Episode 151: Jameson Rodgers

On this episode of Cody Alan’s Cody Cast podcast, get to know rising country star, Jameson Rodgers. You have been blasting his country hit “Some Girls” all summer, now you get to hear him talk about two country stars that fought over a song he wrote, how Luke Combs slid into his DMs, and how he has been making music videos while safely hunkering down due to COVID-19.

PLUS: Jameson reveals that he has started a Monday night celebrity softball team. Who is the biggest hitter? Listen now to find out.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Cody Ellen's podcast. This is Cody Cast. Well,
Cody here. Part of my job is to introduce YouTube
new artists who are making it in country music. And
one of those guys it's Jamison Rogers, not only a
great songwriter but also incredible singer. Top five song right now,
some girls on the charts. So Jamison on the line here, Hey,

(00:22):
Cody Jameson. How you doing good man? How are you
doing well? I'm excited to talk to you. Thanks for
I'm making time. I feel like we've known each other
forever and yet we've never met, only because I loved
your music since that first EP came out. Thank you man.
I think I remember you. Uh god, I think you

(00:43):
might have posted about Midnight Daydream like four years ago. Yeah,
I think it was. I love that one. I love
girls that smoke um and of course the new songs
some girls. I'm so excited he is doing well for you,
so congratulations and all the success. Oh, thank you man,
Thank you man. It's a you know, tenure overnight s
except right, but it's like all of a sudden, it's

(01:03):
coming at you full speed because you got the Luke
Brian track. Um Born here, Live Here, die here. You
wrote that, and then the collaboration with Luke Combs. You
seem to have a pretty good relaship. The guy's named Luke. Yeah,
I don't know. I guess I just uh, that's just
that's just luck of the draw. Yes, I don't really know.
I love Luke Brian's album and that whole that track

(01:27):
is so good. So when you got the call and
they said, hey, Luke Brian, like a plus plus plus
superstar is going to record one of your songs, Like,
what was that like? Take me back to that moment. Yeah,
I mean it was. It was. Actually it's funny because
that was a song I was going in a similar
really close to when Luke wanted it. This was before

(01:49):
he wanted obviously, and I had a I had a
list of about seven seven or eight songs and we
were going to cut five and kind of sat down
with the team and I love that song, um and
it but for some reason it didn't like fit with
other songs I was cutting for some reason, if that
even makes sense, um, So we decided not to cut it.

(02:09):
And then you know, actually Dustin Lynch was dying to
cut that song too, and I think Luke, Yeah, Luke
didn't really he wanted to cut it. I guess really
bad so he I guess he would, he wouldn't let
it doesn't have it unfortunately. Um so hopefully host dust
and move over. I won't take you to Holly, wouldn't

(02:33):
be on American idol. Um uh no, so wow. I
didn't realize the Dustin Lynch tie in there, but they
are kind of friends only because they both show up
and crash myy ply Luke's big Mexico Fest every year.
And um so well, I'm I'm glad Luke Brian got it.
With all due respect to Dustin because obviously with the
title track of his entire album, I mean, that's a

(02:54):
big deal. Yeah, I hope. I just hope the hope
it's a single one day, you know what I mean? Yeah,
asolutely that means more cash could roll in for you. Um.
The other Luke, Luke Colmbs you collaborated with on and
by the way, I saw you in concert with last
year on that Luke Colms tour and I thought it
was a great set. Um, cold beer called my name.

(03:15):
You must have sort of gotten together on that tour
with Luke Colms and said, hey, let's do something right. Yes,
so that it actually happened right before that tour started. Um.
You know, Luke hit me up in two thousands sixteen
and I didn't know. This was before Hurricane was even
a hit. Um, and I didn't. He sent me a
message on Instagram actually, and I was like, hey, man,

(03:35):
let's write and uh, I didn't know who he was.
And so I asked my buddies. I was like, man,
should I write with Luke Combs? And they were like, yeah,
I definitely do that. And so thank god that I
wrote with him. Um, and that friendship kind of flourished
over the years. And then so fast forward a couple
of years. He asked me to go on this tour
last year and I'll in the what when he asked

(03:56):
me that I was in the process of recording Cold
Beer Calling my Name and a few other songs, and uh,
I was like, man, it'd be cool to feature somebody
on this record. And you know, I know Luke like
she's drinking some cold beer out of too and and
uh so I asked him and I wasn't expecting to
say yes, but man, thank god he jumped on it.

(04:16):
Pretty pretty big blessing there. He's a lot of fun.
I love him backstage is always like he's just a blast,
really great guy, and I don't always the same. You
can always tell the big stars because it's like they
don't change when the cameras rolled, They're the same year. Yeah,
and so did you have a favorite moment backstage with
him or on that tour where it's like, Okay, I

(04:37):
love this guy. I mean, god, every I mean getting
to hang with him and that whole crew every day
for a whole year was it was pretty life changing,
you know. I mean it's pretty cool. Um man. I
mean we got to play pretty much every bucket list
venue on my list except Madison Square Gardens. So man,
it's hard to narrow down one. I mean, he toured

(04:59):
the tour prank in the spring. Was was a night
I'll never forget, um just because they so I was,
I was nervous. I've never been on a big tour
like that, and so I knew the tour pranks were coming,
and so I made I made the band, and I
take two or three shots to loosen up you on
stage and so that no matter what happens, will be
loose and and uh not not caring. So we get

(05:21):
up there and play the first song. Here they come
up from stage with a shot, and so I was like, man,
that's a that's an easy prank. Cool. I I survived.
So we played a second song and here they come
again with with with a different shot, like different, different
kind of liquor every every song. I think I took
like ten shots in thirty minutes of a different of

(05:45):
a different I mean it was Yeager tequila, Jack Daniels,
I mean vodka was needless to say, that was a
That was a night I will never forget or remember
or and I can only imagine the next day. And
that sounds like hangover central for me, Like the mixture

(06:06):
of drinks. Yeah, the next day we were at Red
Rocks and uh, you know, the altitude didn't help that
at all. Man, what a what a cool thing to
be on tour there with him. Um, you've done some
other cool things here lately. I saw you on Today's
show Jenna and Hood. Was that your first big like
national TV show? Yeah? Absolutely, I mean it was cool.

(06:27):
I mean it would have been probably way cooler if
I would have got to go up to New York
and did the whole you know, in personal experience with it. Um,
but it was cool. I mean I got to go.
We filmed that downtown at a famous slowing down on
second half and so you know, pretty cool scene right there,
pretty cool backdrop for that for that video, and so

(06:48):
um yeah, it definitely made me look cool in my hometown.
Like that was that the same place you filmed the video?
Because the video for some Girls is great to um
where was that film? So that video was filmed at,
uh two or three different locations in East Nashville. One
was a crying Wolf. Um, yeah, I've been there, and
the other one was God, I can't remember the name

(07:10):
of it, just it's like a little breakfast spot. They
did a um right off Gallant and I think I
can't think of the name of it. The guy in
the video, which is you at the bar and there's
like a growing guy and they seem to not be
getting along and then you like smoothly, like you move
in on her. It seems like to me, is that
what's happening by the end of the video. So it's actually, um,

(07:32):
the girls like by the end of the video, you know,
the ex is walking in the bar with another guy
and you're like, you know, Yeah, that's just brutal. Did
you enjoy the video thing, because a lot of new
artists it's like they just it's it's kind of agonizing
with so many cameras and you gotta look this way.
Your hair's gotta be perfect. You gotta say the words.

(07:53):
You got Ellipsy the words, right? Was that? Was? That?
Was that fun? Yeah? It was fun. I mean after
the first thirty minutes or an hour, you know, got
the nerves out of the way. And I mean it's
definitely a weird thing with like thirty or forty people
just staring at you all day. I mean, it's, uh,
it's a weird experience. I mean, I don't know. But

(08:16):
after after the first hour, it was it was easy.
I listened to up and kind of embraced it. I
talked to Hardy last week, who wrote some Girls, and obviously,
um it's a top ten hit at this point. Um,
you first heard this, When you first heard this song, like,
what was your first impression? Like, yeah, so like me
and Hardy and it's a whole class of us. It

(08:37):
feels like kind of came up together. Um. I've known
Hardy since like two thousand and twelve, when neither one
of us even had a publishing deal at the time,
and so we kind of came up together, kind of
came through the trenches, and we would all our little
group would always share demos with each other back in
the day, and um when nobody else would listen, you
know what I mean. And so I I had this.

(08:58):
I've had this demo for four or five years by now.
I mean when I cut it, I've had it for
a couple of years. And so I always just told
him that if nobody ever cuts it, please God let
me have it. And uh man, it slipped through the
cracks somehow. It was that. I think it almost got
cut two or three times, but for whatever reason, it
made its way to me. Yeah, I heard that Cole

(09:19):
Swindell wanted it. Chris Lane, um, who you wrote one
of his biggest hits. I don't know about you wrote
that for him. So they both wanted some girls though, Yeah,
they both wanted it at some point. And so I
don't know, I don't know how. It's just a god thing.
I guess. Yeah, you've so how you arm wrestled him
or something and got it? Good for you? What do
you love to do when you're not making music. Oh man, Um,

(09:43):
I love being outside. I've played more golf this year, um,
thanks to COVID U then I've ever then I've ever played.
So golf is probably my number one thing I've done
this year, outside of writing songs and and uh that
kind of stuff. But I love of being outside. I
love hunting, fishing and yeah kind of. You played baseball

(10:04):
in college, right? I did? I did, Man, I should
have played second base every year, but I played anywhere
on the infield pretty much. It's funny you say that
because I actually, given this current time with COVID going
on and all the artists are not on the road,
I put together a softball team of all artists and

(10:29):
we play on Monday nights and it is the most
fun I've had in years. So who's on the team.
So it's me. Hardy's on it, Chris Lanes on it,
Morgan's on it, Rally Green, John Langston, Um earnest Um,
Jordan Davis. It's fun. I mean, it's it's insane. You'll

(10:52):
have to You'll have to come check out one Monday night.
I'm sorry I wasn't invited to be on the team.
I don't know why what who you got some sluggers there?
Who's the best player? Oh? Man? Is it right Riley?
I feel like Raley can definitely hit it the furthest um.
Morgan's really good, Chris Lane's really really good. Um. Yeah,

(11:16):
I've got a bunch of athletes. Everybody, everybody solid, everybody,
kind of I tried to pick a bunch of people
that I grew up playing baseball, you know what I mean?
Who is it? Who is the worst player on the team?
No comment me if you hear it. By the way,
if you hear a weed eater, apparently the lawn man

(11:38):
is here out the window here. In fact, the windows
open this morning because it's been like kind of cool ish.
I mean it's like upper seventies, maybe like eight right
now and loving it. I just cannot wait for fall.
Are you a fall guy? Oh god, it's my favorite
time of year too. Yeah. I've already got the candles going,
like the candy apple pumpkins by cinnamon whatever. Oh yeah,

(12:02):
I've got all the candle has got some pumpkins out.
I'm just it's embarrassing, all right. Listen, I think the
world right now could use some great hardcore country music
and I think that's what you are bringing. I hear that,
and I've noticed that from the beginning, like it's really
your voice and lyrics. It's just it's really good stuff.

(12:22):
So thank you for bringing the songs. I'll love I'll
spread the Jamison the gospel. Hey, I appreciate it. And
you've got my number now and I've got yours. And
by the way, where this is it, Mississippi? Where were
you calling from that? Yeah? Oh no, that's that's just
my same number. I've had some Okay, okay, So there's

(12:43):
probably there's probably a lot of girls who have this
number then, right, imagine over the years. Yeah, a bunch
of girls that don't care anything about me anymore, for sure,
jamieson listen, I love to catching up with you. Listen.
I would love to meet you in person at some
point here soon. So look were you on the other
side of this, Yes, sir, we'll see you soon. Man.
Thanks for having me. Yeah, coffe you need anything anytime, y'all?

(13:04):
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