October 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Welcome to Stories Worth Hearing. I’m your host, John Quick, and today we’ve got a special episode for all the country music fans out there. My guests are Lan Law — the powerhouse brother duo of Lance Curtis and Lawson Wayne.
Lan Law has been making serious waves in the country scene. They’ve opened for iconic names like Collin Raye, Gene Watson, and Confederate Railroad. They’ve also had the chance to work with Dolly Parton’s legendary producer, Kent Wells — an experience that gave them a deeper look into the craft and heart behind making timeless music.
Their breakout hit, Country to the Bone, has racked up more than 30 million views and counting, connecting with listeners all across America. But beyond the numbers, their story is about family, persistence, and staying true to their roots while carving out their own sound.
In this conversation, we’ll talk about how music shaped their lives growing up, what it’s like writing and performing as brothers, and the highs and lows of chasing a dream in today’s music industry. We’ll also hear the stories behind their songs, how they’ve managed to blend modern country swagger with classic honky-tonk roots, and what’s next for Lan Law as they continue to rise.
If you want to hear more of their music or check out upcoming shows, visit them online at lanlawmusic.com.
So sit back, turn up the volume, and join me for this inspiring and down-to-earth conversation with Lan Law — right here on Stories Worth Hearing.
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Welcome back to Stories Worth Hearing.
I'm your host John Quick, and today's episode is 1.
You're really going to enjoy. I'm sitting down with Land Law,
the brother duel of Lance Curtisand Lawson Wayne, two young men
who are proving that big dreams,hard work and staying true to
who you are can still breakthrough in today's music
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world. Land Law is making waves across
the country with a sound that's all their own modern country
swagger mixed with the heart andgrit of classic honky tonk.
They've shared the stage with icons like Colin Ray and Gene
Watson, they've had the chance to work with Dolly Parton's own
producer Kent Wells, and their breakout single Country to the
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Bone has already been watched and streamed over 30 million
times. But what inspires me most is not
just the success they've had, it's the way they've carried
themselves on the journey. They're grounded in their roots,
passionate about their craft, and committed to bringing people
together through music. Their story reminds us that no
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matter where you come from, if you stay focused, keep the
faith, and put in the work, doors will open.
In this conversation, we're going to talk about their
beginnings, the bond they share as brothers, the stories behind
their songs, and what they see ahead as they continue to rise
in the country music world. If you want to follow along with
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their journey and hear more of their music, head over to
landlawmusic.com. So let's dive in.
Here's my conversation with LandLaw.
Eventually throughout the years,we I was actually doing music on
my own and Lawson and I, we got to doing it together.
Probably five years into it, just me solo.
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And I'd say for another 3-4 years it was still Lance Curtis
featuring lost some Wayne, right?
Yeah, we always went out. Lance Curtis featuring lost some
Wayne. Her special guest lost some
Wayne. It was always something, but it
took us a little bit to actuallycome up with land law to figure
out what the vibe was going to be and how it was going to work
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and all that. Because not a lot of people know
this, but Lawson is actually four years younger than I am.
And he's four years younger and four feet taller.
But no, he, so he, when I started, I was, I was 16, I
think, when I started doing it solo full time.
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And at that time, Lawson was like 12, you know.
And so it took him a little bit to, you know, grow up, mature,
find love for music. He was still doing sports during
that time. And so it just took him a little
bit to catch up. But we've been doing it hot and
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heavy ever since. And the Lord's been blessing us
throughout it. That's awesome.
So it's 16. Were you like out there playing
gigs and stuff or were you just kind of playing at home?
I was, I was out playing some gigs, a few gigs here and there.
You know you don't get booked much at 16 because going through
a lot of puberty changes some Mexican.
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Restaurants and some other stuff.
My grandpa, he had a classic country band and from the time I
was a year old, I grew up playing with him.
I was playing guitar in the veryback, you know, I'd sing a few
songs. It was a family band, you know,
my uncle was in it, my cousins were in it.
And we just, we grew up doing that every weekend, you know,
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and I loved it. And he passed away when I was
right when I turned 16. He passed away 2017.
And that very following week I took my first trip to Nashville.
Man, it's been, it's been a crazy ride since then.
You know, we've had a lot of upsand downs over there, but more
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so more UPS. You know, it's a roller coaster
ride for sure, but Lord is keeping us on the proud of it
all. That's awesome.
So what? Tell me a little bit about when
you've maybe when you first realize crap like I could, we
could do this for a living. Like we're starting to gain
traction. People are watching, listening.
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You know, it's more than just a hobby.
Take me back to that moment where you're like, man, we could
really do this. I would say like as far as
having a solid shot and stuff with it when Country of the Bone
blew up, there's 2 levels to that though.
There is the Nashville level of success and then there's the
world standard level of success,you know, And so we've been in
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Nashville for eight or nine years now and basically started
at the very bottom of the barrel, work their way up.
And right before Country of the Bone blew up, I would say most
of Nashville already knew who Land Law was.
We were having big meetings, we were doing some big stuff and
doing a little bit of touring and stuff.
We played the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium, all that stuff.
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And all this happened before Country of the Bone even took
off. And so there is so many levels
know where artists is in their career as far as us ever
thinking, you know, are we goingto make it this?
I think that was always going tobe 100% in our mind, you know,
because if you're doing it to ifyou're not doing it to make it
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and why you doing it? You know, and so we love it.
We, we do it because we originally we started because we
love it, but we also, we also want to make this our career.
And so in Nashville, I mean, we were getting a lot of good
traction and everything country to the bone.
We had it out for six months, done nothing.
Absolutely nothing. We debuted to open it up for
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Colin Ray and played for 10,000 people and I mean we had hardly
in hardly to nothing streams on anything and it just was not
getting good traction and it blew up overnight.
We put out a video and it took off 2 million views.
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The next 1 / 1,000,000 next 1 / 1,000,000 and it's like, holy
crap, this is happening. And it was just a, it was a
crazy experience, you know, and.Kind of had the family all in a
group chat. What are, what's going on?
What are we doing? Are we?
I would, I mean, it was, it was a whole new ball game for us
because I don't think we really,really comprehended how big
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country to the bone went out there.
You know, it, it's got some loveon, it's got some hate on it.
But as far as like putting us onthe map, that song put us on the
map. We had Blake Shelton reaching
out. We had Kane Brown and his team
reaching out and so many people and stuff.
And it's just been, it's been a blessing.
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That's awesome. Who's who've been some of your
biggest musical influences as you guys craft your your own
style? I would, I don't know.
I would say that we try. I don't even know if we try to,
but we get told a lot that as we're playing, as we're going
out it we they get a lot of the Blake Shelton Trace Akin vibes,
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a lot of the Montgomery Gentry vibes, some big and rich.
I feel like whether we try to orwe don't, that's kind of how our
sound just veers and just goes towards.
Yeah, And I mean, I grew up in classic country, George Strait,
Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn. And so that's what that's the
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kind of music I like. But to be marketable in today's
society, you have to blend it with the modern roots.
So when we write, we try to be like a new traditionalist.
You know, we we bring in the oldelements but makes it with
what's sellable today on radio. What's that process like for you
all too create a song? What's your what's your kind of
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creative process to becoming up with the next song or you know,
getting the lyrics down? What kind of process do you guys
go through? And I guess it kind of, I'd say
it varies from song to song withback in town, I was actually in
my bed one night. I was laying down, just sitting
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there, dark fan going. I was like, I just start like,
do you know, just humming out some tones and some tunes.
And I was like, wait, that couldactually be cool.
And then I was like, take me down or Take Me Out where the
rear flow started doing all that.
And I was like, I got to, I got to record this.
The little voice memo woke up the next day.
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I was like, hey, hey, we need todo something with this.
And then I took it to him and hewas like, all right.
And then we sat down, had that song written what maybe an hour
at most do that. But Country to the Bone, it was
like a 5 minute song where he went in and he just wrote it out
on piece of paper real quick. Came out and said hey, I think I
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wrote wrote a good song. I'm a big melody guy, so I I
like to start with melodies mostof the time.
Now I've written probably 1000 Co rides in Nashville where we
do it different every single time.
There's no, there is no secret sauce or recipe to get a good
song. You know, you can start so many
different ways and end up so many different spots, you know,
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but by the songs, by the time the song is done, you know it,
it always comes out really good.It's just a it's a fun process
to be a part of, especially Co writing because there's so many
different elements that you're introduced to that you don't
normally do yourself. So, you know, 20 years ago,
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social media didn't really exist.
You probably only had one or twoways of getting big as an
artist. Now social media exists.
How how does that play a role inwhat you all do?
You know, utilizing social mediaas a stream to get your music
out there instead of just relying on record labels.
I think it, I really think it's made it easier for artists to
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get their music out there because posting on social media
is free and you know, anybody could do it.
You just take the time to go outthere and make a 10/15 second
video, post that thing, get in on the For you page or explore
page or something and you know it.
It just takes off from there and.
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It puts the ball in your court, it gives you the option to get
it out, get out there and just work hard to get to it, which.
I mean, an artist has to be their own record label these
days, you know, And so you have to have to do all the social
media marketing, you have to do all the funding for it.
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And so I really feel like socialmedia is just made it so easy
for artists to have a platform where they can push their music
out there to certain extent, where where beforehand it wasn't
possible with that record label.So I think you, I think I've
read where you've worked with Dolly Parton's producer Kent
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Wells. Tell me about that experience
and maybe what that was like foryou all kind of stepping into
that realm of kind of the next level it.
Was it was a pretty cool experience.
I worked with Kent for I would say 2 years and I think we
recorded 12 songs with him underLance Curtis.
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There's a few of them that's outand stuff and then there's a few
unreleased songs off that album that we just haven't ever put
them out there. You know, I'm around that time
on the end of working with Kemp.We were starting to kick around
the idea of breaking out into land law.
And so there's there's several songs that are cut ready to go
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out there that the world may never hear, you know, but they
might. We may pull them out one of
these days, redo them or something.
I don't know, redo them as land law.
But it was a cool experience. We got to step up our game.
We got to start writing with some bigger artists, some bigger
writers, guys that write for Jason Aldean, Brooks and Dunn.
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We've written with guys that write for Brantley Gilbert and
Maddie and Tay and, and just, it's been, it's been a learning
experience, you know, getting tosit down in a room with them
type of type of guys and writerskick off ideas from each other.
It's it's a really for real neatexperience that you just don't
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get rotten with everyone you know.
It's a learning process and you can build your craft from
sitting down with guys like that.
What's been some of the maybe biggest obstacles for you all as
as you know, you're you're stillout there grinding away.
I'm sure you faced obstacles, you know, week in and week out,
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but what's been some of the biggest obstacles you face as
you're trying to make a music career out of this?
I would say, I would say the hate that we get on social media
and it doesn't bother us particularly.
We we couldn't, we couldn't careless if we get it or not.
And honestly, it's better sometimes that we do get it
because pushes it out further. But as far as labels and booking
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goes, some of these places are wanting to book us.
They go read our comments and they think ain't nobody on Come
to these guys show. But that's.
Not the case if you're. At the case, if you're at the
show, it is completely differentthan that.
We're we've been very blessed tobe bringing out five to 700
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people with show. It's we.
We've got people coming to your country, to the bone, every
single show we've played since that, since we looked up.
And so it's been, it's been a love hate relationship with all
that. So what I've I haven't noticed
or what has there been just liketrolls or something that are
like on your guys's feeds or what?
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What's the? Long ago that'll every single
video since the country to the bones ever blew up.
He'll just get on there. I bet these guys make a mean
grilled cheese. Yeah, it it's just a bunch of
trolls, a bunch of people that are just having, I guess what
their quote, UN quote idea of a good time on social media.
And we can take it I. Mean playing with it.
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We grew up freaking country of the bone man.
So comment on social media is not going to bother us.
We got way bigger concerns on them people.
So but a lot of is a lot of is trolls.
We got put in hater groups and stuff like that where people get
professionally paid to leave a comment like that.
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And I didn't know there was sucha thing till all this going on.
But no, it's a, it's is what it is, you know, and whether we're
the country version and Nickelback, you know what?
Hey, that's a compliment in somecircles.
Nickelbacks, you know, then soldlike 100 million albums.
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So they're not, they're doing pretty something, right?
I'm telling you, man, I'm telling you.
And so I called all the PR team,all the guys working with us
when this blew up and we were getting somewhat of a positive
feedback from it. We are getting a lot of negative
feedback from it. And I was like, what do we do
with this, you know, and are we on the right path?
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Are we committing career suicideby leaving this video up?
And they're like, you guys are doing exactly what you need to
be doing. Leave that video up and.
Post some more the more. Hate you get, the better you're
going to be because everybody wishes they got what you guys
got right now. Because, you know, if you're
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getting if you're getting positive comments, chances are
it's going to be tops, you know,200 comments, people that really
like, you know, but with the haters on social media, and I
think we live in a culture whereit's just acceptable to get on
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social media and just hate on people, you know, and you'll get
thousands and thousands of comments a video like that.
Well, that boosts the algorithm and they just keep flooding from
there, you know? So in a weird way, we were kind
of grateful for all of them comments.
Yeah, they took time to help youget more views.
Really. Right.
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So what it what, what's next foryou all?
I mean, I'm, I'm sure you got big plans.
What are some of the dreams and aspirations that you know, you
maybe look back five years from now and you hope you'll be where
in five years? Honestly, I would say for me, I
mean, I course venues, there's certain venues that every artist
wants to see and accomplish the reach and part of that for my,
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I'd say my top three would be like the Opry Stage.
Obviously Red rocks. There's I mean, they're red
rocks, huh? It's just a cool venue just to
look at it. You're like, man, I want to play
there one day. I'd say I'd have to go back to
the Ryman also for that third one.
But just playing there and honestly just being able to
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support my wife and I mean, hopefully five years, we have
some kids running around and just being able to support the
family doing what we love to do.That's all that we really care
about. We got some work to do still.
We still have to build our numbers up.
We have to get more people in the seats and stuff at the
shows. So hopefully in the next 5 years
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we are wearing hot and heavy andstuff.
You know, it's been hit or miss since Country of the Bone blew
up on the tour dates. Goes how we've been doing a lot
of stuff in Texas here lately. Still trying to build our fan
base. You know, you would think with
30 million views and stuff, the labels and big booking agencies
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would be signing in a heartbeat.And we, we had meetings with
them all and everything, but they're like, you guys still
have to get your numbers up. And so I'm like down 30 million
ain't enough. So we, we got some work to do
still to get everything built up.
But you know, we're not afraid of work.
We're going to, we're going to hit it hard the next couple
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years. We're going to get more music
out there for our fan base and we are going to get out in the
road to see everybody and stuff.Hopefully get to Alaska, see you
sometime and the kids and get tomeet, meet, meet your group, you
know, and we would love to get to meet you guys in person.
That's awesome. What what's some advice you'd
give to folks? There's going to be lots of
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folks that watch this and maybe they're just starting out with
their dreams and aspirations. Maybe some of them have music in
mind. Maybe some of them have
businesses in mind. I think hustle and grind plays
into all that. But what's some advice you'd get
to somebody that's just startingout that you know, maybe doesn't
realize all the work that it takes to get to even where
you're at? What's advice you can give to
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folks? I would just say to never, if
it's your goal and your dream, to never give up on it, never
let anybody push you away from it, to keep your nose on the
grindstone. I mean, just keep, keep trucking
forward because the ultimately, if that's what you love, that's
what you want to do. There's nothing and nobody in
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this world that can stop you from trying to achieve it.
So just keep, keep going at it. Keep working hard.
And one of the one of these days, those dreams will pay off.
Yeah. And don't, don't take one no as
a no that you're never going to make it.
You know, I have seen with my own eyes, we've done American
Idol auditions, we've done voiceauditions.
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We have watched people walk in labels and walk right out with
without a deal. You know, we're one of them.
And you know, just because it's a no at the end does not mean
that that's the end of your career.
You have to keep your head up, you have to keep it on the
ground stone and just keep goingbecause if you believe in what
you're doing, you're going to eventually make other people
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believe in what you're doing. Tell me about each one of you.
Describe to me or tell me about your favorite show that you
played as to you know, to the tothis date, not maybe one that
you want to play, but what's been one of your favorite shows
you've played and why? That's a good question and
trying to shuffle through the thousands of shows we played
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throughout the years. We I would say one of the more
fun shows we play for a bigger crowd would be the Colin Ray
show with 10,000 people and thatwas a that was a good show.
It was hot as all get out that day, though here it was raining.
Hot chose. Yeah, it rained right before the
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show and it delayed our sound check to about 30 minutes till
Showtime. Well, we finally got up there
and I was in. I was in all black, like pants,
shirt, hat on over shirt and everything.
And, you know, trying to look the part.
Well, by the time I got off the stage, it was like I jumped in
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the swimming pool back behind it.
I mean, I was stopping wet. It was a fun show though.
There was a lot of people there.There was a lot of people there
and a lot of them came for us, but most of them came for
calling right You know, and so that was that was probably top
two, maybe some of them on the list.
I think the most fun show we've had is land law.
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Where people has come for land law would be College Station TX
we played. College Station or even in our
hometown after, I mean, after weblew up our hometown, we played
a few shows here. There was people.
I mean, just man, we played one show.
The owner called us. He's like, I don't know what I'm
going to do, he says. I've turned away 200 reservation
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phone calls for tonight, he said.
I'm absolutely packed out. That was just the phone calls
that were coming. In.
Yeah, he said. We got there that night.
There was a line out the door about two hours long, people
waiting to get in. And I was like, man, I mean,
this is one of those moments where you're like, all right,
this maybe this can take off andgo somewhere.
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So seeing all of our, seeing allof our friends and family, our
friends and family at the show and people we ain't seen in a
long time coming out supporting and singing word for word, that
was pretty cool. And it wasn't just a hometown.
You know, at that show, we had people drive in six hours.
We had people coming from Nashville, there's people that
came from Fayetteville, I'm pretty sure some people that
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came from Texas and everybody was just driving and coming out
to see us. And so it was, it was cool.
I mean, it was the first time inour career where to see that big
of a turn out and that many people singing word by word.
You know, it was, it was one of them things where you're like, I
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think we're, I think we're doingsomething right here, you know,
and it just, it makes you feel good as an artist, makes you
feel even better as a songwriterthat you wrote a song that
people are relating and connecting to.
That's awesome. It's, you know, it sounds like
where y'all are from your hometown, they're very
supportive of what y'all are doing.
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What's that feel like to have the support of your kind of
hometown crowd? I mean, it feels really good.
I think we've worked really hardfor a lot of years to kind of
win over the town. Since I started so early, you
know, I was playing shows in thetown and stuff.
It took a took a little bit to kind of win over the town.
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I think this year is really beena turning point for us.
But you know, it's, it's so funny because when I was in high
school playing football and everything, country music was
not the big thing then. You know, I liked it, but I was
probably one of the only few people in school that like
country music. And so all my friends are like,
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why aren't you singing rap musicor anything like that?
And I'm like, do you hear the Southern draw on me, man?
You know, that ain't going to work.
But it's so funny that now all the kids in high school are
these guys I went to school withthis, their younger siblings and
cousins and all that. And they're huge land law fans.
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I mean, they're making cardboardcutouts of our heads and all
that, taking them every pep rally, they're playing our song
at every game and stuff. And so it's, it's really cool to
see. It's just a big, you know, it's
like 1 of them comeback moments,you know, like, hey, I, I was
once here in your position and now, now we're getting to come
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back and seeing some success andstuff here.
It's it's cool. That's awesome.
Does faith play a role in in anything you all do, and if if
so, how and why? Faith plays a role in everything
we do, man. That's a we wouldn't be where we
were without our Lord and SaviorJesus Christ first and foremost.
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I mean, I, we've been in church.I've been in church ever since I
was a four year old. Our dad's a Baptist pastor, been
at this church for going on 19 years now.
So I have grown up in it. I was saved when I was four
years old is not anything that anybody told me.
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Hey, you need to get saved rightnow.
In fact, I was in my room playing one night.
I mean, I remember this like as yesterday.
I was playing and had all the toys scattered out, everything.
I walked into the living room. I looked at my mom laying on the
couch and said, mom, my heart hurts.
She says, well, well, all right.Do you need?
What do you need? Do you need this, this?
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No, no. We'll just go back into your
room and play. Maybe it'll get a little better.
Well, I walked back in there andcame back out 20 minutes later.
Mom, my heart hurts. Oh, what's going on?
We finally got to talk and she'sasking me all these questions.
I'm like, no, no, no. And then finally I said, I think
I need to be saved. It was, I mean, it was just one
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of those deals where I was four years old, but I knew.
And dad was going to seminary school in Oxford, Ms. at that
time. So he was already in the car
driving to go up to school, get his.
He's got a doctorate in Bible languages and he was in the car
with his buddies. So she called and said, hey, I
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think you might want to come home.
And he's like, wow, what's goingon?
So he turned around, drove back home, they dropped him off and
he we sat here in the living room for about two hours.
And I mean, they're hounding as much as anyone can hound A4 year
old about what asking me all these questions on is this is
what you're feeling this, this, this.
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And I'm answering every one of them.
I'm like, yeah, I know what I need.
I need Jesus as my Lord and savior.
I need him in my life. So at four years old, I knelt
down in the then our living roomat the coffee table and prayed
and ask God to come into my heart and to live in me.
And I believe that I know that he's still living in me today
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just as much as he was then. So I carry from everywhere and I
tried to try to show him throughthe the way that I live my life
because like I said, without him, man, we're we're nothing.
That's awesome. That on the way he said, you
know, I feel like with our music, you know, the Lord has
helped us so much and without our faith, you know, we, we
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wouldn't be able to make it through what we make, what we
get through and stuff in the music business without him.
Man, there's so many, so many good people out there that just
don't know the Lord. And they, they have a hard time,
they struggle, you know, and we're not here on this earth to
force anybody to come across, but we are here to tell them
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about Christ and show them how, tell them how better their lives
can be through the way you live your life.
And I think that's a big staple of what landlord music is about.
That's why we write the way we do.
We write about values, family values, Christian values and,
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you know, Southern values. And with that said, you know,
when we, when we go out play theshow, we, we take the Lord with
us and everything we do, you know, if we're in a, if we're in
the smoky bar, we, we got the Lord right there with us, you
know, and we're singing country music in there and they're
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seeing Christ in the example that we set in that setting.
And so. You can ask any guy that's ever
played a instrument for us in our band.
I mean, even even if they're notused to it, we'll pull them up,
say hey guys, we're going to pray y'all and jump on in this.
Let's let's pray before we get up on stage and we'll sit there
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on the corner stage and pray andthen go on up player show.
And I, I think a lot of times ithelps kill the nerves and it
helps the show be a little bit better and tighter, you know,
and you know, the Lord just helps you out when, when you got
the Lord on your side. That's awesome.
Does does your thoughts of your grandpa keep you guys going as
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well? I know that he was a big
influence in your life. How much does that play into
kind of keeping you going because, you know, do you think
he's looking down proud of what you guys are accomplished so
far? Talk to me a little bit about
how that legacy. I don't know.
He is he. He had the most solid chance to
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make it in country music when hewas down here.
During this time he had a, he had a voice like Don Williams.
He could play guitar like nobody's business and he could
play piano like Jerry Lee Lewis.And that's cool.
During the during the rockabillytimes and stuff, he would, he
would have done some really big things and he did do some big
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things. He he was really good buddies
with Marvel Felts and they done,done a bunch of shows together
and all that. But as far as getting the label
in Nashville, he never got the, he never got to see that.
He went over to Nashville a few times.
He made some records and he was going through a divorce and then
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some family things and it just, it kind of put a halt on him and
stuff as far as that. And he continued the rest of his
career and stuff playing, playing shows down here in
Arkansas, but never forgot to take it out on the road as big
as he wanted to. So I think with us, the last
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show he got to see me play was a, we did a Gospel award show.
It was in Missouri. And he came out to that and man,
he was proud then if I thought he'd be proud now, because, you
know, as far as we've taken thisas big of a reach as we have now
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and as me shows that we're playing all across the country,
you know, we're we're getting tolive out his dream through us
and our dream too, and getting to accomplish it.
You know, I know how he's looking down proud.
That's awesome. So what's next for Land Law?
Tell me about what's next on thehorizon.
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Do you guys have the tour comingup?
New songs dropping? New album dropping?
Tell me all the juicy details. Absolutely, man.
So we've got a new song called Over Yonder that we wrote with
the Swan Brothers. They were on Blake Shelton's
team of The Voice, and they do alot of stuff now with Blake.
They just have a new song that they wrote that got on Blake's
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new record. Recreational.
Use that album and it's a it's agreat song.
So if you guys get the chance, they are watching this to go
check that album out, listen to that song.
I know they would. All of my love.
That's the one they wrote back. I think it's #9 on there 8 or 9.
We we wrote that with them boys and we just signed a
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distribution deal with the label.
We're still independent artists,but we've got a deal that
hopefully pushes the music out bigger and further than what we
ever could. And so, but we've got that deal
going. And so as soon as the label sets
up the date, we're hoping they start getting that new single on
Spotify playlist on the editorials like today's country
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music and all that stuff and just take it really big.
So we're hoping that the year of2026 is our year that really
skyrockets everything from wherewe're at now.
We've got that going on. We've got some ending tour dates
that we're we're going to be finishing up this year.
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Playing Texas, I know two or three times, man, we, we just
got back from Texas, met some nice folks over there.
I know this is a little post of stuff that we've been doing, but
we were supposed to go down to Texas for two shows in Lubbock
and then ended up hitting a coyote on the way there.
Broke our fuel pump. We got stuck in days.
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I feel like that's a country song right there.
Yeah, that's right. We were out in the middle of the
Four Sixes Ranch, 200,000 acres had no like absolutely.
There's not a gas station, not nothing around, no cell phone
service, anything. But we got stuck in Lubbock for
10 days, had some people pick usup, take us there, tow truck, We
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got the vehicle. We we hitchhiked an hour and a
half to Lubbock. While we were there, we ended up
playing the shows in Lubbock andthen met some really nice folks
from Carlsbad, NM. So we got to go down to New
Mexico and play some shows and actually I believe we're going
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to be playing some pretty good stuff coming up down there too.
So we've got some got some stuffcooking.
This up this year we got a few Arkansas shows, we got a few
College Station, TX shows, a fewTexican Court shows, which is an
urban Texas. We got some shows in Lubbock, TX
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to finish out the year. And then we are booking up real
hot and heavy for next year 2026and hopefully getting some big
Rd. shows coming out that we're going to be doing some big
festivals and all that. That's what we're looking
forward to hopefully booking those.
And we are in the process of trying to find some sponsors as
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well. So if anybody knows any
companies that are looking for atax write off, help us with some
gas or something and we would love to talk to you about that.
Nice. Well I appreciate you guys
joining us here. 40 minutes has gone by in a flash.
Do you guys have any last minutethoughts before we head off?
And. I appreciate you.
Having us and we would love to love to come out to the Alaska
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Place show for you guys and stuff, get to meet you and the
kids. Maybe go?
Get some fishing also also we need we're going to need you to
send us some information becausewe're going to get your get your
kids some stuff some landlord yeah we have merchandise as well
month. Are they in there right now?
We got merchandise on our shop, our website, it's.
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Land Law. Music.
And so we, we got all that stuff.
We got T-shirts, hats, hoodies, winners coming in and Alaska,
man, you can't go wrong with hoodie, right?
So, but but no, we, we got all the merch and stuff.
We've got new music coming out. We've got, you know, just a lot
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of big things in the works for this year.
So but man, thank you. Thank you again for having us.
We have really enjoyed talking to you today.
Yeah, I appreciate you guys coming on.
For folks listening in, I'll putall the links to the website and
the merch and all that kind of stuff in the description.
So feel free to check that out. And thank you so much and
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landlord for joining us. You're welcome back anytime.
I hope you have a great rest of your day.
Welcome back to Stories Worth Hearing.
I'm your host John Quick, and today's episode is 1.
You're really going to enjoy. I'm sitting down with Land Law,
the brother duel of Lance Curtisand Lawson Wayne, two young men
who are proving that big dreams,hard work and staying true to
who you are can still breakthrough in today's music
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world. Land Law is making waves across
the country with a sound that's all their own modern country
swagger mixed with the heart andgrit of classic honky tonk.
They've shared the stage with icons like Colin Ray and Gene
Watson, they've had the chance to work with Dolly Parton's own
producer Kent Wells, and their breakout single Country to the
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Bone has already been watched and streamed over 30 million
times. But what inspires me most is not
just the success they've had, it's the way they've carried
themselves on the journey. They're grounded in their roots,
passionate about their craft, and committed to bringing people
together through music. Their story reminds us that no
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matter where you come from, if you stay focused, keep the
faith, and put in the work, doors will open.
In this conversation, we're going to talk about their
beginnings, the bond they share as brothers, the stories behind
their songs, and what they see ahead as they continue to rise
in the country music world. If you want to follow along with
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their journey and hear more of their music, head over to
landlawmusic.com. So let's dive in.
Here's my conversation with LandLaw.
Eventually throughout the years,we I was actually doing music on
my own and Lawson and I, we got to doing it together.
Probably five years into it, just me solo.
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And I'd say for another 3-4 years it was still Lance Curtis
featuring lost some Wayne, right?
Yeah, we always went out. Lance Curtis featuring lost some
Wayne. Her special guest lost some
Wayne. It was always something, but it
took us a little bit to actuallycome up with land law to figure
out what the vibe was going to be and how it was going to work
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and all that. Because not a lot of people know
this, but Lawson is actually four years younger than I am.
And he's four years younger and four feet taller.
But no, he, so he, when I started, I was, I was 16, I
think, when I started doing it solo full time.
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And at that time, Lawson was like 12, you know.
And so it took him a little bit to, you know, grow up, mature,
find love for music. He was still doing sports during
that time. And so it just took him a little
bit to catch up. But we've been doing it hot and
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heavy ever since. And the Lord's been blessing us
throughout it. That's awesome.
So it's 16. Were you like out there playing
gigs and stuff or were you just kind of playing at home?
I was, I was out playing some gigs, a few gigs here and there.
You know you don't get booked much at 16 because going through
a lot of puberty changes some Mexican.
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Restaurants and some other stuff.
My grandpa, he had a classic country band and from the time I
was a year old, I grew up playing with him.
I was playing guitar in the veryback, you know, I'd sing a few
songs. It was a family band, you know,
my uncle was in it, my cousins were in it.
And we just, we grew up doing that every weekend, you know,
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and I loved it. And he passed away when I was
right when I turned 16. He passed away 2017.
And that very following week I took my first trip to Nashville.
Man, it's been, it's been a crazy ride since then.
You know, we've had a lot of upsand downs over there, but more
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so more UPS. You know, it's a roller coaster
ride for sure, but Lord is keeping us on the proud of it
all. That's awesome.
So what? Tell me a little bit about when
you've maybe when you first realize crap like I could, we
could do this for a living. Like we're starting to gain
traction. People are watching, listening.
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You know, it's more than just a hobby.
Take me back to that moment where you're like, man, we could
really do this. I would say like as far as
having a solid shot and stuff with it when Country of the Bone
blew up, there's 2 levels to that though.
There is the Nashville level of success and then there's the
world standard level of success,you know, And so we've been in
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Nashville for eight or nine years now and basically started
at the very bottom of the barrel, work their way up.
And right before Country of the Bone blew up, I would say most
of Nashville already knew who Land Law was.
We were having big meetings, we were doing some big stuff and
doing a little bit of touring and stuff.
We played the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium, all that stuff.
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And all this happened before Country of the Bone even took
off. And so there is so many levels
know where artists is in their career as far as us ever
thinking, you know, are we goingto make it this?
I think that was always going tobe 100% in our mind, you know,
because if you're doing it to ifyou're not doing it to make it
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and why you doing it? You know, and so we love it.
We, we do it because we originally we started because we
love it, but we also, we also want to make this our career.
And so in Nashville, I mean, we were getting a lot of good
traction and everything country to the bone.
We had it out for six months, done nothing.
Absolutely nothing. We debuted to open it up for
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Colin Ray and played for 10,000 people and I mean we had hardly
in hardly to nothing streams on anything and it just was not
getting good traction and it blew up overnight.
We put out a video and it took off 2 million views.
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The next 1 / 1,000,000 next 1 / 1,000,000 and it's like, holy
crap, this is happening. And it was just a, it was a
crazy experience, you know, and.Kind of had the family all in a
group chat. What are, what's going on?
What are we doing? Are we?
I would, I mean, it was, it was a whole new ball game for us
because I don't think we really,really comprehended how big
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country to the bone went out there.
You know, it, it's got some loveon, it's got some hate on it.
But as far as like putting us onthe map, that song put us on the
map. We had Blake Shelton reaching
out. We had Kane Brown and his team
reaching out and so many people and stuff.
And it's just been, it's been a blessing.
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That's awesome. Who's who've been some of your
biggest musical influences as you guys craft your your own
style? I would, I don't know.
I would say that we try. I don't even know if we try to,
but we get told a lot that as we're playing, as we're going
out it we they get a lot of the Blake Shelton Trace Akin vibes,
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a lot of the Montgomery Gentry vibes, some big and rich.
I feel like whether we try to orwe don't, that's kind of how our
sound just veers and just goes towards.
Yeah, And I mean, I grew up in classic country, George Strait,
Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn. And so that's what that's the
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kind of music I like. But to be marketable in today's
society, you have to blend it with the modern roots.
So when we write, we try to be like a new traditionalist.
You know, we we bring in the oldelements but makes it with
what's sellable today on radio. What's that process like for you
all too create a song? What's your what's your kind of
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creative process to becoming up with the next song or you know,
getting the lyrics down? What kind of process do you guys
go through? And I guess it kind of, I'd say
it varies from song to song withback in town, I was actually in
my bed one night. I was laying down, just sitting
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there, dark fan going. I was like, I just start like,
do you know, just humming out some tones and some tunes.
And I was like, wait, that couldactually be cool.
And then I was like, take me down or Take Me Out where the
rear flow started doing all that.
And I was like, I got to, I got to record this.
The little voice memo woke up the next day.
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I was like, hey, hey, we need todo something with this.
And then I took it to him and hewas like, all right.
And then we sat down, had that song written what maybe an hour
at most do that. But Country to the Bone, it was
like a 5 minute song where he went in and he just wrote it out
on piece of paper real quick. Came out and said hey, I think I
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wrote wrote a good song. I'm a big melody guy, so I I
like to start with melodies mostof the time.
Now I've written probably 1000 Co rides in Nashville where we
do it different every single time.
There's no, there is no secret sauce or recipe to get a good
song. You know, you can start so many
different ways and end up so many different spots, you know,
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but by the songs, by the time the song is done, you know it,
it always comes out really good.It's just a it's a fun process
to be a part of, especially Co writing because there's so many
different elements that you're introduced to that you don't
normally do yourself. So, you know, 20 years ago,
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social media didn't really exist.
You probably only had one or twoways of getting big as an
artist. Now social media exists.
How how does that play a role inwhat you all do?
You know, utilizing social mediaas a stream to get your music
out there instead of just relying on record labels.
I think it, I really think it's made it easier for artists to
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get their music out there because posting on social media
is free and you know, anybody could do it.
You just take the time to go outthere and make a 10/15 second
video, post that thing, get in on the For you page or explore
page or something and you know it.
It just takes off from there and.
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It puts the ball in your court, it gives you the option to get
it out, get out there and just work hard to get to it, which.
I mean, an artist has to be their own record label these
days, you know, And so you have to have to do all the social
media marketing, you have to do all the funding for it.
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And so I really feel like socialmedia is just made it so easy
for artists to have a platform where they can push their music
out there to certain extent, where where beforehand it wasn't
possible with that record label.So I think you, I think I've
read where you've worked with Dolly Parton's producer Kent
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Wells. Tell me about that experience
and maybe what that was like foryou all kind of stepping into
that realm of kind of the next level it.
Was it was a pretty cool experience.
I worked with Kent for I would say 2 years and I think we
recorded 12 songs with him underLance Curtis.
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There's a few of them that's outand stuff and then there's a few
unreleased songs off that album that we just haven't ever put
them out there. You know, I'm around that time
on the end of working with Kemp.We were starting to kick around
the idea of breaking out into land law.
And so there's there's several songs that are cut ready to go
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out there that the world may never hear, you know, but they
might. We may pull them out one of
these days, redo them or something.
I don't know, redo them as land law.
But it was a cool experience. We got to step up our game.
We got to start writing with some bigger artists, some bigger
writers, guys that write for Jason Aldean, Brooks and Dunn.
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We've written with guys that write for Brantley Gilbert and
Maddie and Tay and, and just, it's been, it's been a learning
experience, you know, getting tosit down in a room with them
type of type of guys and writerskick off ideas from each other.
It's it's a really for real neatexperience that you just don't
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get rotten with everyone you know.
It's a learning process and you can build your craft from
sitting down with guys like that.
What's been some of the maybe biggest obstacles for you all as
as you know, you're you're stillout there grinding away.
I'm sure you faced obstacles, you know, week in and week out,
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but what's been some of the biggest obstacles you face as
you're trying to make a music career out of this?
I would say, I would say the hate that we get on social media
and it doesn't bother us particularly.
We we couldn't, we couldn't careless if we get it or not.
And honestly, it's better sometimes that we do get it
because pushes it out further. But as far as labels and booking
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goes, some of these places are wanting to book us.
They go read our comments and they think ain't nobody on Come
to these guys show. But that's.
Not the case if you're. At the case, if you're at the
show, it is completely differentthan that.
We're we've been very blessed tobe bringing out five to 700
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people with show. It's we.
We've got people coming to your country, to the bone, every
single show we've played since that, since we looked up.
And so it's been, it's been a love hate relationship with all
that. So what I've I haven't noticed
or what has there been just liketrolls or something that are
like on your guys's feeds or what?
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What's the? Long ago that'll every single
video since the country to the bones ever blew up.
He'll just get on there. I bet these guys make a mean
grilled cheese. Yeah, it it's just a bunch of
trolls, a bunch of people that are just having, I guess what
their quote, UN quote idea of a good time on social media.
And we can take it I. Mean playing with it.
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We grew up freaking country of the bone man.
So comment on social media is not going to bother us.
We got way bigger concerns on them people.
So but a lot of is a lot of is trolls.
We got put in hater groups and stuff like that where people get
professionally paid to leave a comment like that.
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And I didn't know there was sucha thing till all this going on.
But no, it's a, it's is what it is, you know, and whether we're
the country version and Nickelback, you know what?
Hey, that's a compliment in somecircles.
Nickelbacks, you know, then soldlike 100 million albums.
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So they're not, they're doing pretty something, right?
I'm telling you, man, I'm telling you.
And so I called all the PR team,all the guys working with us
when this blew up and we were getting somewhat of a positive
feedback from it. We are getting a lot of negative
feedback from it. And I was like, what do we do
with this, you know, and are we on the right path?
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Are we committing career suicideby leaving this video up?
And they're like, you guys are doing exactly what you need to
be doing. Leave that video up and.
Post some more the more. Hate you get, the better you're
going to be because everybody wishes they got what you guys
got right now. Because, you know, if you're
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getting if you're getting positive comments, chances are
it's going to be tops, you know,200 comments, people that really
like, you know, but with the haters on social media, and I
think we live in a culture whereit's just acceptable to get on
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social media and just hate on people, you know, and you'll get
thousands and thousands of comments a video like that.
Well, that boosts the algorithm and they just keep flooding from
there, you know? So in a weird way, we were kind
of grateful for all of them comments.
Yeah, they took time to help youget more views.
Really. Right.
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So what it what, what's next foryou all?
I mean, I'm, I'm sure you got big plans.
What are some of the dreams and aspirations that you know, you
maybe look back five years from now and you hope you'll be where
in five years? Honestly, I would say for me, I
mean, I course venues, there's certain venues that every artist
wants to see and accomplish the reach and part of that for my,
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I'd say my top three would be like the Opry Stage.
Obviously Red rocks. There's I mean, they're red
rocks, huh? It's just a cool venue just to
look at it. You're like, man, I want to play
there one day. I'd say I'd have to go back to
the Ryman also for that third one.
But just playing there and honestly just being able to
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support my wife and I mean, hopefully five years, we have
some kids running around and just being able to support the
family doing what we love to do.That's all that we really care
about. We got some work to do still.
We still have to build our numbers up.
We have to get more people in the seats and stuff at the
shows. So hopefully in the next 5 years
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we are wearing hot and heavy andstuff.
You know, it's been hit or miss since Country of the Bone blew
up on the tour dates. Goes how we've been doing a lot
of stuff in Texas here lately. Still trying to build our fan
base. You know, you would think with
30 million views and stuff, the labels and big booking agencies
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would be signing in a heartbeat.And we, we had meetings with
them all and everything, but they're like, you guys still
have to get your numbers up. And so I'm like down 30 million
ain't enough. So we, we got some work to do
still to get everything built up.
But you know, we're not afraid of work.
We're going to, we're going to hit it hard the next couple
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years. We're going to get more music
out there for our fan base and we are going to get out in the
road to see everybody and stuff.Hopefully get to Alaska, see you
sometime and the kids and get tomeet, meet, meet your group, you
know, and we would love to get to meet you guys in person.
That's awesome. What what's some advice you'd
give to folks? There's going to be lots of
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folks that watch this and maybe they're just starting out with
their dreams and aspirations. Maybe some of them have music in
mind. Maybe some of them have
businesses in mind. I think hustle and grind plays
into all that. But what's some advice you'd get
to somebody that's just startingout that you know, maybe doesn't
realize all the work that it takes to get to even where
you're at? What's advice you can give to
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folks? I would just say to never, if
it's your goal and your dream, to never give up on it, never
let anybody push you away from it, to keep your nose on the
grindstone. I mean, just keep, keep trucking
forward because the ultimately, if that's what you love, that's
what you want to do. There's nothing and nobody in
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this world that can stop you from trying to achieve it.
So just keep, keep going at it. Keep working hard.
And one of the one of these days, those dreams will pay off.
Yeah. And don't, don't take one no as
a no that you're never going to make it.
You know, I have seen with my own eyes, we've done American
Idol auditions, we've done voiceauditions.
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We have watched people walk in labels and walk right out with
without a deal. You know, we're one of them.
And you know, just because it's a no at the end does not mean
that that's the end of your career.
You have to keep your head up, you have to keep it on the
ground stone and just keep goingbecause if you believe in what
you're doing, you're going to eventually make other people
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believe in what you're doing. Tell me about each one of you.
Describe to me or tell me about your favorite show that you
played as to you know, to the tothis date, not maybe one that
you want to play, but what's been one of your favorite shows
you've played and why? That's a good question and
trying to shuffle through the thousands of shows we played
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throughout the years. We I would say one of the more
fun shows we play for a bigger crowd would be the Colin Ray
show with 10,000 people and thatwas a that was a good show.
It was hot as all get out that day, though here it was raining.
Hot chose. Yeah, it rained right before the
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show and it delayed our sound check to about 30 minutes till
Showtime. Well, we finally got up there
and I was in. I was in all black, like pants,
shirt, hat on over shirt and everything.
And, you know, trying to look the part.
Well, by the time I got off the stage, it was like I jumped in
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the swimming pool back behind it.
I mean, I was stopping wet. It was a fun show though.
There was a lot of people there.There was a lot of people there
and a lot of them came for us, but most of them came for
calling right You know, and so that was that was probably top
two, maybe some of them on the list.
I think the most fun show we've had is land law.
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Where people has come for land law would be College Station TX
we played. College Station or even in our
hometown after, I mean, after weblew up our hometown, we played
a few shows here. There was people.
I mean, just man, we played one show.
The owner called us. He's like, I don't know what I'm
going to do, he says. I've turned away 200 reservation
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phone calls for tonight, he said.
I'm absolutely packed out. That was just the phone calls
that were coming. In.
Yeah, he said. We got there that night.
There was a line out the door about two hours long, people
waiting to get in. And I was like, man, I mean,
this is one of those moments where you're like, all right,
this maybe this can take off andgo somewhere.
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So seeing all of our, seeing allof our friends and family, our
friends and family at the show and people we ain't seen in a
long time coming out supporting and singing word for word, that
was pretty cool. And it wasn't just a hometown.
You know, at that show, we had people drive in six hours.
We had people coming from Nashville, there's people that
came from Fayetteville, I'm pretty sure some people that
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came from Texas and everybody was just driving and coming out
to see us. And so it was, it was cool.
I mean, it was the first time inour career where to see that big
of a turn out and that many people singing word by word.
You know, it was, it was one of them things where you're like, I
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think we're, I think we're doingsomething right here, you know,
and it just, it makes you feel good as an artist, makes you
feel even better as a songwriterthat you wrote a song that
people are relating and connecting to.
That's awesome. It's, you know, it sounds like
where y'all are from your hometown, they're very
supportive of what y'all are doing.
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What's that feel like to have the support of your kind of
hometown crowd? I mean, it feels really good.
I think we've worked really hardfor a lot of years to kind of
win over the town. Since I started so early, you
know, I was playing shows in thetown and stuff.
It took a took a little bit to kind of win over the town.
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I think this year is really beena turning point for us.
But you know, it's, it's so funny because when I was in high
school playing football and everything, country music was
not the big thing then. You know, I liked it, but I was
probably one of the only few people in school that like
country music. And so all my friends are like,
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why aren't you singing rap musicor anything like that?
And I'm like, do you hear the Southern draw on me, man?
You know, that ain't going to work.
But it's so funny that now all the kids in high school are
these guys I went to school withthis, their younger siblings and
cousins and all that. And they're huge land law fans.
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I mean, they're making cardboardcutouts of our heads and all
that, taking them every pep rally, they're playing our song
at every game and stuff. And so it's, it's really cool to
see. It's just a big, you know, it's
like 1 of them comeback moments,you know, like, hey, I, I was
once here in your position and now, now we're getting to come
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back and seeing some success andstuff here.
It's it's cool. That's awesome.
Does faith play a role in in anything you all do, and if if
so, how and why? Faith plays a role in everything
we do, man. That's a we wouldn't be where we
were without our Lord and SaviorJesus Christ first and foremost.
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I mean, I, we've been in church.I've been in church ever since I
was a four year old. Our dad's a Baptist pastor, been
at this church for going on 19 years now.
So I have grown up in it. I was saved when I was four
years old is not anything that anybody told me.
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Hey, you need to get saved rightnow.
In fact, I was in my room playing one night.
I mean, I remember this like as yesterday.
I was playing and had all the toys scattered out, everything.
I walked into the living room. I looked at my mom laying on the
couch and said, mom, my heart hurts.
She says, well, well, all right.Do you need?
What do you need? Do you need this, this?
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No, no. We'll just go back into your
room and play. Maybe it'll get a little better.
Well, I walked back in there andcame back out 20 minutes later.
Mom, my heart hurts. Oh, what's going on?
We finally got to talk and she'sasking me all these questions.
I'm like, no, no, no. And then finally I said, I think
I need to be saved. It was, I mean, it was just one
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of those deals where I was four years old, but I knew.
And dad was going to seminary school in Oxford, Ms. at that
time. So he was already in the car
driving to go up to school, get his.
He's got a doctorate in Bible languages and he was in the car
with his buddies. So she called and said, hey, I
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think you might want to come home.
And he's like, wow, what's goingon?
So he turned around, drove back home, they dropped him off and
he we sat here in the living room for about two hours.
And I mean, they're hounding as much as anyone can hound A4 year
old about what asking me all these questions on is this is
what you're feeling this, this, this.
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And I'm answering every one of them.
I'm like, yeah, I know what I need.
I need Jesus as my Lord and savior.
I need him in my life. So at four years old, I knelt
down in the then our living roomat the coffee table and prayed
and ask God to come into my heart and to live in me.
And I believe that I know that he's still living in me today
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just as much as he was then. So I carry from everywhere and I
tried to try to show him throughthe the way that I live my life
because like I said, without him, man, we're we're nothing.
That's awesome. That on the way he said, you
know, I feel like with our music, you know, the Lord has
helped us so much and without our faith, you know, we, we
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wouldn't be able to make it through what we make, what we
get through and stuff in the music business without him.
Man, there's so many, so many good people out there that just
don't know the Lord. And they, they have a hard time,
they struggle, you know, and we're not here on this earth to
force anybody to come across, but we are here to tell them
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about Christ and show them how, tell them how better their lives
can be through the way you live your life.
And I think that's a big staple of what landlord music is about.
That's why we write the way we do.
We write about values, family values, Christian values and,
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you know, Southern values. And with that said, you know,
when we, when we go out play theshow, we, we take the Lord with
us and everything we do, you know, if we're in a, if we're in
the smoky bar, we, we got the Lord right there with us, you
know, and we're singing country music in there and they're
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seeing Christ in the example that we set in that setting.
And so. You can ask any guy that's ever
played a instrument for us in our band.
I mean, even even if they're notused to it, we'll pull them up,
say hey guys, we're going to pray y'all and jump on in this.
Let's let's pray before we get up on stage and we'll sit there
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on the corner stage and pray andthen go on up player show.
And I, I think a lot of times ithelps kill the nerves and it
helps the show be a little bit better and tighter, you know,
and you know, the Lord just helps you out when, when you got
the Lord on your side. That's awesome.
Does does your thoughts of your grandpa keep you guys going as
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well? I know that he was a big
influence in your life. How much does that play into
kind of keeping you going because, you know, do you think
he's looking down proud of what you guys are accomplished so
far? Talk to me a little bit about
how that legacy. I don't know.
He is he. He had the most solid chance to
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make it in country music when hewas down here.
During this time he had a, he had a voice like Don Williams.
He could play guitar like nobody's business and he could
play piano like Jerry Lee Lewis.And that's cool.
During the during the rockabillytimes and stuff, he would, he
would have done some really big things and he did do some big
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things. He he was really good buddies
with Marvel Felts and they done,done a bunch of shows together
and all that. But as far as getting the label
in Nashville, he never got the, he never got to see that.
He went over to Nashville a few times.
He made some records and he was going through a divorce and then
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some family things and it just, it kind of put a halt on him and
stuff as far as that. And he continued the rest of his
career and stuff playing, playing shows down here in
Arkansas, but never forgot to take it out on the road as big
as he wanted to. So I think with us, the last
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show he got to see me play was a, we did a Gospel award show.
It was in Missouri. And he came out to that and man,
he was proud then if I thought he'd be proud now, because, you
know, as far as we've taken thisas big of a reach as we have now
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and as me shows that we're playing all across the country,
you know, we're we're getting tolive out his dream through us
and our dream too, and getting to accomplish it.
You know, I know how he's looking down proud.
That's awesome. So what's next for Land Law?
Tell me about what's next on thehorizon.
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Do you guys have the tour comingup?
New songs dropping? New album dropping?
Tell me all the juicy details. Absolutely, man.
So we've got a new song called Over Yonder that we wrote with
the Swan Brothers. They were on Blake Shelton's
team of The Voice, and they do alot of stuff now with Blake.
They just have a new song that they wrote that got on Blake's
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new record. Recreational.
Use that album and it's a it's agreat song.
So if you guys get the chance, they are watching this to go
check that album out, listen to that song.
I know they would. All of my love.
That's the one they wrote back. I think it's #9 on there 8 or 9.
We we wrote that with them boys and we just signed a
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distribution deal with the label.
We're still independent artists,but we've got a deal that
hopefully pushes the music out bigger and further than what we
ever could. And so, but we've got that deal
going. And so as soon as the label sets
up the date, we're hoping they start getting that new single on
Spotify playlist on the editorials like today's country
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music and all that stuff and just take it really big.
So we're hoping that the year of2026 is our year that really
skyrockets everything from wherewe're at now.
We've got that going on. We've got some ending tour dates
that we're we're going to be finishing up this year.
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Playing Texas, I know two or three times, man, we, we just
got back from Texas, met some nice folks over there.
I know this is a little post of stuff that we've been doing, but
we were supposed to go down to Texas for two shows in Lubbock
and then ended up hitting a coyote on the way there.
Broke our fuel pump. We got stuck in days.
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I feel like that's a country song right there.
Yeah, that's right. We were out in the middle of the
Four Sixes Ranch, 200,000 acres had no like absolutely.
There's not a gas station, not nothing around, no cell phone
service, anything. But we got stuck in Lubbock for
10 days, had some people pick usup, take us there, tow truck, We
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got the vehicle. We we hitchhiked an hour and a
half to Lubbock. While we were there, we ended up
playing the shows in Lubbock andthen met some really nice folks
from Carlsbad, NM. So we got to go down to New
Mexico and play some shows and actually I believe we're going
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to be playing some pretty good stuff coming up down there too.
So we've got some got some stuffcooking.
This up this year we got a few Arkansas shows, we got a few
College Station, TX shows, a fewTexican Court shows, which is an
urban Texas. We got some shows in Lubbock, TX
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to finish out the year. And then we are booking up real
hot and heavy for next year 2026and hopefully getting some big
Rd. shows coming out that we're going to be doing some big
festivals and all that. That's what we're looking
forward to hopefully booking those.
And we are in the process of trying to find some sponsors as
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well. So if anybody knows any
companies that are looking for atax write off, help us with some
gas or something and we would love to talk to you about that.
Nice. Well I appreciate you guys
joining us here. 40 minutes has gone by in a flash.
Do you guys have any last minutethoughts before we head off?
And. I appreciate you.
Having us and we would love to love to come out to the Alaska
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Place show for you guys and stuff, get to meet you and the
kids. Maybe go?
Get some fishing also also we need we're going to need you to
send us some information becausewe're going to get your get your
kids some stuff some landlord yeah we have merchandise as well
month. Are they in there right now?
We got merchandise on our shop, our website, it's.
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Land Law. Music.
And so we, we got all that stuff.
We got T-shirts, hats, hoodies, winners coming in and Alaska,
man, you can't go wrong with hoodie, right?
So, but but no, we, we got all the merch and stuff.
We've got new music coming out. We've got, you know, just a lot
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of big things in the works for this year.
So but man, thank you. Thank you again for having us.
We have really enjoyed talking to you today.
Yeah, I appreciate you guys coming on.
For folks listening in, I'll putall the links to the website and
the merch and all that kind of stuff in the description.
So feel free to check that out. And thank you so much and
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landlord for joining us. You're welcome back anytime.
I hope you have a great rest of your day.
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