Speaker 1: On the Bobby Bone Show now Dave's Highway. Good to
Speaker 1: see you guys again, and I think, yeah, with this,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a lot about you guys' journey to
Speaker 1: Nashville and kind of your career journey now. But you know,
Speaker 1: let's start with being in Mississippi. Did you, guys when
Speaker 1: you came to Nashville come all together and Zach, I'll
Speaker 1: start with you, or did you come one at a time?
Speaker 1: What happened there?
Speaker 2: We all moved up together, so we had kind of
Speaker 2: planned from the beginning for us to all stick together
Speaker 2: in terms of like school, So I graduated on time
Speaker 2: because I'm normal.
Speaker 3: Erica graduated high school early a year.
Speaker 2: We were homeschooled in high school, and Delaney went to
Speaker 2: community college for a couple of years in order to
Speaker 2: keep us level. And we all moved here to quote
Speaker 2: go to college. But that's not really what we moved
Speaker 2: here because college.
Speaker 1: You're saying, you really like the reason was that we're
Speaker 1: gonna move to Nashville and go to school, but you
Speaker 1: really didn't, Well, we did, yeah, because that wasn't the
Speaker 1: reason that you moved here. It was just the how
Speaker 1: it got you here. I don't know because your parent,
Speaker 1: I don't know what your parents it was.
Speaker 3: That ticket our dad got it. Our dad was an
Speaker 3: electrical engineer for thirty five years. And you know, you
Speaker 3: have to go to college. So we went to college.
Speaker 1: Who's the youngest of all and how much how much
Speaker 1: young are you the oldest?
Speaker 3: Ade I'm the middle.
Speaker 1: Okay, So with the what's the age gap between all
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 4: There was like hardly an age gap.
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird if you all look the same.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I'm saying. He was like, well,
Speaker 1: she's going this time. So you guys are probably a
Speaker 1: lot closer than normal siblings because you are kind of
Speaker 1: living the same age at the same time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so Erica, you're the youngest, you're the youngest.
Speaker 4: Yes, I am.
Speaker 1: And so when they're like, all right, as soon as
Speaker 1: you're ready, we're going to Nashville. We're all going together.
Speaker 1: You felt good about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was like totally ready in the moment. And now
Speaker 5: whenever I look back and I'm like, wow, I was
Speaker 5: barely eighteen. Whenever I moved to town, I'm like, that's
Speaker 5: pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Like look at me.
Speaker 1: When you move here, Delany you all move and decide
Speaker 1: to stay in the same you live together, I'm.
Speaker 6: Assuming, And we lived in an eight hundred square foot apartment,
Speaker 6: two bedroom, one bath. The laundry room was Zachary's closet.
Speaker 6: It was like very close quarters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's on par though with people who
Speaker 1: you know. There are two kinds of people that move
Speaker 1: to town. People that have a whole bunch of money
Speaker 1: and can move to town and focus on it because
Speaker 1: they got all all mom and daddy's money. And there
Speaker 1: are people like you, guys like me, they have to
Speaker 1: move and go, well, we don't got a whole lot,
Speaker 1: but we got nothing to lose, and it's a dream,
Speaker 1: so we're just gonna move and hit it and live
Speaker 1: in an eight hundred square foot apartment shack dwelling, you know,
Speaker 1: shared a room.
Speaker 6: And I'm surprised we didn't kill each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and do you guess we did good?
Speaker 6: We did good.
Speaker 1: You're not all living together now, though we are. We
Speaker 1: are still really have you have you up to square footage?
Speaker 1: It's a little bit okay, And but yes, you moved
Speaker 1: here and Erica kind of what what was the mindset
Speaker 1: of what you were going to do once you got here?
Speaker 1: Was it, We're just gonna start playing all these shows,
Speaker 1: you're gonna write Like you move here, obviously you're gonna
Speaker 1: go to school. But what what did you start doing professionally?
Speaker 4: Mostly it was college.
Speaker 5: We came and we were we were studying music in school,
Speaker 5: so we were able to make a lot of connections
Speaker 5: through doing that.
Speaker 4: But we were just trying to grow our knowledge at
Speaker 4: music and like get really good.
Speaker 5: And figure out like what do we want to be
Speaker 5: because we grew up doing a lot of like Christian
Speaker 5: Gospel CCM kind of stuff, and then we were kind
Speaker 5: of at a weird transition point where we were like
Speaker 5: ready to shift, but we didn't know how to, and
Speaker 5: so we just kind of homed in on our craft,
Speaker 5: and by the time we were out of college, we
Speaker 5: were like, all right, we're ready to go.
Speaker 1: Were you guys like practicing playing together while you were
Speaker 1: in college? Were you out doing any sort of like
Speaker 1: how did you get better or to any as you
Speaker 1: guys were together?
Speaker 6: Well, we were already a band when we moved here.
Speaker 1: But were you playing though when you're here in school?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Okay, so this is a long story, give it
Speaker 6: to me, now, let's go. We posted a video in
Speaker 6: two thousand and nine when we were just kids and
Speaker 6: didn't think anything about it, but it went viral on
Speaker 6: YouTube and Facebook when Facebook was like the.
Speaker 1: Cool thing of what what were you doing in the video?
Speaker 6: Jesus Messiah Tomlin and Chris Tomlin saw it and posted
Speaker 6: it on his Twitter and something else YouTube maybe.
Speaker 2: And then well, and that was also back when viral
Speaker 2: meant something like now everything everything's viral?
Speaker 5: Right, Viral was like one hundred thousand, it was, It
Speaker 5: was a lot, but yeah, but now viral's like five billion,
Speaker 5: right right.
Speaker 1: Right right, So it went so what happens to you
Speaker 1: guys when your kids and that blows up? And does
Speaker 1: anything happen?
Speaker 6: Then we started playing churches every single weekend. Wow, we
Speaker 6: were traveling from what two thousand and nine to twenty
Speaker 6: fifteen when we moved here. And then when we got here,
Speaker 6: we just kind of like focused on school. So we
Speaker 6: played shows on campus and we were like the presidential
Speaker 6: band at Lipscomb or whatever, So.
Speaker 1: They what does that mean?
Speaker 5: We got a scholarship really to be like kind of
Speaker 5: the face of the music program at Lipscomb, so actually resenting.
Speaker 2: Well, so like whenever they had new student dinners and stuff.
Speaker 2: A lot of times they did it at the Country
Speaker 2: Music Hall of Fame, which at the time for us,
Speaker 2: which is still very cool. It was like, we're playing
Speaker 2: at the Country Music Hall of Fame and.
Speaker 3: So we uh, we would go and play a couple
Speaker 3: of songs for the all.
Speaker 2: Of the new incoming freshman students that they had, and
Speaker 2: that was just that's what we did.
Speaker 3: Most of the shows that we played.
Speaker 2: From twenty fifteen to two thousand, I'd say seventeen really
Speaker 2: was Let's.
Speaker 6: Come, which we did get to meet a lot of
Speaker 6: cool people doing that, like we got to play with
Speaker 6: Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith and all the people
Speaker 6: that are I guess donors at Lipscombe I don't know.
Speaker 1: But well, yeah, so you're so. That's how I was
Speaker 1: wondering how you stayed sharp if you were just focused
Speaker 1: on school, but school made you stay sharp because they
Speaker 1: gave you a scholarship exactly representing what was it always
Speaker 1: to be a trio and only a trio pretty much?
Speaker 5: Yes, we've all like got our thing that we do,
Speaker 5: Like I love to write and sing my like singer songwriter,
Speaker 5: sad songs by myself and Zachary is an amazing guitar player,
Speaker 5: and Delaney like could be Shania Twain if she wanted
Speaker 5: to be.
Speaker 3: And she plays bass whenever we play like a full band.
Speaker 5: Real yeah, but like why wouldn't we, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean? Like we're siblings and we sound good together,
Speaker 5: and we love each other as well.
Speaker 6: We get along most of the time.
Speaker 1: What do you guys do for percussion? If that happens?
Speaker 2: We the only person we hire whenever we do a
Speaker 2: full band thing as a drummer.
Speaker 1: So you got all the instruments covered as far as
Speaker 1: power acoustic even, I mean, you could just play and dang.
Speaker 1: So how'd you feel about the bass? Was that?
Speaker 6: Well? You know, I really didn't pick it no one.
Speaker 6: I grew up playing mandolin actually because we were doing
Speaker 6: the southern gospel kind of thing and we needed a
Speaker 6: bass player. So in college I decid did to take
Speaker 6: bass lessons, and then I actually liked it and stuck
Speaker 6: with it.
Speaker 1: I tried to play bass a little bit in high school.
Speaker 1: We had the first kind of iteration of our terrible band,
Speaker 1: and we had a good guy think can played guitar
Speaker 1: pretty well, and so I was like, I guess I'll
Speaker 1: just learn to play the bass, and it was tough
Speaker 1: for me because there are a lot of places that
Speaker 1: you have to play notes that notes don't normally go.
Speaker 1: Whenever you feel like you're listening to the song, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not what the song sounds like. So I did
Speaker 1: not take to it, and I was terrible, but I'm
Speaker 1: not near as musical as you are. Did you feel
Speaker 1: like you moved over to the bass pretty pretty easily?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I don't know, did I I don't know?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, well, Delanny played guitar before I did.
Speaker 6: True, so that kind of helps you too.
Speaker 1: Well, it's an interesting journey for you, guys, because now
Speaker 1: you're still with Ja co Owen's Good Company Entertainment And
Speaker 1: how did that happen to where you end up over
Speaker 1: on Jake's roster where he's basically A and R.
Speaker 2: It's really funny. A lot of our connections really go together.
Speaker 2: It's like this is the connection made this connection, and
Speaker 2: this connection made this one. And so we met Ron Fair,
Speaker 2: who we've talked to you about before in college, so
Speaker 2: he was our professor and he decided that he wanted
Speaker 2: to give us a shot basically, and.
Speaker 3: His his list of credits is so long, and so.
Speaker 2: He we had a bunch of meetings at his studio
Speaker 2: to workshop and see if anybody, if they gauge the
Speaker 2: interest really in the town of what we do.
Speaker 3: So he had Keith Gail.
Speaker 2: Come over, who is manager at Good Company, and he said,
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 3: We should get Jake over here.
Speaker 2: So Jake came over and listened to graciously listen to
Speaker 2: our music, and they decided.
Speaker 3: That they wanted to have us on the you know,
Speaker 3: on the team.
Speaker 1: And where did you play for him yourselves or do
Speaker 1: you play him music?
Speaker 3: Both?
Speaker 1: Oh cool?
Speaker 5: Both Ron had like a whole thing that he liked
Speaker 5: to do. What did he call it, like the experiment
Speaker 5: or something. It was something some like weird like crazy
Speaker 5: mastermind term that he used. And he would like play
Speaker 5: a snippet of the record and then he'd be like, okay,
Speaker 5: now do it live.
Speaker 1: Like it was so funny show that you guys could
Speaker 1: sound like the record And was that the point of it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: talk about your name for a second. Dave's Highway because
Speaker 1: it actually means something people probably don't I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I was like, who's Dave? Why is this road so cool? Basically?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Dave's is our last name, and we're siblings,
Speaker 2: and we talked about Dave's. Dave's Yes, so I get
Speaker 2: I still get called Dave all the time.
Speaker 3: So, hey, I'm Zach. Nice to meet you, Dave. You
Speaker 3: were listening to me, So Dave's is our last name.
Speaker 2: We decided that we from a very young age, that
Speaker 2: we always wanted to have our family name involved in
Speaker 2: whatever the We didn't never really, we didn't never really
Speaker 2: decide that Dave's Highway was going to be the name
Speaker 2: we stuck with for long term. It was kind of
Speaker 2: something that we need to have a name, So let's
Speaker 2: put a name together, kids. I think I was twelve
Speaker 2: when we came up with it.
Speaker 1: So you had the same even before, even in Nashville. Yeah,
Speaker 1: were you touring the churches under Dave's Highway? Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: you've had it for a long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a long time. God since like two thousand
Speaker 3: and eight, I think.
Speaker 2: So we also decided we're Christians, and we we that's
Speaker 2: a big part of our lives, and so we when
Speaker 2: I was twelve, we decided that we wanted to incorporate
Speaker 2: God in our in our message as well, and we
Speaker 2: chose Highway because we always want to stay on the
Speaker 2: high road. We want to not We never want to
Speaker 2: be people that sell out for fame or money or
Speaker 2: and if that stuff comes then great, we're you know,
Speaker 2: we're welcoming of that, but you know, we want to
Speaker 2: stay on the highway and we think that that's that's
Speaker 2: what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1: How would you describe your journey in the last couple
Speaker 1: of years.
Speaker 6: Uh, it's been the best years so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the hardest too. Probably.
Speaker 2: We're we're seeing all kinds of opportunities come up for
Speaker 2: us in the near future that we're so thankful for.
Speaker 2: And it's unexplainable really that.
Speaker 3: We uh, we're.
Speaker 2: Touring kind of right now, some some smaller venues. We
Speaker 2: have ten dates at like ten roof around the United States,
Speaker 2: and some of them are i think in cities where
Speaker 2: you're where you're broadcasting. But and then in the fall
Speaker 2: in September, Jake has invited us to come and join
Speaker 2: his Fall tour.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, op, Yeah, that's really cool. By the way, Indy, Detroit, Columbia, Raleigh,
Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach, Orlando, Delray Beach, Florida, Fort Lauderdale. If you
Speaker 1: want to get tickets to go watch them at d
Speaker 1: the ten roof Dave's Highway dot Com. So you're right,
Speaker 1: a lot of we're in a lot of these cities.
Speaker 1: And then Jake has you guys coming out, which will
Speaker 1: be super cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're very excited.
Speaker 1: That's exciting. And so you say, it's been awesome, but
Speaker 1: it's also been really hard. Why has it been so
Speaker 1: hard to lannel?
Speaker 6: Mostly to do with our full time jobs and managing
Speaker 6: like a forty hour week at work and then also
Speaker 6: doing music too. It's it's it's exhausting, but we have
Speaker 6: this system. Mondays are our music days and we all
Speaker 6: take off of our jobs.
Speaker 1: You can do that, so none of your school teachers.
Speaker 6: No, absolutely no, we worked that into our contract at work.
Speaker 6: But yeah, Mondays are our music days. We have co writes,
Speaker 6: we record music, we you know, do whatever we need
Speaker 6: to do. And then also you know things like this it.
Speaker 1: Is Monday, so you guys are not say yeah, but
Speaker 1: we would have. Thank you very much. I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: and so the goal always is and I mean most
Speaker 1: of my friends that moved here. I was with Jordan
Speaker 1: Davis yesterday, just a similar story. Jordan and I are
Speaker 1: very close, one of my really good friends, and he's
Speaker 1: killing it right. Yeah, you just got an aunted for
Speaker 1: best new our best male mail at the ACMs. Just
Speaker 1: want a CMA. But he was living here five years,
Speaker 1: bartending five years, which now you look back and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: but when you say five years, that is such when
Speaker 1: you're in it, that feels like forever. And that's what
Speaker 1: he did. He had to go and work just so
Speaker 1: he could pay the bills, just so he could keep
Speaker 1: on scratching and clawing away at the dream. You know,
Speaker 1: not six months, not a month and a half, five years.
Speaker 1: He had to. You know Haley Witters, Yep, she did everything.
Speaker 1: She's been for ten years and it's finally cracked. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, that's gonna be a real difficult part of
Speaker 1: it because you have to pay the bills. So you
Speaker 1: work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday, And if you're
Speaker 1: not on the road, what if you're like, we got
Speaker 1: to go, we have a show, we're doing the Tin Roof.
Speaker 1: Are they gonna let you off?
Speaker 6: Yeah? My boss is very lenient.
Speaker 1: Are you hiding the tour dates from them? I don't
Speaker 1: feel good.
Speaker 4: No, I haven't told my job about Jake Turia.
Speaker 2: Well, I.
Speaker 6: Haven't requested off yet.
Speaker 1: That's like a real life situation. Yeah, and the goal
Speaker 1: is hopefully not have to deal with that part of
Speaker 1: real life. You moved to a different part of real life.
Speaker 1: Do you guys feel like you're getting closer?
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, every day though it's a grind.
Speaker 1: Can you see it like a light at the end
Speaker 1: of the tunnel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's always there.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not right in front of us right now,
Speaker 2: but we see it and we're running towards it as
Speaker 2: fast as we can, trying to do everything we can
Speaker 2: to get there. I mean, we've been in this town
Speaker 2: for eight years and.
Speaker 6: So it's opportunities like this though, that help us see
Speaker 6: the end of this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like a little splatter here, a little splatter there, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, let's splatter hereto. It gets a little quicker,
Speaker 1: like less in between. What do you think you guys
Speaker 1: would have done had you not moved to Nashville.
Speaker 3: Well, before you you were studying.
Speaker 6: I was studying accounting and I hated it. It was terrible.
Speaker 5: I didn't get far enough to declare a major. Honestly,
Speaker 5: there was no other thing for me because like you
Speaker 5: went to school like up until high school, so you
Speaker 5: had like you were a cheerleader.
Speaker 6: Home school, high school. That's what she means.
Speaker 5: Did all of them you had the like school experience.
Speaker 4: I was like nine years old.
Speaker 5: Well actually no, I was like five years old and
Speaker 5: we started doing music, and like I never did anything else.
Speaker 1: So is that why you're homeschool because you were just
Speaker 1: gone so much?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got tired of having to tell our parents,
Speaker 2: having to tell teachers like, hey, uh, they're gonna be
Speaker 2: gone on Friday and Monday because.
Speaker 1: My day's music day. Miss Johnston.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well kids are mean too, Like whenever kids found
Speaker 5: out that I could sing, they would like make fun
Speaker 5: of me on the playground. I'm like, I don't have
Speaker 5: time for this, So I'm glad we didn't go to
Speaker 5: real school.
Speaker 1: The song that the single, or one of the songs
Speaker 1: is why do we need them? You have that out now?
Speaker 1: I want to beady to check out Dave's Highway And
Speaker 1: so what do you do today for the rest of
Speaker 1: the day. Since we're recording this on a Monday.
Speaker 2: We're probably gonna get in our car and make tiktoks
Speaker 2: for a song that we have called First Rodeo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're also picking our album title.
Speaker 4: We are that's going to go sit down and figure
Speaker 4: it out.
Speaker 1: So First Rodeo is about what It's a funny story.
Speaker 6: We all three have this thing where we date our
Speaker 6: exes again. Like it's like we knew it didn't work
Speaker 6: the first time, but we have to go back make
Speaker 6: sure you didn't it worked out that.
Speaker 4: I'm out of the game. I'm out of the game completely.
Speaker 6: I just want.
Speaker 5: Everybody to know what game the dating x's game.
Speaker 2: Oh got it.
Speaker 1: That's a good game to be, except.
Speaker 4: I'm also out of the dating game just for the
Speaker 4: time being.
Speaker 1: You're just taking out, taking a break. He's taking a break. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jack marked out pretty good for you, It did?
Speaker 3: It did?
Speaker 2: I dated this girl in college for not a long
Speaker 2: period of time. I had just gotten out of a
Speaker 2: bad relationship and I thought I was ready to jump
Speaker 2: back into it. I wasn't, And I, you know, was
Speaker 2: a dumb twenty two year old kid that didn't know anything.
Speaker 2: And you know, by the grace of God, it came
Speaker 2: back around to me and we're, you know, talking about
Speaker 2: getting married.
Speaker 3: We've bought rings and oh you bought rings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she knows, so this we need to beat this
Speaker 1: part of it.
Speaker 6: We both approve, so that's good.
Speaker 3: And she sings too, right, Yeah, yeah, she she does
Speaker 3: Christian music.
Speaker 1: You guse her name.
Speaker 3: Her name is Brittany Wood. She's she's amazing. She really
Speaker 3: is her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys like her too, obviously if you like
Speaker 1: follow her.
Speaker 4: Me and her have matching tattoos. We're like besties.
Speaker 1: You guys can never break up, Danny, No, because they
Speaker 1: have matching tattoo.
Speaker 4: Now, well that was before, that was before they started
Speaker 4: dating again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because we were all, wait a minute, you got
Speaker 1: a tattoo with her while they were she was the
Speaker 1: ex of your brother.
Speaker 3: Yeah, trader.
Speaker 6: Fault.
Speaker 1: Okay, look guys, here we go at Dave's Highway. Go
Speaker 1: follow them Instagram. What's your TikTok name? Same hopefully at Dave.
Speaker 1: It's all the same at Dave's Highway.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The new song is called first Rodeo Boom and go
Speaker 1: watch them. They're doing all those ten roof dates all
Speaker 1: through May and June from those cities and then out
Speaker 1: with Jake Owing when he tours in the fall.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: You guys, feel good. Feel guys, feel good, to I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys sitting with me and again go follow
Speaker 1: at Dave's Highway. Thank you guys, Thank you Bobby The
Speaker 1: Bobby Ball Show.