August 29, 2025 • 7 mins
We're all so excited that Zach stopped by the Bobby Bones show today! And since Zach is in Greensboro, Oct. 23rd, I thought it would be cool to do an episode with the interview and give you a shot to win some free tickets to the show. Just listen to the end and I'll tell you how to win! Enjoy!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You got anything. No, So this is unscripted with J. T.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Bosh.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Unscripted is just another word for saying unprepared.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Should we apologize in advance? Or Okay, Hey it's J T.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bosh. I'm so excited Zach Top stopped by the Bobby
Bone Show this morning, and since he's coming to the
First Horizon Coliseum October twenty third, I figured i'd post
the interview here and give you a shot to win tickets.
At the very end of this episode of Unscripted, I'll
tell you how you can win a pair of tickets
to see Zach at the First Horizon Coliseum October twenty third.
Here's today's Friday morning conversation on the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
On The Bobby Bones Show, Now, Zach Tom, I'm a
big fan of Zach. Zach, good to see you, buddy.
Thank you may be in here. You're always like super
nice and thanks what I hear from my good friends.
Now that you've gotten really famous, you're still super nice
and I like that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, I like that. Shot try to not be too different. Yeah,
you're like the mote And I mean this as a compliment.
The most normal, extremely talented Now rocket ship riding guy. Now, well, thanks,
I appreciate that. Do you feel like your life has
changed a bunch in the past year, Yeah, no, doubt,
got a nice watch on. Yeah, I guess there's movie
(01:20):
stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
There's you know, obviously being recognized a lot more as
interesting and different.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Do you feel if you're not wearing your cowboy hat
people don't recognize you as much?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I wish?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Oh really, I've tried to be more incognito and just
put a ball cap on and a The other day,
I was in bass Pro shops.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And everybody's gonna recognize you in a beast Pro.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, that was my first mistake.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
That's right, that's my that's my obviously obvious clientele.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So that was dumb to think I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
But I was in full relaxation day off, off of
the road mode, and I will wearing a pair of
jeene shorts, cut off jeans that were way too short,
and white socks that were up to my calf and
camouflage crocs, and wandering through there and my ball cap
(02:15):
and sunglasses thinking I was gonna breeze through there with nothing.
Sure enough, there's a bunch of people that come up
and ask to take a picture, and it's great, Well,
this is how I want to be remembered by people,
in my white socks and my cameo crocs. Yeah, I somehow,
I don't think. I guess maybe that's just everybody. You
wouldn't think you have a very recognizable face from your
(02:35):
own perspective, But you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Just put out a whole new album. Yeah, now you've
been crushing it. I don't know, is there more pressure
now that people have an expectation from you, or is
it just fun to get new music out.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I feel I feel very confident in these songs.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It's funny, you know, a lot of this record was
already written, and a bunch of it was recorded before
we ever put out the first one.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
What do you mean you had already written all the
songs you just didn't put them on the first record.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, a bunch of them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I think there's ten on here that were yeah, stuff
that was recorded before we ever put out the first record,
and five that we recorded after, but most of those
were written before still too, So it was kind of
it was kind of a cool way to you know,
I spent close to five years or something here. Just
writing and you know, playing a little on the road,
(03:23):
but not much. You know, there's not much a tour
on if you don't have music out, So playing playing
bars all around, not around Nashville, but on the road,
you know, just playing cover songs and stuff. But anyway,
just doing a ton of writing, and so had a
bunch of stuff stacked up. I think we had recorded
somewhere around thirty songs before we ever picked the first
twelve to be on the first record.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So it's kind of a.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Cool, like you could kind of zoom back and look
at big picture sort of, Hey, I think this song
sounds more like you know, next record fits more there.
So we already had a plan, you know, for most
of it before the first one came out, So it
feels like, I don't know that preparation makes it feel
(04:06):
like there's less pressure. And yeah, mostly I'm just pumped
to have more music out. What about when you wrote
I Never Lie? Can you tell me a story about that?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
We kind of mostly finished the chorus, and then Tim
Nichols was the other co writer on that. He came in,
we played him the chorus. He loved it, so we
went to town on it, but that we got stuck quick.
On that first verse, we I think I threw out
the first couple of lines, the what's been some time?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You still look like an angel?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And you know, I'm sitting there with Tim Nichols, hall
of Fame songwriter and Carson Chamberlain who probably ought to
be a Hall of Fame songwriter at some point. And anyway,
and I was the one that came up with the
got promoted back in April and that's you know, obviously
angel in April not really a rhyme, but it kind
of works and it feels good. And so anyway, that
(04:55):
was kind of how that thing started, and I think
the rest of it fell out pretty dang quick.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's funny when you say angel and April just speaking it. Yeah,
you're right, You're like, oh, that's what I kind.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Of does to run, right.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Like I said, I got to be the one that
threw up the line when I'm sitting there stuck. We're
stuck on this thing with with a couple of guys
that's got a list of hit songs.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Do you watch ticket sales?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Okay, because some people are not neurotic about it. But
when I was doing stand up. I don't watch every ticket.
I was like, yeah, am I over you now? I'm yeah,
I'm not crazy. I'll last for like weekly updates or something.
Every Friday. I'll tell me at end of day, Yeah,
what we sold this week? Are you surprised? I mean,
it's quite cray. It's the story of town. How it's
(05:38):
it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I I guess I'm just based on our like our
our tour earlier this spring, which this is just the
continuation of that, I guess the fall version. But it was,
it was that was insane to me. How you know,
we put on a bunch of I think the average
size was probably like twenty five hundred or something, you know,
playing bigger clubs, and every thing in the spring just
(06:01):
sold like it was like they were gone in five
minutes when the general public on sale happened. And so
that was almost like a dang, we undershot here a
little Yeah, exactly. It's and you know, there was even
people upset that. It's like, dude, nobody can get a
ticket to your show. It's you know, obviously you're.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
The Savannah Bananas, the country music.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'll take it. I love the Savannah Bananas.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I feel like, yeah, the amount of growth that we've
seen just in the last year and a half is
like I probably would have been pumped about it if
that had happened in five years or eight years. And
so yeah, it's like we went from riding around in
a dang fifteen passengers sevy van with all our gear
in the back of it and uh everybody having to
(06:47):
sleep on a bench seat to rolling around in.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Buses and stuff so fast that.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, so it's sometimes easy to slip into taking it
for granted, and I try to pinch myself a lot
of times and be like, man, remember where you were,
Like the beginning of twenty twenty four, we were still
running a suprenter band.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That's why you go to bass pro and crocs and
toss song right and cut.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Dang around to remember where you can righting.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
The Colberan Country Music Tour UH September starts back. Congratulations
on everything. Hope everybody listens to the record like crazy
goes to watch on tour. Zachtop one of the nicest
guys around. Zach good to see you, buddy. There is
Zach top Man there.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It is Zach top from the Friday Morning conversation on
the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I'm JT.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Bosh. Now, as promised, you can get some tickets to
go see Zach. We're giving away a pair now at
Q one O four one dot com slash Contest. Go
there and fill out the farm we got to shop
for you to win a pair of tickets to this
pretty much sold out show. Zach's coming to the first
Horizon Coliseum October twenty third. We can't wait to see him.
Q one O four one dot com slash Contest Go
(07:49):
there and register to win your Zachtop tickets for October
twenty third.
You got anything. No, So this is unscripted with J. T.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Bosh.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Unscripted is just another word for saying unprepared.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Should we apologize in advance? Or Okay, Hey it's J T.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bosh. I'm so excited Zach Top stopped by the Bobby
Bone Show this morning, and since he's coming to the
First Horizon Coliseum October twenty third, I figured i'd post
the interview here and give you a shot to win tickets.
At the very end of this episode of Unscripted, I'll
tell you how you can win a pair of tickets
to see Zach at the First Horizon Coliseum October twenty third.
Here's today's Friday morning conversation on the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
On The Bobby Bones Show, Now, Zach Tom, I'm a
big fan of Zach. Zach, good to see you, buddy.
Thank you may be in here. You're always like super
nice and thanks what I hear from my good friends.
Now that you've gotten really famous, you're still super nice
and I like that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, I like that. Shot try to not be too different. Yeah,
you're like the mote And I mean this as a compliment.
The most normal, extremely talented Now rocket ship riding guy. Now, well, thanks,
I appreciate that. Do you feel like your life has
changed a bunch in the past year, Yeah, no, doubt,
got a nice watch on. Yeah, I guess there's movie
(01:20):
stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
There's you know, obviously being recognized a lot more as
interesting and different.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Do you feel if you're not wearing your cowboy hat
people don't recognize you as much?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I wish?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Oh really, I've tried to be more incognito and just
put a ball cap on and a The other day,
I was in bass Pro shops.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And everybody's gonna recognize you in a beast Pro.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, that was my first mistake.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
That's right, that's my that's my obviously obvious clientele.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So that was dumb to think I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
But I was in full relaxation day off, off of
the road mode, and I will wearing a pair of
jeene shorts, cut off jeans that were way too short,
and white socks that were up to my calf and
camouflage crocs, and wandering through there and my ball cap
(02:15):
and sunglasses thinking I was gonna breeze through there with nothing.
Sure enough, there's a bunch of people that come up
and ask to take a picture, and it's great, Well,
this is how I want to be remembered by people,
in my white socks and my cameo crocs. Yeah, I somehow,
I don't think. I guess maybe that's just everybody. You
wouldn't think you have a very recognizable face from your
(02:35):
own perspective, But you.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Just put out a whole new album. Yeah, now you've
been crushing it. I don't know, is there more pressure
now that people have an expectation from you, or is
it just fun to get new music out.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I feel I feel very confident in these songs.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It's funny, you know, a lot of this record was
already written, and a bunch of it was recorded before
we ever put out the first one.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
What do you mean you had already written all the
songs you just didn't put them on the first record.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, a bunch of them. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I think there's ten on here that were yeah, stuff
that was recorded before we ever put out the first record,
and five that we recorded after, but most of those
were written before still too, So it was kind of
it was kind of a cool way to you know,
I spent close to five years or something here. Just
writing and you know, playing a little on the road,
(03:23):
but not much. You know, there's not much a tour
on if you don't have music out, So playing playing
bars all around, not around Nashville, but on the road,
you know, just playing cover songs and stuff. But anyway,
just doing a ton of writing, and so had a
bunch of stuff stacked up. I think we had recorded
somewhere around thirty songs before we ever picked the first
twelve to be on the first record.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So it's kind of a.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Cool, like you could kind of zoom back and look
at big picture sort of, Hey, I think this song
sounds more like you know, next record fits more there.
So we already had a plan, you know, for most
of it before the first one came out, So it
feels like, I don't know that preparation makes it feel
(04:06):
like there's less pressure. And yeah, mostly I'm just pumped
to have more music out. What about when you wrote
I Never Lie? Can you tell me a story about that?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
We kind of mostly finished the chorus, and then Tim
Nichols was the other co writer on that. He came in,
we played him the chorus. He loved it, so we
went to town on it, but that we got stuck quick.
On that first verse, we I think I threw out
the first couple of lines, the what's been some time?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You still look like an angel?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And you know, I'm sitting there with Tim Nichols, hall
of Fame songwriter and Carson Chamberlain who probably ought to
be a Hall of Fame songwriter at some point. And anyway,
and I was the one that came up with the
got promoted back in April and that's you know, obviously
angel in April not really a rhyme, but it kind
of works and it feels good. And so anyway, that
(04:55):
was kind of how that thing started, and I think
the rest of it fell out pretty dang quick.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's funny when you say angel and April just speaking it. Yeah,
you're right, You're like, oh, that's what I kind.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Of does to run, right.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Like I said, I got to be the one that
threw up the line when I'm sitting there stuck. We're
stuck on this thing with with a couple of guys
that's got a list of hit songs.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Do you watch ticket sales?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Okay, because some people are not neurotic about it. But
when I was doing stand up. I don't watch every ticket.
I was like, yeah, am I over you now? I'm yeah,
I'm not crazy. I'll last for like weekly updates or something.
Every Friday. I'll tell me at end of day, Yeah,
what we sold this week? Are you surprised? I mean,
it's quite cray. It's the story of town. How it's
(05:38):
it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I I guess I'm just based on our like our
our tour earlier this spring, which this is just the
continuation of that, I guess the fall version. But it was,
it was that was insane to me. How you know,
we put on a bunch of I think the average
size was probably like twenty five hundred or something, you know,
playing bigger clubs, and every thing in the spring just
(06:01):
sold like it was like they were gone in five
minutes when the general public on sale happened. And so
that was almost like a dang, we undershot here a
little Yeah, exactly. It's and you know, there was even
people upset that. It's like, dude, nobody can get a
ticket to your show. It's you know, obviously you're.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
The Savannah Bananas, the country music.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'll take it. I love the Savannah Bananas.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I feel like, yeah, the amount of growth that we've
seen just in the last year and a half is
like I probably would have been pumped about it if
that had happened in five years or eight years. And
so yeah, it's like we went from riding around in
a dang fifteen passengers sevy van with all our gear
in the back of it and uh everybody having to
(06:47):
sleep on a bench seat to rolling around in.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Buses and stuff so fast that.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, so it's sometimes easy to slip into taking it
for granted, and I try to pinch myself a lot
of times and be like, man, remember where you were,
Like the beginning of twenty twenty four, we were still
running a suprenter band.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That's why you go to bass pro and crocs and
toss song right and cut.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Dang around to remember where you can righting.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
The Colberan Country Music Tour UH September starts back. Congratulations
on everything. Hope everybody listens to the record like crazy
goes to watch on tour. Zachtop one of the nicest
guys around. Zach good to see you, buddy. There is
Zach top Man there.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It is Zach top from the Friday Morning conversation on
the Bobby Bone Show.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I'm JT.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Bosh. Now, as promised, you can get some tickets to
go see Zach. We're giving away a pair now at
Q one O four one dot com slash Contest. Go
there and fill out the farm we got to shop
for you to win a pair of tickets to this
pretty much sold out show. Zach's coming to the first
Horizon Coliseum October twenty third. We can't wait to see him.
Q one O four one dot com slash Contest Go
(07:49):
there and register to win your Zachtop tickets for October
twenty third.
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