Travis Denning stops by the house this week. Bobby and Travis each share their Top 5 Country Truck Songs. Travis on his no. 1 “After A Few” but the song that actually gets the biggest reaction when he plays live. They also talk about how the 2000's was more influential on his music than 90’s country and his love of Jason Aldean.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, friends, welcome to episode to Travis Denning will be
here in a second. We will share our top five
country truck songs and will debut his new song about
trucks too, which is cool to debut a song here.
And so Travis and are teamed up for the Charles
Schwab Challenge and I get to reveal the big prize
that's given to the champion this year. We'll tell you
about that coming up in a little bit. But just
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super pumped about that. And if you don't know Travis,
you're gonna love him. He plays this like, um, just
a dumb guy from Georgia, but he's actually really smart
and a great musician. So Travis Denning coming up in
a minute. Let's do my top five songs this week.
Do Do Do first? Gary Lavox has a new Christian
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album out called One on One. It features his current
single The Distance, and here's a new song called While
I Wait featuring his daughter Brittany Lavox. Until These Things
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at number four, it's Old Dominion. Maybe you heard this
on the radio. They have a new song called I
Was on a boat that day, was backing the bag,
That was time all night and all the risk of
my life as she walking away, I can't sing, I
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was on a Number three is Ben Rector. He has
a new song out called range Rover as he was
looking for that grade rob. At number two McCarney he
has a new album out called January Flower. Here is
a new song called Anywhere with You, Anywhere, Anywhere. And
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at number one, Charlie warshawm has a new song called
Believe in Love Here, Yeah you get Me, trust You,
That's baby, It's true love. Charlie Warsham. There's a great
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episode a couple back with Charlie just talking about his
whole story. Also music that's out, Parker McCollum's Got Drinking.
Miranda Lambert has a new song called They've Closed Down
the Hockey. Tonks Angels and air Waves they have a
song called Euphoria. Tino LARTs has a new song called
Back Then Right Now. BTS has a new song called Butter.
Blake Shelton has a new album called Body Language, and
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Gary Allen has a new song called Slide Just Quick
and music news. Lots of tours announced this week. Lady
A is hitting the road this summer on their What
a Song Can Do tour. Itsoft July twenty nine in Connecticut.
It wraps in October New Hampshire. Blake Shelton is reviving
his Friends and Heroes tour. George Straight is doing Straight
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to Vegas and rescheduled those shows. He'll be there August
thirteen and fourteen. And Jimmy Allen's first ever Betty James
Fest is going in August seven in Delaware. So good
to see music back out. It's gonna be fantastic. And
that's the deal. Let's do this and coming up Travis Denning. Alright,
Travis Denning is here. We got a lot to talk about.
First of all, let us play a hook of his
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number one song. After a few here you go good
after drinks, it's always the same lost conversation. Man, have
we done one of these together? We never have. Actually,
I've always wanted to, Is that right? Yeah? I mean
we've done so many things together either away from studio.
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We've golfed. Yeah, But I'm saying it's just it's crazy
that we haven't done this year. But he's pulling up
here to the house and he was like, oh, I
didn't boy, he pushed a little gate button. I was like, yeah,
I was there and he knew it was him, he
didn't know it was me, and I was asking him
inappropriate questions and he didn't know if I'm messing with
them or not. He was answering them, but I mean
answered him on the dot. Yeah, it was pretty funny.
I was on the phone with Madison and she was like,
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what what? What in the world did you just say?
Like what just happened? Why? I asked him inappropriate questions
that you would only ask a friend and there's nobody around.
I'll leave it at that, But I was like, Uh,
is there anybody in the truck with you? And mostly
he probably thought I was Donner for security reasons. I
thought you were security guards. Anybody in the truck with you?
And He's like no. I was like, well then how
And then he was like anyway, it's all he's here
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within a truck and we're gonna talk about trucks in
a minute. We're gonna get to that um where you
have your truck list. I have my truck list. We're
also going to do your new song that you wrote
about trucks or a truck? What what I'm doing the
Charles Schwab Challenge where I'm they're presenting the truck, and
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you're doing the program too, and I'm playing in the
pro am. That is correct, And I wrote a song
inspired about the truck. Is that what it is? Did
you look at a picture of the truck? No, I
drove the truck. I've I've hung out with the truck
they're giving away. I'm, in fact one of the only
ones who've seen it. So as you can hear, both
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Trivis and I are partners with Charles Schwab Challenge the
tournament prize Reville and the whole part of this thing
that's cool is well, give a first listen to a
new song that you wrote. And is there a new
video coming out? Yeah, we we filmed a video for
it too. Did you go up to like Montana? We
went to, Uh, it was an, Idaho, just outside of
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Jackson Hole. I believe it's Driggs outa Ho is the
name that may not that actually may be totally incorrect,
but it's it's just through the Titon Pass. It is
the first city when you get outside of Jackson Hole.
Pretty cool, huh amazing. That's like my favorite place in
the world. I mean, it's so beautiful. My manager went
up there with you. We had a blast the first
night we got there. We kind of we kinda through
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some beers back with the whole the whole crew, the
guy who built the truck, like everybody a part of
like filming it and stuff. We threw some beers back.
We do have our truck less coming up in a second.
But again, Travis and I've teamed up with Charles Schwab
and the Charles Schwab Challenge to reveal the epic prize
that will be given to the tournament champion this year.
It's you know a lot of these the winners get
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some money, you do your thing, but what they want
to do is find a cool way to give a
prize away. And it was that's a cool truck, cool car,
that's awesome. It's like somebody giving me a nice, cool
pair of shoes. I don't need to be expensive, but
if someone goes to the time you give me a
cool pair of shoes, I like that more than if
somebody were to be like, hey, here's these shoes I'm
wearing right here the bottom lamb or at like wallaby
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looking things like what is that? These are twisted X
I believe is the name. And these were just given
to me for doing a video thing, and I wear them.
I have worn them every single day since I've got it,
and that means it means more than anything else. So
there's a one of a kind of prize. The song
is called grew Up with the Truck will play and
it's entirety in a minute. But I have not heard
this song yet. Yeah you haven't. Okay, yeah you have.
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It is not an expression. Yeah, yeah you have not
heard this song. Okay, let me, Mike, Can you play
me a little bit of the song fail love? We
at that be a run on or two lane with
the third seven song and just lack the power of
Wagon forty six if you were lucky to have as
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good as I bet you burned a lot of rub.
So we'll play the full song coming up later on
and so you can watch this performance. And I think
it's gonna be the very first time people can actually
see the truck during this performance. Yeah, that's the way
you taped up there with the truck, right, We filmed
a video like totally with the truck. Didn't show me anything.
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I supposed to be like the guy, No, I know nothing.
They told me. They're like, you're gonna You're gonna see
it way before Bobby sees it, and and they told
me I can totally brag about how awesome it is,
but not say what it is. I can't say what
it is. The video will be released on Travis's YouTube
and Instagram and three PM Central and again I will
attend the prize revealed on site in Texas on and
I will play in the pro am with a p G,
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a tour professional on the twenty six, which is I'm
a little nervous about that. That's gonna be awesome. Do
you know who it's gonna be? I do not know yet,
And then tune in the tournament, find find out who
can take the price. Song you ever heard of? You
ever heard of Tiger Woods? What do Yeah? Yeah, he's
I think he does some of those programs and stuff
that well he's hurt right now? Yeah, I forgot about that.
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Yeah about it will not be Tiger never mind. Let
me play another song. This is from Travis. This is
a single right now called Abbey and the name is
That's Drinking Cold. You still like that song? I love
that song. I mean, favorite moment to play live right now,
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especially in the show. We're like slowly getting back on
the road. We've done a couple of things and the
response is insane. It's the biggest response in the whole show.
Over wait over, after a few for sure, really yeah,
and after after a few big like people still sing it.
But when we hit the top of Abbey, they lose
their minds and it's amazing that the name is abby
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When they oh, I mean they go and yeah. When
that first chorus the last couple of shows we've done,
when it gets that line of them a name, I
just don't even sing it. I just hold the mic
out and it's so loud. I mean, it's crazy. What's
that on the radio chart right now? I don't think
it's at fifty yet. And people still that's a great
sign though, I know, I mean it's just and obviously
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it's been out for you know a little while, but like, man,
just to see people like connecting to it that big,
I mean, it just it blows my mind and it
gets me excited that. I just feel like the more
and more it gets up the charts, he'll just get
even bigger from there. Did you think you would win
a c M New Artists of the Year, Mail, Uh? No,
I didn't win. You didn't win. Did you think you would?
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Did I think I know you didn't win. Did you
think you would win? No, not at all? But did
you Were you holding out hope that you might Winna?
I just honestly, I didn't feel like it was my
year to have a good run at it, man, And honestly,
like the entire category was just stupid stacked, you know.
I mean I actually really felt like Jimmy was gonna
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win because I felt like Jimmy just had I mean,
he had two number ones that were big hits, you know,
he did the Rock and New Year's like he just
had such an epic year. And I we fished about
a month ago, and what a month ago is right
after he won, and and I just told him, I
was like, dude, I had I had you pegged the
whole the whole way. Yeah. And also he's been around
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in the mix a little longer. Yeah for sure. Yeah.
I told him I was insulted he was still up
for new artist, like you've been here a few years now,
I've been killing them. And he was like, yea, I'll
take what I can get. Absolutely, man, the hard water categories, you,
Jimmy Parker McCallum, Hardy and and Cody Johnson, and like
even Cody's been around a long he has been and
I know he's like Lyne in the Houston Rodeo though,
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the only independent artist ever sell it out, you know,
and that was beviously before you had a record deal.
But yeah, like I know that he's new to like
kind of mainstream country fans in like Nashville. But yeah,
I've been listening to him for ten years. Yeah, you
aren't gonna win now I think about it. He really
had Now what even whatn't even clothes wasn't even clothes?
How about you being nominated? Pretty cool? It was awesome.
It's cool now to just you know, it's like when
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you go and like valet your car and they're like,
can we get a name for that? And it's like,
Travis Nor, what's your last name? And I'm like a
c M nominated artists dinning and they're like, what was that?
You know? I repeat it very loudly. It's really cool
to say that you're from Warner Robbins, Georgia. Why do
I know Warner Robbins, Well, because if you've ever driven
to Florida, you've probably stopped off there and got gas
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because it's smack dab in the middle of the state.
But who famous is from there? Travis Denning, a c
M nominated Travistit No Jesse Jesse James Decker is also
from one of Robins. Yeah she is. She went to
high school with I think she went to one of
Robins high She went to same high school as me.
But one of Robbins is known for their Little A
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League team. They won the World Series a few times.
And we're like, I think we're the Southeast like regional
headquarters for the Little League system. To type this into
Google because I know, maybe that's what it is. It's
maybe we are we and I think we're like the
only team that has had the boys and girls win it.
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I may be wrong on that, but they did. They've
both wanted and it was like not in the same year,
but back in to back years. Here I type born
in Warner Robbins, Georgia. Here are the famous people from there?
Betty Kntrail pageant, that's right, Yeah, she won, she won
the Miss America. Yeah she did. Her dad is like
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has the Cantrail Center and it's like a think a physical,
big physical therapy spot. If you ever, if you ever
won Robbins, you need a little physical therapy. You go there.
Let's see Eddie Anderson, who was a safety somewhere. M
you are on the list, really is it on Wikipedia? Yeah?
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Travis Didnning, Jesse, James Decker, Robert Davis, wide receiver, Jake
from Oh yeah, j yeah, Jay of course from Georgia
played George quarterback. Is at the Bills now. Yeah, he
lives in a house that my parents almost bought when
we moved back. L Babic seventeen years old. TikTok Star,
I don't I don't know the tiktoks. You probably follow her,
don't watch TikTok Um. The Big boss Man it's from
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where in Georgia? Do you? Big boss Man is Big
boss Man? Oh? Come on, hold on, I'm gonna read
it to you, Big boss Man. He is from Marietta, Georgia.
How far is that from me? You tell about Allan Jackson? No,
the Big boss Man, the wrestler, the oh, the Big
boss Man, the wrestler. Oh, Mary, it is like an
hour and a half from me. That's like north of
it Land, like a little bit northwest Vitia all right,
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so you're from one of Robins, Georgia. You get your
first success here in town by writing Yeah, that was
kind of I mean, my first publishing deal, and it's
like it was the first thing of like, Okay, I'm
gonna make rent by actually doing this now, and um,
that's really yeah. I spent four years just writing my
tail off and just trying to get cuts. You know.
Let me ask you a question, to be honest, don't
be humble. How good of a guitar player are you?
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If ten is Keith? I remember at Paisley and they
play different styles obviously, but that level where people go
out that usually good, and then one is like me,
who fakes that people think is actually pretty decent? Are
you an eight? I think I'm like nine. In my
own way, I'd say a nine, but I don't think
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anybody's ever a ten. I think if you're a ten,
then you've just given up? Could you play beside Paisley
and he's like no, no, no, You're like, oh cool,
my turn? I mean I no, no no, yeah, but it
would be all me. I mean I I would feel comfortable.
In fact, I dream of being able to jam with
with Keith and Brad one day, and I feel like
we could get up there and do working man blues
and have fun and I could hold my own. Of course,
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I'm gonna play my way, and it's some people might
go like that sucks compared to Brad, and some people
might go, I like that better. But yeah, I mean,
you can't get up on stage and feel like I'm
not out of my league. I can hang up here. Yeah, no, totally.
I mean that's I mean, man, my my first love
was guitar playing. I started when I was eleven years old.
I mean I've been playing forever, I mean for over
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half of my life now. I mean, it's my favorite
thing to do. How do you see music? Do you
hear notes? Do you chase complex sounds? Are you seeing
colors like some people do? Not? For for me? I
mean I still just for me, it starts with like
the hook and the idea like I want that the
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end of a chorus to make me go damn, Like
why didn't I think of that? Or like yes, lyrics
and story is still what I look for, especially in
country music now if we're getting into southern rock and
all that it, I think it's a lot more like
intangible when I think about why I love the Almond
Brothers band and Leonard Skinnered. It's way more intangible, and
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I don't I don't necessarily would say it's like colors
and stuff. But it's just like when I hear the
Almen Brothers, I have like this image in my mind
of like what I'm seeing when I hear it, and
for me, it's like it's weird. I don't know, it's
so weird to describe. It's like it's swampy. It's that
kind of like that romanticism of like just where you're at,
like how you grew up in a certain area, and
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like because I think that's kind of what the Olmen
Brothers did. But then when I listened to like Alan Jackson,
I see him telling his story in drive or you know,
like anything like that. When you write, do you write
with a melody first or do you write with the
lyrics first? I have to start with like the idea
of the lyric, Like when I like I wrote the
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other day with Jamison Rodgers and he just had this hook.
He had this idea and he said it and everybody
in the room was like, yep, we're right in that,
because it was he already had this perfect idea and
this way to attack it, and I think great songs
like when someone says that when they just say the
hook to a song, I feel like songwriters who were
writing a lot, they just immediately go like, I know
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how to do that, and then you collab on it
because you know, it's like someone might have a different
idea of how they got there and you kind of
combine all that. For me, it's definitely lyric driven. You
were in a all Men Brothers tribute band called soul Shine.
But what did that consist of? Were you all teenagers? Oh? No,
I was the only teenager. Were Oh I was like
eighteen and everybody else was in their fifties. Yeah, And
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I played to like fit like that's what I did
on the weekends. I didn't really, I mean I'd hang
with my friends, but like my weekends were playing it
rivalries and making and the humming Bird and with a
bunch of older guys. Oh yeah, for sure. Were you
way better than they were with your guitar since that
was like your that was gonna be your career where
they just like a hobbyists, um, you know, they kind
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of had some rotating members and stuff. So at the
like front like Leading Soul Shine was Stand Killingsworth Stand
the drummer man is what we called him. He was
the drummer and he sang, and he was an incredible drummer,
like totally schooled in Butch Truck's style drumming. And you know,
he'd rotating guitar players and and I was with him
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for I guess about a good eight months, maybe a year, um,
so you know, I think the rotating guys were definitely
like just it was fun. You know, it was fifty bucks,
hundred bucks, you know, a weekend. Um. But man, he
had a great keys player named Mike and I can't
remember his last name, but he was like he just
had it. He's like that older guy that has literally
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he passed the final level whatever it is, you know,
and just his organ skills were like stupid good. And
I think that's just like a testimony to like the
people who just truly always work on their craft. All
of a sudden, I think they just hit a place
and they're like I've got it, you know, I've like
mastered it, you know, and they still learned, but they've
just figured it out. Did you sing that? No? I
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never did. Actually, dude, my my Voice of eight team,
I only played Dwayne Almond's parts on guitar. I was
just played slide and all that stuff. Did you practice
a lot even a lot more for those songs because
you didn't want to screw with those songs up? Yeah,
it's like it's like an immersion in the because you
learn all the parts, but you know the whole thing too.
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With like Whipping Post and State Sporo Blues and like
those big cornerstone songs of theirs, they were still based
on like improv and like what what you were feeling
that night. I mean, you can listen to one solo
of Dwayne Almonds, maybe from a night that he liked
was piste off and it's got it's way more fire,
it's got more going on. And then you could listen
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to one night where he was probably hungover or something
and it's more laid back. And so to me, it's
about learning the parts and the kind of brand and
the idea of like what it's supposed to at least
have one tether on, but past that, it's also like
do your thing, like be who you are when you
play these songs. But I definitely just wanted to always
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make sure like the tone was right, the overall just
approach to those songs, like I wanted to stay true
to the way they did it. I was talking to
John Mayra once and he was talking about when he
was going out with Dead and Company for the first
time and listen, prolific guitar player, you know, one of
the best, one of the best. And he was talking
about how he goes out to play his shows or
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a new song. He may be like, all right, first
someone to play this. But if he messes up his
own stuff, it's his stuff. He has the right to
mess it up. Yeah, he said, but he's gonna go
out and have to play grateful Dead songs. He said,
he went up into Montana, He's got a home in Montana,
and just locked himself in for months because to him,
it was more important not to disrespect those songs. And
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it was like a different phase in his life professionally
that he had never been in. It's also to like,
you're you're stepping into a territory of a fan base
that will they don't cut you any slack, like if
you if he came in there and did his pop
Steve Ray Vaughan Blues thing. They had a boot him
off the stage, you know, they'd been like get you know,
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it's like a respect to the whole huge culture of
like what the grateful Dead is? I mean, that's that's scary.
Who could you play a lot of right now? Like
who's take on brothers out? But if I were like, hey,
who's who's catalog? Would you know the most of not
the all my brothers? Honestly, probably probably John Mayers, I mean,
you know, and a lot of Keats because for me,
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like when I was in high school and I started
shifting into like trying to write songs, and you know,
I mean, hell, I was sixteen seventeen, I started living
a little bit, and it's like I started to realize
how much I related to country music a whole lot
more once I kind of got to that age. And
so for me, let's start with Keith. It's like he's
a guitar player, singer and country music. It's like, how
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can he not be one of my biggest influences? So
I mean to be here record and Golden Road and
love paying the whole crazy thing like that. Just I
definitely studied those a lot. And Dan hust production was
just like, I don't want to say simple because I
think that's rude, but it's like it just they didn't
think too hard about it. And then John Mayer was like,
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holy hill. I mean, I'm like, this guy is literally
playing Albert King and Steve Ray Vaughan licks and Jimi
Hendricks licks and he's got like number one songs on
the Hot One, Like you know, that was so crazy
to me. And I just love that his guitar playing
was a main focus of his music. So I don't
know if you could. I don't know if I could
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be stumped on the Mayor song. Honestly, maybe some of
the early stuff I couldn't play, like I don't know
if I remember eighty three, but like I could play
the Continuum album front of back three g an acoustic though, Yeah, yep,
you gotta do the thing. Yeah, I mean, that's that's
my favorite artist, you know, him and Garth depending. But
but as I started to hear lyrics speak not to
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me but for me, which is a rare thing, and
that's that's what country music was for me. Was it
was the for me thing. I thought they were talking.
It sounded like, I mean, for me. It was in
high school. Al Dean and Luke Bryan were the biggest
thing in the world, and like, I just heard dirt
rhad anthem and I was like, that is my people.
That's what we do, and that's what we like, and
that's what we dream of doing like when we get
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older and stuff. So I'm with you. I was on
an interview recently where I was being interviewed about Weezer,
which is a little before you. They're still around obviously,
but they were like, hey, what kind of like what
music spoke to you? I said, well, there are two
kinds of music that actually like reached inside of me
and touched me and as a kid. The first was
country music because it was the only music talked about
where I was from. That's it. Nobody talked about anything rural.
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Nobody talked about the South Arkansas, no way until I
was able to hear country music on you know, Kissing
Us nineties exactly, and I was like, that was the
first music for me to talk about where I was from.
But then in the nineties, whenever grunge happens, and Weezer's
not really grunge, but they're in that same little space.
If like the alternative. Um. I was like, they actually
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spoke about what I felt, which was like, I'm upset,
I'm sad, I don't know why I'm sad. This sucks.
And I was like, it was those two things for me.
It was country music where I was from, and it
was the rock stuff that the grunge, the wheezer that
actually spoke things that I was thinking and feeling. But
it was John Mayer was the first artist that I
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ever heard that went, oh he's speaking as me, which
is a whole different level. Yeah, it's just crazy. You
connect to certain people for a lot of different reasons,
but when you find that artist at like, I just
feel like they they check all the boxes of something
that you're like, how do they even know? Like, how
do how do they know that that's what I'm feeling
in where my headspace is at? And it's yeah, it's
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crazy to think about. I'm gonna ask you a question,
but I'm gonna answer it to give you a second
thing because I I feel like this is a pretty
profound question. Um, a lyric that you heard in a
song where you do that where you're like, oh yeah, wow,
it's like a comedian who tells a joke and you're like, oh,
I think the same thing. I don't know how to
say it that funny. Yeah, but like a lyric that
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you heard in a song where you're like, oh, well,
how about that. I feel the same way if for me,
as you're thinking about yours, we're talking about John Mayor
and stop this train. He's like, Hey, I'm so scared
of getting older. I'm only good at being young. And
I was in the stage of my life where I
was really starting to hit in my career and I
was the youngest. Everything I did was the youngest in
the Radio Hall of Fame. I was the youngest syndicated
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national show. And I was like, I think I don't
want to get older because I'm not that good. I'm
only good at being young and doing it. And it
was like, oh dang, Johnny were like, I get that.
And he was going through the same thing where he
was this young musician who was playing older music basically
but making a pop and then but he's all he's
fe years older than me, but he still spoke in
a lot of ways for me. Is there a song
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where you think back to the lyric now and you
go that was that When I heard that, it kind
of pierced me, dude, honestly, and I'm getting I'm getting
chills singing back because so we're going back to those
first things you just remember. But there's a song actually
on Aldane's Wide Open record called fast Um, and it
wasn't ever a single, but dude, I just like everything
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about that song hit me. And there's a lyric in
the second verse where he's singing. He's just kind of
singing to like that this town and this way of life,
and it's also a little spiritual, like I think he's
kind of talking to like God a little bit. And
it's just this lyric of like, you know, you know,
aren't these like these these four lanes fast that just
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move you through life? And it's the road that got
me out of town some one that brought me back,
and it's the ones everywhere in between. And there's a
lyric in the second verse when he says um um.
He sits there and says, remember the time I rolled
my truck and you were there when I woke up.
You walked me home. Yeah, you led me home, And
he's talking about that road of like making this mistake,
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but it kind of comes off a little bit deeper
in that, And dude, I I used to listen to
that song all the time, just driving around my hometown.
Like I would drive down Highway one twenty seven, which
is nowhere near the house that my parents had. It
was just this beautiful place in bon Air, and it
was like my happy place just to drive, Like I
love the road more than anything. I love traveling. I
love driving. I mean it cracks Madison up, like and
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we drive to Kentucky and go see her parents. It's
a three hour drive, and I get like fired up
about it, Like I love grabbing my Red Bull and
putting on Chris Night, putting on John Mayer, putting on
my music, and just enjoyed driving. And I don't know,
I just always related that song and it kind of
became this weird little like it was always my little
safe kind of like anchor song of just like reminded
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me why I love country music. Like continuing too, like
when when ship got hard, it's like just knowing that
I just love music so much, and I'm like I
can't stop and I'm not gonna And if it just
never takes off, it never takes off. But like music
is gonna be a part of my life. And there
was just something about that whole song, but that specific lyric.
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Man just like when he rolled his truck, it just
hit rock bottom and all of a sudden he got
you know, he just got back to where he needed
to be. I don't know. That song always took me back,
and I can't remember who wrote it. I can look
at it. Here's here's a tissue is crying right now?
Um No, but it's it's crazy to think about songs
that just like like you're feel in your ribs and
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you talk about driving. We can do our our truck list, now,
do you know yours? By heart? I got it right here.
We have teamed up to come up with our top
five truck songs, and I think I might have cheated
a little bit. I don't feel like I cheated, but
I some of mine truck is not the title, but
I think I don't have truck and the title one
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of mine. Okay, some of mine aren't. There's just a
reference to a truck. And I went with what did
I think? With what I think of first truck songs?
Four of mine have truck on the title, but one
of them doesn't. I did know your number one, so
I would have put your number one in my top five,
but since that was the only one I knew of yours,
I was not able to put my number. So just
know that I love his number one. We're playing, I mean,
the number one has to be one of the Okay,
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so let's start at your number five? What is your
number five? Truck song? Dude, I gotta go to the
Tifton Georgia boy, some them bout a truck kit more draft.
You mentioned Georgia. Why are there so many guys from Georgie? Like,
what what's happening? I think it's just geographical. It's like,
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you know, it's a weird combination. But to me, the
domino of like for me, it was like, oh damn it.
You know, I met Cole Swindel when I was like nineteen,
and I remember thinking, well, hell, this guy moved up
and he was farther away than me, and it was
kind of this thing. And then Jason Audean's from making Georgia.
It's just thirty minutes north where I'm from, so it
was a little bit of this, like, well, hell if
they went and you know they worked at it, I mean,
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why why couldn't I go up there and try and
make it happen. On top of that, you can get
there in five and a half hours on one take
of gas. You know. It's like it was so close
in the sense of like, why can't I just go
up there for a weekend right now? Why can't I
go try it out? You know? But if I just
totally fall into an accident or something happens, I gotta
get home, and I'm like, at the him, I can
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get back home. I think it's a little bit of that.
And ultimately, I just think country music swung towards this
thing that was like happening in Georgia, that of just
like life and stuff, because you know, you could say
in the nineties there was Oklahoma reigned, really, you know,
and I think a lot of that life in Oklahoma
and Texas and all that was kind of driving what
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people loved. And then it started turning more into like
less kind of cowboy and and those kind of things,
and turned more to like more like guys who farmed
and like told that story about just trying, you know,
trying to get Friday night and just burning you know,
donnuts and stuff and doing stupid stuff that we did
in Georgia because we had nothing to do. I think
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once it swung that way, it just felt like that
inspiration kind of paved a better road for people. Skip
right over Arkansas, yeah, just I mean, when when duck
hunting finally takes over and country music is game over,
it's Arkansas. My number five is Brooks Had Done He'll
Billy Hello. Yeah, because of that line right there, you
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know him really delust slick pick up truck, which I
feel like it is one of the more underrated Brooks
and Done songs. This is one of my favorite of
all times. It's one of their laters, you know, as
far as their big hits go. But sometimes I'll play
this on the show and people be like, I don't
know that song. I'm like, you checked out too early.
I mean, this is a Craig Wiseman just special. I mean,
they just wrote the mess out of this song because
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it's like it's really nasty and grimmy and like really
lazy and kind of reminds me of like Steve Earle
stuff a little bit, just like way laid back. But
I love that song that makes me want to drive
a truck. Even the intro to this song, it's just like, yeah,
just good alright. Number four for you, uh, Prisoner of
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the Highway Ronnie Mills sat because this is a truck song,
but it's a trucker song too, and I feel like
we had to throw one trucker song there. I've got
one trucker song coming out. It's perfect. I just saw
Ronnie at the Grand ol opry Man. I mean, you
can still sing it like he always did. He doesn't
play anymore, but he sits at the piano because that's
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where he's comfortable. At least that night he didn't. But
I was listening to him up in my gym two.
He's one of my He's one of my favorite artists
in country music ever. I mean, I think his voice
is one of the best. At Number four for me
is Jake Owen Eight Second Ride because it's really not
about an eight second ride in a truck, but there's
a line about a dip cup in his truck, just like, honestly,
when you think about it's kind of a gross line.
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It's a disgusting life, hey baby, watching a dip cups
right there here? It is was the I'm s side
hold all time because it's going to be wilder than
at the beginning, and it puts the big grunt out
there to it. I mean, he told me I don't
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want to play that song live anymore. He was like,
I have to. I mean his sound has totally trent.
I mean it sounds like a Coheed and Cambria song
burning Nina No No, I mean, dang nice reference there. Yeah,
a little Coheed And that's where I'm trying to get
my hair too. Okay, Number three for you. We rode
in truck Slup Brian. We rode in trucks and pay
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in the field with the radio. Like when I heard that,
that's like, that's what I talked about the stuff of
Like I mean, dude, I didn't farm, like like my
my country aspect of like my what makes me country?
Another Luke Brian song. I just loved being where I'm from,
and like I loved the small town aspect. I love,
like knowing people. I loved I loved riding those roads
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and nobody's on and those kind of things. And I
was romantic about where I'm from. And like when I
heard this song, I was like, this is about bon Air, Georgia.
It's about one of Robbins. It's about Kathleen, all those
little areas outside of one of Robbins. And I don't know.
I just for that song, like I'll be honestly, I
probably crowded that song before I've called Hey, hold a
lot of hayes. It gets sucked all dirt sometimes, like
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I remember someone be like I have a lot of
dirt at my house. I need it gone. Here's the difference, though, respectfully,
because I have also hald a little bit of dirt.
But Hey sucked because you had to have two. You
have to have to trail in the truck to throw
up into it one and to catch it and stack
it and it never stopped. Then you all went unloaded,
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but you were covered. And Hey, it was discussed in
your back is just as it was awful, I have
a driver. If you had two and one to wait
a driver, one in the back to walking, that was
a great day. Sometimes there's one one one, it's awful,
just horrible. But hall and hay You can't even take
a forty five second break when it's that not if
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you're not, if you're working. Yeah, I've never I've never
hauled Hey. Yeah, dirt's just a shovel and it just
drive still sucks. Yeah, it's not fun. I used to
build sea walls. That was awful because you had to
carry the concrete to the wall and your your legs
just get banged out. First you go up in your
flat bottom and you would see how we would do
it because we were just hustling. My uncle would go
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and build the sea walls and I would help him.
We go up and you go whether it's a crack
in that wall here, like, let's go walk up there,
said they want us to prepare their wall and just
roll up and you walk up to the back door,
front door, like, hey, we're on the flat bottom here.
We noticed your wall, your sea walls cracked? Would you
like us to fix that? And they're like yeah, sure
that we with the concrete bucket is awful. That's just hustling,
like you said that was. That was He was a hustler.
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But we would put a little troller motor Sall number
three for me is roll on from Alabama, Roll roll
what a banger, an emotional roller coaster of honestly, go
for it, tell me more. I mean starts off beautiful,
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then he gets lost and it hurt from in a
while and then boo them all of a sudden, He's survived.
I tell you me and my dad saw Alabama in Alabama,
and the fake I D was probably used that night,
I'm not allegedly, and uh, I'll never forget my dad.
My dad loves Alabama. And we were at the wharf
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in um Gulf Shores and he was like rocking and
really having a great time and he just lost his
footing and just fell down like six like six rows
of like bleachers. He fell here. Oh yeah, like like
not really he didn't really hurt himself, but he just
fell down like knocked all these people over and stuff,
and he and I mean I thought my dad like
broke his leg or something. And he got back up
(36:39):
and he just went, don't tell your mama did that,
and we well, you get out, get out of about.
He just like whoops. Uh number two for you, Uh
I drive your truck by Lee Bryce d Down Boy.
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This was one that was a smash and also connected. Oh,
I mean this is like you know Jesse Alexander who
co wrote this song. She's one of my closest buddies
in the songwriting community. And I mean I've asked her
every question about this song, because I think those kind
of songs are like, that's why you moved to Nashville,
you want to write one of those. And to think
that smash song, career song for lee number one and
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then one song of the Year, I mean, it just
hit everything. And just the fact that it's a true story,
you know. Um, Connie Harrington heard it on NPR on
the way in to write the song, and like just
they were talking about Memorial Day and a guy said, well,
I just you know, I just drive my son's truck
like he you know, he was killed and war and
I drive his truck. And that's how I kind of
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cope with it. I mean, just that's that just don't happen,
you know, by happenstance. I mean, that's just a beautiful story.
And and yeah, that's a great song. I can most
which was they played that at that guy's funeral? Is
that right? They played when they had the number one party,
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they brought the father of the guy they wrote the
song about, and he got up there and they had
no idea and they got out there and said he said, um,
this is no coincidence that they were supposed to write
this song because we played the climb at his funeral.
I mean they said they wanting to dry at the
number one party. Crazy. I love Jesse too, by the way.
She's so talented, I mean amazing. I had her come
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in and play as an artist too, which you put
out her last project. Yeah, just so good. Oh it's
it's incredible. And like her and John Randall, her husband,
they're just like the coolest people. Like I mean, they're
like best friends with Matthew McConaughey, you know what I mean.
Like they just have all these weird little things about
them that are like the coolest thing about humans. And Jr.
Is just a badass. He's one of the best guitar
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players I know. He can sing his butt off. And
they're awesome. I love them. Number two for me is
what to set Me in the back of my youth Directors.
Then as they're picking up everybody to go to church
on Sunday morning, this song comes on from Shannondoah and
it just reminds this and Diamond Rio. But this is
the only truck song that would is next to you,
next to me so good? Yeah, pick up True, you
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better be ready because I'm picking you up with the
full moon Shine. I mean that to me is nineties country. Oh,
I mean Shenandoah is the there probably top three favorite
band of all time for me. Like when I met
Marty for the first time, it was at one of
the hot country like not or the nineties nights they
used to do at um Marathon Music Works where a
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new artist would sing and then they would do a
duet with the nineties artists. And we closed the show
with Shenandoah. And before we went on, I just said, hey, Marty,
I said, I tell you, like, if you need anybody
to sing any part of Church on Crumblin Road, I
know every word to that song because I've been covering
it for like five years. And third verse he pointed
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at me. It was like me t j Osborne, Carly Pierce,
Eastern Corbin and I'm like at the end of the
line and he's like points at me, and he's like,
come here and singing, and I'm like, my whole life
has been preparing for this moment. Your number one truck
song Travis Denny, the number one of all time, Top
five greatest nineties country songs of all time. That ain't
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my truck. Mr Ritt Aiken's True Thomas res Daddy, It's
Lije's Loving Shadow, and my number one song is Joe
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Diffy pick up Me Absolutely and roll it down a
hill And still wasn't traded for I mean and here
and I got. What's really great for me was I
got to be buddies with Joe in his a couple
of years of life because he was a fan of
the radio show and his daughter was a massive fan,
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and so he would always be like, hey, we take
a picture my daughters because it's super cool, and I'd
be like, can I take a picture with you? And
I was like, wait, I think you're confused here. Like
the first time I ever met him was at the
Grand Old Opera. We were both playing and I was like,
hey man, and I approached him just to say, you
have no idea. And I'm sure he did because people
told him his whole life, like you have no idea?
You know the problem episode the jukebox video on CMT.
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I would wait for it to come on, like I
was such a big Joe Diffy fan growing up, and
he was like, we're about to finish, and he was
being real nice and he goes, hey, I hate to
stop you, I can I take a picture with you?
And I was like, wait, no, I think you're confused
on what just happened. Here he goes, my daughter is
such a big pan because I listened to the show too,
but the daughter's massive fancy. We took it and then
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we slowly with see each other out and became better buddies.
And he would come over and do this, and um,
he I still have a direct message sent me on Instagram.
I just can't take that. I just can't delete of
like the first time he was like, hey, I'm following you.
I'm in a bay ssetball game. Are you here? And
I was just He's like trying to like meet up
with you and say, hey, you need to get that,
like you need to frame it in one of your rooms.
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And when he died, that and that hit me, and
sometimes people dying you're like, oh, man, that Sabba doesn't
really hit you because you know, although it's I don't
know him and stuff, it's like, yeah, that that does
have to be just like the coolest part of your career,
job of your career and your job too. You like,
there are some parts where I don't really find anybody
cool that's famous unless I felt they were famous before
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I got cool and almost you know whatever kind of
fake famous I am. Well, it's funny like in my hometown,
like people like like just kind of my I guess,
the little class of guys who came up at the
same time with mine. It's like, you know, when I
talked to people about like Riley or Hardy, It's like,
I mean, we were just like all buddies. We played
radio shows together. We weren't making any money, and it's
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like it's that. But man, like when Keith Urban, like
he roasted me to um low Cash to press him
from low Cash, and that's one of my greatest accomplishments
of my life is that he like poked fun at
me in a text to Preston that he acknowledged just
for me. I mean again, Garth is different because he's
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the greatest, but that is special to me. But like
Joe Diffy was special to me, like Barry Switzer and
I'm not an Oklahoma fan switches from Arkansas, and when
i got to meet him on randomly on an airplane,
I'm geeking out, Yeah, just freaking out, just because I'm like,
if you were famous to me, as a kid, I
still think you're the coolest person unless you prove your
a douce. And there's been a couple to half. That's
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what's cool to me still, I totally, I totally agree, man,
just those special moments for sure. Well those are our
top five songs there, you go feel pretty good about
those honestly are one and one. They might be tied
all time number one. Like out of that, ain't my
truck and Pickup Man? Well, I guess you'd pick pickup Man,
but like I would, but I would have put that
in my truck at number two in mine. Yeah, and
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they're close, I mean they're really. I was thinking about
as you were talking to a second ago back Abby
and how that song gets such a big reaction and
that video is a lot of two thousands country because you're,
you know, ten years younger than I am. Um, how
old are you? Okay, so twelve years younger than I am?
Are the two thousand's artists the two thousand music? Is
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that what's most influential to you? Oh? Yeah, I mean
I think well and also just yeah, I mean I
guess al Dean, I mean Al Dean was just a
big influence too. Just because I loved his music, because
you know, I love heavy metal and hard rock and
that was kind of what got me into playing guitar.
And like, I feel like al Dean was the first
guy that kind of pushed it really hard from that standpoint,
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so he was a big influence and also just him
being from where I'm from. But man, when I think
about the country music I fell in love with, oh yeah,
I mean it was Kenny Chesney and a lot of
that early Rascal Flat stuff. Uh. I mean, dude, I
remember seeing Toby Keith in concert when I was like
eleven or twelve years old, and like, I like he
played American Soldier and I like just cried like I
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was like eleven years old. But it just I just
connected to Toby. I thought he was hilarious. Uh. Tim mcgrawl,
Yeah for sure. Some of those guys even go back
into when I was first starting. Yeah, because I mean listen,
McGraw's a freaking nineties country totally, and he's also two
thousands and he's also a two thousand tents and heck,
you know what, he's a two thousand twenties artists too.
It's so crazy crazy how there are artists, and I've
made this where people are like, you know, and I mean,
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this is a total um sign of respect, not this
isn't towards you. I destrikee you gonna care. But but
we were talking about I was with some programmers, brogram directors,
and they were like going, hey, what do you think?
And I don't really offer my musical opinion to people
who are programming radio. That ain't my deal. I can
play stuff if I want to play it, but I'm
not going I know what works on radio. Not my job.
(45:43):
I'm here to be funny and be compelling. Occasionally I'll
find something I like. And they were like, hey, let's
talk about you know, some of these um didn't call
him legendary, but they were like more established legacy, legacy,
and they were like, so like Lady A their legacy, like,
but you have these new people like Brett Young, And
I was like, guys, Brett Young's older than Lady A.
He just happened to come on later. And so when
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he goes to Tim McGraw, he's a legacy. But he's
also making hits at the same time, like smash hits,
like I remember when how we don't care came out
and I was like, this is arguably one of his
best singles he's ever put it radio. Maybe it's just crazy. Yeah,
it's weird the perception of when people entered like a
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Brett Young who came a little later and he was
a little bit older versus a Lady A. They were
just young and smashed itself. They've just been at it
such a long time. They feel like a legacy act
even though they're not that old. Man. I always think
about that because you know, you kind of hear these
stories of like there's certain artists that are the let legacy.
I'll say, which that seems like such a like passive
(46:47):
aggressive main thing to say. It does, and that's why
I let it with. This is not a sign expect
but like because obviously everybody just wants to continue making
music and they want to continue, like I say, relevant,
but it's just like they want to continue to have
it's But man, there's something cool about like also getting
on stage and being able to say, like, look at
this insane body of work I'm making, and yeah, I'm
(47:09):
still making it and I'm adding to it. But like
I'm also proud of all this because not many people
even get to do that there, you know, we're we're
lucky if we get one hit to begin with. I
think now is a good time to play your song.
It's the full song, the full one. Never heard the
full version, just heard a minute ago we played a
clip all I heard. Tell me about this song, like
you wrote this up in northern Idaho. Yeah, um, yeah,
(47:31):
this was a song that you know. They when we
first started talking with Charles Schwab about this partnership and
I got to see the vehicle and see it for
the first time, they're like, we wanted to write a
song kind of somewhat inspired by but they're also like
just inspired by trucks, like the things that lead to
like awesome vehicles like this, And you know, I just
kicked around ideas and thought about it. It's like the
(47:52):
first so like song I've written by myself in years,
and I just went back, like like I said about
how Way one seven and just being romantic about like
driving in a truck and driving around small towns and
being happier where I'm from. I thought about that, and
I thought about growing up with one and getting my
first truck and driving my dad's and so I got
the idea of grew up with a truck, and I
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just kind of wrote down all those things that I
remember doing, and I was just kind of singing it
to someone, saying, if you were lucky to have it
like I did, And I bet you grew up right
here it is bit you saved up paulog some jive catch,
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got a little along from the bank in your dad.
You promised not to drive too fast when they threw
you the keys. Bet you learned how to drive it
in the parking line, showing it off to all your
friends the post game spot. I'm sure you ran a
lot of sunsets down. I feel like the king and
(48:59):
you own town. I bet you burn a lot of
rubber down on main Street, Crain on some country with
your baby in the front seat. Found it a freedom
just driving around? Yeah, if you're anything like me, kind
of words you're talking about, the lot of is living
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e up kicked up some back road dup and think
the man up above. You grew up with the troll.
I bet you feel in love with it. That be
a run only two lane with the third sevens honey,
just like a power wagon and forty ships. If you
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were lucky to have as good as I did. I
bet you burn a lot of rubber down on main street.
I ain't got some country with your baby in the
frontal seat, founding it a freedom, just driving around? Yeah,
if you're anything like me. Kind of words, you're talking
about the light of the living it up, kicked up
(50:03):
some back road dust and thank the man up above.
You grew up with the truth. There, you grew up
with the true. So it is too that someone out
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there night turning the key on the follow wee. I
bet you burn a line of rubbing down on main street,
craned up some country with your baby in the front seat.
Fun then a freedom just driving around? Yeah, doing anything
like me? I know it is that me. What you're
talking about the light of living it up, kicked up
(50:49):
some back road dust and thank the man up a bug.
You grew up with the truth. Yeah, you grew up
with the true. So there you go. You wrote that
(51:11):
by yourself. Yep, just me. We are doing this thing together.
It's the Charles Schwab Challenge. Travis and Nive teamed up
with Charles Schwab and the Charles Schwab Challenge to reveal
the epic prize it's gonna be given away. This tradition
started back nineteen. It was a fully renovated nineteen seventy
three dodged Challenger, which is pretty cool looking. Have you
seen that? Oh it's amazing. Yeah, And all that was
(51:33):
because that's the year that the Schwab was founded. It
was presented to Kevin Nah who did the thing where
he goes you know, I know I want it, but
I'm gonna give it to my caddy who's car obsessed.
And because his caddy had been talking the whole time
about like, if you win this, I want it, you know,
And it was I mean, he wasn't slated at all
to even be in a like running for to win it.
And he is that how people win, They run, They
like to look at an election. Yeah, you know, he
(51:55):
just didn't campaign to win that tournament very well. You know,
it's the seventy fifth year of the tournament at Colonial
Country Club before with Texas, so it's the longest running
PGA event at the same location. And I'm gonna go
out and play the program. And I'm extremely nervous about
this um because I don't want people to be irritated
to me for holding them up. We played golf together. Yeah,
but we've Yeah, we've played golf together. We hung out
(52:16):
and swung golf clubs. Yeah, and you're gonna post this.
This is gonna be up on your Instagram, your YouTube video,
it'll be everywhere. Yeah, YouTube dot com, slash Travis Denning,
what's you tell me? What can you say about this truck?
Because I haven't seen it yet. It's uh, can you
drive it? Yeah? I gotta drive it a little bit. Awes, Yeah,
it drives like what it is. Yeah, I can't even
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really tell you like what it is, but it's, man,
it's just cool. It's like the it's just one of
the most manliest looking things I've ever seen. It looks
like it it looks like it has a story to
tell about, like what it's been through and all that,
and it's just kind of like you exactly. Yeah, when
you're out back, when you're back out on the road
full time. We kicked back where we start with Brothers
Osborne or Not for Everyone tour the end of July
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and we run till December. Good for you, man. We're
We're playing the Beacon Theater in New York and the
Greek and LTT We're playing like all these venues I've
dreamed of, So I'm excited. Will Madison go with you?
She's gonna come to some of them. Yeah. We got
three weeks like straight on the West Coast, so I
think she'll come out for like a week for that.
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Do you guys live together, No, she's got a place
in the stayed together, Yeah, pretty much. I mean, well,
especially just during this like during the pandemic, it was like,
I mean we went to Kentucky for two months and
just stayed at the Did you stay at the Montgomery's
like their main house? Yeah? Did you stay in the
same bedroom? Yeah? Alright, I guess Hey, we know who's
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running the rooms stuff there. Travis Danning shows up. Okay,
new song release last Friday. Here's a clip of Travis
Dinning call it country that Charlie dan care down town.
Ain't afraid to get money what you want to We
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just called it country on that in that hook. That's all.
We just called it country. Are you doing the deep
part of that too? Did you going to do that? Now?
That was Jason set right my He does all my
background vocals. He he can go all over the place.
He does the We just call it country. He does
it really good. If you blow your voice out and
you have to go a play show, what do you do?
Can you have your guys help you out a little bit?
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It's it's tough. I mean, I know this is definitely
not healthy, but honestly, the best thing that's gonna get
me through it is just like two or three Jack
and Dock cokes just kind of numb the situation that
I'll get a steroid shot if I have to go
do you stand up? Yeah, I'm losing it and it's
just gone. It's yeah, and it's great for a bit, yeah,
but after you finished performing, it's toast. It's to Steroids
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are like so scary with your vocal cords because like
when it's you know, if it's a c MS or
CMAS or some big performance and it has to happen,
it can get you there, but it's yeah, they're scary.
I've I've been on one round of steroids one time, uh,
you know obviously for bodybuilding and uh just wrecked my throat.
I only like to do it on the if I
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can force my If I'm doing two shows on a
Friday and Saturday, I will really try to force my
way through the Friday and then get hit for the Saturday.
Because I have to get hit for the Friday. There's
a possibility I'm done period, and you just feel awful too.
I'll be honestly, I've really never blown my voice out
ever at a show. I mean, knock on wood, of course,
But if we're like really on the road, we're grounding it.
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I don't. I don't really like party, and if and
if I'm going to, I pretty much wait till last night,
Like if I'm gonna maybe go to a bar with
a band or stay up on the bus and and
drink and listen to music and stuff, and I'll wait
untill last night because I know I can just go
home on Sunday and chill and recuperate. But for me,
it's not always out blowing my voice out because I'm
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doing a lot. Mean, listen, I talk all week all
the time. You know, I'm doing hours and hours of
Monday to Friday until I go. If and if I
get on stage, it's mostly if I have like some
sort of nasal issue drainage. Oh just wake up like this, yeah,
and it takes a while to get that thing back
up and moving. This has been a riveting discussion about
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losing our voices. We really went out on the high
note for sure. Hey listen, I hope you guys are
check this video out the Travis is doing. I checked
the song out. I have not seen the truck yet either,
so I will be waiting. I'm I'll be clicking refresh
refresh every single day. YouTube dot Com slash Travis Denning.
When do you get to see the truck? I They
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asked me if I wanted to see it, and I said,
I don't want to see it yet till you do
your video. It's like, to give an example, a lot
of friends make music and they're like, hey, let me
send you my stuff before it goes out. I don't
want to hear it before it goes out. I don't
want to have anything to do with saying oh it's cool,
it's not cool just when it's out like everybody else.
I want to experience it and have that same emotion exactly.
So I said I want to see when Travis is done. Um, okay,
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the videoill be released PM Central Travis our Dining on
Instagram Travis Denning on you, you gotta clean this up, man,
It's just too many tried. There's certain there's there's like Travis.
There's a Travis Dinning on Instagram and I can't get
the name. You have it Travis are Dinning on Instagram,
Travis Denning on YouTube. All right, I'm a big fan,
you know. You know, I just I think the crap
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out of you. I appreciate time to get a haircut,
though I say that lovingly. It is a little it's
a little out there. Yeah. Um, and there he is.
You guys check out Abby, you guys check out call
it country. You guys check out really grew up with
a truck and check out the charge Shwap challenge because
I will be there. And he wrote the song for
You're not going to the tournamental Huh No, I can't
make it, but I wish I could. I'm closing on
a house right around man. Really, I'm moving out to
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the country, are you Yeah, right next to you. I'm
not only in the country, bro, Yeah, No, I'm gonna
be way out in the Okay. All right, there is
Travis Dnning. You gotta check it out.
Hey, friends, welcome to episode to Travis Denning will be
here in a second. We will share our top five
country truck songs and will debut his new song about
trucks too, which is cool to debut a song here.
And so Travis and are teamed up for the Charles
Schwab Challenge and I get to reveal the big prize
that's given to the champion this year. We'll tell you
about that coming up in a little bit. But just
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super pumped about that. And if you don't know Travis,
you're gonna love him. He plays this like, um, just
a dumb guy from Georgia, but he's actually really smart
and a great musician. So Travis Denning coming up in
a minute. Let's do my top five songs this week.
Do Do Do first? Gary Lavox has a new Christian
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album out called One on One. It features his current
single The Distance, and here's a new song called While
I Wait featuring his daughter Brittany Lavox. Until These Things
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at number four, it's Old Dominion. Maybe you heard this
on the radio. They have a new song called I
Was on a boat that day, was backing the bag,
That was time all night and all the risk of
my life as she walking away, I can't sing, I
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was on a Number three is Ben Rector. He has
a new song out called range Rover as he was
looking for that grade rob. At number two McCarney he
has a new album out called January Flower. Here is
a new song called Anywhere with You, Anywhere, Anywhere. And
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at number one, Charlie warshawm has a new song called
Believe in Love Here, Yeah you get Me, trust You,
That's baby, It's true love. Charlie Warsham. There's a great
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episode a couple back with Charlie just talking about his
whole story. Also music that's out, Parker McCollum's Got Drinking.
Miranda Lambert has a new song called They've Closed Down
the Hockey. Tonks Angels and air Waves they have a
song called Euphoria. Tino LARTs has a new song called
Back Then Right Now. BTS has a new song called Butter.
Blake Shelton has a new album called Body Language, and
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Gary Allen has a new song called Slide Just Quick
and music news. Lots of tours announced this week. Lady
A is hitting the road this summer on their What
a Song Can Do tour. Itsoft July twenty nine in Connecticut.
It wraps in October New Hampshire. Blake Shelton is reviving
his Friends and Heroes tour. George Straight is doing Straight
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to Vegas and rescheduled those shows. He'll be there August
thirteen and fourteen. And Jimmy Allen's first ever Betty James
Fest is going in August seven in Delaware. So good
to see music back out. It's gonna be fantastic. And
that's the deal. Let's do this and coming up Travis Denning. Alright,
Travis Denning is here. We got a lot to talk about.
First of all, let us play a hook of his
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number one song. After a few here you go good
after drinks, it's always the same lost conversation. Man, have
we done one of these together? We never have. Actually,
I've always wanted to, Is that right? Yeah? I mean
we've done so many things together either away from studio.
(03:50):
We've golfed. Yeah, But I'm saying it's just it's crazy
that we haven't done this year. But he's pulling up
here to the house and he was like, oh, I
didn't boy, he pushed a little gate button. I was like, yeah,
I was there and he knew it was him, he
didn't know it was me, and I was asking him
inappropriate questions and he didn't know if I'm messing with
them or not. He was answering them, but I mean
answered him on the dot. Yeah, it was pretty funny.
I was on the phone with Madison and she was like,
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what what? What in the world did you just say?
Like what just happened? Why? I asked him inappropriate questions
that you would only ask a friend and there's nobody around.
I'll leave it at that, But I was like, Uh,
is there anybody in the truck with you? And mostly
he probably thought I was Donner for security reasons. I
thought you were security guards. Anybody in the truck with you?
And He's like no. I was like, well then how
And then he was like anyway, it's all he's here
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within a truck and we're gonna talk about trucks in
a minute. We're gonna get to that um where you
have your truck list. I have my truck list. We're
also going to do your new song that you wrote
about trucks or a truck? What what I'm doing the
Charles Schwab Challenge where I'm they're presenting the truck, and
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you're doing the program too, and I'm playing in the
pro am. That is correct, And I wrote a song
inspired about the truck. Is that what it is? Did
you look at a picture of the truck? No, I
drove the truck. I've I've hung out with the truck
they're giving away. I'm, in fact one of the only
ones who've seen it. So as you can hear, both
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Trivis and I are partners with Charles Schwab Challenge the
tournament prize Reville and the whole part of this thing
that's cool is well, give a first listen to a
new song that you wrote. And is there a new
video coming out? Yeah, we we filmed a video for
it too. Did you go up to like Montana? We
went to, Uh, it was an, Idaho, just outside of
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Jackson Hole. I believe it's Driggs outa Ho is the
name that may not that actually may be totally incorrect,
but it's it's just through the Titon Pass. It is
the first city when you get outside of Jackson Hole.
Pretty cool, huh amazing. That's like my favorite place in
the world. I mean, it's so beautiful. My manager went
up there with you. We had a blast the first
night we got there. We kind of we kinda through
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some beers back with the whole the whole crew, the
guy who built the truck, like everybody a part of
like filming it and stuff. We threw some beers back.
We do have our truck less coming up in a second.
But again, Travis and I've teamed up with Charles Schwab
and the Charles Schwab Challenge to reveal the epic prize
that will be given to the tournament champion this year.
It's you know a lot of these the winners get
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some money, you do your thing, but what they want
to do is find a cool way to give a
prize away. And it was that's a cool truck, cool car,
that's awesome. It's like somebody giving me a nice, cool
pair of shoes. I don't need to be expensive, but
if someone goes to the time you give me a
cool pair of shoes, I like that more than if
somebody were to be like, hey, here's these shoes I'm
wearing right here the bottom lamb or at like wallaby
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looking things like what is that? These are twisted X
I believe is the name. And these were just given
to me for doing a video thing, and I wear them.
I have worn them every single day since I've got it,
and that means it means more than anything else. So
there's a one of a kind of prize. The song
is called grew Up with the Truck will play and
it's entirety in a minute. But I have not heard
this song yet. Yeah you haven't. Okay, yeah you have.
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It is not an expression. Yeah, yeah you have not
heard this song. Okay, let me, Mike, Can you play
me a little bit of the song fail love? We
at that be a run on or two lane with
the third seven song and just lack the power of
Wagon forty six if you were lucky to have as
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good as I bet you burned a lot of rub.
So we'll play the full song coming up later on
and so you can watch this performance. And I think
it's gonna be the very first time people can actually
see the truck during this performance. Yeah, that's the way
you taped up there with the truck, right, We filmed
a video like totally with the truck. Didn't show me anything.
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I supposed to be like the guy, No, I know nothing.
They told me. They're like, you're gonna You're gonna see
it way before Bobby sees it, and and they told
me I can totally brag about how awesome it is,
but not say what it is. I can't say what
it is. The video will be released on Travis's YouTube
and Instagram and three PM Central and again I will
attend the prize revealed on site in Texas on and
I will play in the pro am with a p G,
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a tour professional on the twenty six, which is I'm
a little nervous about that. That's gonna be awesome. Do
you know who it's gonna be? I do not know yet,
And then tune in the tournament, find find out who
can take the price. Song you ever heard of? You
ever heard of Tiger Woods? What do Yeah? Yeah, he's
I think he does some of those programs and stuff
that well he's hurt right now? Yeah, I forgot about that.
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Yeah about it will not be Tiger never mind. Let
me play another song. This is from Travis. This is
a single right now called Abbey and the name is
That's Drinking Cold. You still like that song? I love
that song. I mean, favorite moment to play live right now,
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especially in the show. We're like slowly getting back on
the road. We've done a couple of things and the
response is insane. It's the biggest response in the whole show.
Over wait over, after a few for sure, really yeah,
and after after a few big like people still sing it.
But when we hit the top of Abbey, they lose
their minds and it's amazing that the name is abby
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When they oh, I mean they go and yeah. When
that first chorus the last couple of shows we've done,
when it gets that line of them a name, I
just don't even sing it. I just hold the mic
out and it's so loud. I mean, it's crazy. What's
that on the radio chart right now? I don't think
it's at fifty yet. And people still that's a great
sign though, I know, I mean it's just and obviously
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it's been out for you know a little while, but like, man,
just to see people like connecting to it that big,
I mean, it just it blows my mind and it
gets me excited that. I just feel like the more
and more it gets up the charts, he'll just get
even bigger from there. Did you think you would win
a c M New Artists of the Year, Mail, Uh? No,
I didn't win. You didn't win. Did you think you would?
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Did I think I know you didn't win. Did you
think you would win? No, not at all? But did
you Were you holding out hope that you might Winna?
I just honestly, I didn't feel like it was my
year to have a good run at it, man, And honestly,
like the entire category was just stupid stacked, you know.
I mean I actually really felt like Jimmy was gonna
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win because I felt like Jimmy just had I mean,
he had two number ones that were big hits, you know,
he did the Rock and New Year's like he just
had such an epic year. And I we fished about
a month ago, and what a month ago is right
after he won, and and I just told him, I
was like, dude, I had I had you pegged the
whole the whole way. Yeah. And also he's been around
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in the mix a little longer. Yeah for sure. Yeah.
I told him I was insulted he was still up
for new artist, like you've been here a few years now,
I've been killing them. And he was like, yea, I'll
take what I can get. Absolutely, man, the hard water categories, you,
Jimmy Parker McCallum, Hardy and and Cody Johnson, and like
even Cody's been around a long he has been and
I know he's like Lyne in the Houston Rodeo though,
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the only independent artist ever sell it out, you know,
and that was beviously before you had a record deal.
But yeah, like I know that he's new to like
kind of mainstream country fans in like Nashville. But yeah,
I've been listening to him for ten years. Yeah, you
aren't gonna win now I think about it. He really
had Now what even whatn't even clothes wasn't even clothes?
How about you being nominated? Pretty cool? It was awesome.
It's cool now to just you know, it's like when
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you go and like valet your car and they're like,
can we get a name for that? And it's like,
Travis Nor, what's your last name? And I'm like a
c M nominated artists dinning and they're like, what was that?
You know? I repeat it very loudly. It's really cool
to say that you're from Warner Robbins, Georgia. Why do
I know Warner Robbins, Well, because if you've ever driven
to Florida, you've probably stopped off there and got gas
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because it's smack dab in the middle of the state.
But who famous is from there? Travis Denning, a c
M nominated Travistit No Jesse Jesse James Decker is also
from one of Robins. Yeah she is. She went to
high school with I think she went to one of
Robins high She went to same high school as me.
But one of Robbins is known for their Little A
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League team. They won the World Series a few times.
And we're like, I think we're the Southeast like regional
headquarters for the Little League system. To type this into
Google because I know, maybe that's what it is. It's
maybe we are we and I think we're like the
only team that has had the boys and girls win it.
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I may be wrong on that, but they did. They've
both wanted and it was like not in the same year,
but back in to back years. Here I type born
in Warner Robbins, Georgia. Here are the famous people from there?
Betty Kntrail pageant, that's right, Yeah, she won, she won
the Miss America. Yeah she did. Her dad is like
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has the Cantrail Center and it's like a think a physical,
big physical therapy spot. If you ever, if you ever
won Robbins, you need a little physical therapy. You go there.
Let's see Eddie Anderson, who was a safety somewhere. M
you are on the list, really is it on Wikipedia? Yeah?
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Travis Didnning, Jesse, James Decker, Robert Davis, wide receiver, Jake
from Oh yeah, j yeah, Jay of course from Georgia
played George quarterback. Is at the Bills now. Yeah, he
lives in a house that my parents almost bought when
we moved back. L Babic seventeen years old. TikTok Star,
I don't I don't know the tiktoks. You probably follow her,
don't watch TikTok Um. The Big boss Man it's from
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where in Georgia? Do you? Big boss Man is Big
boss Man? Oh? Come on, hold on, I'm gonna read
it to you, Big boss Man. He is from Marietta, Georgia.
How far is that from me? You tell about Allan Jackson? No,
the Big boss Man, the wrestler, the oh, the Big
boss Man, the wrestler. Oh, Mary, it is like an
hour and a half from me. That's like north of
it Land, like a little bit northwest Vitia all right,
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so you're from one of Robins, Georgia. You get your
first success here in town by writing Yeah, that was
kind of I mean, my first publishing deal, and it's
like it was the first thing of like, Okay, I'm
gonna make rent by actually doing this now, and um,
that's really yeah. I spent four years just writing my
tail off and just trying to get cuts. You know.
Let me ask you a question, to be honest, don't
be humble. How good of a guitar player are you?
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If ten is Keith? I remember at Paisley and they
play different styles obviously, but that level where people go
out that usually good, and then one is like me,
who fakes that people think is actually pretty decent? Are
you an eight? I think I'm like nine. In my
own way, I'd say a nine, but I don't think
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anybody's ever a ten. I think if you're a ten,
then you've just given up? Could you play beside Paisley
and he's like no, no, no, You're like, oh cool,
my turn? I mean I no, no no, yeah, but it
would be all me. I mean I I would feel comfortable.
In fact, I dream of being able to jam with
with Keith and Brad one day, and I feel like
we could get up there and do working man blues
and have fun and I could hold my own. Of course,
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I'm gonna play my way, and it's some people might
go like that sucks compared to Brad, and some people
might go, I like that better. But yeah, I mean,
you can't get up on stage and feel like I'm
not out of my league. I can hang up here. Yeah, no, totally.
I mean that's I mean, man, my my first love
was guitar playing. I started when I was eleven years old.
I mean I've been playing forever, I mean for over
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half of my life now. I mean, it's my favorite
thing to do. How do you see music? Do you
hear notes? Do you chase complex sounds? Are you seeing
colors like some people do? Not? For for me? I
mean I still just for me, it starts with like
the hook and the idea like I want that the
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end of a chorus to make me go damn, Like
why didn't I think of that? Or like yes, lyrics
and story is still what I look for, especially in
country music now if we're getting into southern rock and
all that it, I think it's a lot more like
intangible when I think about why I love the Almond
Brothers band and Leonard Skinnered. It's way more intangible, and
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I don't I don't necessarily would say it's like colors
and stuff. But it's just like when I hear the
Almen Brothers, I have like this image in my mind
of like what I'm seeing when I hear it, and
for me, it's like it's weird. I don't know, it's
so weird to describe. It's like it's swampy. It's that
kind of like that romanticism of like just where you're at,
like how you grew up in a certain area, and
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like because I think that's kind of what the Olmen
Brothers did. But then when I listened to like Alan Jackson,
I see him telling his story in drive or you know,
like anything like that. When you write, do you write
with a melody first or do you write with the
lyrics first? I have to start with like the idea
of the lyric, Like when I like I wrote the
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other day with Jamison Rodgers and he just had this hook.
He had this idea and he said it and everybody
in the room was like, yep, we're right in that,
because it was he already had this perfect idea and
this way to attack it, and I think great songs
like when someone says that when they just say the
hook to a song, I feel like songwriters who were
writing a lot, they just immediately go like, I know
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how to do that, and then you collab on it
because you know, it's like someone might have a different
idea of how they got there and you kind of
combine all that. For me, it's definitely lyric driven. You
were in a all Men Brothers tribute band called soul Shine.
But what did that consist of? Were you all teenagers? Oh? No,
I was the only teenager. Were Oh I was like
eighteen and everybody else was in their fifties. Yeah, And
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I played to like fit like that's what I did
on the weekends. I didn't really, I mean I'd hang
with my friends, but like my weekends were playing it
rivalries and making and the humming Bird and with a
bunch of older guys. Oh yeah, for sure. Were you
way better than they were with your guitar since that
was like your that was gonna be your career where
they just like a hobbyists, um, you know, they kind
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of had some rotating members and stuff. So at the
like front like Leading Soul Shine was Stand Killingsworth Stand
the drummer man is what we called him. He was
the drummer and he sang, and he was an incredible drummer,
like totally schooled in Butch Truck's style drumming. And you know,
he'd rotating guitar players and and I was with him
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for I guess about a good eight months, maybe a year, um,
so you know, I think the rotating guys were definitely
like just it was fun. You know, it was fifty bucks,
hundred bucks, you know, a weekend. Um. But man, he
had a great keys player named Mike and I can't
remember his last name, but he was like he just
had it. He's like that older guy that has literally
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he passed the final level whatever it is, you know,
and just his organ skills were like stupid good. And
I think that's just like a testimony to like the
people who just truly always work on their craft. All
of a sudden, I think they just hit a place
and they're like I've got it, you know, I've like
mastered it, you know, and they still learned, but they've
just figured it out. Did you sing that? No? I
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never did. Actually, dude, my my Voice of eight team,
I only played Dwayne Almond's parts on guitar. I was
just played slide and all that stuff. Did you practice
a lot even a lot more for those songs because
you didn't want to screw with those songs up? Yeah,
it's like it's like an immersion in the because you
learn all the parts, but you know the whole thing too.
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With like Whipping Post and State Sporo Blues and like
those big cornerstone songs of theirs, they were still based
on like improv and like what what you were feeling
that night. I mean, you can listen to one solo
of Dwayne Almonds, maybe from a night that he liked
was piste off and it's got it's way more fire,
it's got more going on. And then you could listen
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to one night where he was probably hungover or something
and it's more laid back. And so to me, it's
about learning the parts and the kind of brand and
the idea of like what it's supposed to at least
have one tether on, but past that, it's also like
do your thing, like be who you are when you
play these songs. But I definitely just wanted to always
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make sure like the tone was right, the overall just
approach to those songs, like I wanted to stay true
to the way they did it. I was talking to
John Mayra once and he was talking about when he
was going out with Dead and Company for the first
time and listen, prolific guitar player, you know, one of
the best, one of the best. And he was talking
about how he goes out to play his shows or
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a new song. He may be like, all right, first
someone to play this. But if he messes up his
own stuff, it's his stuff. He has the right to
mess it up. Yeah, he said, but he's gonna go
out and have to play grateful Dead songs. He said,
he went up into Montana, He's got a home in Montana,
and just locked himself in for months because to him,
it was more important not to disrespect those songs. And
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it was like a different phase in his life professionally
that he had never been in. It's also to like,
you're you're stepping into a territory of a fan base
that will they don't cut you any slack, like if
you if he came in there and did his pop
Steve Ray Vaughan Blues thing. They had a boot him
off the stage, you know, they'd been like get you know,
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it's like a respect to the whole huge culture of
like what the grateful Dead is? I mean, that's that's scary.
Who could you play a lot of right now? Like
who's take on brothers out? But if I were like, hey,
who's who's catalog? Would you know the most of not
the all my brothers? Honestly, probably probably John Mayers, I mean,
you know, and a lot of Keats because for me,
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like when I was in high school and I started
shifting into like trying to write songs, and you know,
I mean, hell, I was sixteen seventeen, I started living
a little bit, and it's like I started to realize
how much I related to country music a whole lot
more once I kind of got to that age. And
so for me, let's start with Keith. It's like he's
a guitar player, singer and country music. It's like, how
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can he not be one of my biggest influences? So
I mean to be here record and Golden Road and
love paying the whole crazy thing like that. Just I
definitely studied those a lot. And Dan hust production was
just like, I don't want to say simple because I
think that's rude, but it's like it just they didn't
think too hard about it. And then John Mayer was like,
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holy hill. I mean, I'm like, this guy is literally
playing Albert King and Steve Ray Vaughan licks and Jimi
Hendricks licks and he's got like number one songs on
the Hot One, Like you know, that was so crazy
to me. And I just love that his guitar playing
was a main focus of his music. So I don't
know if you could. I don't know if I could
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be stumped on the Mayor song. Honestly, maybe some of
the early stuff I couldn't play, like I don't know
if I remember eighty three, but like I could play
the Continuum album front of back three g an acoustic though, Yeah, yep,
you gotta do the thing. Yeah, I mean, that's that's
my favorite artist, you know, him and Garth depending. But
but as I started to hear lyrics speak not to
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me but for me, which is a rare thing, and
that's that's what country music was for me. Was it
was the for me thing. I thought they were talking.
It sounded like, I mean, for me. It was in
high school. Al Dean and Luke Bryan were the biggest
thing in the world, and like, I just heard dirt
rhad anthem and I was like, that is my people.
That's what we do, and that's what we like, and
that's what we dream of doing like when we get
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older and stuff. So I'm with you. I was on
an interview recently where I was being interviewed about Weezer,
which is a little before you. They're still around obviously,
but they were like, hey, what kind of like what
music spoke to you? I said, well, there are two
kinds of music that actually like reached inside of me
and touched me and as a kid. The first was
country music because it was the only music talked about
where I was from. That's it. Nobody talked about anything rural.
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Nobody talked about the South Arkansas, no way until I
was able to hear country music on you know, Kissing
Us nineties exactly, and I was like, that was the
first music for me to talk about where I was from.
But then in the nineties, whenever grunge happens, and Weezer's
not really grunge, but they're in that same little space.
If like the alternative. Um. I was like, they actually
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spoke about what I felt, which was like, I'm upset,
I'm sad, I don't know why I'm sad. This sucks.
And I was like, it was those two things for me.
It was country music where I was from, and it
was the rock stuff that the grunge, the wheezer that
actually spoke things that I was thinking and feeling. But
it was John Mayer was the first artist that I
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ever heard that went, oh he's speaking as me, which
is a whole different level. Yeah, it's just crazy. You
connect to certain people for a lot of different reasons,
but when you find that artist at like, I just
feel like they they check all the boxes of something
that you're like, how do they even know? Like, how
do how do they know that that's what I'm feeling
in where my headspace is at? And it's yeah, it's
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crazy to think about. I'm gonna ask you a question,
but I'm gonna answer it to give you a second
thing because I I feel like this is a pretty
profound question. Um, a lyric that you heard in a
song where you do that where you're like, oh yeah, wow,
it's like a comedian who tells a joke and you're like, oh,
I think the same thing. I don't know how to
say it that funny. Yeah, but like a lyric that
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you heard in a song where you're like, oh, well,
how about that. I feel the same way if for me,
as you're thinking about yours, we're talking about John Mayor
and stop this train. He's like, Hey, I'm so scared
of getting older. I'm only good at being young. And
I was in the stage of my life where I
was really starting to hit in my career and I
was the youngest. Everything I did was the youngest in
the Radio Hall of Fame. I was the youngest syndicated
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national show. And I was like, I think I don't
want to get older because I'm not that good. I'm
only good at being young and doing it. And it
was like, oh dang, Johnny were like, I get that.
And he was going through the same thing where he
was this young musician who was playing older music basically
but making a pop and then but he's all he's
fe years older than me, but he still spoke in
a lot of ways for me. Is there a song
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where you think back to the lyric now and you
go that was that When I heard that, it kind
of pierced me, dude, honestly, and I'm getting I'm getting
chills singing back because so we're going back to those
first things you just remember. But there's a song actually
on Aldane's Wide Open record called fast Um, and it
wasn't ever a single, but dude, I just like everything
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about that song hit me. And there's a lyric in
the second verse where he's singing. He's just kind of
singing to like that this town and this way of life,
and it's also a little spiritual, like I think he's
kind of talking to like God a little bit. And
it's just this lyric of like, you know, you know,
aren't these like these these four lanes fast that just
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move you through life? And it's the road that got
me out of town some one that brought me back,
and it's the ones everywhere in between. And there's a
lyric in the second verse when he says um um.
He sits there and says, remember the time I rolled
my truck and you were there when I woke up.
You walked me home. Yeah, you led me home, And
he's talking about that road of like making this mistake,
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but it kind of comes off a little bit deeper
in that, And dude, I I used to listen to
that song all the time, just driving around my hometown.
Like I would drive down Highway one twenty seven, which
is nowhere near the house that my parents had. It
was just this beautiful place in bon Air, and it
was like my happy place just to drive, Like I
love the road more than anything. I love traveling. I
love driving. I mean it cracks Madison up, like and
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we drive to Kentucky and go see her parents. It's
a three hour drive, and I get like fired up
about it, Like I love grabbing my Red Bull and
putting on Chris Night, putting on John Mayer, putting on
my music, and just enjoyed driving. And I don't know,
I just always related that song and it kind of
became this weird little like it was always my little
safe kind of like anchor song of just like reminded
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me why I love country music. Like continuing too, like
when when ship got hard, it's like just knowing that
I just love music so much, and I'm like I
can't stop and I'm not gonna And if it just
never takes off, it never takes off. But like music
is gonna be a part of my life. And there
was just something about that whole song, but that specific lyric.
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Man just like when he rolled his truck, it just
hit rock bottom and all of a sudden he got
you know, he just got back to where he needed
to be. I don't know. That song always took me back,
and I can't remember who wrote it. I can look
at it. Here's here's a tissue is crying right now?
Um No, but it's it's crazy to think about songs
that just like like you're feel in your ribs and
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you talk about driving. We can do our our truck list, now,
do you know yours? By heart? I got it right here.
We have teamed up to come up with our top
five truck songs, and I think I might have cheated
a little bit. I don't feel like I cheated, but
I some of mine truck is not the title, but
I think I don't have truck and the title one
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of mine. Okay, some of mine aren't. There's just a
reference to a truck. And I went with what did
I think? With what I think of first truck songs?
Four of mine have truck on the title, but one
of them doesn't. I did know your number one, so
I would have put your number one in my top five,
but since that was the only one I knew of yours,
I was not able to put my number. So just
know that I love his number one. We're playing, I mean,
the number one has to be one of the Okay,
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so let's start at your number five? What is your
number five? Truck song? Dude, I gotta go to the
Tifton Georgia boy, some them bout a truck kit more draft.
You mentioned Georgia. Why are there so many guys from Georgie? Like,
what what's happening? I think it's just geographical. It's like,
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you know, it's a weird combination. But to me, the
domino of like for me, it was like, oh damn it.
You know, I met Cole Swindel when I was like nineteen,
and I remember thinking, well, hell, this guy moved up
and he was farther away than me, and it was
kind of this thing. And then Jason Audean's from making Georgia.
It's just thirty minutes north where I'm from, so it
was a little bit of this, like, well, hell if
they went and you know they worked at it, I mean,
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why why couldn't I go up there and try and
make it happen. On top of that, you can get
there in five and a half hours on one take
of gas. You know. It's like it was so close
in the sense of like, why can't I just go
up there for a weekend right now? Why can't I
go try it out? You know? But if I just
totally fall into an accident or something happens, I gotta
get home, and I'm like, at the him, I can
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get back home. I think it's a little bit of that.
And ultimately, I just think country music swung towards this
thing that was like happening in Georgia, that of just
like life and stuff, because you know, you could say
in the nineties there was Oklahoma reigned, really, you know,
and I think a lot of that life in Oklahoma
and Texas and all that was kind of driving what
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people loved. And then it started turning more into like
less kind of cowboy and and those kind of things,
and turned more to like more like guys who farmed
and like told that story about just trying, you know,
trying to get Friday night and just burning you know,
donnuts and stuff and doing stupid stuff that we did
in Georgia because we had nothing to do. I think
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once it swung that way, it just felt like that
inspiration kind of paved a better road for people. Skip
right over Arkansas, yeah, just I mean, when when duck
hunting finally takes over and country music is game over,
it's Arkansas. My number five is Brooks Had Done He'll
Billy Hello. Yeah, because of that line right there, you
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know him really delust slick pick up truck, which I
feel like it is one of the more underrated Brooks
and Done songs. This is one of my favorite of
all times. It's one of their laters, you know, as
far as their big hits go. But sometimes I'll play
this on the show and people be like, I don't
know that song. I'm like, you checked out too early.
I mean, this is a Craig Wiseman just special. I mean,
they just wrote the mess out of this song because
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it's like it's really nasty and grimmy and like really
lazy and kind of reminds me of like Steve Earle
stuff a little bit, just like way laid back. But
I love that song that makes me want to drive
a truck. Even the intro to this song, it's just like, yeah,
just good alright. Number four for you, uh, Prisoner of
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the Highway Ronnie Mills sat because this is a truck song,
but it's a trucker song too, and I feel like
we had to throw one trucker song there. I've got
one trucker song coming out. It's perfect. I just saw
Ronnie at the Grand ol opry Man. I mean, you
can still sing it like he always did. He doesn't
play anymore, but he sits at the piano because that's
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where he's comfortable. At least that night he didn't. But
I was listening to him up in my gym two.
He's one of my He's one of my favorite artists
in country music ever. I mean, I think his voice
is one of the best. At Number four for me
is Jake Owen Eight Second Ride because it's really not
about an eight second ride in a truck, but there's
a line about a dip cup in his truck, just like, honestly,
when you think about it's kind of a gross line.
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It's a disgusting life, hey baby, watching a dip cups
right there here? It is was the I'm s side
hold all time because it's going to be wilder than
at the beginning, and it puts the big grunt out
there to it. I mean, he told me I don't
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want to play that song live anymore. He was like,
I have to. I mean his sound has totally trent.
I mean it sounds like a Coheed and Cambria song
burning Nina No No, I mean, dang nice reference there. Yeah,
a little Coheed And that's where I'm trying to get
my hair too. Okay, Number three for you. We rode
in truck Slup Brian. We rode in trucks and pay
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in the field with the radio. Like when I heard that,
that's like, that's what I talked about the stuff of
Like I mean, dude, I didn't farm, like like my
my country aspect of like my what makes me country?
Another Luke Brian song. I just loved being where I'm from,
and like I loved the small town aspect. I love,
like knowing people. I loved I loved riding those roads
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and nobody's on and those kind of things. And I
was romantic about where I'm from. And like when I
heard this song, I was like, this is about bon Air, Georgia.
It's about one of Robbins. It's about Kathleen, all those
little areas outside of one of Robbins. And I don't know.
I just for that song, like I'll be honestly, I
probably crowded that song before I've called Hey, hold a
lot of hayes. It gets sucked all dirt sometimes, like
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I remember someone be like I have a lot of
dirt at my house. I need it gone. Here's the difference, though, respectfully,
because I have also hald a little bit of dirt.
But Hey sucked because you had to have two. You
have to have to trail in the truck to throw
up into it one and to catch it and stack
it and it never stopped. Then you all went unloaded,
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but you were covered. And Hey, it was discussed in
your back is just as it was awful, I have
a driver. If you had two and one to wait
a driver, one in the back to walking, that was
a great day. Sometimes there's one one one, it's awful,
just horrible. But hall and hay You can't even take
a forty five second break when it's that not if
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you're not, if you're working. Yeah, I've never I've never
hauled Hey. Yeah, dirt's just a shovel and it just
drive still sucks. Yeah, it's not fun. I used to
build sea walls. That was awful because you had to
carry the concrete to the wall and your your legs
just get banged out. First you go up in your
flat bottom and you would see how we would do
it because we were just hustling. My uncle would go
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and build the sea walls and I would help him.
We go up and you go whether it's a crack
in that wall here, like, let's go walk up there,
said they want us to prepare their wall and just
roll up and you walk up to the back door,
front door, like, hey, we're on the flat bottom here.
We noticed your wall, your sea walls cracked? Would you
like us to fix that? And they're like yeah, sure
that we with the concrete bucket is awful. That's just hustling,
like you said that was. That was He was a hustler.
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But we would put a little troller motor Sall number
three for me is roll on from Alabama, Roll roll
what a banger, an emotional roller coaster of honestly, go
for it, tell me more. I mean starts off beautiful,
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then he gets lost and it hurt from in a
while and then boo them all of a sudden, He's survived.
I tell you me and my dad saw Alabama in Alabama,
and the fake I D was probably used that night,
I'm not allegedly, and uh, I'll never forget my dad.
My dad loves Alabama. And we were at the wharf
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in um Gulf Shores and he was like rocking and
really having a great time and he just lost his
footing and just fell down like six like six rows
of like bleachers. He fell here. Oh yeah, like like
not really he didn't really hurt himself, but he just
fell down like knocked all these people over and stuff,
and he and I mean I thought my dad like
broke his leg or something. And he got back up
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and he just went, don't tell your mama did that,
and we well, you get out, get out of about.
He just like whoops. Uh number two for you, Uh
I drive your truck by Lee Bryce d Down Boy.
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This was one that was a smash and also connected. Oh,
I mean this is like you know Jesse Alexander who
co wrote this song. She's one of my closest buddies
in the songwriting community. And I mean I've asked her
every question about this song, because I think those kind
of songs are like, that's why you moved to Nashville,
you want to write one of those. And to think
that smash song, career song for lee number one and
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then one song of the Year, I mean, it just
hit everything. And just the fact that it's a true story,
you know. Um, Connie Harrington heard it on NPR on
the way in to write the song, and like just
they were talking about Memorial Day and a guy said, well,
I just you know, I just drive my son's truck
like he you know, he was killed and war and
I drive his truck. And that's how I kind of
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cope with it. I mean, just that's that just don't happen,
you know, by happenstance. I mean, that's just a beautiful story.
And and yeah, that's a great song. I can most
which was they played that at that guy's funeral? Is
that right? They played when they had the number one party,
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they brought the father of the guy they wrote the
song about, and he got up there and they had
no idea and they got out there and said he said, um,
this is no coincidence that they were supposed to write
this song because we played the climb at his funeral.
I mean they said they wanting to dry at the
number one party. Crazy. I love Jesse too, by the way.
She's so talented, I mean amazing. I had her come
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in and play as an artist too, which you put
out her last project. Yeah, just so good. Oh it's
it's incredible. And like her and John Randall, her husband,
they're just like the coolest people. Like I mean, they're
like best friends with Matthew McConaughey, you know what I mean.
Like they just have all these weird little things about
them that are like the coolest thing about humans. And Jr.
Is just a badass. He's one of the best guitar
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players I know. He can sing his butt off. And
they're awesome. I love them. Number two for me is
what to set Me in the back of my youth Directors.
Then as they're picking up everybody to go to church
on Sunday morning, this song comes on from Shannondoah and
it just reminds this and Diamond Rio. But this is
the only truck song that would is next to you,
next to me so good? Yeah, pick up True, you
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better be ready because I'm picking you up with the
full moon Shine. I mean that to me is nineties country. Oh,
I mean Shenandoah is the there probably top three favorite
band of all time for me. Like when I met
Marty for the first time, it was at one of
the hot country like not or the nineties nights they
used to do at um Marathon Music Works where a
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new artist would sing and then they would do a
duet with the nineties artists. And we closed the show
with Shenandoah. And before we went on, I just said, hey, Marty,
I said, I tell you, like, if you need anybody
to sing any part of Church on Crumblin Road, I
know every word to that song because I've been covering
it for like five years. And third verse he pointed
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at me. It was like me t j Osborne, Carly Pierce,
Eastern Corbin and I'm like at the end of the
line and he's like points at me, and he's like,
come here and singing, and I'm like, my whole life
has been preparing for this moment. Your number one truck
song Travis Denny, the number one of all time, Top
five greatest nineties country songs of all time. That ain't
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my truck. Mr Ritt Aiken's True Thomas res Daddy, It's
Lije's Loving Shadow, and my number one song is Joe
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Diffy pick up Me Absolutely and roll it down a
hill And still wasn't traded for I mean and here
and I got. What's really great for me was I
got to be buddies with Joe in his a couple
of years of life because he was a fan of
the radio show and his daughter was a massive fan,
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and so he would always be like, hey, we take
a picture my daughters because it's super cool, and I'd
be like, can I take a picture with you? And
I was like, wait, I think you're confused here. Like
the first time I ever met him was at the
Grand Old Opera. We were both playing and I was like,
hey man, and I approached him just to say, you
have no idea. And I'm sure he did because people
told him his whole life, like you have no idea?
You know the problem episode the jukebox video on CMT.
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I would wait for it to come on, like I
was such a big Joe Diffy fan growing up, and
he was like, we're about to finish, and he was
being real nice and he goes, hey, I hate to
stop you, I can I take a picture with you?
And I was like, wait, no, I think you're confused
on what just happened. Here he goes, my daughter is
such a big pan because I listened to the show too,
but the daughter's massive fancy. We took it and then
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we slowly with see each other out and became better buddies.
And he would come over and do this, and um,
he I still have a direct message sent me on Instagram.
I just can't take that. I just can't delete of
like the first time he was like, hey, I'm following you.
I'm in a bay ssetball game. Are you here? And
I was just He's like trying to like meet up
with you and say, hey, you need to get that,
like you need to frame it in one of your rooms.
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And when he died, that and that hit me, and
sometimes people dying you're like, oh, man, that Sabba doesn't
really hit you because you know, although it's I don't
know him and stuff, it's like, yeah, that that does
have to be just like the coolest part of your career,
job of your career and your job too. You like,
there are some parts where I don't really find anybody
cool that's famous unless I felt they were famous before
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I got cool and almost you know whatever kind of
fake famous I am. Well, it's funny like in my hometown,
like people like like just kind of my I guess,
the little class of guys who came up at the
same time with mine. It's like, you know, when I
talked to people about like Riley or Hardy, It's like,
I mean, we were just like all buddies. We played
radio shows together. We weren't making any money, and it's
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like it's that. But man, like when Keith Urban, like
he roasted me to um low Cash to press him
from low Cash, and that's one of my greatest accomplishments
of my life is that he like poked fun at
me in a text to Preston that he acknowledged just
for me. I mean again, Garth is different because he's
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the greatest, but that is special to me. But like
Joe Diffy was special to me, like Barry Switzer and
I'm not an Oklahoma fan switches from Arkansas, and when
i got to meet him on randomly on an airplane,
I'm geeking out, Yeah, just freaking out, just because I'm like,
if you were famous to me, as a kid, I
still think you're the coolest person unless you prove your
a douce. And there's been a couple to half. That's
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what's cool to me still, I totally, I totally agree, man,
just those special moments for sure. Well those are our
top five songs there, you go feel pretty good about
those honestly are one and one. They might be tied
all time number one. Like out of that, ain't my
truck and Pickup Man? Well, I guess you'd pick pickup Man,
but like I would, but I would have put that
in my truck at number two in mine. Yeah, and
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they're close, I mean they're really. I was thinking about
as you were talking to a second ago back Abby
and how that song gets such a big reaction and
that video is a lot of two thousands country because you're,
you know, ten years younger than I am. Um, how
old are you? Okay, so twelve years younger than I am?
Are the two thousand's artists the two thousand music? Is
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that what's most influential to you? Oh? Yeah, I mean
I think well and also just yeah, I mean I
guess al Dean, I mean Al Dean was just a
big influence too. Just because I loved his music, because
you know, I love heavy metal and hard rock and
that was kind of what got me into playing guitar.
And like, I feel like al Dean was the first
guy that kind of pushed it really hard from that standpoint,
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so he was a big influence and also just him
being from where I'm from. But man, when I think
about the country music I fell in love with, oh yeah,
I mean it was Kenny Chesney and a lot of
that early Rascal Flat stuff. Uh. I mean, dude, I
remember seeing Toby Keith in concert when I was like
eleven or twelve years old, and like, I like he
played American Soldier and I like just cried like I
(44:58):
was like eleven years old. But it just I just
connected to Toby. I thought he was hilarious. Uh. Tim mcgrawl,
Yeah for sure. Some of those guys even go back
into when I was first starting. Yeah, because I mean listen,
McGraw's a freaking nineties country totally, and he's also two
thousands and he's also a two thousand tents and heck,
you know what, he's a two thousand twenties artists too.
It's so crazy crazy how there are artists, and I've
made this where people are like, you know, and I mean,
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this is a total um sign of respect, not this
isn't towards you. I destrikee you gonna care. But but
we were talking about I was with some programmers, brogram directors,
and they were like going, hey, what do you think?
And I don't really offer my musical opinion to people
who are programming radio. That ain't my deal. I can
play stuff if I want to play it, but I'm
not going I know what works on radio. Not my job.
(45:43):
I'm here to be funny and be compelling. Occasionally I'll
find something I like. And they were like, hey, let's
talk about you know, some of these um didn't call
him legendary, but they were like more established legacy, legacy,
and they were like, so like Lady A their legacy, like,
but you have these new people like Brett Young, And
I was like, guys, Brett Young's older than Lady A.
He just happened to come on later. And so when
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he goes to Tim McGraw, he's a legacy. But he's
also making hits at the same time, like smash hits,
like I remember when how we don't care came out
and I was like, this is arguably one of his
best singles he's ever put it radio. Maybe it's just crazy. Yeah,
it's weird the perception of when people entered like a
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Brett Young who came a little later and he was
a little bit older versus a Lady A. They were
just young and smashed itself. They've just been at it
such a long time. They feel like a legacy act
even though they're not that old. Man. I always think
about that because you know, you kind of hear these
stories of like there's certain artists that are the let legacy.
I'll say, which that seems like such a like passive
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aggressive main thing to say. It does, and that's why
I let it with. This is not a sign expect
but like because obviously everybody just wants to continue making
music and they want to continue, like I say, relevant,
but it's just like they want to continue to have
it's But man, there's something cool about like also getting
on stage and being able to say, like, look at
this insane body of work I'm making, and yeah, I'm
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still making it and I'm adding to it. But like
I'm also proud of all this because not many people
even get to do that there, you know, we're we're
lucky if we get one hit to begin with. I
think now is a good time to play your song.
It's the full song, the full one. Never heard the
full version, just heard a minute ago we played a
clip all I heard. Tell me about this song, like
you wrote this up in northern Idaho. Yeah, um, yeah,
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this was a song that you know. They when we
first started talking with Charles Schwab about this partnership and
I got to see the vehicle and see it for
the first time, they're like, we wanted to write a
song kind of somewhat inspired by but they're also like
just inspired by trucks, like the things that lead to
like awesome vehicles like this, And you know, I just
kicked around ideas and thought about it. It's like the
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first so like song I've written by myself in years,
and I just went back, like like I said about
how Way one seven and just being romantic about like
driving in a truck and driving around small towns and
being happier where I'm from. I thought about that, and
I thought about growing up with one and getting my
first truck and driving my dad's and so I got
the idea of grew up with a truck, and I
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just kind of wrote down all those things that I
remember doing, and I was just kind of singing it
to someone, saying, if you were lucky to have it
like I did, And I bet you grew up right
here it is bit you saved up paulog some jive catch,
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got a little along from the bank in your dad.
You promised not to drive too fast when they threw
you the keys. Bet you learned how to drive it
in the parking line, showing it off to all your
friends the post game spot. I'm sure you ran a
lot of sunsets down. I feel like the king and
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you own town. I bet you burn a lot of
rubber down on main Street, Crain on some country with
your baby in the front seat. Found it a freedom
just driving around? Yeah, if you're anything like me, kind
of words you're talking about, the lot of is living
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e up kicked up some back road dup and think
the man up above. You grew up with the troll.
I bet you feel in love with it. That be
a run only two lane with the third sevens honey,
just like a power wagon and forty ships. If you
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were lucky to have as good as I did. I
bet you burn a lot of rubber down on main street.
I ain't got some country with your baby in the
frontal seat, founding it a freedom, just driving around? Yeah,
if you're anything like me. Kind of words, you're talking
about the light of the living it up, kicked up
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some back road dust and thank the man up above.
You grew up with the truth. There, you grew up
with the true. So it is too that someone out
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there night turning the key on the follow wee. I
bet you burn a line of rubbing down on main street,
craned up some country with your baby in the front seat.
Fun then a freedom just driving around? Yeah, doing anything
like me? I know it is that me. What you're
talking about the light of living it up, kicked up
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some back road dust and thank the man up a bug.
You grew up with the truth. Yeah, you grew up
with the true. So there you go. You wrote that
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by yourself. Yep, just me. We are doing this thing together.
It's the Charles Schwab Challenge. Travis and Nive teamed up
with Charles Schwab and the Charles Schwab Challenge to reveal
the epic prize it's gonna be given away. This tradition
started back nineteen. It was a fully renovated nineteen seventy
three dodged Challenger, which is pretty cool looking. Have you
seen that? Oh it's amazing. Yeah, And all that was
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because that's the year that the Schwab was founded. It
was presented to Kevin Nah who did the thing where
he goes you know, I know I want it, but
I'm gonna give it to my caddy who's car obsessed.
And because his caddy had been talking the whole time
about like, if you win this, I want it, you know,
And it was I mean, he wasn't slated at all
to even be in a like running for to win it.
And he is that how people win, They run, They
like to look at an election. Yeah, you know, he
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just didn't campaign to win that tournament very well. You know,
it's the seventy fifth year of the tournament at Colonial
Country Club before with Texas, so it's the longest running
PGA event at the same location. And I'm gonna go
out and play the program. And I'm extremely nervous about
this um because I don't want people to be irritated
to me for holding them up. We played golf together. Yeah,
but we've Yeah, we've played golf together. We hung out
(52:16):
and swung golf clubs. Yeah, and you're gonna post this.
This is gonna be up on your Instagram, your YouTube video,
it'll be everywhere. Yeah, YouTube dot com, slash Travis Denning,
what's you tell me? What can you say about this truck?
Because I haven't seen it yet. It's uh, can you
drive it? Yeah? I gotta drive it a little bit. Awes, Yeah,
it drives like what it is. Yeah, I can't even
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really tell you like what it is, but it's, man,
it's just cool. It's like the it's just one of
the most manliest looking things I've ever seen. It looks
like it it looks like it has a story to
tell about, like what it's been through and all that,
and it's just kind of like you exactly. Yeah, when
you're out back, when you're back out on the road
full time. We kicked back where we start with Brothers
Osborne or Not for Everyone tour the end of July
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and we run till December. Good for you, man. We're
We're playing the Beacon Theater in New York and the
Greek and LTT We're playing like all these venues I've
dreamed of, So I'm excited. Will Madison go with you?
She's gonna come to some of them. Yeah. We got
three weeks like straight on the West Coast, so I
think she'll come out for like a week for that.
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Do you guys live together, No, she's got a place
in the stayed together, Yeah, pretty much. I mean, well,
especially just during this like during the pandemic, it was like,
I mean we went to Kentucky for two months and
just stayed at the Did you stay at the Montgomery's
like their main house? Yeah? Did you stay in the
same bedroom? Yeah? Alright, I guess Hey, we know who's
(53:44):
running the rooms stuff there. Travis Danning shows up. Okay,
new song release last Friday. Here's a clip of Travis
Dinning call it country that Charlie dan care down town.
Ain't afraid to get money what you want to We
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just called it country on that in that hook. That's all.
We just called it country. Are you doing the deep
part of that too? Did you going to do that? Now?
That was Jason set right my He does all my
background vocals. He he can go all over the place.
He does the We just call it country. He does
it really good. If you blow your voice out and
you have to go a play show, what do you do?
Can you have your guys help you out a little bit?
(54:26):
It's it's tough. I mean, I know this is definitely
not healthy, but honestly, the best thing that's gonna get
me through it is just like two or three Jack
and Dock cokes just kind of numb the situation that
I'll get a steroid shot if I have to go
do you stand up? Yeah, I'm losing it and it's
just gone. It's yeah, and it's great for a bit, yeah,
but after you finished performing, it's toast. It's to Steroids
(54:49):
are like so scary with your vocal cords because like
when it's you know, if it's a c MS or
CMAS or some big performance and it has to happen,
it can get you there, but it's yeah, they're scary.
I've I've been on one round of steroids one time, uh,
you know obviously for bodybuilding and uh just wrecked my throat.
I only like to do it on the if I
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can force my If I'm doing two shows on a
Friday and Saturday, I will really try to force my
way through the Friday and then get hit for the Saturday.
Because I have to get hit for the Friday. There's
a possibility I'm done period, and you just feel awful too.
I'll be honestly, I've really never blown my voice out
ever at a show. I mean, knock on wood, of course,
But if we're like really on the road, we're grounding it.
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I don't. I don't really like party, and if and
if I'm going to, I pretty much wait till last night,
Like if I'm gonna maybe go to a bar with
a band or stay up on the bus and and
drink and listen to music and stuff, and I'll wait
untill last night because I know I can just go
home on Sunday and chill and recuperate. But for me,
it's not always out blowing my voice out because I'm
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doing a lot. Mean, listen, I talk all week all
the time. You know, I'm doing hours and hours of
Monday to Friday until I go. If and if I
get on stage, it's mostly if I have like some
sort of nasal issue drainage. Oh just wake up like this, yeah,
and it takes a while to get that thing back
up and moving. This has been a riveting discussion about
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losing our voices. We really went out on the high
note for sure. Hey listen, I hope you guys are
check this video out the Travis is doing. I checked
the song out. I have not seen the truck yet either,
so I will be waiting. I'm I'll be clicking refresh
refresh every single day. YouTube dot Com slash Travis Denning.
When do you get to see the truck? I They
(56:35):
asked me if I wanted to see it, and I said,
I don't want to see it yet till you do
your video. It's like, to give an example, a lot
of friends make music and they're like, hey, let me
send you my stuff before it goes out. I don't
want to hear it before it goes out. I don't
want to have anything to do with saying oh it's cool,
it's not cool just when it's out like everybody else.
I want to experience it and have that same emotion exactly.
So I said I want to see when Travis is done. Um, okay,
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the videoill be released PM Central Travis our Dining on
Instagram Travis Denning on you, you gotta clean this up, man,
It's just too many tried. There's certain there's there's like Travis.
There's a Travis Dinning on Instagram and I can't get
the name. You have it Travis are Dinning on Instagram,
Travis Denning on YouTube. All right, I'm a big fan,
you know. You know, I just I think the crap
(57:16):
out of you. I appreciate time to get a haircut,
though I say that lovingly. It is a little it's
a little out there. Yeah. Um, and there he is.
You guys check out Abby, you guys check out call
it country. You guys check out really grew up with
a truck and check out the charge Shwap challenge because
I will be there. And he wrote the song for
You're not going to the tournamental Huh No, I can't
make it, but I wish I could. I'm closing on
a house right around man. Really, I'm moving out to
(57:38):
the country, are you Yeah, right next to you. I'm
not only in the country, bro, Yeah, No, I'm gonna
be way out in the Okay. All right, there is
Travis Dnning. You gotta check it out.
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