A Southern Storyteller Turns Heartbreak Into Anthems You’ll Want To Replay

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SPEAKER_03 (00:00):
And we're gonna do this.

(00:01):
Here we go.
Hello everybody! How are you?
Good at you.
Uh it's Skip Clark.
Welcome back to Skip Happens.
Tonight we're talking with atrue Southern storyteller.
I love this guy.
Uh singers songwriter RandyCobb.
He's got his roots in Pensacolaand Lower Alabama.
We're talking about Alabama.
We'll talk about that here in aminute.

(00:22):
He's a big uh Alabama footballfan.
And uh to his powerful comebackwith songs like he had Country
Boy.
Not on Me.
He's got a brand new one out.
Uh we're gonna talk about thathere in just a little bit.
Uh but Randy's journey is allheart grit and real life
country, and let's get into it.
It's my good friend Randy Cobb.

(00:42):
Randy, what's up, dude?
It's so good to see you.
Man, it's good to see you, man.

SPEAKER_00 (00:46):
You look great, Stuart.
No doubt.

SPEAKER_03 (00:48):
You look great.
You look great.
No, I haven't.
You've been on a diet.
What you doing?

SPEAKER_00 (00:54):
I'm on a try.
I don't know about no diet now.
Hey, I think I was on I had a Ihad a meeting with the uh some
PR people this uh thisafternoon, and we were in the
dad uh showed me a picture ofsome donuts, and I made a
comment like this you better becareful, them things will make
your genes shrink, and we justlaughed about that, you know,
which is facts, you know, theywill 100%.

SPEAKER_03 (01:13):
No, I know they will, but I I I try to stay away
from them now.
I don't know, did you divulge ina donut?

SPEAKER_00 (01:18):
I didn't well I did not.
It was kind of over a picturethat was shared with me.
It was a picture, but I I'lltell you what, I I'm not a huge
donut fan.
I like some of them, but youknow, I kind of stay away.
But I love fried chicken, andlet me tell you, fried chicken
uh will will uh will make iteasier too.
Usually when I put my jeans on,they say, one at a time, boy,
one at a time.

SPEAKER_03 (01:39):
Well, it all well, fried chicken all depends uh
what you're frying it in, right?
I mean, uh the breadcrumbs andall that.
I don't know, I know there'sdifferent seasoning and all
that.
I um I'm not a cook, I'm not achef.
Um, my work handles all that,but still, uh, you know, so
yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I mean, my you know what?
Uh I mean, I can, you know, Imost Southern boy, I can throw
down the kitchen myself and frystuff.
I like to put stuff on the grillmainly, but I can fry some good
chicken.
But you can't beat a good oldPopeyes bird, man.
Popeye's chicken, you know,chicken breast.
Oh, Pope.

SPEAKER_03 (02:13):
We have a Popeye's.

SPEAKER_00 (02:14):
Yeah, you can't beat that, man.
I mean, that's some of the bestchicken around.
I love it.
I mean, I could eat that threedays three days a week easily,
man.

SPEAKER_03 (02:21):
I love that.
I love that.
Randy, it's so good to see you,like I just said.
But uh, you know, the truth iswe've known each other for
almost a year now.
Um maybe just a little bit less,but uh we met in Nashville.
We hung out, we kind of went tothe parties together.
We went to the you know but wegot to know each other pretty

(02:44):
good, and I think uh, you know,I totally respect what you're
doing.
And and uh, you know, seeing yougrow just from that time that we
got to know each other to whereyou are today and following you
on the socials, and now I seeyour website and everything's
come so far, and now you're onanother single that's being
dropped to country radio.

(03:04):
I mean, you're going from, andit's not an unusual story.
I've talked to other artiststhat have other things going.
As a matter of fact, they'vebeen truck drivers as well, and
uh and and that's what you weredoing, but you don't do that
anymore, right?

SPEAKER_00 (03:17):
No, sir, I don't.
No, sir.
We're uh we're forward full-timepushing the music for sure.
I love that.
Blessed to be able to do that,man.

SPEAKER_03 (03:24):
So uh I love this.
You know, Randy, they say yourstyle is described as uh raw and
heartfelt heartfelt.
See now I'm all flustered.
Uh and I think that really comesthrough in like not on me.
And when you sit down to write,what are you uh drawing more
from personal stories, or do youlike to observe and write about

(03:46):
others' experiences too?
How does that work for you?

SPEAKER_00 (03:49):
Um, man, you know, most things that I write are
personal stories.
You know, I had a productiondeal with Nora Wilson uh, you
know, years ago, man, and hepitched me a whole bunch of
songs.
I don't know if you're familiarwith Nora or not, but um, one of
the songs he pitched me wascalled uh Live Those Songs
Again.
I think uh Chesting ended upcutting that song.
That's really what it was about,man.

(04:10):
It's about writing songs thatyou live, man, and that's pretty
much what I do.
You know, what I do is I writefrom personal experiences, and
most everything that I'vewritten, man, is something I'm
living in or lived, you know,for sure.

SPEAKER_03 (04:23):
Well, that's that's what it's all about, right?
That's the country genre.
That's uh that's the music thatartists like you are giving us
to play on the radio.
And we, you know, when I hearit, I go, holy crap, that's
about me.
Holy crap, that's what happenedto me last week.

SPEAKER_00 (04:38):
Well, that's what we're hoping for, you know.
Hopefully, relate to, you know,and put put my life experiences
in a three, three and a halfminute story and hope that you
know people understand whatyou're saying.
That's what that's what the goalis for sure, you know.

SPEAKER_03 (04:51):
Yeah, so you've um, you know, catching up a little
bit on your background evenbefore we got to know each
other, but you've been doingmusic for quite a while, even
when you were doing the otherthing, uh, hauling cars around.
By the way, you still you weregonna show me how to load and
unload a car off a off one ofthose trailers.
We never got around to that.
It's probably a good thing, butuh you know, uh you spent years

(05:13):
sharing stages across thesoutheast.
I mean, you played the fairs andthe clubs and the festivals.
What's uh been one of thoseyou'll never forget this one?
Live show memories.
Do you have any?
I imagine you would have a fewof those.

SPEAKER_00 (05:25):
I do, but I I can tell you it's funny.
When I was talking to the PRpeople today, man, um that kind
of come up, man.
And it's it wasn't it wasn't aplanned show.
It wasn't something that wasscheduled.
And I've played in front of25,000, 30,000 people, and
that's a great rush, it's unrealfeeling.
But um this this you know, thelady was talking about

(05:48):
Murfreesboro, and I had told herthat I had some experience in
Murfreesboro.
One of the guys I write with islives in Murphy'sboro, but also
probably 15 years ago, I was Iwas visiting a uh retirement
home there, and the lady thatwas there, uh I was with her
grandmother was there, and uh, Iguess it got into her ear that

(06:08):
uh you know I was asinger-songwriter.
And this this lady that livedthere, you know, she was
probably up in her 80s.
She had a lot of grip, man.
I mean, you could just tell shewas spunky.
And she said, Randy, she said, Ihear that you write, do you uh
write and play country music?
And I said, Yes, ma'am, I do.
She says, You got that guitarwith you?
I said, Yes, ma'am, I do.
It's out in the truck.

(06:29):
She said, You're gonna go getthat guitar.
You're gonna go get that guitarand you're gonna come here and
play us some songs.
And I went, Okay, I couldprobably do that.
And uh, she said, I want you toget that guitar right now.
So, man, uh, I went, you know,it's a long walk.
So, you know, that I guess theuh the cafeteria was in the
cafeteria and it may have beenhalfway full or something.

(06:51):
And it was a good walk together,got my guitar and come back.
When I got back in there, theyhad filled that place up, they
had brought everybody out oftheir rooms for me to play.
And um, you know, I had writtena lot about life experiences and
all and things that went thatwent on.
And uh man, the the uh theenergy or the aura in that room

(07:12):
uh when I got into some stuffand was able to calm down, man.
I mean, it's almost like therewasn't a dry eye in there.
I could hear them weeping andsobbing, man.
And I just those people gotexactly what I was saying, man.
I mean, I had them in the palmof my hands.
They knew what was happening,they knew what I'd been through.
They they lived it too.
And I guess I never will forgetthat experience, man.

(07:34):
That just it's always stuck withme, you know.
It's just it was an awesomeexperience, man, to be able to
touch those people that way withyour stories, you know, your
songs.

SPEAKER_03 (07:44):
Yeah, exactly.
That's what it's about.
Now, I you said, you know,you're not driving anymore like
you used to, but did that helpwhen it came to writing songs
when you were alone in the cabof a truck going from point A to
point B and maybe just lettingyour mind wander a little bit?
Um, I've talked to others thathave, like I mentioned a moment
ago, pretty much in the samesituation, and they're like, you

(08:05):
know what?
That's my time, and I can think.
And when I stop to either, youknow, at a rest area or I have
to do this or that, you know,I'll stop and I'll just think
for a little bit and say, allright, now I got a little uh
maybe I've got some lyrics hereto a song, or you make notes.
Sure.
Yeah, that must have helped you.

SPEAKER_00 (08:23):
Absolutely 100%.
I mean, you have a lot of alonetime in the truck.
I mean, I've said this a milliontimes and I'll continue to say
this.
America is beautiful.
We are in one of the the mostprettiest countries in the
world, man.
I mean, I have been um luckyenough to see uh all the lower

(08:44):
48.
I have seen, well, I take thatback, about 46.
I hadn't been into Maine yet,and uh I'm not sure.
I've been in Connecticut, uhVermont, maybe I haven't.
I know there's a couple therethat in that northeast area that
I hadn't seen, but man, seeingthose sunrises and those valleys
and those mountains and allthose things, man, I absolutely

(09:04):
they they penetrate your soul,man.
So sure I've wrote I've wrote uhsome stuff around that.
Absolutely, man.
Get inspired by that.
I mean, you know, it's the uhthe work of the of the man above
for sure.

SPEAKER_03 (09:16):
Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (09:18):
Absolutely, just in awe of and just I'm I'm blessed
to have been able to experiencea lot of those things.

SPEAKER_03 (09:25):
Randy, I know for a fact now over the you know a
short period of time that uhyou've been turning heads in
Nashville, and that's where youare right now.
You're in Nashville.
Um I think last time I talked toyou, you might have been in
Alabama or Pensacola or one ofthose places.
I don't know, but uh you wereyeah, you know, so Pensacola's
home, right?

SPEAKER_00 (09:43):
No, Alabama's home.
Pensacola is where I'm where Igrew up.
Oh god.
I think you and I talked, it waslike right after the the big
blizzard we had there.
We had nine inches of snow.

SPEAKER_03 (09:55):
Oh my goodness, that's a lot wrong.

SPEAKER_00 (09:58):
Dude, for us, it was like ginormous.
It was like, oh my god.
Now the roads did like freeze upfor a while, and people were
sliding all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 (10:07):
I remember that.

SPEAKER_00 (10:08):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, but uh that was a big
ordeal for us, man.
I mean, we believe me, we likedit, but we was over it about two
days.
We read that to leave, man.
No, I might my redneck self wasout there hunting and that
stuff.
I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_03 (10:21):
We're gonna talk about that here in a little bit
too.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, yeah.
I love that.
I love that.
But you know what?
Nine inches, nine inches aroundhere when it comes to snow, it's
like just another day.
Uh, because you know, as youknow, we're in the northeast,
we're in central New York.
Um, I live in Syracuse, andthat's where the studio is.
So um, but that's where we are.
So for us, nine inches is likeit's just another day.

(10:43):
You hear the buses go by in themorning, uh, and the men and
women that you know, we have theequipment, we have the men and
women that take care of all thatand they keep us moving, and
they do a very good job.
And by the way, Dave Williams issaying, Happy birthday, Randy.

SPEAKER_00 (10:56):
Oh, man, I love Dave, man.
He's awesome, man.

SPEAKER_03 (10:59):
Let's see.
There it is, right there.
Got him on the screen.
Dave's a good guy.
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (11:03):
He's a great guy, man.

SPEAKER_03 (11:05):
You know, we've met uh you and I both.
I mean, my uh relationship withthe radio business and that side
of things, and you as uh anindependent artist, we've met so
many together, uh, so many greatpeople on both sides.
You know what I mean?
We're doing what you do as anartist, me, uh what I do as a
radio guy and a podcast host.
Um, there's just so many goodpeople.

(11:25):
And Dave is one of those, soit's pretty cool.
He is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 (11:29):
Uh, I mean, uh, as soon as I we started
conversating, I knew he was, youknow, he was a down down.
You I'd be down with that guy.
He was a down home guy, man,humble.
And uh, enjoyed his coming.
I think Mark and I think Markwas there with me, man.
And uh, I don't know, we playedfor a while, had a great
conversation.
I mean, just one of those guysyou always will remember.
He's a lifelong friend for sure,man.

SPEAKER_03 (11:49):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (11:50):
Absolutely, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 (11:51):
It's like what we are now.

SPEAKER_00 (11:53):
Absolutely, man.

SPEAKER_03 (11:54):
I don't know.
Again, you probably walked up tome, you know, it was that night
at the Omni Hotel where I don'tknow, all the artists were
there, and radio fee was like,all right, who's this guy?
All right, he looks a littlelonely.
I'll go talk to him.
No, no, no, but uh definitelygood stuff.
How does uh, you know, you areturning the heads of some labels
in Nashville.
Um, and that experience, how hasthat shaped your mindset though?

(12:18):
You know, knowing they'relooking at you as an independent
artist.

SPEAKER_00 (12:23):
Well, you know, it's those things have you know have
gone on for a long time with me.
I mean, there's been both, youknow, opportunities in the past.
And you know, for me, I just Ijust continue to do what I do,
you know.
I mean, until you sign on thedotted line, man, nothing's
really gonna change.
I mean, you just you know, Ijust keep on doing what I'm

(12:44):
doing.
I keep making music.
Um obviously that inspires youeven more when you know that
you're shaking the trees, asthey say.
You know, I mean that's a apositive thing, man.
But that's something that getsin your soul and stirs you up.
It's like I wrote, you know, Iwrite every day, if not every
day, every other day.

SPEAKER_02 (13:02):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (13:03):
Something.
That don't mean I write a songevery day, but I'm always
writing something.
Um, I never come to my produceruntil I know that I have
something that's worthy ofspending some time on.
And it's in the last two orthree weeks, man, I've had two
or three just fall out of mysoul, man.
And I love it when it comes thatway because there's no effort,
you know, and it's becauseyou're inspired, it's because

(13:24):
what's going on in your world,man.
And it's it's really a greatfeeling, man, to be in that
position.
No, absolutely grateful forthat.

SPEAKER_03 (13:31):
Yeah, absolutely.
If that makes sense, no, itmakes a lot of sense.
I totally get it.
I totally get that.
Uh, of course, he had CountryBoy uh before.
Now you're dropping the sand.
But uh tell us a little bit uhthe single Country Boy.
What was the story behind thatand where did that song come
from?
And then we're gonna talk aboutuh the most recent, the sand.
But go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 (13:51):
Okay, so you know, Country Boy, man, I was at a
place called Pirates Cove, man,like uh but down in um Alberta,
Alabama.
And one of the guys that I loveto write, and I've done played
gobs and you know, little littleget-togethers with him, you
know, little gigs and stuff,John Joyner.
Um, he was playing there, and Iwas there to to kind of just

(14:12):
come, you know, to come hangout.
I love watching him pick andplay, man.
He's a dear friend of mine.
And uh Pirates Co.
is right on uh uh Perdita Bay.
And uh and uh so I was just outon the back back deck or
whatever, and I I you know it'skind of it's kind of rural there
as well.
And uh I don't know, just beingaround John because I really um

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I kind of look up, he's like amentor to me as well, and uh
somebody I looked up to, andjust you know, him inviting me.
I mean, it's just it's just itwas just the situation at the
time, man.
And and uh that thing hit mejust right there on the deck.
And all those things are what wedo that I wrote about are things
that we do, but to be able forit to come together with a

(14:57):
melody and all right there, man,was just really, really, really
cool, man.
So, you know, and uh just kindof how it happened to me.
It was just a matter of minutes,man.
It just kind of fell out of me.
So that's where it came from.
I would just remember, look upPirates Cove, y'all.
You'll see, man.
That's where the song waswritten.

SPEAKER_03 (15:13):
That's cool.
That's cool.
Absolutely, and uh, you weredoing a radio show, it was a cat
country in uh Pensacola, yeah.
And uh yeah, I think that wasone of the songs that uh that's
one of the reasons you werethere was to promote that song,
but also being, you know, youknow uh Florida, Pensacola
really well.
But still, though it's a greatradio station, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 (15:33):
And uh absolutely, yeah.
They spin my stuff if you calland request, they definitely
will spend it, man.
I'm grateful for that.
So yeah, I get I hear frompeople, hey, I call and request
your song, they play it.

SPEAKER_03 (15:43):
And I'm like, that's what they do.
You know, I'm gonna saysomething here from my from my
angle on all this, because CatCountry is uh a locally owned,
operated radio station inPensacola, Florida, if I'm not
mistaken.
Uh 98.7.
And right, they can make thosedecisions themselves, what

(16:05):
they're gonna play and whatthey're not gonna play.
And stations like that, likehere in Syracuse, when I I
worked, I work at the Wolf, weare W O L F F M.
Those are our call letters, sohow lucky are we?
But um, you know, here, evenwith me, we can make those
decisions in-house.
I can say, I'm gonna play thisor I'm not gonna play this, so

(16:26):
which that's an advantage to alot of the independent artists,
such as you, because you knowhow that works.
I mean, there's a lot of a lotof great artists.
I'm not downplaying anybody, buta lot of the independents get
looked over, and a lot of theseindependents can be as good, if
not better, than some of themajors.
It's amazing.

unknown (16:43):
True.

SPEAKER_03 (16:44):
And so at a radio station like you know, the cat
country or here in the Qs, wecan look at the look at
everything separately and say,you know what, this song needs
to be heard, and we're gonnaplay it.

SPEAKER_00 (16:54):
Yeah, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 (16:55):
Yeah, that's that's that's what I believe in.
That's what I believe in.
So now let's talk about thesand.
It just dropped, right?

SPEAKER_00 (17:03):
It's out, it's out on your digital markets right
now, and then uh it goes toradio, I think, on the 17th, I
think, of uh November.
Pretty quick 17th, I believe.
Yeah, it'll be on us prettyquick.
Um, you know, it's just uh thesand I started writing that song
11 years ago.
I wrote The Bridge 11 years ago,and it's you know, I learned

(17:27):
over the years, man, that if ifit you know, do not push it.
I knew the bridge was specialwhen I wrote it, man.
And then uh I tried to writearound that thing three or four
times with melodies and all.
I had all this stuff going on,and but I just like, man, that's
not it, man.
That's not it.
I like you know, it's I it's notit.
And I just, you know, whateverthe things I come up with, I

(17:49):
just threw them away and I justkept the bridge.
Well, there again, man, I'minspired.
What's going on with you know,you know, my music, and you
know, it's catching on.
Like I said, I'm bringing itagain a little bit of ground
here or there, and uh, you know,it's the wheels are rolling
some.
And then, you know, I washanging with, you know, with
this lady friend of mine, anduh, that's just you know, she

(18:12):
was just an awesome kind ofperson, man.
And she really believed in mysongwriting and um, you know,
just my artistic side.
She just loved it and just wasuh really behind me a lot on
that.
So I think all those thingscoming together, man, is what
you know where a lot of songscome from.
And I sat down one one evening,man, and came up with a melody,

(18:35):
and and then the rest of it justlike fell out of me.
Um you know, and then uh I gotwith my producer, Jeff King, and
uh he he changed some melodystuff that I had written.
We was in, we were slated to goin the studio the very next day.
I was in Nashville here, youknow, at the studio and slated
to go in this into the studiothe very next morning, and I

(18:55):
thought I had it done.
And he's like, Man, I think weneed this and this in here, uh,
you know, about uh Cronkite andthe Vietnam War, which it all
fit, you know.
And uh and he wrote the melodyand all on it, and I was like, I
got it, brother.
So uh man, we got I got we wokeup at like 4 30 the next
morning, it was on my soul, andI spit that line out there, and
then we went in there and cutit, man.

(19:16):
So it was it's awesome, man.
I just uh and I you know, a lotof those things in there, I
remember all of those things.
I remember I tried I was thechannel changer when I was a
kid, you know, turning the knobsto see all the different things.

SPEAKER_03 (19:29):
No, I think we all do it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (19:31):
Man, I mean, you know, just uh and seeing people,
you know, they talk about I'llgive you a little uh inside a
little, you know, it's kind ofhidden stuff in there.
I talk about John G being on thefront porch, you know, with his
Henry and a hound dog whistlingwhile he works.
Well, a Henry is if youremember, uh Uncle Henry is a
knife, and you remember in theold in the movies, man, they sit

(19:51):
there and whistle, they'rewhittling, they're whittling
with the knife sitting on theporch, a rocking chair, and
there's always a hound dogbeside them.
So that's where that come from.
I was like, you know, with Henryand a hound dog whistling while
he works.
So that's where that comes from,man.
So I thought it was cool, youknow.

SPEAKER_03 (20:07):
That is very cool, yeah.
That is very cool.

SPEAKER_00 (20:11):
Some of my guys, some of the guys I hunt would
still have those old uh UncleHenry knives, and I'm not sure
if they if they still makethose.
I'm not, I'm not sure, but I Iremember them.
I remember them being having avery, very good sharp being able
to hold a blade very, very well,at least you know, skin gear and
all of them things.

SPEAKER_03 (20:27):
Yeah, I was gonna say if you're hunting and you
know, you definitely gotta havea knife that yeah, it's gotta be
sharp.
So that's how that works.
Randy, I'd like to talk a littlebit about life loss and
resilience.
Um I know you're not doing thisanymore, but at one time you
took a little time away frommusic to focus on family at the
time, build your truckingbusiness and all that, which

(20:49):
says a lot about your workethic, by the way.
Uh, how did that chapter changeyour outlook on life and your
approach to your music?

SPEAKER_00 (20:57):
Well, you know, uh I had come off a high there, you
know.
Um, you know, I'd uh they hadwalked me into you know,
majority of the major labelshere in town, and uh may sound
funny, but I had passed on oneor two there that just wasn't
what we really wanted, and andthen I kind of settled over at
uh the Warner Brothers with MissLacey, and she's just a fabulous

(21:21):
human being.
And uh, you know, we s I startedyou know pitching songs to her
left and right, and and sheasked, you know, from uh she
said, I want you to create a CDfor us at your best stuff.
So that's what we did.
You know, River of Blends is thename of a CD.
It's on all your you know,digital outlets right now and uh
on all the DSPs, yeah.
Yeah, that's right, that'sright.
But uh, and I thought it, youknow, I in my opinion, it was

(21:44):
great.
I mean, she I talked to Chrisafter we got it done, and she
thought it was great.
And I'm like, well, sign me tothe deal.
I can't.

unknown (21:51):
Why?

SPEAKER_00 (21:54):
You know, I was just like, ah, you know, I mean, you
know, you fight so hard to getthere, man.
And then when they snatch therug out from under you, man,
it's just like, oh it's like theworst ever, you know.
So it's just, you know, and I Ihad to swap gears.
I had a beautiful daughterthat's about to graduate high
school, going into college.

(22:15):
You know, and I hadresponsibilities, man, and I had
to do I had to do what I had todo for my family.
Yeah, you know, and my mom anduh, you know, my mom and I were
extremely close, and I know sheneeded me uh as well coming up,
and uh, you know, I just had todo what I had to do, man.
And I jumped into trucks and Iman, I didn't look back.

(22:35):
I I mean I music was alwaysthere.
I always was writing.
I I still would go sit in andplay some here and there, some
other play just to keep my chopsup, you know, because I just
cause I love to do it.
I I love to sit in and uh play,you know, play my songs with my
guys, man.
I yeah, yeah.
So it's a great feeling, man.
I love that, you know.
But um, you know, it did what wedid, you know.

(22:57):
We uh I mean I I turned over amillion miles, man, by myself in
my trucks.
I had a had I had three at onetime, and uh uh you know, good
stuff went on.
Um I was very blessed.
I landed some huge contracts,and um man, I worked a lot of
hours and uh you know it justburnt burnt the old blacktop up.

(23:20):
But you know, I think we knowwhat happened with the COVID
thing.
Um, like you said, I I washauling some heavy equipment and
all on the front end, and thenuh I swapped into um car hauling
pretty quick because it paidwell.
And then I landed some hugecontracts with Avis Budget, and
you know, which was really theguy's name was Mike Sims, man,

(23:42):
and and he was the regionalmanager, and he's still one of
my very best friends.

SPEAKER_03 (23:48):
Very cool.

SPEAKER_00 (23:49):
Messes me up because he changed my life.

SPEAKER_03 (23:51):
I get it, man.
I get it.

SPEAKER_00 (23:53):
You know what you know there's guys like that,
man, that are game changers, youknow, and that come around and
uh I'm forever in Yeah, I gotyou, man.

SPEAKER_03 (24:05):
I yeah, you know, it says a lot about you, Randy.
It says a lot about you that youdid what you had to do for the
right reasons.
It says a lot about you.

SPEAKER_01 (24:15):
Wow, man.

SPEAKER_03 (24:16):
Uh and uh actually Dave Williams, he just chimed
in.
I don't know if you can see thisor not.
Hang on, here we go.
Let's see if I bring it up.
There's the song title, Burn Upthe Black Top.

SPEAKER_00 (24:27):
I've never heard that, but uh burn up the black
out.

SPEAKER_03 (24:31):
No, no, I mean telling you there's the song
title.
Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 (24:35):
Oh, oh, oh, I hey, that may work, man.
You know, I've got a I've got alot of stuff, man, that um that
I wrote when I was burning thatblack top up, man.
Talking about think about thatrubber, big rubber turning and
watching the sun, and you know,all those things, man, that you
see, man, and just uh, you know,rolling coal and all you know,
all those lines they come upwith.

(24:56):
Man, I got a lot of that stuff,you know.

SPEAKER_03 (24:58):
Never yeah, see, that's a lot about life, and it
says a lot about you.
All right, you're real human,you're doing what you love now.
You you've turned the corner,you've got some good things
going down, but you you know,it's been a rough road to get
there.
You did what you had to do withthe job, uh, but you've also
been through a lot of loss.
I know your mom, I'm reading, Iguess your brother, uh, and of

(25:20):
course, you know, the businessduring COVID, which you just
mentioned, yet you are creatingagain and finding new purpose.
And uh what gave you the sparkto pick the guitar back up?

SPEAKER_00 (25:32):
You know, uh exactly what you just said, man.
You know, like I said, I was aCOVID hit, I was a car hauler.
At that time, I had two trucksrunning and uh went from making
just incredible money to makingnothing because when COVID hit,
they they demanded us to stayhome.
You know, it affected the carmarket greatly.

(25:53):
And uh that all trickled down tous little guys, man, and uh we
just couldn't keep, you know,you're paying, you know,$90,000
a year in fuel, you know,$40,000a year in insurance,$50,000 a
year in maintenance.
Oh my gosh.
You know, it's just it's cost alot of money to run those
trucks, and it you know, it justtrickled down and you know it
shut a lot of us down.

(26:14):
And then but in those times,man, you know, they're uh
telling us we had to stay athome and we couldn't work, we
couldn't provide for ourfamilies, you know, and our
businesses are shutting down.
We couldn't provide for ourfamilies, and then the uh the uh
you know, like I said, uh likeyou just said it, you know, it

(26:36):
got on my brother, and uh I puthim in the car and I never got
to talk to him again.
I knew he was sick, we didn'tknow what he had.
We've always been a real healthyfamily, so whatever we had, we
always beat it.
I mean, we never went go todoctors, very seldom, you know.
I've been with his back injury,of course, but I mean, like if
you get sick, you know, dude,ailments or whatever, we didn't
go to no doctor.

SPEAKER_03 (26:56):
We're guys, we don't we don't care.

SPEAKER_00 (26:58):
Yeah, man, everything is fine.

SPEAKER_03 (27:00):
It's like they go to the doctor.
No, I don't need to.

SPEAKER_00 (27:02):
A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_03 (27:03):
And uh well, we should be going to the doctors,
so I'm just saying, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (27:09):
But uh exactly I I knew he was sick, man, and uh we
knew we had to get him somehelp, and I put him in the car.
I never got to see him again,and then almost four months of
the day, almost four months ofthe day, man.
I lost my mama to that stufftoo, man.
I I had to shut the machine offon her, man, and that was like
oh, it's like man, I stillhaunts me.

(27:30):
Uh I'm just now probably notable to talk about that without
just dying inside.
It's still a very hurtful thing,but all those things ignited not
on me, man.
That's where that song comesfrom.
It's not fair, it's not rightfor you to tell us we can't
provide for our families, man,while you're ushering thousands
of people over the border.

SPEAKER_03 (27:50):
Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 (27:51):
And you and you pay for those people, you're paying
for them to come here, andyou're giving them all these uh
these benefits, and it's I waslike, man, this ain't fair.
This ain't for working, man.
You know, I heard it, I can'ttell you how many times I heard
when I was promoting not on methat man, this is a this is the
anthem for blue-collar America,and it is, man.
It's exactly what that is, man.
It's you know, resilience ofblue-collar American people just

(28:13):
getting out there making it bythe sweat of their brow and not
their hands out, and that's whatthat was about, man.

SPEAKER_03 (28:19):
Well, all that, uh, you know, the life loss,
resilience, all that is uh itgoes back, it's made you who you
are today.
And every, you know, I mean,your heart's been broken, you've
put it back together, you'velearned to go on, uh, just doing
everything.
Now you're living your dream,your passion.
And I know from the time that wedid spend together in Nashville,

(28:39):
how passionate you are and howmuch you love what you're doing.
And you know, we went to thosedifferent events and hung out
together.
It was I could just tell thatyou know what?
You're real.

SPEAKER_00 (28:52):
This got it.

SPEAKER_03 (28:54):
Yeah, the fire was burning.

SPEAKER_00 (28:56):
Absolutely.
The fire is in my is is burningbright in my soul, man.
I still I love to do, I stilllove, I love the the aspect of
writing stories, man, andperforming them and people
getting them.
I I love all that.
I love people.
I mean, this past year when wewere promoting uh Country Boy,
we uh we turned 22,000 mileswith Mark Dooley and I, and uh

(29:18):
we hit 64 radio stations acrossAmerica.
I mean, we've seen a lot ofbeautiful places, man.
And uh I couldn't walk Carlybecause I had a herniated disc
in my back.
Luckily, I had somebody theredriving me a lot, man.
But uh what a what an awesomeexperience, man, being able to
uh meet new friends and pushthat song and just everything
about the music, man.
It was just just an awesome timeto be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03 (29:42):
You know, um one thing I really like about you is
the fact that you express howyou really feel.
Um so many artists are outthere, and I don't mean here
again.
I'm not but everybody I I thinkit's how we look at them to
think, oh, they're fine, theygot a lot of money, they got a
family.
But you know what?
Just like you and I.
That's right.

(30:02):
We have you know, everybody hastheir ups and downs, maybe
problems at home, or maybeproblems in the workplace, or
whatever.

SPEAKER_02 (30:09):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 (30:09):
You know what?
It's all real, it's all real,and nobody should ever take it
for granted that everything isfine.
Absolutely.
Because as you know, you and Iare chatting here, and you're
real, you're real, and you'retaking your real emotions and
putting it to music.

SPEAKER_00 (30:27):
100%.
That's another thing I'd alwayssay, man, is hey, you know, in
these pop, you know, when I was,you know, meet the program
directors, whatever pushing asong is hey man, I'm just an
everyday person, everyday personlike everybody else.
I put my boots on the same asanybody else does.

SPEAKER_03 (30:42):
Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 (30:42):
You know, hey, I have the same struggles as
everyone else.
I'm just God put something on mysoul, man, you know, that I'm
able to do, and I'm grateful forthat, you know, to be able to
put uh, you know, words andsongs out there about my life,
you know.
So I'm hoping if I can touch oneperson or help them to
understand they're not alone intheir situation, man.

(31:05):
I think that I've done a greatservice for for you know, for
the people, you know, by that.
Just put if I if I help this oneperson, hey man, I've been here,
I know exactly how you feel, youknow.
Here it is, you know.

SPEAKER_03 (31:16):
Yeah, so um being an independent artist means you're
doing it pretty much on yourown.
You do have uh, you know, you'vegot some press people.
I know you're signed withgrassroots, which by the way, as
I said before, they are thebest.
They are girls.
I just, you know, I these peopleare great.
Nancy and the whole gang, uh,just just really great.

(31:36):
Uh it's well worth every everylittle bit.
Uh, but being a being on theindependent side, it's all about
connection.
How do you keep thatrelationship going with the
fans, especially in the smallertowns or even some of the local
shows?

SPEAKER_00 (31:52):
Well, a lot of us through social medias, man,
that's what we do.
And of course, if you're outdoing shows, you do that as
well.
But I haven't been able to do alot of live stuff because of my
injury, but I am on the downhillside of that.
Thank you, Jesus.
And uh, I mean, for for six anda half months there, man, I
could hardly walk.
So, you know, um now I feel likeuh, you know, I'm feeling like a
uh just a human being again.

(32:13):
I'm able to walk without muchpain and discomfort, and uh I'm
looking forward to connectingwith more fans.
I'm able to do that.
I've been able to do someacoustic stuff here and there,
and that's fun.
But social media is the biggestthing for me to stay connected
with people, you know.
That's what I for sure.
I don't meet strangers, ofcourse.
You know that, I'm sure you knowthat.
I'll talk to anyone.
Hey man, I could go right out.

SPEAKER_03 (32:34):
Except for this little skinny guy that was well,
I wasn't skinny guy, maybe now,but uh hanging out, then uh it's
like, hey, dude, let's go.

SPEAKER_00 (32:42):
Yeah, yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_03 (32:43):
Let's do it, you know.
Hey, um, so you're anoutdoorsman.
So when you're out in the woods,I know I can tell already from
the hat too.
I like that's right.

SPEAKER_00 (32:52):
So uh those down sense.
They're a they're a sponsor ofmine.
Man, you need to check thosedown there.

SPEAKER_03 (32:56):
Now, isn't that now?
Um I am not a hunter, buteverybody else in my family is
my brother-in-law's, and theyall hunt.
They talk about the urines, thescent of urine, deer urine.
Isn't that what that companydoes different?

SPEAKER_00 (33:11):
And it they they absolutely they have their own
line of uh of cover scents, youknow, that dough and estrus, and
you know, but that bucks and allthat stuff, and they have all
that, you know, they have callsand they got a full line of
hunting apparel.
I think now they even got somecooking barbecue stuff, and it's
got Jason Caldwell out ofTennessee, South Tennessee.

(33:32):
There, man, he is great, man.
You check these guys out.
Nose down sense, man.
Y'all know.

SPEAKER_03 (33:36):
Nose down sense.
Nose down sense.

SPEAKER_00 (33:40):
And you know what?
He's built this thing the groundup.
I I visited his facility there,he does everything right there
at his house.
He's built his, I mean, he's gothis whole family works together.
It's a great process to see themwhat they're doing, man.
And he's a true old trucker too,man.
See, it's what he you know,that's what he was doing, man.
He was you know burning up theold blacktop as well.
And uh, you know, he decided tojump out of the truck and he

(34:00):
jumped into this right here, andhe's done very well, but he's
works his tail off.
Did I?
Yeah, nobody's getting it, butyeah, man, he works his tail.
I'm glad you know I I love tosee those stories when people
really go after it, man, andthey prosper.
I just think that is awesome.

SPEAKER_03 (34:14):
Did I ever tell you that I used to drive truck?

SPEAKER_00 (34:17):
No, you didn't.

SPEAKER_03 (34:19):
I I didn't not not truck trailer combo, but I had a
CDL and I drove 10 wheeler.
Oh, yeah?
A 10 wheeler, okay.

SPEAKER_00 (34:27):
I remember you wanting me to do it.

SPEAKER_03 (34:29):
And an ET two-speed rear end.
I remember all this.
Um, one of the trucks was aBrockway.
Um, then I drove what it was anFWD, which was um that was a big
ass truck, and I was a littleguy at the time.
But uh yeah, so that I mean I'mgoing way back, way back.
Oh, yeah.
That went to school for radioand TV, and now here I am.

(34:49):
Uh, you know.

SPEAKER_00 (34:51):
Well, I'm I'm gonna find out what kind of man you
are to your truck driver.
I'm gonna put you, I'm gonna getyou one of them car haulers, and
we're gonna go one up there.

SPEAKER_03 (34:58):
That number you know what else?
You know what?
It's funny.
I I mean, I want to get back totalking about your hunting and
and all that, but you know, Ibet you could never guess what
else I used to do.
And it had a lot to do withdriving.

SPEAKER_01 (35:10):
What's that?

SPEAKER_03 (35:11):
I was a Zamboni operator.
Do you know what a Zamboni is?

SPEAKER_00 (35:17):
I do not.

SPEAKER_03 (35:18):
Have you been to a hockey game?

SPEAKER_00 (35:22):
I have been.
Well, I've been to a fight onetime and a hockey game broke
out.

SPEAKER_03 (35:25):
Yeah, that too.
So you know, in between periods,the machine comes out onto the
ice and resurfaces.
Oh, that's a Zamboni.
Okay.
Now they have Olympians.
I mean, there's other makes outthere, but the Zamboni was
created by a man by the name ofFrank J.
Zamboni, and it's on a Jeepchassis and uh Volkswagen motor.

(35:49):
And that was back in the day.
That's a Zamboni.
Now they're propane operated,but still.
Uh, so I did that.
I resurfaced ice while I wasgoing to school for radio and
TV.

SPEAKER_00 (36:00):
That is cool, man.
Is it cold up there on thosethings?

SPEAKER_03 (36:04):
You freeze your you know what's off.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (36:09):
I bet I bet your feet really get out of here.

SPEAKER_03 (36:11):
Yeah, well, it's not too bad down there because it's
protected, but where you'resitting up, I mean, with it
blowing in your face, you know,and the rink I worked at was
indoors, but it's still itwasn't heated.
So in the winter, when it was 20below here in the northeast, it
was 20 below in that rink.

SPEAKER_00 (36:26):
So just saying, man, but I've that 20 below ain't no
joke, is it?

SPEAKER_03 (36:31):
No, it's no joke.
What's the cut?
So you go out and you hunt.
What's the coldest you've beenout in?

SPEAKER_00 (36:39):
Um, I can tell you that I've I've hunted in like
one degree temperatures, and Ican yeah, but dude, I that get
you, you know, down here there'sa lot of moisture in the air,
you know, and uh and I'll youknow, lower Alabama and all
that, where I'm we're hunting,man.
So I've been up in the Midwestand done a bunch of hunting
there and been in Nebraska andstuff, and you know, 18, 15

(37:00):
degrees there, I can walk aroundin a sweatshirt and sweatpants,
and I'm okay.
But man, you get you get aroundyou know 35, 40 degrees down
here in the south where all thishumidity's at, buddy.
You better bring your wholewhole wardrobe because you are
freezing it's to the bone, man.

SPEAKER_03 (37:16):
It's like, oh yeah, you being a musician,
independent artist, writingsongs, putting out uh soon to be
hits.
Um, are you the kind of guywho's humming like a melody as
you're walking through the uhthe woods, or when it comes time
to unplug, maybe you're justhumming some sort of metal
melody?

SPEAKER_00 (37:34):
Always have a melody in my head.
There's always a melody.
Yeah.
Something, man.
There's something in there, youknow.

SPEAKER_03 (37:45):
Uh I love that.
If you um, Randy, if you couldum pick any dream collaboration,
living or gone, who would youlove to write or record with?

SPEAKER_00 (37:58):
Um you mean living or gone, you say.

SPEAKER_03 (38:03):
Yeah, it could be it could be anybody.

SPEAKER_00 (38:05):
Okay, if my I think my favorite all-time artist that
I would have loved to have donea song would be Keith Whitley,
honestly.
I love Whitley, man.
I love his stuff, man, for sure.
Um, writing, I mean, whowouldn't want to write with Dean
Dillon?
You know?
You know, I know.
I mean, yeah, no, I guess I'dlove to write with that cat, you

(38:27):
know.

SPEAKER_03 (38:28):
So tell me, what's it like, Randy?
You walk into a room with otherwriters.
What's that feeling like?

SPEAKER_00 (38:36):
Um that that's a cool vibe, man, to uh to walk in
there, you know, and that aurayou get when you walk in a room
with people, man, to write with.
I mean, that's it's prettyawesome to me.
I I love that.
Knowing you're about to createsomething, you know, together
for sure.
I write a lot alone, man, butthere's been, you know, like I
said, there's several guys, man,I write with, and you can't

(38:56):
write with everyone.
Um, I've try you know, you try,but man, you you know, sometimes
you just it just don't work.
You can't write with everyone.
So I run to the people I know Ican write with, you know,
especially if I have an idea,I'm like, hey man, we let's you
know, and then we we get on it,you know, and get after it.
But for sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (39:14):
Yeah, I I would imagine that sometimes you just
want to be by yourself.

SPEAKER_00 (39:18):
Oh yeah.
I think majority a lot of mysongs I have uh written along,
you know.
I write up like I said, I writeat least every day, sometimes
every other day, maybe, but I'malways alone.
Something hits me, you know,whatever that is.
I sit around playing my guitarfor hours.
And look, I'm not a I'm not alead guitar player, I'm not a
you know, like they call apicker, but I'm a solid rhythm

(39:39):
player.
So I sit around and just playdifferent chord progressions for
hours a day, man.
And and a lot of times I've justcome, something just grabs me.
I'm like, man, that's cool rightthere.
And then I can uh uh a lyricalhit me in that moment, or maybe
I could go pick, grab somethingup from my writing somewhere and
say, Man, this right here reallyfit.

(39:59):
I mean, it's it happens differyou know different ways.

SPEAKER_03 (40:02):
Do you uh do you remember the very first song you
ever wrote?

SPEAKER_00 (40:07):
You know, I don't exactly remember the very first
song.
I had a book of those things,and this old uh I dated this
chick one time and she got madand uh she threw the book away
at me.
I was like, oh man, that'sawful.
I mean, I think I had left anduh and then I had left the book
there on accident, and I had awhole bunch of that stuff.

(40:28):
So I really don't recall thevery first one that I written,
and I I really don't, but I hadI do have stacks and stacks and
stacks of things.
Oh, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_03 (40:37):
You got a lot in the closet, just in case.

SPEAKER_00 (40:40):
I do have a lot, you know what I mean.
I have some I have some goodones in the closet for sure,
man.
I I'm blessed to have that, man,for sure.

SPEAKER_03 (40:46):
You have a lot in the closet and you have a lot in
the freezer.
Because you know, I mean, uh youyou're doing that hunting.
What do what do you go out andum moose?
What do you hunt?
No, I'm never a bear.
I've never hunted moose.

SPEAKER_00 (41:00):
I'm never just I'm mainly a deer hunter, man.
I like to hunt deer.

SPEAKER_02 (41:04):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (41:04):
Um, I like to hunt deer.
Now, you know, when I wasyounger, I was mad at them.
So I you know, I shot a lot ofthem.
I'm not so mad at them anymore,man.
I enjoy the ass, I enjoy, youknow, planting my fields and
those things and getting them tocome in and watch, and I enjoy
watching them.
I mean, it's really, really coolto sit in a in a shooting house
or in a tree stand or whatever,and you have 15 or 20 deer in

(41:26):
front of you.
A lot of them run around likedogs.
Honestly, they're just reallycool little creatures.

SPEAKER_03 (41:37):
So let me ask you this.
The only reason I'm asking is uhwe went on a little uh day trip
over the weekend and comingback, I was on this back road,
and there were all these deer.
All of a sudden they were I camearound a corner.
I wasn't a good thing.
I wasn't flying.
I was taking my time.
I was in an area that I reallydidn't know.
I was following my map thingy,the GPS.

(41:58):
And uh there were deer, and mywife goes, deer are stupid.
I go, What do you mean?
She goes, Look, it they're juststanding in the middle of the
road.
I said, I don't think deer arereally stupid.
She goes, Yeah, they run out andthey run into your car.
I said, No, no, I don't thinkdeer are stupid.

SPEAKER_00 (42:17):
So, you know, they're pretty smart, they're
very resilient, they are verysmart.
I mean, you know, they're theythey've got that survival thing
down, man.
I mean, we really have to get inthere after them a lot of times.
You know, the does are more alot more lack relaxed than you
know a mature buck.
A mature buck, man, oh thatthing right there, they they

(42:38):
know some things, I promise youthey do to stay alive, you know.
They know they know.

SPEAKER_03 (42:42):
Oh, they have to do what they have to do.
Yes, I get it.

SPEAKER_00 (42:45):
Not only humans, but there's other predators around
that like to eat them as well.
I love to eat them, but youknow, there's other predators
like to eat them as well.
So I mean they they have adaptedon how to stay alive for sure.

SPEAKER_03 (42:56):
Randy, where can we um I want to jump on and get
some of your music?
Let's say we got somebodywatching this, somebody
listening to this, and then say,you know what?
I want I want to hear this guy.
Where are we gonna go?

SPEAKER_00 (43:06):
Man, you know, you know, I do got a website, like
you mentioned earlier, it'srandycobbmusic.com, and you
know, you can click on there anduh you know it'll take you right
into all your there's there'ssome um icons there, I guess, to
click on for your uh all yourdigital services, you know, your
Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify,we're on all those.

SPEAKER_01 (43:25):
Cool.

SPEAKER_00 (43:26):
Um, Randy Cobb music as well for your YouTube man
tribe or any of those things.
You like what you hear?
We have a bunch of you know,short videos and things of that
matter on there.
I'm being silly or being, youknow, some hunting stuff on
there as you talked about, somefishing stuff on there as well.
Cool.
And then also on your Instagram,it's the same thing, Randy Cobb
Music, Facebook, Randy CobbMusic.
So if you're Randy Cobb Music,it'll take you to all those, you

(43:49):
know, all those sites to to findmy music or for my social medias
for sure.

SPEAKER_03 (43:53):
All right.
I have to ask Um, there's apickup truck in uh God, it was
the picture of you in a pickuptruck.
I'm trying to think.
I love that truck, and I keepthinking I want to go and invest
in an old older truck.
I don't it could be you could beon the column shift, it could be
a stick shift.
I mean, I learned to drive on astandard, so right, yeah.

(44:16):
Uh, I'm just like, you knowwhat?
I really want, yeah, I've got anice Chevy Colorado now, but I'm
I'm just saying I want to havean older vehicle like that.
And every time I look at thatand I see you standing there, I
go, So lucky.
Look at that.
Is that your truck?

SPEAKER_00 (44:31):
Which truck are you speaking on?

SPEAKER_03 (44:33):
I don't have it here in front of me.

SPEAKER_00 (44:35):
What color is it?
Uh is it the red and white one?
I think it might be.

SPEAKER_03 (44:38):
Yeah, I was gonna say probably a red and white
one.

SPEAKER_00 (44:40):
Yeah, yes, that's my truck.
That's a that's a 93 RAM truck.
I've got two of them.
Yeah.
I've got that's a two-wheeldrive model.
It's in a couple of my it's inone of my videos, but it's in a
lot of my short stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (44:53):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (44:54):
Um, and then I have that's a two-wheel drive model,
then I have a four-wheel drivemodel too.
That's kind of a part to be uhrestored right now, but I have
two of those.
That's the last year they madethose.
Cool.
I've always been a Mopar guy,which is which is weird because
um when I started this radiotour, I need my my 2500 has
miles on it, and I need I kindof didn't want to trust it going

(45:14):
across the country.
So I bought a CadillacEscalation.
Oh, nice.
And it's the first GM.
And it was older.
I mean, it's not new, it's likenine years old, but it only had
like 90 something thousand mileson it, really taken care of very
well, and I love that thing.
I mean, I put all my gear in itin the back, and you know,
comfortable, and I can stretchout and thing rides good, great

(45:35):
gas milder.
So I'm uh I was I'm I'mimpressed with it to be honest
with you.
So uh I I'm not I used to alwaystalk about uh Chevrolet or the
bow ties, not a big fan, but heyman, it's uh it's a it's a nice
vehicle.
I I'd probably have another one.

SPEAKER_03 (45:51):
I totally, totally get it.
If I was to jump in that vehicleand turn the radio on, what
would be uh what would I belistening to?

SPEAKER_00 (45:59):
Um, you know, in my playlist, my personal playlist,
man, uh Earl Thomas Conley, youknow, John Conley, uh Keith
Whitley, of course.
You know, I love like SteveWarner, stuff like that.
Yeah, I love those guys.
Hey, I'm a huge Morgan Wallenfan.
I love that guy, man.
I listen to the biggest thing.

SPEAKER_03 (46:17):
He's appealing to a lot of different demographics.
He really is.

SPEAKER_00 (46:21):
He is.
I like what he's doing, man.
I can't say what I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 (46:25):
Have you ever thrown a chair off the roof of a bar?
Uh I don't think I'm gonna dothat.
And almost hitting a policeofficer.
I mean, and I mean that's whatit is.
So it was not a good move,Morgan, at the time.
Or never.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (46:40):
I mean, I guess in the in the in the moment, I
guess is what he felt like heneeded to do.
But hey, no, I don't think I'mgonna do that.

SPEAKER_03 (46:45):
Then then he called Eric Church to help him get out
of it because I I I don't knowif it was at Eric's bar or or
whatever, but it was like, Idon't know, there's not it's a
long story, never mind.
I just I just you know, I I sitback now and I read some of that
stuff and I have to chuckle alittle bit as long as nobody got
hurt, nothing like that.
And yeah, it was a foolish move.

(47:05):
I get it.
I mean, alcohol does weirdthings to people, I get it.
But still, I have to laugh alittle bit now when I start
reading.
He did what?
Well, I'm thinking about whatwas I doing when I was that age?
So we won't talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 (47:20):
He dodged a bullet.

SPEAKER_03 (47:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, that's cool.
Um, so uh for people that arejust discovering you, Randy
Cobb, uh, what do you hope theytake away from your songs?

SPEAKER_00 (47:34):
I think a lot of what you said, man, that I'm
just a I'm just a real guy.
I'm just an everyday guy, man.
You know, I just that's what Ithat's important to me that I am
who you see.
You know, I'm not a perfecthuman being by no means.
I'm a believer in the Lordabove, and I wouldn't be here
without that.
And that uh, you know, I havethe same old struggles as they
do, man.

(47:54):
I'm just able to put it on uh onpaper and make music with life
experience.
You know, I'm just I want themto know that I'm as approachable
as anyone else, man.
I'm just a that's a regulardude, man.
Just a dude.
I'm just I'm just me, man.
You know, I found out nobody.
I just want I just want to beme, and that's all I want to be,
man.
That's it.

SPEAKER_03 (48:13):
Um that's it.
What's um I just a few questionsI always ask.
What's your um biggest petpeeve?

SPEAKER_00 (48:23):
Oh man, I don't know.
I think I probably got a few.
Probably did uh probablysomebody smacking at the dinner
table.
God, I I can't stand it, man.

SPEAKER_03 (48:35):
Really?

SPEAKER_00 (48:36):
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (48:37):
Like like the chewing, like that.

SPEAKER_00 (48:39):
Yeah, yeah.
Mouth open.

SPEAKER_03 (48:41):
Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 (48:44):
That's a big one for sure, man.

SPEAKER_03 (48:46):
No, no, I hear you.
I hear you.
I I couldn't agree more.

SPEAKER_00 (48:49):
Um or maybe kids yelling in the grocery store or
mom, you know, yelling at theirmom in the grocery store or
something.

SPEAKER_03 (48:54):
Oh, with the disrespect.

SPEAKER_00 (48:56):
Oh, the disrespect, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (48:59):
It's like you just want to say, but you can't, and
you want to, and but you can't.
Yeah.
What's one thing, Randy, that'son your bucket list uh you still
want to cross off?

SPEAKER_00 (49:10):
Whew.
Um, that's a hard one to tothink about.

SPEAKER_03 (49:17):
I know.

SPEAKER_00 (49:19):
Honestly, in life, you know what?
Probably to get signed to a uh alabel.
That's probably something that'suh it's been a huge goal of
mine, man.
I think through hard times andwhatever that is coming up, you
know, I've been resilient anduh, you know, just kind of been
a survivor and I've pretty muchaccomplished everything in my I

(49:40):
mean I built houses with my owntwo hands, I've owned 250-acre
farm.
I mean, I've done a I've beenblessed in a lot of ways, man.
You know, and uh pretty muchanything I ever wanted, man,
I've made it happen, exceptgetting the deal, man.
And I've tried real hard.
I've you know, it's the thedrive is the you know, the
want-to is still there.

(50:00):
I still want it, you know.

SPEAKER_03 (50:01):
Yeah, you get you know uh what what do they say?
Just let it happen.
Don't force it.

SPEAKER_00 (50:08):
Sure.

SPEAKER_03 (50:08):
Let it happen.

SPEAKER_00 (50:09):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (50:10):
You know, and it will, it will happen.
You get just gotta let it happenbecause you know you're
talented, you know you've got itgoing.
You've got a good team behindyou right now, and they've done
a lot to get you out there.

SPEAKER_00 (50:24):
I have a great team behind me.
I'm so grateful for all of them.
They are so all that whole deal,man, is just I I couldn't really
ask for a better team, man.
It's really neat, you know.

SPEAKER_03 (50:34):
So um, if your friends could describe you in
three words, what would theysay?
Three words.

SPEAKER_00 (50:42):
He's a redneck.

SPEAKER_03 (50:46):
But a good one.

unknown (50:47):
I love it.

SPEAKER_03 (50:48):
I love it.
I love it.
Oh, Randy, Randy, Randy.
It's been so good to see you.
Um hanging with you for a littlebit.
Um, you look great, my friend,and I'm proud to call you a
friend.
I know we've we've kept in touchsince Nashville last February.
I hope to see you again soon.
Uh Michelle Elizabeth, do youknow who that is?

(51:11):
It says ha ha ha.
No, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
So Michelle, Michelle Elizabethis is there.
Oh, Jeff Gaucko says, Hi, buddy.
Uh yeah, and uh MichelleElizabeth.
Yes.
All right, wait a minute.
I gotta find the right one here.
This is like, I don't know.
I don't know.

(51:31):
Do you know who Michelle is?

SPEAKER_00 (51:33):
I do, yes.
Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 (51:36):
Awesome, awesome.
I love it.
I love it.
Hello, Michelle.
Thanks for checking us out.
Make sure you subscribe toEscape Happens.
So if I talk to this characteragain, you you won't miss it.

SPEAKER_00 (51:45):
So he's such a good guy.
Um she is the young lady thatI've been telling you about that
inspired a lot of my songslately.
She is she has uh been very,very supportive, man, around me
and all.
And I, you know, those thingsare priceless to have someone
that gets behind you andbelieves in you, man.

(52:05):
I I can't thank her enough forthose things.
I'm grateful for that for sure,man.

SPEAKER_03 (52:09):
She does say he didn't know hockey.
No, I don't.
And then she goes, he's aredneck.
100%.
You know, but that's good.
I do.
I love it too.
I love it too.
And Michelle, thank you forchiming in.
Uh, you know, definitely goodstuff.
But Randy, I want to thank youfor taking the time to you know
get together tonight.

(52:29):
And I know I look forward toseeing you in person again.
We'll go out, we'll hang, we'llget some cold ones, we'll have a
good time.
We had a good time last year,and uh, we'll do it again.
I hope, I hope you got plans tobe there.

SPEAKER_00 (52:39):
I'm gonna be there.

SPEAKER_03 (52:40):
Okay.
100% I'll be there.
I'll come and get you.
I'll come and get you.
I'll come out and get youredneck ass and burn it down to
the Omni, huh?

SPEAKER_00 (52:48):
I'm gonna find a car hauler.
I'm gonna I'm I'm I'm gonna I'mgonna teach you how to load one
up.

SPEAKER_03 (52:52):
Forget it.
That that's all the past now.
That's the past.
You know, I'll go back there.
So, you know, you're doing theright thing.
Uh, you got music coming out.
I want everybody that's uhviewing this or listening to
this to at least give them, youknow, give them a listen.
Uh Randy Cobb music and uh youdo that search, you're gonna
you're gonna see them pop upjust about everywhere.
Check out the new song, Sand.

(53:13):
It is just phenomenal.
And I may attach a little bit, alittle clip of that to this
afterwards.

SPEAKER_00 (53:20):
So that's awesome, man.
Thank you for saying that, Skip.
That means a lot, man.
Thank you, man.
I am a lot of proud of thatsong, man.

SPEAKER_03 (53:27):
You should be 100%.
You should be.
And I'm very proud of you, andI'm proud to know you.
So um, you know, just so peopleknow, this this pot, you know,
we did meet last year as wetalked about, and we've known
each other for you know sincethen, and we text and we we stay
in touch, and you know, whentimes got tough, I was there,
and vice versa.
So it's uh it's all good.

(53:48):
Randy, thanks for coming on.
Uh it's called Skip Happens.
That's right.
Yeah, because it does.
Uh, but uh definitely a goodtime.
We get a chance to talk to allthe uh independents and all the
major artists.
We do it all here on SkipHappens, so just subscribe if
you uh oh I only go to CRS toparty with Skip.
Who's saying?
Oh, Jeff.
Jeff Golko.

(54:09):
You know Jeff?

SPEAKER_00 (54:11):
Um Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_03 (54:13):
Uh no, no.
He's a media guy, though.
He's a media guy.
While he's not radio, he's umoppressed.
Um oh no, I just lost train ofthought.
But yeah, he he promotes a lotof artists and uh he does a lot
of other things too.
So, anyways, Randy, I want tosay thank you for coming out
again tonight.
Thank you for watching,everybody.
Thank you for viewing, uh,listening, uh, whatever.

(54:35):
Check the music out.
You will not be disappointed.
It's Randy Cobb, independentartist, and uh make sure you do
it.
And uh I know you're gonna wait.
Whoa, whoa, I didn't ask.
What about an album?

SPEAKER_00 (54:47):
You know, I think we're uh we're looking at a
maybe uh maybe just doing like afive-pack EPK, you know.

SPEAKER_02 (54:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (54:54):
I think that we've been talking about doing that.
I mean, I've got stuff ready togo for sure.
You know, we just uh we'retrying to build up to that spot,
you know.
It's uh so definitely that's inthe works for sure, man.

SPEAKER_03 (55:04):
Yeah, absolutely.
Uh Jeff said publicist.
That was the word I was lookingfor.
Oh, okay.
Jeff the publicist.
Okay, I can't.
Yes, yes.
It's like, uh, you know what?
I don't know if that happens toyou, but it just kind of like
forgot what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_00 (55:19):
Well, they call it they call it brain fart, right?

SPEAKER_03 (55:21):
Yeah, it's a brain fart.
Skip happens.

SPEAKER_00 (55:23):
Yeah, 100%.
Or what is it?
Uh uh it's also uh CRS.
Can't remember stuff about skip.

SPEAKER_03 (55:32):
Can't remember skip.

unknown (55:34):
That's right.

SPEAKER_03 (55:35):
It is Randy.
You're awesome.
I love you, brother.
You stay right there.
We're gonna say goodnight toeverybody.
Thank you for watching.
Subscribe to Skip Happens onYouTube, and uh peace out,
everybody.
Just have a great night.
Thank you.
You can watch this, you canshare it, do whatever you need
to do it.
Love you, Randy.
Stay right there.
Thank you.
All right, thank you.