Two years ago, Bailey Zimmerman was working at the gas pipeline…fast forward to this year and he just signed his first record deal! Bailey talks to Bobby about how he never sang his entire life until one day at the opportunity at a basketball court then decided he wanted to drop everything to pursue music! He started out in 2020 on TikTok just posting videos of his custom lifted trucks and then got attention from record labels and management after one of his songs went viral. Bailey talks about how he’s had to learn everything in such a small amount of time, getting to play his first shows and how his biggest inspirations are rock star frontmen.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, Bailey Zimmerman, it's gonna be a good one.
We've already done it, so I can say that, but
a good conscious he blew up on TikTok, and that's
a thing, right, and kids, TikTok kid. This story is
just a lot different than that. It's I didn't even
know he blew up on TikTok really. When I had
him in full disclosure as this is episode three seven,
I was just looking at Dad and it was like,
(00:22):
Bailey Zimmerman one of the most consumed country artists of
all country artists. I'm talking about, up against Luke Combs
and Morgan Wall and Kenney Chesney. And I was like,
how is this happening? So I told Mike Mike d
my excellent producer and right hand man. I said, hey,
let's get her on the show. And he said, um,
that ain't a herb, bro. And I was like, oh,
Bailey is a dude. I had no idea, and he's like, yeah,
Bailey's to do this, well, let's get him on the show.
(00:43):
And then he came in and I tell him at
the end my review of him, which was funny. And
this is also his first real interview ever. So I
loved it. I don't know, Bailey, you might be listening
to this back. Great job, buddy, I can't wait to
do more with you and see you explode and just
a big fan of this kid now after hanging out
with them, I don't say that often. Sometimes I get
on this and I'm like, why I ever want to
hang out with that person again? That's a good one,
(01:05):
Bailey Zimmerman. Go follow him Bailey dot Zimmerman on TikTok
and enjoy this very refreshing Bobby cast. Here we go.
When you were driving in, Bailey, one of the guys
that worked through it was like, I think he's got
like a monster truck. I was gonna bring it and
then it starts coming through and I was like, well,
it looks like a nice white SUV, but I don't
(01:27):
see how big is the truck? This this mysterious truck.
The mirror get up on the microphone right there yet
the mirror it's probably two or three foot above my
head the side mirror, so if I'm standing up it's
probably I mean, it's really so. I feel like it
would be one of those helicopter rope ladders to get
up in does it have a ladder that comes out,
(01:48):
or you just put yourself up. Every side. Well, I've
been really working on getting steps for it that come down,
but they're not in yet. So it's a struggle because
I don't drive it very much. Because you do, but
you have time you jump. Okay, talk to me because
I don't know much about cars. But is it an
old truck? Is it a new truck? And you got
(02:08):
it jack that high? Yeah, I've always wanted to do it,
and I mean, I agree, if you want to do it,
do it. So it's so big. I think if I
had spent all this money and time, I would only
want to drive it. But I guess now you want
to drive it. But then when you get home and
there's like a paint chip here, there's like a crack somewhere,
You're like, I'm not driving this anymore. What about parking spots?
(02:31):
I feel like that would be tough, not bad. No,
it's it's really not. It's just you have a picture
of it. Yeah, yeah, I guess I I'm picturing like
a big foot, like literal bigfoot. Oh, that thing's huge.
It's pretty big. Are those pink wheels? No, gold, it's
just it's all gold. So okay, let me ask a
(02:51):
couple of questions here. Then, how long you have the truck?
About a year probably? How long did it take to finish?
And did you are you the one that specialized? I
customized at all. I didn't do the work, but you
from the beginning you said, I want this done, this,
done this. Well, I've built this truck in my head
for years. Man, if I get enough money, I'm gonna
(03:13):
build a truck like this. So I've had every color
picked out for like five years. So it took like
six months to build it though, And are you impatiently
waiting the whole time? Like, come on, come on, come on.
As I've grown older, I used to be really impatient
with things, and now I'm it'll get it's because I
get a patient. If I buy a pair of shoes
online and I'm like, all right here today, you just
spent six months building a truck. I would have been
(03:34):
so ready to drive that thing immediately. Well, oh I was.
Every day. I was like, man, I wish my truck
was done. But you go through and you get calls
like you have, like two calls when we came in.
This happened. We gotta we gotta switch this or you know,
so after like four times of that happened, you're just like,
you know what, just I want to stress myself out.
And now people know it's that truck is so known,
(03:55):
I would assume a lot of people would even know
it's you because of your social media presence. I'd be
where people follow me home. We did have people follow
us to Red Lobster the night. Yeah, that'll be That's
what I'll be worried about that. And that's why I
never got a personalized license plate because I don't want
someone it would be like I hate that guy key
in my car or just people like, oh big shot,
(04:16):
got not you, but maybe looking at him driving that,
let's go let's go hast them a little bit. Yeah.
I've kind of just always had big trucks, so I
just thought it's part of my brand, and I've I've
always had big trucks. So nobody how much cost to
fill up hundred bucks, but it only gets me like
a hundred and twenty miles. I say, hundred bucks isn't
(04:36):
bad for a truck, but when it only drives down
the road, yeah, that's pretty good. You can go to
Walmart and back. Oh man, it's good to to see you,
good to talk to you. I was when I leave
the radio station on music Row, because we'll work out
of here. Some will work out of their some. But
when I leave, I see your face on the big
sign I'm driving out, and I was like, what was
up with this kid? And so I just started researching
a little bit. First congratulations, because you know, I'll look
(04:59):
a kid usually and look at just consumption. You know,
I don't really have any. I don't care that much
about what gets put on the radio because I'm gonna
whole a whole bunch of stations. I don't I don't
really look. I shouldn't take care. I don't really look
and try to affect radio stations. But I will look
and see, you know, who's streaming a lot, who's getting
played a lot that's new. You're killing it, man, really
(05:21):
cool like and and to be honest with you, I
did to you what people do to me when they
don't know who I am. And most people don't, but
they'll go my name will gets billed b O b B.
I have a unisex name. They'll think I'm a girl.
And I was like Bailey. I was like, man, she
must be killing it. And then I realized, oh that's
him with the unisex name. Do you ever get that?
(05:41):
Oh my whole life. I used to hate it so much.
I was like, mom, why did you name me Bailey?
You know, why would you name me a girl's name?
But as I've gone over them, like, you know what,
I've never met another I've never met another dude named Bailey,
So I'm at peace with it now. But oh yeah,
I'm a whole live It was like Bailey Lynn to
my middle name is Lynn. Didn't double enough the girl
and double it up, Like like, what what are you attributing?
(06:04):
Because obviously you give a big social media presence, but um,
what I read though, was you didn't start off to
a music on any sort of social media, like even TikTok.
You were just showing off truck trucks. Yeah, so let's
go back then, before music, you said I'm gonna get
on and did you plan to just do it for
like your small circle or did you go I got
some real I think truck people will follow me. I'm
(06:24):
going to create a brand here. So I started there's
this girl in my hometown as Walmart and she was
a cash here and she was like I was flirting
with her, and I was like, I'm gonna catch you
on TikTok because I posted one video and it did just,
you know, a couple of thousand, and she was like,
you'll never hit ten thousand followers on TikTok. So I
just kind of got it in me. I was like, oh,
I'm gonna do that. So I started. I built this truck.
(06:46):
I started just filming it and stuff and putting sounds
behind it, and then ended up getting a lot of traction.
And then I got hooked on truck shows, so then
I started going yea, I took it from just like
building traction sen It's like, oh, I think I'm gonna
start going to these shows and maybe get some you know,
try to win trophies. And I got hooked on that
in two thousand nineteen and then just kept doing my
(07:09):
truck stuff. And then one day I had never sang before,
and I was wanting to get out of the pipeline
industry just because of not seeing family and being gone
so much, and so I was like, Okay, I'm gonna
start building trucks. That's a profession. And not only am
I gonna post him, but I'm gonna build other people's trucks.
So me and my brother John started doing that, and
(07:31):
like three days into business, I tried singing just in
the shop in the student named Gavin Lucas from the
same town I'm in. I was like, hey, man, I
think you've got a cool voice, and I write songs.
I can play guitar. Would you ever just want to
hang sometime? And I was like, yeah, man, I'll hang
some time. I've never really watched anybody play guitar and
sing at the same time. That's how it started. That's
(07:52):
how the start wholes thing started. Yeah, dear god, I've
never heard of it. More random, cooler oops, but awesome story.
It was very random. We we like jammed like three times,
and I was just so in awe of him playing
guitar and sing at the same time. He's like writing,
this guy can write songs. So one night we were
hanging and he said, hey, man, tonight we should try
(08:14):
to like really write a song and see if we
can write songs. So that was my first single, Never
Coming Home. That night we wrote the first verse and
myn just like a weekend to hanging with Gavin and
we wrote the first verse and then posted it on
TikTok that night at like two AM, and I woke
up and I like, kid you not. I woke up
had almost two million views, a crazy amount of comments.
(08:36):
I called my union that I was in that I
pipelined with quit after one video in the next morning,
and you're already looking to get out, but listen when
there's not a paycheck coming. Yeah. Yeah. We were laid
off at the time and got it. I just felt like, man,
if I'm gonna chase something, this is definitely something to chase.
You know, you might as well try it. But what's
funny is you're like, I'm if I'm gonna chase something,
(08:57):
I guess it is this thing that just randomly popped
up a couple days ago. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, well man,
you did? You never sing as a kid. My mom
would always like tell me in the truck, like, oh,
you should sing. I used to be able to sing
before I started smoking cigarettes. I used to be able
to sing and stuff, and I just always blew it
off because that's my mom, you know, So I always
just blew it off. And then over my life I've
(09:19):
had like three people tell me, Man, I think you
could sing, but but did you ever sing where people
can actually hear? You know? It all started like two
years from now or two years back from now. I
like sang one day and then after that I had
like three people tell me and then just random, like
a random place. I think it was up at the
(09:40):
courts um in Flora, Illinois, like the basketball courts. Yeah.
So we mean you're just like just right here me
and you, and you're like you are my sunshine. You
sing Luke Luke Combs Hurricane. This kid named Trey Judy
was just jamming on the guitar and I was real bored,
and you always just went up to the basketball courts
to hang out and he was like jam only time.
I was like, I'll trying to sing. And then I tried,
(10:02):
and then I tried again, and then that video I like,
I was like, you know what, I'm gonna try it,
Like what could it hurt if I tried singing? That's crazy.
You're like a kid who's walking by a ball field
and you're like, man, there's a ball land down there.
Let me just grab you have a glove one over there?
Am I supposed to throw it to you. Yeah, fast off,
You're like, wow, So if I'm rewinding before the music stuff,
(10:25):
because I'm I'm so interested in your passion of car
trucks building when you because when you said to me,
when I got some money, I built the truck. I
figured it was when you got some money from either
stuff in social media, signing a deal, but it was
when you got some money. We saved up money from
like working a real job. So when I got some money,
(10:47):
I built my big truck, the one truck I had
no money. Dude. Two years ago, I couldn't like afford
my truck payment. I had no money. I was living
my mom, which I love my mom, but I was
like twenty almost twenty one living my mom, and I'm like,
and what am I gonna do with my life? And
pipeline is not working out? So I had no money.
So I just budget built this truck. It was like
it was like painted. It wasn't that truck you're talking about.
(11:10):
That's the budget truck you built. This is a truck
you built. When you're like, Okay, I have some money
for being creative. Yeah, I thought, man, if what if
I just build the biggest truck, the biggest half ton
truck in America. What if I just build it and
then I try to brand me because my music isn't
very party. It's like super sad and feelings and like,
(11:33):
you know what I'm feeling. So I thought, man, but
I do want people that I can't know that I
have a good time too, So yeah, I'm not always
just this sad, really depressed dude to my house. You know,
I do have fun, And so I thought, man, I'll
build this huge truck and take it to truck shows
and maybe I can get my my fans to come
to these shows and see me that way as well.
That's pretty cool. I'm kind of in awe of this story.
(11:54):
And I've heard all the stories. I've never heard one
quite like this. This is really cool. And you're you're going,
that's crazy. So you live with your mom at twenty,
you have no aspiration to be a performer. Yeah, it's
not that you didn't want to, you just didn't even
know that. What is the thing. I was living in
an eight hundred person town. You know, nobody ever makes
it out of there. So I thought, I mean, I'm
in competition with a billion people that are all trying
(12:17):
to do the same thing. Um, Louisville, Illinois. Where in
the state like very southern, so very southern, close to
like Mount Vernon, Effingham, Um, two hours from Champagne. Yeah,
three towns that I don't even know where they are,
and I tore, I tore a lot, but that's tougher,
so very like the bottom litd of tip thing there. Yep.
(12:38):
So if you go up to Champagne or Peoria, we're like, yeah, yeah,
three hours from Peoria South because minor league teams in
pe Okay, so you go, you got graduate high school? Yep,
you graduated high school. You finish high school. What kind
of student are you? Terrible? Hated school, a failed, math failed,
there's a lot of Yeah, if you're talking, I'm not
(13:00):
gonna be like, O can't believe. Yeah that sucks. Yeah.
So okay, you graduated high school. And does your truck
fascination just generally come from your dad? You think it
comes from a dude in my town named Wade Pray, Sir.
I saw his huge truck when I was uh thirteen,
(13:21):
twelve thirteen going to school. Every day's man, one day
if I can make some money and be able to
build that, I would do that. So that's what I think.
That's where it all comes from. Did you have the
truck driver was a truck driver, Yeah, he hauled cars
and stuff. So did you learn about trucks and actually
the functionality of them and how they work and how
to fix it from your dad at all? Yeah? Working
(13:41):
on motors. So it all started really with just like
anything with the motor. I loved going fast, so I
raced a lot of outdoor motocross um, you know, from
like fourteen to nineteen and twenty, and Dad and John
always built race cars and dirt cars and trucks. Whatever
they could build, if they could like work on it,
they in your yards. Something was being worked on. Our built.
There was chassiss and motors. So that's you know, that's
(14:05):
the early fascination to me, Even if you don't know,
you're fascinating. You're learning sometimes just because you're around it,
your dad's around it. But then you go next level
and you see somebody with a freaking awesome truck and
you're like, I know how to do this, but that's
what I want. That's that's so did you ever think
about racing like with that that is being a career. Um,
I wanted to so bad, I really did. I love,
(14:26):
you know, racing outdoors, and I always did love it,
but kind of the same thing. And that's even a
harder just industry to get into. You gotta be a
top five contender to even make a living. I hear
you saying that, Honest to god, I do and I
respect that. But what you're doing right now is just
as weird and odd and hard and and lightning in
a bottle and all. So when you're like, man, I
don't know about what do you do? You can do anything.
(14:46):
Apparently you're nailing it. You can be a astronaut. Just
go do it. Yeah. I tell people that from the
last two years, I truly believe a person can do
anything and they ever want to do and they're like,
there's nothing is impossible. You can anything. I just wasn't
very fast on it her bike. Is it still weird
to you? What's happening to you right now? Every day?
Every day I wake up and I'd call my mom
and I'm like, hey, Bobby Bones just asked me to
(15:09):
come be on a show. I'm blown away that you're
so normal. I'll be honest with you. I thought twenty two.
You're killing it right now. Sometimes you may not even
know how much you're killing it, but you're killing it.
You're town's talking about you, your style, and I'm like, oh,
this guy's not a douche because just the nature of
this town, there's a there's a good amount of douche
(15:31):
bags because uh creative and even if I think you're doing,
somebody else may not. But there's just enough. But there's
enough to always and you're not. You're just a dude.
It's awesome, it's so refreshing. You're just a dude. And
so but I mean that in the best way of
you know what you care about, you know and you
(15:52):
understand what's just happened to you and how crazy it is,
and you're still going full speed ahead at it and
like you're dedicated and you're attacking this thing, and that
is really freaking cool. Yeah, I just you gotta think, man,
Like a year and a half ago, I have I
know where it's I know where being at the bottom is.
I know how it feels to have nothing and feel
(16:14):
like you just have literally nothing. And now that I know,
you know it all honestly, how how it is to be,
you know, going towards the top or or going and
doing great things. So every day I wake up, I
thank God for just letting me be here. First, She's
always just like, no freaking way, that's crazy, you know,
(16:36):
And she'll like she's like, this is just insane, and
she like talk to herself like this is just crazy.
You know. So Mom is like I love talking to
her about things because she has no clue what's going on,
as you know, just as much as I do. And
I'll just be like, yo, I think I'm like flying
on a private jet and she's like what And I'm like, yeah,
Like how crazy is that? Man? Is it? I I
(17:00):
just can't just like I just sit back and a
smile and I'm just like, this is insane. Have you
done a lot of interviews? No, you're one of the
very first I've not. I don't think I've ever done
an interview like this. Are you serious? I've never done
anything like this. Don't change, And it's gonna be hard
for you not to change because you get so jaded.
And also you'll get your label people and they'll do
(17:20):
a good job. For the most You're a good place.
You're a good place. You're warn right, you're warn there.
That's that's a good that's a good group. And so
you already know how to talk. And some people who
are great off might come in and they aren't sure
how to talk. But what you're doing is you're talking
what out there and just bring it in here like
that's the key. I'm just talking to They never change.
(17:41):
So you're freaking out, your mom's freaking out everything. But
I want to go back to you. Load the video up,
You're you're singing, you wake up, You've got a couple
of million views. You decide you're gonna tell the union
you're not coming back. So but then what do you
do next? Do you go? All right? So I'm to
sing on TikTok? So literally what I did next was
so I called to the Union quit and they were like, wait,
(18:02):
you just like you just want to like get off
the list. I'm like, no, cut my card up, I'm done.
And they were like, what are you gonna do? And
I'm like, I'm gonna be trying to be a country
singer because I might as well try, you know. And
so I called Gavin because I called him at two am,
and I said, hey, do you care if I post
this video and he said, no, man, hell if it
if it gets some views, why don't we try to
(18:23):
cut it or however you do that. I don't even
know how it works, you know. So I called him
and I said, dude, have you seen TikTok? And he's
like no, and I'm like, yeah, dude, go look at
TikTok And he looked and he's like, dude, so what
do we do now? And I'm like, well, we gotta
figure out how to record it. We gotta figure out
how that works. Like I don't know how it works.
And he said and he said, uh, all right, man,
I'll I'll take off of work today. You take off too.
(18:44):
And I said, now, I dud I to quit and
he's like, you quit your job and I'm like, dude, no,
I'm for real, Gavin, like, I'm coming over to your
apartment in the next year. You're gonna quit your job.
I'm gonna I'm already quit my job. So you're gonna
quit your job. We're you're gonna be a writer. I'm
gonna be an artist. We're gonna do this. So we
got over there and we searched up recording studios, because
I always thought you had to have a personal studio
(19:06):
to start off musical, and that's what it looks like
on TV anyway, is that they have to go into
a building in a room where all the big board
is the microphone. I thought the same thing, But then
you quickly learned what that It's just a lot of
home studios, And I thought, you legit. I had to
go buy speakers, I had to go buy all this gear.
I had to like produce my own stuff. So when
I learned that you didn't have to do that, I
was like, Okay, this is way easier. This is a
(19:28):
lot easier, I think it is. So we went to Nashville,
cut the song. What's the drive to Nashville? Four hours? Okay,
so not that bad. We were doing it like two
or three times a week, man, gav when you cut
a salt, you drove to Nashville. Who did you find
somebody here with the home studio or yes, Sean Rodgers
had a home studio and I randomly, it's the weirdest thing.
I randomly got hooked up with him from a dude
(19:50):
that I hadn't This dude in my hometown of people
randomly knew that I was looking for a producer and
I had not told anybody about this. I had not
talked to anybody but my mom. Well, how abould he know? Then?
No clue still to this day, have no clue how
any of it got. He just randomly called me. He said, hey, man,
my name is Richie and for some reason, I just
(20:11):
got your number from somebody. Do you need a producer?
And I was like, why do you know that? I've
literally not told anybody. He was like, I don't know,
but I feel I just I just got your number
and I like, I just new to call you, and
I was like, yeah, I need a producer. And he
was like, well, Sean Rodgers does an artist from back
home name Doling Wolf. He produces him, and would you
(20:32):
wanna would you want to go produce him? Like I'll
take whatever I can right now, you know. So it
was really wild. I had like fift bucks, me and
gab Throundred to get the song produced. And we're like, man,
do you think we'll make our money back? Like I
don't have no more money. And so if you take
the song, though, do you load it up on the
digital DSPs? That kid? Okay? So you put it there
(20:55):
and then it goes up. Now that's a song you
did on TikTok at first, So then how did you
get back on TikTok and go we just loaded it up?
Or did you like, how do you let that crew?
Because how many followers do you have now at this
point because of that song? I so I went from
thousand that night and then when I woke up the
next morning, I had a hundred and forty thousand. So
you went from the truck fan the people that were
(21:18):
fans of your work and and trucks, and you doubled
up in one night. And so now you have all
these music folks too. Yeah, so how do you let
them know? I just, um, I just started doing TikTok's
I was just like, hey, y'am, thank you so much
further support on this song. Um, I'm gonna try to
get it out. I really don't know how we do
that yet, but I'm trying to figure it out. So
(21:39):
just bear with me. And I was super just transparent
with him, and I just told them how it how
I was learning how songs were made and this and that,
and then I just told him, hey, I uploaded it
and now it's gonna be released this day. You guys
can stream it this day, And were you surprised? Relieved? What? Which?
When it started to really get some traction and that's
(22:00):
then on the you know, getting streams. So when it
started like streaming really well, we hit a million on
Apple and I called I called Gavin Mom into the
room and I'm like, is this good? Like is a million?
I think it was a million streams first week on Apple?
When I was like, is this good? How how do
I gauge this? Are we doing good? Is it not
making enough money? I had no idea. I had no
(22:22):
idea what anything was. I thought my management before I
signed with him, was a label. Oh no, that's that's
a comment. That's common. Yeah, same thing, label, management, agents,
all that crap to me. When I started to I
was like, wait, I thought, what do you do? Yeah,
you're telling me I can have a manager and a
label at the same time, and you're telling me I
gotta pay a manager and an agent. But I feel
like it's the same crap. Yes, yes, same thing. So
(22:46):
you are when did you get manage? When did they
come to the picture? Do they message you from seeing
you blow up online? Yeah? So Scott Frasier Um hit
me on on Instagram, and for some reason I responded.
I would have never responded because there's this long, huge
message with this weird looking guy with a bow tie
on and this profile picture, and I just thought, man,
this guy looks like a weirdo. But something is telling
(23:07):
me I need to like talk to him. So I
called him and I'm running through the airport and we
just had the best conversation, and he introduced me to
chief chiefs Rooke and Simon Tickman of the Core Entertainment
and that was I had already had a meeting with
Warner with Chris Lacy and I didn't know even what
it was. I didn't know what I was. I was
at this building just talking to a bunch of random
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people about music. And then a month later I told
them all about it and they were like, wait a second,
You've been talking to Chris and you've been doing this
and I'm like yeah, and they're like, we need to
manage you. So they like signed me. And then about
that was two months after Never Coming Home came out,
and then I think I signed my deals like a
month and a half after that or two months. Why
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can you play someone Never Coming Home, and I got
iver coming Home. Oh no, Never Coming on. I figured, so,
what is the label when they meet with you and
they say, hey, we'd love to have you, I love
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to sign you. What what's their pitch to you as
to why they'd be the right one. So when I
got with Warren, when I met with Warner for the
first time, it wasn't they The first question was do
you know why you're here? And I was like, no clue.
I'm gonna be fully transparent with y'all. Have no idea
who you are, who you are, I don't know what
this building is. And they were like, well, we're Warner Nashville,
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were a record label, this and that, and I was
like okay, And then honestly it was just a really
good conversation. I just really got to know Chris. I
really got to know Rohan. Did you get down there though? Who? Who? How?
Who told you to come to that building? And what
they told you was gonna happen there. Rohan COLEI is
an A and R from Warner and he just messed
me on Instagram and he just was like, hey, man,
would you want to come to have a meeting? And
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I said, sure, I just love Nashville. I was like,
any anything to get me to actually drove down to
have the meeting with people. You had no idea what
they did. Eight pharmacy burgers in front of the That
was when COVID was really really you know, popping and
outside with mass eating burgers and stuff. And we didn't
even talk about deals or nothing. We didn't talk about
anything like that. What did you tell them that your
your life goals were? Um, I just told him, I said,
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I don't know what's going on. But more of the
story is I've got a vision for this. I'd like,
I think I know what music I want to sing,
and I know how I want to do it, and
I know who I want to be. So there you go,
That's that's what I am. I don't know, I've not written,
you know, written any more songs of not I don't
know how to play guitar. I can't do this and
I can't do that. But I know I've got a
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vision for what I'm doing and and and social media
is working, so I'm just gonna keep doing that. So
you left the meeting. What was like the general feeling
was that, Hey, we'll talk more we would love to
have you go think about it. We don't like you
like what what? What do they make you feel like?
Chris made me feel super like at home, I felt
super like, um, very comfortable in the situation, just with
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the people. I got to know Chris and Rohan really well,
just sitting there, and it was more like, um, hey,
we're gonna keep watching what you're doing. We're really excited
about you. And I'm like, hey, I'm just grateful to
be here, so thanks for having me. And they paid
for the burgers. So let's paid for the burgers and
no backtrack in a second. But I'm even looking at
your dates here because you're gonna be doing on this
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eight shows and half of them are already sold out,
maybe more than that at this point. Have you played
a show yet for more than a hundred people? Yeah, yeah,
we've We've been playing some really crazy shows. That's another thing.
Can you sell more than a hund tickets? Don't be
confused by that, because I know you can. But I'm saying,
when did you start to actually they make you, Okay,
go in front of this many people. You've never done
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it before, but ghosting in front of folks when did
that happen. So my very first show, I had a
Rider's Round in Nashville, Live Oak and it was just
a little acoustic and I was I wasn't really nervous.
I was like, I have no idea what I'm doing.
Let's see how this goes. And then the next show
I did was Luke Combs Rock the South. I opened
for Luke, and it was I just I've watched rock stars,
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so I grew up on rock. I I grew up
eight years old. I went to a Tesla Pop Evil
concert and in um, so you're like like seventies, like
sixties and seventies rock, you say that, yeah, yeah, some,
but more into like the nineties stuff too, like the
you know, saving able and you know and straight ahead
or not even nineties alternative, like you're straight ahead modern
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rock nineties. Yeah. I grew up put just on a
lot of rock, but anything with big guitars, you know,
Kid Rocks, Shryl Crow, any of that stuff. And so
I started going to shows when I was like eight
or ten. And when I went out to play Rock
the South, I just I was like, all right, I'm
just gonna do what I've seen other people do. So
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like the very first thing, I'm running all the way
down the catwalk. I'm just a sprint as fast as
I can, and that will get people's attention. Maybe, So literally,
very first thing was just like sprinted. And I've not
stopped every catwalk I've ever done. I just go and
I just balls the walls all the way down and
then I just sit there and look. But playing these
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shows for more than a people is insane. It's like,
truly something that I've never experienced in my whole life. No, truly, Yeah,
because truly you didn't do school like talent shows. You know,
it's like, okay, oh I can sing, well, go play
for thousand people, five thousand people here, Like I mean
that's baptism by fire? Yeah? Do you have Did you
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have fun doing it? A blast? I learned that to
sing you have to breathe. I Like, I got off
of Rock to South stage and I said, man, I
just don't feel good. I don't I just don't feel
like I can't breathe. I don't feel good. And then
I ended up like Zoonkin in the camp. I just
passed out in the camp. Or so it was insanely fun,
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insanely for on, like my my body has never felt that,
Like just I can run as much as I want,
nobody's gonna tell me to shut up. I can scream
as long as I want. And after that, I was like,
I definitely want to do this more. But let's figure
out how to breathe. Let's get in shape, let's get
some cardio going. And it's really a thing. Yeah, And
if you don't breathe right, especially if you have songs
that are even the song we just played there, if
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there's a lot of singing, you have to really measure
where you're going to breathe, or you miss it, you
don't get back to it until later, and they're catching
up the whole time. God awful. Yeah, So if you
kind of figured it out basically, you know when you
have a second, take a breath. Yeah, Well the show
since then has progressed a lot. You know, We've got
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like a like a break where I introduced the band
and it gives me just a second to like get
my heart right down, get my breathing. But when you
miss a breath, it's hard to catch it. You don't
you're not getting the back, there's no way because your
next breath is going to be as shorter than what
it was supposed to be terrible and a really wordy
songs and you know, and also do a lot of
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stand up and so really wordy situations. You have to
hit your exact points and then you miss it, and
when you do finally get your second point, you're trying
to make up for the first one, but you're never
caught up. But it's fun that you you've got a
band break because you learned quick. You learn. Yeah, one
night I just went boys singing gonna work, saying gonna work.
I I gotta, I gotta have something to breathe because
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that last show is pretty rough. I need something to
get me through this second half. And I've learned. I
went from playing twenty five minutes with Luke at Rock
to South to now I can play our hour half
shows whatever in a year. And like, if you'd have
told me, you know, one year old me playing that show,
that's like dying in the camp, or like, hey man,
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in a year, you're gonna be just fine the watch,
I would have been like, you're a liar. So I've
learned a lot. Listening to your music like rock and
a hard play that's like my vibe musically meaning you know,
you go. You know, I sing all these slow songs,
but that like songs that I can hear the words,
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I can feel the words. I don't need a bunch
of tempo like that's that's my vibe. And even musnically,
even musically like what you have going personally for me,
like I love it, you know, I don't think, and
I don't think I have to love something to act
to know why it's good. But like I really love
how you're doing it. I want to play rock and
a hard place right now, man's braves? Have you got
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to be a better singer now? Because you have to
sing a lot more so you gotta take care of it.
But also, like tricks and you're working on a muscle,
are you getting better? Insanely better? Going? Uh? Looking back
at like demos from last year to Down'm like, yeah,
we gotta recut those vocals. I've I've learned just I've
been in a lot of um vocal lessons. I did
go through some voice stuff. Um right off the bat,
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I was smoking a lot because I used to smoke vape,
and I smoking a lot and singing every single day.
I was you know, I was going out and having
dreams just because I was twenty one, and I learned
very quickly that you can't do that. It's not just
this like infamous thing that just has power all the time.
It's it's a muscle and you have to work it.
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So I've went through the last year has been a
very um informational year. I've learned so much just about
how the voice works, things to preserve the voice, things
to do after a show, before a show. So you've
had to cram that's a great word for it. You've
had to cram it all that people learn it eight
all the way until now for a normal person who
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grows up singing, you had to cram it all in
one year. Yeah, like all all of it, the physical
part of it, the mental part of it, to take
care of your voice. And so it's a it's a
crash course. Feel healthy right now, super healthy. I'm like
the healthiest I've been in a long time. Um. I've
been singing a lot here recently, and every day I
just I'll call chief with it, just cut another song.
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And I feel amazing, man, Like I can't I can't
express how amazing I feel, you know, And that just
comes with the cardio and working hard. You know. So,
did you get nervous when tickets go on still that
people are gonna buy tickets or did you not think
about it at all? No? I didn't complete transparency. I
didn't even know that what what the dates were yet.
I didn't know like the routing or what was happening
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with the tour. And then Scott called me and said, hey,
tickets went on twenty five minutes ago and you just
sold out six of the eight venues. And I'm like, well,
that's good, that'll work. Let's go that you that that
is good. Sold out is always good. So the stress
didn't even get to you because you were still learning
and you didn't know what you didn't learn yet. Yeah,
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being being just thrown in the fire is honestly the
b It's like, can you swim? I don't know, Let
me jump in and see. So because then you're not
so focused on the little things. You're more focused on
let's keep living every day and let's make sure we're progressing.
And also what I what I like, what's happening to
If you don't know the rules, you don't always follow
the rules, and sometimes you can create your own rules.
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And I've been able to do that micro a bit
where I would just be a dummy it's something and
be like I'm gonna I'm just gonna attack it for
writing a book or doing stand up and people like, well,
you have to write it like that, but I don't
know how to write it. So I did it my
own way. And so when it finally comes to life,
people like, oh, this is different, and I'm like, oh,
you're saying it's different. They said it was wrong, but
it is different. I didn't know how to do it,
and now it becomes kind of a standard. And I
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can see that happening with you a bit where you
didn't know. But that's a strength for you because you
created your own lane. And so that's exciting as an
artist when you don't know all the rules because you
can create your own And with all these other Nashville folks, producers, writers,
they want you to be around them. I'm assuming like, hey,
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uh get with this writer. Is that happening to you
now where they're trying to put your places? Um any
of these rooms you walk into and you're like, dang,
you've read in all these songs and you're gonna write,
you're gonna write with me? Does that happen at all
or is it all still a lot of your crew? Yeah?
We wrote with we wrote, I write with of course
Gavin every single day I write. It's awesome to that.
You guys are still like, like, that's all that's your dude. Yeah.
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I told him from day one, I will never like
you know, if we start this, it's like in it
to win. I don't when did he quit his job though,
that's the question. How long? Um? Probably six months ago now. Yeah,
he was so nervous. He was like, man like, god,
I don't know if I should quit. I don't know
if I should quit. And I'm like, dude, I can
promise you I'm gonna work really hard to make us
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both successful. Just trust me. Does he go on shows
with you? He loves He doesn't playing with me, but
he goes and he'll just watch. He just loves watch.
And he's like, dude, can you believe this is what
we're doing now instead of working? So is he he
signed a publishing deal? Yeah, he just signed with Warner Chapel. Okay,
so he's writing songs with you and with other folks. Yeah,
I bring him. I told him. That's why I told
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him too. I said, I will never not bring you
to a right. You you were always invited to a right, whatever,
whatever right. I don't care if it's the biggest right
in the world, you know. So I bring him to
every right because we grew up, we grew up together.
He knew, he knows exactly who I am, how I
like my songs to be, so he can kind of
help guide guide the train in the room. Has he
gotten to be a better guitar player since he's around
a lot of players all the time. Oh yeah, we
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both have. I mean, yeah, yeah, I can. I can.
I played my first I played fall in Love on
guitar the other day. I was very proud of myself.
So when did you pick it up? And how long
did it take you before your fingers stopped hurting and
you could do more than g C d um. I
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just honestly going into all the rights. Man, I watched
just every guitar player. I'd be like, man, that's a
cool chord. So I would watch every time he would
go to play that in progression, I'd be like, where's
his fingers? So then I would go home and I
would just find it, and then I would do different
variations of that chord to see yourself without even knowing
what it was, the same thing with just not knowing
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the rules, you know, And even to this day, everybody's like, hey,
why do you think about guitar license? I'm like, you
know what, no, man, I've been doing everything my whole life,
whether it came to pipeline or building trucks or this
and that. I just did it my way because I
didn't know how to do it. So I'm just gonna
keep doing it my way and I'm gonna figure it
out on my own. Do you feel pretty confident playing
in front of folks now with the guitar not on
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stage yet, but playing good song? If they're like, hey,
can you play as a song? I'm like, yeah, I
can play a song. You know. I can make you
think I can play guitar. That's what I do too. Yeah,
Like I have people that are really good, but like
I like, I'm gonna do the Bluebird on Sunday night
because I have a couple of theater shows in town
that I'm doing, and so I just need to get
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on stage a couple of times because a lot of
myself comedy and you know, you can practice a song,
but if I don't tell jokes in front of people,
I don't know if they're funny, because I can go
like I wrote, this is freaking funny, but if I
don't put it out in front of people and here
back and never really know. So I'm gonna go play
the Bluebird, I'm gonna do it it by myself. But like you,
I gotta really pick this so long as that I'm
really comfortable with, because unless I got my people around me,
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I'm very selective about what songs I'm gonna be playing.
So same to where it's like I'm not I can
fool you. Yeah, if you need twelve minutes, I can
fol you. You'll be like that definitely. Or if you
need a clip on Instagram, no problem, I can do that.
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So you're playing guitar, are you getting the free stuff now?
Are like our music companies reaching out guitar guitar companies
anything going Hey, we want to put this you know,
on your Instagram or your TikTok and take it on stage.
You need that happening. Um, I've been telling Scott and them,
I'm like, honestly, I wanted Gibson, and I wanted Gibson deal.
I've ever since I've watched The Food Fighters live. He
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Dave Girls always had a light blue Gibson whatever that is.
It's some some guitar. But I've always been a fan
of the Less Paul's so as Less Paul's s G
forty or at s G, the uh J forty five whatever.
So I'm like, yo, if I could have any guitars,
it would be Gibson for sure. Big food Fighter fan,
huge massive Food Fighter fan. I've seen him nine times.
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Dave grow is just a different energy. Honestly, it's an energy.
It's an exact energy that nobody else has. Dave Girl live. Yea.
When I when I watched that, I go I want
to be him. I want to be Vincenel. I want
to be these rocks too. Oh I watched. I watched
the Dirt every single night all the way through. I
never I never not finished, not every single night, every
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swear for the last that's good three and a half months.
I've just manifested that I wanta what about that though?
It's not like the crazy party like drugs and stuff,
but just the way they live life. I want to
just do what I want. I've always had that mentality
of my whole life. I just don't tell me what
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to do. I just want to do what I want.
I just want to be able to live. Let's do
this Five Singers front man and that that could be two.
You may move off of who are the five front
man that you've watched as a kid, and you're like,
I want to be them? And now you're actually going
I always wanted to be them, but I didn't really know.
But now I do really want to be them as
I do this. Who is it inspiring you? Vince Neil,
Chad Kroeger from Nickelback, Jeff Keith from Tesla, No Girl,
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Chris Cornell, Chris Cornell. We were watching him last night
and he was different, man. Chris Cornell was different. Scott
stabbed was badass. Scott's badass. Any any of them old rockers, man,
they just all knew how to Just have you met
Scott Nope, not yet. We've had him. We've had him
here before. He follows me on TikTok. He does, he
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does follow me on TikTok. So that's awesome. I was
a big as a huge creed guy. When you are
with awesome. I went to a Creed show. I'm from
Arkansas rule small town in Arkansas about Drew people like
you grew up in a town like you the same size,
and drove the little rock to watch Creed in an
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arena and I was a teenager, so I was, but
I was working in radio and I went back and
Scott Staff was walking around. You know, they were massive
at the time. I mean, he was like, where's the
pink pong table? And I was like, I was next
to the pink pong table. I don't. I don't know
play ping pong? Picked up Battle and he found it.
It was like play pink bong. Was like yeah, I said,
He said, you want to play like I don't. I
don't play ping pong. Oh my gosh, I don't play people.
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And I was like, yeah, of course, and he goes,
all right, here we go. I don't even know the rules,
like you have to hit on the ground first to
go around. See, you have to hit on the table
to hit it over. And he goes, you want to
go first? He goes, you go first. I don't know
what to do. I go no, No, you go first.
You're the guest. Of course, yeah, yeah, and I'm watching
he hits it and I'm like, okay, I think he
beat me, Like I don't know. Before we got too
he was like, you don't want to play and he quit.
We quit and he walked out like you don't how
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to play and he walked off. And then I told
him that story and he goes, yeah, that's about like me.
He's awesome now, but that's that's really cool. So you
don't put Dave Grol up there though it's your top five.
It's hard. It's so hard that Dave Girl would be
up there. He's such so many He's such an intense
positive energy. When he performs, he screams and I don't
want to throw that word screen around, but he screams
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right on key. I mean, it's it's perfect. And I've
seen him nine times and it's always been one of
the greatest shows I've ever seen, every single time. Yeah,
have you seen him live? Never seen it? I've on
YouTube every day every single day. I just watched Dave
Girl I've watched. I really like going back to like
the Nirvana days and watching Dave Young because I like,
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look at him straight hair, long haired, goofy playing the
drug grunge, just really grunge, and I like, look back
at that, and I look at him and I go,
all right, what has he done from then to now
to better his life? Because if he was doing these
things twenty two probably shouldn't do those. What has he done?
He's a super big role model. Yeah, Like looking at
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him through the phone, I just go, man, I would
be best friends with this guy. I feel like it's
interesting too, because you know, he's in Nirvana and he
is starting to do the food Food Fighters, but he's
doing it's all him. It's all just him. He created
all that himself, all the instruments, everything, and he talks
about you know, he gave it a show to Kurt
and Kurt's like, great, that's all you know? So um,
he had already been on that bit. And I think
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at times, and obviously I'm way older than you, but
I grew up a massive Nirvana fan, massive Food Finders fan,
like that for me was when I was a kid kid.
And to watch him come out of Nirvana possibly one
of the top, depending on decade, top ten biggest rock
groups of all time because Navana made the whole night.
He's down there, the first one and for him to
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go from something that big too something else that's massive
that really aren't connected. Yeah, he did it twice. He
did it twice, and I don't think, Yeah, I don't
think he gets the respect and he gets a lot
of respect, but I don't think he gets what he deserves.
I would argue, and it should be an interesting conversation
that he is right now America's biggest rock star. He's
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a little older, But who would be a bigger rock
rock star than Dave girl meeting success, relevance, history, who's
an American rock star? Rolling Stones are still dead, so
I'm not you can't there. They're not dead, They're still live.
But the British, right, and I'm counting the old people.
But once you get certain old, you're not even Cold
Plays a massive rock band that's still here. Not American
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name a bigger American rock star. I don't think there
is Dave Grohl that. I think that's it. And he's
like the craziest part about him is he's never lost momentum.
He's always just been And they just put out another
record and it was it was massive again. Yeah, few
fighters just put another record up. Yeah, like a year ago,
or so oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I mean,
like just meaning they're their fifties and that's just and
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it was relevant even then. So that's that's pretty cool
to hear your influences. And it's also pretty cool that
you're honest about him, you know. I like that. I
like that. I'm just a big fan. I'm a big
fan now even more so after spending time with you,
because like I enjoy what you're about. It's just all right, um,
this is presented itself. I really love it. I want
to work really hard to do it. And you don't
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know the rules and that's great. And if you're gonna
get in trouble, you have people now that'll stop. If
we're getting trouble, I'm like, well, we can't do that,
but like that might put you in jail. But I
like what your mind was. I do want to play
fall in Love, Mike, if you could play that, please
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to four radio right now. I'm starting to get a
little little let's go. Yeah, And that is a whole
different animal, meaning you have a lot of people are
gonna come to shows, but it's just a different kind
of and I say it, radio to me is radio.
It's satellite. It's anything where the mass population that is
not extremely tuned into the digital space where they just
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hear things and then come fans of that's a that's
a game. The space you're going into now is a
game changer because you already got one on lock and
you keep putting stuff there. You're gonna hold that on
lock because of who you are and how good you are.
But man, you start to become just everywhere I want
you hit freaking radio. You can change somebody's like an
artist live so many tanks like ways. But if you
go to radio and you have a song do good
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like people's aunts, then't know who you are. Random people's like,
oh I know, I've heard of Bailey. Oh yeah, And
I think it's so funny talking about radio. Um small towns,
hometowns of artists. You're never like a big artist until
you're on like the highway, or until you're on you know,
someone can actually listen to in their car whatever it is.
You're not big until then, you know. I saw him.
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I was on the way to case Sas and hell
he came on the radio. He must be getting pretty big,
you know. So I've always thought it was so funny
how you really nobody really knows like music industry unless
you're really in it, you know. So radio is a
weird thing that I'm still trying to learn. I'm still
trying to understand it. So I don't think there's a
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thing to understand. I get gets the whole situation. Well, man,
it's it's really cool. Like keep at it. I'm anxious
to see how you just you just kill it, man,
you know you came in. I was like, we'll see
how this guy is it. Probably a diche bag and
you're not. You're not, You're just not. And um, I'm
super pumped at that we were able to make this happen.
I was with my manager just this is how, this
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is how it happened. I was with my manager and
we were talking about just general consumption and he said,
Bailey Zimmerman, um is like one or two this week.
And I just heard it and whatever. People people are
always telling me that things are good or things are
not good, and so I was like, cool. So Mike,
who's like my main guy here at my Preyers or
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my right hand guy and everything I do. I was like, hey,
I know anything about it. I know who you were
I was like, Bailey Zimmerman, what's the deal. Uh, apparently
she's killing it. Like I said earlier, I said, she's
killing it. And Mike goes, we're talking about sat Bailey
Zimmerman because the one I know is not a she,
and I was I was like, whoever it is, I
need to I need to know what's up. And so
(48:01):
then I found out what's up and I saw like
all your dad and listen to your songs and stuff,
and I was like, Okay, I'm into it. Then now
get to spend time with you. It's like I might
be your biggest fan. I might have you number one family.
That's that's it. I'm paying for me grades. But dude,
I I've been your biggest fan. I've I saw um
Mitchell's wife, Megan Megan Mitchell, Yes, yes, Megan. I saw
(48:23):
her cry on her tour bus because you, like you
had her on your show and stuff, and I thought, dude,
I want to cry. I want to I want to
do that, like I want to be on Bobby Bones
Like that would be so sick because I like just
you know, going around Nash listening to you, like, hey,
like my stylis. She was like yeah, that's Bobby Bones House.
I'm like, man, maybe one day I'll get to go
over there and like do that show or something. So well,
(48:46):
you should come up whenever you're good, and we got
a whole stage at the studio. You play play one morning,
it'll be awesome. D be awesome. I've not actually played
a radio show yet like that where it's like hey,
eight am, we're gonna come in and we're gonna play.
I've never I've not done that yet. Well, I know
it sounds exciting, but kind of sucks because you're like, hey,
am I never sing it eight a m. We just
(49:07):
had Cody Johnson and and he did a bunch of
songs and he was like, man, and Cody plays for
people and every night. Yeah, and he's like, man, its
singing in the morning. That kind of sucks. And I'm like,
I know, imagine waking up at three to do this
stupid show for five hours, stid show and it's awesome,
but you don't like I don't like being early. That
part of it sucks. We'll keep it up. Man. I'm
really really pumph for you. It's exciting to see all
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of that you're accomplishing, and it sounds like you have
your priorities and check, you're still you got your boys
you came up with, you're still running with them. That's
such an awesome story. And I'll end on this and
that it's such a story. And and you know, in
five years, ten years, we'll see where where it takes you.
But like when you talk to Garth or when you
talk to Dave, girl, they've had this small, small group
(49:50):
of folks the whole time, and that has been a
bit of what has at times kept them centered either
as a human or creatively and some times a little
bit of both, sometimes one or the other. But yeah,
you and you and your boy. I hope you guys
are doing it for a long long time. I will
never get rid of him, so I mean famous last words,
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I love it, I love it. I love it. Well, yeah,
and and maybe he wants to get rid of you.
So let's it's all you tell your mom, I said, hello,
she sounds awesome. If she ever comes down and she's here, Uh,
we should bring her to the show, bring her up, well,
do the whole thing. I love us, I love us.
Supportive mom that it is just like living uh through
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their kid and someone who you call and like, hey,
this is happening, and I feel like that's that's awesome.
All right there, I'll tell you guys, go follow Bailey
Bailey dot Zimmerman on both tick Talk on Instagram, and
that's it. I got nothing, Mike's everything you want to say.
This has been one of the most fun interviews. I've
done it a long time. Yeah, dude, I'm telling you
(50:53):
a lot of it's it gets to be pretty douchy,
and so it's awesome. This has been really fun. Yeah,
I was super nervous. You were I was. I was nervous,
man Like, Okay, honestly, I thought maybe maybe Bobby's a douche.
I feel like, I'm so nervous to go into these
rooms and with these random people, because you know how
it is, like it's very easy to get off the
(51:14):
ground when you're a person of interest and people know
who you are when you go around, and so going
in here, I was like, I really hope Bob he
was just like a chip just hanging well. I think
at this point, I am. I think I got to
this town. It was normal. It was like, well, I
can't believe it had a couple of years where things
blew up really fast. I didn't know what was going on,
and I was like, oh, maybe I was. And I
(51:35):
had my douche eighteen months or so because I was
just confused. I was like, oh, maybe I am way
cooler than I and I was wrong. I was like, wait,
let's cool than I actually thought. And so but now
I know that, and you know, I just I'll leave
with this. And I've had a couple of friends that
are artists that started. I was like, Um, you're gonna
kill it. I can just see. I can see it already.
You're gonna kill it. This is gonna be a long
(51:55):
career for You're gonna be super successful. Um, you'll have.
It's just try to shorten your douche as much as
you can. Yeah, you're gonna have a couple of douche
months on the minimal, but it's have good people around you,
hopefully they're douches with You can live that out and
then you get back to normal and you remember that
douche team months we had. Let's never do that again.
But you're owed. Dad. Just don't be a douce to me.
We're all good to everybody else. You're only good douche
(52:17):
team months and then back at it, you know, yeh
next time? All right, do you want I'm gonna listen
to this? You think? Yeah? Yeah? What's her name? Christ Christie,
You are more than welcome. If Bailey's ever like, Hey,
I'm going to Bobby's show, you come with him. I
would love to meet you, and I hope you're super
proud of him. You've got a good kid. You stop,
you stop vaping. That's sick. Yeah, and he stop vaping
because that's that. That's what it is like. If you
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want to care about your professional career, you gotta take
care of things. And so all right there he is,
all right, Bailey Zimmerman. Follow Bailey. Tickets, I'd say get them.
There are a couple of shows where it was like
three tickets left in the roll, separate parts of the venue.
He's selling out like crazy. But if he comes, go
see them. All right, Bailey, good to see Buddy, Good
to see you. Man. This team is kol
All right, Bailey Zimmerman, it's gonna be a good one.
We've already done it, so I can say that, but
a good conscious he blew up on TikTok, and that's
a thing, right, and kids, TikTok kid. This story is
just a lot different than that. It's I didn't even
know he blew up on TikTok really. When I had
him in full disclosure as this is episode three seven,
I was just looking at Dad and it was like,
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Bailey Zimmerman one of the most consumed country artists of
all country artists. I'm talking about, up against Luke Combs
and Morgan Wall and Kenney Chesney. And I was like,
how is this happening? So I told Mike Mike d
my excellent producer and right hand man. I said, hey,
let's get her on the show. And he said, um,
that ain't a herb, bro. And I was like, oh,
Bailey is a dude. I had no idea, and he's like, yeah,
Bailey's to do this, well, let's get him on the show.
(00:43):
And then he came in and I tell him at
the end my review of him, which was funny. And
this is also his first real interview ever. So I
loved it. I don't know, Bailey, you might be listening
to this back. Great job, buddy, I can't wait to
do more with you and see you explode and just
a big fan of this kid now after hanging out
with them, I don't say that often. Sometimes I get
on this and I'm like, why I ever want to
hang out with that person again? That's a good one,
(01:05):
Bailey Zimmerman. Go follow him Bailey dot Zimmerman on TikTok
and enjoy this very refreshing Bobby cast. Here we go.
When you were driving in, Bailey, one of the guys
that worked through it was like, I think he's got
like a monster truck. I was gonna bring it and
then it starts coming through and I was like, well,
it looks like a nice white SUV, but I don't
(01:27):
see how big is the truck? This this mysterious truck.
The mirror get up on the microphone right there yet
the mirror it's probably two or three foot above my
head the side mirror, so if I'm standing up it's
probably I mean, it's really so. I feel like it
would be one of those helicopter rope ladders to get
up in does it have a ladder that comes out,
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or you just put yourself up. Every side. Well, I've
been really working on getting steps for it that come down,
but they're not in yet. So it's a struggle because
I don't drive it very much. Because you do, but
you have time you jump. Okay, talk to me because
I don't know much about cars. But is it an
old truck? Is it a new truck? And you got
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it jack that high? Yeah, I've always wanted to do it,
and I mean, I agree, if you want to do it,
do it. So it's so big. I think if I
had spent all this money and time, I would only
want to drive it. But I guess now you want
to drive it. But then when you get home and
there's like a paint chip here, there's like a crack somewhere,
You're like, I'm not driving this anymore. What about parking spots?
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I feel like that would be tough, not bad. No,
it's it's really not. It's just you have a picture
of it. Yeah, yeah, I guess I I'm picturing like
a big foot, like literal bigfoot. Oh, that thing's huge.
It's pretty big. Are those pink wheels? No, gold, it's
just it's all gold. So okay, let me ask a
(02:51):
couple of questions here. Then, how long you have the truck?
About a year probably? How long did it take to finish?
And did you are you the one that specialized? I
customized at all. I didn't do the work, but you
from the beginning you said, I want this done, this,
done this. Well, I've built this truck in my head
for years. Man, if I get enough money, I'm gonna
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build a truck like this. So I've had every color
picked out for like five years. So it took like
six months to build it though, And are you impatiently
waiting the whole time? Like, come on, come on, come on.
As I've grown older, I used to be really impatient
with things, and now I'm it'll get it's because I
get a patient. If I buy a pair of shoes
online and I'm like, all right here today, you just
spent six months building a truck. I would have been
(03:34):
so ready to drive that thing immediately. Well, oh I was.
Every day. I was like, man, I wish my truck
was done. But you go through and you get calls
like you have, like two calls when we came in.
This happened. We gotta we gotta switch this or you know,
so after like four times of that happened, you're just like,
you know what, just I want to stress myself out.
And now people know it's that truck is so known,
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I would assume a lot of people would even know
it's you because of your social media presence. I'd be
where people follow me home. We did have people follow
us to Red Lobster the night. Yeah, that'll be That's
what I'll be worried about that. And that's why I
never got a personalized license plate because I don't want
someone it would be like I hate that guy key
in my car or just people like, oh big shot,
(04:16):
got not you, but maybe looking at him driving that,
let's go let's go hast them a little bit. Yeah.
I've kind of just always had big trucks, so I
just thought it's part of my brand, and I've I've
always had big trucks. So nobody how much cost to
fill up hundred bucks, but it only gets me like
a hundred and twenty miles. I say, hundred bucks isn't
(04:36):
bad for a truck, but when it only drives down
the road, yeah, that's pretty good. You can go to
Walmart and back. Oh man, it's good to to see you,
good to talk to you. I was when I leave
the radio station on music Row, because we'll work out
of here. Some will work out of their some. But
when I leave, I see your face on the big
sign I'm driving out, and I was like, what was
up with this kid? And so I just started researching
a little bit. First congratulations, because you know, I'll look
(04:59):
a kid usually and look at just consumption. You know,
I don't really have any. I don't care that much
about what gets put on the radio because I'm gonna
whole a whole bunch of stations. I don't I don't
really look. I shouldn't take care. I don't really look
and try to affect radio stations. But I will look
and see, you know, who's streaming a lot, who's getting
played a lot that's new. You're killing it, man, really
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cool like and and to be honest with you, I
did to you what people do to me when they
don't know who I am. And most people don't, but
they'll go my name will gets billed b O b B.
I have a unisex name. They'll think I'm a girl.
And I was like Bailey. I was like, man, she
must be killing it. And then I realized, oh that's
him with the unisex name. Do you ever get that?
(05:41):
Oh my whole life. I used to hate it so much.
I was like, mom, why did you name me Bailey?
You know, why would you name me a girl's name?
But as I've gone over them, like, you know what,
I've never met another I've never met another dude named Bailey,
So I'm at peace with it now. But oh yeah,
I'm a whole live It was like Bailey Lynn to
my middle name is Lynn. Didn't double enough the girl
and double it up, Like like, what what are you attributing?
(06:04):
Because obviously you give a big social media presence, but um,
what I read though, was you didn't start off to
a music on any sort of social media, like even TikTok.
You were just showing off truck trucks. Yeah, so let's
go back then, before music, you said I'm gonna get
on and did you plan to just do it for
like your small circle or did you go I got
some real I think truck people will follow me. I'm
(06:24):
going to create a brand here. So I started there's
this girl in my hometown as Walmart and she was
a cash here and she was like I was flirting
with her, and I was like, I'm gonna catch you
on TikTok because I posted one video and it did just,
you know, a couple of thousand, and she was like,
you'll never hit ten thousand followers on TikTok. So I
just kind of got it in me. I was like, oh,
I'm gonna do that. So I started. I built this truck.
(06:46):
I started just filming it and stuff and putting sounds
behind it, and then ended up getting a lot of traction.
And then I got hooked on truck shows, so then
I started going yea, I took it from just like
building traction sen It's like, oh, I think I'm gonna
start going to these shows and maybe get some you know,
try to win trophies. And I got hooked on that
in two thousand nineteen and then just kept doing my
(07:09):
truck stuff. And then one day I had never sang before,
and I was wanting to get out of the pipeline
industry just because of not seeing family and being gone
so much, and so I was like, Okay, I'm gonna
start building trucks. That's a profession. And not only am
I gonna post him, but I'm gonna build other people's trucks.
So me and my brother John started doing that, and
(07:31):
like three days into business, I tried singing just in
the shop in the student named Gavin Lucas from the
same town I'm in. I was like, hey, man, I
think you've got a cool voice, and I write songs.
I can play guitar. Would you ever just want to
hang sometime? And I was like, yeah, man, I'll hang
some time. I've never really watched anybody play guitar and
sing at the same time. That's how it started. That's
(07:52):
how the start wholes thing started. Yeah, dear god, I've
never heard of it. More random, cooler oops, but awesome story.
It was very random. We we like jammed like three times,
and I was just so in awe of him playing
guitar and sing at the same time. He's like writing,
this guy can write songs. So one night we were
hanging and he said, hey, man, tonight we should try
(08:14):
to like really write a song and see if we
can write songs. So that was my first single, Never
Coming Home. That night we wrote the first verse and
myn just like a weekend to hanging with Gavin and
we wrote the first verse and then posted it on
TikTok that night at like two AM, and I woke
up and I like, kid you not. I woke up
had almost two million views, a crazy amount of comments.
(08:36):
I called my union that I was in that I
pipelined with quit after one video in the next morning,
and you're already looking to get out, but listen when
there's not a paycheck coming. Yeah. Yeah. We were laid
off at the time and got it. I just felt like, man,
if I'm gonna chase something, this is definitely something to chase.
You know, you might as well try it. But what's
funny is you're like, I'm if I'm gonna chase something,
(08:57):
I guess it is this thing that just randomly popped
up a couple days ago. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, well man,
you did? You never sing as a kid. My mom
would always like tell me in the truck, like, oh,
you should sing. I used to be able to sing
before I started smoking cigarettes. I used to be able
to sing and stuff, and I just always blew it
off because that's my mom, you know, So I always
just blew it off. And then over my life I've
(09:19):
had like three people tell me, Man, I think you
could sing, but but did you ever sing where people
can actually hear? You know? It all started like two
years from now or two years back from now. I
like sang one day and then after that I had
like three people tell me and then just random, like
a random place. I think it was up at the
(09:40):
courts um in Flora, Illinois, like the basketball courts. Yeah.
So we mean you're just like just right here me
and you, and you're like you are my sunshine. You
sing Luke Luke Combs Hurricane. This kid named Trey Judy
was just jamming on the guitar and I was real bored,
and you always just went up to the basketball courts
to hang out and he was like jam only time.
I was like, I'll trying to sing. And then I tried,
(10:02):
and then I tried again, and then that video I like,
I was like, you know what, I'm gonna try it,
Like what could it hurt if I tried singing? That's crazy.
You're like a kid who's walking by a ball field
and you're like, man, there's a ball land down there.
Let me just grab you have a glove one over there?
Am I supposed to throw it to you. Yeah, fast off,
You're like, wow, So if I'm rewinding before the music stuff,
(10:25):
because I'm I'm so interested in your passion of car
trucks building when you because when you said to me,
when I got some money, I built the truck. I
figured it was when you got some money from either
stuff in social media, signing a deal, but it was
when you got some money. We saved up money from
like working a real job. So when I got some money,
(10:47):
I built my big truck, the one truck I had
no money. Dude. Two years ago, I couldn't like afford
my truck payment. I had no money. I was living
my mom, which I love my mom, but I was
like twenty almost twenty one living my mom, and I'm like,
and what am I gonna do with my life? And
pipeline is not working out? So I had no money.
So I just budget built this truck. It was like
it was like painted. It wasn't that truck you're talking about.
(11:10):
That's the budget truck you built. This is a truck
you built. When you're like, Okay, I have some money
for being creative. Yeah, I thought, man, if what if
I just build the biggest truck, the biggest half ton
truck in America. What if I just build it and
then I try to brand me because my music isn't
very party. It's like super sad and feelings and like,
(11:33):
you know what I'm feeling. So I thought, man, but
I do want people that I can't know that I
have a good time too, So yeah, I'm not always
just this sad, really depressed dude to my house. You know,
I do have fun, And so I thought, man, I'll
build this huge truck and take it to truck shows
and maybe I can get my my fans to come
to these shows and see me that way as well.
That's pretty cool. I'm kind of in awe of this story.
(11:54):
And I've heard all the stories. I've never heard one
quite like this. This is really cool. And you're you're going,
that's crazy. So you live with your mom at twenty,
you have no aspiration to be a performer. Yeah, it's
not that you didn't want to, you just didn't even
know that. What is the thing. I was living in
an eight hundred person town. You know, nobody ever makes
it out of there. So I thought, I mean, I'm
in competition with a billion people that are all trying
(12:17):
to do the same thing. Um, Louisville, Illinois. Where in
the state like very southern, so very southern, close to
like Mount Vernon, Effingham, Um, two hours from Champagne. Yeah,
three towns that I don't even know where they are,
and I tore, I tore a lot, but that's tougher,
so very like the bottom litd of tip thing there. Yep.
(12:38):
So if you go up to Champagne or Peoria, we're like, yeah, yeah,
three hours from Peoria South because minor league teams in
pe Okay, so you go, you got graduate high school? Yep,
you graduated high school. You finish high school. What kind
of student are you? Terrible? Hated school, a failed, math failed,
there's a lot of Yeah, if you're talking, I'm not
(13:00):
gonna be like, O can't believe. Yeah that sucks. Yeah.
So okay, you graduated high school. And does your truck
fascination just generally come from your dad? You think it
comes from a dude in my town named Wade Pray, Sir.
I saw his huge truck when I was uh thirteen,
(13:21):
twelve thirteen going to school. Every day's man, one day
if I can make some money and be able to
build that, I would do that. So that's what I think.
That's where it all comes from. Did you have the
truck driver was a truck driver, Yeah, he hauled cars
and stuff. So did you learn about trucks and actually
the functionality of them and how they work and how
to fix it from your dad at all? Yeah? Working
(13:41):
on motors. So it all started really with just like
anything with the motor. I loved going fast, so I
raced a lot of outdoor motocross um, you know, from
like fourteen to nineteen and twenty, and Dad and John
always built race cars and dirt cars and trucks. Whatever
they could build, if they could like work on it,
they in your yards. Something was being worked on. Our built.
There was chassiss and motors. So that's you know, that's
(14:05):
the early fascination to me, Even if you don't know,
you're fascinating. You're learning sometimes just because you're around it,
your dad's around it. But then you go next level
and you see somebody with a freaking awesome truck and
you're like, I know how to do this, but that's
what I want. That's that's so did you ever think
about racing like with that that is being a career. Um,
I wanted to so bad, I really did. I love,
(14:26):
you know, racing outdoors, and I always did love it,
but kind of the same thing. And that's even a
harder just industry to get into. You gotta be a
top five contender to even make a living. I hear
you saying that, Honest to god, I do and I
respect that. But what you're doing right now is just
as weird and odd and hard and and lightning in
a bottle and all. So when you're like, man, I
don't know about what do you do? You can do anything.
(14:46):
Apparently you're nailing it. You can be a astronaut. Just
go do it. Yeah. I tell people that from the
last two years, I truly believe a person can do
anything and they ever want to do and they're like,
there's nothing is impossible. You can anything. I just wasn't
very fast on it her bike. Is it still weird
to you? What's happening to you right now? Every day?
Every day I wake up and I'd call my mom
and I'm like, hey, Bobby Bones just asked me to
(15:09):
come be on a show. I'm blown away that you're
so normal. I'll be honest with you. I thought twenty two.
You're killing it right now. Sometimes you may not even
know how much you're killing it, but you're killing it.
You're town's talking about you, your style, and I'm like, oh,
this guy's not a douche because just the nature of
this town, there's a there's a good amount of douche
(15:31):
bags because uh creative and even if I think you're doing,
somebody else may not. But there's just enough. But there's
enough to always and you're not. You're just a dude.
It's awesome, it's so refreshing. You're just a dude. And
so but I mean that in the best way of
you know what you care about, you know and you
(15:52):
understand what's just happened to you and how crazy it is,
and you're still going full speed ahead at it and
like you're dedicated and you're attacking this thing, and that
is really freaking cool. Yeah, I just you gotta think, man,
Like a year and a half ago, I have I
know where it's I know where being at the bottom is.
I know how it feels to have nothing and feel
(16:14):
like you just have literally nothing. And now that I know,
you know it all honestly, how how it is to be,
you know, going towards the top or or going and
doing great things. So every day I wake up, I
thank God for just letting me be here. First, She's
always just like, no freaking way, that's crazy, you know,
(16:36):
And she'll like she's like, this is just insane, and
she like talk to herself like this is just crazy.
You know. So Mom is like I love talking to
her about things because she has no clue what's going on,
as you know, just as much as I do. And
I'll just be like, yo, I think I'm like flying
on a private jet and she's like what And I'm like, yeah,
Like how crazy is that? Man? Is it? I I
(17:00):
just can't just like I just sit back and a
smile and I'm just like, this is insane. Have you
done a lot of interviews? No, you're one of the
very first I've not. I don't think I've ever done
an interview like this. Are you serious? I've never done
anything like this. Don't change, And it's gonna be hard
for you not to change because you get so jaded.
And also you'll get your label people and they'll do
(17:20):
a good job. For the most You're a good place.
You're a good place. You're warn right, you're warn there.
That's that's a good that's a good group. And so
you already know how to talk. And some people who
are great off might come in and they aren't sure
how to talk. But what you're doing is you're talking
what out there and just bring it in here like
that's the key. I'm just talking to They never change.
(17:41):
So you're freaking out, your mom's freaking out everything. But
I want to go back to you. Load the video up,
You're you're singing, you wake up, You've got a couple
of million views. You decide you're gonna tell the union
you're not coming back. So but then what do you
do next? Do you go? All right? So I'm to
sing on TikTok? So literally what I did next was
so I called to the Union quit and they were like, wait,
(18:02):
you just like you just want to like get off
the list. I'm like, no, cut my card up, I'm done.
And they were like, what are you gonna do? And
I'm like, I'm gonna be trying to be a country
singer because I might as well try, you know. And
so I called Gavin because I called him at two am,
and I said, hey, do you care if I post
this video and he said, no, man, hell if it
if it gets some views, why don't we try to
(18:23):
cut it or however you do that. I don't even
know how it works, you know. So I called him
and I said, dude, have you seen TikTok? And he's
like no, and I'm like, yeah, dude, go look at
TikTok And he looked and he's like, dude, so what
do we do now? And I'm like, well, we gotta
figure out how to record it. We gotta figure out
how that works. Like I don't know how it works.
And he said and he said, uh, all right, man,
I'll I'll take off of work today. You take off too.
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And I said, now, I dud I to quit and
he's like, you quit your job and I'm like, dude, no,
I'm for real, Gavin, like, I'm coming over to your
apartment in the next year. You're gonna quit your job.
I'm gonna I'm already quit my job. So you're gonna
quit your job. We're you're gonna be a writer. I'm
gonna be an artist. We're gonna do this. So we
got over there and we searched up recording studios, because
I always thought you had to have a personal studio
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to start off musical, and that's what it looks like
on TV anyway, is that they have to go into
a building in a room where all the big board
is the microphone. I thought the same thing, But then
you quickly learned what that It's just a lot of
home studios, And I thought, you legit. I had to
go buy speakers, I had to go buy all this gear.
I had to like produce my own stuff. So when
I learned that you didn't have to do that, I
was like, Okay, this is way easier. This is a
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lot easier, I think it is. So we went to Nashville,
cut the song. What's the drive to Nashville? Four hours? Okay,
so not that bad. We were doing it like two
or three times a week, man, gav when you cut
a salt, you drove to Nashville. Who did you find
somebody here with the home studio or yes, Sean Rodgers
had a home studio and I randomly, it's the weirdest thing.
I randomly got hooked up with him from a dude
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that I hadn't This dude in my hometown of people
randomly knew that I was looking for a producer and
I had not told anybody about this. I had not
talked to anybody but my mom. Well, how abould he know? Then?
No clue still to this day, have no clue how
any of it got. He just randomly called me. He said, hey, man,
my name is Richie and for some reason, I just
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got your number from somebody. Do you need a producer?
And I was like, why do you know that? I've
literally not told anybody. He was like, I don't know,
but I feel I just I just got your number
and I like, I just new to call you, and
I was like, yeah, I need a producer. And he
was like, well, Sean Rodgers does an artist from back
home name Doling Wolf. He produces him, and would you
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wanna would you want to go produce him? Like I'll
take whatever I can right now, you know. So it
was really wild. I had like fift bucks, me and
gab Throundred to get the song produced. And we're like, man,
do you think we'll make our money back? Like I
don't have no more money. And so if you take
the song, though, do you load it up on the
digital DSPs? That kid? Okay? So you put it there
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and then it goes up. Now that's a song you
did on TikTok at first, So then how did you
get back on TikTok and go we just loaded it up?
Or did you like, how do you let that crew?
Because how many followers do you have now at this
point because of that song? I so I went from
thousand that night and then when I woke up the
next morning, I had a hundred and forty thousand. So
you went from the truck fan the people that were
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fans of your work and and trucks, and you doubled
up in one night. And so now you have all
these music folks too. Yeah, so how do you let
them know? I just, um, I just started doing TikTok's
I was just like, hey, y'am, thank you so much
further support on this song. Um, I'm gonna try to
get it out. I really don't know how we do
that yet, but I'm trying to figure it out. So
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just bear with me. And I was super just transparent
with him, and I just told them how it how
I was learning how songs were made and this and that,
and then I just told him, hey, I uploaded it
and now it's gonna be released this day. You guys
can stream it this day, And were you surprised? Relieved? What? Which?
When it started to really get some traction and that's
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then on the you know, getting streams. So when it
started like streaming really well, we hit a million on
Apple and I called I called Gavin Mom into the
room and I'm like, is this good? Like is a million?
I think it was a million streams first week on Apple?
When I was like, is this good? How how do
I gauge this? Are we doing good? Is it not
making enough money? I had no idea. I had no
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idea what anything was. I thought my management before I
signed with him, was a label. Oh no, that's that's
a comment. That's common. Yeah, same thing, label, management, agents,
all that crap to me. When I started to I
was like, wait, I thought, what do you do? Yeah,
you're telling me I can have a manager and a
label at the same time, and you're telling me I
gotta pay a manager and an agent. But I feel
like it's the same crap. Yes, yes, same thing. So
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you are when did you get manage? When did they
come to the picture? Do they message you from seeing
you blow up online? Yeah? So Scott Frasier Um hit
me on on Instagram, and for some reason I responded.
I would have never responded because there's this long, huge
message with this weird looking guy with a bow tie
on and this profile picture, and I just thought, man,
this guy looks like a weirdo. But something is telling
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me I need to like talk to him. So I
called him and I'm running through the airport and we
just had the best conversation, and he introduced me to
chief chiefs Rooke and Simon Tickman of the Core Entertainment
and that was I had already had a meeting with
Warner with Chris Lacy and I didn't know even what
it was. I didn't know what I was. I was
at this building just talking to a bunch of random
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people about music. And then a month later I told
them all about it and they were like, wait a second,
You've been talking to Chris and you've been doing this
and I'm like yeah, and they're like, we need to
manage you. So they like signed me. And then about
that was two months after Never Coming Home came out,
and then I think I signed my deals like a
month and a half after that or two months. Why
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can you play someone Never Coming Home, and I got
iver coming Home. Oh no, Never Coming on. I figured, so,
what is the label when they meet with you and
they say, hey, we'd love to have you, I love
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to sign you. What what's their pitch to you as
to why they'd be the right one. So when I
got with Warren, when I met with Warner for the
first time, it wasn't they The first question was do
you know why you're here? And I was like, no clue.
I'm gonna be fully transparent with y'all. Have no idea
who you are, who you are, I don't know what
this building is. And they were like, well, we're Warner Nashville,
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were a record label, this and that, and I was
like okay, And then honestly it was just a really
good conversation. I just really got to know Chris. I
really got to know Rohan. Did you get down there though? Who? Who? How?
Who told you to come to that building? And what
they told you was gonna happen there. Rohan COLEI is
an A and R from Warner and he just messed
me on Instagram and he just was like, hey, man,
would you want to come to have a meeting? And
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I said, sure, I just love Nashville. I was like,
any anything to get me to actually drove down to
have the meeting with people. You had no idea what
they did. Eight pharmacy burgers in front of the That
was when COVID was really really you know, popping and
outside with mass eating burgers and stuff. And we didn't
even talk about deals or nothing. We didn't talk about
anything like that. What did you tell them that your
your life goals were? Um, I just told him, I said,
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I don't know what's going on. But more of the
story is I've got a vision for this. I'd like,
I think I know what music I want to sing,
and I know how I want to do it, and
I know who I want to be. So there you go,
That's that's what I am. I don't know, I've not written,
you know, written any more songs of not I don't
know how to play guitar. I can't do this and
I can't do that. But I know I've got a
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vision for what I'm doing and and and social media
is working, so I'm just gonna keep doing that. So
you left the meeting. What was like the general feeling
was that, Hey, we'll talk more we would love to
have you go think about it. We don't like you
like what what? What do they make you feel like?
Chris made me feel super like at home, I felt
super like, um, very comfortable in the situation, just with
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the people. I got to know Chris and Rohan really well,
just sitting there, and it was more like, um, hey,
we're gonna keep watching what you're doing. We're really excited
about you. And I'm like, hey, I'm just grateful to
be here, so thanks for having me. And they paid
for the burgers. So let's paid for the burgers and
no backtrack in a second. But I'm even looking at
your dates here because you're gonna be doing on this
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eight shows and half of them are already sold out,
maybe more than that at this point. Have you played
a show yet for more than a hundred people? Yeah, yeah,
we've We've been playing some really crazy shows. That's another thing.
Can you sell more than a hund tickets? Don't be
confused by that, because I know you can. But I'm saying,
when did you start to actually they make you, Okay,
go in front of this many people. You've never done
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it before, but ghosting in front of folks when did
that happen. So my very first show, I had a
Rider's Round in Nashville, Live Oak and it was just
a little acoustic and I was I wasn't really nervous.
I was like, I have no idea what I'm doing.
Let's see how this goes. And then the next show
I did was Luke Combs Rock the South. I opened
for Luke, and it was I just I've watched rock stars,
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so I grew up on rock. I I grew up
eight years old. I went to a Tesla Pop Evil
concert and in um, so you're like like seventies, like
sixties and seventies rock, you say that, yeah, yeah, some,
but more into like the nineties stuff too, like the
you know, saving able and you know and straight ahead
or not even nineties alternative, like you're straight ahead modern
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rock nineties. Yeah. I grew up put just on a
lot of rock, but anything with big guitars, you know,
Kid Rocks, Shryl Crow, any of that stuff. And so
I started going to shows when I was like eight
or ten. And when I went out to play Rock
the South, I just I was like, all right, I'm
just gonna do what I've seen other people do. So
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like the very first thing, I'm running all the way
down the catwalk. I'm just a sprint as fast as
I can, and that will get people's attention. Maybe, So literally,
very first thing was just like sprinted. And I've not
stopped every catwalk I've ever done. I just go and
I just balls the walls all the way down and
then I just sit there and look. But playing these
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shows for more than a people is insane. It's like,
truly something that I've never experienced in my whole life. No, truly, Yeah,
because truly you didn't do school like talent shows. You know,
it's like, okay, oh I can sing, well, go play
for thousand people, five thousand people here, Like I mean
that's baptism by fire? Yeah? Do you have Did you
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have fun doing it? A blast? I learned that to
sing you have to breathe. I Like, I got off
of Rock to South stage and I said, man, I
just don't feel good. I don't I just don't feel
like I can't breathe. I don't feel good. And then
I ended up like Zoonkin in the camp. I just
passed out in the camp. Or so it was insanely fun,
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insanely for on, like my my body has never felt that,
Like just I can run as much as I want,
nobody's gonna tell me to shut up. I can scream
as long as I want. And after that, I was like,
I definitely want to do this more. But let's figure
out how to breathe. Let's get in shape, let's get
some cardio going. And it's really a thing. Yeah, And
if you don't breathe right, especially if you have songs
that are even the song we just played there, if
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there's a lot of singing, you have to really measure
where you're going to breathe, or you miss it, you
don't get back to it until later, and they're catching
up the whole time. God awful. Yeah, So if you
kind of figured it out basically, you know when you
have a second, take a breath. Yeah, Well the show
since then has progressed a lot. You know, We've got
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like a like a break where I introduced the band
and it gives me just a second to like get
my heart right down, get my breathing. But when you
miss a breath, it's hard to catch it. You don't
you're not getting the back, there's no way because your
next breath is going to be as shorter than what
it was supposed to be terrible and a really wordy
songs and you know, and also do a lot of
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stand up and so really wordy situations. You have to
hit your exact points and then you miss it, and
when you do finally get your second point, you're trying
to make up for the first one, but you're never
caught up. But it's fun that you you've got a
band break because you learned quick. You learn. Yeah, one
night I just went boys singing gonna work, saying gonna work.
I I gotta, I gotta have something to breathe because
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that last show is pretty rough. I need something to
get me through this second half. And I've learned. I
went from playing twenty five minutes with Luke at Rock
to South to now I can play our hour half
shows whatever in a year. And like, if you'd have
told me, you know, one year old me playing that show,
that's like dying in the camp, or like, hey man,
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in a year, you're gonna be just fine the watch,
I would have been like, you're a liar. So I've
learned a lot. Listening to your music like rock and
a hard play that's like my vibe musically meaning you know,
you go. You know, I sing all these slow songs,
but that like songs that I can hear the words,
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I can feel the words. I don't need a bunch
of tempo like that's that's my vibe. And even musnically,
even musically like what you have going personally for me,
like I love it, you know, I don't think, and
I don't think I have to love something to act
to know why it's good. But like I really love
how you're doing it. I want to play rock and
a hard place right now, man's braves? Have you got
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to be a better singer now? Because you have to
sing a lot more so you gotta take care of it.
But also, like tricks and you're working on a muscle,
are you getting better? Insanely better? Going? Uh? Looking back
at like demos from last year to Down'm like, yeah,
we gotta recut those vocals. I've I've learned just I've
been in a lot of um vocal lessons. I did
go through some voice stuff. Um right off the bat,
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I was smoking a lot because I used to smoke vape,
and I smoking a lot and singing every single day.
I was you know, I was going out and having
dreams just because I was twenty one, and I learned
very quickly that you can't do that. It's not just
this like infamous thing that just has power all the time.
It's it's a muscle and you have to work it.
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So I've went through the last year has been a
very um informational year. I've learned so much just about
how the voice works, things to preserve the voice, things
to do after a show, before a show. So you've
had to cram that's a great word for it. You've
had to cram it all that people learn it eight
all the way until now for a normal person who
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grows up singing, you had to cram it all in
one year. Yeah, like all all of it, the physical
part of it, the mental part of it, to take
care of your voice. And so it's a it's a
crash course. Feel healthy right now, super healthy. I'm like
the healthiest I've been in a long time. Um. I've
been singing a lot here recently, and every day I
just I'll call chief with it, just cut another song.
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And I feel amazing, man, Like I can't I can't
express how amazing I feel, you know, And that just
comes with the cardio and working hard. You know. So,
did you get nervous when tickets go on still that
people are gonna buy tickets or did you not think
about it at all? No? I didn't complete transparency. I
didn't even know that what what the dates were yet.
I didn't know like the routing or what was happening
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with the tour. And then Scott called me and said, hey,
tickets went on twenty five minutes ago and you just
sold out six of the eight venues. And I'm like, well,
that's good, that'll work. Let's go that you that that
is good. Sold out is always good. So the stress
didn't even get to you because you were still learning
and you didn't know what you didn't learn yet. Yeah,
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being being just thrown in the fire is honestly the
b It's like, can you swim? I don't know, Let
me jump in and see. So because then you're not
so focused on the little things. You're more focused on
let's keep living every day and let's make sure we're progressing.
And also what I what I like, what's happening to
If you don't know the rules, you don't always follow
the rules, and sometimes you can create your own rules.
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And I've been able to do that micro a bit
where I would just be a dummy it's something and
be like I'm gonna I'm just gonna attack it for
writing a book or doing stand up and people like, well,
you have to write it like that, but I don't
know how to write it. So I did it my
own way. And so when it finally comes to life,
people like, oh, this is different, and I'm like, oh,
you're saying it's different. They said it was wrong, but
it is different. I didn't know how to do it,
and now it becomes kind of a standard. And I
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can see that happening with you a bit where you
didn't know. But that's a strength for you because you
created your own lane. And so that's exciting as an
artist when you don't know all the rules because you
can create your own And with all these other Nashville folks, producers, writers,
they want you to be around them. I'm assuming like, hey,
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uh get with this writer. Is that happening to you
now where they're trying to put your places? Um any
of these rooms you walk into and you're like, dang,
you've read in all these songs and you're gonna write,
you're gonna write with me? Does that happen at all
or is it all still a lot of your crew? Yeah?
We wrote with we wrote, I write with of course
Gavin every single day I write. It's awesome to that.
You guys are still like, like, that's all that's your dude. Yeah.
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I told him from day one, I will never like
you know, if we start this, it's like in it
to win. I don't when did he quit his job though,
that's the question. How long? Um? Probably six months ago now. Yeah,
he was so nervous. He was like, man like, god,
I don't know if I should quit. I don't know
if I should quit. And I'm like, dude, I can
promise you I'm gonna work really hard to make us
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both successful. Just trust me. Does he go on shows
with you? He loves He doesn't playing with me, but
he goes and he'll just watch. He just loves watch.
And he's like, dude, can you believe this is what
we're doing now instead of working? So is he he
signed a publishing deal? Yeah, he just signed with Warner Chapel. Okay,
so he's writing songs with you and with other folks. Yeah,
I bring him. I told him. That's why I told
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him too. I said, I will never not bring you
to a right. You you were always invited to a right, whatever,
whatever right. I don't care if it's the biggest right
in the world, you know. So I bring him to
every right because we grew up, we grew up together.
He knew, he knows exactly who I am, how I
like my songs to be, so he can kind of
help guide guide the train in the room. Has he
gotten to be a better guitar player since he's around
a lot of players all the time. Oh yeah, we
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both have. I mean, yeah, yeah, I can. I can.
I played my first I played fall in Love on
guitar the other day. I was very proud of myself.
So when did you pick it up? And how long
did it take you before your fingers stopped hurting and
you could do more than g C d um. I
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just honestly going into all the rights. Man, I watched
just every guitar player. I'd be like, man, that's a
cool chord. So I would watch every time he would
go to play that in progression, I'd be like, where's
his fingers? So then I would go home and I
would just find it, and then I would do different
variations of that chord to see yourself without even knowing
what it was, the same thing with just not knowing
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the rules, you know, And even to this day, everybody's like, hey,
why do you think about guitar license? I'm like, you
know what, no, man, I've been doing everything my whole life,
whether it came to pipeline or building trucks or this
and that. I just did it my way because I
didn't know how to do it. So I'm just gonna
keep doing it my way and I'm gonna figure it
out on my own. Do you feel pretty confident playing
in front of folks now with the guitar not on
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stage yet, but playing good song? If they're like, hey,
can you play as a song? I'm like, yeah, I
can play a song. You know. I can make you
think I can play guitar. That's what I do too. Yeah,
Like I have people that are really good, but like
I like, I'm gonna do the Bluebird on Sunday night
because I have a couple of theater shows in town
that I'm doing, and so I just need to get
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on stage a couple of times because a lot of
myself comedy and you know, you can practice a song,
but if I don't tell jokes in front of people,
I don't know if they're funny, because I can go
like I wrote, this is freaking funny, but if I
don't put it out in front of people and here
back and never really know. So I'm gonna go play
the Bluebird, I'm gonna do it it by myself. But like you,
I gotta really pick this so long as that I'm
really comfortable with, because unless I got my people around me,
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I'm very selective about what songs I'm gonna be playing.
So same to where it's like I'm not I can
fool you. Yeah, if you need twelve minutes, I can
fol you. You'll be like that definitely. Or if you
need a clip on Instagram, no problem, I can do that.
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So you're playing guitar, are you getting the free stuff now?
Are like our music companies reaching out guitar guitar companies
anything going Hey, we want to put this you know,
on your Instagram or your TikTok and take it on stage.
You need that happening. Um, I've been telling Scott and them,
I'm like, honestly, I wanted Gibson, and I wanted Gibson deal.
I've ever since I've watched The Food Fighters live. He
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Dave Girls always had a light blue Gibson whatever that is.
It's some some guitar. But I've always been a fan
of the Less Paul's so as Less Paul's s G
forty or at s G, the uh J forty five whatever.
So I'm like, yo, if I could have any guitars,
it would be Gibson for sure. Big food Fighter fan,
huge massive Food Fighter fan. I've seen him nine times.
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Dave grow is just a different energy. Honestly, it's an energy.
It's an exact energy that nobody else has. Dave Girl live. Yea.
When I when I watched that, I go I want
to be him. I want to be Vincenel. I want
to be these rocks too. Oh I watched. I watched
the Dirt every single night all the way through. I
never I never not finished, not every single night, every
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swear for the last that's good three and a half months.
I've just manifested that I wanta what about that though?
It's not like the crazy party like drugs and stuff,
but just the way they live life. I want to
just do what I want. I've always had that mentality
of my whole life. I just don't tell me what
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to do. I just want to do what I want.
I just want to be able to live. Let's do
this Five Singers front man and that that could be two.
You may move off of who are the five front
man that you've watched as a kid, and you're like,
I want to be them? And now you're actually going
I always wanted to be them, but I didn't really know.
But now I do really want to be them as
I do this. Who is it inspiring you? Vince Neil,
Chad Kroeger from Nickelback, Jeff Keith from Tesla, No Girl,
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Chris Cornell, Chris Cornell. We were watching him last night
and he was different, man. Chris Cornell was different. Scott
stabbed was badass. Scott's badass. Any any of them old rockers, man,
they just all knew how to Just have you met
Scott Nope, not yet. We've had him. We've had him
here before. He follows me on TikTok. He does, he
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does follow me on TikTok. So that's awesome. I was
a big as a huge creed guy. When you are
with awesome. I went to a Creed show. I'm from
Arkansas rule small town in Arkansas about Drew people like
you grew up in a town like you the same size,
and drove the little rock to watch Creed in an
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arena and I was a teenager, so I was, but
I was working in radio and I went back and
Scott Staff was walking around. You know, they were massive
at the time. I mean, he was like, where's the
pink pong table? And I was like, I was next
to the pink pong table. I don't. I don't know
play ping pong? Picked up Battle and he found it.
It was like play pink bong. Was like yeah, I said,
He said, you want to play like I don't. I
don't play ping pong. Oh my gosh, I don't play people.
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And I was like, yeah, of course, and he goes,
all right, here we go. I don't even know the rules,
like you have to hit on the ground first to
go around. See, you have to hit on the table
to hit it over. And he goes, you want to
go first? He goes, you go first. I don't know
what to do. I go no, No, you go first.
You're the guest. Of course, yeah, yeah, and I'm watching
he hits it and I'm like, okay, I think he
beat me, Like I don't know. Before we got too
he was like, you don't want to play and he quit.
We quit and he walked out like you don't how
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to play and he walked off. And then I told
him that story and he goes, yeah, that's about like me.
He's awesome now, but that's that's really cool. So you
don't put Dave Grol up there though it's your top five.
It's hard. It's so hard that Dave Girl would be
up there. He's such so many He's such an intense
positive energy. When he performs, he screams and I don't
want to throw that word screen around, but he screams
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right on key. I mean, it's it's perfect. And I've
seen him nine times and it's always been one of
the greatest shows I've ever seen, every single time. Yeah,
have you seen him live? Never seen it? I've on
YouTube every day every single day. I just watched Dave
Girl I've watched. I really like going back to like
the Nirvana days and watching Dave Young because I like,
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look at him straight hair, long haired, goofy playing the
drug grunge, just really grunge, and I like, look back
at that, and I look at him and I go,
all right, what has he done from then to now
to better his life? Because if he was doing these
things twenty two probably shouldn't do those. What has he done?
He's a super big role model. Yeah, Like looking at
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him through the phone, I just go, man, I would
be best friends with this guy. I feel like it's
interesting too, because you know, he's in Nirvana and he
is starting to do the food Food Fighters, but he's
doing it's all him. It's all just him. He created
all that himself, all the instruments, everything, and he talks
about you know, he gave it a show to Kurt
and Kurt's like, great, that's all you know? So um,
he had already been on that bit. And I think
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at times, and obviously I'm way older than you, but
I grew up a massive Nirvana fan, massive Food Finders fan,
like that for me was when I was a kid kid.
And to watch him come out of Nirvana possibly one
of the top, depending on decade, top ten biggest rock
groups of all time because Navana made the whole night.
He's down there, the first one and for him to
(43:22):
go from something that big too something else that's massive
that really aren't connected. Yeah, he did it twice. He
did it twice, and I don't think, Yeah, I don't
think he gets the respect and he gets a lot
of respect, but I don't think he gets what he deserves.
I would argue, and it should be an interesting conversation
that he is right now America's biggest rock star. He's
(43:46):
a little older, But who would be a bigger rock
rock star than Dave girl meeting success, relevance, history, who's
an American rock star? Rolling Stones are still dead, so
I'm not you can't there. They're not dead, They're still live.
But the British, right, and I'm counting the old people.
But once you get certain old, you're not even Cold
Plays a massive rock band that's still here. Not American
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name a bigger American rock star. I don't think there
is Dave Grohl that. I think that's it. And he's
like the craziest part about him is he's never lost momentum.
He's always just been And they just put out another
record and it was it was massive again. Yeah, few
fighters just put another record up. Yeah, like a year ago,
or so oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I mean,
like just meaning they're their fifties and that's just and
(44:31):
it was relevant even then. So that's that's pretty cool
to hear your influences. And it's also pretty cool that
you're honest about him, you know. I like that. I
like that. I'm just a big fan. I'm a big
fan now even more so after spending time with you,
because like I enjoy what you're about. It's just all right, um,
this is presented itself. I really love it. I want
to work really hard to do it. And you don't
(44:53):
know the rules and that's great. And if you're gonna
get in trouble, you have people now that'll stop. If
we're getting trouble, I'm like, well, we can't do that,
but like that might put you in jail. But I
like what your mind was. I do want to play
fall in Love, Mike, if you could play that, please
(45:25):
to four radio right now. I'm starting to get a
little little let's go. Yeah, And that is a whole
different animal, meaning you have a lot of people are
gonna come to shows, but it's just a different kind
of and I say it, radio to me is radio.
It's satellite. It's anything where the mass population that is
not extremely tuned into the digital space where they just
(45:47):
hear things and then come fans of that's a that's
a game. The space you're going into now is a
game changer because you already got one on lock and
you keep putting stuff there. You're gonna hold that on
lock because of who you are and how good you are.
But man, you start to become just everywhere I want
you hit freaking radio. You can change somebody's like an
artist live so many tanks like ways. But if you
go to radio and you have a song do good
(46:11):
like people's aunts, then't know who you are. Random people's like,
oh I know, I've heard of Bailey. Oh yeah, And
I think it's so funny talking about radio. Um small towns,
hometowns of artists. You're never like a big artist until
you're on like the highway, or until you're on you know,
someone can actually listen to in their car whatever it is.
You're not big until then, you know. I saw him.
(46:34):
I was on the way to case Sas and hell
he came on the radio. He must be getting pretty big,
you know. So I've always thought it was so funny
how you really nobody really knows like music industry unless
you're really in it, you know. So radio is a
weird thing that I'm still trying to learn. I'm still
trying to understand it. So I don't think there's a
(46:56):
thing to understand. I get gets the whole situation. Well, man,
it's it's really cool. Like keep at it. I'm anxious
to see how you just you just kill it, man,
you know you came in. I was like, we'll see
how this guy is it. Probably a diche bag and
you're not. You're not, You're just not. And um, I'm
super pumped at that we were able to make this happen.
I was with my manager just this is how, this
(47:18):
is how it happened. I was with my manager and
we were talking about just general consumption and he said,
Bailey Zimmerman, um is like one or two this week.
And I just heard it and whatever. People people are
always telling me that things are good or things are
not good, and so I was like, cool. So Mike,
who's like my main guy here at my Preyers or
(47:39):
my right hand guy and everything I do. I was like, hey,
I know anything about it. I know who you were
I was like, Bailey Zimmerman, what's the deal. Uh, apparently
she's killing it. Like I said earlier, I said, she's
killing it. And Mike goes, we're talking about sat Bailey
Zimmerman because the one I know is not a she,
and I was I was like, whoever it is, I
need to I need to know what's up. And so
(48:01):
then I found out what's up and I saw like
all your dad and listen to your songs and stuff,
and I was like, Okay, I'm into it. Then now
get to spend time with you. It's like I might
be your biggest fan. I might have you number one family.
That's that's it. I'm paying for me grades. But dude,
I I've been your biggest fan. I've I saw um
Mitchell's wife, Megan Megan Mitchell, Yes, yes, Megan. I saw
(48:23):
her cry on her tour bus because you, like you
had her on your show and stuff, and I thought, dude,
I want to cry. I want to I want to
do that, like I want to be on Bobby Bones
Like that would be so sick because I like just
you know, going around Nash listening to you, like, hey,
like my stylis. She was like yeah, that's Bobby Bones House.
I'm like, man, maybe one day I'll get to go
over there and like do that show or something. So well,
(48:46):
you should come up whenever you're good, and we got
a whole stage at the studio. You play play one morning,
it'll be awesome. D be awesome. I've not actually played
a radio show yet like that where it's like hey,
eight am, we're gonna come in and we're gonna play.
I've never I've not done that yet. Well, I know
it sounds exciting, but kind of sucks because you're like, hey,
am I never sing it eight a m. We just
(49:07):
had Cody Johnson and and he did a bunch of
songs and he was like, man, and Cody plays for
people and every night. Yeah, and he's like, man, its
singing in the morning. That kind of sucks. And I'm like,
I know, imagine waking up at three to do this
stupid show for five hours, stid show and it's awesome,
but you don't like I don't like being early. That
part of it sucks. We'll keep it up. Man. I'm
really really pumph for you. It's exciting to see all
(49:28):
of that you're accomplishing, and it sounds like you have
your priorities and check, you're still you got your boys
you came up with, you're still running with them. That's
such an awesome story. And I'll end on this and
that it's such a story. And and you know, in
five years, ten years, we'll see where where it takes you.
But like when you talk to Garth or when you
talk to Dave, girl, they've had this small, small group
(49:50):
of folks the whole time, and that has been a
bit of what has at times kept them centered either
as a human or creatively and some times a little
bit of both, sometimes one or the other. But yeah,
you and you and your boy. I hope you guys
are doing it for a long long time. I will
never get rid of him, so I mean famous last words,
(50:12):
I love it, I love it. I love it. Well, yeah,
and and maybe he wants to get rid of you.
So let's it's all you tell your mom, I said, hello,
she sounds awesome. If she ever comes down and she's here, Uh,
we should bring her to the show, bring her up, well,
do the whole thing. I love us, I love us.
Supportive mom that it is just like living uh through
(50:33):
their kid and someone who you call and like, hey,
this is happening, and I feel like that's that's awesome.
All right there, I'll tell you guys, go follow Bailey
Bailey dot Zimmerman on both tick Talk on Instagram, and
that's it. I got nothing, Mike's everything you want to say.
This has been one of the most fun interviews. I've
done it a long time. Yeah, dude, I'm telling you
(50:53):
a lot of it's it gets to be pretty douchy,
and so it's awesome. This has been really fun. Yeah,
I was super nervous. You were I was. I was nervous,
man Like, Okay, honestly, I thought maybe maybe Bobby's a douche.
I feel like, I'm so nervous to go into these
rooms and with these random people, because you know how
it is, like it's very easy to get off the
(51:14):
ground when you're a person of interest and people know
who you are when you go around, and so going
in here, I was like, I really hope Bob he
was just like a chip just hanging well. I think
at this point, I am. I think I got to
this town. It was normal. It was like, well, I
can't believe it had a couple of years where things
blew up really fast. I didn't know what was going on,
and I was like, oh, maybe I was. And I
(51:35):
had my douche eighteen months or so because I was
just confused. I was like, oh, maybe I am way
cooler than I and I was wrong. I was like, wait,
let's cool than I actually thought. And so but now
I know that, and you know, I just I'll leave
with this. And I've had a couple of friends that
are artists that started. I was like, Um, you're gonna
kill it. I can just see. I can see it already.
You're gonna kill it. This is gonna be a long
(51:55):
career for You're gonna be super successful. Um, you'll have.
It's just try to shorten your douche as much as
you can. Yeah, you're gonna have a couple of douche
months on the minimal, but it's have good people around you,
hopefully they're douches with You can live that out and
then you get back to normal and you remember that
douche team months we had. Let's never do that again.
But you're owed. Dad. Just don't be a douce to me.
We're all good to everybody else. You're only good douche
(52:17):
team months and then back at it, you know, yeh
next time? All right, do you want I'm gonna listen
to this? You think? Yeah? Yeah? What's her name? Christ Christie,
You are more than welcome. If Bailey's ever like, Hey,
I'm going to Bobby's show, you come with him. I
would love to meet you, and I hope you're super
proud of him. You've got a good kid. You stop,
you stop vaping. That's sick. Yeah, and he stop vaping
because that's that. That's what it is like. If you
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want to care about your professional career, you gotta take
care of things. And so all right there he is,
all right, Bailey Zimmerman. Follow Bailey. Tickets, I'd say get them.
There are a couple of shows where it was like
three tickets left in the roll, separate parts of the venue.
He's selling out like crazy. But if he comes, go
see them. All right, Bailey, good to see Buddy, Good
to see you. Man. This team is kol
Host
Bobby Bones
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