Speaker 1: On the Bobby Bones Show. Now, so you played in
Speaker 1: Denver here the next morning, Yes, sir, so, but how
Speaker 1: that's a did you play like noon? We played pretty
Speaker 1: early last night. I think we were done by like
Speaker 1: seven thirty and hit the bed and then I'm on
Speaker 1: those morning show hours like you. Now, I guess, man,
Speaker 1: we took the first flight out and rolled straight in here.
Speaker 1: You took the flight out this morning, Yes, sir, I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna miss this, man. Dang the coolest part about
Speaker 1: the show though, so oh no, we want to commend
Speaker 1: you for a second from waking up, making the plane
Speaker 1: on time and getting here. Okay, go ahead. I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say, like, this ride is pretty new for me,
Speaker 1: like people showing up to shows and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and um we had I get there and the like
Speaker 1: every table in the venue is full and it's just
Speaker 1: a little acoustic show for the Bowl. The radio station
Speaker 1: out there and probably half of my meet and great
Speaker 1: line said they heard me on the Bobby Bones Show.
Speaker 1: So thank you many, thank you for getting folks out
Speaker 1: to the shows for me. Pretty cool. So what's my cut? Didn't? Hey,
Speaker 1: let's talk the sun. But I owe you for sure,
Speaker 1: So let me tell you about George Burgh, or I
Speaker 1: can let you walk through this with me. So you
Speaker 1: were born and raised Austin, Texas. Yeah, and you went
Speaker 1: to high school. I went to high school McCallum High
Speaker 1: School was kind of like Central Austin. Really never lived
Speaker 1: anywhere besides Austin until, like I moved to Nashville. So
Speaker 1: you're a good golfer. You played golf in college? I
Speaker 1: died or what was that I did? So I took
Speaker 1: to golf pretty late. I was always a baseball player,
Speaker 1: and then my sophomore year of high school, a couple
Speaker 1: buddies took me out to play during the summer and
Speaker 1: it was just like something that I was pretty natural at,
Speaker 1: and I got obsessed with it. And my thing is
Speaker 1: like if once I decide that I love something, I
Speaker 1: kind of obsess over it. And golf was that thing
Speaker 1: for me. And so I played thirty six holes like
Speaker 1: every day after school till the sun went down, and
Speaker 1: then every day during the summer, and I became obsessed
Speaker 1: with it. Started on the jv my senior my junior year,
Speaker 1: then got to varsity my senior year, and then by
Speaker 1: the end of my senior year, I was number one
Speaker 1: player on the team. And I always knew I wanted
Speaker 1: to go to UT, but that's like a super competitive
Speaker 1: school for golf. So I got into UT and they
Speaker 1: had a thing called like the walk on program where
Speaker 1: they host a tournament for all of the players that
Speaker 1: think they can play collegiately and if anybody stands out,
Speaker 1: you can get a spot on the team. It doesn't
Speaker 1: happen very often, but there's a chance. And so I
Speaker 1: went and played in the walk on tournament and I
Speaker 1: won that, which I thought was going to get me
Speaker 1: a spot on the team, and they go, uh, congratulations,
Speaker 1: that gives you a chance to play in front of
Speaker 1: coach for a chance on thee So I get to
Speaker 1: do that, and like when I tell you, like my
Speaker 1: hands were shaking when I was putting the tea in
Speaker 1: the ground to go play in front of coach, because
Speaker 1: I mean, that was my dream. I was like at
Speaker 1: that time, I thought I was gonna be a PGA
Speaker 1: Tour golfer, which I quickly realized was not the case.
Speaker 1: But I got to play eighteen holes in front of
Speaker 1: Coach Fields and he offered me a spot on the
Speaker 1: team afterwards. So two worked on Disney movie right there.
Speaker 1: I think you heard it right there. Hey you can
Speaker 1: turn Eddie on two? Yeah, Eddie can hop on this.
Speaker 1: So you're you're grinding them out, you're playing golf, you
Speaker 1: go to YouTube. Do you end up finishing school? I did.
Speaker 1: I finished school. I was writing songs, going to school,
Speaker 1: playing golf, and um I had also joined a fraternity,
Speaker 1: so it was a lot and UM. I quickly realized
Speaker 1: that um, even though I had ambitions of being a
Speaker 1: professional golfer, once I saw how good the guys that
Speaker 1: were starting on the team were, that that was going
Speaker 1: to be more of a hobby for me. So I
Speaker 1: made really good friends with a lot of those guys
Speaker 1: and still keep in touch today and ended up bringing
Speaker 1: them out to like country shows and getting them to
Speaker 1: to cut loose a little bit too. So that was
Speaker 1: kind of like my overlap in the country music in
Speaker 1: golf world. Were you playing music in college? I was
Speaker 1: writing songs, so I had. I started my first band
Speaker 1: in ninth grade in Austin. By tenth grade, we were
Speaker 1: playing downtown on sixth Street like X's on our Hands.
Speaker 1: We'd all our little high school friends would come out
Speaker 1: to the shows. It was pretty cool. And then in college,
Speaker 1: we kind of all went our separate ways, so we
Speaker 1: didn't have a band anymore. But I would still write
Speaker 1: songs and send him my friends and we would kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, pass the guitar around in the dorm room,
Speaker 1: but the idea of having a band had kind of
Speaker 1: gone by the wayside, and I really didn't start playing
Speaker 1: live music again till a year or two after college.
Speaker 1: So you're playing live music. And when we first met you,
Speaker 1: you were another dude and you guys were a duo.
Speaker 1: So was that initially a band band and it just
Speaker 1: was you two or were you guys just two guys
Speaker 1: that thought we'll just try to do it together. What
Speaker 1: happened there? So Cody Cooper, one of my best friends
Speaker 1: in the world. We met in middle school and he
Speaker 1: was carrying around a guitar that was kind of his thing.
Speaker 1: And I always loved singing country music, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know how to play any instruments, and so I kind
Speaker 1: of like followed them around and made friends of them,
Speaker 1: and he ended up teaching me how to play guitar,
Speaker 1: and we started a band in high school that was
Speaker 1: it wasn't a duo, it was just a band. So
Speaker 1: it was a full band at the Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a full band. And the cool part about Austin that
Speaker 1: I kind of took for granted when I was there,
Speaker 1: but then when I got to see the rest of
Speaker 1: the world, I realized that that was pretty special. Was
Speaker 1: every all the bands in Austin, all of us high
Speaker 1: school bands. They weren't cover bands, like you write your
Speaker 1: own songs, and they were terrible, but that was kind
Speaker 1: of unique, Like everybody was writing their own songs, and
Speaker 1: that was kind of like how we fell in love
Speaker 1: with the songwriting process and like creating and connecting with people.
Speaker 1: And I realized when I left Austin that that's not
Speaker 1: the case for most cities, you know, and cover bands
Speaker 1: are awesome too, but it was pretty special to kind
Speaker 1: of like dig into that and figure out who we
Speaker 1: are and what we wanted to say. And so that
Speaker 1: was kind of when I first fell in love with
Speaker 1: like creating and making music. So when you decided to
Speaker 1: go solo, did you decide to go and do it
Speaker 1: solo or did you decide I'm just going to try
Speaker 1: to be a songwriter and we'll just write songs for people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we had formed a duo, Waterloo revival in Austin
Speaker 1: that had started to get some pretty good success and
Speaker 1: we had gotten some record label attention and we ended
Speaker 1: up signing a record deal moving to Nashville, and we
Speaker 1: chased a dream for a long time, I mean probably
Speaker 1: six years. Um. We gave it everything we had, and UM,
Speaker 1: we had some moderate success, you know, some top forties
Speaker 1: and our streams we were really strong. Um, and you know,
Speaker 1: we were drawing some crowds, but we just couldn't quite
Speaker 1: like break through, um to the level where it's like
Speaker 1: where it's really all clicking. And UM. So after grinding
Speaker 1: it out, I had gotten married, I had two little kids,
Speaker 1: and UM, I just wasn't seeing it happening. And UM,
Speaker 1: so we sat down and we had to talk and UM,
Speaker 1: and I said that I was gonna just try to
Speaker 1: write songs for a living because you know, we had
Speaker 1: given it everything we had, and through nobody's fault, it
Speaker 1: just wasn't happening. And I mean, geors look so young
Speaker 1: to have two kids. So so you're just writing songs.
Speaker 1: And you know, eventually, whenever you were with Clay Walker,
Speaker 1: as the legend goes, and did you record a song
Speaker 1: or just write a song and he said to put
Speaker 1: it on TikTok. What happened there so, Um, when I
Speaker 1: first started deciding that I was just going to be
Speaker 1: a songwriter, Clay was one of first guys to take
Speaker 1: me under his wing um and let me kind of
Speaker 1: try to write for his record, and we wrote our
Speaker 1: first song over zoom. It was called Nita bar Sometimes.
Speaker 1: It ended up being a single for him and got
Speaker 1: him a new record deal and was my first big cut,
Speaker 1: and so we got to be pretty good friends. Um.
Speaker 1: Then he invited me down to um Galvison, Texas his
Speaker 1: house down in Texas, and we were writing for the
Speaker 1: rest of the record, and I kind of told him
Speaker 1: the same thing. I was like, Man, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that I'm going to do the artist thing anymore or
Speaker 1: not because I don't want to, just because I can't
Speaker 1: quite figure out how to make it work. And his
Speaker 1: advice was to put my songs on TikTok, which I
Speaker 1: really rolled my eyes at it first. I mean, I
Speaker 1: had never done anything. I really thought that app was
Speaker 1: like for twerking and pranks. I didn't know he's very
Speaker 1: dialed in TikTok. He is, He's great at it, and um,
Speaker 1: so literally that night. Uh, I had seen this beer
Speaker 1: beer Truck Truck video where this girl is kind of
Speaker 1: poking fun at country music, saying that that's all it is.
Speaker 1: And so I literally I propped my camera up, just
Speaker 1: me and a guitar, and I wrote a verse in
Speaker 1: a chorus using her lyrics. And you know, the world
Speaker 1: works in crazy ways, and it completely changed my life
Speaker 1: when it blew up. I mean, that's an interesting journey.
Speaker 1: We're talking about journeys, and you know, looking back at
Speaker 1: your career journey, but I think one of the roads
Speaker 1: that you didn't really plan to go down was starting
Speaker 1: over being a writer and then TikTok and a funny
Speaker 1: it's a funny song. It's a funny idea that you
Speaker 1: took it, and you took that concept where she was like, oh,
Speaker 1: your country's beer beer truck truck, but you turned that
Speaker 1: into something that wasn't funny at all, like a really good,
Speaker 1: heartfelt country song. It was really cool. It was scary
Speaker 1: for me, just because you know, like I'd worked my
Speaker 1: whole life to become a songwriter and an artist and
Speaker 1: it's something I take really seriously and something that I
Speaker 1: really love. And all of a sudden it's like, Bang,
Speaker 1: I'm the beer beer Truck truck guy. This thing's blown up.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows me for beer Beer Truck Truck because I
Speaker 1: took this song and turned it around, and my first
Speaker 1: instinct is like is to run the other direction, like
Speaker 1: I hope y'all hear my other music and see what
Speaker 1: I'm I'm working on and coming to life. But then
Speaker 1: I kind of realized that people were falling in love
Speaker 1: with it because it was defending country music and because
Speaker 1: I had used my art and my songwriting to kind
Speaker 1: of defend country music. And then as I got to
Speaker 1: know this girl, she actually was a country music fan
Speaker 1: and had some nostalgia about it, and she actually leaned
Speaker 1: into it with me. So it ended up being a
Speaker 1: really cool story and putting me on the path to
Speaker 1: getting to do what I do today. So I'm very
Speaker 1: very thankful for it. Never in a million years could
Speaker 1: have seen it like rolling out like that, But you
Speaker 1: know what, it's My theory has always been like, you
Speaker 1: just have to be ready when the door opens up
Speaker 1: for you, and that ended up being what it was
Speaker 1: for me. I guess what's what's funny about it is,
Speaker 1: had I not seen the clip but I'm also eight
Speaker 1: steps away from it. From where you are and what
Speaker 1: you're doing, you're a version of it. It sounds like
Speaker 1: a love like serious, real catchy song, you know, could
Speaker 1: you turn it into it's not always be right? I
Speaker 1: know you had that thought and it was inspired by
Speaker 1: her doing that, and so you associate that. But I
Speaker 1: think people hadn't seen the video, Eddie. Don't you think
Speaker 1: it's just a really good song, and people don't think
Speaker 1: it's a novel song. I wouldn't have thought it would
Speaker 1: come from a TikTok video. I mean, I thought it's
Speaker 1: something that just you would hear on the radio normal.
Speaker 1: It's a bad as big a confident as I could.
Speaker 1: You could, thank y'all. And it would be hard for
Speaker 1: you to understand that because you, again, you were in
Speaker 1: the whole process and you're like, man, I don't want
Speaker 1: to know over the dopey stuff. But it wasn't dopey
Speaker 1: to people who didn't know the dopiness that it came from.
Speaker 1: And I think that, like as artists and writers were
Speaker 1: always like so self conscious and want to be you know,
Speaker 1: um looked at in the light of what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do. UM. But it really has um been pretty
Speaker 1: special to me, and I go out to shows now
Speaker 1: and people are singing it back, and it's given me
Speaker 1: the opportunity to share more music with more people. So like,
Speaker 1: that's really all I could have asked for it. And
Speaker 1: the fact that y'all are saying that that you hear
Speaker 1: it as a as a as a normal song now
Speaker 1: and then it was like, oh, this is where it
Speaker 1: was rude, and I was like, oh, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: it's a I would just say, don't be like embarrassed
Speaker 1: that came the people are like, oh, he's a joke rider.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's song, because that's not it. That's not what
Speaker 1: that is unless you know exactly what that is. Yep. Well,
Speaker 1: and I get from us two experts were everything we
Speaker 1: do we know joke songs. I saw an interview with
Speaker 1: Dean Dillon, who's a huge songwriter obviously wrote a bunch
Speaker 1: of the George Straight stuff, and he was talking about
Speaker 1: the Ocean Front Property song, which I grew up thinking
Speaker 1: was like one of my favorite George Straight songs of
Speaker 1: all time, incredibly well written, and he said Dean Dillon
Speaker 1: said that he's still embarrassed to play it today because
Speaker 1: he felt like it was a joke song, and that
Speaker 1: made me think, Okay, Like, if I think that song
Speaker 1: is a hit song and an incredibly well written song,
Speaker 1: and he thinks it's a joke song, maybe I need
Speaker 1: to not take myself so seriously and lean into that too.
Speaker 1: Another incredibly well written song that sometimes gets classified as
Speaker 1: a joke song Fannie Pack by the Raging Idiot. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes we're like, many people are gonna laugh at this,
Speaker 1: but it was a serious deal that day, and I didn't.
Speaker 1: My pockets weren't big enough. Fanny packs are a real thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. Now we're like, we want to play this
Speaker 1: because we want to be My wife's got one. She's
Speaker 1: leaning into it. They're all the rage now exactly. Hey,
Speaker 1: so the new single I Got My Mind on you
Speaker 1: feel good about it? I'm feeling really good. First of all,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for getting it out there. Um,
Speaker 1: the amount of people that have reached out to me
Speaker 1: hearing it on the show is truly blowing my mind.
Speaker 1: But it's it's connecting. You know, we're going out to shows.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing people singing it back for the first time,
Speaker 1: which is really cool. It's cool to see people you
Speaker 1: know how you can use songs on social media or
Speaker 1: sounds to kind of to put over videos. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: more and more people using the sound and tagging it
Speaker 1: over videos and making it their own. And when you
Speaker 1: write a song like that's the biggest thing that you
Speaker 1: can ask for, is it to like land and connect
Speaker 1: with people and then put it in their own light.
Speaker 1: So we're out touring. We've had some really big artists
Speaker 1: give us some opportunities to come out and open for them.
Speaker 1: I'm out with Gary Allen this weekend, and then we're
Speaker 1: going out with Jake Owen and then we're going out
Speaker 1: with Brantley Gilbert. So had some really big folks giving
Speaker 1: me chances and believing in this song and in us,
Speaker 1: and you know, it doesn't happen without the opportunity to
Speaker 1: get out in front of these crowds. And so we're
Speaker 1: going out and really trying to dial in this live
Speaker 1: show and bring the energy. And um, it's feeling good.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, music is is a long shot always,
Speaker 1: but for the first time, it feels like I got
Speaker 1: a real chance, man. So it's it's feeling good. What
Speaker 1: a journey, Yeah, what a freaking journey, you know. It's
Speaker 1: awesome to see it. Well, George Burgh, you're our hero
Speaker 1: in many ways. I don't know how you look twelve.
Speaker 1: I don't know he's looks. So he's a good golf Hey,
Speaker 1: he's my golf hero for sure. I mean he wears rings.
Speaker 1: That's not a way. I can never do that. I
Speaker 1: can never pull that off and look normal. Like this
Speaker 1: ring actually cool story behind it, this ring, the skull
Speaker 1: and the and the little diamond in it. UM. So
Speaker 1: when I signed my UM booking agent deal here in Nashville,
Speaker 1: which are the folks that get you on tours and
Speaker 1: go out and go to bat for you and try
Speaker 1: to get you on shows? We sat down and the
Speaker 1: first thing they said are who are your biggest influences?
Speaker 1: I told him George Straight, Gary Allen and Jason Alden.
Speaker 1: And two weeks later I get a call and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're putting you out on tour with Gary Allen. So like,
Speaker 1: to me, that's unreal. I'm losing my mind. First night
Speaker 1: we go play with Gary, I don't meet him. Happens
Speaker 1: a lot, you know. The headliners are they've got radio,
Speaker 1: they're on buses, they've got sound check, they've got a
Speaker 1: million things, no sweat. Second night, I opened the show
Speaker 1: and Gary's steel guitar player grabs me by the arm
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey man, stick around. Gary wants to
Speaker 1: meet you tonight. So already I'm like heart pounding, like
Speaker 1: let's go, like I'm meeting Gary Allen tonight. And so
Speaker 1: I stand side stage. I watch his show and they're
Speaker 1: all walking off stage and the steel guitar players like waving,
Speaker 1: and he's like, come on, follow us. So I go
Speaker 1: to the back and they bring me onto Gary's bus
Speaker 1: and Gary's in the back lounge and he's got like
Speaker 1: guitars hanging on the wall and nice bottles of wine
Speaker 1: and he's, you know, just like looking like a stuper
Speaker 1: star back there. He's leaning back against the couch with
Speaker 1: his arms spread and he's like, he's like, hey man,
Speaker 1: great to meet you. Thanks for coming out and hanging
Speaker 1: out with us. And I'm, you know, so thankful, and
Speaker 1: I kind of lean in and shake his hand and
Speaker 1: say hi, and he sees my necklace and my necklace
Speaker 1: had a skull on it and he goes, well, buddy,
Speaker 1: I actually make jewelry and I think you should have this.
Speaker 1: And he takes this skull ring off of his hand
Speaker 1: and gives it to me. And now there was Hey, congratulations,
Speaker 1: rooting for you. I think you're awesome. Congrats on your
Speaker 1: your upcoming nuptials, and there he is. Yeah, George burds
Speaker 1: Eddie and I don't like to everyone talk for you.
Speaker 1: Get your bobby bones. Bobby bones, y'all