Up-and-coming artist Spencer Hatcher joins us to talk about his musical journey from his first show to opening up for Josh Turner. He speaks on his music and where it fits into today's country Music landscape. Who he loves to listen to and who he looks up to. Along with describing what is upcoming for him.
He is joined by his brother Conner, who travels and plays music with him.
He is joined by his brother Conner, who travels and plays music with him.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Spencer Hatcher in the building. Connor Hatcher as well. Thanks
for making time for a ninety six point nine on
the cat. I would ask how your morning is going,
But I figure you guys had some horse problems.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
When you rode in today.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, that's right, but it's an honor to be here,
so thank you all for having us.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, let's jump in.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm a big bluegrass guy, and so I've been told
and I'm new to your music, so please apologies bear
with me, but I can't wait to dig into it.
How would you describe your music, because there have been
I was told there's a lot of bluegrass in it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It's definitely traditional country. That's the kind of music that
it is. It's very influenced by my country heroes like
George Jones and Keith Whitley, George strait Waylon Jennings, Merrel Haggard,
all those guys are who I think.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mildly successful artist.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, but I would say that there is some bluegrass influence.
You can hear that sometimes in the harmonies.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
You can hear that, Like.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I've I've got fiddle in my songs. So it's very
country and I'm one hundred percent of country artists. But
I did bluegrass for basically fifteen years before I fully
pursued country music, and so there's definitely that influence in there.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, I read somewhere where you self booked, and please
Connor jump in. I'd love to hear you too. One
hundred and fifty plus shows for years on end, like
two or three years, yes, sir, Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Sir, so beating the pavement like you've put in the work.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
In twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, we did
over one hundred and fifty shows both of those years
and those couple of years prior, so basically a four
year time span, we did over five hundred shows.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That is wild, Yes, sir, that is so cool, And
so were you on board on all of these?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Like, yes, sir, I've played every show with Spencer. I
was with him from the very first show we played together.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And what was the first show's deal? Like, hey, look,
I'm gonna come in. Did you play it for free?
Because I would imagine you start to build a following,
you start to and the shows look different. I mean
five hundred, I would imagine five hundred looks a lot
different than one.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It does yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
The very first show was after my very first viral video,
which was the fifth video ever posted, and the phone
started ringing and one of the local guys called me
up and he's like, hey, I've got this small little
pizza shop.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He said, it's the heid of COVID.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So he said, we can't market that you're going to
be doing a show, but he said, would you want
to come out and perform? I was like, yeah, sure.
He's like, well, I want three hours, and I was like.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh no, three hours.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I was like I don't think that I know three
hours worth of music yet. Now, I could do five
hours straight through and it'd be fine. But back then,
this is this is August seventh of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, I was like, man, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I was like, I could probably maybe do an hour
and a half or two. He's like, well, why don't
you just come in and sing as long as you can?
And I still have the accounting sheet I think we
played for it was like two hundred dollars. Yeah, and
we had to just play as long as we could
and get there a couple hours early, set up sound
system and everything. I remember driving up there, I was
just terrified. But it's a great it's a great first memory.
(03:00):
And there's actually still a video out there floating around
somewhere on Facebook of that very first show August.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Seventh to twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You gotta find that, yes, sir, you gotta find that.
We gotta find that. We gotta get on that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And what was that conversation like with you kind of Hey,
we got our first professional gig, Like what were you thinking?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Well, I remember he told me we have our show,
and we set up the entire sound system in our
kitchen and so our mom and dad were there and
they were kind of watching us practice and we just
sat in the kitchen for hours in practice because we
were both so nervous. I remember riding up to the
show and it was kind of silent, and like we're brothers,
so we're always making noise and talking and it's pretty silent.
(03:38):
We were both pretty nervous.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah, it is so fun.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I mean three hours, they're throwing you in the deep
end there, Yeah kind of. But how long did you
end up playing?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I would say we hit the two hour mark, probably
did two hours.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's incredible. Yeah, that's a really cool story. Though.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You always remember the first one, and again I'm sure
number five hundred was way different. Ok, the first one
that will really sharpen you, and you got to play
two hours. That's incredible.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And then it was funny too because we go from
playing and there was maybe like fifty people, which was
pretty good. Actually for the first show, there was about
fifty people that showed.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Up in this little pizza joint.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The second show that we played was for twenty seven
hundred people at a rodeo. It was like that next weekend,
they were like, hey, we want you to come back.
Don't say a word. This is happening because that actually
would have been shut down by the fire department. Sure,
there was twenty seven hundred people that showed up and
we were sitting on a haywagon with like as much
(04:32):
sound plugged up as what we could, and we did
another probably hour and hour show right there and just terrifying.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
The first two shows are just terrifying.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
So you talked about opening up for fifty people twenty
seven hundred, and then recently you opened up for Josh
Turner correct sir, So, how was that as an experience
for both of you?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Color you take it? If you want to.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Well, in terms of Josh Turner, it was We've never
done anything like that. It was incredible and you know,
not to show like that. Of course, people are there
for Josh Turner usually, but they gave us so much
love and support. And we went out to the merch
line and there was hundreds of people lined up and
(05:17):
just the amount of love that they showed for us.
It was incredible and they went crazy and it was
so fun. It was it was amazing.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, it was awesome. That was that was the first
real show where there was so.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Many people that you would feel their applause and they
they you know, they yelled and like screamed for the
first time. And we've had people that cheer, but when
you've got that many people, a couple thousand people doing
it like you hear it in videos, but I've never
gotten experience or for that.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, it was incredible.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And then of course, yeah, the merch line for people,
that was our first time in Missouri. We've never been
out there and we had one hundred some people waiting
just to meet us and sign pictures and stuff. It
was incredible and most of those people that were standing
in the merch line chose to miss the first five
songs of Josh Turner to come and meet us, and
that was unbelievable. And then we got to meet Josh
(06:11):
and he is awesome, So yeah, incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's how I feel. Whenever I get hundred a laugh
in the mornings, I get that feeling.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm like, oh, yeah, I've done a good.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Job for a producer hunter laughing in the morning, I'm like, man,
I did my job well today.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So how is your sound do you think?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Because to me, I kind of geek out on watching
the landscape of country music and some of the sounds
that are re emerging in mainstream. How do you guys
feel like your sound is being represented in the space
now and do you feel like you've been given more
space to be who you are on a mainstream level,
because I love hearing bluegrass and traditional country sound come
back into the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yes, sir, I'd say it like this. Maybe I'm very
happy with how my music is being received because it's
true to myself. That's always been the biggest thing for
me is I don't ever want to put a mask
on to go out on stage, and.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I never will. It's going to be this Suspencer Hatcher.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Love him or leave him? You know, you don't have
to come to shows, but it is. It's very traditional
country music. And the people that are there, you know,
I hope that they love it. And so far the
response from the music we've been putting out is phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, if twenty seven hundred showed up at show two,
I think you're doing pretty good. Sure, And so who
you guys are listening to nowadays? Because you do music,
you hear music differently. The artists that you mentioned before,
Unfortunately some of those are no longer with us, so
those catalogs are closed. Are there any artists out there
today that you really hey, I really love what they're
doing right now?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Definitely, definitely for me and Connor you can give your
input too, But for me, I would say it's I
love John Party. Yeah, I love John Party. I think
he's great. He's still putting out great music, great writer, great.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Live too, really really good live.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, he's awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I've gotten to see him twice now and it's always
been a dream to get to see John Party.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
And now I come to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I moved down in June, and I've got to see
him twice all ready and it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But I love John Party.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I listened to to everybody honestly, like I stay very
up to date with everybody that's going on, like Morgan
Wallen and Thomas Rhett, Zach Bryant. But there's people that
I listened to a whole lot more than others. So
of course zach Top, I mean he's in a lot
of the same space that you know, I'm trying to
break into as well. And Braxton Keith, Jake Worthington. Those three,
(08:22):
Zach Top, Braxton and Jake I think are doing well.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Jake's out with John right now, which is really cool.
That shows it's an incredible show. They played Charlotte earlier. Connor,
what about you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Yeah, for for me right now is Cody Johnson. He's
my all time favorite, and then more recent Braxton Keith
as well.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, I'm a big Braxton Keith fan. Yeah, very very cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, it's cool to hear that sound come out and
just do really well. And it looks like people are
able to move hard tickets and the shows have been
live and I think we took such a break over COVID,
but when it came back.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The resurgence of traditional.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Sound to me because I grew up in North Carolina
underneath the truck with my dad, you know, working on
cars into red dirt country. So it's like really cool
to see that sound represented and really cool that you
feel like it's being supported.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yes, sir, well, I definitely do.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I mean looking at the numbers with Zach Top, I
mean I think that we can see a pretty strong,
pretty strong resurgence, and it's very exciting for me coming
into the industry in a more mainstream way now because
you know, there's that hope where five years ago when
I started, there was nobody else doing it. I remember
getting comments like, well he just plays old people music, and.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
That's how it was just five years ago, right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
No, there's been a cultural shift.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
In it, yes, sir, and I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
One of the things that I love about country music
and even just being on this side of it is
the community aspect of it. Have you guys felt or
gotten any support from your peers, anyone reached out, hey, man,
I really love what you're doing. Anything like that happened yet.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yes, sir, I believe so.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I've got a number of I could just explain him
as like verified accounts that reach out that people that
I've looked up to and I never thought would follow me.
There's a ton of them that are following me on
they do they offer their their support in the industry.
I think country music is a very strong It's a
place for where everybody's rooting for everybody.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean, you don't see this in a lot of genres.
I don't want to say no genre, but country artis
will write a song and give it to another artist
and say, man, I heard your voice on this, and
I just think the camaraderie and community of country music
you don't necessarily find that.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So I'm glad to hear you know that you feel
supported within the space.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yes, sure, yeah, Connor.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Is there anybody that you would geek out on of
like yep, so and so loved what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
This is pretty cool?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Like for me, if Ryan Seacrest called me and said, hey,
I really enjoyed that interview you did, you know with Spencer,
I would geek out. I'd be like that's super dope
because he's really good in the space that he works in. Like,
is there someone out there in the country music community
that you would really like value a little bit more
than most. I know you would value all of them
because you seem very respectful and very cool.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Love that about both of y'all. But like, is there
one that stands out?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
If someone like right now, if like George Straight.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go. I don't know
you can get a better answer than that, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, Georgia Allen, Yeah, Connor off the top rope.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hey, well, thank you guys for coming in.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Man, it's an honor to meet you guys, and like,
we can't wait to support the journey and keep an
eye on it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And there's anything that we can do to support you, guys,
we will try our best to do so. Man, we
love hearing people's stories.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely,
and leave.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
You have a new EP coming out, correct, tell us
a little bit about that. I know you can pre
save it now, so I'd love to hear a little
bit about what we can expect with.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
That, Yes, sir, well, I think you know you can
expect a lot of what we've done. Can you can
now listen to all of my songs in one place,
but there's a brand new song on it, so it's
kind of like the one surprise song that comes with EP.
And it's called Honky Talk Hideaway, and it is awesome.
It's an awesome song. It's kind of like, I don't know,
maybe you call it a barn burner or something, but
(11:52):
I mean it just lays the fire to it. I've
kind of explained it as like a revamped boot scoot
and boogie Honkey Talk. It's it's hard driving, it's fun,
it's raw, pure country music. So the EP is I'm
excited to finally have like a full I think it's
a six song EP with the brand new Honky Tonk
Haideaway on it. So yeah, I encourage everybody go check
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it out.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I would never change the way you described that song
no matter what happens.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah yeah, no one is gonna hear that description to go.
Not for me. Now, I gotta check that out. They
don't give it a go, yes, sir? All right, Well
you got anything else? You're good?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Awesome, man, thanks so much. Can we grab some photos
with you guys? I'd love to and we appreciate your time. Man,
Thanks so much,
Spencer Hatcher in the building. Connor Hatcher as well. Thanks
for making time for a ninety six point nine on
the cat. I would ask how your morning is going,
But I figure you guys had some horse problems.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
When you rode in today.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, that's right, but it's an honor to be here,
so thank you all for having us.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, let's jump in.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm a big bluegrass guy, and so I've been told
and I'm new to your music, so please apologies bear
with me, but I can't wait to dig into it.
How would you describe your music, because there have been
I was told there's a lot of bluegrass in it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It's definitely traditional country. That's the kind of music that
it is. It's very influenced by my country heroes like
George Jones and Keith Whitley, George strait Waylon Jennings, Merrel Haggard,
all those guys are who I think.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mildly successful artist.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, but I would say that there is some bluegrass influence.
You can hear that sometimes in the harmonies.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
You can hear that, Like.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I've I've got fiddle in my songs. So it's very
country and I'm one hundred percent of country artists. But
I did bluegrass for basically fifteen years before I fully
pursued country music, and so there's definitely that influence in there.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, I read somewhere where you self booked, and please
Connor jump in. I'd love to hear you too. One
hundred and fifty plus shows for years on end, like
two or three years, yes, sir, Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Sir, so beating the pavement like you've put in the work.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
In twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, we did
over one hundred and fifty shows both of those years
and those couple of years prior, so basically a four
year time span, we did over five hundred shows.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That is wild, Yes, sir, that is so cool, And
so were you on board on all of these?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Like, yes, sir, I've played every show with Spencer. I
was with him from the very first show we played together.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And what was the first show's deal? Like, hey, look,
I'm gonna come in. Did you play it for free?
Because I would imagine you start to build a following,
you start to and the shows look different. I mean
five hundred, I would imagine five hundred looks a lot
different than one.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It does yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
The very first show was after my very first viral video,
which was the fifth video ever posted, and the phone
started ringing and one of the local guys called me
up and he's like, hey, I've got this small little
pizza shop.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
He said, it's the heid of COVID.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So he said, we can't market that you're going to
be doing a show, but he said, would you want
to come out and perform? I was like, yeah, sure.
He's like, well, I want three hours, and I was like.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh no, three hours.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I was like I don't think that I know three
hours worth of music yet. Now, I could do five
hours straight through and it'd be fine. But back then,
this is this is August seventh of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, I was like, man, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I was like, I could probably maybe do an hour
and a half or two. He's like, well, why don't
you just come in and sing as long as you can?
And I still have the accounting sheet I think we
played for it was like two hundred dollars. Yeah, and
we had to just play as long as we could
and get there a couple hours early, set up sound
system and everything. I remember driving up there, I was
just terrified. But it's a great it's a great first memory.
(03:00):
And there's actually still a video out there floating around
somewhere on Facebook of that very first show August.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Seventh to twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You gotta find that, yes, sir, you gotta find that.
We gotta find that. We gotta get on that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And what was that conversation like with you kind of Hey,
we got our first professional gig, Like what were you thinking?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Well, I remember he told me we have our show,
and we set up the entire sound system in our
kitchen and so our mom and dad were there and
they were kind of watching us practice and we just
sat in the kitchen for hours in practice because we
were both so nervous. I remember riding up to the
show and it was kind of silent, and like we're brothers,
so we're always making noise and talking and it's pretty silent.
(03:38):
We were both pretty nervous.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah, it is so fun.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I mean three hours, they're throwing you in the deep
end there, Yeah kind of. But how long did you
end up playing?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I would say we hit the two hour mark, probably
did two hours.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's incredible. Yeah, that's a really cool story. Though.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You always remember the first one, and again I'm sure
number five hundred was way different. Ok, the first one
that will really sharpen you, and you got to play
two hours. That's incredible.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And then it was funny too because we go from
playing and there was maybe like fifty people, which was
pretty good. Actually for the first show, there was about
fifty people that showed.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Up in this little pizza joint.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The second show that we played was for twenty seven
hundred people at a rodeo. It was like that next weekend,
they were like, hey, we want you to come back.
Don't say a word. This is happening because that actually
would have been shut down by the fire department. Sure,
there was twenty seven hundred people that showed up and
we were sitting on a haywagon with like as much
(04:32):
sound plugged up as what we could, and we did
another probably hour and hour show right there and just terrifying.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
The first two shows are just terrifying.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
So you talked about opening up for fifty people twenty
seven hundred, and then recently you opened up for Josh
Turner correct sir, So, how was that as an experience
for both of you?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Color you take it? If you want to.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Well, in terms of Josh Turner, it was We've never
done anything like that. It was incredible and you know,
not to show like that. Of course, people are there
for Josh Turner usually, but they gave us so much
love and support. And we went out to the merch
line and there was hundreds of people lined up and
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just the amount of love that they showed for us.
It was incredible and they went crazy and it was
so fun. It was it was amazing.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, it was awesome. That was that was the first
real show where there was so.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Many people that you would feel their applause and they
they you know, they yelled and like screamed for the
first time. And we've had people that cheer, but when
you've got that many people, a couple thousand people doing
it like you hear it in videos, but I've never
gotten experience or for that.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, it was incredible.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And then of course, yeah, the merch line for people,
that was our first time in Missouri. We've never been
out there and we had one hundred some people waiting
just to meet us and sign pictures and stuff. It
was incredible and most of those people that were standing
in the merch line chose to miss the first five
songs of Josh Turner to come and meet us, and
that was unbelievable. And then we got to meet Josh
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and he is awesome, So yeah, incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's how I feel. Whenever I get hundred a laugh
in the mornings, I get that feeling.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm like, oh, yeah, I've done a good.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Job for a producer hunter laughing in the morning, I'm like, man,
I did my job well today.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So how is your sound do you think?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Because to me, I kind of geek out on watching
the landscape of country music and some of the sounds
that are re emerging in mainstream. How do you guys
feel like your sound is being represented in the space
now and do you feel like you've been given more
space to be who you are on a mainstream level,
because I love hearing bluegrass and traditional country sound come
back into the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yes, sir, I'd say it like this. Maybe I'm very
happy with how my music is being received because it's
true to myself. That's always been the biggest thing for
me is I don't ever want to put a mask
on to go out on stage, and.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I never will. It's going to be this Suspencer Hatcher.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Love him or leave him? You know, you don't have
to come to shows, but it is. It's very traditional
country music. And the people that are there, you know,
I hope that they love it. And so far the
response from the music we've been putting out is phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, if twenty seven hundred showed up at show two,
I think you're doing pretty good. Sure, And so who
you guys are listening to nowadays? Because you do music,
you hear music differently. The artists that you mentioned before,
Unfortunately some of those are no longer with us, so
those catalogs are closed. Are there any artists out there
today that you really hey, I really love what they're
doing right now?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Definitely, definitely for me and Connor you can give your
input too, But for me, I would say it's I
love John Party. Yeah, I love John Party. I think
he's great. He's still putting out great music, great writer, great.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Live too, really really good live.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, he's awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I've gotten to see him twice now and it's always
been a dream to get to see John Party.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
And now I come to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I moved down in June, and I've got to see
him twice all ready and it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But I love John Party.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I listened to to everybody honestly, like I stay very
up to date with everybody that's going on, like Morgan
Wallen and Thomas Rhett, Zach Bryant. But there's people that
I listened to a whole lot more than others. So
of course zach Top, I mean he's in a lot
of the same space that you know, I'm trying to
break into as well. And Braxton Keith, Jake Worthington. Those three,
(08:22):
Zach Top, Braxton and Jake I think are doing well.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Jake's out with John right now, which is really cool.
That shows it's an incredible show. They played Charlotte earlier. Connor,
what about you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Yeah, for for me right now is Cody Johnson. He's
my all time favorite, and then more recent Braxton Keith
as well.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, I'm a big Braxton Keith fan. Yeah, very very cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, it's cool to hear that sound come out and
just do really well. And it looks like people are
able to move hard tickets and the shows have been
live and I think we took such a break over COVID,
but when it came back.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The resurgence of traditional.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Sound to me because I grew up in North Carolina
underneath the truck with my dad, you know, working on
cars into red dirt country. So it's like really cool
to see that sound represented and really cool that you
feel like it's being supported.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yes, sir, well, I definitely do.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I mean looking at the numbers with Zach Top, I
mean I think that we can see a pretty strong,
pretty strong resurgence, and it's very exciting for me coming
into the industry in a more mainstream way now because
you know, there's that hope where five years ago when
I started, there was nobody else doing it. I remember
getting comments like, well he just plays old people music, and.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
That's how it was just five years ago, right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
No, there's been a cultural shift.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
In it, yes, sir, and I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
One of the things that I love about country music
and even just being on this side of it is
the community aspect of it. Have you guys felt or
gotten any support from your peers, anyone reached out, hey, man,
I really love what you're doing. Anything like that happened yet.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yes, sir, I believe so.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I've got a number of I could just explain him
as like verified accounts that reach out that people that
I've looked up to and I never thought would follow me.
There's a ton of them that are following me on
they do they offer their their support in the industry.
I think country music is a very strong It's a
place for where everybody's rooting for everybody.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean, you don't see this in a lot of genres.
I don't want to say no genre, but country artis
will write a song and give it to another artist
and say, man, I heard your voice on this, and
I just think the camaraderie and community of country music
you don't necessarily find that.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
So I'm glad to hear you know that you feel
supported within the space.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yes, sure, yeah, Connor.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Is there anybody that you would geek out on of
like yep, so and so loved what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
This is pretty cool?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Like for me, if Ryan Seacrest called me and said, hey,
I really enjoyed that interview you did, you know with Spencer,
I would geek out. I'd be like that's super dope
because he's really good in the space that he works in. Like,
is there someone out there in the country music community
that you would really like value a little bit more
than most. I know you would value all of them
because you seem very respectful and very cool.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Love that about both of y'all. But like, is there
one that stands out?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
If someone like right now, if like George Straight.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go. I don't know
you can get a better answer than that, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, Georgia Allen, Yeah, Connor off the top rope.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hey, well, thank you guys for coming in.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Man, it's an honor to meet you guys, and like,
we can't wait to support the journey and keep an
eye on it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And there's anything that we can do to support you, guys,
we will try our best to do so. Man, we
love hearing people's stories.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely,
and leave.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
You have a new EP coming out, correct, tell us
a little bit about that. I know you can pre
save it now, so I'd love to hear a little
bit about what we can expect with.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
That, Yes, sir, well, I think you know you can
expect a lot of what we've done. Can you can
now listen to all of my songs in one place,
but there's a brand new song on it, so it's
kind of like the one surprise song that comes with EP.
And it's called Honky Talk Hideaway, and it is awesome.
It's an awesome song. It's kind of like, I don't know,
maybe you call it a barn burner or something, but
(11:52):
I mean it just lays the fire to it. I've
kind of explained it as like a revamped boot scoot
and boogie Honkey Talk. It's it's hard driving, it's fun,
it's raw, pure country music. So the EP is I'm
excited to finally have like a full I think it's
a six song EP with the brand new Honky Tonk
Haideaway on it. So yeah, I encourage everybody go check
(12:12):
it out.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I would never change the way you described that song
no matter what happens.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah yeah, no one is gonna hear that description to go.
Not for me. Now, I gotta check that out. They
don't give it a go, yes, sir? All right, Well
you got anything else? You're good?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Awesome, man, thanks so much. Can we grab some photos
with you guys? I'd love to and we appreciate your time. Man,
Thanks so much,
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