Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to the first episode of Inside
Speaker 1: the Studio of Happy New Year. Everyone. My name is
Speaker 1: Jordan run Tug, but enough about me. My guest today
Speaker 1: is one of the brightest lights on the country scene.
Speaker 1: He scaled the charts with Take Back Home Girl and
Speaker 1: I Don't Know About You, and the platinum seller he
Speaker 1: wrote for his wife Lauren Bushnell, Big Big Plans, has
Speaker 1: served as the soundtrack to Love Struck Couples across the globe.
Speaker 1: He had a huge summer with the success of Filled
Speaker 1: Them Boots, and he's shipping up to have an even
Speaker 1: bigger winner with his new track Stopped Coming Over and
Speaker 1: a new tour on the horizon too. It kicks off
Speaker 1: on January the House of Blues in my hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to welcome Mr Chris Lane. I hope
Speaker 1: you enjoy our conversation. So many things I want to
Speaker 1: talk to you about, but I want to start with
Speaker 1: your brand new song Stop Coming Over, which I love
Speaker 1: because when I first heard the title, I thought, oh man,
Speaker 1: here's a breakup song if I've ever heard one. And
Speaker 1: then I listened to the words and I was very
Speaker 1: are we wrong? Tell me the story about that song.
Speaker 1: Is it based on a true story for you? Yeah? Well, um,
Speaker 1: long story short, Um. Some writers at Big Loud, my
Speaker 1: record label, wrote this song and pitched it to me,
Speaker 1: and that was the first thing. My My initial thought was, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a breakup song and uh. When I listened to
Speaker 1: it the first time and heard the hook of it
Speaker 1: when it said stop coming over and start coming home,
Speaker 1: I was like, I have to record that song. It's it.
Speaker 1: I feel like for me, it's uh in a way
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. To point out, it has
Speaker 1: a very similar, very similar sound and style of vocal
Speaker 1: on it. Um that I was able to throw on it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I loved everything about the song. I feel
Speaker 1: like it was very uh catchy and clever songwriting. Oh
Speaker 1: it's such a great track. I gotta say I love
Speaker 1: the guitars on it too. It sounds like an old
Speaker 1: Royal Orbison track or something. I love what what you
Speaker 1: guys did with that. Yeah. Yeah. Joey Moore and my
Speaker 1: producer always knows how to find a way to take
Speaker 1: a song at the next level. And I really do
Speaker 1: love those guitars as well. I can't wait to play
Speaker 1: that song live. Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: so many great new songs to you know, to bring
Speaker 1: to folks. Me had a huge song over the summer,
Speaker 1: fill Them Boots. It's interesting to me that you had
Speaker 1: that song kicking around for quite some time, like I
Speaker 1: think over two years. Can you tell me a little
Speaker 1: bit about how that song came to be? Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: fill Them Boots was a song that I wrote out
Speaker 1: on the road. Now, I have not had a ton
Speaker 1: of writers out on the road with me, um up
Speaker 1: until that point. It may have been the first weekend
Speaker 1: I had ever had writers out on the road. So
Speaker 1: three of my favorite guys here in town, Ernest Josh Miller,
Speaker 1: Mark trussell Um came out rode the bus with me,
Speaker 1: and we ended up writing this song late night one
Speaker 1: night after a show I believe in Michigan, and um,
Speaker 1: just a just a song title that I've had my
Speaker 1: phone for quite some time, and uh we kind of
Speaker 1: started freestyling around a little bit and and that was
Speaker 1: stuck in the room and uh yeah, we wrote it
Speaker 1: that night, and I sat on it for two years
Speaker 1: and never got tired of the demos, So I figured
Speaker 1: it was probably time to record that thing. Do you
Speaker 1: get inspired on the road. Like, I know that's there's
Speaker 1: probably a lot of you tuck a lot of artists
Speaker 1: and they say that going on tour, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of hurry up and wait. Do you like got a
Speaker 1: lot of ideas for songs and you know, humming things
Speaker 1: in your voice, notes on your phone and stuff like
Speaker 1: that a lot. Is it an inspiring time for you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. I think. I think for me, what I've
Speaker 1: liked about the process of writing out on the road
Speaker 1: is I tend to work well after the show. I
Speaker 1: don't know why that is, but you come off stage
Speaker 1: and uh, you're just super pumped up because the crowd
Speaker 1: was incredible. They were singing along to your songs, and
Speaker 1: I think it's, uh, it gives you that desire to
Speaker 1: want to sit down and try to write the next
Speaker 1: one that they'll sing along too. And and so maybe
Speaker 1: it's just an inspiring moment walking off the stage and
Speaker 1: and uh and writing in that moment even though you're
Speaker 1: kind of exhausted, you're out of breath. All that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff I've had a good time doing. And I
Speaker 1: feel like I've had some luck doing that. That's so interesting.
Speaker 1: I've never heard anyone say that, But that makes total sense.
Speaker 1: You got the adrenaline going and you want to recapture
Speaker 1: that desire to connect with people like you just had.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yep. You mentioned that Joey moy earlier. I mean,
Speaker 1: he has an amazing track record working with folks like Florida, Georgia, Line, Nickelback,
Speaker 1: so many people. What does he bring to the table.
Speaker 1: What's your working relationship like with him? Working relationship. We've
Speaker 1: been working together for probably six years now. UM, he's
Speaker 1: the only producer I've ever had, UM my first producer
Speaker 1: here in town. And UH that was honestly a big
Speaker 1: reason that I signed here at Big Louder early on,
Speaker 1: and just with the production, UH management and and UH
Speaker 1: a publishing deal I signed all at the same time.
Speaker 1: But he was a big part of that UH. And
Speaker 1: he had just had massive six as with Florida, Georgia Line.
Speaker 1: I really loved what he had done with UH with them,
Speaker 1: and I thought, Man, if I have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: work with him, I absolutely have to take that and
Speaker 1: and and so I did, and I feel like it's
Speaker 1: been the best decision I could have ever made for
Speaker 1: my career. You know, now he's got a whole slew
Speaker 1: of artists under and Morgan Wallin Hardy, you know all
Speaker 1: these guys who are who are really popping off right now. So,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I feel lucky to have him as my producer.
Speaker 1: I feel like he always knows how to take songs
Speaker 1: to the next level, and we worked really well together.
Speaker 1: He knows how to push me to get to get
Speaker 1: the best, uh, to get the best out of it.
Speaker 1: I love what you guys do together. I love the
Speaker 1: song from I think it was from earlier this summer,
Speaker 1: the summer job money, Uh that song, I mean just
Speaker 1: the message, bhy the story, and it really takes me back.
Speaker 1: Tell me about a little bit about that song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you you nailed it there. It does the
Speaker 1: same exact thing for me. It takes back to uh
Speaker 1: to high school. I mean for me, I actually worked
Speaker 1: uh as a landscaper for my summer job, and you
Speaker 1: did it so you could take your girlfriend out on
Speaker 1: the date or whoever it may be. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels nostalgic. I've been a huge fan of Kenny
Speaker 1: Chesney for so long and I feel like he is
Speaker 1: the king of these style songs. And I heard that
Speaker 1: song for the first time, and I had to report
Speaker 1: it because it did a very similar thing that Kenny
Speaker 1: Chesney songs do for me. It kind of takes you
Speaker 1: to a certain point in your life and and some
Speaker 1: great memories that you've had, and and hopefully it's done
Speaker 1: that for others as well. Oh totally. You know, it
Speaker 1: reminds me of that old rock and roll song Summertime
Speaker 1: Blues by Eddie Cochrane about a guy working all summers
Speaker 1: trying to earn some money. Yeah, it's got that as
Speaker 1: a great old track. I thought this was a really cool,
Speaker 1: like kind of update of it in a way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tasting back to my landscaping days. Man, I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: miss him though. Yeah, I was gonna say the video
Speaker 1: has that too, you step out of the truck with
Speaker 1: with Lane long Care on it. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's so cool that I love that you had that
Speaker 1: personal touch in the in the video there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: felt like I had to have been a missed opportunity
Speaker 1: not to do that. And and my dad's still running
Speaker 1: Land and Sons Landscaping there in Kurd of this little
Speaker 1: North Carolina. No way, I didn't realize that still running it. Man.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like I've got to get
Speaker 1: back there one day and just run out there and
Speaker 1: help them strike some yards up. Oh man, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy to think of being about all all
Speaker 1: the different paths your life could have taken me. We're
Speaker 1: working at you know, your your your folks long care company.
Speaker 1: I know you were an athlete in college on the
Speaker 1: baseball team at u NC Charlotte. At what point did
Speaker 1: you know that that music was gonna be the you know,
Speaker 1: the direction in your life? Man? I would say I
Speaker 1: discovered it super late in my uh, super late in
Speaker 1: my life. I wish I had learned how to play
Speaker 1: the guitar as a kid in and stuck with it
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, but that just was not
Speaker 1: the case for me. I didn't really sing my entire life,
Speaker 1: none of that. I played sports, football, baseball, basketball, um,
Speaker 1: every day of my life. I feel like, as a
Speaker 1: kid all the way through high school and college and
Speaker 1: and then play baseball there in college. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think my real dream at the time was to
Speaker 1: go play professional baseball. That's what I had worked for,
Speaker 1: you know, ever since I was a kid, and that's
Speaker 1: what I wanted. Um. But then it ended up not happening.
Speaker 1: I have an identical twin brother that also played with me,
Speaker 1: and and you know, he had the opportunity to move
Speaker 1: on and play decided not to do so, but I
Speaker 1: did not have the opportunity. So, uh, my last semester
Speaker 1: of college, I had to go back for a half
Speaker 1: semester to finish right after my four years of baseball,
Speaker 1: And that's when I started learning how to play the guitar,
Speaker 1: just for fun. And when I got good enough at
Speaker 1: playing the guitar, I started trying to sing. And I'd
Speaker 1: sit there and play all those Jason Aldean at church,
Speaker 1: Kenny Chesney, I mean, you name it, I would. I
Speaker 1: would learn it and play it. And then I would
Speaker 1: go up to this place called board Wall Billy's there
Speaker 1: in Charlotte, North Carolina, just right up behind you and
Speaker 1: see Charlotte, and they do a college a college night
Speaker 1: there and it would be an open mic and I
Speaker 1: would jump up there and play two or three songs,
Speaker 1: and people always encourage me. They would be like, man,
Speaker 1: I really like what you do. Uh, I feel like
Speaker 1: you're really good. All that kind of stuff, and so
Speaker 1: it encouraged me to keep trying really hard. And I
Speaker 1: developed a passion for music, UM that I never had
Speaker 1: with baseball, and and and again baseball was my dream.
Speaker 1: So I worked really hard at the music. UH started
Speaker 1: a cover band in North Carolina after I graduated. UM
Speaker 1: my twin brothers started learning how to play the drums
Speaker 1: just for fun. And UH, it's crazy here we are,
Speaker 1: all these years later, UH still getting to play music together.
Speaker 1: And and now we're out on the road. UM, you know,
Speaker 1: touring with some of my favorite artists of all time.
Speaker 1: It's been it's been quite the ride so far. But yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple of years into being a cover band, two
Speaker 1: or three years, I decided, you know what, I was
Speaker 1: able to start selling out all these big clubs that
Speaker 1: national acts from Nashville come down, and sometimes they would
Speaker 1: not sell my hometown club out. So UH, I started
Speaker 1: branching out into Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, as well as
Speaker 1: UH playing a lot in North Carolina Steel And that's
Speaker 1: how I ended up getting discovered, and people from Nashville
Speaker 1: record labels UH started flying out to watch me play
Speaker 1: and and I ended up with the record deal on
Speaker 1: the table. And here I am now with my sixth
Speaker 1: song on the radio. Is pretty crazy. Oh man. At
Speaker 1: what point did you move from from primarily doing you know,
Speaker 1: cover songs and other people's songs to uh, to write
Speaker 1: in your own I mean that's that's a big jump
Speaker 1: for any artist. Yeah, for sure. Um. I would say
Speaker 1: probably two years into being a cover band. UM, I
Speaker 1: started trying to write my own music. Now, I didn't
Speaker 1: know where to begin. I'd never tried writing a song before,
Speaker 1: didn't even know how to write a song. But uh,
Speaker 1: I just thought, Okay, what would Kenny Chesney say that,
Speaker 1: you know, as my one of my favorite artists, or
Speaker 1: what would Keith Urban say, or how would they I
Speaker 1: would listen to one of their songs and and and
Speaker 1: just try to put the pieces together on how to
Speaker 1: write my own song. And that's what I did. Early on.
Speaker 1: I'd sit there and right by myself. I put out
Speaker 1: a little self made record that was really terrible back
Speaker 1: in the day. It was under Chris Lane band that
Speaker 1: was my name back then. Um. I didn't put much
Speaker 1: thought into that, as I had no idea one day
Speaker 1: down the road I would end up with the record deal.
Speaker 1: But I think the encouraging part for me was to
Speaker 1: see people showing up night after night and they would
Speaker 1: sing those terrible songs that I would write, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it just it created a hunger in me man to
Speaker 1: keep writing. And then, uh, when I got to Nashville,
Speaker 1: I started getting into the room with guys who have
Speaker 1: had tons of number ones, who actually know how to
Speaker 1: write songs, and I really started learning from there on
Speaker 1: how to really write a song. Um and and that
Speaker 1: was huge for me from the beginning. So it really
Speaker 1: took me getting to Nashville to kind of learn from
Speaker 1: guys who had a clue what was going on and
Speaker 1: who who knew how to do that for me to
Speaker 1: actually learn. But you know, everybody starts from somewhere, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't trade those songs to the world, even though
Speaker 1: I go back and listen to them now and track up.
Speaker 1: How is the pandemic impacted you creatively? I mean, I
Speaker 1: know that on one hand, that's you know a lot
Speaker 1: of added stress, but also there's a lot of uh
Speaker 1: time that you're able to you know, not be on
Speaker 1: the road and and kind of be in one place.
Speaker 1: And I know you said in some interviews that you've
Speaker 1: actually written a lot more than you ever have. How
Speaker 1: has that been for you? Yeah, you know, what it
Speaker 1: did give me the opportunity to sit down and write
Speaker 1: a ton of songs and a lot that I'm very
Speaker 1: excited about, and and a lot that I probably would
Speaker 1: never have written and had it not been for that.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of been the silver lining of the
Speaker 1: pandemic for me. You know, I've missed touring a lot.
Speaker 1: I feel like I had a great momentum going before
Speaker 1: COVID hit. Um, and you know, everybody's gonna work to
Speaker 1: get that back. But um, you know, great songs will
Speaker 1: help carry your career for until you want to stop
Speaker 1: doing it at the end of the day. So very
Speaker 1: excited about those songs that I was able to write,
Speaker 1: and and um that I'll continue to write now. Now
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring writers out on the road a lot
Speaker 1: when I start touring again, UM, because I feel like
Speaker 1: I've I've, for whatever reason, I write a little bit
Speaker 1: better out on the road. I'm a little more creative,
Speaker 1: I think here here here in Nashville, I'll go in
Speaker 1: and write. And even though I've got some really great songs,
Speaker 1: you know, now that I have a little boy, I've
Speaker 1: gotta I've gotta try to manage my time a little
Speaker 1: bit better, and I've got to get home um as
Speaker 1: quickly as I possibly can to help out out on
Speaker 1: the road. You know, it's just right all day long
Speaker 1: if you want, or you can take a break and
Speaker 1: play the show and then come back on the bus
Speaker 1: and write again at night. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: early on in my career, UM, I did not write
Speaker 1: a lot of my songs, and a lot of that
Speaker 1: is my path was different than some of the guys
Speaker 1: uh nowadays, where they start out as songwriters and become
Speaker 1: successful at that and then their career pops off. Mine
Speaker 1: actually happened. I guess when I got here to town,
Speaker 1: recorded some songs, and then I got my first song
Speaker 1: on the radio. Everything happened so quickly that I didn't
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to sit down and write tons of songs.
Speaker 1: So I read lied a lot on outside cuts on
Speaker 1: my first two records because I wasn't able to sit
Speaker 1: down and write as much. I was out on radio
Speaker 1: tour for twenty one straight week. But you literally just
Speaker 1: can't write here your point blame because you're gone seven
Speaker 1: days a week, every day of the week, and then
Speaker 1: playing shows on the weekends. UM So now, like I
Speaker 1: like the fact that I've been able to have some success.
Speaker 1: You get a little bit more time off, you don't
Speaker 1: have to go play as many shows, you're not out
Speaker 1: there on radio tour. So it's given me a chance
Speaker 1: to sit down and write uh tons of songs now
Speaker 1: and and um, I'm feeling better than I ever have
Speaker 1: with with the whole creative and writing process effects. And
Speaker 1: this is a question coming from somebody who's never written
Speaker 1: a song in his life, Not to get tu nitty gritty,
Speaker 1: but how is that process for you? Do you hear
Speaker 1: something in your head and then go to an instrument
Speaker 1: and try to get it out of you or are
Speaker 1: you just sit down with a guitar or piano or
Speaker 1: whatever you're using and just kind of let your fingers
Speaker 1: move until you hit something that you like and build
Speaker 1: it up from there. Is it a combination. I think
Speaker 1: it's a combination of both. But um, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, every song is different, and the way
Speaker 1: you write it, every song, honestly it feels different. Um.
Speaker 1: A lot of times I will have an idea in
Speaker 1: my head and I'll go to my voice memo on
Speaker 1: my phone and and whether it's a melody that I
Speaker 1: record in there or whether it's an actual idea, and
Speaker 1: I'll literally just sit there and talk out on my
Speaker 1: phone and say, uh, this is the idea that I
Speaker 1: want to portray and and this is the hook that
Speaker 1: I want to come across. And then I'll start figuring
Speaker 1: out how to get it there, and sometimes you can't. UM.
Speaker 1: It takes up and getting into the room with other
Speaker 1: people to say, hey, I have this idea, playat form
Speaker 1: and then as a collective group, you figure out what
Speaker 1: would be the best uh, what would be the best
Speaker 1: look for UM. So I yes, I'll sit there and
Speaker 1: write songs by myself, but it usually takes getting into
Speaker 1: the room with at least one more person, if not
Speaker 1: two people, to kind of uh nail it out. And
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't even get it right in the room.
Speaker 1: I mean my song Big Big Plans. We went back
Speaker 1: in three separate times and finally finished that song. Um.
Speaker 1: We didn't necessarily have direction on how to finish it,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I do plan on proposing
Speaker 1: in the next couple of months. Um, maybe we could
Speaker 1: write a proposal into that third verse and I could
Speaker 1: use it as that and and not knowing in the
Speaker 1: moment that I'd end up having it as a single.
Speaker 1: It was never even intended for that. But um, it's
Speaker 1: crazy how songs spinne their way and and each song
Speaker 1: is different. When you sit down to write it, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be crazy for you. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Big Big Plans is a great example. I mean, the
Speaker 1: song that that came from that such a part of
Speaker 1: your life, a big part of your life with with
Speaker 1: your proposal, and then you you watch it take on
Speaker 1: a life of its own and become you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's that song has played it so many weddings now,
Speaker 1: and you know. I mean, have you ever had people
Speaker 1: in the audience of some of your shows proposing in
Speaker 1: the middle of your show? I mean, I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 1: But I mean what that like for you to watch
Speaker 1: that that kind of blossom like that. I think when
Speaker 1: you sit down to write music, Uh, do you want
Speaker 1: every single time that you sit down and write a song,
Speaker 1: you want that song to connect in the way that
Speaker 1: Big Big Plans did. I had no idea that it
Speaker 1: would because it was such a personal song for me,
Speaker 1: a personal moment for me. But um, I think the
Speaker 1: big win is when you write a song that is
Speaker 1: personal to you, and it connects to a lot of
Speaker 1: people and they take it and turn it into their
Speaker 1: own story. And that's what it really happened with that song.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think when I was out on my
Speaker 1: Big Big Plans tour, I had at least one proposal
Speaker 1: every single night, and uh, I was able to bring
Speaker 1: people on stage and really watch them go through what
Speaker 1: I went through when I proposed. I mean I watched
Speaker 1: Guy's blackout night after night when they get up on
Speaker 1: stage forget what they want to say. I was the
Speaker 1: same way, so I know that feeling. But um, I
Speaker 1: think that was the coolest part of the whole add
Speaker 1: On song was not only did I use it to
Speaker 1: propose and I have that moment for the rest of
Speaker 1: my life, but people are taking it and making it
Speaker 1: their own. I feel like Kenny Chesney's the king of that,
Speaker 1: like uh uh having those kind of songs that connect,
Speaker 1: whether it's whether it's Don't Blink or or or many
Speaker 1: of his other songs, you know, it connects an emotional
Speaker 1: way and takes on a life of the song. You
Speaker 1: turn it into your own story. I thought you did
Speaker 1: a beautiful job for your song, for for your at
Speaker 1: that point, I'm born son, ain't even met you yet,
Speaker 1: which I thought was profoundly moving. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: that track's got to mean the world to you. Tell
Speaker 1: me more about about that song. That's really an incredible track.
Speaker 1: Thank you, man, I appreciate that. Um yeah, I think it. Uh.
Speaker 1: It captures the the emotion that as a as a
Speaker 1: about to be dad in a couple of months I wrote.
Speaker 1: I wrote that song probably two or three months before
Speaker 1: Dutton was born, but just the emotions that I was
Speaker 1: going through at the time that I feel like probably
Speaker 1: most guys are, or even most moms are about to
Speaker 1: um experience the nervous but very excited you can't wait
Speaker 1: to meet him, and you're just wondering what all these things?
Speaker 1: What's again look like? You know, just all these things
Speaker 1: and and uh yeah, we sat down wrote that song,
Speaker 1: and um, I knew immediately I had to record it,
Speaker 1: not not for uh, not for a radio single or
Speaker 1: anything other than that, but just I wanted to record
Speaker 1: it for for Dutton so that I could play it
Speaker 1: for him and say, hey, this is how your dad
Speaker 1: was feeling, uh to three months before you were born.
Speaker 1: And um, I wrote this song for you, and I
Speaker 1: want you to have it kind of that. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm just glad that other people can relate to it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like it's a song that can
Speaker 1: carry throughout, you know, a hundred years from now, because
Speaker 1: people are always going to be having babies, so that
Speaker 1: feeling will probably stick around. Yeah, I mean, and you
Speaker 1: articulate a lot of things that a lot of people
Speaker 1: aren't able to with that song too. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of of of parents can, uh
Speaker 1: you know, not just dads, but moms as well, can
Speaker 1: years later, you know, play that for their their kids
Speaker 1: to say, yes, this is this is what it was like.
Speaker 1: I mean, how is becoming a father impacted your your songwriting?
Speaker 1: I mean, is it, aside from having a lot less sleep,
Speaker 1: is it impacted you creatively? Um, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I mean I definitely have a whole new set of inspiration,
Speaker 1: you know, being only two years into marriage, um and
Speaker 1: uh having a boy. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it brings out a more sensitive side of me, um
Speaker 1: that that I didn't experience or couldn't write about before.
Speaker 1: But um, I would say probably in that way if
Speaker 1: I had to guess. That's so that's a really great point.
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought of that. I Uh, I have to
Speaker 1: ask your son's name is is is Dutton? Uh? There
Speaker 1: were there was another uh name briefly for consideration. Uh
Speaker 1: can you tell me uh what that is? I heard,
Speaker 1: uh Servester Stallone would have been very happy. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: so early on, you know, we we had before we
Speaker 1: even knew we were pregnant, we were watching Yellowstone and
Speaker 1: got really into that show. And uh, my wife said
Speaker 1: one time, you know, if we ever have a boy,
Speaker 1: we should name him Dutton. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I like that name. Like obviously it's the family's last name,
Speaker 1: but we thought it could make a good boy his
Speaker 1: first name. And then I said, I love that, Like
Speaker 1: we should to see keep saying it, you know, over
Speaker 1: the course of time, and when we find out if
Speaker 1: we're ever gonna have a baby, then then, uh, that
Speaker 1: name will be at the top of the list. And
Speaker 1: then I said, what about Rambo? And I was honestly
Speaker 1: very serious, and my wife shut that one down really
Speaker 1: really fast. So yes, I think Sylvester Saloon would have
Speaker 1: been uh would have been pumped about though maybe next son,
Speaker 1: maybe next time for sure. Um. And then and then
Speaker 1: Walker was another name that my wife really liked a lot,
Speaker 1: and uh so we ended up using both of them
Speaker 1: for Dutton's name. We just Dutton Walker Lane. That's such
Speaker 1: a cool name. So the next time, yes, if we
Speaker 1: have another boy, we'll have to name him. Uh. I
Speaker 1: just felt I feel like Rambo is tough. You know,
Speaker 1: he steps up to uh on the tea box to
Speaker 1: hit a golf ball, I feel like he's gonna annihilate it,
Speaker 1: you know. Oh yeah, it's got the imidation factor. I mean,
Speaker 1: Rambo laying that is a name right there. Oh man.
Speaker 1: I mean You've got all these songs that you know,
Speaker 1: connect so strong with people, big, big plans and even
Speaker 1: yet and now you're going back on the road to
Speaker 1: actually play them in front of people. How does that
Speaker 1: feel for you? After the last you know, two years
Speaker 1: that we've had. That's got to be like, how do
Speaker 1: you even plan for that? It's gotta be like going
Speaker 1: back to your athlete days and like, you know, getting
Speaker 1: prepped for like a marathon or something. What's it like
Speaker 1: in the lead up for that. Yeah, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: in the process now of putting my show together and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what songs I actually wanna do
Speaker 1: live outside of the singles and um, you know now
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm putting uh stop coming over out, I'll
Speaker 1: be able to throw that one in the set and
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear people sing that one. But I've
Speaker 1: been working on other new music that I hope to
Speaker 1: have out in in the early parts of January as
Speaker 1: well that I feel like I've got some very siding
Speaker 1: music on the way that that hopefully I can't wait
Speaker 1: to play in the set. But yeah, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to get back out there and just play to people
Speaker 1: face to face. I'm glad they feel that they're getting
Speaker 1: back to some bit of normalcy. And you know, I
Speaker 1: played a lot of shows this summer and into the
Speaker 1: early fall, and uh man, the energy from the crowd
Speaker 1: was was crazy after being cooped up for a year.
Speaker 1: So I can't wait to die back in and and
Speaker 1: after having a couple of months off here and kicking
Speaker 1: back up in January, get in front of the fans
Speaker 1: is my favorite part of being an artist. Oh man,
Speaker 1: we can't wait to get you back out there, Chris.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take up too much more of
Speaker 1: your time. Thank you so much for your time to be.
Speaker 1: It's been such a joy and pleasure talking to me.
Speaker 1: Thank you, hey, yeah, thank you so much for taking
Speaker 1: the time. I appreciate it. We hope you enjoyed this
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