October 14, 2025 • 21 mins
Rising country artist Timothy Wayne unveils his highly anticipated new single, "GOOD OLE BOYS GIRL," now available on all major streaming platforms. Produced by icon Tim McGraw (his uncle) and Grammy winning producer Byron Gallimore and written by Stephen Paul, Bryce Mauldin, and Tyler Chambers, the track delivers a heartfelt narrative through from the perspective of a good ole boy in love, capturing all the ways he sees and appreciates his girl. Blending timeless storytelling with a fresh, modern sound, "GOOD OLE BOYS GIRL" marks Wayne's fifth single and continues to showcase his growing presence in the country music scene."This is one of those songs that just makes you feel good," says Wayne. "It's got that kind of story behind it that once someone hears it, it brings a special person to mind and makes them smile. It's the kind of song you can roll down your windows, listen to, and sing along with."With each release, Wayne continues to build momentum, earning praise for his heartfelt lyrics, soulful vocals, and commanding stage presence. "GOOD OLE BOYS GIRL" further solidifies his status as one of country music's most promising new voices-balancing authenticity with a fresh, contemporary edge. The track celebrates small-town roots and traditional country values, while honoring a woman who embodies them-family-oriented, humble and grounded in a genuine love for her and the simple things in life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
That is the best profile I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
That's just a dude with long hair. I don't know
what we're gonna do with him. Tell him to get
a haircut.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That thing is that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, you understand what I was trying to do because
you're always trying to create that moment where someone says, Okay,
I'll listen to this podcast because the picture here looks right.
I'll judge this book by its cover.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, yeah, I would listen to it.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So what do you deal with when it comes to
that kind of marketing, because I mean, you seem to
be the type of person that goes, look, I need
to see everything. I know I trust you, but I
want to see what you guys are putting out there
that is my name on it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I go through.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I'm pretty picky about what goes out, especially well.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm only picky in the sense of I want to
be authentic.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I don't want to put out anything, whether it be
a press release or just pressed, a social media post,
or anything that's not authentic.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I don't like scripted stuff can go through my social media.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You can tell that I do not read scripts. It
gets It actually gets on some some of my partner's
nerves because they're like, would you stop bouncing around when
you talk on your Instagram posts? And I might know
it's authentic. I bounce around anyways. Uh. I like everything
being authentic, So so long as it's authentic and true
(01:42):
to me and a good representation of me, it usually
goes out.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
What are you gonna do with a radio station program
director that's going to tell you we are liner card
reading this morning? Come on, Timothy, I need you to
read these lines.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Liners are fine.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Liners are a are a that I have to deal with.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I suck at liners, absolutely, I have I have a
I wouldn't say visceral hatred, but I have a visceral
dislike of some liners, especially eight line liners. Oh my god, yeah,
don't even get me started on those those are those
my roommates that have to listen to me do those
sometimes when it comes to songs and I have to say,
(02:24):
hey guys or hey all, this is Timothy Wayne.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Check out my new song and will be released d
D D DA at this time. Da da da da
da da Eastern time Da da da da da da yep,
And I'll mess somewhere.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Along the way and have to redo it about six
or seven times, and then finally I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh my god. How about those program directors that sit
in because you say, I'll do a page of voiceover
work for you, and then they put it in the
tiniest print and there must be like forty or fifty
things you have to read on there. It's like, come on, please.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I just got I just grabbed my mom's glasses. Fine glass.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You know you were talking about being authentic. I got
to tell you that video really grab my heart. And
the reason because I grew up in the state of
Montana and we ranched in Ranchester, Wyoming. So to see
that modern day ranch that you feature, because that's the
way it really is. It's no longer about the leaning
barn or anything like that. That's a beautiful picture of Americana.
But but the modern day barn needs to have the
love that you shared inside this video.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Which one which picture we well, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The video word opens up with the ranch and you've
got the garages and you've got the barns, And it
reminds me so much of how we had to go
through that evolution in Ranchester about it, you know that
will barn down there. I realized we've milked a million
cows in there. But the problem is, though, is that
we've got to have something for the ATVs now. We
so in other words, we weren't going out to the
fields anymore to get the horses to round them up
so we could go get the cattle or feed them.
(03:40):
It was about getting down that ATV and get those
damn cattle fed.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Shoot, yes, although I prefer horseback.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Do you really good for you?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I have been riding since I was too I am,
by no means a cowboy. I don't claim to be.
I didn't rodeo, parents didn't let me, although I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Always kind of wanted to. But I love love riding.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
To me, there's no better feeling than waking up in
the morning, saddling up a horse and hopping on and
going to work. Now, granted, I have not worked any
cattle on horseback. I couldn't tell you in how long,
just because I just haven't done that work. I've been
at college and I've been touring, so I haven't really
been able to work a lot of cattle recently. But yeah,
(04:30):
I actually do prefer doing that stuff on horseback. It's well,
I mean, not really feeding them.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
On horseback, but working on on horseback it's fun.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah. Do you ever get out and do that in
the cities that you travel into, because that seems i
could be a great adventure that you know, you're not
going on until nine o'clock tonight. Let's say, Coyote Joe's
here in Charlotte and then all of a sudden, you know,
so you got you got six hours. Okay, Well, let
me go ride somewhere so I can so I can
get my head straight, you.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Know, I need to start. That's a good idea. I
haven't really thought about that.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Usually I'm so caught up and going to the gym
and getting all my getting all their clothes and stuff
right for stage that I hadn't really I hadn't really
thought about that's a good idea that I need to
keep in my back pocket though, finding a place where
I could go horseback riding when I have that much time.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So when you're writing lyrics, do you ever giggle? And
the reason why I bring that up is because I
love this lyric about how you know if she don't
go a day without calling her mama? Oh my god,
we've all been there. Why are you talking to your
mom again? Please? This is about us. I mean, I
love that line because I think we all deal with it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh yeah, I didn't write I didn't write good old
Boys girl, But yeah, I do giggle whenever I do
write lines, especially when when you're in the early stages
of a song, in like the first four or five minutes,
you've got the melody picked out and drink. Going over lyrics,
you'll come up with some funny stuff. Some stuff can't
be repeated on air, but you will come up with
(05:50):
some funny lines, and uh it does you do get
You do have a lot of fun when you giggle
a lot when you're writing a song.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is toying around with words is such a game. I
always call it a brain game. Just get in there
and just just figure out how you can do something
that's unique. It's the same subject over and over again,
but through your own writing or somebody else's writing, you
can take a different step.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Absolutely, wow.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So first I'll give you a good example. You talking
about a cane pull and a bobber right away, I'm
sitting there going, oh my god. We used to go
out and we would cut the willows, put a line
on it, and then get a bobber and a hook
and go catch whatever we could inside the lakes.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So we used to use I had to.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I had to explain this to a friend of mine
because he goes, what in the world he grew up
in South Louisiana but didn't know. Although I'm going to
catch flak for this, New Orleans, I always say New
Orleans is like the New York of the South. Well,
actually Atlanta would be the New York of the South.
But New Orleans is when you grow up in New Orleans,
you're not necessarily growing up in the country. You're just
(06:55):
growing up in the South. Right, That makes sense, and
the two are not mutually exclusive. But he he asked me,
he called me, he goes, what in the world was
a cane pole? I said, did you grew up in
South Losian and you just asked me what a cane
bowl is?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh boy, I'm gonna be talking about this for years.
So I had to explain explain it to him what
it was.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And Uh, in Tennessee, we actually have a it's there.
It's pretty much everywhere now. But we had a pretty
healthy population of bamboo. Unfortunately, yeah, uh, because it's invasive
and it's a pain in the rear and to get
rid of. But we used to cut the bamboo bamboo
by our pond and I would take super long, uh,
super long bamboo poles. And I mean those are technically
(07:37):
cane poles, but uh, because we have much sugar cane
in Tennessee, at least in around Franklin, so there's not
really any sugar cane where we're at to make an
actual cane pole.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So the bamboo work's just as good.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh my good. Bamboo is like kudzoo here in the
in Charlotte, because I mean, if you get kudzoo or bamboo, man,
they want that stuff gone because it will grow like a.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Wee ROAs man. I've got scar all over my shins.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And had we had this bamboo that we would take
all these sticks from it and make and make rods,
but also we were trying to get it off the
edge of our pond yea. And one day I just
got fed up, so I put a blade on the
end of the weed eater and.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I was hacking it, hacking it, hacking it, hacking. No, no,
I take it back. That was after I got injured.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I just had string and I just put a lot
of string inside the weed eater and I was hacking it.
But somebody else had the blade, and I was tired
of the bamboo. So I was cutting it up and
it was spitting back at me, and it was going,
it was embedding itself. I still have scars all in
my shins from it and then on my stomach and
going inside and me.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It was pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, a lot of people don't understand that how sharp
it can be that bamboo, especially if you're cutting it back,
and then all of a sudden you have to go
walking through that area because now you've expanded your land,
and it's saying you're tripping over those little stumps that
are on the ground and got you used come up.
You come up with some of the most creative cuss words.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I swear, Oh yeah, you come up with work.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well, you know, one of them suckers come back and
pop you in the middle of the forehead at at
mock whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, yeah, please do not move. There's more with singer
songwriter Timothy Wayne coming up next. Hey, thanks for coming
back to my conversation with singer songwriter Timothy Wayne. Now,
you being a senior at LSU, I got to ask
you a question. Is there any possible way we can
get you to start supporting you know, Duke or Carolina
or anything like that, because we're always talking about you
guys at LSU.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm pretty stout with LSU.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah. I mean it's so funny that I swear to God,
we talk about l s U more here in the
South than we do our own college teams. And I
think it's because you guys are such a threat to
us that and we know that somewhere along the line
we're gonna have to bump heads.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, I mean we always do, right. Did you say
you're in North Carolina?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah. Didn't we just play all baseball? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, you know that's actually what I love about the
SEC and just just the sports in the South in
general is theirs. There's a lot of sense of competition,
but there's also a lot of sense of camaraderie. Like
just just this weekend with the South Carolina game. I mean,
you can walk around and you'll see red mixed in
with purple and golden, which is awesome. So I'll support
(10:26):
y'all at tailgates, just not during the game, but yeah, y'all, y'all,
y'all are obsessed with us.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I don't know why. It's almost like y'all really are. Yeah,
you know, just.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I mean, they could, they could farm you guys out
to the Carolina has put up a whole new university
and it would be a whole complete different like lifestyle
here in the Carolina is it'd be like Duke what Well,
I don't know, I'm just going to LSU because they're
building here. Yeah, they're supporting local, that's what they're doing.
They're supporting local.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now, speaking of baseball, one of the things that I've learned, Timothy,
and I'm sure that you you might be seeing this
as well, what is it about baseball and songwriters and music?
Because I'm seeing a lot of because I'll talk with
the with these artists. Yeah, I was in baseball. WHOA,
what what is it about being on that field that
I'm seeing a lot of musicians that came from baseball.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I have no.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I did not play baseball when I was younger. However,
my uncle did, and my older brother, Matthew did. Matthew
played football and baseball in high school, so I grew
up watching him.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I never played sports.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I just I did mix sponsal arts for a little while,
but never competed.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
But I do not. I'm involved in it, and I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It's like there is a special bond between baseball and music,
especially right now. I mean, we just had to show
up in Bristol, Tennessee with the MLB at the Bristol
Motor Speedway and that was a country music and MLB
affair and uh, it's it's really it's really interesting how baseball.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And then I did the championship for l SU.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The we the presentation of the championship trophy to lshu's
baseball team last year or I guess over the summer.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I was a part of that. There is a it's
a weird it's awesome. I love it. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But you're right, there is a weird relationship between baseball
and especially country music.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I feel like.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It seems like somebody that plays baseball leaves baseball and
joins country music or it's it's it's it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well, it kind of reminds me of what Dolly Parton said.
She says, you know, country music, all it is storytelling.
It's news headlines. And I always figure that baseball is
all about localism, it's about storytelling because everybody's got a
baseball story.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh my god, yep, yeah, I would agree with that.
I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I always tell people the same thing is that, first
and foremost country music is storytelling. It's a story that
needs to be told or hasn't been told, or maybe
it's been told a thousand times.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, this is just another place.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah. So there's something here that that really kind My
attention about you is that Whalon Jennings has played a
major role in the creation of your your sound, and
and you know, I've been talking with Scott g who's
doing the autobiography of Whylon Jennings, and so when I
saw your name on there, I went, oh my god.
Even today Whalen is still Whalen.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah. I always loved the way the way that those
guitars were. I don't I don't really know how to
describe that sound, but when you hear a Whalen guitar,
you know it's whalan.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah. I love that tone.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So for a couple of my songs, I tried to
put some Whalen tone inside of them. And uh, he
was really just one of my watching videos of him
on stage. The way he interacted crowd, the way his
story told was also something that I drew inspiration from.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
So it is uh, it's it's you.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's a I'm trying to figure out how to form
into words. It's just a unique sound, and I think
everybody loves and gravitates towards which is why I think
Whalen was so popular when he was alive. It's it's
just a unique tone.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, I never felt threatened by his music. I always
felt like that, hey, I'm going to sit here and
jam out to this song. You're more of a welcome
to stay, and there's a big chance you're going to
discover my friend Willie.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, there's a big chance that you're gonna
smell a freight train coming.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, but don't you think that's because if you trace
the roots of country music all the way back every singer, songwriter,
performer of that era and even today, even with you
being here today, because you believe in the connection of
sharing a journey with those that are picking up your music.
It's because once we now hear your song, it's like, oh,
there's a different meaning to it now, because I've heard Timothy.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Absolutely absolutely, I excuse me. I believe very strongly in
the bond between singer and listener, especially at concerts. I
was talking a while ago with another in another interview
or in another conversation that singers or a performers job
(15:12):
is to tell a story, but to also make sure
that all of those that when somebody is listening to
that music, is to make sure that that's all that
they're thinking about in that moment. It doesn't matter what's
on CNN or what's on Fox or ABC or whatever.
It's in that moment when they're listening to the music,
that's what they need to be worried about. And that's
(15:32):
our job is to take them there and to build
a relationship with them, to make sure they're having a
good time, and make sure that they are they feel
like they're a part of the show. Make sure that
they feel like they're on stage. Yeah, and they're jamming
out with you, which is I think what Whalan did
a lot a lot of is everybody thought they were
just kind of like part of the show.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah, yeah, Well don't you think that relationship also starts
with sweet tea? And I mean you being over there
at LSU, I would love to know you do your
sweet I mean, do you let it sit out there
in the sun like we do here in Carolina.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No, no, not not typically, but there is a buttload
of sugar.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I was like, I'm so glad you brought that up
because I just for the fun of it, we were
doing a thing for to help raise some funds. It
was out of Panthers game and I and they put
me inside the Bojangles booth and we had to make
the tea. Oh my god, when it came to that
with that sugar, that was a wake up call to me.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Dude, No, I needn't to stop drinking all this. Yeah,
I always I'm just gonna go on an extra run
and it'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So now are you at least giving yourself the opportunity
to dream about what stage you would like to perform on,
Because that's one of the things that I did, is
being a part of that garage band. You know, it's like, oh, yeah,
we're gonna make it to the Shrine Auditorium. That's our
big dream. What is your dream?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Uh? The either the Rymond or I would love to
play the Rhyming Auditorium, opry Mills would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
To the Grand old Opry House Red Rocks, though I.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Think it's in Colorado, right, Yes, that seem I had
never been, only ever seen pictures. A friend of mine
went to a concert there and he said it was
unbelievable and I would love to play there. Like that
is that is definitely a dream menu. But also I
just recently went to Vegas iHeart for the iHeart Radio
(17:33):
Music Festival and I got here and I would love
to play the Sphere as well.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That would be awesome to me.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That is like we have stepped into the future. Just
give me a flying car now so I can really
embrace where we're going, because I do like the Sphere.
I just love everything about it.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
To make flying boats now I'm seeing this all over
Instagram and Facebook. Of this, like the wings fold up
and it can fit four people in it and it
lands in the water.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Use it as a boat. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So now, what are you learning from this particular journey,
because it always seems like country music is the art
of several levels. In other words, everything is a brand
new chapter, and you keep pushing forward because I mean,
there's gonna be a day like even when Dan and
Shay came into the studio, I said, guys, you came
in this room just wearing hats and nobody knew who
you are, and now look at you and Timothy's gonna
be the same thing. I'm gonna be talking with you
(18:24):
in five to ten years and I'm gonna say we
were talking one day about T and LSU and it's
gonna be like, how did time move that quickly?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh, We'll still be talking about T and LS. We'll
still be talking about I'll probably have some sweet tea,
woun't they. I'm actually now you mentioned that. Now I'm
wanting sweet tea and I don't have any around me.
I'm gonna have to make some.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well that Dave Morgan Wallin has it has sweet tea
in a can. I need you to give me some
sweet tea in a can.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Man. No, it's got to be the it's gotta be
cane sugar from the cell nice in a jug.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Anyways, music is this journey has taught me a lot.
It's taught me how to be a better person. It's
taught me how to be It definitely taught me how
to be more patient. But it's also uh part of
a good thing and a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's taught me how to read people better. I always
tell about a young artist.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I mean I am a young artist, but other people
that are coming up when they whenever they ask me
for advice, which I don't know why they're asking me
for advice, but okay, I always tell them, is keep
your family close and make sure that everybody is at
arms at arms length, because there's a lot of people
(19:45):
in this industry that will be your friend one second
and in the next second they are they are hitting
the back of your head with a baseball bat, and
you've got to be really careful with that. Unfortunately, even
even for five years into this, you experienced it pretty
pretty early on, and uh, it's unfortunate. But it happens
(20:07):
and you just got to keep pushing through. So it's
it teaches you to be more vigilant, but it also
teaches you to be a better person because you see
the way those people operate and you think to yourself,
I don't want to ever operate that uh, And so
it's uh and it teaches you to I would say
it's taught me to be uh more grounded because it's
(20:27):
a it's a prival. What I get to do for
work is a privilege.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
It's not right.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Not a lot of people get to do this for
work and God will and this works it out for me.
But this, this is a it's a dream and a privilege.
So it also has taught me in that retrospect to
be more grounded because I get to do something that
not a lot of people get to do and that
they want to do, but they don't get to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I get to. So it's uh, it's important to stay
with two feet on the ground.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I love where your heart is, dude. When you come
to the Carolina, we got to get together for some
sweet tea. I'll show you some.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Good stuff, absolutely excellent.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
That is the best profile I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
That's just a dude with long hair. I don't know
what we're gonna do with him. Tell him to get
a haircut.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
That thing is that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, you understand what I was trying to do because
you're always trying to create that moment where someone says, Okay,
I'll listen to this podcast because the picture here looks right.
I'll judge this book by its cover.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, yeah, I would listen to it.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So what do you deal with when it comes to
that kind of marketing, because I mean, you seem to
be the type of person that goes, look, I need
to see everything. I know I trust you, but I
want to see what you guys are putting out there
that is my name on it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I go through.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I'm pretty picky about what goes out, especially well.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'm only picky in the sense of I want to
be authentic.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I don't want to put out anything, whether it be
a press release or just pressed, a social media post,
or anything that's not authentic.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I don't like scripted stuff can go through my social media.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You can tell that I do not read scripts. It
gets It actually gets on some some of my partner's
nerves because they're like, would you stop bouncing around when
you talk on your Instagram posts? And I might know
it's authentic. I bounce around anyways. Uh. I like everything
being authentic, So so long as it's authentic and true
(01:42):
to me and a good representation of me, it usually
goes out.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
What are you gonna do with a radio station program
director that's going to tell you we are liner card
reading this morning? Come on, Timothy, I need you to
read these lines.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Liners are fine.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Liners are a are a that I have to deal with.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I suck at liners, absolutely, I have I have a
I wouldn't say visceral hatred, but I have a visceral
dislike of some liners, especially eight line liners. Oh my god, yeah,
don't even get me started on those those are those
my roommates that have to listen to me do those
sometimes when it comes to songs and I have to say,
(02:24):
hey guys or hey all, this is Timothy Wayne.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Check out my new song and will be released d
D D DA at this time. Da da da da
da da Eastern time Da da da da da da yep,
And I'll mess somewhere.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Along the way and have to redo it about six
or seven times, and then finally I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh my god. How about those program directors that sit
in because you say, I'll do a page of voiceover
work for you, and then they put it in the
tiniest print and there must be like forty or fifty
things you have to read on there. It's like, come on, please.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I just got I just grabbed my mom's glasses. Fine glass.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You know you were talking about being authentic. I got
to tell you that video really grab my heart. And
the reason because I grew up in the state of
Montana and we ranched in Ranchester, Wyoming. So to see
that modern day ranch that you feature, because that's the
way it really is. It's no longer about the leaning
barn or anything like that. That's a beautiful picture of Americana.
But but the modern day barn needs to have the
love that you shared inside this video.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Which one which picture we well, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The video word opens up with the ranch and you've
got the garages and you've got the barns, And it
reminds me so much of how we had to go
through that evolution in Ranchester about it, you know that
will barn down there. I realized we've milked a million
cows in there. But the problem is, though, is that
we've got to have something for the ATVs now. We
so in other words, we weren't going out to the
fields anymore to get the horses to round them up
so we could go get the cattle or feed them.
(03:40):
It was about getting down that ATV and get those
damn cattle fed.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Shoot, yes, although I prefer horseback.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Do you really good for you?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I have been riding since I was too I am,
by no means a cowboy. I don't claim to be.
I didn't rodeo, parents didn't let me, although I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Always kind of wanted to. But I love love riding.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
To me, there's no better feeling than waking up in
the morning, saddling up a horse and hopping on and
going to work. Now, granted, I have not worked any
cattle on horseback. I couldn't tell you in how long,
just because I just haven't done that work. I've been
at college and I've been touring, so I haven't really
been able to work a lot of cattle recently. But yeah,
(04:30):
I actually do prefer doing that stuff on horseback. It's well,
I mean, not really feeding them.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
On horseback, but working on on horseback it's fun.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah. Do you ever get out and do that in
the cities that you travel into, because that seems i
could be a great adventure that you know, you're not
going on until nine o'clock tonight. Let's say, Coyote Joe's
here in Charlotte and then all of a sudden, you know,
so you got you got six hours. Okay, Well, let
me go ride somewhere so I can so I can
get my head straight, you.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Know, I need to start. That's a good idea. I
haven't really thought about that.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Usually I'm so caught up and going to the gym
and getting all my getting all their clothes and stuff
right for stage that I hadn't really I hadn't really
thought about that's a good idea that I need to
keep in my back pocket though, finding a place where
I could go horseback riding when I have that much time.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So when you're writing lyrics, do you ever giggle? And
the reason why I bring that up is because I
love this lyric about how you know if she don't
go a day without calling her mama? Oh my god,
we've all been there. Why are you talking to your
mom again? Please? This is about us. I mean, I
love that line because I think we all deal with it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh yeah, I didn't write I didn't write good old
Boys girl, But yeah, I do giggle whenever I do
write lines, especially when when you're in the early stages
of a song, in like the first four or five minutes,
you've got the melody picked out and drink. Going over lyrics,
you'll come up with some funny stuff. Some stuff can't
be repeated on air, but you will come up with
(05:50):
some funny lines, and uh it does you do get
You do have a lot of fun when you giggle
a lot when you're writing a song.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is toying around with words is such a game. I
always call it a brain game. Just get in there
and just just figure out how you can do something
that's unique. It's the same subject over and over again,
but through your own writing or somebody else's writing, you
can take a different step.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Absolutely, wow.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So first I'll give you a good example. You talking
about a cane pull and a bobber right away, I'm
sitting there going, oh my god. We used to go
out and we would cut the willows, put a line
on it, and then get a bobber and a hook
and go catch whatever we could inside the lakes.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So we used to use I had to.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I had to explain this to a friend of mine
because he goes, what in the world he grew up
in South Louisiana but didn't know. Although I'm going to
catch flak for this, New Orleans, I always say New
Orleans is like the New York of the South. Well,
actually Atlanta would be the New York of the South.
But New Orleans is when you grow up in New Orleans,
you're not necessarily growing up in the country. You're just
(06:55):
growing up in the South. Right, That makes sense, and
the two are not mutually exclusive. But he he asked me,
he called me, he goes, what in the world was
a cane pole? I said, did you grew up in
South Losian and you just asked me what a cane
bowl is?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh boy, I'm gonna be talking about this for years.
So I had to explain explain it to him what
it was.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And Uh, in Tennessee, we actually have a it's there.
It's pretty much everywhere now. But we had a pretty
healthy population of bamboo. Unfortunately, yeah, uh, because it's invasive
and it's a pain in the rear and to get
rid of. But we used to cut the bamboo bamboo
by our pond and I would take super long, uh,
super long bamboo poles. And I mean those are technically
(07:37):
cane poles, but uh, because we have much sugar cane
in Tennessee, at least in around Franklin, so there's not
really any sugar cane where we're at to make an
actual cane pole.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
So the bamboo work's just as good.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh my good. Bamboo is like kudzoo here in the
in Charlotte, because I mean, if you get kudzoo or bamboo, man,
they want that stuff gone because it will grow like a.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Wee ROAs man. I've got scar all over my shins.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And had we had this bamboo that we would take
all these sticks from it and make and make rods,
but also we were trying to get it off the
edge of our pond yea. And one day I just
got fed up, so I put a blade on the
end of the weed eater and.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I was hacking it, hacking it, hacking it, hacking. No, no,
I take it back. That was after I got injured.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I just had string and I just put a lot
of string inside the weed eater and I was hacking it.
But somebody else had the blade, and I was tired
of the bamboo. So I was cutting it up and
it was spitting back at me, and it was going,
it was embedding itself. I still have scars all in
my shins from it and then on my stomach and
going inside and me.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It was pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, a lot of people don't understand that how sharp
it can be that bamboo, especially if you're cutting it back,
and then all of a sudden you have to go
walking through that area because now you've expanded your land,
and it's saying you're tripping over those little stumps that
are on the ground and got you used come up.
You come up with some of the most creative cuss words.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I swear, Oh yeah, you come up with work.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well, you know, one of them suckers come back and
pop you in the middle of the forehead at at
mock whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, yeah, please do not move. There's more with singer
songwriter Timothy Wayne coming up next. Hey, thanks for coming
back to my conversation with singer songwriter Timothy Wayne. Now,
you being a senior at LSU, I got to ask
you a question. Is there any possible way we can
get you to start supporting you know, Duke or Carolina
or anything like that, because we're always talking about you
guys at LSU.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm pretty stout with LSU.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah. I mean it's so funny that I swear to God,
we talk about l s U more here in the
South than we do our own college teams. And I
think it's because you guys are such a threat to
us that and we know that somewhere along the line
we're gonna have to bump heads.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, I mean we always do, right. Did you say
you're in North Carolina?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah. Didn't we just play all baseball? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, you know that's actually what I love about the
SEC and just just the sports in the South in
general is theirs. There's a lot of sense of competition,
but there's also a lot of sense of camaraderie. Like
just just this weekend with the South Carolina game. I mean,
you can walk around and you'll see red mixed in
with purple and golden, which is awesome. So I'll support
(10:26):
y'all at tailgates, just not during the game, but yeah, y'all, y'all,
y'all are obsessed with us.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I don't know why. It's almost like y'all really are. Yeah,
you know, just.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I mean, they could, they could farm you guys out
to the Carolina has put up a whole new university
and it would be a whole complete different like lifestyle
here in the Carolina is it'd be like Duke what Well,
I don't know, I'm just going to LSU because they're
building here. Yeah, they're supporting local, that's what they're doing.
They're supporting local.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Now, speaking of baseball, one of the things that I've learned, Timothy,
and I'm sure that you you might be seeing this
as well, what is it about baseball and songwriters and music?
Because I'm seeing a lot of because I'll talk with
the with these artists. Yeah, I was in baseball. WHOA,
what what is it about being on that field that
I'm seeing a lot of musicians that came from baseball.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I have no.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I did not play baseball when I was younger. However,
my uncle did, and my older brother, Matthew did. Matthew
played football and baseball in high school, so I grew
up watching him.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I never played sports.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I just I did mix sponsal arts for a little while,
but never competed.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
But I do not. I'm involved in it, and I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It's like there is a special bond between baseball and music,
especially right now. I mean, we just had to show
up in Bristol, Tennessee with the MLB at the Bristol
Motor Speedway and that was a country music and MLB
affair and uh, it's it's really it's really interesting how baseball.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And then I did the championship for l SU.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The we the presentation of the championship trophy to lshu's
baseball team last year or I guess over the summer.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I was a part of that. There is a it's
a weird it's awesome. I love it. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But you're right, there is a weird relationship between baseball
and especially country music.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I feel like.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It seems like somebody that plays baseball leaves baseball and
joins country music or it's it's it's it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well, it kind of reminds me of what Dolly Parton said.
She says, you know, country music, all it is storytelling.
It's news headlines. And I always figure that baseball is
all about localism, it's about storytelling because everybody's got a
baseball story.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Oh my god, yep, yeah, I would agree with that.
I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I always tell people the same thing is that, first
and foremost country music is storytelling. It's a story that
needs to be told or hasn't been told, or maybe
it's been told a thousand times.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, this is just another place.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah. So there's something here that that really kind My
attention about you is that Whalon Jennings has played a
major role in the creation of your your sound, and
and you know, I've been talking with Scott g who's
doing the autobiography of Whylon Jennings, and so when I
saw your name on there, I went, oh my god.
Even today Whalen is still Whalen.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah. I always loved the way the way that those
guitars were. I don't I don't really know how to
describe that sound, but when you hear a Whalen guitar,
you know it's whalan.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah. I love that tone.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So for a couple of my songs, I tried to
put some Whalen tone inside of them. And uh, he
was really just one of my watching videos of him
on stage. The way he interacted crowd, the way his
story told was also something that I drew inspiration from.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
So it is uh, it's it's you.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's a I'm trying to figure out how to form
into words. It's just a unique sound, and I think
everybody loves and gravitates towards which is why I think
Whalen was so popular when he was alive. It's it's
just a unique tone.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, I never felt threatened by his music. I always
felt like that, hey, I'm going to sit here and
jam out to this song. You're more of a welcome
to stay, and there's a big chance you're going to
discover my friend Willie.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, there's a big chance that you're gonna
smell a freight train coming.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, but don't you think that's because if you trace
the roots of country music all the way back every singer, songwriter,
performer of that era and even today, even with you
being here today, because you believe in the connection of
sharing a journey with those that are picking up your music.
It's because once we now hear your song, it's like, oh,
there's a different meaning to it now, because I've heard Timothy.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Absolutely absolutely, I excuse me. I believe very strongly in
the bond between singer and listener, especially at concerts. I
was talking a while ago with another in another interview
or in another conversation that singers or a performers job
(15:12):
is to tell a story, but to also make sure
that all of those that when somebody is listening to
that music, is to make sure that that's all that
they're thinking about in that moment. It doesn't matter what's
on CNN or what's on Fox or ABC or whatever.
It's in that moment when they're listening to the music,
that's what they need to be worried about. And that's
(15:32):
our job is to take them there and to build
a relationship with them, to make sure they're having a
good time, and make sure that they are they feel
like they're a part of the show. Make sure that
they feel like they're on stage. Yeah, and they're jamming
out with you, which is I think what Whalan did
a lot a lot of is everybody thought they were
just kind of like part of the show.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah, yeah, Well don't you think that relationship also starts
with sweet tea? And I mean you being over there
at LSU, I would love to know you do your
sweet I mean, do you let it sit out there
in the sun like we do here in Carolina.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
No, no, not not typically, but there is a buttload
of sugar.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I was like, I'm so glad you brought that up
because I just for the fun of it, we were
doing a thing for to help raise some funds. It
was out of Panthers game and I and they put
me inside the Bojangles booth and we had to make
the tea. Oh my god, when it came to that
with that sugar, that was a wake up call to me.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Dude, No, I needn't to stop drinking all this. Yeah,
I always I'm just gonna go on an extra run
and it'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So now are you at least giving yourself the opportunity
to dream about what stage you would like to perform on,
Because that's one of the things that I did, is
being a part of that garage band. You know, it's like, oh, yeah,
we're gonna make it to the Shrine Auditorium. That's our
big dream. What is your dream?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Uh? The either the Rymond or I would love to
play the Rhyming Auditorium, opry Mills would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
To the Grand old Opry House Red Rocks, though I.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Think it's in Colorado, right, Yes, that seem I had
never been, only ever seen pictures. A friend of mine
went to a concert there and he said it was
unbelievable and I would love to play there. Like that
is that is definitely a dream menu. But also I
just recently went to Vegas iHeart for the iHeart Radio
(17:33):
Music Festival and I got here and I would love
to play the Sphere as well.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That would be awesome to me.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That is like we have stepped into the future. Just
give me a flying car now so I can really
embrace where we're going, because I do like the Sphere.
I just love everything about it.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
To make flying boats now I'm seeing this all over
Instagram and Facebook. Of this, like the wings fold up
and it can fit four people in it and it
lands in the water.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Use it as a boat. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So now, what are you learning from this particular journey,
because it always seems like country music is the art
of several levels. In other words, everything is a brand
new chapter, and you keep pushing forward because I mean,
there's gonna be a day like even when Dan and
Shay came into the studio, I said, guys, you came
in this room just wearing hats and nobody knew who
you are, and now look at you and Timothy's gonna
be the same thing. I'm gonna be talking with you
(18:24):
in five to ten years and I'm gonna say we
were talking one day about T and LSU and it's
gonna be like, how did time move that quickly?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh, We'll still be talking about T and LS. We'll
still be talking about I'll probably have some sweet tea,
woun't they. I'm actually now you mentioned that. Now I'm
wanting sweet tea and I don't have any around me.
I'm gonna have to make some.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well that Dave Morgan Wallin has it has sweet tea
in a can. I need you to give me some
sweet tea in a can.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Man. No, it's got to be the it's gotta be
cane sugar from the cell nice in a jug.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Anyways, music is this journey has taught me a lot.
It's taught me how to be a better person. It's
taught me how to be It definitely taught me how
to be more patient. But it's also uh part of
a good thing and a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's taught me how to read people better. I always
tell about a young artist.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I mean I am a young artist, but other people
that are coming up when they whenever they ask me
for advice, which I don't know why they're asking me
for advice, but okay, I always tell them, is keep
your family close and make sure that everybody is at
arms at arms length, because there's a lot of people
(19:45):
in this industry that will be your friend one second
and in the next second they are they are hitting
the back of your head with a baseball bat, and
you've got to be really careful with that. Unfortunately, even
even for five years into this, you experienced it pretty
pretty early on, and uh, it's unfortunate. But it happens
(20:07):
and you just got to keep pushing through. So it's
it teaches you to be more vigilant, but it also
teaches you to be a better person because you see
the way those people operate and you think to yourself,
I don't want to ever operate that uh, And so
it's uh and it teaches you to I would say
it's taught me to be uh more grounded because it's
(20:27):
a it's a prival. What I get to do for
work is a privilege.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
It's not right.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Not a lot of people get to do this for
work and God will and this works it out for me.
But this, this is a it's a dream and a privilege.
So it also has taught me in that retrospect to
be more grounded because I get to do something that
not a lot of people get to do and that
they want to do, but they don't get to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I get to. So it's uh, it's important to stay
with two feet on the ground.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I love where your heart is, dude. When you come
to the Carolina, we got to get together for some
sweet tea. I'll show you some.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Good stuff, absolutely excellent.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Will you be brilliant today? Okay, sir, hey you too.
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