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Speaker 1 (00:00):
live everybody.
Hello and welcome to skiphappens.
It's a podcast where we'regoing to dive into the stories
that shape the music we all love.
And I'm your host, skip clark.
Hopefully you know that by now,and tonight we have an
incredible journey to share.
Our guest is will morton.
He's a man who's traveled thelong road from the sounds of hee
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hawhaw to the grand old opry inhis childhood to the stages of
rock and metal, which I think ispretty cool.
I listen to metal every once ina while, I just I have to.
And finally, uh, back to thecountry, music where apparently
he was always meant to create.
So I like that, from overcomingaddiction we're going to talk
about that to finding redemptionand sharing his personal
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struggles through music.
Will's debut album it's calledthe Long Way.
Can't wait to talk about that.
It's pretty cool too.
It's a testament to hisperseverance and the power of
storytelling.
And there he is.
Look at him, look at him.
Man, dude, I would never beable to grow a beard like that.
It's Will Morton.
Everybody, how we doing guys?
(01:04):
How are you?
Man?
It's so good to meet you, sogood to see you.
Can you hear me?
Okay?
Likewise, I appreciate it.
Oh, okay, okay, I think youkind of froze here, but I'm
still with you, okay you'restill with me.
It's freezing a little bit,that's all right.
We're going to make it workWhereabouts are you Will?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm in Jacksonville North.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Carolina, very nice.
So what is Jacksonville?
What is that near?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So we're about an hour north of Wilmington and two
hours east of Raleigh.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I got you.
Do you go down to the OBX much?
Man, I wish I could say I havebeen and I've lived here my
entire life and never been noway you.
You have never been to theouter banks, Absolutely
beautiful.
No, maybe you don't want to.
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'd love to and I I love the, the history of it and
I grew up surfing the coast ofNorth Carolina and that's the
spot to go and I just I nevermade it out, but I'm looking.
I've got a couple of showslining up.
I've got a friend that's apromoter out there this summer
series that he's putting on somebig names coming out, so it's
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not released yet, but hoping tobe picked up on some of them.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So I'll give you a chance to check it out.
You know, I said maybe youdon't want to because people
that are from that area, it'slike, all right, I don't want to
be with all the tourists.
I don't want to be with all thetourists, I don't want to be
down there.
I see this all the time.
But then again me, I'm inupstate New York and for me to
go to the Outer Banks, man,that's pretty damn awesome.
So, oh, yeah, for sure, yeah.
So tell me about some of yourearliest memories of country
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music and how they kind ofshaped your passion for the
genre.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So my my earliest memories of country music pretty
much stemmed with mygrandparents.
I was raised by a single mom,so a lot of times I would stay
with my grandparents when shewas either working or she was
once in a while dating who's mystepdad of 37 years now?
So I got to listen to countrymusic and he hung Grand Ole Opry
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.
We'd watch it all the time andmy pop was a Buck Owens fan.
So you know I got immersed inBuck Owens.
But just you know thestorytelling of country music
and what it's about and familyand life and love, and that's
what kept me into it as a youngkid.
I've listened to it my wholelife.
Even as a metal drummer youreference that I still went back
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to country music.
I listened to it all day and goplay metal at night.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I love it.
So you're the drummer in themetal band.
I was a drummer for 10 yearsVery cool and you've been out
with some of the big ones.
You've been on the road we have.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We played a lot of regional type shows with a lot
of the big names.
The biggest one was in thismoment, um, when they came off
oz fest.
Uh, we got picked up with themand went on the run with them
and that was super cool.
Uh, the first kind of biggerrun that we took and just
getting to experience that andwatching them explode.
And, the coolest part, theythanked us in their album cover
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when cds were still a thing.
What's that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
What's that right?
Yeah, what uh is there?
I mean, you know, I listen tometal every once in a while.
Sometimes it's just it's themood I'm in and I want to hear
it, I play it loud, and but howis it for you doing that and
then being able to kind of flipa switch and go to country Is
that?
I mean, isn't that a littledifficult, or no?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, not really.
I've been a songwriter myentire life, always, and
everything I write has been inthe country genre In the metal
world.
I couldn't see myself doinganything outside of drums.
I was originally a metalguitarist and we couldn't find a
drummer, so I filled in and Inever looked back.
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I love it.
Uh, metallica is where we allstarted, so, and you know,
everybody wants to be metallicawhen they grow up and yeah, yeah
, yeah, like, and they're stillselling out the arenas, that's
what we thought yeah, yeah, youknow just kind of very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So how many instruments do you play will?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I play three.
So I played sax on my entirelife, all the way to college.
That really got me into music,play drums and I play guitar
well.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So you go saxophone, which you don't see in a heavy
metal.
Then you know the drummer andlead guitarist.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Let's kind of shift gears herea little bit and talk about your
songwriting and your creativityin writing music.
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Now, you were just talkingabout your kids before you went
on the air.
How many kids do you have?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I have two.
I have a son that's 11 yearsold in.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
October, a little girl that's just turned nine
years old.
Oh God bless you.
That's the perfect family.
You got one of these, dude.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, I got my son first, so it's good he can take
care of his little sister.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, so that must your creativity with songwriting
, I mean you must.
You know, now that you're a dadyou get to experience all that.
It's got to help you with yoursongwriting as well, correct?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It does 100%.
You know, just creating ourlittle family.
And what music for me is anemotional outlet.
So I love being able to writeabout, and, and they get excited
when they hear the song, likegood old boys.
My son knows it's a song to himand he cries to this day every
time he hears it.
Oh my god, I don't think hewants his friends to know that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But yeah, I mean I, I've been listening to the
single and you know that, uh,just a few minutes ago, and uh,
you know, men do cry.
I mean it's.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, I've had a lot of people on social media push
back on me about making thatstatement.
I'm like no, we're human beings.
I was born in the South, I wasraised tough, but I'm still a
person at heart, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, it doesn't matter how tough you are.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Exactly, it does not matter, there's those moments.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly.
It does not matter thosemoments.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
And you know I mean we look atyou and you know a guy, you got
the beard, you got all this.
You look a little rough in agood way, please, please, I
don't, but I'm just saying it'slike, but yet you would cry is
just like the next guy I mean,if something happens, so that's
basically what I was getting at.
(07:23):
So talk to me about the albumthe Long Way.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So it's actually taken a long way to get here.
We've probably written andrecorded 30 tracks over the past
two years and drilled it downto the 12 that are going to make
this album.
It's basically the story ofovercoming addiction, um,
finding faith again, uh,creating a family and just
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trying to redefine who I am as aperson.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
How long have you been sober?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Uh, so a little bit over 11 years, I got sober.
October of 2013,.
Uh, two months after I gotmarried made the decision we
wanted to have children, and theperson I was could not have
children.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Wow.
Well, what, if you don't mindme asking what was it?
Drugs, alcohol, what's the deal?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It was primarily alcohol.
But you know what happens whenyou're in that environment and I
was on the road and you startdoing party drugs and you take a
little bit of this and that'snot going to hurt you and
eventually it consumes your life.
And it became an everyday eventfor me to the point where I was
getting hospitalized.
I was getting arrested all thetime.
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I was just in and out oftrouble and my health started
failing.
And again I got married and mywife she must be an angel
because she stood by me thewhole time God bless her Helped
get me through it and by thegrace of God and begging for
forgiveness, I was able toovercome it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You did it Did you.
You did it on your own.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I did.
I'd like to say I did it on myown.
Again, I begged for help fromthe Lord, but I actually I moved
to my wife's parents' house, Itried to go to a rehab and it
just I went and came back thesame day.
It wasn't what I needed in mylife, so I moved to Maryland
where my wife's parents lived,and I lived with them for two
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months and just got away fromthe people I was surrounding
myself with and started, youknow, focusing on better things,
envisioning what I wanted formy life and regimenting myself
to working out eating correctly,you know, trying to meet goals
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and attain what I wanted in life.
And that's kind of how I gotthere.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, yeah, and I hope you don't mind me asking
you know those questions.
It's because I want otherpeople to hear it and there's so
many people that have been inyour shoes are in your shoes,
you know, years ago and maybesome are still doing it and you
need to.
You need to ask the Lord forhelp.
You need to do something tomake yourself better for life.
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If you want to have a family,you want to go on with your
career and your passion, yourdedication for music, that road
wasn't going to get you anywhere, but in a jail cell, Exactly,
or maybe God forbid, but sixfeet under.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Exactly.
And that's kind of the road Iwas on.
It was one or the other and Ihad to make that decision.
Unfortunately, I you know, andthat's kind of the road I was on
, it was one or the other and Ihad to make that decision.
Unfortunately, I still got afamily member.
I don't really want to say whoit is, but I was struggling with
addiction and, um, it's hard towatch it and know that I came
from there and and he's stillthere and he's been on a journey
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up and down and trying to getit together.
He's been clean and he's backon and back and forth and you
know I pray for him every dayand I love the death and hope
the best.
I just hate seeing it.
I've lost friends.
Heroin took over where I liveand lost a lot of good buddies
Actually, to heroin.
It's just a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Wow, yeah, you know it's good that he's got somebody
like you, though, that he cancall, or you know, something's
not right, where you can say,hey, I need to go over and see
who and such and such, becauseof such and such, he's not, he's
not sounding right on the phone, something's up and I need to
go talk to him.
He's good, he's.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
it's good he's got you exactly, yeah, I try to be
there for anybody that that'lllisten how um you know, here you
and I are chatting about.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You know your backstory a little bit, but how
important is um?
Is it to share your personalstory through your songs?
I mean, that's got to mean alot it does.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's my testimony, you know and again, we kind of
talked about this before theshow it's it doesn't define me,
but I wouldn't be who I amwithout my past right?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
no, exactly exactly right so me to where I am today,
and it made me sure yeah, youknow you look back, it wasn't
the right thing to do and you'vecome out of it very well.
But maybe, if I don't think itcould be entirely different,
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it's just kind of, you know,everything that has happened has
happened for a reason.
Look at you now, right, justsaying.
I believe that yeah, yeah, Tellme a little bit about you.
Know you have Good Old Boys,Don't Cry.
That's the song I was talkingabout.
And tell us a little bit aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Myself, my producer, mark McKee, and a buddy of ours,
chris Sayre is a phenomenalsongwriter and the idea came all
all of us fathers and justtalking about our kids and, you
know, raising a family, and allof a sudden, five minutes later,
we've got this song and we'reall sitting there teary-eyed and
it was just the idea of youknow, looking at my son and
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telling him you know, get, stopcrying, you're tough, realizing
his heart.
He's got the purest heart I'veever seen and I don't want to
break that in who he is and Iwant to let him know it's okay,
but if you feel like you've gotto cry, you've got to let your
emotions out.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Feel free 100%.
I think anybody would tell youyou don't hold that in Go ahead.
If you've got to you've, Ithink anybody would tell you you
don't hold that in Go ahead.
If you got it, you got to justget it out.
And I think you'd be much morerespected if you did that and
try to hold it in.
I mean, you know, don't besomebody you're not, just be
real.
Be real Exactly.
Tell me about some of your liveperformances and your fan
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connection.
For example, if I was to go seeyou at a show, how would that
be?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I love being on stage again.
I mean, I've been on stage somuch.
It's just like natural feelingfor me and I love the excitement
, I love interacting with thecrowd, that feeling you get when
people are singing your songback at you or you know whatever
.
In that moment, you knowsomething clicks with the guitar
player next to you.
You know that we messed up andwe look at each other and we
just magic happens and we allbring it back together and you
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know just that, that feeling andit's it's a bond on stage, it's
a bond with the crowd, it's anintimate feeling.
I played for thousands and Iplayed for 10 people, you know.
So I think it's moreintimidating playing for 10
people than it is 10,000.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I bet it is.
Especially if you know all 10of them Exactly, it's like all
right.
It's like you know, with radiowe go and do a lot of presents,
a lot of big shows, and you know, yeah, it's one thing in front
of 20, 30, 40,000 people, andthen it you know it's one thing
in front of 20, 30, 40,000people, and then you know it's
like, well, if you're in frontof 10 and you know like nine of
the 10 people, it's like oh shit, I can't mess up, I can't ever
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hear the end of it.
There's 50,000 people out there.
It's like nobody knows me.
This is all good.
Totally get that, dude.
Totally get that.
Do you?
Is this your only gig?
Is this?
All you do right now is music,or do you actually have a job
during the day?
I'm actually in construction,yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I've been in construction my entire life.
I was I owned a flooringcompany for the past 10 years
and I exited that company andI'm actually a single family
home builder, nice, nice Rightthere in the Carolinas, yeah.
Uh, born and raised right here,where we build within about an
hour and a half radius of ourhometown, and how nice my whole
family's in it.
(15:36):
We all started as painters andworked our way into developers
and builders, and there'sprobably 30 of us that do all.
That's so cool.
All different trades you knowfrom ground up that's so cool.
Different trades from ground upthat's so cool.
I have to ask yes.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So it's a family event.
Yeah, there you go.
So how long have you beengrowing that beard?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I started this in 2016.
My nephew taught me into a noshave November.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It's been a no shave decade.
It has.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And my kids have never seen me without it except
in pictures, and they hate it.
So they're like you're nevercutting I think it's cool, it's
just they won't let me cut itthey no, I get it without it.
They saw the pictures.
Yeah, that's not, you don'twant me to cut it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, it's me that's cool how?
Um, you know, I've talked tojordan davis, we've had him on
the podcast and we talked abouthis beard and then the upkeep of
that is I mean, there's a lotof.
I know we're supposed to betalking about the music here,
but for shits and giggles uh,the beard there's a lot of
upkeep to that.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
There is, and I'm probably not going to sound as
tough when I tell you about it,but I want to hear it.
I mean, keep it straight, orelse it's like this you got to
trim it every couple days so itstays in shape, or I'd look like
Abraham Lincoln out to here.
Yeah, there's definitely a lotof cute day does your wife like
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it?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
she does, surprisingly, keeps her warm at
night, exactly.
Gotta love that, gotta lovethat.
Um, you know what?
What do you do when you're notdoing music or construction?
Do you get together?
Do you like baseball?
Do you kind of do differentthings like that?
Do you make a trip to nashvillefor the heck of it, or maybe
you get in the studio there.
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What do you do?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
yeah, so I really hadn't had a lot of time to
enjoy a lot of the things that Iactually used to to to enjoy,
and if I had my option, I'dprobably fish a little bit more.
Okay, I love fishing, and justmy son's just getting into it.
I'd love to be able to fish alittle bit more.
Okay, I love fishing, I just myson's just getting into it.
I love to be able to fish alittle bit more.
Outside of that, I coachbaseball player my whole life.
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Cool, I was joining a league,but I mean I coach little.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I love the league.
I got a baseball or baseballfamily, so we got baseballs all
over the place.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, I played short my entire life.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Really and I loved it .
How cool.
I work part-time for the Metshere in town.
We have the AAA team for theNew York Mets Okay, cool.
So one of the two PA announcersand we kind of rotate and do
all that.
And my son, who's special needs?
He works in the press box andbaseball's his.
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That's his thing, all yearround.
It's his thing.
Even though baseball ends inOctober or whatever it is, he's
still, you know, november,december.
He's watching who's doing what,where they're going, a winner
ball and all that stuff.
So baseball's big and shortstops.
We have some friends thatplayed short.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, that's my favorite position.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, that's very cool.
So how long have you actuallybeen playing music?
Maybe I already asked you, Idon't know.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
So I started again.
I started saxophone at the ageof 12 years old.
That's when I really startedsaxophone.
And, uh, at the age of 12 yearsold, that's when I really
started and I really wanted toplay, because I wanted to play
jazz and in the clapton and someof those guitars, um.
So I picked up guitar at 14years old, uh, learning jazz,
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and then it kind of evolved intowhat it is today.
So I'm sure I can't tell youhow old I am.
I'll be 41 this year.
Oh, stop.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You're just a kid.
I got you beat by 27 yearsprobably.
I got eight grandkids, but thisis the stuff that keeps me
young and I get to talk to greatpeople like you and talk about
music and play your music andall that.
It's always a lot of fun,always a lot of fun, always a
lot of fun.
But, uh, yeah, so, um, I Ialways ask weird questions.
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Okay, for example, what do youdrive?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
well, I used to drive a um gmc 2500 that was lifted
six inches on 37s.
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Wow, dude, but I knew it.
I knew it.
Um was going to say it'd be adually yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I was going to get a dually, but I ended up getting
just a 2500 Denali.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Nice, sweet, sweet, very cool.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I actually switched to an SUV recently and yesterday
I went to go trade it in so Icould get my truck back.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I mean, I love it.
I love it, yeah, and if you'regoing to do that, do it now,
before all these whatever'sgoing on takes effect and these
prices are going to go up for alittle bit until we can shake
things out.
So that's all, yeah, so howoften do you do you get to
Nashville?
For example, did you go to theCountry Radio Seminar back in
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February?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I did that was my first CRS.
Okay, give me a review.
What'd you think it was cool?
I didn't know what to expect.
Did a bunch of interviews Veryawkward because I didn't know
what to say.
I'm like I've never done thisbefore, so I'm just going to
wing it.
Yeah, that's the best way, dude.
Yeah, I've never done thisbefore, so I'm just going to
wing it.
Yeah, that's the best way, dude.
(21:09):
Yeah, and just keep it real.
And they seem to appreciate it.
They said I did a great job, soI guess that's good.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Got to meet a lot of cool people made some
connections with other artists.
Yep, I've been.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It was a good time I actually got to bring my wife.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh, very nice, Very nice.
Yeah, I've been doing that.
I know you keep going in andout, so I apologize if I cut you
off, but I'm getting it.
But I've been going for like 25years, okay, and I've been
doing the radio seminar thing,like I said, for about 25 years,
and it's always cool to see thenew artists come through, like
yourself.
And I think it's very importantthat you do go to something
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like that because you cannetwork and get to know these
people a little bit.
And you never know.
We all know in this business,whether it's radio or doing what
you do, it a lot of it is we.
You know the contacts andsomeone can usually get
something for you, you know I?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
um, the coolest thing .
I was just looking him up andhe's going to hate me if he
hears this.
I can't remember thegentleman's name.
My wife and I were havingdinner at the Omni that night
and the man that voiced the CMAsI cannot remember his name,
john Williard.
That's him, john Williard.
I'm trying to Google him realquick, john Williard.
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So he was sitting next to usand slid over and had dinner
with us for about two hours andwe shot the shit Super cool dude
, super cool dude.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
He's the voice of Skip Happens.
By the way, he's done all myvoiceovers for the podcast.
I didn't play it tonight, buthe's done all my voiceovers.
I've known John for many years.
One of the radio stations Iworked at he was the voice of
the radio station as well, asyou know.
I mean tv commercials andeverything else, and for how
many years he was like.
(22:56):
And now it's hovering.
Next it'll be keith urban whenwe come back, you know, whatever
.
Yeah, so john is uh, god blesshe's.
He's a great guy, he's just.
Everything about him is justwonderful, just wonderful.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It really was super personable.
I mean, like I said, we talkedfor two hours.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Not everything.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I'm surprised you got away with just two hours.
I talked to John before.
He's like dude, dude.
I got an Uber waiting for meout front.
But no, seriously, that's agood guy and he's a good guy to
get to know because he's workedwith so many country artists, so
many organizations, for examplethe CMAs, radio stations and
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what have you.
So that's pretty cool.
What do you see yourself likein about five years?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
you, um, what do you see yourself like in about five
years?
That's a good question, and I'mstill trying to figure that out
.
Um, you know, balancing whereI'm at with work and music uh,
I'd love to play more.
We're just getting out, uh, thepast two years has been all
writing and recording.
We've got a show coming up nextmonth that's not released yet.
Uh, will be the first show intothis album and we're starting
to line up more.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So I'd love to be able to play out more.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Again I mean, I love that aspect.
I'd love to be able to hearmyself on my local radio station
.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Who doesn't man?
Have you had that opportunityat all yet?
Not yet, no.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So I just got the last mixes on the last four
songs they're going to masterthis week and we're water
falling into this album, so assoon as these masters come, back
good old boys will be tied intothe album release for a
pre-save option, so the albumwill fully be finished in
hopefully about a week.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Cool option.
So the album will fully befinished in hopefully about a
week and, good old boys, that isdefinitely radio ready.
That's pretty cool and I thinkyou know here and you probably
already know this, but andcorrect me if I'm wrong but if
you can grab the hearts of yourlisteners, of your fans or just
anybody, and they become a fan,if you can grab them by the
(25:09):
heart and that song's going todo it you're going to have a fan
for life.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, I appreciate it .
I mean, when I listen to music,I mean I love the artist in
general, but there are certainsongs that just grab you.
Those are the songs that I loveand I put them on repeat.
I mean, I listened to the sameprobably 20 songs all day, every
day, just cause I love them.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Give me an example of what you listen to.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
So some of my favorites in color Jamie Johnson
oh my God.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Do you see Jamie on the Opry special the other night
?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I missed it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
That was good.
I'm actually blanking out onyou right now, it's okay.
Randy Travis, three WoodenCrosses oh my God.
Blake Shelton, the Baby Justthings that touch certain parts
of my life.
Those are the ones that I love.
Some of the newer ones.
I love Riley Green right now,the style that he's doing.
(26:11):
It's kind of where I'm tryingto lean into a little bit more,
but we kind of got a hybridgoing on.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, ella Langley's got me Something about her voice
and seeing her at CRS as welland listening to her talk and
just something about her voice.
The raspiness in her voice waslike it was hot.
You know what I mean?
It was hot.
It would be like, and now I getwhere it comes from, and
(26:39):
although she just got engagedand already called it off, but
um, that's what I read anyways,I don't know, but yeah, no, it's
okay, it's our internet, it's,you know, kind of mine's pretty
good, it's on your end.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It's got to be mine.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It's the Carolina internet.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It's this one gig, oh no.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That I've got, that they don't give me.
You know the thing is, when youdo yeah, you're back.
So when you do freeze up, it'susually the worst face.
It's like, you know, it's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Just when you don't expect it and look what happens,
it's like so anyways, that'swhat happened.
So, um, if you could, um, rightnow, if you could right now, if
you could collaborate withanybody, somebody who, would
that be Dead or alive, male orfemale?
Is this thing no, no, that'sokay, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Can you hear me?
You said if I can hear me nowwith anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Right now I feel like a Verizon commercial.
Can you hear me now?
Okay, let's try, I'll talk.
Yeah, I can hear youCollaborating with anybody, dead
or alive.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Tough one.
It's a very tough one.
I would probably lean is a verytough one.
I would probably lean newer age, like I said, riley green, a
little bit older, probably beRandy Travis just because I've
always loved his voice and againJamie Johnson's one that I've
(28:36):
always.
I mean his style, the, hisimage, the songwriting.
You know those guys, I meanthat's probably my top three.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, you kind of got .
You got his look going with thebeard and all that, it wasn't
intentional.
I love it.
I love it, but it's cool, it'scool, it's good, it's good, it's
good.
So you went to CRS, but howoften do you get to Nashville
now?
Very often, you said right.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
About once a month I'll go for about a week.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
What's it?
It's a pretty easy drive,though, from where you are.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
The drive, I think, is probably 10, 12 hours.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh, really yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I think it's probably 10, 12 hours.
Oh really, yeah, I can catch aDelta flight Atlanta in about
three hours.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, that works out.
We have a nonstop from Syracusethat goes to Nashville.
You get there about two and ahalf hours with that.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, so it's not terrible.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
No, it's not terrible , not terrible at all.
So, okay, you got the songcoming out that's going to get
played on the radio.
Your hometown radio station isgoing to play it and I have to
call them.
I will uh that that.
I'm reading what jason kranz ison here.
He's a radio programmer.
I'm reading his, uh his note.
(29:53):
He says does it have to becountry?
I'd say Kurt Cobain.
Oh, okay, if not, so I get you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
So if you could do a collaboration would it be?
With Kurt.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Oh, kurt, I am wearing the shirt right now.
Oh, there it is.
I didn't see it under the beard.
Plus, my camera is kind of inthe way.
I have to look around it.
Yeah that'd be surreal.
Are you getting out to visitradio stations at all?
Are you going to be able to doa little bit of a radio tour?
Have you done any of that, orare you going to?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I'm hoping to.
That's what I've been trying toget With the team.
We're actually building on whatI've been trying to get with
the team.
We're actually building on theteam currently and trying to get
involved.
One of the guys his name is Bo.
He comes from radio and kind ofsteering that ship a little bit
.
I love the opportunity to youknow, at least take a couple
interviews, tell the story,maybe play a song.
(30:55):
We used to have local nights onour radio stations.
They don't really do that muchanymore.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What about right there in your hometown?
I mean, do you have?
You have hometown radio,obviously, but or is it big
corporate radio or somebody cango knock on the door and say,
hey, you know, I'm doing this,yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So it's WRNS.
You're familiar with WRNS, ok,and we've reached out recently
sponsoring a charity tournamentwith them.
It's actually the church that Iwas raised in that's putting a
charity on, so very cool.
It's actually the church that Iwas raised in.
That's putting a charity on.
Very cool, trying to partnerwith it, kind of get integrated
(31:44):
with the station.
I've always been a part of thelocal community anyways and
charities that are involvedlocally, so it's just another
outlet trying to get in withCrystal Legends at WRNS.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I love it.
You need to, and you know whatthey love you and they'll bring
you out, which will be very cool.
You said you coach baseball.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I have for the past couple of years.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
My son was playing baseball and he's decided to be
a soccer player now, and howdoes Dad feel about that?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I know nothing about soccer so I don't know how to
help him.
It's like just go kick the ballkid.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, exactly, Kick it.
What do I change?
I don't know.
I love baseball, I don't knowwhy.
Well, no, teach their own.
I guess Teach their own.
And what are you?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
going to do.
You're not going to stop himfrom doing something he wants to
do Exactly.
I've tried to get him into thethings that I love and learned
that it's got to be somethingthat he wants.
I grew up skateboarding.
I built a half pipe in thebackyard for him because I
wanted one as a kid and he neverrode it very often.
I had him in baseball and hedecided I told him as a lefty he
(32:57):
could only play first base orhe could only play outfield and
pitch.
And he couldn't pitch, so hehad to play first or outfield.
He just wasn't having it, so hewent to soccer.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Well, hey, teach their own.
You said you built a half pipeout in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, Actually it's in one of my music videos.
It's me and my son skating onit.
The video is son skating on itthe videos for the only one I've
had were you, um, did uh in theextreme sports?
Yeah, I mean, skateboarding waspretty much it, skateboarding
and surfing.
We surfed the morning and skatethe afternoon, every day
through summers.
And one point I thought I wasgoing to go pro for
(33:30):
skateboarding and you're not afunny hawk nah, it fizzled out
when I went to college.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Enough of the skateboard.
We'll put that away Exactly.
The reason I asked is my wife'snephew was I don't know if he's
a BMX was a BMX rider.
We've lost him now, but it wasDave Mara, I don't know, and, a
matter of fact, we've been tohis house in Greenville.
His wife, you know he took hisown life many years ago.
(33:59):
He had so many concussions.
He had that CTE when they didall the tests and everything.
He was fine one day and thenext day, all of a sudden, we
get the news that he did what hedid.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's like wow, it's just crazy.
It is Dave's a legend.
He had to park about an hourfrom where I live.
It's just crazy.
It is Dave's a legend.
He had a park about an hourfrom where I live.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
It's just there.
We went to the park up inGreenville.
The park was named after him.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
There was one in Wilmington at one point.
We used to skate in those parksall the time.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
We were at the Outer Banks.
We said, okay, it's a rainy day, we're going to take a drive,
and we took.
It was a few hours, but we gotthere, we enjoyed it and then we
drove back.
So it was absolutely beautiful,beautiful, beautiful.
Do you get out?
I mean, well, it's kind of adumb question.
You're pounding nails every dayand building houses and laying
concrete, but do you work out?
(34:57):
Is there something you do justto kind of?
You know, just get away from itall?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Unfortunately, it's gambling.
I go to casinos a little bittoo often.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's in the family.
What can I tell you?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
But no, I get it.
I actually lived and died bythe gym.
Actually that's what kind ofhelped me get through the
alcohol addiction.
Covid kind of put a damper onthat.
I got to get back in action.
But yeah, I mean, I try to stayas busy as I possibly can,
whether it's work or with thefamily or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So Will?
Where can we log on to get yourmusic?
Or, when it is fully available,will we be able to go to the
socials and be able to downloadit and buy it.
Buy it and download it.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yes, I'm currently on Spotify just under my name,
will Morton.
Instagram TikTok is Will MortonOfficial and we are working on
other outlets for pre-purchasingthe album before release.
We'll have all the pre-savelinks up on all the streaming
Cool To coincide with therelease of the album, so I'm
(36:14):
hoping to roll everything out um, probably 30, 45 days cool,
very cool.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Um, I want you to make sure I get a copy of it.
I've got you absolutely.
Uh like that.
What I do is uh, something Iusually give them like a test
spin I know if jason's listeninghe he'll know exactly what I'm
talking about is, uh, I take acertain song and put it up
against another song and I likedoing it with the new
independent artists or the newartists.
(36:41):
I mean, we know the MorganWallens, we know the Luke Combs,
we know all that side of things.
But it's people like you thatneed to be heard and be
recognized as as an artist.
And you're putting out somegreat music and I appreciate
that.
Yeah, you know.
So that that's that's why I'masking to make sure I do get a
copy of that, and what I'm goingto do is actually I know that I
was playing a little bit off myphone earlier that I'll put the
(37:04):
link underneath this video whenwe get it all posted, all set
and done.
Awesome, I appreciate that, yeah, no, absolutely Appreciate you.
Everything you've been throughyour backstory is just
phenomenal.
Much respect, my friend.
Through your backstory is justphenomenal.
Much respect, my friend, muchrespect for for what you're
doing.
I just I just find it like, wow, you go from metal to country
(37:24):
and well, I know it's country'skind of got a lot of rock roots,
so but yeah, I still find ithard to believe you're banging
on the drums, heavy metal goingnuts, and then, okay, I'm, I'm
going to step down and sing someGarth.
Do you do covers with your bandwhen you get out?
Do you do country covers?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
We do, and it's not always country.
We did the outfield a few times, it's just.
You know, whatever fits in themoment, whatever I think the
crowd's going to enjoy that Ienjoy, enjoy.
You know I'm not gonna playsomething.
I don't really enjoy myself orit's not gonna, it's not going
to portray correctly, butanything that fits this set.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I get it.
Jason just chimed in.
He says he goes.
Jason just said we do new musicMonday.
Play a new independent artist,a new song once an hour, all day
.
Great idea.
Great idea Because these arethe artists that need to be
heard, need to be seen.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
That would be awesome .
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, it's been awesome havingyou on here tonight.
Skip happens.
Yeah, man, I appreciate you.
Yeah, no, right back at you, andI'm glad that you know things
worked out, you know with yourpress or your team that's behind
you and you know, are the kidsthere?
And I mean I just I can seeevery once in a while hear a
noise.
It's like somebody's openingand closing that door.
(38:49):
It's all good, it's all good.
I love.
I was waiting for him to comerunning in, that's all right.
That's all right.
It's like my yellow lab wouldcome running downstairs and jump
up on me or something.
That's happened in the past.
It's crazy and I just droppedeverything, but that's okay.
But anyways, it's been apleasure having you on here
(39:10):
tonight and getting to know youa little bit and Jason being a
programmer, hopefully he'll lookyou up as well little bit.
And uh, you know jason being aprogrammer, hopefully he'll look
you up as well.
Uh, but uh, your sound, jason,if you get a chance, make sure
you check out the song.
Uh, good old boys, don't cry.
It's, it's pretty good, it'sreally good.
It's really good I sincerelyappreciate that?
yes, absolutely.
(39:30):
Uh, thanks for coming on.
Skip happens tonight again.
Look them up.
I'll put the link.
Uh, everything you need to knowwill be underneath this video.
It'll'll be like these camerasscrew me up.
It'll be like right down there,I guess, but if it's not, maybe
it'll be over on the side,maybe it'll be up above.
I don't know.
I have my son do the socialmedia, so it's like, zach, I
(39:52):
need you to do this, but no,that's all good, it's all good,
will.
Thanks for coming on tonight.
Stay right there and thank youfor watching everybody.
It's been another edition ofSkip Happens.
Make sure you go on andsubscribe to Skip Happens on
YouTube, and if Will Morton'sgot a YouTube page, you may want
to subscribe to that as welland follow him on his socials.
(40:12):
Just Google him and he's goingto come up.
It's pretty cool.
Thanks for joining us everybody.
Uh, hopefully you and youenjoyed it.
So skip clark, skip happens,will morton.
Thanks guys, stay right therewill.
Here we go.
live everybody.
Hello and welcome to skiphappens.
It's a podcast where we'regoing to dive into the stories
that shape the music we all love.
And I'm your host, skip clark.
Hopefully you know that by now,and tonight we have an
incredible journey to share.
Our guest is will morton.
He's a man who's traveled thelong road from the sounds of hee
(00:22):
hawhaw to the grand old opry inhis childhood to the stages of
rock and metal, which I think ispretty cool.
I listen to metal every once ina while, I just I have to.
And finally, uh, back to thecountry, music where apparently
he was always meant to create.
So I like that, from overcomingaddiction we're going to talk
about that to finding redemptionand sharing his personal
(00:44):
struggles through music.
Will's debut album it's calledthe Long Way.
Can't wait to talk about that.
It's pretty cool too.
It's a testament to hisperseverance and the power of
storytelling.
And there he is.
Look at him, look at him.
Man, dude, I would never beable to grow a beard like that.
It's Will Morton.
Everybody, how we doing guys?
(01:04):
How are you?
Man?
It's so good to meet you, sogood to see you.
Can you hear me?
Okay?
Likewise, I appreciate it.
Oh, okay, okay, I think youkind of froze here, but I'm
still with you, okay you'restill with me.
It's freezing a little bit,that's all right.
We're going to make it workWhereabouts are you Will?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm in Jacksonville North.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Carolina, very nice.
So what is Jacksonville?
What is that near?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So we're about an hour north of Wilmington and two
hours east of Raleigh.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I got you.
Do you go down to the OBX much?
Man, I wish I could say I havebeen and I've lived here my
entire life and never been noway you.
You have never been to theouter banks, Absolutely
beautiful.
No, maybe you don't want to.
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'd love to and I I love the, the history of it and
I grew up surfing the coast ofNorth Carolina and that's the
spot to go and I just I nevermade it out, but I'm looking.
I've got a couple of showslining up.
I've got a friend that's apromoter out there this summer
series that he's putting on somebig names coming out, so it's
(02:14):
not released yet, but hoping tobe picked up on some of them.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So I'll give you a chance to check it out.
You know, I said maybe youdon't want to because people
that are from that area, it'slike, all right, I don't want to
be with all the tourists.
I don't want to be with all thetourists, I don't want to be
down there.
I see this all the time.
But then again me, I'm inupstate New York and for me to
go to the Outer Banks, man,that's pretty damn awesome.
So, oh, yeah, for sure, yeah.
So tell me about some of yourearliest memories of country
(02:39):
music and how they kind ofshaped your passion for the
genre.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So my my earliest memories of country music pretty
much stemmed with mygrandparents.
I was raised by a single mom,so a lot of times I would stay
with my grandparents when shewas either working or she was
once in a while dating who's mystepdad of 37 years now?
So I got to listen to countrymusic and he hung Grand Ole Opry
(03:04):
.
We'd watch it all the time andmy pop was a Buck Owens fan.
So you know I got immersed inBuck Owens.
But just you know thestorytelling of country music
and what it's about and familyand life and love, and that's
what kept me into it as a youngkid.
I've listened to it my wholelife.
Even as a metal drummer youreference that I still went back
(03:27):
to country music.
I listened to it all day and goplay metal at night.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I love it.
So you're the drummer in themetal band.
I was a drummer for 10 yearsVery cool and you've been out
with some of the big ones.
You've been on the road we have.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We played a lot of regional type shows with a lot
of the big names.
The biggest one was in thismoment, um, when they came off
oz fest.
Uh, we got picked up with themand went on the run with them
and that was super cool.
Uh, the first kind of biggerrun that we took and just
getting to experience that andwatching them explode.
And, the coolest part, theythanked us in their album cover
(04:04):
when cds were still a thing.
What's that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
What's that right?
Yeah, what uh is there?
I mean, you know, I listen tometal every once in a while.
Sometimes it's just it's themood I'm in and I want to hear
it, I play it loud, and but howis it for you doing that and
then being able to kind of flipa switch and go to country Is
that?
I mean, isn't that a littledifficult, or no?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, not really.
I've been a songwriter myentire life, always, and
everything I write has been inthe country genre In the metal
world.
I couldn't see myself doinganything outside of drums.
I was originally a metalguitarist and we couldn't find a
drummer, so I filled in and Inever looked back.
(04:51):
I love it.
Uh, metallica is where we allstarted, so, and you know,
everybody wants to be metallicawhen they grow up and yeah, yeah
, yeah, like, and they're stillselling out the arenas, that's
what we thought yeah, yeah, youknow just kind of very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So how many instruments do you play will?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I play three.
So I played sax on my entirelife, all the way to college.
That really got me into music,play drums and I play guitar
well.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So you go saxophone, which you don't see in a heavy
metal.
Then you know the drummer andlead guitarist.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Let's kind of shift gears herea little bit and talk about your
songwriting and your creativityin writing music.
(05:36):
Now, you were just talkingabout your kids before you went
on the air.
How many kids do you have?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I have two.
I have a son that's 11 yearsold in.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
October, a little girl that's just turned nine
years old.
Oh God bless you.
That's the perfect family.
You got one of these, dude.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, I got my son first, so it's good he can take
care of his little sister.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, so that must your creativity with songwriting
, I mean you must.
You know, now that you're a dadyou get to experience all that.
It's got to help you with yoursongwriting as well, correct?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
It does 100%.
You know, just creating ourlittle family.
And what music for me is anemotional outlet.
So I love being able to writeabout, and, and they get excited
when they hear the song, likegood old boys.
My son knows it's a song to himand he cries to this day every
time he hears it.
Oh my god, I don't think hewants his friends to know that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But yeah, I mean I, I've been listening to the
single and you know that, uh,just a few minutes ago, and uh,
you know, men do cry.
I mean it's.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, I've had a lot of people on social media push
back on me about making thatstatement.
I'm like no, we're human beings.
I was born in the South, I wasraised tough, but I'm still a
person at heart, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, it doesn't matter how tough you are.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Exactly, it does not matter, there's those moments.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly.
It does not matter thosemoments.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
And you know I mean we look atyou and you know a guy, you got
the beard, you got all this.
You look a little rough in agood way, please, please, I
don't, but I'm just saying it'slike, but yet you would cry is
just like the next guy I mean,if something happens, so that's
basically what I was getting at.
(07:23):
So talk to me about the albumthe Long Way.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So it's actually taken a long way to get here.
We've probably written andrecorded 30 tracks over the past
two years and drilled it downto the 12 that are going to make
this album.
It's basically the story ofovercoming addiction, um,
finding faith again, uh,creating a family and just
(07:51):
trying to redefine who I am as aperson.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
How long have you been sober?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Uh, so a little bit over 11 years, I got sober.
October of 2013,.
Uh, two months after I gotmarried made the decision we
wanted to have children, and theperson I was could not have
children.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Wow.
Well, what, if you don't mindme asking what was it?
Drugs, alcohol, what's the deal?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It was primarily alcohol.
But you know what happens whenyou're in that environment and I
was on the road and you startdoing party drugs and you take a
little bit of this and that'snot going to hurt you and
eventually it consumes your life.
And it became an everyday eventfor me to the point where I was
getting hospitalized.
I was getting arrested all thetime.
(08:38):
I was just in and out oftrouble and my health started
failing.
And again I got married and mywife she must be an angel
because she stood by me thewhole time God bless her Helped
get me through it and by thegrace of God and begging for
forgiveness, I was able toovercome it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
You did it Did you.
You did it on your own.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I did.
I'd like to say I did it on myown.
Again, I begged for help fromthe Lord, but I actually I moved
to my wife's parents' house, Itried to go to a rehab and it
just I went and came back thesame day.
It wasn't what I needed in mylife, so I moved to Maryland
where my wife's parents lived,and I lived with them for two
(09:21):
months and just got away fromthe people I was surrounding
myself with and started, youknow, focusing on better things,
envisioning what I wanted formy life and regimenting myself
to working out eating correctly,you know, trying to meet goals
(09:42):
and attain what I wanted in life.
And that's kind of how I gotthere.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, yeah, and I hope you don't mind me asking
you know those questions.
It's because I want otherpeople to hear it and there's so
many people that have been inyour shoes are in your shoes,
you know, years ago and maybesome are still doing it and you
need to.
You need to ask the Lord forhelp.
You need to do something tomake yourself better for life.
(10:06):
If you want to have a family,you want to go on with your
career and your passion, yourdedication for music, that road
wasn't going to get you anywhere, but in a jail cell, Exactly,
or maybe God forbid, but sixfeet under.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Exactly.
And that's kind of the road Iwas on.
It was one or the other and Ihad to make that decision.
Unfortunately, I you know, andthat's kind of the road I was on
, it was one or the other and Ihad to make that decision.
Unfortunately, I still got afamily member.
I don't really want to say whoit is, but I was struggling with
addiction and, um, it's hard towatch it and know that I came
from there and and he's stillthere and he's been on a journey
(10:40):
up and down and trying to getit together.
He's been clean and he's backon and back and forth and you
know I pray for him every dayand I love the death and hope
the best.
I just hate seeing it.
I've lost friends.
Heroin took over where I liveand lost a lot of good buddies
Actually, to heroin.
It's just a terrible thing.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Wow, yeah, you know it's good that he's got somebody
like you, though, that he cancall, or you know, something's
not right, where you can say,hey, I need to go over and see
who and such and such, becauseof such and such, he's not, he's
not sounding right on the phone, something's up and I need to
go talk to him.
He's good, he's.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
it's good he's got you exactly, yeah, I try to be
there for anybody that that'lllisten how um you know, here you
and I are chatting about.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You know your backstory a little bit, but how
important is um?
Is it to share your personalstory through your songs?
I mean, that's got to mean alot it does.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's my testimony, you know and again, we kind of
talked about this before theshow it's it doesn't define me,
but I wouldn't be who I amwithout my past right?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
no, exactly exactly right so me to where I am today,
and it made me sure yeah, youknow you look back, it wasn't
the right thing to do and you'vecome out of it very well.
But maybe, if I don't think itcould be entirely different,
(12:14):
it's just kind of, you know,everything that has happened has
happened for a reason.
Look at you now, right, justsaying.
I believe that yeah, yeah, Tellme a little bit about you.
Know you have Good Old Boys,Don't Cry.
That's the song I was talkingabout.
And tell us a little bit aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Myself, my producer, mark McKee, and a buddy of ours,
chris Sayre is a phenomenalsongwriter and the idea came all
all of us fathers and justtalking about our kids and, you
know, raising a family, and allof a sudden, five minutes later,
we've got this song and we'reall sitting there teary-eyed and
it was just the idea of youknow, looking at my son and
(13:00):
telling him you know, get, stopcrying, you're tough, realizing
his heart.
He's got the purest heart I'veever seen and I don't want to
break that in who he is and Iwant to let him know it's okay,
but if you feel like you've gotto cry, you've got to let your
emotions out.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Feel free 100%.
I think anybody would tell youyou don't hold that in Go ahead.
If you've got to you've, Ithink anybody would tell you you
don't hold that in Go ahead.
If you got it, you got to justget it out.
And I think you'd be much morerespected if you did that and
try to hold it in.
I mean, you know, don't besomebody you're not, just be
real.
Be real Exactly.
Tell me about some of your liveperformances and your fan
(13:42):
connection.
For example, if I was to go seeyou at a show, how would that
be?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I love being on stage again.
I mean, I've been on stage somuch.
It's just like natural feelingfor me and I love the excitement
, I love interacting with thecrowd, that feeling you get when
people are singing your songback at you or you know whatever
.
In that moment, you knowsomething clicks with the guitar
player next to you.
You know that we messed up andwe look at each other and we
just magic happens and we allbring it back together and you
(14:18):
know just that, that feeling andit's it's a bond on stage, it's
a bond with the crowd, it's anintimate feeling.
I played for thousands and Iplayed for 10 people, you know.
So I think it's moreintimidating playing for 10
people than it is 10,000.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I bet it is.
Especially if you know all 10of them Exactly, it's like all
right.
It's like you know, with radiowe go and do a lot of presents,
a lot of big shows, and you know, yeah, it's one thing in front
of 20, 30, 40,000 people, andthen it you know it's one thing
in front of 20, 30, 40,000people, and then you know it's
like, well, if you're in frontof 10 and you know like nine of
the 10 people, it's like oh shit, I can't mess up, I can't ever
(14:56):
hear the end of it.
There's 50,000 people out there.
It's like nobody knows me.
This is all good.
Totally get that, dude.
Totally get that.
Do you?
Is this your only gig?
Is this?
All you do right now is music,or do you actually have a job
during the day?
I'm actually in construction,yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I've been in construction my entire life.
I was I owned a flooringcompany for the past 10 years
and I exited that company andI'm actually a single family
home builder, nice, nice Rightthere in the Carolinas, yeah.
Uh, born and raised right here,where we build within about an
hour and a half radius of ourhometown, and how nice my whole
family's in it.
(15:36):
We all started as painters andworked our way into developers
and builders, and there'sprobably 30 of us that do all.
That's so cool.
All different trades you knowfrom ground up that's so cool.
Different trades from ground upthat's so cool.
I have to ask yes.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
So it's a family event.
Yeah, there you go.
So how long have you beengrowing that beard?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I started this in 2016.
My nephew taught me into a noshave November.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It's been a no shave decade.
It has.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And my kids have never seen me without it except
in pictures, and they hate it.
So they're like you're nevercutting I think it's cool, it's
just they won't let me cut itthey no, I get it without it.
They saw the pictures.
Yeah, that's not, you don'twant me to cut it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, it's me that's cool how?
Um, you know, I've talked tojordan davis, we've had him on
the podcast and we talked abouthis beard and then the upkeep of
that is I mean, there's a lotof.
I know we're supposed to betalking about the music here,
but for shits and giggles uh,the beard there's a lot of
upkeep to that.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
There is, and I'm probably not going to sound as
tough when I tell you about it,but I want to hear it.
I mean, keep it straight, orelse it's like this you got to
trim it every couple days so itstays in shape, or I'd look like
Abraham Lincoln out to here.
Yeah, there's definitely a lotof cute day does your wife like
(17:12):
it?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
she does, surprisingly, keeps her warm at
night, exactly.
Gotta love that, gotta lovethat.
Um, you know what?
What do you do when you're notdoing music or construction?
Do you get together?
Do you like baseball?
Do you kind of do differentthings like that?
Do you make a trip to nashvillefor the heck of it, or maybe
you get in the studio there.
(17:33):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
yeah, so I really hadn't had a lot of time to
enjoy a lot of the things that Iactually used to to to enjoy,
and if I had my option, I'dprobably fish a little bit more.
Okay, I love fishing, and justmy son's just getting into it.
I'd love to be able to fish alittle bit more.
Okay, I love fishing, I just myson's just getting into it.
I love to be able to fish alittle bit more.
Outside of that, I coachbaseball player my whole life.
(17:57):
Cool, I was joining a league,but I mean I coach little.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I love the league.
I got a baseball or baseballfamily, so we got baseballs all
over the place.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, I played short my entire life.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Really and I loved it .
How cool.
I work part-time for the Metshere in town.
We have the AAA team for theNew York Mets Okay, cool.
So one of the two PA announcersand we kind of rotate and do
all that.
And my son, who's special needs?
He works in the press box andbaseball's his.
(18:33):
That's his thing, all yearround.
It's his thing.
Even though baseball ends inOctober or whatever it is, he's
still, you know, november,december.
He's watching who's doing what,where they're going, a winner
ball and all that stuff.
So baseball's big and shortstops.
We have some friends thatplayed short.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, that's my favorite position.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, that's very cool.
So how long have you actuallybeen playing music?
Maybe I already asked you, Idon't know.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
So I started again.
I started saxophone at the ageof 12 years old.
That's when I really startedsaxophone.
And, uh, at the age of 12 yearsold, that's when I really
started and I really wanted toplay, because I wanted to play
jazz and in the clapton and someof those guitars, um.
So I picked up guitar at 14years old, uh, learning jazz,
(19:22):
and then it kind of evolved intowhat it is today.
So I'm sure I can't tell youhow old I am.
I'll be 41 this year.
Oh, stop.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You're just a kid.
I got you beat by 27 yearsprobably.
I got eight grandkids, but thisis the stuff that keeps me
young and I get to talk to greatpeople like you and talk about
music and play your music andall that.
It's always a lot of fun,always a lot of fun, always a
lot of fun.
But, uh, yeah, so, um, I Ialways ask weird questions.
(19:53):
Okay, for example, what do youdrive?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
well, I used to drive a um gmc 2500 that was lifted
six inches on 37s.
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Wow, dude, but I knew it.
I knew it.
Um was going to say it'd be adually yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I was going to get a dually, but I ended up getting
just a 2500 Denali.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Nice, sweet, sweet, very cool.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I actually switched to an SUV recently and yesterday
I went to go trade it in so Icould get my truck back.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I mean, I love it.
I love it, yeah, and if you'regoing to do that, do it now,
before all these whatever'sgoing on takes effect and these
prices are going to go up for alittle bit until we can shake
things out.
So that's all, yeah, so howoften do you do you get to
Nashville?
For example, did you go to theCountry Radio Seminar back in
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February?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I did that was my first CRS.
Okay, give me a review.
What'd you think it was cool?
I didn't know what to expect.
Did a bunch of interviews Veryawkward because I didn't know
what to say.
I'm like I've never done thisbefore, so I'm just going to
wing it.
Yeah, that's the best way, dude.
Yeah, I've never done thisbefore, so I'm just going to
wing it.
Yeah, that's the best way, dude.
(21:09):
Yeah, and just keep it real.
And they seem to appreciate it.
They said I did a great job, soI guess that's good.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Got to meet a lot of cool people made some
connections with other artists.
Yep, I've been.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It was a good time I actually got to bring my wife.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh, very nice, Very nice.
Yeah, I've been doing that.
I know you keep going in andout, so I apologize if I cut you
off, but I'm getting it.
But I've been going for like 25years, okay, and I've been
doing the radio seminar thing,like I said, for about 25 years,
and it's always cool to see thenew artists come through, like
yourself.
And I think it's very importantthat you do go to something
(21:49):
like that because you cannetwork and get to know these
people a little bit.
And you never know.
We all know in this business,whether it's radio or doing what
you do, it a lot of it is we.
You know the contacts andsomeone can usually get
something for you, you know I?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
um, the coolest thing .
I was just looking him up andhe's going to hate me if he
hears this.
I can't remember thegentleman's name.
My wife and I were havingdinner at the Omni that night
and the man that voiced the CMAsI cannot remember his name,
john Williard.
That's him, john Williard.
I'm trying to Google him realquick, john Williard.
(22:28):
So he was sitting next to usand slid over and had dinner
with us for about two hours andwe shot the shit Super cool dude
, super cool dude.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
He's the voice of Skip Happens.
By the way, he's done all myvoiceovers for the podcast.
I didn't play it tonight, buthe's done all my voiceovers.
I've known John for many years.
One of the radio stations Iworked at he was the voice of
the radio station as well, asyou know.
I mean tv commercials andeverything else, and for how
many years he was like.
(22:56):
And now it's hovering.
Next it'll be keith urban whenwe come back, you know, whatever
.
Yeah, so john is uh, god blesshe's.
He's a great guy, he's just.
Everything about him is justwonderful, just wonderful.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It really was super personable.
I mean, like I said, we talkedfor two hours.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Not everything.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I'm surprised you got away with just two hours.
I talked to John before.
He's like dude, dude.
I got an Uber waiting for meout front.
But no, seriously, that's agood guy and he's a good guy to
get to know because he's workedwith so many country artists, so
many organizations, for examplethe CMAs, radio stations and
(23:40):
what have you.
So that's pretty cool.
What do you see yourself likein about five years?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
you, um, what do you see yourself like in about five
years?
That's a good question, and I'mstill trying to figure that out
.
Um, you know, balancing whereI'm at with work and music uh,
I'd love to play more.
We're just getting out, uh, thepast two years has been all
writing and recording.
We've got a show coming up nextmonth that's not released yet.
Uh, will be the first show intothis album and we're starting
to line up more.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So I'd love to be able to play out more.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Again I mean, I love that aspect.
I'd love to be able to hearmyself on my local radio station
.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Who doesn't man?
Have you had that opportunityat all yet?
Not yet, no.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
So I just got the last mixes on the last four
songs they're going to masterthis week and we're water
falling into this album, so assoon as these masters come, back
good old boys will be tied intothe album release for a
pre-save option, so the albumwill fully be finished in
hopefully about a week.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Cool option.
So the album will fully befinished in hopefully about a
week and, good old boys, that isdefinitely radio ready.
That's pretty cool and I thinkyou know here and you probably
already know this, but andcorrect me if I'm wrong but if
you can grab the hearts of yourlisteners, of your fans or just
anybody, and they become a fan,if you can grab them by the
(25:09):
heart and that song's going todo it you're going to have a fan
for life.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, I appreciate it .
I mean, when I listen to music,I mean I love the artist in
general, but there are certainsongs that just grab you.
Those are the songs that I loveand I put them on repeat.
I mean, I listened to the sameprobably 20 songs all day, every
day, just cause I love them.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Give me an example of what you listen to.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
So some of my favorites in color Jamie Johnson
oh my God.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Do you see Jamie on the Opry special the other night
?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I missed it.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
That was good.
I'm actually blanking out onyou right now, it's okay.
Randy Travis, three WoodenCrosses oh my God.
Blake Shelton, the Baby Justthings that touch certain parts
of my life.
Those are the ones that I love.
Some of the newer ones.
I love Riley Green right now,the style that he's doing.
(26:11):
It's kind of where I'm tryingto lean into a little bit more,
but we kind of got a hybridgoing on.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, ella Langley's got me Something about her voice
and seeing her at CRS as welland listening to her talk and
just something about her voice.
The raspiness in her voice waslike it was hot.
You know what I mean?
It was hot.
It would be like, and now I getwhere it comes from, and
(26:39):
although she just got engagedand already called it off, but
um, that's what I read anyways,I don't know, but yeah, no, it's
okay, it's our internet, it's,you know, kind of mine's pretty
good, it's on your end.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It's got to be mine.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It's the Carolina internet.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It's this one gig, oh no.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That I've got, that they don't give me.
You know the thing is, when youdo yeah, you're back.
So when you do freeze up, it'susually the worst face.
It's like, you know, it's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Just when you don't expect it and look what happens,
it's like so anyways, that'swhat happened.
So, um, if you could, um, rightnow, if you could right now, if
you could collaborate withanybody, somebody who, would
that be Dead or alive, male orfemale?
Is this thing no, no, that'sokay, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Can you hear me?
You said if I can hear me nowwith anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Right now I feel like a Verizon commercial.
Can you hear me now?
Okay, let's try, I'll talk.
Yeah, I can hear youCollaborating with anybody, dead
or alive.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Tough one.
It's a very tough one.
I would probably lean is a verytough one.
I would probably lean newer age, like I said, riley green, a
little bit older, probably beRandy Travis just because I've
always loved his voice and againJamie Johnson's one that I've
(28:36):
always.
I mean his style, the, hisimage, the songwriting.
You know those guys, I meanthat's probably my top three.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, you kind of got .
You got his look going with thebeard and all that, it wasn't
intentional.
I love it.
I love it, but it's cool, it'scool, it's good, it's good, it's
good.
So you went to CRS, but howoften do you get to Nashville
now?
Very often, you said right.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
About once a month I'll go for about a week.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
What's it?
It's a pretty easy drive,though, from where you are.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
The drive, I think, is probably 10, 12 hours.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh, really yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I think it's probably 10, 12 hours.
Oh really, yeah, I can catch aDelta flight Atlanta in about
three hours.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, that works out.
We have a nonstop from Syracusethat goes to Nashville.
You get there about two and ahalf hours with that.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, so it's not terrible.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
No, it's not terrible , not terrible at all.
So, okay, you got the songcoming out that's going to get
played on the radio.
Your hometown radio station isgoing to play it and I have to
call them.
I will uh that that.
I'm reading what jason kranz ison here.
He's a radio programmer.
I'm reading his, uh his note.
(29:53):
He says does it have to becountry?
I'd say Kurt Cobain.
Oh, okay, if not, so I get you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
So if you could do a collaboration would it be?
With Kurt.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Oh, kurt, I am wearing the shirt right now.
Oh, there it is.
I didn't see it under the beard.
Plus, my camera is kind of inthe way.
I have to look around it.
Yeah that'd be surreal.
Are you getting out to visitradio stations at all?
Are you going to be able to doa little bit of a radio tour?
Have you done any of that, orare you going to?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I'm hoping to.
That's what I've been trying toget With the team.
We're actually building on whatI've been trying to get with
the team.
We're actually building on theteam currently and trying to get
involved.
One of the guys his name is Bo.
He comes from radio and kind ofsteering that ship a little bit
.
I love the opportunity to youknow, at least take a couple
interviews, tell the story,maybe play a song.
(30:55):
We used to have local nights onour radio stations.
They don't really do that muchanymore.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
What about right there in your hometown?
I mean, do you have?
You have hometown radio,obviously, but or is it big
corporate radio or somebody cango knock on the door and say,
hey, you know, I'm doing this,yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So it's WRNS.
You're familiar with WRNS, ok,and we've reached out recently
sponsoring a charity tournamentwith them.
It's actually the church that Iwas raised in that's putting a
charity on, so very cool.
It's actually the church that Iwas raised in.
That's putting a charity on.
Very cool, trying to partnerwith it, kind of get integrated
(31:44):
with the station.
I've always been a part of thelocal community anyways and
charities that are involvedlocally, so it's just another
outlet trying to get in withCrystal Legends at WRNS.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I love it.
You need to, and you know whatthey love you and they'll bring
you out, which will be very cool.
You said you coach baseball.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I have for the past couple of years.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
My son was playing baseball and he's decided to be
a soccer player now, and howdoes Dad feel about that?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I know nothing about soccer so I don't know how to
help him.
It's like just go kick the ballkid.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, exactly, Kick it.
What do I change?
I don't know.
I love baseball, I don't knowwhy.
Well, no, teach their own.
I guess Teach their own.
And what are you?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
going to do.
You're not going to stop himfrom doing something he wants to
do Exactly.
I've tried to get him into thethings that I love and learned
that it's got to be somethingthat he wants.
I grew up skateboarding.
I built a half pipe in thebackyard for him because I
wanted one as a kid and he neverrode it very often.
I had him in baseball and hedecided I told him as a lefty he
(32:57):
could only play first base orhe could only play outfield and
pitch.
And he couldn't pitch, so hehad to play first or outfield.
He just wasn't having it, so hewent to soccer.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Well, hey, teach their own.
You said you built a half pipeout in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, Actually it's in one of my music videos.
It's me and my son skating onit.
The video is son skating on itthe videos for the only one I've
had were you, um, did uh in theextreme sports?
Yeah, I mean, skateboarding waspretty much it, skateboarding
and surfing.
We surfed the morning and skatethe afternoon, every day
through summers.
And one point I thought I wasgoing to go pro for
(33:30):
skateboarding and you're not afunny hawk nah, it fizzled out
when I went to college.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Enough of the skateboard.
We'll put that away Exactly.
The reason I asked is my wife'snephew was I don't know if he's
a BMX was a BMX rider.
We've lost him now, but it wasDave Mara, I don't know, and, a
matter of fact, we've been tohis house in Greenville.
His wife, you know he took hisown life many years ago.
(33:59):
He had so many concussions.
He had that CTE when they didall the tests and everything.
He was fine one day and thenext day, all of a sudden, we
get the news that he did what hedid.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's like wow, it's just crazy.
It is Dave's a legend.
He had to park about an hourfrom where I live.
It's just crazy.
It is Dave's a legend.
He had a park about an hourfrom where I live.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
It's just there.
We went to the park up inGreenville.
The park was named after him.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
There was one in Wilmington at one point.
We used to skate in those parksall the time.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
We were at the Outer Banks.
We said, okay, it's a rainy day, we're going to take a drive,
and we took.
It was a few hours, but we gotthere, we enjoyed it and then we
drove back.
So it was absolutely beautiful,beautiful, beautiful.
Do you get out?
I mean, well, it's kind of adumb question.
You're pounding nails every dayand building houses and laying
concrete, but do you work out?
(34:57):
Is there something you do justto kind of?
You know, just get away from itall?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Unfortunately, it's gambling.
I go to casinos a little bittoo often.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's in the family.
What can I tell you?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
But no, I get it.
I actually lived and died bythe gym.
Actually that's what kind ofhelped me get through the
alcohol addiction.
Covid kind of put a damper onthat.
I got to get back in action.
But yeah, I mean, I try to stayas busy as I possibly can,
whether it's work or with thefamily or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So Will?
Where can we log on to get yourmusic?
Or, when it is fully available,will we be able to go to the
socials and be able to downloadit and buy it.
Buy it and download it.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yes, I'm currently on Spotify just under my name,
will Morton.
Instagram TikTok is Will MortonOfficial and we are working on
other outlets for pre-purchasingthe album before release.
We'll have all the pre-savelinks up on all the streaming
Cool To coincide with therelease of the album, so I'm
(36:14):
hoping to roll everything out um, probably 30, 45 days cool,
very cool.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Um, I want you to make sure I get a copy of it.
I've got you absolutely.
Uh like that.
What I do is uh, something Iusually give them like a test
spin I know if jason's listeninghe he'll know exactly what I'm
talking about is, uh, I take acertain song and put it up
against another song and I likedoing it with the new
independent artists or the newartists.
(36:41):
I mean, we know the MorganWallens, we know the Luke Combs,
we know all that side of things.
But it's people like you thatneed to be heard and be
recognized as as an artist.
And you're putting out somegreat music and I appreciate
that.
Yeah, you know.
So that that's that's why I'masking to make sure I do get a
copy of that, and what I'm goingto do is actually I know that I
was playing a little bit off myphone earlier that I'll put the
(37:04):
link underneath this video whenwe get it all posted, all set
and done.
Awesome, I appreciate that, yeah, no, absolutely Appreciate you.
Everything you've been throughyour backstory is just
phenomenal.
Much respect, my friend.
Through your backstory is justphenomenal.
Much respect, my friend, muchrespect for for what you're
doing.
I just I just find it like, wow, you go from metal to country
(37:24):
and well, I know it's country'skind of got a lot of rock roots,
so but yeah, I still find ithard to believe you're banging
on the drums, heavy metal goingnuts, and then, okay, I'm, I'm
going to step down and sing someGarth.
Do you do covers with your bandwhen you get out?
Do you do country covers?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
We do, and it's not always country.
We did the outfield a few times, it's just.
You know, whatever fits in themoment, whatever I think the
crowd's going to enjoy that Ienjoy, enjoy.
You know I'm not gonna playsomething.
I don't really enjoy myself orit's not gonna, it's not going
to portray correctly, butanything that fits this set.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I get it.
Jason just chimed in.
He says he goes.
Jason just said we do new musicMonday.
Play a new independent artist,a new song once an hour, all day
.
Great idea.
Great idea Because these arethe artists that need to be
heard, need to be seen.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
That would be awesome .
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, it's been awesome havingyou on here tonight.
Skip happens.
Yeah, man, I appreciate you.
Yeah, no, right back at you, andI'm glad that you know things
worked out, you know with yourpress or your team that's behind
you and you know, are the kidsthere?
And I mean I just I can seeevery once in a while hear a
noise.
It's like somebody's openingand closing that door.
(38:49):
It's all good, it's all good.
I love.
I was waiting for him to comerunning in, that's all right.
That's all right.
It's like my yellow lab wouldcome running downstairs and jump
up on me or something.
That's happened in the past.
It's crazy and I just droppedeverything, but that's okay.
But anyways, it's been apleasure having you on here
(39:10):
tonight and getting to know youa little bit and Jason being a
programmer, hopefully he'll lookyou up as well little bit.
And uh, you know jason being aprogrammer, hopefully he'll look
you up as well.
Uh, but uh, your sound, jason,if you get a chance, make sure
you check out the song.
Uh, good old boys, don't cry.
It's, it's pretty good, it'sreally good.
It's really good I sincerelyappreciate that?
yes, absolutely.
(39:30):
Uh, thanks for coming on.
Skip happens tonight again.
Look them up.
I'll put the link.
Uh, everything you need to knowwill be underneath this video.
It'll'll be like these camerasscrew me up.
It'll be like right down there,I guess, but if it's not, maybe
it'll be over on the side,maybe it'll be up above.
I don't know.
I have my son do the socialmedia, so it's like, zach, I
(39:52):
need you to do this, but no,that's all good, it's all good,
will.
Thanks for coming on tonight.
Stay right there and thank youfor watching everybody.
It's been another edition ofSkip Happens.
Make sure you go on andsubscribe to Skip Happens on
YouTube, and if Will Morton'sgot a YouTube page, you may want
to subscribe to that as welland follow him on his socials.
(40:12):
Just Google him and he's goingto come up.
It's pretty cool.
Thanks for joining us everybody.
Uh, hopefully you and youenjoyed it.
So skip clark, skip happens,will morton.
Thanks guys, stay right therewill.
Here we go.
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