February 14, 2019 • 12 mins
Chris Young is name dropping his favorite country artists. His new single, "Raised On Country" is here and his tour is kicking off soon. So what's caused the overhaul of new sound? Tune into this Cody Alan podcast to find out the scoop. Tickets for Chris's tour go on sale Feb. 14th.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Cody Cast. This is Cody Allen's podcast. Junk's here,
and notice my jack on the wall over here, Jack Daniels.
This is like a tiny bottle. I got some of
the really tiny ones so at home, you seem those
like one shot sort of, Jack Daniels, the ones that
are a little bit smaller than that, like that the
airplane bottles. Yeah, exactly when you need like just a
shot of hope, of hope when you're feeling really desperate,
(00:22):
but just like one shot is all it takes to
turn everything around. You're like, still have work to do
and not trying to uh not trying to have people
looking at me like why are you wearing sunglasses inside?
But just one shot? Yes? Um, how you been a
wonderful man? How are you? I'm really good. I love
the new song. It's different for you and yet totally you. Right.
(00:43):
So when we were trying to write this one, we
were like, oh, I want like an anthem, like a
very country anthem, which sounds really simple, and then you
try to write one, and I think we probably wrote
two bad versions of whatever this ended up being on
the way to get to it. But when we wrote
this one, that day. Uh, it's also very much who
(01:07):
I am. I mean, that's the people that I grew
up listening to. It's it's the truth, and I think
a lot of people relate to that as well as
it's just a fun song to saying, well you name dropped,
like every you know, all your favorites in there. You
got Tomorrow, you got Willie, George Straight, Alan Diffy, Joe Diffy.
He actually I got a message from him almost immediately.
(01:29):
I wondered about that when it came out. He reached
out really fast. He was like, hey, dude, sounds good.
I was like, thanks, man, Like, that's that makes you
feel good because I grew up listening to those guys.
That's what influenced me. You know, people always when you
first go around as an artist, they ask you the question, well,
who are your influences? I mean that's basically what I did.
I answered the question in the form of a song,
and it's tied into the tour and all the new
(01:52):
music coming soon. So it just feels like a nice
sort of next level moment for you happening right now.
So yeah, the tour is going to be wild, uh,
complete the hole like nothing the same from all the
arena stuff that we did, Like everything is different, huge
video walls like super over the top and uh, you know,
being able to take out friends on the road, Gonna
(02:13):
have Chris Jansen out there with us, and then the
openers slot is gonna kind of rotate depending on show,
but low cash, uh, Jimmy Allen, Dylan Scott, having all them,
it's going to be incredible. A lot of energy there too,
Especially Jansen. I feel like he is dangerous also. I
asked him, I was like, you haven't fallen off stage yet,
have you. I was like, it's as much as you
move around, I feel like that would be a constant
(02:35):
danger for you. I feel like at any moment something
he's gonna do something just crazy. He's like something in
his eyes or someone when I see him on stage,
he's just a crazy man. Well and I've I've known
him for a long long time. Uh you know, I
kind of saw his show last year while he opened
for me and my band on a couple of festival things,
and I was like, dude, he would be awesome on
the tour if he wants to do it, and uh,
(02:58):
he is. He's just incredib of one incredible guy. But
back when I first signed with Sony, he was signed
over there way back in the day, like twelve years ago,
so we've known each other for a long time. Well, good,
you guys are get into lots of trouble. I'm afraid
on the road. Back to the song real quick. This
first time sort of as a kid, you remember hearing
(03:19):
country music. Yeah, so my mom said. The first song
I learned all the lyrics too, was Digging Out Bones
by Randy Travis, which I don't know if that's good.
As a little kid, that that was the one that
I honed in on. Was like, yeah, this one, um,
but but it was. And you know, that was just
a huge thing for me. I grew up loving every
single bit of country music I could get my hands on,
(03:41):
and uh, you know, it's it's making a song like
this that's fun. Is going to be so much fun
to see people sing it live. I've only played it
live once and it was acoustic and everybody was singing
it already. So that was a really good feeling, you know,
having had this. We wrote this last be Worry. So
I'm going through this whole touring cycle going. Man, I
(04:04):
wish I could play that song because I just feel
like it's gonna go over so well live. I remember
as a kid listening to country music and really exposed
to it, like at the breakfast table every morning, my
mom would play it and make breakfast or whatever. And
I went to a phase where I went like totally pop.
Like you know, so was your phase where you went
Obviously you grew up listening to the the country, but was
her phase you thought, well, maybe that's not me, I'm
(04:25):
gonna try this. No. I never I never had a
moment of of going I I'm gonna totally be into
something else. It was my teenage years, by the way,
when I went through well and so that that was
when I started like layering in other things. So I would,
you know, be listening to NonStop country and Keith Whitley
and Darryl Singletary and and then I would start playing
(04:46):
like you know, Boys, Two Men and Aerosmith, like I
would just go completely a different direction. Uh. But yeah,
I definitely did like grow that and was listening to
a lot of jazz, a lot of everything, but country
is always, uh my first love. I love this tweet
from yesterday you said, when you're writing with a friend
who Uh, broke up the day before you write a
(05:09):
breakup song? Is it always that easy? I? Well, first
of all, when I walked in, I didn't realize that
he had just been through a breakup. Uh. And as
much as I alluded to the fact that you've got,
you know, some whiskey bath there on the shelf, I
came in and there was a bottle on the table
already and I was like, what's happening here, uh, and
and he was like, dude, yeah, it was just it
(05:31):
happened last night. I was like, oh, well, we're not
writing the title I brought in and I don't know
if this song will ever see the light of the
light of day. But he said something and I was like,
say again. It was one of those moments where he had,
I guess said this phrase before, but didn't realize that
he had said it. And so we wrote a song
(05:51):
yesterday called you Can't Drown a Heart Well, and it's
very very sad. The title is yeah, but it's it
was cool. It was cool because he said it, and
I was like, that's what we're writing, did you? Right?
By the way, all this stuff coming on the new album,
I'm not completely finished yet. Everything that I've cut so
(06:11):
far out, I've co written, but I'm still looking for
a couple more songs for the project and obviously getting
pitched a lot of stuff. So um, that's never anything
that I ever go into a project within mind of
I'm going to write everything, because there's so many great
writers in town that are constantly sitting in a room
right now while we're talking and and trying to write,
(06:32):
you know, the song of the year. So if I
hear it, I'm I don't mind cutting somebody else's stuff.
George straight sure didn't. Right, great songs, great song. So
you gonna play some outdoor venues on this new tour.
How does that sort of change your preparation, Like do
you think more about oh wardrobe or All I know
is that two years ago when I was out with Jaysondeen,
(06:54):
there was one show where I said, I'm wearing shorts,
So you have to at least have one pair of
shorts that you were comfortable being seen on stage in
for that one day where it's like a hundred and
eight Like when I had a couple of years before that,
I was with Dirks and Dirk's played you know, He's
like I gotta play Phoenix. That's you know where he's from,
and he played it in July. Why would you do that?
(07:19):
So you had to be prepared for that. But it
really doesn't change anything other than we're gonna be in
some venues where we can have more people and and
that's what I'm pumped about. What were these shorts like
like Bermuda shorts or like dad Cargo short? They were khaki.
They were not good looking shorts, I trust me. It
was one of those things where I was like, it's
hot enough that I don't care. So you weren't, George.
(07:43):
That's good. No, no, Jorge, although I do have a
couple of pairs of those if I have to, you know,
I'll admit it. But you're right when you and I
do all these fests for C ANDT, so we'll go
on the road. You have to sometimes be willing to
break out. See you get lucky sometimes on some of
the stuff you go to. That's the fest. Like you
go down to Crash my Flight, it's like you can
wear beach were the whole time. And it makes sense
(08:03):
if you're at an antitheater stage it looks a little
suspects Valentine's Day is coming up, and your tickets for
the tour, by the way, go on sale the day after.
So if the screws up Valentine's Day and forgets their
significant other, make it up to him or her by
getting them Chris Young tickets. Yeah yeah, Or play Digging
Up Bones and be really sad by yourself. I don't know.
(08:25):
Pick one. You're a comic book freak, kind of like
I am. I love superheroes anything. I'm such a total dork.
But Ben af Flack, I guess out as Batman, he's gone.
Do you have a pick for who should play Batman next?
I don't know, but it's everything they've said they want
to skew younger, like Bruce Wayne when he was younger,
just becomes Batman. He's figuring it out, he's making mistakes.
(08:47):
I think that's kind of where they're trying to take it.
I don't know. I've seen a lot of names floated around,
But what's Clint Eastwood's son, Scott Scott? I mean he
I heard his name floated out there. He would be
an interesting pick, but again, it depends on how young
they want to skew. I don't know who is the
guy who played Robin Hood recently, Taryn Eckerton. He's English guy.
(09:09):
I think he might be good because he's got a
good strong jaw line, which you need if you're Batman.
He could do it, yeah, I think so. We'll see
what happens there. But um, let's play a little game.
Here's this. The song is called Raised on Country and
a little cody okey here. So. I don't know if
you know this, Chris, but like you, I've been given
a vocal gift um from the heavens, from birth, and
I like the microphone, the microphone exactly. And my gift
(09:33):
a lot like yours is a singing ability. I don't
like to, you know, talk about it much because it
feels egotistical. La la la. So I will sing here
on a little Kodiok line and you just finish the line.
You can just say it. You don't have to sing it,
because this is really about me. I don't want to.
(09:53):
I don't want to get in your way. I don't
want to. It's not me highlighting my talents here, Okay,
are here we go. We cooked the big and mcdown
got some beer own ice cause all my ready friends
are coming over tonight man. Absolutely, here's another one here
for you. Um, and the whole town said that the
shooter used read Buddy looked good to Charlene, Joe Diffy
(10:17):
and John do your green okay? Um, do you hate
this game? I feel like you know I was. I
was just like we gotta Joe did your reference in
there after we talked about it. I'd feel bad if
one of them get down, turn around, go to town, boots,
scooting buggy, come on and finally, Um, six o'clock on
Friday evening, mama doesn't know she's leaving until I was
(10:42):
doing I was doing good until That's why no one
covers that song. That's right, Um, let me try one
more time. Get for your your inner Guards. Just six
o'clock on Friday even the mama doesn't know she's leeving
until she hears the screendus Lemmon Rubber Squeeling gives a
gem and local clearing on the radio, and she's hated
to the rodeo. That's good, that's fun game. We'll never
(11:06):
do that again. We're never doing that game again. I
like the intro warm up too, that was the Yeah,
well it helps with your inner CARDI b um, so
last question, I feel like, uh, you know, you recently
have a dog, you have a pet, and I was
reading here with one in five pet owners give their
pet a Valentine's Day gift a president of some kind.
(11:29):
Will you be one of the one in five? I'm not, No,
probably not. Now he gets he gets like a Christmas gift, okay,
because he was actually born at Christmas time. Um, so
he gets like he's he's the one kid that only
gets that. He gets screwed his birthday and Christmas the
same time. Uh. But yeah, no, I don't know if
(11:49):
I'm getting him Valentine's Day gift. And how's he doing?
By the way, he's awesome. He's other than the fact
that he woke me up this morning, Liken. Other than that,
he's great. Well, he knew you had a big day. Yeah,
you know, I had to be up early anyway, so
he was just trying to preempt the alarm clock. How
much do we love Chris Young? Thanks for coming by, Matt,
Thanks you always, Congrats on the song and all the
good this has been Cody cast. Subscribe now on iTunes,
(12:12):
listen anytime on the I Heart radio app. Cody is
heard on hundreds of radio stations across America and seen
on CMT Hot twenty Countdown every weekend. Or more go
to CMT Cody dot com
Welcome to Cody Cast. This is Cody Allen's podcast. Junk's here,
and notice my jack on the wall over here, Jack Daniels.
This is like a tiny bottle. I got some of
the really tiny ones so at home, you seem those
like one shot sort of, Jack Daniels, the ones that
are a little bit smaller than that, like that the
airplane bottles. Yeah, exactly when you need like just a
shot of hope, of hope when you're feeling really desperate,
(00:22):
but just like one shot is all it takes to
turn everything around. You're like, still have work to do
and not trying to uh not trying to have people
looking at me like why are you wearing sunglasses inside?
But just one shot? Yes? Um, how you been a
wonderful man? How are you? I'm really good. I love
the new song. It's different for you and yet totally you. Right.
(00:43):
So when we were trying to write this one, we
were like, oh, I want like an anthem, like a
very country anthem, which sounds really simple, and then you
try to write one, and I think we probably wrote
two bad versions of whatever this ended up being on
the way to get to it. But when we wrote
this one, that day. Uh, it's also very much who
(01:07):
I am. I mean, that's the people that I grew
up listening to. It's it's the truth, and I think
a lot of people relate to that as well as
it's just a fun song to saying, well you name dropped,
like every you know, all your favorites in there. You
got Tomorrow, you got Willie, George Straight, Alan Diffy, Joe Diffy.
He actually I got a message from him almost immediately.
(01:29):
I wondered about that when it came out. He reached
out really fast. He was like, hey, dude, sounds good.
I was like, thanks, man, Like, that's that makes you
feel good because I grew up listening to those guys.
That's what influenced me. You know, people always when you
first go around as an artist, they ask you the question, well,
who are your influences? I mean that's basically what I did.
I answered the question in the form of a song,
and it's tied into the tour and all the new
(01:52):
music coming soon. So it just feels like a nice
sort of next level moment for you happening right now.
So yeah, the tour is going to be wild, uh,
complete the hole like nothing the same from all the
arena stuff that we did, Like everything is different, huge
video walls like super over the top and uh, you know,
being able to take out friends on the road, Gonna
(02:13):
have Chris Jansen out there with us, and then the
openers slot is gonna kind of rotate depending on show,
but low cash, uh, Jimmy Allen, Dylan Scott, having all them,
it's going to be incredible. A lot of energy there too,
Especially Jansen. I feel like he is dangerous also. I
asked him, I was like, you haven't fallen off stage yet,
have you. I was like, it's as much as you
move around, I feel like that would be a constant
(02:35):
danger for you. I feel like at any moment something
he's gonna do something just crazy. He's like something in
his eyes or someone when I see him on stage,
he's just a crazy man. Well and I've I've known
him for a long long time. Uh you know, I
kind of saw his show last year while he opened
for me and my band on a couple of festival things,
and I was like, dude, he would be awesome on
the tour if he wants to do it, and uh,
(02:58):
he is. He's just incredib of one incredible guy. But
back when I first signed with Sony, he was signed
over there way back in the day, like twelve years ago,
so we've known each other for a long time. Well, good,
you guys are get into lots of trouble. I'm afraid
on the road. Back to the song real quick. This
first time sort of as a kid, you remember hearing
(03:19):
country music. Yeah, so my mom said. The first song
I learned all the lyrics too, was Digging Out Bones
by Randy Travis, which I don't know if that's good.
As a little kid, that that was the one that
I honed in on. Was like, yeah, this one, um,
but but it was. And you know, that was just
a huge thing for me. I grew up loving every
single bit of country music I could get my hands on,
(03:41):
and uh, you know, it's it's making a song like
this that's fun. Is going to be so much fun
to see people sing it live. I've only played it
live once and it was acoustic and everybody was singing
it already. So that was a really good feeling, you know,
having had this. We wrote this last be Worry. So
I'm going through this whole touring cycle going. Man, I
(04:04):
wish I could play that song because I just feel
like it's gonna go over so well live. I remember
as a kid listening to country music and really exposed
to it, like at the breakfast table every morning, my
mom would play it and make breakfast or whatever. And
I went to a phase where I went like totally pop.
Like you know, so was your phase where you went
Obviously you grew up listening to the the country, but was
her phase you thought, well, maybe that's not me, I'm
(04:25):
gonna try this. No. I never I never had a
moment of of going I I'm gonna totally be into
something else. It was my teenage years, by the way,
when I went through well and so that that was
when I started like layering in other things. So I would,
you know, be listening to NonStop country and Keith Whitley
and Darryl Singletary and and then I would start playing
(04:46):
like you know, Boys, Two Men and Aerosmith, like I
would just go completely a different direction. Uh. But yeah,
I definitely did like grow that and was listening to
a lot of jazz, a lot of everything, but country
is always, uh my first love. I love this tweet
from yesterday you said, when you're writing with a friend
who Uh, broke up the day before you write a
(05:09):
breakup song? Is it always that easy? I? Well, first
of all, when I walked in, I didn't realize that
he had just been through a breakup. Uh. And as
much as I alluded to the fact that you've got,
you know, some whiskey bath there on the shelf, I
came in and there was a bottle on the table
already and I was like, what's happening here, uh, and
and he was like, dude, yeah, it was just it
(05:31):
happened last night. I was like, oh, well, we're not
writing the title I brought in and I don't know
if this song will ever see the light of the
light of day. But he said something and I was like,
say again. It was one of those moments where he had,
I guess said this phrase before, but didn't realize that
he had said it. And so we wrote a song
(05:51):
yesterday called you Can't Drown a Heart Well, and it's
very very sad. The title is yeah, but it's it
was cool. It was cool because he said it, and
I was like, that's what we're writing, did you? Right?
By the way, all this stuff coming on the new album,
I'm not completely finished yet. Everything that I've cut so
(06:11):
far out, I've co written, but I'm still looking for
a couple more songs for the project and obviously getting
pitched a lot of stuff. So um, that's never anything
that I ever go into a project within mind of
I'm going to write everything, because there's so many great
writers in town that are constantly sitting in a room
right now while we're talking and and trying to write,
(06:32):
you know, the song of the year. So if I
hear it, I'm I don't mind cutting somebody else's stuff.
George straight sure didn't. Right, great songs, great song. So
you gonna play some outdoor venues on this new tour.
How does that sort of change your preparation, Like do
you think more about oh wardrobe or All I know
is that two years ago when I was out with Jaysondeen,
(06:54):
there was one show where I said, I'm wearing shorts,
So you have to at least have one pair of
shorts that you were comfortable being seen on stage in
for that one day where it's like a hundred and
eight Like when I had a couple of years before that,
I was with Dirks and Dirk's played you know, He's
like I gotta play Phoenix. That's you know where he's from,
and he played it in July. Why would you do that?
(07:19):
So you had to be prepared for that. But it
really doesn't change anything other than we're gonna be in
some venues where we can have more people and and
that's what I'm pumped about. What were these shorts like
like Bermuda shorts or like dad Cargo short? They were khaki.
They were not good looking shorts, I trust me. It
was one of those things where I was like, it's
hot enough that I don't care. So you weren't, George.
(07:43):
That's good. No, no, Jorge, although I do have a
couple of pairs of those if I have to, you know,
I'll admit it. But you're right when you and I
do all these fests for C ANDT, so we'll go
on the road. You have to sometimes be willing to
break out. See you get lucky sometimes on some of
the stuff you go to. That's the fest. Like you
go down to Crash my Flight, it's like you can
wear beach were the whole time. And it makes sense
(08:03):
if you're at an antitheater stage it looks a little
suspects Valentine's Day is coming up, and your tickets for
the tour, by the way, go on sale the day after.
So if the screws up Valentine's Day and forgets their
significant other, make it up to him or her by
getting them Chris Young tickets. Yeah yeah, Or play Digging
Up Bones and be really sad by yourself. I don't know.
(08:25):
Pick one. You're a comic book freak, kind of like
I am. I love superheroes anything. I'm such a total dork.
But Ben af Flack, I guess out as Batman, he's gone.
Do you have a pick for who should play Batman next?
I don't know, but it's everything they've said they want
to skew younger, like Bruce Wayne when he was younger,
just becomes Batman. He's figuring it out, he's making mistakes.
(08:47):
I think that's kind of where they're trying to take it.
I don't know. I've seen a lot of names floated around,
But what's Clint Eastwood's son, Scott Scott? I mean he
I heard his name floated out there. He would be
an interesting pick, but again, it depends on how young
they want to skew. I don't know who is the
guy who played Robin Hood recently, Taryn Eckerton. He's English guy.
(09:09):
I think he might be good because he's got a
good strong jaw line, which you need if you're Batman.
He could do it, yeah, I think so. We'll see
what happens there. But um, let's play a little game.
Here's this. The song is called Raised on Country and
a little cody okey here. So. I don't know if
you know this, Chris, but like you, I've been given
a vocal gift um from the heavens, from birth, and
I like the microphone, the microphone exactly. And my gift
(09:33):
a lot like yours is a singing ability. I don't
like to, you know, talk about it much because it
feels egotistical. La la la. So I will sing here
on a little Kodiok line and you just finish the line.
You can just say it. You don't have to sing it,
because this is really about me. I don't want to.
(09:53):
I don't want to get in your way. I don't
want to. It's not me highlighting my talents here, Okay,
are here we go. We cooked the big and mcdown
got some beer own ice cause all my ready friends
are coming over tonight man. Absolutely, here's another one here
for you. Um, and the whole town said that the
shooter used read Buddy looked good to Charlene, Joe Diffy
(10:17):
and John do your green okay? Um, do you hate
this game? I feel like you know I was. I
was just like we gotta Joe did your reference in
there after we talked about it. I'd feel bad if
one of them get down, turn around, go to town, boots,
scooting buggy, come on and finally, Um, six o'clock on
Friday evening, mama doesn't know she's leaving until I was
(10:42):
doing I was doing good until That's why no one
covers that song. That's right, Um, let me try one
more time. Get for your your inner Guards. Just six
o'clock on Friday even the mama doesn't know she's leeving
until she hears the screendus Lemmon Rubber Squeeling gives a
gem and local clearing on the radio, and she's hated
to the rodeo. That's good, that's fun game. We'll never
(11:06):
do that again. We're never doing that game again. I
like the intro warm up too, that was the Yeah,
well it helps with your inner CARDI b um, so
last question, I feel like, uh, you know, you recently
have a dog, you have a pet, and I was
reading here with one in five pet owners give their
pet a Valentine's Day gift a president of some kind.
(11:29):
Will you be one of the one in five? I'm not, No,
probably not. Now he gets he gets like a Christmas gift, okay,
because he was actually born at Christmas time. Um, so
he gets like he's he's the one kid that only
gets that. He gets screwed his birthday and Christmas the
same time. Uh. But yeah, no, I don't know if
(11:49):
I'm getting him Valentine's Day gift. And how's he doing?
By the way, he's awesome. He's other than the fact
that he woke me up this morning, Liken. Other than that,
he's great. Well, he knew you had a big day. Yeah,
you know, I had to be up early anyway, so
he was just trying to preempt the alarm clock. How
much do we love Chris Young? Thanks for coming by, Matt,
Thanks you always, Congrats on the song and all the
good this has been Cody cast. Subscribe now on iTunes,
(12:12):
listen anytime on the I Heart radio app. Cody is
heard on hundreds of radio stations across America and seen
on CMT Hot twenty Countdown every weekend. Or more go
to CMT Cody dot com
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