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This week on Country on Deck. Your latest song The Sand What?
What's that one about? The sand is like, man, it's like
a walk through time, man. How we wish we could, we could
stop time as we get older, man, it seems like time speeds up and
we forget. Sometimes it's easy to forget
what's so important. How we wish we could go back in
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time. So really that's what that is.
The sand is a metaphor for time in the hourglass.
Discover the stories of rising country stars Country on Deck
with Josh Maddie. Kick off your boots and settle
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Josh Maddie's here. Stars on the rise, voices of
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bone but dirty roads, she writes.
Angelines capture the journey, shares their fights.
Country on this. Hello and welcome to another
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episode of Country on Deck whereI sit down with today's rising
country stars and help you discover the stories behind
their music. I'm your host, Josh Maddie, and
I'm back at my desk in Connecticut with another rising
country star on the show this week for you.
But first, if you missed our conversation from last week, we
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sat down to talk to Shane Prophet.
We talked to Shane Prophet abouthis new EP called Population Me
and we also talked to Shane about the UPS and downs in his
career. I had a song a few years ago
getting the top, top 15 at country radio and it changed my
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life. And I met Chloe, my fiance.
I bought us a house. I closed on the House and three
days after I closed on the House, the record label I was
working with dropped me. I had no idea how I was going to
make my mortgages and stuff likethat.
And so shortly after that, I wrote Penny to my name.
It's that song that just kind of, for me, it reminded me of
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with good people. You can listen to our entire
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We released new conversations with new rising country stars
each and every Friday and we don't want you to miss one
coming up on December 10th. Wednesday, December 10th, we're
back at The Barn in Groton, CT, our next Nashville style writers
round. And it's a big one.
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It's a big one. We're celebrating one year of
hosting our writers round at TheBarn.
It's our big one year celebration, our big one year
birthday party and we're going to be doing it with what you
making. Who will be with us with their
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of course the original music with with most of the original
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2024, back in December, just pretty much a year a year ago,
pretty much everybody coming back.
Jason and Griselli, Nick Casey, Eva Richie full line up on our
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writers round event. So much planned and and we hope
to see you on this week's episode.
He also has a story of ups and downs in his career.
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Born in Pensacola, FL, he began writing at a young age as a way
to cope with childhood adversity, and then he put roots
down in Alabama as as an adult, he stepped away from music at
one point to focus on family, and he also created his own
trucking company. After losing his mother and his
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brother and his livelihood during COVID, he reignited his
passion for music. In the fall of last year, he
debuted his single Not on Me to country radio and that charted
on Music Rose breakout chart in early 2025.
He followed that up with his country boy release that's
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currently spinning at radio as well.
And his latest single came out back in October called The Sand.
He's making a big comeback and he's doing really, really well.
And we're excited to help share his story and have mom this
week, Randy Cobb. Randy, thanks so much for coming
on, man. Thanks for having me buddy.
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First, how was your holiday? How was Thanksgiving?
Did you have some time to to relax?
How did that go? Man, actually it was pretty
good, man. I was, I was at some friend's
house and yeah, it worked out real nice, man.
And I got in the woods and watched some deer run around for
a while. So it was a it was a good thing,
man. Do you have like a favorite food
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that you always have to have every single year?
I always stick the tradition on Thanksgiving.
We always like a Turkey and I always like the hard fried, you
know, like fried turkeys, man, are pretty darn good.
Good to be honest with you. So I try to shoot for that and
some, hopefully we can get our hands into some, some chicken
and dumplings as well, mashed taters and stuff like that, you
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know. So just good old Southern
cooking, you know? Now the fried Turkey, do you?
Do you cook that or? That that sounds scary to me.
I always hear like the the stories of people getting hurt
doing that. What's that process like?
I don't know, man. I've never known anybody to get
hurt by frying a Turkey. I mean, I guess I know they do.
It does boil up pretty good whenyou first put the Turkey in the
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grease when it's hot, you like kind of dip the Turkey down and
then you pull it back out and it'll calm down and you settle
it back in and it's, you know, and then it usually is pretty
easy then. But I can't, I could see
somebody getting maybe hurt a little bit on if you're not
careful on that initial submergeof the old bird, if you know
what I mean. Where you at?
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You up in Connecticut? I'm up in Connecticut, in New
England, yeah. Man, that's beautiful up there.
Man, that's completely differentscenery that I'm used to.
For sure, man. I've been up there a few times.
Man, it's a, it's pretty up there for sure, man.
Probably pretty cold right now, ain't it?
Yeah, the this morning is definitely feeling like winter
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for sure. Do you get all Four Seasons
there? Growing up I feel like we used
to. I remember like a really nice
spring. I was always excited for it and
fall was great. But year after year it seems
like those in between months getlike seasons rather get shorter
and shorter. Just go straight from summer to
winter. It's like faster and faster it
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seems like. Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's all I've ever know down here in the South is it's
hot and then it's cold. So, you know, it's like, you
know, you might get, you know, there may be some fluctuation in
there to where it's not, you know, or it kind of cools off
because, man, you know, summers down here and Alabama and all
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that are freaking hot, man. And then, you know, you got the
humidity on top of it. So that's really not fun.
And then, you know, when it getsreal, people think it don't get
real cold down here, but I promise you it gets cold down
here and the humidity in the air, dude, it's like, you know,
I've traveled a good bit in my life and I've been across the
Midwest a lot and haunted and stuff there.
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And, you know, 18° man, in the Midwest that's very doable.
And it's some doggone sweatpantsand, you know, maybe some shoe,
you know, some boots and a lightjacket.
And I'm pretty comfortable. Hey, 18° here in, in Alabama,
man, with this humidity in the air, you better bring everything
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you got in the closet to stay warm because it's going through
the bone because it's cold. Completely different, man.
So I don't know if that makes sense to you, but it I'm telling
you, man, it ain't no fun. Also I could see it being
dreadful just because you guys aren't used to that on a regular
basis so it'd be make it even worse.
You know, it gets down into the teens probably every year to be
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honest with you. Now, last year we had what we
call the the Blizzard of the Century, which we've never
really get snow like this, but we had like 9-10 inches of snow.
Actually. That was the first of this year.
It was in January of this year that happened.
Yeah, you guys got more snow. For.
Dude, it was wild, man. I mean, I've never seen snow
like that down here. And we were all just loved it
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for the first day, but after that, we were tired of that
stuff. Hey, man, I I don't want to live
in all these these icy conditions all the time, you
know? So, yeah, even the deer, you
know, the deer didn't like it. The deer didn't know what to do
that. So they like stayed at home.
They didn't come out there on the fields or nothing with us.
So, you know, I was mad. I was like, get rid of the snow
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because my deer is my deer is scared of the of the snow, you
know, so you know. I'm sure there was some New
Englanders that were like, send it that our way.
We want some snow. Oh, so they don't, they don't
snow there where you're at a lot?
It used to when I was growing up.
I feel like again, let's get like year after year it's less
and less snow. It's strange.
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That's weird, man. So do you think that has
something to do with obviously it's climate?
What? What's your thoughts on that?
What do you think has contributed to snowless winters
where you're at now? I'm not really sure.
I'm not even going to begin to to pretend to have a thought on
that to be honest. But.
Well, that's a hey, that's, that's a fair thought, you know?
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I'm no expert on that, but it isdefinitely strange.
I'm not a big fan of the snow though, so I'll take it.
Yeah, I got you. OK.
You just don't like to shovel that stuff is what it is, ain't
it? No, I remember in 2000, maybe it
was 2015, we had this terrible, terrible Blizzard.
It was up to like almost my likepast my knee and it was just
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dreadful. We were locked inside for like
days. It was awful.
Never again. Wow, I bet that Yeah, I bet that
ain't fun, man. Being I always hear about
getting snowed in and how that'sno fun, you know?
So I, I, I don't envy you when that happens, I can tell you.
That the only good thing about it is I had a couple days where
I was able to call out of work. Yeah, that's always a good time,
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you know. But besides the the difference
in weather, what was it like growing up in you were you were
originally from Florida and thenyou moved to Alabama?
Yeah, I just moved up right overthe state line.
So, you know, I growed up in Pensacola there and then early
on in my adulthood, man, I bought a little bit of acreage
over there and Baldwin County, Alabama, just right over the
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state line and lived out there in the woods.
And man, it was just, the climate is exactly the same.
You know, they're in the same hemisphere, I guess you would
say, you know, region. But where I'm at now, I've sold
all that. And now I'm up there about not
quite central Alabama, but closeto central Alabama.
Now it's a little bit different there, but it's still, I think
it's just a tad bit colder there, but it still gets hot and
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humidity's tough. And, you know, but I got more
trees around me than I used to have, you know?
You you're ready for Christmas. Have you thought about that yet?
Oh, of course. You know the thing about Santa
and you know the thing about Christmas for me is, is Rudolph,
because I can't wait to eat him.I've never thought about that.
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That's a clear difference between the two of us.
I know. I'm just being serious.
He would be like, I don't like him.
Each Rudolph. Oh my gosh.
I remember growing up, there's this one guy that tried to show
me venison and I was like, oh, never, never.
No thanks. No thanks.
Really. You never ate venison.
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No, I've, I've heard about it, I've seen it, but I've never,
I've never had it. I've never had an interest in
that for some reason. Oh my goodness, dude, you like
steak, right? I like steak.
I don't eat it too often, but I do like steak.
Yeah. What's your go to?
What kind? What kind of protein do you
like? Man, I guess I'm a big chicken
guy to be honest. Dude, I love chicken.
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I mean, I, I sometimes I wonder if I'm going to sprout feathers,
dude, because I eat chicken two or three times a week.
I love fried chicken. There ain't no doubt.
I don't know about you man, but I love me some fried bird man.
You also love those Little Debbie Christmas trees, right?
Well, only on occasion. I only get them like, you know,
certain times of the year. But here's a problem with those.
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If you eat too many of those Christmas cakes, they will make
your gene shrink. I promise you they will, they
will make your gene shrink. So it's not a, it's not a good
thing, you know, But hey, I, I can't wait for them to come out
every year. And then I'm like, you know, I'm
done with these dudes right here.
But yeah, but they're, they're definitely good for sure.
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You got your start. Kind of an interesting way in.
In foster care, you were puttingdown words like right off, right
off the bat, like at a young age.
Yeah, man, that's kind of how I got into it.
You know, I got dropped off at alot of different spots, you
know, and everybody was kind of like strangers, man, so that,
you know, scared to death as a small child, man.
So I just would put words on thepaper about how I was feeling,
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you know, and that's kind of howit evolved, if you know what I
mean. At that age, was it just kind of
thoughts or was it actually likesongs?
Oh no, it's thoughts for sure, you know, at that time.
So and then as I got older, you know, it definitely evolved into
songwriting, you know, you know,writing poetry and stuff like
that, you know, it's kind of howit, you know, all started and
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then it evolved into full-fledged songwriting.
And you know, I still write in poetry form a whole lot.
And then I transpose it to, you know, songs, man.
So it still goes on that way, you know.
Was there a certain moment wherea light bulb kind of went on and
you thought to yourself this, this could become a song?
I don't know how how it really evolved into that.
I just think maybe some people that were in my lives that I
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finally, would, you know, share some of my thoughts with would
be like, man, that could be a pretty cool deal right there.
You know, if you could, you know, turn, you know, put melody
to it and things like that and just being around people in the
business that were doing, you know, doing those things.
And I was like, man, you know, just, you know, just kind of
evolved from there, man, just seeing people around me do it.
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And it's like, yeah, I think I got that knack, you know?
Who were those people around youthat you were kind of watching
and learning from? You know, there was a very
influential guy that I used to when I first started making
music, man. His name was Rick Holt.
He's from down here in, you know, Pensacola area.
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Now he's up and around Birmingham area.
You know, he's the first one to get me into a studio recording
song. He's the first person I knew
that was really like a songwriter and then, you know,
but you know, people that were in my lives at the time that I
trusted I may would share some of that stuff.
And that was a hard thing to do,man.
Because you know, you're very vulnerable at that point when
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you're putting 3 minutes of yourlife out there for somebody to
completely destroy you or scrutinize, you know, I mean, it
takes, it took a lot for me to ever get bring those things out
to the public, you know? Yeah, it's got to be pretty
nerve racking to put that out and and wonder what people are
thinking because it not everybody's even going to say it
out loud what they're thinking. So maybe even like the thought,
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the unknown thoughts could be pretty scary.
Absolutely. Yeah, that's absolutely true,
man. How long after that did it take
you to start gigging? I mean, I probably started
playing out a good bit in my early to mid 20s.
You know, I started playing out and I at that point I still, I
was just doing covers, man. I was doing cover stuff, you
know, and then that continued on.
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I didn't start really recording my own songs that I wrote till I
got into my 30s, man. So, you know, it was took a
little, it was a transition period for through there for me
for sure, you know, trying to get comfortable enough to do
those things. OK, your your album that you
dropped in 2019, you were working on that for a while
prior to its release and it was going to possibly be a project
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for Warner Brothers. Is that true?
That's correct. Yeah, Actually, we created that,
the head of A&R at Warner Brothers, then they asked me to,
you know, to submit, you know, my best stuff.
And so that's what we did. We created that.
My producer and I got together, Jeff King, man.
And we just got after it, man. We we gave them ACD that had 16
sides on it and sent it to him. Yeah.
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That was after, you know, monthsand months of going back and
forth with with them at Warner Brothers and, you know,
submitting songs and this and that, you know, and just, you
know, it's a little process, youknow, for that you go through on
that. And we never could come to the
deal, man. So I just kind of put it out.
That was in like 1415. And then we just kind of put it
out, you know, And then I just kind of swapped gears and did
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other things, you know, when they passed on, it just had to
do something different for a while, you know?
You you walked away from music to start your own trucking
business after that. I did, yes.
Yes. What was that transition like
for you? It must have kind of been a
like, real bittersweet, hard, hard to walk away.
You know what, I think it takes so much energy, man, to, to get
there, to get to where you have an actual shot at A, at a lay a
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major label, man, man, it's a, it's a grueling, exhausting
thing, man, you know, and if you're a songwriter, it's a very
emotional ride, you know, So it's kind of kind of just
exhausted. And I was like, you know, what
if I gave these people my best man?
And if it's not good enough and I really have nothing else to
offer at this point, you know, so I just kind of swapped gears
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and did something different, youknow, and I was, you know, I
didn't look back. I still had music around, you
know, for sure. But it took, it took a fast back
seat to my livelihood and makingsure I could take care of my
family, you know? When you were working with
Warner Brothers on that, on thatpitch, how often were you going
back and forth to Nashville? Like, were you fully in
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Nashville going or were you put like back and forth from Alabama
to Nashville? Well, in the front end I was
probably fully in and then, you know, then I got out and I was
back in Alabama most of the time, but I was still go to
Nashville a lot because, you know, we had mix in, we were
writing, you know, we were recording.
I mean, there was a bunch going on, you know, Still, So what?
Was that like being in in Nashville?
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Oh, it's great. You know, I got a lot of buds
there and I still got a lot of buds there.
And I like being there in the middle of the music, you know, I
like being there in the, in the business part of it, if you know
what I mean. What was the the trucking
industry like? How big did your business grow?
Were you like driving the trucksor were you more like
administrative or? I drove a truck and then I had
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other people drive some other trucks here or there.
It was very good for me man. I I turned into a car hauler so
I had those big semi trucks. You know you haul 9 cars at a
time. Oh, OK.
And. Those look scary it.
Was a. You got a car on top of your
truck there, Yeah. That's right.
I mean, it's an education to getused to that.
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I promise you it is. It don't it don't happen
overnight, but man, you did the only way to do it to get better
at it is to just do it. You know, you just, you just got
to put on your big boy britches and get after it, you know what
I mean? That's how it is, man.
What one thing I love about yourstory is your your perseverance
and your ability to not give up.This is kind of like a comeback
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story for you. During the pandemic, your mom
passed and your brother passed and that the trucking industry
kind of came to a halt for you. And now you're going after like
your true love of music. So I I give you a lot of props
for continuing on despite all these unfortunate things that
have come into your life. Yeah, man, I appreciate that.
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I mean, like I said, the music has always been in my soul, you
know, and I've, I was never ablejust to completely let go.
And just because I always had tohave a job doing something, you
know, I can never just put everything down and just fight,
you know, go for the music just like full bore.
I mean, because I always had to be doing something else, you
know. I mean, because music as you
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know, you're playing lower Broadway or whatever, you,
you're not feeling your bank account a whole lot.
So yeah. You know, you had to do things
to survive, you know, to survive, you know, so.
But now I've got great people behind me and man, we're able to
hit it full, full blast, man. So it's, it's working, man.
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Things are looking really, really good for us.
So very excited about the future.
One of the, the big reasons why I wanted to have you on and, and
take the opportunity to chat with you is because I, I really
relate to your, your story. Obviously I didn't lose as much
as you did, but I, I was workingin radio, country radio for
quite a while and then the pandemic struck and I too lost
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my my job and I've been out of radio since.
So I definitely relate to you kind of losing things and going
through struggles during that period of time.
Absolutely, man. That was a bad time for a lot of
Americans, man. Awful and awful for us, man.
Your your mom and and your brother.
Were they supportive of your music?
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Oh, yeah, yeah. That my family, you know, my,
you know, my small family, they all were.
They just, they loved what we did, you know?
So yeah, absolutely, yeah. When you decided to go back full
force and and go after your youraspirations of songwriting and
getting back out on the road, where was you your head out on
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that? Was it kind of like, there's not
much more I can lose, might as well go after my dream.
You're like, where Where was your head on out on that?
Jelly Roll really inspired me toget after it again, to be
honest. Now you know, the songwriting,
all that. There's some things that come
about when I lost my livelihood and my family and and I went to
my producer, man, Jeff King, andI'm like, hey, man, you know,
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back in the day a decade ago, man, you had to look the part
and play the part, you know, to even have a phenomium kind of
consider you, I think, you know,and Jelly Roll stepped out there
and, you know, and and not beingugly or nothing, but the dude
was he admittedly, he was 560 something pounds and didn't take
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really good care of himself, man.
But man, his lyrics and it's singing and what he was doing,
man, it was touching people and they embraced him.
And I'm like, hey, man, if he's got a shot at it and I love what
he's doing, but we still got a shot.
He was like, you're absolutely right, Randy.
I think we need to just get in here and start cutting songs.
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And that's what we did, man. So my hats off to that guy.
I mean, I really think he paved the way and opened up some
doors, man, to people that are not, you know, industry
favorite, you know, favored, youknow, because of your look or
whatever. So I think that's, that was a
big part of me saying, man, let's go after it, you know?
I like that, yeah, he kind of came out of nowhere, but at the
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end of the day, he had a like a real deep story behind him if
you like, took the time to research.
Yeah, yeah, 100%, you know, yes.Is a lot of this what inspired
your song Not on me. A lot of these roller coaster
items in your life that have happened.
I don't know if you listen to the lyric, you know, listen to
the song, but absolutely, man, it's like, you know, a lot of it
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was I'm sitting at home. I'm about, you know, COVID
almost got me too, man, to be honest.
But for whatever reason, the Lord kept me on this side of the
earth, you know, the ground, man.
And I'm sitting there telling uswe couldn't work.
We had to stay at home and shelter in place.
We couldn't be their families and friends or nothing for
holidays or any of that, you know, but yet they're ushering
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thousands of people over the southern border, man, to come
into our country. These people that don't have any
of that have never contributed 1dime to our economy and giving
them all kind of benefits. And guess what?
That all trickles downhill to guys that blue collar workers
like myself that get out there and do it every day.
But that burdens on our back, that financial burden that
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they're giving to them. People are going to be on our
backs for years to come to pay back.
And it really just ignited a fire in me, man.
You know, big time. Because there's nothing right
about what they were doing. That's where Not on Me Come from
And that's that went, went on both sides of the aisle because
I heard it from many people on both sides of the aisle that
they were tired of it and it's not fair what they did.
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So that's where Not On Me come from, man.
And then I got some, a lot of traction on that song.
I mean, the video got 4 million views on it.
That's what inspired that song. Wow, 4 million views, That's
pretty awesome. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Do you almost not believe it in
certain moments? Like how the heck did we get 4
million views? Man, it, you know, it just, it
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is what it is, man. I was grateful for it because it
opened up some doors for me, youknow?
So pretty awesome if you ask me,man.
What happened? Part of that 2019 album Rivers
of Blends. You put out Country Boy off that
album. How's it feel to kind of get a
second coming of that song? Like in 2025?
It's it's really, really popular, like kind of taking on
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a second life. How's that feel?
Oh, it has. It's really neat, man.
I mean, you know, we, we took that thing, went to media based
slap, you know, media based, which is kind of like Billboard,
man. It went up to like 56 on that.
I think I was pretty excited about that.
I think that's the position. I may be quoting you wrong.
It may been 5656 on Music Row. I can't remember.
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We went to, I know it went to #3on the CDX true indie chart as
well. Music Row.
I think we may have made 56 on Music Row and maybe 59 on on
Media Base, but it did real well, man.
Especially for an independent man to get on media based I
think is astounding. I think that is a huge step,
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man. It shows that we're doing the
right thing, whatever that is, you know?
I I think it's a true testament to your ability to write a
relatable song that kind of testthe test time a. 100% man, I
wrote every letter of that song,you know?
That song kind of showcases yourlove for the outdoors, right?
Absolutely man. And the video does too.
And if you've seen the video, but the.
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I did, yeah. It looks like a party.
You're having a a big party, Yeah.
We shot that thing in the Smoky Mountains, man, in towns in
Tennessee, man. So it's pretty cool, you know?
Your your latest song The Sand What?
What's that one about? The sand is like man, it's like
a walk through time, man. And how we wish we could, we
could stop time as we get older,man.
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It seems like time speeds up andwe forget sometimes it's easy to
forget what's so important, how we wish we could go back in
time. So really that's what that is.
The sand is a metaphor for time in the hourglass.
You know, we wish we wish we could stop it.
So how somehow and that funny looking glass and that's we do.
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I mean, as you get older, you just like, gosh, I wish I would
have done this then I wish I wish I had that back.
I wish I could do that. You know, it's and it's just
really a song about times going by in a, in a better time in our
lives, just things of things of yesteryear, if that makes sense,
man. I kind of think about that all
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the time now. When I was younger, I was always
like, I want to be an adult. I want to speed time up and get
to where I want to be. Like with my aspirations of
being on the radio or you're always kind of like looking, you
know, forward thinking. And now as an adult, I'm like,
let's, like you said, let time stop, you know?
When you're younger, you can't wait to be older, but when
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you're older, you wish you couldbe younger, man.
So it's, you need to check that out, man.
We got we, we just got through with shooting production for the
video and the video will be released the 1st and around the
first of the year. So we're really excited about
what's coming on that as well. Is this going to be the music
video with the really cool retropolice car?
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It is. It's going to be part of it.
Yeah. That is one of the original
police cars off the Dukes of Hazzard.
That is one of Roscoe Pico trains.
And I had one of the original General Lee's from the from the
show, from the set as well. It's going to be in there.
So man, there's some cool stuff coming for for this video for
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the Sandman. That police car looked really
cool, definitely caught my attention.
I was like, I want, I want to see this when it comes out.
That's right, man. You put together some some
awesome music videos since you've been back doing that.
Thanks buddy, I got a videographer at a out of West
Palm Beach and knocking visuals is the name of his company.
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Man. He does a fantastic job man.
Do you credit that a lot to your, like, latest success?
Do you feel like that's a big part of it?
I think it's a huge part, man, so people can see who you are,
they see who they look. I have a window in who Randy
Cobb is, you know, and he's he'sreally good at capturing those
things and asking the right questions and he's fantastic.
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I think, I think 100% that has, you know, that opens the the
doors to some things for sure, man.
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Besides the the obvious like TikTok and and things like that,
what's been the biggest change that you've seen in the industry
since starting out? You know, music has changed in
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the last decade, like it went from, you know, traditional,
more traditional stuff into whatthey call the bro country kind
of deal. And now I think there's a trend
of it swinging more traditional man and that.
But I've always, which I'm not knocking when I say bro country,
I don't mean that in a disrespectful way.
That's just how people would describe it.
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Some of those, some of that stuff I enjoyed.
I can't say that I didn't, but I'm more of a traditionalist
guy. You know, I like to keep to my
roots and that's what I do. To me, that's the biggest thing
you see, I think as far as walking into a label and getting
signed to a deal to just off of pure talent.
I don't really know if that's really what it's about anymore
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either. I think you got to have a whole
bunch of stuff going on behind the scenes for that to happen as
well, you know? Sounds like that's right up your
alley then. The traditional country sounds
absolutely sounds like it's the Randy Cobb era.
It is 1000% of it. I'm going to throw some
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tradition on you, that's for sure man.
Yeah, you kind of have that old school like kind of Texas vibe
to you. Oh, that's cool man.
I've never heard. I've never heard that before,
but I dig it. Come on, wait.
Are you still 100% independent as of right now?
I am right now, yes. Awesome.
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What? What are some of the pros and
cons of that that you've seen? You got to do it all yourself.
You got to have, you know, you'll be able to hire the right
people to help you along, you know, so you know, it's a, it's
a self funded thing, man, or youknow, you have good backers
behind you to help out. But I think a lot of people get
started that way and hopefully, you know, you can garner enough
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attention, man, that somebody that you wake some folks up and
they're like, hey, man, we want to, we want to get behind this
cat too, man. We like what he's doing.
And I think some of that may be going on right now.
So which is really cool. So I'm I'm grateful for that.
Yeah, you have a great team around you with Nicole at
Brookshire. She's she's great.
Oh, absolutely she is, man. She's awesome.
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Teresa and Nancy and them have grass roots are great, you know,
And I got a sponsor there too, man out of Tennessee, Jason
Caldwell. He owns a nose down since, you
know, he's an he's an outdoor guy.
He's an old trucker hisself, man.
He and he's built that company from the ground up.
You know, he does a bunch of like, you know, outdoor apparel
cover sense, you know, for hunting and things of that
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nature. He's got a full line of like his
own. He's created his own stuff for,
you know, cooking on the grill, spices and things like that.
You know, he's it's just the down to earth great guy, man.
So y'all check them out too. Nose down sense man.
They're a good folks man. Out of Tennessee there.
Oh, OK, Is that, is that that cool hat you're always wearing
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that I see? It is it.
It is. Yeah, it sure is, man.
That's a that's a nice looking hat.
I'm a big hat guy so I I'm always checking people's hats
out and getting FOMO. I get jealous.
Yeah, that's right. That's right.
Yeah, for sure, man. My my better half hates it.
My help, my office where I record out of, it's just nothing
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but hats everywhere. And she's like, she's like, oh
come on, like you need another hat?
You want another one? Like what the heck?
Hey, man, so it makes you happy,you know, Come.
On yeah, it it's kind of like mydisguise for my balding, but you
know, whatever it takes, right? Yeah, that's right.
There's a saying about that, butI better not.
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I better not say that on the air.
But once we get off here, I'll share a little something we
always say about losing your hair, so it's all good.
I know they always say never trust a guy that's always
wearing a hat. I've heard that one, you know.
Well, I hadn't heard that one yet 'cause I always wear a hat
and I know I'm trustworthy, that's for sure, man.
So I I never heard that one quite yet.
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But besides the outdoors, is there something like similar to
hats that you kind of have a hobby with or that you're that
you like? I can't really say, man, if it's
music or the outdoors, man, that, you know, I mean, I, I
love spending time with my daughter.
But you know, other than those things, man, that's really about
it. Honestly, man.
I like to hunt and like to fish,you know, I like to just have a
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good time. I'm not a real big partier, you
know, I'm not a real big drinkerand none of those things.
Not saying I don't have a beer on occasion.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't.But hunting, fishing, man, and
music, that's kind of my life. That's kind of my world, you
know? I heard an interview where you
said that you write every singleday.
Do you still keep up with that? Do you write every day still?
I write about every day. I do write.
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Now, that don't mean I write a song every day, but about every
day, man, I'm jotting down something, you know?
And a lot of those things I do pull from, man, that's for sure.
Yeah. How many songs do you feel like
you're you're sitting on right now?
Do you like have enough to put an album out soon or is that
like something in the? Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. I've got enough songs to do a
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couple albums, really. I'm in right now, you know, But
I'm real particular about what Iput out, you know what I mean?
I mean, even if I write a song, some of those things, man, I
just kind of hold back. But it has to be really good,
man, for me to go to my producerwith it and say, hey man, I
think we need to get in the studio with that.
But I wrote two in the last month, man that I think the need
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to be that we're going to spend time on, man.
So I'm looking forward to some that we're facing.
Do some acoustic stuff on those.Actually, if you went to some of
my socials, one of them is on there right now.
It's called Where It Gets Good. And I wrote that with my
producer Jeff King, and we just did a just a one take, just
acoustic version with Jeff and I.
And there's a guy named Austin Stewart at a Fort Smith, AR that
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played the dobro on it. Man.
It's really cool, man. If you go check out my socials,
Randy Cobb music, that's my username on all social
platforms, you could be able to see that song, that little clip,
man. It's really, really, it's really
solid, man. I'm happy about that song, man.
We did. Go check it out, people.
Yeah, Randy Cobb Music, man, that's the username for all of
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my socials. That's Facebook, Instagram,
TikTok X, all that stuff, man. And also in all your digital
platforms, it's Randy Cobb musicas well.
And that's going to be for your Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music,
and also got a website which is Randy Cobb music.com.
And then there's all kind of little clips on there.
There's links for you to go check out my music and and my
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socials on there so Randy Cobb music, you can get to all that
stuff. With songwriting, so often, are
you someone that kind of holds on to your songs or do you offer
them to other artists for cuts or?
Right now I kind of hold things for myself, you know, that's not
now. I've been, I've been writing
with some people lately and you know, those songs, it definitely
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could go to some people, but a lot of things I write, man, I I
kind of want to hold them close to me, you know, if that makes
sense. That's not to say that I
wouldn't, but you know, right now, that's what's happening.
Things I'm writing, I'm kind of keeping in keeping, keeping in
in house. Yeah, it seems like a lot of the
songs that you write are really deeply personal to you, so I
could see that being difficult to let go of those songs.
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Yeah. I mean, do you dig?
Do you, do you get what most what, what you've heard?
Do you dig what I what I'm writing about?
Do you dig that content? I do, yeah.
I definitely, Especially countryboy.
I love that song with a the outdoors vibe and kind of the
party like up tempo. It's a good song.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. And then Not on Me is kind of
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like a an anthem for, like you were saying, an anthem for blue
collar workers. Absolutely it is, man.
That's what a lot of folks were calling that song, and that's
the answer. That's an anthem right there,
bro. Yeah, it is for sure man.
With this recent success that you've had, how do you how do
you top all that? How do you keep the momentum
going? Dude, we just got to keep out
putting out badass music. That's what we plan on doing.
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I've got a, I've got a pile of them ready to go, man.
So that's what, that's what that's, that's the goal.
That's what the plan is, man, isto keep putting out badass music
that people that people relate to, you know?
I I like that you that you're asking for feedback.
It means that you really want people to like, like you say,
relate to it. Oh, 100%, man.
Because that's important. You know, if they don't get the
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song, man, I don't think people are going to going to, you know,
they ain't going to dig in, man.I think if they hear something
they like though, they're like, hey, what else is this cat got
going on? You know they will start digging
around to see, you know. And then they'll see that you
put out a full 10 or 11 song album back in 2019.
They'll dig into that. Absolutely, man.
Yes. We were talking about
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Connecticut and New England earlier.
What, what were the reasons thatyou came out this way back back
then? I I delivered some cars up
there, man. Oh wow.
OK. Yeah, I did early on.
I delivered some cars up there. That's a long all the way from
Alabama. That's a long a long.
I guess. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. That's that's that's what they
call a stroke right there. How many, how many breaks do you
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got to take for that? That wasn't like, all the way
through, right? No, no, man, you know, my
bladder ain't that big. You know, I got to, you have to,
you have to pull over and relieve yourself on occasion,
maybe get a little something to eat, catch some.
You sleep. You're only allowed so many
hours in the day, you know, per,you know, the federal mandate
through dot and all that. So, you know, of course, you
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couldn't make that in a day. If I was in my personal vehicle,
I could push it, you know, but it'd still take you over a day
to get there. For sure do.
You remember what town that you dropped off dropped off in?
Man, I don't even remember that.I remember I was delivering some
older cars up that way, doing some collectors.
There was a couple collectors. Oh, OK.
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And I had to pick. Yeah, man.
So that was kind of neat, man. It seems like I picked up like a
old Honda motorcycle from up there too, like a 50CC or 70CC
old Honda motorcycle from like the 70s.
And I delivered it to the guy that that owned Double Bubble
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bubble gum. You remember Double Bubble?
I've heard of that. Yeah.
That sounds really. Is that the one that was in that
like circular pink container? No.
Absolutely. It was.
It was. Double bubble.
Yeah, Yeah. I remember picking up from
Connecticut there on my way backone time and I delivered that
bike to his, his people, which was kind of cool, you know?
That's interesting. Yeah, a notable pick up there.
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Yeah, yeah, I forget that cat's name.
They didn't really talk a whole lot, man, So.
But just. Give me the bike you know, get
out of here. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Get out of here. Scram, boy, scram out of.
Here we only have a short periodof time left in 2025.
What's the rest of this year look like for you?
Man, I just, I got several podcasts coming on.
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We're doing a Christmas for kidsin Nashville on the 15th and
then I've got a live podcast andit's some label stuff on the
16th and then, you know, then throughout the the end of the
year, throughout the end of the year, maybe some more podcasts
and stuff. And we're just going to buckle
down and just get ready to for the Christmas and all those
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things, you know? When you say label stuff, what
do you what do you mean by that?Like pitch into labels or.
I just, you know, we got some meetings with some guys man,
that are showing some interest, you know, so.
That's that's, that's awesome. That's hot.
Yeah, it is, man. It really is, man.
So manifesting things for you 2026 could be the start of a big
year for you then. I think so.
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I think so, yes, that. That'd be awesome.
Absolutely, man. Would that feel like kind of
like a redemption story for you?Like, it didn't work out with
that first album, but now it's like everything's kind of firing
on all cylinders. Oh, 100%, man.
I mean, I've been, you know, I've been wanting this for a
long time, man. And it's a there's nothing to
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stand in my way anymore, man. And yeah, absolutely, it would
be be awesome, man. What do you feel like is the
biggest reason why things are working so well right now?
I'm sure a lot of it's effort, man, you know, and put yourself
out there. I mean, because if you ain't put
yourself out there, nobody's going to notice what you're
doing, you know what I mean? So almost like the first time
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around, you kind of only had your toe dipped in the water.
Now you're fully like jumping right in and.
Well, you know, there's, you know, there's just things you
learn as you go along. And then, like you said, you
know, what has changed? What all these social media
things there's are huge that gives you a platform man, to, to
for people to see who Randy Cobbis.
And, and that's what we've been doing, man.
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It's just putting ourselves out there, you know, a whole lot,
you know? Yeah, now they can see Randy
Cobb and his element out in the the woods, partying it up with a
really cool song that's. Right.
Yeah, 100%, man. Well, Randy, it was a lot of fun
being able to chat with you and,and have you on and I hope I, I
shared your story story well with people and it resonated.
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And they go check out all your music on all the platforms and
and they love what they hear. Yeah, man.
Well, thank you so much, man. I appreciate all that you can
do. That'd be great, man.
I hope you have a great holiday man Merry Christmas and I hope
2026, like we were saying, is a big year for you.
I thank you for that, man. I appreciate it.
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Me too, man. We we're praying for that as
well, buddy. Yes, Josh.
Thank you, man. You've been great.
You're a great interviewer, man.I don't know if you, I'm sure
you've heard that before. I I appreciate that.
I appreciate that. Yeah, man.
That's going to do it for this week's episode.
Thank you so much to Randy Cobb for making time for us and
sharing his story. Really love talking to him and
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and hearing more about his journey, the UPS and the downs
and how well he's been doing. You can learn more about Randy
Cobb. Head to his website
randycobbmusic.com. Check out the sand and all his
music on the listening platforms.
We'll be back next Friday with another rising country star on
the show. Can't wait to share another
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we forget. Sometimes it's easy to forget
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Country on this. Hello and welcome to another
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I'm back at my desk in Connecticut with another rising
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But first, if you missed our conversation from last week, we
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We talked to Shane Prophet abouthis new EP called Population Me
and we also talked to Shane about the UPS and downs in his
career. I had a song a few years ago
getting the top, top 15 at country radio and it changed my
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life. And I met Chloe, my fiance.
I bought us a house. I closed on the House and three
days after I closed on the House, the record label I was
working with dropped me. I had no idea how I was going to
make my mortgages and stuff likethat.
And so shortly after that, I wrote Penny to my name.
It's that song that just kind of, for me, it reminded me of
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He also has a story of ups and downs in his career.
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Born in Pensacola, FL, he began writing at a young age as a way
to cope with childhood adversity, and then he put roots
down in Alabama as as an adult, he stepped away from music at
one point to focus on family, and he also created his own
trucking company. After losing his mother and his
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brother and his livelihood during COVID, he reignited his
passion for music. In the fall of last year, he
debuted his single Not on Me to country radio and that charted
on Music Rose breakout chart in early 2025.
He followed that up with his country boy release that's
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currently spinning at radio as well.
And his latest single came out back in October called The Sand.
He's making a big comeback and he's doing really, really well.
And we're excited to help share his story and have mom this
week, Randy Cobb. Randy, thanks so much for coming
on, man. Thanks for having me buddy.
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First, how was your holiday? How was Thanksgiving?
Did you have some time to to relax?
How did that go? Man, actually it was pretty
good, man. I was, I was at some friend's
house and yeah, it worked out real nice, man.
And I got in the woods and watched some deer run around for
a while. So it was a it was a good thing,
man. Do you have like a favorite food
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that you always have to have every single year?
I always stick the tradition on Thanksgiving.
We always like a Turkey and I always like the hard fried, you
know, like fried turkeys, man, are pretty darn good.
Good to be honest with you. So I try to shoot for that and
some, hopefully we can get our hands into some, some chicken
and dumplings as well, mashed taters and stuff like that, you
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know. So just good old Southern
cooking, you know? Now the fried Turkey, do you?
Do you cook that or? That that sounds scary to me.
I always hear like the the stories of people getting hurt
doing that. What's that process like?
I don't know, man. I've never known anybody to get
hurt by frying a Turkey. I mean, I guess I know they do.
It does boil up pretty good whenyou first put the Turkey in the
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grease when it's hot, you like kind of dip the Turkey down and
then you pull it back out and it'll calm down and you settle
it back in and it's, you know, and then it usually is pretty
easy then. But I can't, I could see
somebody getting maybe hurt a little bit on if you're not
careful on that initial submergeof the old bird, if you know
what I mean. Where you at?
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You up in Connecticut? I'm up in Connecticut, in New
England, yeah. Man, that's beautiful up there.
Man, that's completely differentscenery that I'm used to.
For sure, man. I've been up there a few times.
Man, it's a, it's pretty up there for sure, man.
Probably pretty cold right now, ain't it?
Yeah, the this morning is definitely feeling like winter
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for sure. Do you get all Four Seasons
there? Growing up I feel like we used
to. I remember like a really nice
spring. I was always excited for it and
fall was great. But year after year it seems
like those in between months getlike seasons rather get shorter
and shorter. Just go straight from summer to
winter. It's like faster and faster it
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seems like. Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's all I've ever know down here in the South is it's
hot and then it's cold. So, you know, it's like, you
know, you might get, you know, there may be some fluctuation in
there to where it's not, you know, or it kind of cools off
because, man, you know, summers down here and Alabama and all
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that are freaking hot, man. And then, you know, you got the
humidity on top of it. So that's really not fun.
And then, you know, when it getsreal, people think it don't get
real cold down here, but I promise you it gets cold down
here and the humidity in the air, dude, it's like, you know,
I've traveled a good bit in my life and I've been across the
Midwest a lot and haunted and stuff there.
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And, you know, 18° man, in the Midwest that's very doable.
And it's some doggone sweatpantsand, you know, maybe some shoe,
you know, some boots and a lightjacket.
And I'm pretty comfortable. Hey, 18° here in, in Alabama,
man, with this humidity in the air, you better bring everything
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you got in the closet to stay warm because it's going through
the bone because it's cold. Completely different, man.
So I don't know if that makes sense to you, but it I'm telling
you, man, it ain't no fun. Also I could see it being
dreadful just because you guys aren't used to that on a regular
basis so it'd be make it even worse.
You know, it gets down into the teens probably every year to be
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honest with you. Now, last year we had what we
call the the Blizzard of the Century, which we've never
really get snow like this, but we had like 9-10 inches of snow.
Actually. That was the first of this year.
It was in January of this year that happened.
Yeah, you guys got more snow. For.
Dude, it was wild, man. I mean, I've never seen snow
like that down here. And we were all just loved it
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for the first day, but after that, we were tired of that
stuff. Hey, man, I I don't want to live
in all these these icy conditions all the time, you
know? So, yeah, even the deer, you
know, the deer didn't like it. The deer didn't know what to do
that. So they like stayed at home.
They didn't come out there on the fields or nothing with us.
So, you know, I was mad. I was like, get rid of the snow
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because my deer is my deer is scared of the of the snow, you
know, so you know. I'm sure there was some New
Englanders that were like, send it that our way.
We want some snow. Oh, so they don't, they don't
snow there where you're at a lot?
It used to when I was growing up.
I feel like again, let's get like year after year it's less
and less snow. It's strange.
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That's weird, man. So do you think that has
something to do with obviously it's climate?
What? What's your thoughts on that?
What do you think has contributed to snowless winters
where you're at now? I'm not really sure.
I'm not even going to begin to to pretend to have a thought on
that to be honest. But.
Well, that's a hey, that's, that's a fair thought, you know?
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I'm no expert on that, but it isdefinitely strange.
I'm not a big fan of the snow though, so I'll take it.
Yeah, I got you. OK.
You just don't like to shovel that stuff is what it is, ain't
it? No, I remember in 2000, maybe it
was 2015, we had this terrible, terrible Blizzard.
It was up to like almost my likepast my knee and it was just
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dreadful. We were locked inside for like
days. It was awful.
Never again. Wow, I bet that Yeah, I bet that
ain't fun, man. Being I always hear about
getting snowed in and how that'sno fun, you know?
So I, I, I don't envy you when that happens, I can tell you.
That the only good thing about it is I had a couple days where
I was able to call out of work. Yeah, that's always a good time,
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you know. But besides the the difference
in weather, what was it like growing up in you were you were
originally from Florida and thenyou moved to Alabama?
Yeah, I just moved up right overthe state line.
So, you know, I growed up in Pensacola there and then early
on in my adulthood, man, I bought a little bit of acreage
over there and Baldwin County, Alabama, just right over the
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state line and lived out there in the woods.
And man, it was just, the climate is exactly the same.
You know, they're in the same hemisphere, I guess you would
say, you know, region. But where I'm at now, I've sold
all that. And now I'm up there about not
quite central Alabama, but closeto central Alabama.
Now it's a little bit different there, but it's still, I think
it's just a tad bit colder there, but it still gets hot and
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humidity's tough. And, you know, but I got more
trees around me than I used to have, you know?
You you're ready for Christmas. Have you thought about that yet?
Oh, of course. You know the thing about Santa
and you know the thing about Christmas for me is, is Rudolph,
because I can't wait to eat him.I've never thought about that.
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That's a clear difference between the two of us.
I know. I'm just being serious.
He would be like, I don't like him.
Each Rudolph. Oh my gosh.
I remember growing up, there's this one guy that tried to show
me venison and I was like, oh, never, never.
No thanks. No thanks.
Really. You never ate venison.
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No, I've, I've heard about it, I've seen it, but I've never,
I've never had it. I've never had an interest in
that for some reason. Oh my goodness, dude, you like
steak, right? I like steak.
I don't eat it too often, but I do like steak.
Yeah. What's your go to?
What kind? What kind of protein do you
like? Man, I guess I'm a big chicken
guy to be honest. Dude, I love chicken.
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I mean, I, I sometimes I wonder if I'm going to sprout feathers,
dude, because I eat chicken two or three times a week.
I love fried chicken. There ain't no doubt.
I don't know about you man, but I love me some fried bird man.
You also love those Little Debbie Christmas trees, right?
Well, only on occasion. I only get them like, you know,
certain times of the year. But here's a problem with those.
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If you eat too many of those Christmas cakes, they will make
your gene shrink. I promise you they will, they
will make your gene shrink. So it's not a, it's not a good
thing, you know, But hey, I, I can't wait for them to come out
every year. And then I'm like, you know, I'm
done with these dudes right here.
But yeah, but they're, they're definitely good for sure.
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You got your start. Kind of an interesting way in.
In foster care, you were puttingdown words like right off, right
off the bat, like at a young age.
Yeah, man, that's kind of how I got into it.
You know, I got dropped off at alot of different spots, you
know, and everybody was kind of like strangers, man, so that,
you know, scared to death as a small child, man.
So I just would put words on thepaper about how I was feeling,
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you know, and that's kind of howit evolved, if you know what I
mean. At that age, was it just kind of
thoughts or was it actually likesongs?
Oh no, it's thoughts for sure, you know, at that time.
So and then as I got older, you know, it definitely evolved into
songwriting, you know, you know,writing poetry and stuff like
that, you know, it's kind of howit, you know, all started and
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then it evolved into full-fledged songwriting.
And you know, I still write in poetry form a whole lot.
And then I transpose it to, you know, songs, man.
So it still goes on that way, you know.
Was there a certain moment wherea light bulb kind of went on and
you thought to yourself this, this could become a song?
I don't know how how it really evolved into that.
I just think maybe some people that were in my lives that I
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finally, would, you know, share some of my thoughts with would
be like, man, that could be a pretty cool deal right there.
You know, if you could, you know, turn, you know, put melody
to it and things like that and just being around people in the
business that were doing, you know, doing those things.
And I was like, man, you know, just, you know, just kind of
evolved from there, man, just seeing people around me do it.
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And it's like, yeah, I think I got that knack, you know?
Who were those people around youthat you were kind of watching
and learning from? You know, there was a very
influential guy that I used to when I first started making
music, man. His name was Rick Holt.
He's from down here in, you know, Pensacola area.
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Now he's up and around Birmingham area.
You know, he's the first one to get me into a studio recording
song. He's the first person I knew
that was really like a songwriter and then, you know,
but you know, people that were in my lives at the time that I
trusted I may would share some of that stuff.
And that was a hard thing to do,man.
Because you know, you're very vulnerable at that point when
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you're putting 3 minutes of yourlife out there for somebody to
completely destroy you or scrutinize, you know, I mean, it
takes, it took a lot for me to ever get bring those things out
to the public, you know? Yeah, it's got to be pretty
nerve racking to put that out and and wonder what people are
thinking because it not everybody's even going to say it
out loud what they're thinking. So maybe even like the thought,
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the unknown thoughts could be pretty scary.
Absolutely. Yeah, that's absolutely true,
man. How long after that did it take
you to start gigging? I mean, I probably started
playing out a good bit in my early to mid 20s.
You know, I started playing out and I at that point I still, I
was just doing covers, man. I was doing cover stuff, you
know, and then that continued on.
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I didn't start really recording my own songs that I wrote till I
got into my 30s, man. So, you know, it was took a
little, it was a transition period for through there for me
for sure, you know, trying to get comfortable enough to do
those things. OK, your your album that you
dropped in 2019, you were working on that for a while
prior to its release and it was going to possibly be a project
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for Warner Brothers. Is that true?
That's correct. Yeah, Actually, we created that,
the head of A&R at Warner Brothers, then they asked me to,
you know, to submit, you know, my best stuff.
And so that's what we did. We created that.
My producer and I got together, Jeff King, man.
And we just got after it, man. We we gave them ACD that had 16
sides on it and sent it to him. Yeah.
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That was after, you know, monthsand months of going back and
forth with with them at Warner Brothers and, you know,
submitting songs and this and that, you know, and just, you
know, it's a little process, youknow, for that you go through on
that. And we never could come to the
deal, man. So I just kind of put it out.
That was in like 1415. And then we just kind of put it
out, you know, And then I just kind of swapped gears and did
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other things, you know, when they passed on, it just had to
do something different for a while, you know?
You you walked away from music to start your own trucking
business after that. I did, yes.
Yes. What was that transition like
for you? It must have kind of been a
like, real bittersweet, hard, hard to walk away.
You know what, I think it takes so much energy, man, to, to get
there, to get to where you have an actual shot at A, at a lay a
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major label, man, man, it's a, it's a grueling, exhausting
thing, man, you know, and if you're a songwriter, it's a very
emotional ride, you know, So it's kind of kind of just
exhausted. And I was like, you know, what
if I gave these people my best man?
And if it's not good enough and I really have nothing else to
offer at this point, you know, so I just kind of swapped gears
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and did something different, youknow, and I was, you know, I
didn't look back. I still had music around, you
know, for sure. But it took, it took a fast back
seat to my livelihood and makingsure I could take care of my
family, you know? When you were working with
Warner Brothers on that, on thatpitch, how often were you going
back and forth to Nashville? Like, were you fully in
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Nashville going or were you put like back and forth from Alabama
to Nashville? Well, in the front end I was
probably fully in and then, you know, then I got out and I was
back in Alabama most of the time, but I was still go to
Nashville a lot because, you know, we had mix in, we were
writing, you know, we were recording.
I mean, there was a bunch going on, you know, Still, So what?
Was that like being in in Nashville?
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Oh, it's great. You know, I got a lot of buds
there and I still got a lot of buds there.
And I like being there in the middle of the music, you know, I
like being there in the, in the business part of it, if you know
what I mean. What was the the trucking
industry like? How big did your business grow?
Were you like driving the trucksor were you more like
administrative or? I drove a truck and then I had
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other people drive some other trucks here or there.
It was very good for me man. I I turned into a car hauler so
I had those big semi trucks. You know you haul 9 cars at a
time. Oh, OK.
And. Those look scary it.
Was a. You got a car on top of your
truck there, Yeah. That's right.
I mean, it's an education to getused to that.
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I promise you it is. It don't it don't happen
overnight, but man, you did the only way to do it to get better
at it is to just do it. You know, you just, you just got
to put on your big boy britches and get after it, you know what
I mean? That's how it is, man.
What one thing I love about yourstory is your your perseverance
and your ability to not give up.This is kind of like a comeback
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story for you. During the pandemic, your mom
passed and your brother passed and that the trucking industry
kind of came to a halt for you. And now you're going after like
your true love of music. So I I give you a lot of props
for continuing on despite all these unfortunate things that
have come into your life. Yeah, man, I appreciate that.
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I mean, like I said, the music has always been in my soul, you
know, and I've, I was never ablejust to completely let go.
And just because I always had tohave a job doing something, you
know, I can never just put everything down and just fight,
you know, go for the music just like full bore.
I mean, because I always had to be doing something else, you
know. I mean, because music as you
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know, you're playing lower Broadway or whatever, you,
you're not feeling your bank account a whole lot.
So yeah. You know, you had to do things
to survive, you know, to survive, you know, so.
But now I've got great people behind me and man, we're able to
hit it full, full blast, man. So it's, it's working, man.
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Things are looking really, really good for us.
So very excited about the future.
One of the, the big reasons why I wanted to have you on and, and
take the opportunity to chat with you is because I, I really
relate to your, your story. Obviously I didn't lose as much
as you did, but I, I was workingin radio, country radio for
quite a while and then the pandemic struck and I too lost
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my my job and I've been out of radio since.
So I definitely relate to you kind of losing things and going
through struggles during that period of time.
Absolutely, man. That was a bad time for a lot of
Americans, man. Awful and awful for us, man.
Your your mom and and your brother.
Were they supportive of your music?
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Oh, yeah, yeah. That my family, you know, my,
you know, my small family, they all were.
They just, they loved what we did, you know?
So yeah, absolutely, yeah. When you decided to go back full
force and and go after your youraspirations of songwriting and
getting back out on the road, where was you your head out on
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that? Was it kind of like, there's not
much more I can lose, might as well go after my dream.
You're like, where Where was your head on out on that?
Jelly Roll really inspired me toget after it again, to be
honest. Now you know, the songwriting,
all that. There's some things that come
about when I lost my livelihood and my family and and I went to
my producer, man, Jeff King, andI'm like, hey, man, you know,
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back in the day a decade ago, man, you had to look the part
and play the part, you know, to even have a phenomium kind of
consider you, I think, you know,and Jelly Roll stepped out there
and, you know, and and not beingugly or nothing, but the dude
was he admittedly, he was 560 something pounds and didn't take
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really good care of himself, man.
But man, his lyrics and it's singing and what he was doing,
man, it was touching people and they embraced him.
And I'm like, hey, man, if he's got a shot at it and I love what
he's doing, but we still got a shot.
He was like, you're absolutely right, Randy.
I think we need to just get in here and start cutting songs.
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And that's what we did, man. So my hats off to that guy.
I mean, I really think he paved the way and opened up some
doors, man, to people that are not, you know, industry
favorite, you know, favored, youknow, because of your look or
whatever. So I think that's, that was a
big part of me saying, man, let's go after it, you know?
I like that, yeah, he kind of came out of nowhere, but at the
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end of the day, he had a like a real deep story behind him if
you like, took the time to research.
Yeah, yeah, 100%, you know, yes.Is a lot of this what inspired
your song Not on me. A lot of these roller coaster
items in your life that have happened.
I don't know if you listen to the lyric, you know, listen to
the song, but absolutely, man, it's like, you know, a lot of it
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was I'm sitting at home. I'm about, you know, COVID
almost got me too, man, to be honest.
But for whatever reason, the Lord kept me on this side of the
earth, you know, the ground, man.
And I'm sitting there telling uswe couldn't work.
We had to stay at home and shelter in place.
We couldn't be their families and friends or nothing for
holidays or any of that, you know, but yet they're ushering
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thousands of people over the southern border, man, to come
into our country. These people that don't have any
of that have never contributed 1dime to our economy and giving
them all kind of benefits. And guess what?
That all trickles downhill to guys that blue collar workers
like myself that get out there and do it every day.
But that burdens on our back, that financial burden that
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they're giving to them. People are going to be on our
backs for years to come to pay back.
And it really just ignited a fire in me, man.
You know, big time. Because there's nothing right
about what they were doing. That's where Not on Me Come from
And that's that went, went on both sides of the aisle because
I heard it from many people on both sides of the aisle that
they were tired of it and it's not fair what they did.
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So that's where Not On Me come from, man.
And then I got some, a lot of traction on that song.
I mean, the video got 4 million views on it.
That's what inspired that song. Wow, 4 million views, That's
pretty awesome. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Do you almost not believe it in
certain moments? Like how the heck did we get 4
million views? Man, it, you know, it just, it
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is what it is, man. I was grateful for it because it
opened up some doors for me, youknow?
So pretty awesome if you ask me,man.
What happened? Part of that 2019 album Rivers
of Blends. You put out Country Boy off that
album. How's it feel to kind of get a
second coming of that song? Like in 2025?
It's it's really, really popular, like kind of taking on
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a second life. How's that feel?
Oh, it has. It's really neat, man.
I mean, you know, we, we took that thing, went to media based
slap, you know, media based, which is kind of like Billboard,
man. It went up to like 56 on that.
I think I was pretty excited about that.
I think that's the position. I may be quoting you wrong.
It may been 5656 on Music Row. I can't remember.
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We went to, I know it went to #3on the CDX true indie chart as
well. Music Row.
I think we may have made 56 on Music Row and maybe 59 on on
Media Base, but it did real well, man.
Especially for an independent man to get on media based I
think is astounding. I think that is a huge step,
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man. It shows that we're doing the
right thing, whatever that is, you know?
I I think it's a true testament to your ability to write a
relatable song that kind of testthe test time a. 100% man, I
wrote every letter of that song,you know?
That song kind of showcases yourlove for the outdoors, right?
Absolutely man. And the video does too.
And if you've seen the video, but the.
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I did, yeah. It looks like a party.
You're having a a big party, Yeah.
We shot that thing in the Smoky Mountains, man, in towns in
Tennessee, man. So it's pretty cool, you know?
Your your latest song The Sand What?
What's that one about? The sand is like man, it's like
a walk through time, man. And how we wish we could, we
could stop time as we get older,man.
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It seems like time speeds up andwe forget sometimes it's easy to
forget what's so important, how we wish we could go back in
time. So really that's what that is.
The sand is a metaphor for time in the hourglass.
You know, we wish we wish we could stop it.
So how somehow and that funny looking glass and that's we do.
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I mean, as you get older, you just like, gosh, I wish I would
have done this then I wish I wish I had that back.
I wish I could do that. You know, it's and it's just
really a song about times going by in a, in a better time in our
lives, just things of things of yesteryear, if that makes sense,
man. I kind of think about that all
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the time now. When I was younger, I was always
like, I want to be an adult. I want to speed time up and get
to where I want to be. Like with my aspirations of
being on the radio or you're always kind of like looking, you
know, forward thinking. And now as an adult, I'm like,
let's, like you said, let time stop, you know?
When you're younger, you can't wait to be older, but when
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you're older, you wish you couldbe younger, man.
So it's, you need to check that out, man.
We got we, we just got through with shooting production for the
video and the video will be released the 1st and around the
first of the year. So we're really excited about
what's coming on that as well. Is this going to be the music
video with the really cool retropolice car?
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It is. It's going to be part of it.
Yeah. That is one of the original
police cars off the Dukes of Hazzard.
That is one of Roscoe Pico trains.
And I had one of the original General Lee's from the from the
show, from the set as well. It's going to be in there.
So man, there's some cool stuff coming for for this video for
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the Sandman. That police car looked really
cool, definitely caught my attention.
I was like, I want, I want to see this when it comes out.
That's right, man. You put together some some
awesome music videos since you've been back doing that.
Thanks buddy, I got a videographer at a out of West
Palm Beach and knocking visuals is the name of his company.
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Man. He does a fantastic job man.
Do you credit that a lot to your, like, latest success?
Do you feel like that's a big part of it?
I think it's a huge part, man, so people can see who you are,
they see who they look. I have a window in who Randy
Cobb is, you know, and he's he'sreally good at capturing those
things and asking the right questions and he's fantastic.
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I think, I think 100% that has, you know, that opens the the
doors to some things for sure, man.
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Besides the the obvious like TikTok and and things like that,
what's been the biggest change that you've seen in the industry
since starting out? You know, music has changed in
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the last decade, like it went from, you know, traditional,
more traditional stuff into whatthey call the bro country kind
of deal. And now I think there's a trend
of it swinging more traditional man and that.
But I've always, which I'm not knocking when I say bro country,
I don't mean that in a disrespectful way.
That's just how people would describe it.
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Some of those, some of that stuff I enjoyed.
I can't say that I didn't, but I'm more of a traditionalist
guy. You know, I like to keep to my
roots and that's what I do. To me, that's the biggest thing
you see, I think as far as walking into a label and getting
signed to a deal to just off of pure talent.
I don't really know if that's really what it's about anymore
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either. I think you got to have a whole
bunch of stuff going on behind the scenes for that to happen as
well, you know? Sounds like that's right up your
alley then. The traditional country sounds
absolutely sounds like it's the Randy Cobb era.
It is 1000% of it. I'm going to throw some
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tradition on you, that's for sure man.
Yeah, you kind of have that old school like kind of Texas vibe
to you. Oh, that's cool man.
I've never heard. I've never heard that before,
but I dig it. Come on, wait.
Are you still 100% independent as of right now?
I am right now, yes. Awesome.
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What? What are some of the pros and
cons of that that you've seen? You got to do it all yourself.
You got to have, you know, you'll be able to hire the right
people to help you along, you know, so you know, it's a, it's
a self funded thing, man, or youknow, you have good backers
behind you to help out. But I think a lot of people get
started that way and hopefully, you know, you can garner enough
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attention, man, that somebody that you wake some folks up and
they're like, hey, man, we want to, we want to get behind this
cat too, man. We like what he's doing.
And I think some of that may be going on right now.
So which is really cool. So I'm I'm grateful for that.
Yeah, you have a great team around you with Nicole at
Brookshire. She's she's great.
Oh, absolutely she is, man. She's awesome.
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Teresa and Nancy and them have grass roots are great, you know,
And I got a sponsor there too, man out of Tennessee, Jason
Caldwell. He owns a nose down since, you
know, he's an he's an outdoor guy.
He's an old trucker hisself, man.
He and he's built that company from the ground up.
You know, he does a bunch of like, you know, outdoor apparel
cover sense, you know, for hunting and things of that
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nature. He's got a full line of like his
own. He's created his own stuff for,
you know, cooking on the grill, spices and things like that.
You know, he's it's just the down to earth great guy, man.
So y'all check them out too. Nose down sense man.
They're a good folks man. Out of Tennessee there.
Oh, OK, Is that, is that that cool hat you're always wearing
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that I see? It is it.
It is. Yeah, it sure is, man.
That's a that's a nice looking hat.
I'm a big hat guy so I I'm always checking people's hats
out and getting FOMO. I get jealous.
Yeah, that's right. That's right.
Yeah, for sure, man. My my better half hates it.
My help, my office where I record out of, it's just nothing
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but hats everywhere. And she's like, she's like, oh
come on, like you need another hat?
You want another one? Like what the heck?
Hey, man, so it makes you happy,you know, Come.
On yeah, it it's kind of like mydisguise for my balding, but you
know, whatever it takes, right? Yeah, that's right.
There's a saying about that, butI better not.
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I better not say that on the air.
But once we get off here, I'll share a little something we
always say about losing your hair, so it's all good.
I know they always say never trust a guy that's always
wearing a hat. I've heard that one, you know.
Well, I hadn't heard that one yet 'cause I always wear a hat
and I know I'm trustworthy, that's for sure, man.
So I I never heard that one quite yet.
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But besides the outdoors, is there something like similar to
hats that you kind of have a hobby with or that you're that
you like? I can't really say, man, if it's
music or the outdoors, man, that, you know, I mean, I, I
love spending time with my daughter.
But you know, other than those things, man, that's really about
it. Honestly, man.
I like to hunt and like to fish,you know, I like to just have a
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good time. I'm not a real big partier, you
know, I'm not a real big drinkerand none of those things.
Not saying I don't have a beer on occasion.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't.But hunting, fishing, man, and
music, that's kind of my life. That's kind of my world, you
know? I heard an interview where you
said that you write every singleday.
Do you still keep up with that? Do you write every day still?
I write about every day. I do write.
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Now, that don't mean I write a song every day, but about every
day, man, I'm jotting down something, you know?
And a lot of those things I do pull from, man, that's for sure.
Yeah. How many songs do you feel like
you're you're sitting on right now?
Do you like have enough to put an album out soon or is that
like something in the? Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. I've got enough songs to do a
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couple albums, really. I'm in right now, you know, But
I'm real particular about what Iput out, you know what I mean?
I mean, even if I write a song, some of those things, man, I
just kind of hold back. But it has to be really good,
man, for me to go to my producerwith it and say, hey man, I
think we need to get in the studio with that.
But I wrote two in the last month, man that I think the need
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to be that we're going to spend time on, man.
So I'm looking forward to some that we're facing.
Do some acoustic stuff on those.Actually, if you went to some of
my socials, one of them is on there right now.
It's called Where It Gets Good. And I wrote that with my
producer Jeff King, and we just did a just a one take, just
acoustic version with Jeff and I.
And there's a guy named Austin Stewart at a Fort Smith, AR that
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played the dobro on it. Man.
It's really cool, man. If you go check out my socials,
Randy Cobb music, that's my username on all social
platforms, you could be able to see that song, that little clip,
man. It's really, really, it's really
solid, man. I'm happy about that song, man.
We did. Go check it out, people.
Yeah, Randy Cobb Music, man, that's the username for all of
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my socials. That's Facebook, Instagram,
TikTok X, all that stuff, man. And also in all your digital
platforms, it's Randy Cobb musicas well.
And that's going to be for your Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music,
and also got a website which is Randy Cobb music.com.
And then there's all kind of little clips on there.
There's links for you to go check out my music and and my
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socials on there so Randy Cobb music, you can get to all that
stuff. With songwriting, so often, are
you someone that kind of holds on to your songs or do you offer
them to other artists for cuts or?
Right now I kind of hold things for myself, you know, that's not
now. I've been, I've been writing
with some people lately and you know, those songs, it definitely
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could go to some people, but a lot of things I write, man, I I
kind of want to hold them close to me, you know, if that makes
sense. That's not to say that I
wouldn't, but you know, right now, that's what's happening.
Things I'm writing, I'm kind of keeping in keeping, keeping in
in house. Yeah, it seems like a lot of the
songs that you write are really deeply personal to you, so I
could see that being difficult to let go of those songs.
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Yeah. I mean, do you dig?
Do you, do you get what most what, what you've heard?
Do you dig what I what I'm writing about?
Do you dig that content? I do, yeah.
I definitely, Especially countryboy.
I love that song with a the outdoors vibe and kind of the
party like up tempo. It's a good song.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. And then Not on Me is kind of
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like a an anthem for, like you were saying, an anthem for blue
collar workers. Absolutely it is, man.
That's what a lot of folks were calling that song, and that's
the answer. That's an anthem right there,
bro. Yeah, it is for sure man.
With this recent success that you've had, how do you how do
you top all that? How do you keep the momentum
going? Dude, we just got to keep out
putting out badass music. That's what we plan on doing.
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I've got a, I've got a pile of them ready to go, man.
So that's what, that's what that's, that's the goal.
That's what the plan is, man, isto keep putting out badass music
that people that people relate to, you know?
I I like that you that you're asking for feedback.
It means that you really want people to like, like you say,
relate to it. Oh, 100%, man.
Because that's important. You know, if they don't get the
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song, man, I don't think people are going to going to, you know,
they ain't going to dig in, man.I think if they hear something
they like though, they're like, hey, what else is this cat got
going on? You know they will start digging
around to see, you know. And then they'll see that you
put out a full 10 or 11 song album back in 2019.
They'll dig into that. Absolutely, man.
Yes. We were talking about
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Connecticut and New England earlier.
What, what were the reasons thatyou came out this way back back
then? I I delivered some cars up
there, man. Oh wow.
OK. Yeah, I did early on.
I delivered some cars up there. That's a long all the way from
Alabama. That's a long a long.
I guess. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. That's that's that's what they
call a stroke right there. How many, how many breaks do you
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got to take for that? That wasn't like, all the way
through, right? No, no, man, you know, my
bladder ain't that big. You know, I got to, you have to,
you have to pull over and relieve yourself on occasion,
maybe get a little something to eat, catch some.
You sleep. You're only allowed so many
hours in the day, you know, per,you know, the federal mandate
through dot and all that. So, you know, of course, you
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couldn't make that in a day. If I was in my personal vehicle,
I could push it, you know, but it'd still take you over a day
to get there. For sure do.
You remember what town that you dropped off dropped off in?
Man, I don't even remember that.I remember I was delivering some
older cars up that way, doing some collectors.
There was a couple collectors. Oh, OK.
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And I had to pick. Yeah, man.
So that was kind of neat, man. It seems like I picked up like a
old Honda motorcycle from up there too, like a 50CC or 70CC
old Honda motorcycle from like the 70s.
And I delivered it to the guy that that owned Double Bubble
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bubble gum. You remember Double Bubble?
I've heard of that. Yeah.
That sounds really. Is that the one that was in that
like circular pink container? No.
Absolutely. It was.
It was. Double bubble.
Yeah, Yeah. I remember picking up from
Connecticut there on my way backone time and I delivered that
bike to his, his people, which was kind of cool, you know?
That's interesting. Yeah, a notable pick up there.
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Yeah, yeah, I forget that cat's name.
They didn't really talk a whole lot, man, So.
But just. Give me the bike you know, get
out of here. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Get out of here. Scram, boy, scram out of.
Here we only have a short periodof time left in 2025.
What's the rest of this year look like for you?
Man, I just, I got several podcasts coming on.
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We're doing a Christmas for kidsin Nashville on the 15th and
then I've got a live podcast andit's some label stuff on the
16th and then, you know, then throughout the the end of the
year, throughout the end of the year, maybe some more podcasts
and stuff. And we're just going to buckle
down and just get ready to for the Christmas and all those
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things, you know? When you say label stuff, what
do you what do you mean by that?Like pitch into labels or.
I just, you know, we got some meetings with some guys man,
that are showing some interest, you know, so.
That's that's, that's awesome. That's hot.
Yeah, it is, man. It really is, man.
So manifesting things for you 2026 could be the start of a big
year for you then. I think so.
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I think so, yes, that. That'd be awesome.
Absolutely, man. Would that feel like kind of
like a redemption story for you?Like, it didn't work out with
that first album, but now it's like everything's kind of firing
on all cylinders. Oh, 100%, man.
I mean, I've been, you know, I've been wanting this for a
long time, man. And it's a there's nothing to
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stand in my way anymore, man. And yeah, absolutely, it would
be be awesome, man. What do you feel like is the
biggest reason why things are working so well right now?
I'm sure a lot of it's effort, man, you know, and put yourself
out there. I mean, because if you ain't put
yourself out there, nobody's going to notice what you're
doing, you know what I mean? So almost like the first time
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around, you kind of only had your toe dipped in the water.
Now you're fully like jumping right in and.
Well, you know, there's, you know, there's just things you
learn as you go along. And then, like you said, you
know, what has changed? What all these social media
things there's are huge that gives you a platform man, to, to
for people to see who Randy Cobbis.
And, and that's what we've been doing, man.
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It's just putting ourselves out there, you know, a whole lot,
you know? Yeah, now they can see Randy
Cobb and his element out in the the woods, partying it up with a
really cool song that's. Right.
Yeah, 100%, man. Well, Randy, it was a lot of fun
being able to chat with you and,and have you on and I hope I, I
shared your story story well with people and it resonated.
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And they go check out all your music on all the platforms and
and they love what they hear. Yeah, man.
Well, thank you so much, man. I appreciate all that you can
do. That'd be great, man.
I hope you have a great holiday man Merry Christmas and I hope
2026, like we were saying, is a big year for you.
I thank you for that, man. I appreciate it.
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Me too, man. We we're praying for that as
well, buddy. Yes, Josh.
Thank you, man. You've been great.
You're a great interviewer, man.I don't know if you, I'm sure
you've heard that before. I I appreciate that.
I appreciate that. Yeah, man.
That's going to do it for this week's episode.
Thank you so much to Randy Cobb for making time for us and
sharing his story. Really love talking to him and
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and hearing more about his journey, the UPS and the downs
and how well he's been doing. You can learn more about Randy
Cobb. Head to his website
randycobbmusic.com. Check out the sand and all his
music on the listening platforms.
We'll be back next Friday with another rising country star on
the show. Can't wait to share another
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story with you, another inspiring story.
Until then, I'm Josh Maddie and this is Country on Deck.
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