June 17, 2025 • 8 mins
On the heels of performing at Pier 6 Pavillion, Riley talks about songwriting, his bar in Nashville, duck hunting and Batting practice with the ORIOLES!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How you doing doing good? I'm Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Very nice to talk to you. By the way, you
were just here in Baltimore on Thursday at Pierre six.
Do you remember that show and they do a lot
of shows or whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Oh, yeah, no, I remember. It was great. We went
by and hit some bat and practice with the Orioles
that day and show was awesome. We had a big time.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You really did You did tell me about that you
did some batting practice with the Orioles. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, I've gotten to be pretty good buddies with the
Gunner Henderson and some of those boys, and you know,
They've come up to some shows and I've been hitting
a lot of baton practice with some major league teams
when we when we were in town and they asked
us to come by. Got to hang out with them
a little bit. And Detroit they're playing the Tigers, and
Detroit's got a guy named Riley Green on the team
as well. He's a fan, so I got to hang
(00:45):
out with him a little bit. And then we went
and played the show. Really really great ampitheaters, really pretty
over there.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, man, that was awesome. What a great show man
sold out. The crowd was just loving you. They knew
every single song. I mean it felt like a stadium
show of I don't know, like Garth Brooks or something,
but I mean it was just insane. I mean, my
wife would leanover, she's such a fan of yours, and
she'd be like, that's a country song right there. I mean,
and she doesn't even have an accent, but she put
(01:10):
it on because she was so excited about your show.
I mean, you have so many great hits. There was
this girl different around here, Georgia time worst way, of course,
congratulations on the success of that. My wife's favorite is
I wish Grandpa's never died. I mean, he was the
one that would encouraged you to pursue music, I think, right,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, My grend Daddy Bufford was a huge country music
fan and probably the main reason I'm doing what I'm
doing now. So it's cool to write a song about,
you know, your family and it be that big of
a song. I think it's triple platinum right now, you know.
I mean, it's just a huge song for me, and
people really have a lot of stories when it comes
to that. One is how it's meant something to him.
(01:50):
So that's probably one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's just written so well, like really, well, we just
don't hear great songs like that. I mean a lot
of great country songs out there, but like that one
I feel like is just like one of the best
and really touches a lot of people obviously. Now, who
were the artists that shaped you as you created your
own unique style as you were getting to the business.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, I was a big fan of you know, being
from Alabama, was a big fan of the group Alabama.
Randy Owen went to college Jacksonville State University, where I
went and played a little football at, so I was
a huge fan of him growing up. Jamie Johnson, Pail Haggard, Grann,
Daddy Beafford was a big Merle Haggard guy. So I
think one of the first songs I played was Mama
Trid when I was a kid, and and all that
(02:34):
I hope continues to kind of come through in my
writing as well, because I know I was really influenced
by all of him.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I feel like, am I not mistaken? Do you have
a like a relationship with Jamie Johnson? You played his
song in Color. I know he's performing with you. I
think in the future fall.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know Jamie really well, A huge,
huge fan of Jamie and got to meet him and
we've become really good friends and done some rotting together
and hopefully recording together. But yeah, we're gonna have him
out on tour with us in the fall. Just yeah,
I mean, it's just such a great talent.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, he really is. Yeah, so duck blind. How's it
going so far your bar less than a year? Are
you glad that it's not on Broadway? Do you prefer
the spot that you're at there?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, that's really the main reason I wanted to do
it is that midtown area where that bar is at
is it's really the place where all the locals hang out.
It's where I met every songwriter and artist in town
that I've got a relationship with now. And it's kind
of cool to see these up and coming kids come
in there and play in the same building that I
played in. You know, it was Winners at the time,
and right you know, some of these guys and girls
(03:38):
are getting their start kind of like I did up there.
So it's a really cool thing and it's awesome to
have a bar in town that you can't get thrown
out of.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's great. Yeah, people have got to go Duckline in
Nashville and live music there all day pretty almost every day,
right all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, there's always music going on there.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I know you're a duck hunter. That's why the duck
blind uh duck is a Duckman Jam or duck Jam
that's coming up in November.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. Yeah, duck Man Jam is the kickoff of duck season.
So we did one and done in Orange Beach at
the Floor, Obama, uh years so ago, and this is
to be the second one and it's in Little Rock, Arkansas.
I believe it's gonna kickoff duck season and be a big.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Time so November twenty second. I believe hunt sound right, dude,
I'm not a hunter. I respect it. Whatever you're hunting
or whatever. When you go duck hunting, Like, what do
you dis gonna sound so stupid? What do you do
with the ducks? Like when you're when they're done, I
mean you don't mount them or anything. Do you do
you stuff them? Or do you eat them? What do
you do with the duck? I know I'm done.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We just call it breasting them out. You just you
cut the breast out of them and you clean them
and then uh, you know, several different ways to cook them.
I like to wrap a breast and bacon and put
jalapeno and cream cheese in it, cook it on the grouve.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, it's it's a delicacy. I guess you could say
it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Food taste better when you catch it or hunt it
and cook it up yourself. There's something about it, right,
Oh yeah, Well, it just.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Means a little more and you put more time and
effort into it, and it just makes it a little
special when you've gone out there, especially when you're doing
it with family or friends or whatever, and kind of
the camaraderie of being at a duck camp and hanging
out standing around the grill after hunting that day is
a pretty fun thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Man, Look what do you have? Six hundred and eighty
acres in Alabama? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What's the perfect day for you? I mean, if you're
not touring or doing music, you wake up, what do
you love to do?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The first thing I love to do is sleep in. Yes,
it doesn't get to happen that often anymore, but get
out and you know, ride around on the farm a
Pops lives down there pretty close by, and he kind
of works on the farm for me, and me and
him figure up projects that we want to work on.
And you know, it's just notch down there because everything
moves a little slower. You know, you kind of get
back to reality when you go back to the farm
down there.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, that sounds fun, man. I know fans love you
and they know a lot about You've got a serious
fan base man that follows you around, that sells out
your shows. For people listening, I know this is like
kind of an interview kind of question. What would they
be surprised to know about you? Do you have a
guilty pleasure? Are you watching a reality show? Just anything
(06:13):
that people might not know about Riley Green?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I'm not a big reality show guy, but I will
watch like romantic comedies a little bit. Yeah, like those
it was like ten Matthew McConaughey movies have to Lose
a guy in ten days and failure to launch and
all that. I like that kind of stuff, lighthearted, romantic comedies.
I guess there'd be something people would.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Expect, right right, Matthew Kanaey or Sandra Bullock or Jennifer
Lopez there. I don't know they got seven of them each,
I believe.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But yeah, yeah, I just have to watch like a
real manly action movie.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
After exactly exactly. Dude, man, congratulations on all your success again.
I gotta tell you that show at Peer six. It
was hot, but it was so entertaining. I mean, people
really really loved you and Ella Langley. How fantastic is she?
I mean, obviously you know you work with her a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh, she's great. Man. I've been a fan of Illa
for a long time, and it's pretty awesome to have
two really big songs together that are very different stylistically.
We don't mind if I do, and you like you
love Me and and us be on tour together at
the same time. It's awesome bill for those two songs
on stage.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, both great performers. I'll tell you all right real
quick before I let you go. Do you write better happy, sad?
Or It's not a factor at all. It just hits
you whenever I.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Feel like my go to is always a sad country song.
I don't necessarily have to be sad to write one,
but I feel like that's where my mind always goes.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Are you a baseball fan or you more. I know
you're a college football guy, right.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm a baseball fan, but you know, being from Alabama,
we're all Braves fans down there. We don't have any
pro teams in Alabama, so we're all big college football.
It's all Alabama or Auburn down there, So I'd say
I'm probably a bigger college football fan.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, Riley Green, thank you so much for your time. Man,
great performance on Thursday. I can't wait for you guys
to swing back Maryland and we'll see you again. Appreciate
the time, appreciate men.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Good seeing you all the other day.
How you doing doing good? I'm Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Very nice to talk to you. By the way, you
were just here in Baltimore on Thursday at Pierre six.
Do you remember that show and they do a lot
of shows or whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Oh, yeah, no, I remember. It was great. We went
by and hit some bat and practice with the Orioles
that day and show was awesome. We had a big time.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You really did You did tell me about that you
did some batting practice with the Orioles. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, I've gotten to be pretty good buddies with the
Gunner Henderson and some of those boys, and you know,
They've come up to some shows and I've been hitting
a lot of baton practice with some major league teams
when we when we were in town and they asked
us to come by. Got to hang out with them
a little bit. And Detroit they're playing the Tigers, and
Detroit's got a guy named Riley Green on the team
as well. He's a fan, so I got to hang
(00:45):
out with him a little bit. And then we went
and played the show. Really really great ampitheaters, really pretty
over there.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, man, that was awesome. What a great show man
sold out. The crowd was just loving you. They knew
every single song. I mean it felt like a stadium
show of I don't know, like Garth Brooks or something,
but I mean it was just insane. I mean, my
wife would leanover, she's such a fan of yours, and
she'd be like, that's a country song right there. I mean,
and she doesn't even have an accent, but she put
(01:10):
it on because she was so excited about your show.
I mean, you have so many great hits. There was
this girl different around here, Georgia time worst way, of course,
congratulations on the success of that. My wife's favorite is
I wish Grandpa's never died. I mean, he was the
one that would encouraged you to pursue music, I think, right,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, My grend Daddy Bufford was a huge country music
fan and probably the main reason I'm doing what I'm
doing now. So it's cool to write a song about,
you know, your family and it be that big of
a song. I think it's triple platinum right now, you know.
I mean, it's just a huge song for me, and
people really have a lot of stories when it comes
to that. One is how it's meant something to him.
(01:50):
So that's probably one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's just written so well, like really, well, we just
don't hear great songs like that. I mean a lot
of great country songs out there, but like that one
I feel like is just like one of the best
and really touches a lot of people obviously. Now, who
were the artists that shaped you as you created your
own unique style as you were getting to the business.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, I was a big fan of you know, being
from Alabama, was a big fan of the group Alabama.
Randy Owen went to college Jacksonville State University, where I
went and played a little football at, so I was
a huge fan of him growing up. Jamie Johnson, Pail Haggard, Grann,
Daddy Beafford was a big Merle Haggard guy. So I
think one of the first songs I played was Mama
Trid when I was a kid, and and all that
(02:34):
I hope continues to kind of come through in my
writing as well, because I know I was really influenced
by all of him.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I feel like, am I not mistaken? Do you have
a like a relationship with Jamie Johnson? You played his
song in Color. I know he's performing with you. I
think in the future fall.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know Jamie really well, A huge,
huge fan of Jamie and got to meet him and
we've become really good friends and done some rotting together
and hopefully recording together. But yeah, we're gonna have him
out on tour with us in the fall. Just yeah,
I mean, it's just such a great talent.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, he really is. Yeah, so duck blind. How's it
going so far your bar less than a year? Are
you glad that it's not on Broadway? Do you prefer
the spot that you're at there?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, that's really the main reason I wanted to do
it is that midtown area where that bar is at
is it's really the place where all the locals hang out.
It's where I met every songwriter and artist in town
that I've got a relationship with now. And it's kind
of cool to see these up and coming kids come
in there and play in the same building that I
played in. You know, it was Winners at the time,
and right you know, some of these guys and girls
(03:38):
are getting their start kind of like I did up there.
So it's a really cool thing and it's awesome to
have a bar in town that you can't get thrown
out of.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's great. Yeah, people have got to go Duckline in
Nashville and live music there all day pretty almost every day,
right all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, there's always music going on there.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I know you're a duck hunter. That's why the duck
blind uh duck is a Duckman Jam or duck Jam
that's coming up in November.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. Yeah, duck Man Jam is the kickoff of duck season.
So we did one and done in Orange Beach at
the Floor, Obama, uh years so ago, and this is
to be the second one and it's in Little Rock, Arkansas.
I believe it's gonna kickoff duck season and be a big.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Time so November twenty second. I believe hunt sound right, dude,
I'm not a hunter. I respect it. Whatever you're hunting
or whatever. When you go duck hunting, Like, what do
you dis gonna sound so stupid? What do you do
with the ducks? Like when you're when they're done, I
mean you don't mount them or anything. Do you do
you stuff them? Or do you eat them? What do
you do with the duck? I know I'm done.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
We just call it breasting them out. You just you
cut the breast out of them and you clean them
and then uh, you know, several different ways to cook them.
I like to wrap a breast and bacon and put
jalapeno and cream cheese in it, cook it on the grouve.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, it's it's a delicacy. I guess you could say
it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Food taste better when you catch it or hunt it
and cook it up yourself. There's something about it, right,
Oh yeah, Well, it just.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Means a little more and you put more time and
effort into it, and it just makes it a little
special when you've gone out there, especially when you're doing
it with family or friends or whatever, and kind of
the camaraderie of being at a duck camp and hanging
out standing around the grill after hunting that day is
a pretty fun thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Man, Look what do you have? Six hundred and eighty
acres in Alabama? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What's the perfect day for you? I mean, if you're
not touring or doing music, you wake up, what do
you love to do?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The first thing I love to do is sleep in. Yes,
it doesn't get to happen that often anymore, but get
out and you know, ride around on the farm a
Pops lives down there pretty close by, and he kind
of works on the farm for me, and me and
him figure up projects that we want to work on.
And you know, it's just notch down there because everything
moves a little slower. You know, you kind of get
back to reality when you go back to the farm
down there.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, that sounds fun, man. I know fans love you
and they know a lot about You've got a serious
fan base man that follows you around, that sells out
your shows. For people listening, I know this is like
kind of an interview kind of question. What would they
be surprised to know about you? Do you have a
guilty pleasure? Are you watching a reality show? Just anything
(06:13):
that people might not know about Riley Green?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I'm not a big reality show guy, but I will
watch like romantic comedies a little bit. Yeah, like those
it was like ten Matthew McConaughey movies have to Lose
a guy in ten days and failure to launch and
all that. I like that kind of stuff, lighthearted, romantic comedies.
I guess there'd be something people would.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Expect, right right, Matthew Kanaey or Sandra Bullock or Jennifer
Lopez there. I don't know they got seven of them each,
I believe.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But yeah, yeah, I just have to watch like a
real manly action movie.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
After exactly exactly. Dude, man, congratulations on all your success again.
I gotta tell you that show at Peer six. It
was hot, but it was so entertaining. I mean, people
really really loved you and Ella Langley. How fantastic is she?
I mean, obviously you know you work with her a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh, she's great. Man. I've been a fan of Illa
for a long time, and it's pretty awesome to have
two really big songs together that are very different stylistically.
We don't mind if I do, and you like you
love Me and and us be on tour together at
the same time. It's awesome bill for those two songs
on stage.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, both great performers. I'll tell you all right real
quick before I let you go. Do you write better happy, sad?
Or It's not a factor at all. It just hits
you whenever I.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Feel like my go to is always a sad country song.
I don't necessarily have to be sad to write one,
but I feel like that's where my mind always goes.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Are you a baseball fan or you more. I know
you're a college football guy, right.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm a baseball fan, but you know, being from Alabama,
we're all Braves fans down there. We don't have any
pro teams in Alabama, so we're all big college football.
It's all Alabama or Auburn down there, So I'd say
I'm probably a bigger college football fan.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, Riley Green, thank you so much for your time. Man,
great performance on Thursday. I can't wait for you guys
to swing back Maryland and we'll see you again. Appreciate
the time, appreciate men.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Good seeing you all the other day.
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