf.
(26:01):
But yeah, so you're you're writing about real personal experiences here.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think that That's definitely another
reason why, you know, I think country music was the
calling rather than you know, pop or any other sort
of genres, because you know, my writing is very personal
and it does pull on, yeah, real life experiences, you
know that. I feel like it can be shared and yeah, yeah,
(26:29):
and in the Agy eighteen eighty one, there's a family
tie there. My my grandfather used to be a cow
hand or was a cattle han that a family ranch
in Prescott, Arizona in the nineteen thirties, And so you know,
that's that's kind of more along the lines of a
similar it stems from a similar vein of the Wolf,
(26:49):
you know, where it's it's a song about family and
and you know about how things kind of once were
not necessarily me pulling from personal experiences obviously, but almost
putting myself in someone else's shoes and becoming the character.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
So are you still doing your rider rounds?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Still doing the riders rounds? I was just down in
Key West actually for their Songwriter Festival last week. Took
a few days off. Actually ran into Jeff and and
his boss, Drew, the VP of sales there, because my
layover was in Charlotte ironically, and for about the hour
they were coming back in from Tampa from a client visit,
(27:32):
and I guess now I'm I'm I'm deemed as the
airport cowboy because as Jeff and Drew were coming off
the plane, I was there to greet them with my
guitar in the terminal.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So that.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Was that was a fun little overlay. But yeah, that
was on my way down to Key West, and yeah,
I was doing rounds. I did about five riders rounds
down there for the festival and then you know, try
to continually, you know, do you know, maybe once or
twice a month, I'll do them here in Nashville. Now
I've kind of slowed down a little bit, you know,
to kind of focused on the second project that I'm
(28:10):
beginning that I'm starting out on in the studio, and
then I'm planning a California tour in.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
July's goodry to ask you what kind of like live
performances you do and where have you played, and yeah
that's kind of your.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Favorite so so here in Nashville. I've done mainly like small,
smaller showcases, you know, where it's just me and maybe
a couple other people on the bill at intimate venues.
And then I've also done the more like larger scale
live band stuff. I've I've done a Whiskey Jam, which
(28:45):
is which is a huge you know here in Nashville.
You name a country artist, they've all come up through
the ranks at Whiskey Jam, which which is a huge honor.
I actually got to do that on my birthday last year.
But yeah, Luke Combs, Morgan Wall and Lane Wilson, they
they've all, they've all been up through the ranks there.
(29:05):
So definitely a nice high water mark for for the
time being, uh here in Nashville. Big win from last
year and this year. I'm I'm mainly doing the small
like smaller acoustic showcases just because, uh, you know, it
gets it gets pretty pricey to shell out money for
the band every time. But I've also hosted events to
(29:26):
where you know, my band is the kind of the
main feature and there's other things going on, and I
try to you know, spreat a good balance between the two,
you know, throughout the throughout the year, and then at
the tail end of last year, I did I did
a country cover set at the Post eighty two American Legion,
(29:46):
which is a notable it's a it's a Nashville famous venue. Uh,
it's kind of a staple here in the community where
you know, a lot of people have come up through
the ranks playing there as well well. And it's and
it's known for its traditional honky talk, like you know
Texas two step type that thing. They have a thing
(30:07):
on Tuesday nights called Honky Talk Tuesdays. And it's it's
like you're walking back into the fifties. Man, It's it's
it's a it's a cool feeling.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Post eighty two is a Nashville thing and it's a
true legion post. And that's where a lot of people
cut their teeth. Huh. Correct, Wow, that's cool. Learned that.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yes, So you're.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Working on your second album? Now, are you gonna get
your second album complete before you go on your California tour?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
So I'll probably be about halfway done. These records take
some time, as you could probably imagine, just with scheduling
and and but in financing and and and all and
all the those those uh, those particulars, but I'll have
about fourth four of the ten or so songs done
(30:59):
by the time I I lead for the tour in July.
Uh So, so yeah, we're we're we're broken ground and
we're we're almost there. We're about it. Yeah, a third
of the way through or so. I'm looking at maybe
doing twelve songs on this record, since I did ten
on the last I'm I have, I've been sitting on
(31:21):
a little bit of a safe you know, a bit
of a vault of songs, you know. So I'm trying
to get as many out as I as I can,
but it'll it'll be probably with it, you know, at
least another year or so before it's ready to be released.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I hear you.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Where can people find your album? Is your album called
The Wolf?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
So the latest single? Uh that? Yeah, the latest single
project that I put out. I put out The Wolf
as a single in January just because you know, I
had pitched it to the to the Yellowstone folks, and
people were like, hey, man, if nothing comes to that avenue,
like it's such a you know, people were saying it
(32:04):
was a good enough song just to release on its own.
So that's kind of the you know, and that's kind
of what I'm doing this for, is like, you know,
in a way, as much as I want to make
a career of it, it's it's, you know, I'm doing
it for me, and I'm doing it to you know,
(32:25):
spare my stories and the stories that I write about
with people that want to care. So so, yeah, that
was the last project I put out in January, and
that was just as a standalone single. But my album
that was a compilation of ten songs that came out
in June of twenty twenty four. Soho, almost a year ago.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
And what's the album and where can people find it?
I'm gonna I'm listening to it when I jump in
the truck here in about thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah, yeah, awesome, man. So it's the singer and the
Song is the the title of the project. And the
reason for that is it was that was the first
song that I had written post breakup, you know, pre Nashville,
So that was kind of the the gateway drug, if
you will, or the the through line that kind of
(33:16):
connected the the two you know, moments in my life.
But yeah, the singer and the Song is the name
of the project, and it's on iHeartRadio app, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube,
you name it here.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
You man, this has been also where you can stream music.
It better be on our heart. Dang it, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yeah, I had to lift that one first, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Uh yeah, well exactly, this is great. My kids are
gonna be tired of your music, uh after we after
we go down to Wilmington and back tomorrow because they're
gonna get it all in their ear and uh and man,
I love it and.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
This is that's a great music as my as my
dad says, it's it's great to throw on in the car.
So yeah, for sure I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Well, God bless you and godspeed and and one point
I will say, you said, uh, you know Landy Wilson's
own Yellowstone, which I love Yellowstone, Uh awesome, awesome in
the whole series of Yeah, I'm a huge Taylor shared
land Man's really really a great show.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
All those shows are.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Great, absolutely, But you said Luke twenty three last last night.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
And then man and you know, Ryan Bingham, I didn't
really ever put together all the all the musical talents
that are that are on that he presents on that
show and showcases and helps them help really amazing.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Yeah, now it's really something else. And yeah, Taylor's got
a great taste and music and his music supervisor Andrea
is awesome as well. So so yeah, hopefully you can
you know, if you look out for the wolf out
there one day, or you know, if if you guys
(35:05):
do want to stay tuned to uh to a project
or or something that's coming out on Netflix at some
point this year. I just got I do a lot
of sync placement, which is, you know, I'm trying to
pitch my music for film and television. And uh, I
guess one final plug here is that I'll have Ain't
No Surf in Nashville will be featured in its first
(35:27):
movie on Netflix called R and B, which is Tyler
Perry's latest project. Yeah, and it's uh, it's cool because
you know, I I am leaning more and more into
my faith, you know, as I as I kind of
(35:47):
go further along this road here and uh as a
sense moving to Nashville and this is this Tyler Perry
is doing kind of a series of Biblical love stories,
I guess, and this is one of them. It's it's
the modern day retelling of the Biblical love story of
Ruth and bow as aka R and B. And it
takes place here in Tennessee. And I guess ain't no
(36:09):
surf in Nashville found a place in it.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
So so yeah, well congratulations, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I'll have to I'll have to send you guys to
the release date, you know, for that one, it when
it comes out, and then when the wreck, when these
Frost songs are finished, so you'll get a sneak peek.
I'll send you guys a private link.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Well that's awesome, man, and I come out in Nashville
occasionally do do some rhyme and singer songwriter stuff, so
maybe maybe we can hook up and uh, I can
help you out.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I mean, I know like two people uh in West Charlotte.
But but other than that, I'm a fan already and
I'll be a big fan after my road trip here tomorrow.
So God speak to you, Bristol, and what a great story,
uh U c l A, California, Nashville. Uh. And I
(36:56):
think I think you you joked about your parents telling
about get a job, but I think they're your biggest fans,
So hang in there, buddy.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Absolutely, I'd say I'm pretty blessed to have. I was
a good support team here, you know, including including old
l Hafe there. He's he's become like my second dad
out in Charlotte, so he's been he's been championing as well.
So I appreciate you all taking the time.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Thanks for being here. Airport Cowboy h listen, thanks for
checking us out. Go do the Golden rule today. Treat
others the way you want to be treated. Carry a
smile around on your face while you interact with everybody.
Thanks for listening to that Home with Ruby
Welcome to That Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Patrick mcasac from Roby Commercial and Services on with
Trent Hason from the Roby family of Companies. We are
your hosts podcast. Here we come. We got Bristol Coon
on the show. Trent's gonna be cool. Second time we've
had a country music performer. First time with Sam Shannon.
Remember from Make a Wish that, oh yeah, make his
(00:22):
own country music song.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I hadden need to check him out. See where he's
at chilling that out? You pulled that out? I was like,
what he He straight up was performing in the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That was pretty cool, had his guitar and everything. We
got that on podcasts somewhere, I'm sure, but man, that
was that was cool when we were just listening to
to Bristol's song that he wrote called the Wolf. Can't
wait to talk to him about that and see what
else he's up to. Not to mention he is also.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Connected to Heart Radio and Jeff Naper, who we've had
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think that's a pretty pretty smart move on his
part to try to get into the industry and get
the other connections that he could have from being on
the At Home with Ruby show.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
See, you're smarter than me. I didn't even think about
the wisdom there that he works in the industry. He's
performing in the industry, he's writing in the industry. He's
gonna make it in the industry. I hear you. I'm excited. Well,
how you doing today, Patrick, I'm doing wonderful. This is
a yeah, it's a beautiful day here in the Queen City. Yeah, man,
(01:27):
my girls, my girls made it. It's raining. Patrick's being facetious,
but uh, my girls rowing in. Piper's soccer team, Gaston
Christian Eagles made it. They're they're playing tomorrow in the
fourth round in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh, well, okay in Wilmington.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, so they won Saturday two to nothing, playing good
playing good ball, making me a soccer fan. Never thought
that was possible. But yeah, I'm proud of I'm proud
of my girls. Man.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So wait a minute, So fourth round in Wilmington. How
many rounds are there?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Do you know? I mean, where do they go? Probably?
Guess would Raleigh be where you play?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I think they're in the quarter finals, in the semifinals,
in the championship, says be six rounds. I don't know
where they're playing. They play each game at the top
seeded home field of the game. So this Wilmington team
is seated number one in their bracket. And uh, I
(02:25):
think our girls are seeded eighth. But we won two
to nothing playing away the other day and played hard
and scored early and held the lead, and it was
good and they were all excited. I might have dropped
a tear. I don't know, but been kind of a
been kind of That was Saturday. We're recording this on Monday,
(02:46):
so that game is on Tuesday. It's been kind of
a robust weekend in my in my family, coming off
a Mother's Day. Got a proud mama there and uh
and then Ford, I'm the assistant coach, talked a little
bit about that. On his baseball team. He is supposed
to be playing his tournament game. Nine and ten year
old baseball. This sitting is big as the soccer but
(03:11):
they already rained it, rained it out, moved it. So
I will get to go to Wilmington tomorrow. I'm excited
about that, but I will have to I will have
to leave our EOS entrepreneur operating system quarterly of off site.
We'll have to leave it about halfway through tomorrow and
catch it on the catch it on the road, buddy.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well, no, that's cool. You know, it's pretty neat. So okay,
they're the eight seed, they're playing the number one seed.
They will remember this for the rest of their lives,
which is really cool to think about. When when I'm
gonna give you two examples, when I when I played
football my senior year, we were the four seed, or
we were the one seed and the four seed knocked
us out, and it's I mean, I still remember that
(03:52):
like it was yesterday. And then my nephew is in
a similar situation. It's just cool these kids to watch
them go through it. There their high school baseball teammate
to the semi finals, lost to the to the number
one seed.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But it's just like, man, there was a sign.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I told you this on the show before but before
we would go on to play football, it said forty
eight minutes to play a lifetime to remember. And when
you're a high school where you're like whatever not, I'm
not I'll forget it, but they don't remember this time.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
These kids don't think like that. They believe it and
they will remember it. Uh, that's cool. Their team only
has I think two seniors. The team that they just
beat had eight seniors, so I mean they are pumped.
I hear it in the house. We're such a young team.
We got the momentum. I mean, Piper's into eighth grade
(04:41):
and and uh, it was cool they put her on.
It seemed like the top offensive girl on the other
team that had had some nice shots on goal in
the first half. Second half. We had a two to
nothing lead at halftime. Second half. Piper pet plays up plays,
typically plays right wing forward, offensive player, and they put
(05:03):
her in the back man on and guarded that lady.
And uh, she's pretty tough man. She's hard on me.
It's good to see her be hard on other people
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Dude, that is so cool. I mean it's got to be.
And you know you're Reagan was the heck of a
soccer player. You talked about that before. I'm sure she
just is on cloud nine being able to watch the
girls do what she loved to do so much when
she was there.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Here.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, she loves it. She gets all crazy. I don't know,
I'm crying, but she does. She's all into it. I
told her, I'm enjoying smelling the baseball at hert again,
even if it's nine ten year old. I kind of
get into that. I'm getting into all of it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That's what she's supposed to do, but embrace it. That's
some good big lead chew days right there. That it
gets a big lead cheer here there. They do have
a big league chew at the game.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So that stuff hadn't changed one bit. It's I don't
like to see it. Fords had about eight avity's.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I don't need to see the big league chew being
passed around. I know what, I know what it happens.
It's not sugar free. We uh we grow up on
a well and uh we don't have fluoride coming out
to earth. So uh, I don't understand. But I don't know.
What do you do chew, big lead chew. Dang it,
(06:21):
they have sugar free, big lead chewed, yet they don't
have sugar lead free big lead shoes. That's like care
free that care Free gum used to choose. Tell me
that of sugar, that stuff would lose its flavor in
about ten seconds in just and this flavor tastes like
pepto bismo. To start, goodness, gracious.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's like those remember those pieces of gum that came
to the tops baseball cards that we were Oh yeah,
but I mean those things were pretty taste. It tasted
like paper.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know. I have a whole attic full of unopened packs.
I can probably bring you in one of those. Wow,
I'm bringing one of those next show. Let's chew on it.
Probably that's a great it'd be the greatest thing ever. Audience.
It shut him up. You might hear his jaw cracked.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You can only hope to contain.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
My jall used to crack pretty good. It doesn't crack.
I don't. I must not choose, choose hard of stuff anymore.
But I used to have some real tmjay. I think
it's corrected itself for a lot of I remember the
most part.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You would get into be painful for you.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, sometimes I got my jaw locked up. I don't know.
You know what, you just don't go to the doctor.
It'll go away.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, you know, I'll lose my voice about once every
two years. And when that happens, I think it's God's
way of telling me to be quiet and listen. And
maybe that's when your jaw hurts. Maybe that's what's happening
on your side?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Are you trying to tell me something? I did not
think that. I just thought I had a bad run
of jaw cracking. I don't know, man, tell me, I
need to hush up.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I got you know what I'm talking about? Like it
sounds like he swallowed a porcupine.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I don't have that problem, Patrick, I got. I
got baby feet. That's a problem. Actually, actually I do
have a problem. My foot has grown. So when I
go online and order shoes, I like, I'm always like
a half a size too small.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
You know, so you have to buy two pairs.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
No, Now, I just well it took me like three years,
but I learned to order. I order a size larger
and I ordered you know, my chicken shoes. You order
them from Europe, the low croquete that I like, and
you can't send them back a shipping costs more than
the Dagon shoe costs.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And I just got to give them away. I've got
a story of my friends with small feet. Tim Bear
might get mad at me for telling you, but yeah,
ship from Europe. It's not cheap, not cheap.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You got a story?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, I think we'll have to, especially with.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
These new terraffs, and it's gracious, I.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Don't know, man, after seems like they're starting to work
it out a little bit. Yeah right, it's augusto man.
Then they fight again, then they work it out. The
side market goes up and then goes down, then goes up,
then goes down.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I think our current current political leadership likes to be
more outwardly and vocal and boisterous in their negotiations than
some other tenures of politicians United States politicians. I think
some some people do it more behind the scenes. I
think I think now in the day of that of
(09:27):
the tweeting, he tweets it out there. I find it crazy.
And you know that the government got in trouble because
they let some secrets out. They tweet them to the enemy.
I don't know that the wrong person, to the new source.
I really can't keep up with it, but I mean
it's crazy. Call me old school, but they're tweeting out
facts like it's like could this not get intercepted? Like
(09:51):
you know, we just negotiated with so and so. Well
that's that's now all being reported by tweeting.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's like their self reporting.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
But it's the fact it's the new machine that reports
the news from the government, which is well, I guess
I'm just too old school. I need to get up
with it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You want Walter Cronkite to come back.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I want some Sunday night news man the news. I
don't know now. I'm watching everything I watch is my
kids shows on TV. I'm like, can we please watch
something that has a human I mean, goodness, gracious and
a human that's over eighteen. So I don't know. Well,
Patrick introduced our guests because you were talking about mister Coon.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
This is the first time we've met Bristol, but Bristol
is very familiar around here in the halls of iHeart.
We're finding out and he's an aspiring country music singer songwriter,
so check him out. We'll be back with us here
in a second. But the song that we were given
to listen to Bristol is called the Wolf, and maybe
he can tell us what he was writing about.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I'm excited that songs got a vibe and my man
is gonna be something special. I can't wait to hear him,
hear his story when we return on that home with
Roby and don't forget.
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I'm Patrick mcaac from Roby Commercial and Services. On the
Trent Hayson from the Roby family of companies.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
We're your hosts.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
If you miss the last segment, go back check us out.
Always having fun here on at Home with Roby Show.
Hopefully you laugh a little bit, you learn a little bit.
And today we're gonna listen a little bit. Trent, We've
got Bristol Coon who we teased at the at the
end of the first segment there or he has written
a song Bristol. Maybe we could start with this that
we have had the opportunity to listen to tonight. You
(11:50):
made a comment trend and it does. It has got
a nice tune to a very catchy and Bristol is
called the Wolf. I know it's probably one of many
that you've written, but tell us little about that.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah. Absolutely, First of all, it's just I'd like to
say it's a pleasure of being on the on the show.
I've been listening along now since I started working with
y'all on the iHeart side, So thanks for having me on.
But yeah, the Wolf. The wolf really came to me
after finishing the I'm a big I don't know about y'all,
(12:22):
but I'm a big fan of the show Yellowstone, and
after watching the prequel that they did a couple of
years ago called eighteen eighty three that started Tim McGraw
and a few other I think Sam Elliott was in it.
I was inspired by the story and McGraw's character, who
(12:47):
was I guess, the first Dutton of the Dutton family legacy,
And after being a fan of this the Yellowstone series,
I thought it would be a cool idea to kind
of like take his story and tied in with kind
of the modern narrative of Yellowstone and the youngest, more
modern character played by Luke grit Grimes, who I don't
(13:08):
know if you know, is also a country star or
a country singer, and so I kind of I tied there,
I guess lives together through the narrative of the song
and the theme of the song, which is kind of
brought to life by this depiction of a wolf you
know that they kind of go back to throughout the
(13:31):
course of the Yellowstone series. So so yeah, I don't know,
it's just something that was kind of came to me,
and that was I was inspired by the watching the show,
you know, and I know a lot of different songwriters
and artists are take full inspiration from different places, but yeah,
I kind of, you know, it struck me enough, and
(13:51):
then the writing of the series where I felt, you know,
called to write a story about it. And that's kind
of what I feel like my calling is in general,
is I love telling stories and the best way that
I do that is is through song. And so yeah,
that wolf then came to be, and I actually ended
(14:12):
up pitching it to the show for to get place
as a as a song on the soundtrack and no, no,
no bites yet. But we're still, uh, we're still you know,
crossing our fingers and toes and and hopefully something will
come of it in a in a future series or
another spinoff, since I know Taylor shirt And is doing
(14:32):
a lot of those ways, So.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
That is cool. Where are you from?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
So originally I'm from uh, a small town that I
joke about just nestled on the on the coastline the beach,
the beach coast of West coast of Orange County and
Newport Beach, California is where I'm from.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Originally, dang you from the West coast.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I hear you yeah, which which which throws a lot
of which throws a lot of people off.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
But I've been in Nashville now for about four years
and everyone, I guess, maybe to jump ahead here, and
they typically ask how I kind of came about to
be like the country music singer and why I kind
of chose that path, And I think really the idea
(15:29):
was that, like I've always loved telling stories, as I've said,
I've I grew up as a writer, and you know,
I think that style of songwriting kind of lent itself
to country music in a way, you know, where there's
a story being told and it's about life. And so yeah,
(15:52):
I found myself here in Nashville now and been doing
it for about four years, putting music out and it's
been good time.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So how old are you?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I'm thirty one and yeah, it will be thirty two
here in September.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So yeah, and growing up you said you were always
a writer, would did you always write songs or would
you write.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
So I started writing songs at about seventeen, But back
in school, growing up in high school, I used to
write pros and essays mostly about things that I would
read about or watch, you know, I was a big,
you know, music fan growing up. I love music of
the sixties, you know, so I would write papers on
(16:37):
the doors and you know how music of that time
and analog recording compared to like, you know, the popular
music of today, which I guess at the time I
was growing up in high school justin Bieber was that figure.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That is a lot different than Jim Morrison and the Doors?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Oh yes, exactly similarities. Well, that was that was the
whole point of the That was the whole point of
the paper was to kind of you know, miss what
was popular back back, back back then compared to what
you know, people are ingesting now. So yeah, I guess
you could say, you know, my writing style in a
(17:20):
way is kind of reminiscent of you know, the sixties
or the seventies, where it's you know a little bit
more it's not as cook driven. You know, country singers,
country writers here in Nashville today are very hooked driven,
you know, like I'm sure you guys are well familiar
with your your Carolina boys, you know, Luke Holmes, Eric Church,
like those are amazing ridols of mine and influences in
(17:43):
a way. But you know, they they they really land
on those big, like anthemic hooks, which which I think
is a little bit of a you know, a difference
to to you know how I'm approaching it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So have you always been a musician as well?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, I started playing My first instrument was the drums
at eight years old. My folks got me a drum
kit and put in the living room. Believe it or not,
I don't know how they were able to put up
with that for as long as they did, but yeah,
coming home after school, sitting down on the kit was
a great way of getting out some steam and teenage angst,
you know, as I as I you know, grew up
(18:21):
through the you know, through high school and then at
about fourteen fifteen when they realized my folks realized that
I could, you know, sing and I had a little
bit of a voice. They're like, I'd put a guitar
in my hands. They're like, you you should be up
at the front of the stage. You know, like get
out from beyond that kit, you know, and and and
give this a try. So I kind of, you know,
(18:42):
tried to cut corners as I as I was already
you know, I had played the drums for ten years
and was pretty proficient at that instrument. It was very frustrated.
I couldn't stand being being bad at an instrument, right,
So I I tried to get as good as a
as a guitar as I could, and and uh and
I and I haven't really left it, you know, so
it's stuck with me this far.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
That is cool.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
My daughters started at a young age playing the violin.
I am not musically inclined. I was a snare drummer
in the sixth grade. I think I was the most
improved snare musical guy in my public school in the
seventh grade, I think because I started playing the bass
drum too, and maybe the kettles. But uh, but my
daughters have recently and and they don't have a nice
(19:29):
guitar or anything, but there's a good couple of guitars
around my house and they've recently started just playing the
guitar and singing and and doing that as well. So
it's really kind of cool to see a very similar
genre that that that you're that you like country, you know,
folk or or what have you. But but I love storytelling.
(19:52):
I'm not musically inclined, but I think that's great. How
did you so, you said in your low thirties and
you I had to jump to Nashville about four years ago.
I mean, well, what drove that? Where'd you get the
courage to do that? I mean, what'd you say? What was? Where?
Where'd that decision point come from?
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah, that's that's a good question, and you know, not
to get too I'll kind of type back into I
guess the writing exercise that I was doing for my
twenty seventh birthday. One of my best friends had bought
me a book called The Morning Pages, and it's a
(20:34):
journaling exercise. For twelve weeks, you write three pages a day,
stream of consciousness, right, so nothing you're really supposed to
make sense at first, until it does, if that makes
any sense, you know where you're just kind of getting
it all out. It's kind of almost like cleaning out
the cobwebs. And it's just a practice of morning journaling.
(20:56):
And this is back when I was living in Los
Angeles working in tech sales. You know, had a great
girlfriend at the time, and you know, life was was
heading in one particular direction, and you know, he kind
of came to me on that on that day, on
my twenty seventh birthday, he goes, hey, man, what happened
about music? What happened? What happened to that? You know, like,
you know, I feel like you might have lost sight
(21:18):
of it. So I started doing these morning pages and
then about twelve weeks in, broke up with the girlfriend,
told the parents I was moving to Nashville, and and yeah,
it was a pretty radical, uh, pretty radical life change.
And I stayed with the company that I was with
just because it was, you know, means to my livelihood
(21:40):
at the time. It was it was a company by
the name of Snapchat, not not sure a few dollars
still familiar with that, but worked for them remotely for
about nine months. After I had moved to Nashville. I'd
been with them for five and a half years, still
having mus as a through line. I I first joined
(22:03):
the company stress fresh out of college. I went to
UCLA and then started working for snap back in twenty sixteen.
They they would have these holiday parties and these like
social happy hours that I would bring my guitar to
and like, you know, be basically the musical entertainment, and
I'd pull in other people that were you know, in
(22:24):
acting or did other creative hobbies and they would join me,
and that you know, eventually grew into me playing diversity
group events that were a little bit bigger in size,
you know, or like company luncheons, and then they invited
me onto their talent show you know, you know, a
couple of years in so that it was a little
bit of an incubator effect when I was when I
(22:47):
was there at at SNAP for the five and a
half years, so I was slowly kind of like building
my confidence, building an audience. And then when I made
the decision to move to Nashville to kind of give
it the old college try, Everyone's like, okay, this makes sense.
It checks out. The only thing Nashville doesn't have is
(23:07):
a it's a beach, which you know, and water, which
you know if you're from the coast and that's all
you've known your whole life. That is definitely a huge shift,
you know, and huge adjustment to have to get used to.
So that's been a challenge. But yeah, after about nine
months here in Nashville, I left the company and began
(23:32):
focusing on my first record and took about six months
to just focus all my energy into you know, getting
on writers' rounds, which here in Nashville are a big
deal because it's you know, where you kind of cut
your teeth, and it's where you meet other writers, and
it's where it's almost the iron sharpening, iron effect, you know,
(23:54):
where I would go to these rounds and you know,
here I am thinking, Okay, I got some pretty decent songs,
but then you hear the best do it and you're like, wow,
I got a lot of work to do. You know,
it's and and and you could either tuck your tail
and go home or or you know, pony up and
and uh and and get you know and improve, you know,
and start and start writing more. So that was kind
(24:15):
of what happened. And then after about six months of
doing that and putting time in on the record in
the studio, uh my, my folks were like, all right,
so how about that job. And that's when that's when
iHeart came on the radio or on the uh on
the on the radar, and it was nice about the
(24:38):
fact that iHeart uh, you know, kind of came on
my radar was because of the fact that they were
here in Nashville, they had had an office presence, and
so I joined their digital team for about a year,
working them on some enterprise stuff with them, and then
you know, about two years ago, I switched over or
(25:00):
too uh to project management or the account management client
success out of the business and uh enter l haf Naper.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I hear, keep going, keep going, kick going.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, I've been working with now for two years, but
along with his colleague Moby who's based out of Moby
Moore who's based out of Charlotte as well, and uh
and then another iHeart account executive out of Orlando.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
What do you think about all that? Patrick?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's cool. So I'm going through.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I'm going through kind of I gave it all at you.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I'm reading a lot a lot of what you just
said makes a lot of a lot of your songs
now make sense. I don't know what a Z eighteen
eighty one is, but Ain't No Surf is one of
his songs, breaking Breaking, breaking Up with l a Wow,
free Fall, Tennessee Skies, Tears, and the Whiskey the singer
and the song uh obviously told us about the wolf.
(26:01):
But yeah, so you're you're writing about real personal experiences here.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think that That's definitely another
reason why, you know, I think country music was the
calling rather than you know, pop or any other sort
of genres, because you know, my writing is very personal
and it does pull on, yeah, real life experiences, you
know that. I feel like it can be shared and yeah, yeah,
(26:29):
and in the Agy eighteen eighty one, there's a family
tie there. My my grandfather used to be a cow
hand or was a cattle han that a family ranch
in Prescott, Arizona in the nineteen thirties, And so you know,
that's that's kind of more along the lines of a
similar it stems from a similar vein of the Wolf,
(26:49):
you know, where it's it's a song about family and
and you know about how things kind of once were
not necessarily me pulling from personal experiences obviously, but almost
putting myself in someone else's shoes and becoming the character.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
So are you still doing your rider rounds?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Still doing the riders rounds? I was just down in
Key West actually for their Songwriter Festival last week. Took
a few days off. Actually ran into Jeff and and
his boss, Drew, the VP of sales there, because my
layover was in Charlotte ironically, and for about the hour
they were coming back in from Tampa from a client visit,
(27:32):
and I guess now I'm I'm I'm deemed as the
airport cowboy because as Jeff and Drew were coming off
the plane, I was there to greet them with my
guitar in the terminal.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So that.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Was that was a fun little overlay. But yeah, that
was on my way down to Key West, and yeah,
I was doing rounds. I did about five riders rounds
down there for the festival and then you know, try
to continually, you know, do you know, maybe once or
twice a month, I'll do them here in Nashville. Now
I've kind of slowed down a little bit, you know,
to kind of focused on the second project that I'm
(28:10):
beginning that I'm starting out on in the studio, and
then I'm planning a California tour in.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
July's goodry to ask you what kind of like live
performances you do and where have you played, and yeah
that's kind of your.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Favorite so so here in Nashville. I've done mainly like small,
smaller showcases, you know, where it's just me and maybe
a couple other people on the bill at intimate venues.
And then I've also done the more like larger scale
live band stuff. I've I've done a Whiskey Jam, which
(28:45):
is which is a huge you know here in Nashville.
You name a country artist, they've all come up through
the ranks at Whiskey Jam, which which is a huge honor.
I actually got to do that on my birthday last year.
But yeah, Luke Combs, Morgan Wall and Lane Wilson, they
they've all, they've all been up through the ranks there.
(29:05):
So definitely a nice high water mark for for the
time being, uh here in Nashville. Big win from last
year and this year. I'm I'm mainly doing the small
like smaller acoustic showcases just because, uh, you know, it
gets it gets pretty pricey to shell out money for
the band every time. But I've also hosted events to
(29:26):
where you know, my band is the kind of the
main feature and there's other things going on, and I
try to you know, spreat a good balance between the two,
you know, throughout the throughout the year, and then at
the tail end of last year, I did I did
a country cover set at the Post eighty two American Legion,
(29:46):
which is a notable it's a it's a Nashville famous venue. Uh,
it's kind of a staple here in the community where
you know, a lot of people have come up through
the ranks playing there as well well. And it's and
it's known for its traditional honky talk, like you know
Texas two step type that thing. They have a thing
(30:07):
on Tuesday nights called Honky Talk Tuesdays. And it's it's
like you're walking back into the fifties. Man, It's it's
it's a it's a cool feeling.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Post eighty two is a Nashville thing and it's a
true legion post. And that's where a lot of people
cut their teeth. Huh. Correct, Wow, that's cool. Learned that.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yes, So you're.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Working on your second album? Now, are you gonna get
your second album complete before you go on your California tour?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
So I'll probably be about halfway done. These records take
some time, as you could probably imagine, just with scheduling
and and but in financing and and and all and
all the those those uh, those particulars, but I'll have
about fourth four of the ten or so songs done
(30:59):
by the time I I lead for the tour in July.
Uh So, so yeah, we're we're we're broken ground and
we're we're almost there. We're about it. Yeah, a third
of the way through or so. I'm looking at maybe
doing twelve songs on this record, since I did ten
on the last I'm I have, I've been sitting on
(31:21):
a little bit of a safe you know, a bit
of a vault of songs, you know. So I'm trying
to get as many out as I as I can,
but it'll it'll be probably with it, you know, at
least another year or so before it's ready to be released.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I hear you.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Where can people find your album? Is your album called
The Wolf?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
So the latest single? Uh that? Yeah, the latest single
project that I put out. I put out The Wolf
as a single in January just because you know, I
had pitched it to the to the Yellowstone folks, and
people were like, hey, man, if nothing comes to that avenue,
like it's such a you know, people were saying it
(32:04):
was a good enough song just to release on its own.
So that's kind of the you know, and that's kind
of what I'm doing this for, is like, you know,
in a way, as much as I want to make
a career of it, it's it's, you know, I'm doing
it for me, and I'm doing it to you know,
(32:25):
spare my stories and the stories that I write about
with people that want to care. So so, yeah, that
was the last project I put out in January, and
that was just as a standalone single. But my album
that was a compilation of ten songs that came out
in June of twenty twenty four. Soho, almost a year ago.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
And what's the album and where can people find it?
I'm gonna I'm listening to it when I jump in
the truck here in about thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah, yeah, awesome, man. So it's the singer and the
Song is the the title of the project. And the
reason for that is it was that was the first
song that I had written post breakup, you know, pre Nashville,
So that was kind of the the gateway drug, if
you will, or the the through line that kind of
(33:16):
connected the the two you know, moments in my life.
But yeah, the singer and the Song is the name
of the project, and it's on iHeartRadio app, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube,
you name it here.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
You man, this has been also where you can stream music.
It better be on our heart. Dang it, I'm telling you.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yeah, I had to lift that one first, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Uh yeah, well exactly, this is great. My kids are
gonna be tired of your music, uh after we after
we go down to Wilmington and back tomorrow because they're
gonna get it all in their ear and uh and man,
I love it and.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
This is that's a great music as my as my
dad says, it's it's great to throw on in the car.
So yeah, for sure I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Well, God bless you and godspeed and and one point
I will say, you said, uh, you know Landy Wilson's
own Yellowstone, which I love Yellowstone, Uh awesome, awesome in
the whole series of Yeah, I'm a huge Taylor shared
land Man's really really a great show.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
All those shows are.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Great, absolutely, But you said Luke twenty three last last night.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
And then man and you know, Ryan Bingham, I didn't
really ever put together all the all the musical talents
that are that are on that he presents on that
show and showcases and helps them help really amazing.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Yeah, now it's really something else. And yeah, Taylor's got
a great taste and music and his music supervisor Andrea
is awesome as well. So so yeah, hopefully you can
you know, if you look out for the wolf out
there one day, or you know, if if you guys
(35:05):
do want to stay tuned to uh to a project
or or something that's coming out on Netflix at some
point this year. I just got I do a lot
of sync placement, which is, you know, I'm trying to
pitch my music for film and television. And uh, I
guess one final plug here is that I'll have Ain't
No Surf in Nashville will be featured in its first
(35:27):
movie on Netflix called R and B, which is Tyler
Perry's latest project. Yeah, and it's uh, it's cool because
you know, I I am leaning more and more into
my faith, you know, as I as I kind of
(35:47):
go further along this road here and uh as a
sense moving to Nashville and this is this Tyler Perry
is doing kind of a series of Biblical love stories,
I guess, and this is one of them. It's it's
the modern day retelling of the Biblical love story of
Ruth and bow as aka R and B. And it
takes place here in Tennessee. And I guess ain't no
(36:09):
surf in Nashville found a place in it.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
So so yeah, well congratulations, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I'll have to I'll have to send you guys to
the release date, you know, for that one, it when
it comes out, and then when the wreck, when these
Frost songs are finished, so you'll get a sneak peek.
I'll send you guys a private link.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Well that's awesome, man, and I come out in Nashville
occasionally do do some rhyme and singer songwriter stuff, so
maybe maybe we can hook up and uh, I can
help you out.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I mean, I know like two people uh in West Charlotte.
But but other than that, I'm a fan already and
I'll be a big fan after my road trip here tomorrow.
So God speak to you, Bristol, and what a great story,
uh U c l A, California, Nashville. Uh. And I
(36:56):
think I think you you joked about your parents telling
about get a job, but I think they're your biggest fans,
So hang in there, buddy.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Absolutely, I'd say I'm pretty blessed to have. I was
a good support team here, you know, including including old
l Hafe there. He's he's become like my second dad
out in Charlotte, so he's been he's been championing as well.
So I appreciate you all taking the time.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Thanks for being here. Airport Cowboy h listen, thanks for
checking us out. Go do the Golden rule today. Treat
others the way you want to be treated. Carry a
smile around on your face while you interact with everybody.
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