September 14, 2022 • 19 mins
After an incredible 10 year run with Florida Georgia Line, Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard have gone their solo ways. Tyler found his way into our studio to chat about the big break from FGL, why it happened, and what’s next. We’ll also discuss the great song he wrote about his wife which included one glaring mistake. Then we'll turn to, among other things, bar stories from the past, as well as Music Row’s famous “naked statue”. We cover, or maybe even “uncover” a lot on this edition of Nashville Chats with Crook & Chase.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody, Welcome once again to Crook and Chase Nashville Chats.
Charlie Chase, Lorian Crook. Here and today we feature a
long time buddy of ours. I guess ten years or
so we've known Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia. Linet met
him along with Brian just as they got out of Belmont.
You know that's when was coming out, right, Yeah, I
started their music career and everything, and uh, we had
a chance to visit with him just the other day.
(00:21):
Let me point out a couple of things here. We uh,
we're visiting with Tyler right before the final few shows
for Florida Georgia line. Okay, so that's some big transitions
about to take place for both those young men. We
gotta we're gonna talk about that, of course. And the
other thing about Tyler. Um, damn, it lost my train
of thought. I'm sorry. I was ad living here and
(00:42):
just forgot about I see. Um. Oh I know what
I was gonna say. Okay, are you gonna mention his album? Here?
Here go Bron one more time. I'm sorry. Hi, everybody,
Welcome to Crook and Chase Nashville Chats. Charlie and Lorien
here and today we're gonna be visiting with Tyler Hubbard,
Florida Georgia Line fame. We've known him for about ten
years since he and Brian got out of Belmont walked
(01:04):
into our studio and started a little thing called Florida
Georgia Line and a little phenomenon called Cruise. Yes, that's true. Now,
a couple of things about this interview. We were speaking
with Tyler um I guess a few weeks before the
final shows of Florida Georgia Line and they took their
separate ways. And another thing too. For the longest time,
because of this pandemic thing, we've been visiting with artists
(01:26):
either by phone, by audio links between studios, or by zoom.
Finally got a chance to walk into studio with the boy.
Had been a while since we've seen anymore, and I
think he missed us. He sort of jumped on us,
didn't he. There are a lot of hugs going a
lot of good hugs going around. But we were all
very excited because Tyler Hubbard's new project, Dancing in the
Country is out. We love it. He has a hit
(01:49):
single already, five ft nine about his wife. So we
just got down to business with Tyler Hubbard and did
a good old Nashville chat the way we do it here,
Creak and Chase. First of all, it's so great to
see you in person, or now there would be a
partition up here. God knows where you've been. So you
know we're trying. We're keeping our social distance here. Are
(02:11):
you still a plane that's safe wherever you go? Not really,
I hate to say it. I mean, I don't want
to get sick in general, So now I'm kind of
like I'm actually probably a little safer than I was
prior to the pandemic, just in general. Like the other day,
I wear a mask on the airplane, even though it
half too because I was like about to fall asleep.
My mouth was gonna come open, and I'm like, no
(02:33):
needon sucking up all these germs. Cary, he's not afraid.
When we walked in the room, he jumped on us
with a big hug and we liked it. That's true.
You know, I want to get back to life. Listen,
I'm glad you're getting back to music here. Can I
tell you something? So there's music obviously where you kind
(02:54):
of like to be alone at home with bottle of
wine and just listened to it. There's some of that
on this project, but in general, this seems like bringing
people together kind of music. It seems like you're just
in the mood to spread some love. Yeah. Absolutely, that's
thank you for saying that. That's really cool to hear.
And uh yeah, this new music, it feels really good
(03:18):
and it's it's telling, you know, letting the world and
the fans end a little bit more into who I
am and the you know, the personal side and the
individual side of who I am. So to get to
have this outlet to get to do the solo thing
has been really unexpected but super exciting and really fun.
And I'm just I'm on cloud nine right now. But
thank you for saying that. And uh yeah, I hope,
(03:38):
I hope the music does make people feel that joy
and love and good energy. Well let's talk about some
love here. Because you write a song and you miss
your wife's hype by an inch, Yeah, well kind of
a that'll happen. King underside Charlie. He loves her, he
doesn't measure her. Okay, I'm curious. How does she not
(04:00):
let you forget that? You know, she's pretty easy on
we think the Lord. She uh, she was pretty forgiving
that night. I came home and played her that song,
and you know, she just sort of looked at me
and she says, baby, no, I'm five ten And I
was like, uh, you know, I was just guessing, honey, rounding,
I was rounding down. I'm sorry, but forget. They never forget.
But I got the eyes right, and uh, I was
(04:23):
telling somebody. It seems that as the song continues to
climb the chart, she gets less and less angry about it.
So I'm just keep it, keep it going, and we'll
call it even. She said to be getting a number one,
we'll call it even. So Okay, I think I'm probably
thinking too much about this, and I don't even know
if there is an answer to this. Okay, let's think
about this. In the music world, most solo projects mis expectation.
(04:47):
I mean, you think about maybe the Beatles, to a
certain extent, led Zeppelin, Queen didn't happen. I have to
always sound like a fan girl, But to me, Tyler,
this music not only meets but exceeds what you all
accomplished with Florida Georgia line. So I'm just trying to
(05:08):
figure out how much of your success with f g
L played into this music and how much it didn't
play into it. That's a good question. And thank you
for saying that. That really feels good. I mean, UM,
I think I've been saying, you know, I wouldn't be
here without f g L. You know, UM, that was
(05:29):
an incredible journey. It's brought me to where I'm at,
and it's enabled me to do this solo project and career,
um confidently, and to know the craft of songwriting better
than I did ten years ago. UM, and to know
how to connect with fans you know, and and and
tell my story in a better way. And so I'm
really grateful for those years and everything I learned from it.
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But UM, but I'm always trying to elevate, I really am, UM,
from album to album. I really, I really just want
to elevate and continue to do things, UM, you know,
better more intentionally, UM. And and this this project specifically
had a lot of intention. You know. I wanted to
tell my story. I wanted to, UM, how do I
(06:13):
say it, pay my pay my odes and my respect
to f g L and what we had and still
not stray away from that sound too much. But also
differentiate myself um from f GL, but that was such
a big part of who I am, so I didn't
want to go too far from it. So it was
very It was very methodical and thought through to be honest,
Um and I feel like we we reached all of
our goals and the mission has been completed with this,
(06:35):
with this first album, and I can't wait to get
it out in January. That's the first time I've heard
the term pay my othes. It's been a while. Huh.
Five ft nine is the first single released by your team. Curious,
take us behind the scenes when you're putting this project together.
What's the first song that you thought was the most
important one to put on this project? Oh? I mean
(06:57):
you said this is just the first one that's on here.
It's probably, you know, probably the song thirty fives because
it was a song I wrote a couple of years
before I decided to do a solo project. Um And
I actually wrote it thinking I'd pitch it to Aldine.
I did pitch it to Aldane. He ended up passing
on it, but it just kept it kept coming up
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on my phone and kept you know, the kids loved it.
I kept resonating with it even more, talking about you know,
needing to slow down in life a little bit and
enjoy and be present. And so it just felt very
authentic and real to who I was at the moment.
And it also jammed and I couldn't wait to play
it live. So it kind of checked all the boxes
for me where I was like, well, if I'm gonna
put a project out, this song is gonna be on it.
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So once I made that decision, that one quickly moved
from a pitch pile to a cut pile to a
record pile. And then I, uh, and then I kept writing, Yeah,
and then I kept writing, you know, more songs, and
way Home was one of those, and I wrote really
quickly and said, yep, that's gonna be on the project
for sure. Um, and so yeah, It's just it was
a process. Let's return to the pile here. Uh. First
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of all, I'm I'm sensing that you, as a songwriter
or anybody in this town has to have some thick
skin because you've got a song that you really like
it pitched to Aldies just yeah, I don't even know
if he responded to that, to that text again, thick
skin you gotta I mean you get turned down and
you have to keep going though if you're going to succeed.
So where do you find the soul to do that? Man?
(08:26):
I don't know. I think I sort of look at
it as a challenge. When I hear no or I
don't get a response, it's kind of like, um, and
you know, most of these artists, and I get it
because I'm an artist. I mean most of the time
they'll respond and they'll say a great song, not for me,
not for this project, not for now, And I totally
get all that. So I really at this point don't
even take it personal and I just kind of move on.
(08:47):
And it's sort of the beauty and the fun of
writing and pitching songs. Um. But again, I when I
when I feel that, um, you know whatether you just
called to know and whatever capacity that is, it kind
of motivates me, you know. And I think that's part
of this solo project in a sense. Um. You know,
at the very beginning when the conversations were being had,
(09:08):
I mean I remember hearing what you guys have built.
It's incredible. You'll never be able to do that do
that again? You know you can't, you know, solo careers
never work, blah blah blah. And I was hearing some
of this stuff and that was like I was like, Okay,
well I'm definitely gonna try it now, so a good
(09:30):
time listen. More good times are on the way. Tour
dates are still on Tyler's books, but this time as
part of Keith Urban's Speed of Now tour. So coming up,
we'll get the now speed of Tyler's real life. It
seems every day it's an adventure, yes, and of course
straight from Tyler himself, the events that led up to
(09:52):
him and Brian Kelly taking a break from Florida, Georgia line.
Why did it happen? We'll find out next. I mentioned
slowing down speed awhile ago, which brings us to the
point that got in just a few weeks. You're joining
the Speed of Now to speed it up a little
this fall. So with everything going on with you, you know,
(10:12):
the new music and then the big full album coming
out in January, we hear the tour and all of that.
I mean, what is your speed of now at this point?
Like your personal speed of now? Good question. It's the
exact opposite of what I'll talk about in thirty five
it's very it's very fast paced, to be honest. If
I can find a day or an afternoon to slow down,
(10:34):
then that's I'll take what I can get right now.
It's but I really operate well at this pace. I
do love it, and that's why I gotta be careful,
because if if I'm not careful, I'll just go a
hundred miles an hour until I'm burned out. You are,
You're like this wide ope, You're amazing, this wide open
kind of guy. Yeah, I do enjoy this pace. Um,
but also I'm balancing being a husband and a dad
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as well as starting a career and being a songwriter.
So I have to look at my schedule every can
make sure it's somewhat in balance some weeks or worse
than others. And you know, this week, for example, I'm
not home a whole lot. I'm super busy. So you know,
I'll definitely try to balance that out a little bit
next week. But it's it's just the uh, it's playing
that game, you know, the balancing of the of the
(11:16):
the hats and the different responsibilities and trying to make sure, um,
I kind of check all the boxes and do it all.
But you're if you're not touring, your songwriting, you're recording.
Tell me about your average to day yesterday. You did
you have a normal life at all of yesterday? Did
you did you do laundry? Did you go to Walmart?
What did you do? No? I didn't do any of that,
but I did have a while day. I woke up
(11:37):
at three fifteen in the morning. I was in Vegas
because we played the show the night before, and I
needed to get home, and I didn't want to get
home at ten because there was another flight that I
could have got home at ten pm. But again, I
knew this week was really busy. I had one afternoon,
I went to the kids school and hung out with
the kids yesterday, so I needed to get home. So
I woke up at three thirty, got on a five
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thirty flight or five five thirty flight, flew back home,
went straight into uh, hanging with the kiddos and and
then doing the thing, and then last night we uh
what did we do after that? Oh? Yeah, we took
me and my wife. We took our son Luca on
a on a date because he filled his pom pom jar,
which means he was you know, we were rewarding good behavior,
(12:19):
and so that was you know, we kind of just
had a family day yesterday and then I went to
bed as early as I could because I had another
long day to day. But uh, it's not normal, but
it's really fun and I appreciate Sundays. We'll just say
that you have a song and I'm hoping it's going
to be on the big album in January called Way Home.
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There's a line in there that just kills me about
having a little more rock capital R in your role.
So I mean I sat there and just listen to
that over and over again. I thought, Man, that is
what we all need. But how do you do that
in this business? How do you surrender your life but
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have the control you need to have in the music.
That's a great question. Uh. I've really tried. I've really
tried to lean into letting go a little bit more
and not holding on so tight. I can be like
we all can. You know, you try to control your destiny.
You try to control you know, your your decisions and
your song choices, and your shows and your ticket sales
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and your streaming numbers and your content. You try to
control it all. And at the end of the day,
we're really not in control. And that's what that song
is a daily reminder for me, because I get caught
up real quick and thinking I can control the day
and I can make you know, um, and I learned
pretty quickly that's not the case. And so for me,
that song is just a great reminder of, hey, don't
stress as much, let go a little bit. That's why
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you got Jesus in the first place. He's got you.
He's going to guide you through the day and through
the week and through the years. So just just let
it ride. And and to me, it just uh takes
a lot of pressure off, you know, it really does.
So I think it's important and it's a foundation for me.
It's the found dation of all that stuff to joy,
the peace, the you know, trying to deal with the
pace of life and the anxiety and things like that.
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So it's it's definitely an important part of my life.
And I think that song kind of uh, you know,
explains it well. And like I said, it's a great
reminder for me. That's a hard balance. It's like, how
do you know when to keep doing something and when
to stop and let go? That's the hard part. Have
you figured it out? No? And as soon as I
think I have the next day, I'm like, Nope, didn't
(14:27):
have that figured out, I thought, did? I like, everybody
needs a bar, which I think is probably gonna be
somebody's campaign theme, probably it's mine. Do you have any
unusual bar stories in the history of with just the
music industry, we spent a lot of nights and bars. Um,
you started laughing. So I know you have a lot
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of memory, a lot of memories that I don't remember, uh,
from bars um to be honest, but you know we
I do. I actually really a lot of great nostalgic
man reason just being down on to Mumbre and somebody
was just talking to me about it recently. Where's your
where's your bar? You know? Or where was your bar?
And I just remember coming up being in college and
and even you know, out of college, playing the bars
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and stuff and going downtown and being at Tin Roof
on the Mumbria back when across the street was a
parking lot and it wasn't condos right below the Naked
Statue exactly, uh, And we just spent a lot of time.
They're hanging out and playing music and goofing off and
probably having way too many jack and cokes and uh,
no specific stories, but you know, it was just always
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a good time. Every time I passed by there, I'm like, yeah,
that was that was a good that was a good
season ten years ago. I can't do it anymore. I'll
try every now and then it just doesn't work. Okay,
I'm not naming names, but we have actually had an
artist say that in the wee hours of the morning,
just to say they did it. They got naked at
the naked statue. Really, did you ever do it or
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consider it? I've never done that. No, no bucket list. Yeah,
put that on your bucket. Yeah, hey, okay, let's let's talk.
I can see that. I can see the headline now.
I know that individuals or Florida Church a Line have
your own solo things going. I know you still have
(16:13):
some shows on the books and things like that. After
that one. Well, we do have a couple uh F
g L shows. I think we have five or six
left festivals that were that we've committed to that we're
finishing um this month. And then man, it's a percent
solo for both of us. Were uh, I'm out on
the Keith Urban Tour. Like like we mentioned, and then
(16:33):
album in January, and then I'm gonna be touring that
album all next year. And uh yeah, I'm really having
so much fun doing this and you know, having this
individuality that you know, I'm a hundred and ten percent
in and I'm gonna do it until the wheels fall off.
So I'm excited. Good for you, Thank you. You know
what it seems like after ten years of such monstrous
(16:53):
success you start to be out of ideas and out
of energy. It seems completely the opposite. It's like you're renewed,
re energized. I think so I feel that way, and
and I think it's a combination of things. I mean,
I think we were slightly burned out after ten years
agoing as hard as we did. I think the pandemic
was a hard reset for us. And it was also
(17:16):
a reevaluation of what we want to do next. You know,
we were we were at our fifth album. We we're
finishing up our record deal. UM, so it was sort
of a fork in the road. What's the next chapter
looked like? Um? And so for us, you know, well,
b K decided let's let's do the solo thing. I
really he really wanted to do the solo thing, and
so I, uh, you know, I accepted that and supported
(17:42):
him in that and found myself, Okay, I get it,
let's let's do the solo thing. Um. And with that
came a wave of new energy and a wave of
um excitement and joy and fulfillment and a new team
which also added to that. So you put all those
things in the mixing bowl, and like you said, I
feel can need a neat, brand new artist or a
kid on Christmas. Every day when I wake up, I'm
(18:03):
so excited and and that's what feels the creativity, and
that's what fuels the show and the energy, and so it's, uh,
it feels good to have that all joy, no fear
pretty much pretty much ninety five percent joy, maybe five
percent fear. There's I'd be lying if there's no fear,
But that keeps exactly and the excitement really overrides the fear.
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But there needs to be a little bit of that nervousness.
I think, Yeah, Tyler, you've got to go. I do yeh,
that's great news. You've been cut off back to see
the kiddos. Yeah, he's gonna go. Can you imagine that
that Flighty Headmen from Vegas at three o'clock in the
morning for the kids and all that. He's He's very
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dedicated to his family. He's very dedicated to this new
effort to UM. You can sense the excitement he has
with the five ft nine song already accomplishing things on
the chart for him. I think it's a great launch.
And of course Brian, on the other hand, had the
musical May We All. I saw it down at Pitency
Performing Arts Center, and I saw somewhere the other day
(19:07):
a booking agency has picked up on it, so they're
gonna be trying to tour that and turn it into
a musical and maybe try to go for New York.
Who knows you well, Brian has a lot of beach
music coming out, so they're both doing their things, so
to speak. Tyler Hubbard the EP Dancing in the Country,
full album to come, and in the meantime, we do
(19:27):
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Hi, everybody, Welcome once again to Crook and Chase Nashville Chats.
Charlie Chase, Lorian Crook. Here and today we feature a
long time buddy of ours. I guess ten years or
so we've known Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia. Linet met
him along with Brian just as they got out of Belmont.
You know that's when was coming out, right, Yeah, I
started their music career and everything, and uh, we had
a chance to visit with him just the other day.
(00:21):
Let me point out a couple of things here. We uh,
we're visiting with Tyler right before the final few shows
for Florida Georgia line. Okay, so that's some big transitions
about to take place for both those young men. We
gotta we're gonna talk about that, of course. And the
other thing about Tyler. Um, damn, it lost my train
of thought. I'm sorry. I was ad living here and
(00:42):
just forgot about I see. Um. Oh I know what
I was gonna say. Okay, are you gonna mention his album? Here?
Here go Bron one more time. I'm sorry. Hi, everybody,
Welcome to Crook and Chase Nashville Chats. Charlie and Lorien
here and today we're gonna be visiting with Tyler Hubbard,
Florida Georgia Line fame. We've known him for about ten
years since he and Brian got out of Belmont walked
(01:04):
into our studio and started a little thing called Florida
Georgia Line and a little phenomenon called Cruise. Yes, that's true. Now,
a couple of things about this interview. We were speaking
with Tyler um I guess a few weeks before the
final shows of Florida Georgia Line and they took their
separate ways. And another thing too. For the longest time,
because of this pandemic thing, we've been visiting with artists
(01:26):
either by phone, by audio links between studios, or by zoom.
Finally got a chance to walk into studio with the boy.
Had been a while since we've seen anymore, and I
think he missed us. He sort of jumped on us,
didn't he. There are a lot of hugs going a
lot of good hugs going around. But we were all
very excited because Tyler Hubbard's new project, Dancing in the
Country is out. We love it. He has a hit
(01:49):
single already, five ft nine about his wife. So we
just got down to business with Tyler Hubbard and did
a good old Nashville chat the way we do it here,
Creak and Chase. First of all, it's so great to
see you in person, or now there would be a
partition up here. God knows where you've been. So you
know we're trying. We're keeping our social distance here. Are
(02:11):
you still a plane that's safe wherever you go? Not really,
I hate to say it. I mean, I don't want
to get sick in general, So now I'm kind of
like I'm actually probably a little safer than I was
prior to the pandemic, just in general. Like the other day,
I wear a mask on the airplane, even though it
half too because I was like about to fall asleep.
My mouth was gonna come open, and I'm like, no
(02:33):
needon sucking up all these germs. Cary, he's not afraid.
When we walked in the room, he jumped on us
with a big hug and we liked it. That's true.
You know, I want to get back to life. Listen,
I'm glad you're getting back to music here. Can I
tell you something? So there's music obviously where you kind
(02:54):
of like to be alone at home with bottle of
wine and just listened to it. There's some of that
on this project, but in general, this seems like bringing
people together kind of music. It seems like you're just
in the mood to spread some love. Yeah. Absolutely, that's
thank you for saying that. That's really cool to hear.
And uh yeah, this new music, it feels really good
(03:18):
and it's it's telling, you know, letting the world and
the fans end a little bit more into who I
am and the you know, the personal side and the
individual side of who I am. So to get to
have this outlet to get to do the solo thing
has been really unexpected but super exciting and really fun.
And I'm just I'm on cloud nine right now. But
thank you for saying that. And uh yeah, I hope,
(03:38):
I hope the music does make people feel that joy
and love and good energy. Well let's talk about some
love here. Because you write a song and you miss
your wife's hype by an inch, Yeah, well kind of
a that'll happen. King underside Charlie. He loves her, he
doesn't measure her. Okay, I'm curious. How does she not
(04:00):
let you forget that? You know, she's pretty easy on
we think the Lord. She uh, she was pretty forgiving
that night. I came home and played her that song,
and you know, she just sort of looked at me
and she says, baby, no, I'm five ten And I
was like, uh, you know, I was just guessing, honey, rounding,
I was rounding down. I'm sorry, but forget. They never forget.
But I got the eyes right, and uh, I was
(04:23):
telling somebody. It seems that as the song continues to
climb the chart, she gets less and less angry about it.
So I'm just keep it, keep it going, and we'll
call it even. She said to be getting a number one,
we'll call it even. So Okay, I think I'm probably
thinking too much about this, and I don't even know
if there is an answer to this. Okay, let's think
about this. In the music world, most solo projects mis expectation.
(04:47):
I mean, you think about maybe the Beatles, to a
certain extent, led Zeppelin, Queen didn't happen. I have to
always sound like a fan girl, But to me, Tyler,
this music not only meets but exceeds what you all
accomplished with Florida Georgia line. So I'm just trying to
(05:08):
figure out how much of your success with f g
L played into this music and how much it didn't
play into it. That's a good question. And thank you
for saying that. That really feels good. I mean, UM,
I think I've been saying, you know, I wouldn't be
here without f g L. You know, UM, that was
(05:29):
an incredible journey. It's brought me to where I'm at,
and it's enabled me to do this solo project and career,
um confidently, and to know the craft of songwriting better
than I did ten years ago. UM, and to know
how to connect with fans you know, and and and
tell my story in a better way. And so I'm
really grateful for those years and everything I learned from it.
(05:50):
But UM, but I'm always trying to elevate, I really am, UM,
from album to album. I really, I really just want
to elevate and continue to do things, UM, you know,
better more intentionally, UM. And and this this project specifically
had a lot of intention. You know. I wanted to
tell my story. I wanted to, UM, how do I
(06:13):
say it, pay my pay my odes and my respect
to f g L and what we had and still
not stray away from that sound too much. But also
differentiate myself um from f GL, but that was such
a big part of who I am, so I didn't
want to go too far from it. So it was
very It was very methodical and thought through to be honest,
Um and I feel like we we reached all of
our goals and the mission has been completed with this,
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with this first album, and I can't wait to get
it out in January. That's the first time I've heard
the term pay my othes. It's been a while. Huh.
Five ft nine is the first single released by your team. Curious,
take us behind the scenes when you're putting this project together.
What's the first song that you thought was the most
important one to put on this project? Oh? I mean
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you said this is just the first one that's on here.
It's probably, you know, probably the song thirty fives because
it was a song I wrote a couple of years
before I decided to do a solo project. Um And
I actually wrote it thinking I'd pitch it to Aldine.
I did pitch it to Aldane. He ended up passing
on it, but it just kept it kept coming up
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on my phone and kept you know, the kids loved it.
I kept resonating with it even more, talking about you know,
needing to slow down in life a little bit and
enjoy and be present. And so it just felt very
authentic and real to who I was at the moment.
And it also jammed and I couldn't wait to play
it live. So it kind of checked all the boxes
for me where I was like, well, if I'm gonna
put a project out, this song is gonna be on it.
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So once I made that decision, that one quickly moved
from a pitch pile to a cut pile to a
record pile. And then I, uh, and then I kept writing, Yeah,
and then I kept writing, you know, more songs, and
way Home was one of those, and I wrote really
quickly and said, yep, that's gonna be on the project
for sure. Um, and so yeah, It's just it was
a process. Let's return to the pile here. Uh. First
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of all, I'm I'm sensing that you, as a songwriter
or anybody in this town has to have some thick
skin because you've got a song that you really like
it pitched to Aldies just yeah, I don't even know
if he responded to that, to that text again, thick
skin you gotta I mean you get turned down and
you have to keep going though if you're going to succeed.
So where do you find the soul to do that? Man?
(08:26):
I don't know. I think I sort of look at
it as a challenge. When I hear no or I
don't get a response, it's kind of like, um, and
you know, most of these artists, and I get it
because I'm an artist. I mean most of the time
they'll respond and they'll say a great song, not for me,
not for this project, not for now, And I totally
get all that. So I really at this point don't
even take it personal and I just kind of move on.
(08:47):
And it's sort of the beauty and the fun of
writing and pitching songs. Um. But again, I when I
when I feel that, um, you know whatether you just
called to know and whatever capacity that is, it kind
of motivates me, you know. And I think that's part
of this solo project in a sense. Um. You know,
at the very beginning when the conversations were being had,
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I mean I remember hearing what you guys have built.
It's incredible. You'll never be able to do that do
that again? You know you can't, you know, solo careers
never work, blah blah blah. And I was hearing some
of this stuff and that was like I was like, Okay,
well I'm definitely gonna try it now, so a good
(09:30):
time listen. More good times are on the way. Tour
dates are still on Tyler's books, but this time as
part of Keith Urban's Speed of Now tour. So coming up,
we'll get the now speed of Tyler's real life. It
seems every day it's an adventure, yes, and of course
straight from Tyler himself, the events that led up to
(09:52):
him and Brian Kelly taking a break from Florida, Georgia line.
Why did it happen? We'll find out next. I mentioned
slowing down speed awhile ago, which brings us to the
point that got in just a few weeks. You're joining
the Speed of Now to speed it up a little
this fall. So with everything going on with you, you know,
(10:12):
the new music and then the big full album coming
out in January, we hear the tour and all of that.
I mean, what is your speed of now at this point?
Like your personal speed of now? Good question. It's the
exact opposite of what I'll talk about in thirty five
it's very it's very fast paced, to be honest. If
I can find a day or an afternoon to slow down,
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then that's I'll take what I can get right now.
It's but I really operate well at this pace. I
do love it, and that's why I gotta be careful,
because if if I'm not careful, I'll just go a
hundred miles an hour until I'm burned out. You are,
You're like this wide ope, You're amazing, this wide open
kind of guy. Yeah, I do enjoy this pace. Um,
but also I'm balancing being a husband and a dad
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as well as starting a career and being a songwriter.
So I have to look at my schedule every can
make sure it's somewhat in balance some weeks or worse
than others. And you know, this week, for example, I'm
not home a whole lot. I'm super busy. So you know,
I'll definitely try to balance that out a little bit
next week. But it's it's just the uh, it's playing
that game, you know, the balancing of the of the
(11:16):
the hats and the different responsibilities and trying to make sure, um,
I kind of check all the boxes and do it all.
But you're if you're not touring, your songwriting, you're recording.
Tell me about your average to day yesterday. You did
you have a normal life at all of yesterday? Did
you did you do laundry? Did you go to Walmart?
What did you do? No? I didn't do any of that,
but I did have a while day. I woke up
(11:37):
at three fifteen in the morning. I was in Vegas
because we played the show the night before, and I
needed to get home, and I didn't want to get
home at ten because there was another flight that I
could have got home at ten pm. But again, I
knew this week was really busy. I had one afternoon,
I went to the kids school and hung out with
the kids yesterday, so I needed to get home. So
I woke up at three thirty, got on a five
(11:58):
thirty flight or five five thirty flight, flew back home,
went straight into uh, hanging with the kiddos and and
then doing the thing, and then last night we uh
what did we do after that? Oh? Yeah, we took
me and my wife. We took our son Luca on
a on a date because he filled his pom pom jar,
which means he was you know, we were rewarding good behavior,
(12:19):
and so that was you know, we kind of just
had a family day yesterday and then I went to
bed as early as I could because I had another
long day to day. But uh, it's not normal, but
it's really fun and I appreciate Sundays. We'll just say
that you have a song and I'm hoping it's going
to be on the big album in January called Way Home.
(12:41):
There's a line in there that just kills me about
having a little more rock capital R in your role.
So I mean I sat there and just listen to
that over and over again. I thought, Man, that is
what we all need. But how do you do that
in this business? How do you surrender your life but
(13:03):
have the control you need to have in the music.
That's a great question. Uh. I've really tried. I've really
tried to lean into letting go a little bit more
and not holding on so tight. I can be like
we all can. You know, you try to control your destiny.
You try to control you know, your your decisions and
your song choices, and your shows and your ticket sales
(13:24):
and your streaming numbers and your content. You try to
control it all. And at the end of the day,
we're really not in control. And that's what that song
is a daily reminder for me, because I get caught
up real quick and thinking I can control the day
and I can make you know, um, and I learned
pretty quickly that's not the case. And so for me,
that song is just a great reminder of, hey, don't
stress as much, let go a little bit. That's why
(13:45):
you got Jesus in the first place. He's got you.
He's going to guide you through the day and through
the week and through the years. So just just let
it ride. And and to me, it just uh takes
a lot of pressure off, you know, it really does.
So I think it's important and it's a foundation for me.
It's the found dation of all that stuff to joy,
the peace, the you know, trying to deal with the
pace of life and the anxiety and things like that.
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So it's it's definitely an important part of my life.
And I think that song kind of uh, you know,
explains it well. And like I said, it's a great
reminder for me. That's a hard balance. It's like, how
do you know when to keep doing something and when
to stop and let go? That's the hard part. Have
you figured it out? No? And as soon as I
think I have the next day, I'm like, Nope, didn't
(14:27):
have that figured out, I thought, did? I like, everybody
needs a bar, which I think is probably gonna be
somebody's campaign theme, probably it's mine. Do you have any
unusual bar stories in the history of with just the
music industry, we spent a lot of nights and bars. Um,
you started laughing. So I know you have a lot
(14:49):
of memory, a lot of memories that I don't remember, uh,
from bars um to be honest, but you know we
I do. I actually really a lot of great nostalgic
man reason just being down on to Mumbre and somebody
was just talking to me about it recently. Where's your
where's your bar? You know? Or where was your bar?
And I just remember coming up being in college and
and even you know, out of college, playing the bars
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and stuff and going downtown and being at Tin Roof
on the Mumbria back when across the street was a
parking lot and it wasn't condos right below the Naked
Statue exactly, uh, And we just spent a lot of time.
They're hanging out and playing music and goofing off and
probably having way too many jack and cokes and uh,
no specific stories, but you know, it was just always
(15:32):
a good time. Every time I passed by there, I'm like, yeah,
that was that was a good that was a good
season ten years ago. I can't do it anymore. I'll
try every now and then it just doesn't work. Okay,
I'm not naming names, but we have actually had an
artist say that in the wee hours of the morning,
just to say they did it. They got naked at
the naked statue. Really, did you ever do it or
(15:52):
consider it? I've never done that. No, no bucket list. Yeah,
put that on your bucket. Yeah, hey, okay, let's let's talk.
I can see that. I can see the headline now.
I know that individuals or Florida Church a Line have
your own solo things going. I know you still have
(16:13):
some shows on the books and things like that. After
that one. Well, we do have a couple uh F
g L shows. I think we have five or six
left festivals that were that we've committed to that we're
finishing um this month. And then man, it's a percent
solo for both of us. Were uh, I'm out on
the Keith Urban Tour. Like like we mentioned, and then
(16:33):
album in January, and then I'm gonna be touring that
album all next year. And uh yeah, I'm really having
so much fun doing this and you know, having this
individuality that you know, I'm a hundred and ten percent
in and I'm gonna do it until the wheels fall off.
So I'm excited. Good for you, Thank you. You know
what it seems like after ten years of such monstrous
(16:53):
success you start to be out of ideas and out
of energy. It seems completely the opposite. It's like you're renewed,
re energized. I think so I feel that way, and
and I think it's a combination of things. I mean,
I think we were slightly burned out after ten years
agoing as hard as we did. I think the pandemic
was a hard reset for us. And it was also
(17:16):
a reevaluation of what we want to do next. You know,
we were we were at our fifth album. We we're
finishing up our record deal. UM, so it was sort
of a fork in the road. What's the next chapter
looked like? Um? And so for us, you know, well,
b K decided let's let's do the solo thing. I
really he really wanted to do the solo thing, and
so I, uh, you know, I accepted that and supported
(17:42):
him in that and found myself, Okay, I get it,
let's let's do the solo thing. Um. And with that
came a wave of new energy and a wave of
um excitement and joy and fulfillment and a new team
which also added to that. So you put all those
things in the mixing bowl, and like you said, I
feel can need a neat, brand new artist or a
kid on Christmas. Every day when I wake up, I'm
(18:03):
so excited and and that's what feels the creativity, and
that's what fuels the show and the energy, and so it's, uh,
it feels good to have that all joy, no fear
pretty much pretty much ninety five percent joy, maybe five
percent fear. There's I'd be lying if there's no fear,
But that keeps exactly and the excitement really overrides the fear.
(18:23):
But there needs to be a little bit of that nervousness.
I think, Yeah, Tyler, you've got to go. I do yeh,
that's great news. You've been cut off back to see
the kiddos. Yeah, he's gonna go. Can you imagine that
that Flighty Headmen from Vegas at three o'clock in the
morning for the kids and all that. He's He's very
(18:46):
dedicated to his family. He's very dedicated to this new
effort to UM. You can sense the excitement he has
with the five ft nine song already accomplishing things on
the chart for him. I think it's a great launch.
And of course Brian, on the other hand, had the
musical May We All. I saw it down at Pitency
Performing Arts Center, and I saw somewhere the other day
(19:07):
a booking agency has picked up on it, so they're
gonna be trying to tour that and turn it into
a musical and maybe try to go for New York.
Who knows you well, Brian has a lot of beach
music coming out, so they're both doing their things, so
to speak. Tyler Hubbard the EP Dancing in the Country,
full album to come, and in the meantime, we do
(19:27):
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