Speaker 1: Welcome to the fifth episode of Unsigned and Independent with
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell. Kevin continues to look for different artists. A
Speaker 1: goal of his is to find a reason why these
Speaker 1: artists or bands may be unique or interesting to you guys,
Speaker 1: the listener. Now we've had a former lobbyist, two ranchers
Speaker 1: from South Dakota. You know, it's all about the variety
Speaker 1: of backgrounds and the upbringings of these artists. That's what
Speaker 1: Kevin's interested in. And this whole show is talking to
Speaker 1: people who are doing it independently. Now we're talking to
Speaker 1: Walker Montgomery today. You may recognize the last name because
Speaker 1: that's because he's the son of John Michael Montgomery. Walker
Speaker 1: is the sign of a well established country artist. But
Speaker 1: Kevin's goal is to tell walker story, not his dad's story.
Speaker 1: And because these artists are independent, it allows them to
Speaker 1: tell their story in their own words and let the
Speaker 1: audience know what their goals are, what their dreams are,
Speaker 1: without ever losing what makes them unique in their own right. So,
Speaker 1: Walker Montgomery with Kevin O'Connell. He's got over five million
Speaker 1: streams of his debut song, Simple Town, and he was
Speaker 1: chosen as an artist to watch in two by Country
Speaker 1: Now and Music Mayhem Magazine. And here it is Unsigned
Speaker 1: and Independent with Kevin O'Connell and Walker Montgomery. Hey, this
Speaker 1: is Kevin O'Connell back with Unsigned and Independent. This is
Speaker 1: episode five. I really appreciate it. If you've listened to
Speaker 1: the first four or any of the first four, they've
Speaker 1: all been so great, so different, little unique. Everyone's background,
Speaker 1: everyone's story and upbringing can be so much different than
Speaker 1: each other, and this one is exactly the same. We
Speaker 1: have Walker Montgomery on the son of John Michael Montgomery.
Speaker 1: But I didn't really want to talk about John Michael.
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about Walker, so we dive into
Speaker 1: walker story, his upbringing and how he never really got
Speaker 1: into music until he was a teenager, which was pretty
Speaker 1: surprising to me because he grew up in it with
Speaker 1: his family. But Walker is a great guy. He's a
Speaker 1: cool story. You can follow him on social media at
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Speaker 1: Here is Walker Montgomery, Walker around you doing today? Man
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, man. I'm happy to be here, appreciate
Speaker 1: you having me on. Of course, of course happy to
Speaker 1: get you in here. I know I told you this
Speaker 1: right before we started this. I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: make this about your dad, but you know, obviously I
Speaker 1: want to touch on it, and you know, talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit and your upbringing. So you are John
Speaker 1: Michael Montgomery's son I am, and you're from Kentucky, from
Speaker 1: born and Rice from Kentucky born and raised. I just
Speaker 1: want to ask you real quick, like what was that
Speaker 1: upbringing being the son of you know, a pretty big
Speaker 1: country music star. But you but you lived in Kentucky
Speaker 1: your whole life, right like you were in Oldville whole
Speaker 1: entire life. I think by the time I was eighteen,
Speaker 1: I've I've counted it one time. I might have been
Speaker 1: to Nashville like three times my entire life before I
Speaker 1: moved here. So did you know growing up at all
Speaker 1: that you wanted to be in country music as well
Speaker 1: as a performer? Growing up? Not not particularly, uh, because
Speaker 1: I mean, my my parents were so great. They surrounded
Speaker 1: me with sports, acting, you know, all these different things,
Speaker 1: and uh kind of let me find my own path.
Speaker 1: To music, and it was It wasn't really till you know,
Speaker 1: junior year of high school where I started picking up
Speaker 1: the guitar and and uh kind of had to look
Speaker 1: myself in the mirror and and say, hey, you ain't
Speaker 1: going to the NFL, you know, but you too? But yeah, right,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, I started picking up the guitar and
Speaker 1: and that's kind of that's kind of when I fell
Speaker 1: in love with it. But it was definitely later on.
Speaker 1: Did you You You didn't play as a kid or anything,
Speaker 1: you know, growing I mean, you literally grew up with
Speaker 1: it around it. So how did you want to make
Speaker 1: your own path, fir, if you wanted to try to
Speaker 1: find your own way in life. I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it was really just you know, regular high
Speaker 1: school stuff. And I I picked the guitar or play
Speaker 1: a little piano growing up, but I was always, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of focused on on football and basketball and everything.
Speaker 1: And I had choir in school and and and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So I was still involving myself in some
Speaker 1: kind of music always, but definitely it took a second
Speaker 1: to get there. Do you credit your parents a lot
Speaker 1: for We're not pushing it on you? And let absolutely
Speaker 1: live a normal quote unquote teenage life. Absolutely, And I
Speaker 1: mean all I had to worry about in high school
Speaker 1: was things that regular high school kids should worry about. Uh,
Speaker 1: So I didn't have any pressure from them going, you know,
Speaker 1: but you got to go into music, you gotta do
Speaker 1: all these things and uh and yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: really do give them a lot of credit for for that,
Speaker 1: because it's different when you find it on on your
Speaker 1: own and and you fall in love with it, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, on your own. But yeah, I definitely give
Speaker 1: them a lot of credit for that. Yeah. You hear
Speaker 1: about that all the time, whether it's sports or music,
Speaker 1: where these crazy dads have their kids going to fifty
Speaker 1: different games. That's seven years old, and by the time
Speaker 1: they get to fifteen, they're like, dude, I'm burnt out.
Speaker 1: I'm done. So I'm glad that you're able to find
Speaker 1: your way kind of naturally and organically if you will.
Speaker 1: So when did you move to Nashville. Then you're twenty
Speaker 1: two years old, and I moved to Nashville nineteen around there.
Speaker 1: I was coming down and you know, writing and and
Speaker 1: doing different things like that. But it was probably twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen early twenty nineteen when I finally made the move. Now,
Speaker 1: what was your deciding factor were, Hey, maybe I should
Speaker 1: just go to Nashville and go for it. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I mean, it really was just that I wanted to
Speaker 1: wanted to give it, give it the old old try.
Speaker 1: And uh, I was at college. I was at UK
Speaker 1: for what I called my glorious nine weeks and uh
Speaker 1: joined a fraternity and and uh did all the college things,
Speaker 1: which was really good experience. But I just had I
Speaker 1: had a song that I that I'd written in my
Speaker 1: dorm and uh, you know, wrote it, sing it, sang
Speaker 1: it down, and we came down here and before I moved,
Speaker 1: started recording and stuff, and it just uh song started
Speaker 1: doing well on Spotify and everything, and I was just like, well,
Speaker 1: it might as well, it's time go for it. Yefore,
Speaker 1: I saw a story and correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Here where you played at a pre party or something
Speaker 1: for football, right man, And a radio guy came up
Speaker 1: and he said, Hey, I think you you damn good
Speaker 1: at this. I'm gonna put you on the radio. And
Speaker 1: that did that make you kind of uh or tell
Speaker 1: that story first, I guess. And what that leads to, well,
Speaker 1: it definitely did. I mean, it was definitely a catalyst
Speaker 1: to to me moving down here. But yeah, I was
Speaker 1: in college at the time. It was my freshman year. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they had the University of Kentucky had a fan
Speaker 1: voted Twitter pole uh thing where the winner would play
Speaker 1: the opening game kickoff concert. And of course, you know,
Speaker 1: my mom's voting like ten times a day and everything
Speaker 1: like that, getting everybody to do it. And uh, but
Speaker 1: we just ended up winning and we played it. And
Speaker 1: my drummer at the time, I've shown him that song
Speaker 1: and uh, I didn't know what I was doing, you know,
Speaker 1: I did. I always say it was just a god things.
Speaker 1: I've never written a song, never really sang a song
Speaker 1: that I've written, obviously, and I just showed him that.
Speaker 1: He was like, hey, we can put music too, and
Speaker 1: I was like, well might as well. And that was
Speaker 1: the first time that we have ever played it actually,
Speaker 1: and and yeah, radio guy came up and me and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'll play that on the radio if you go down
Speaker 1: and record it. And when that happens, you know, you're
Speaker 1: kind of like, well, uh, the college thing might might
Speaker 1: be on hold for a little bit, right right, I mean,
Speaker 1: how can you say no to that, especially at how
Speaker 1: old are you? Nineteen? I mean your eyes probably lit up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get excited just think about it. I can tell
Speaker 1: you by looking at you. I know you guys can't
Speaker 1: see this, but I can see it in his eyes
Speaker 1: right now. What'd your what'd your parents say when you
Speaker 1: told him that? They? I mean, look, they were happy. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think my dad really he wanted me to go
Speaker 1: to college, just because he never got the chance. And uh,
Speaker 1: because but he was, you know, straight out of high school.
Speaker 1: He's playing honky tonks and and uh and everything, and
Speaker 1: I was. I was too, but I was still going
Speaker 1: to college. I was. That's why my grades might have
Speaker 1: suffered because I was trying, you know, I was. I
Speaker 1: was playing Proud Mary's honky Tonk and Lexing and Kentucky
Speaker 1: and stuff and and uh. But yeah, they were. They
Speaker 1: were excited about it. And I think they kind of realized,
Speaker 1: uh that I had the bug, and they they I mean,
Speaker 1: they've been supportive and everything I've done, but this is
Speaker 1: this They knew it was coming. Once it once it happened,
Speaker 1: they were they were all in. Their writing was kind
Speaker 1: of on the wall, and it was that was the
Speaker 1: last straw, if you will. Now, when you moved to Nashville,
Speaker 1: what was were you thinking like I want to be,
Speaker 1: you know, someone big or you just kind of winging
Speaker 1: and as you came out here and started started playing
Speaker 1: at local places and kind of seeing where it went. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, as an eighteen year old, nineteen year old,
Speaker 1: you don't know. And I didn't know, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I'd only been to Nashville three times, I think, so
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about songwriting. Uh. All I knew
Speaker 1: was playing a little honkytongk bars and stuff in Kentucky
Speaker 1: and uh so, and obviously, you know, being being on
Speaker 1: the road with Dad some I've I've seen seen some
Speaker 1: stuff that I guess, uh maybe somebody who was just
Speaker 1: completely grain coming town might not have. Uh, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just seeing what happened, you know. I was
Speaker 1: trying to get a group of guys that I really
Speaker 1: liked riding with, uh and get as many meetings and
Speaker 1: everything that I can keep booking shows. Of course, at
Speaker 1: the time, it was just my mom and me booking shows.
Speaker 1: Uh So, we were we were just calling county fairs wherever,
Speaker 1: seeing if they had a little bit of money, and
Speaker 1: even if they did and were like, well, can we
Speaker 1: still come play? Uh? But yeah, I mean at the time,
Speaker 1: I've really didn't have a plan, I guess, uh, because
Speaker 1: I was eighteen and I was just like, well, let's
Speaker 1: see what happens, right and then since so since then,
Speaker 1: you do have a management team now, right, but you're independent,
Speaker 1: you don't have UM any label or anything. But how
Speaker 1: much is that management team because I'm interested to find
Speaker 1: out people that come on this some have managers, some
Speaker 1: who don't UM all are obviously independent, unsigned, But how
Speaker 1: how much has that management team helped you, you know,
Speaker 1: be able to juggle things or getting more gigs or
Speaker 1: travel or whatever it may be. Yeah, well, I mean
Speaker 1: it's helped tremendously. And I got a great team over
Speaker 1: Red Light Management, uh, Sean mcspaden, Jenny Tack and ends
Speaker 1: up even Senzo and it's uh, it's a special group
Speaker 1: and I'm blessed to work with them. But they definitely
Speaker 1: does take you know, some weight off of my shoulders
Speaker 1: because they obviously know things that I don't and and
Speaker 1: they can handle things that that I might not. Really,
Speaker 1: even though I've been here for for a little bit now,
Speaker 1: you know, I still it might be the first time
Speaker 1: doing something for me when they've done it a million
Speaker 1: times before. And uh, but no, it's helped tremendously. Uh.
Speaker 1: And William Morris my book and agent, uh, Kevin Maid's
Speaker 1: has I mean just doing a tremendous job over there,
Speaker 1: so the whole two. You know, having more people on
Speaker 1: the team, it just always helps, right, everyone balances, it
Speaker 1: plays a ball in some way. Now, do you enjoy
Speaker 1: because I always I also find it interesting, especially nowadays
Speaker 1: with social media, a lot more people, it seems like
Speaker 1: since I've started this are talking about how they enjoy
Speaker 1: being independent because you know, they have a lot of
Speaker 1: their rights to their own stuff. And so I gotta
Speaker 1: ask you as well, the same question of do you
Speaker 1: enjoy that independent And you're still young enough and still
Speaker 1: raw enough, probably you're still trying to figure things out.
Speaker 1: Do you enjoy that independence of it? I mean yes,
Speaker 1: And and though obviously you know, I guess the main
Speaker 1: goal for everybody is to get a get a label
Speaker 1: behind you and more people that believe in you. Uh,
Speaker 1: but to have kind of that creative freedom really does
Speaker 1: in some cases help out. And uh, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean there's pros and constant to everything, especially being independent.
Speaker 1: But it it just depends on the situation. Uh really,
Speaker 1: I guess. But owning and owning all the all all
Speaker 1: the music, it's pretty nice, you know, right knowing that
Speaker 1: you have that ownership to it. But it seems like
Speaker 1: one of those you know, if the right deal were
Speaker 1: to come along, then we can sit down and talk
Speaker 1: about that. Well, I mean, and that goes into I
Speaker 1: ment I keep mentioning the team. It's it's if if
Speaker 1: the team believes in you, then that's that's the right deal.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to points and whatever it is,
Speaker 1: obviously there's a longer and stuff like that. But if
Speaker 1: people are behind you and really believe what you're doing,
Speaker 1: that just it makes all the difference. Have you had
Speaker 1: any trouble in the industry because and maybe you haven't
Speaker 1: at all. This isn't it at all, um. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, as a business, do you
Speaker 1: ever have you ever found it in the last few
Speaker 1: years or growing up? But all like, oh you know
Speaker 1: who your dad is, like you probably have it so easy.
Speaker 1: Like even in the industry, have you had and you
Speaker 1: not have to call anybody out? But I don't call anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But but have you run into those roadblots or people
Speaker 1: think that you have it easier when the reality is no, Man,
Speaker 1: we're all on the grinder. Yeah. I mean there's always
Speaker 1: people that and this. I mean you mentioned a business.
Speaker 1: I I just assume it would be the same thing
Speaker 1: if your dad was a football coach or something. You're
Speaker 1: trying to become a football coach yourself. There's always the
Speaker 1: people that I think that way. You know, I always
Speaker 1: gotta be easy. He's only doing it because the day's
Speaker 1: doing it. Uh. But for the most part, man, I
Speaker 1: mean I think that lucky, luckily enough. I mean dad
Speaker 1: was Dad was very successful, and people respect that. Uh,
Speaker 1: but they kind of they do. See, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: make my own own path and uh while paying homage
Speaker 1: to all the success that he had because he had
Speaker 1: some great songs. But yeah, you do get every now
Speaker 1: and then some people that or I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's bitterness or whatever it is. When you first came
Speaker 1: out here, were you playing Broadway or anything, or were
Speaker 1: you more like the writer's round kind of. I did
Speaker 1: a few things on Broadway when I first moved down here,
Speaker 1: but then you know, once I started kind of getting
Speaker 1: into Riders circles and stuff like that. It Uh, I
Speaker 1: started doing more the live Oaks and Demumbrians, uh and
Speaker 1: and just riders rounds, which are which I really enjoy
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, didn't didn't really do the Broadway thing
Speaker 1: for that long. Kind of moved up to Demumbre and
Speaker 1: pretty quick. Uh. But the Riders rounds are also just fun,
Speaker 1: you know, it's They're just fun to do. So I really,
Speaker 1: I really, I really enjoyed them. I enjoyed the intimate
Speaker 1: intimacy of those more than anything. I've been to a
Speaker 1: few of them out here, especially have a live Volk
Speaker 1: a couple of them. And as fun as you know,
Speaker 1: watching somebody go crazy on stage and having a beer
Speaker 1: in your hand, yelling and hooting and all er in
Speaker 1: those writers rounds, it's cool because you can get like
Speaker 1: the backstory of of these songs, and you can get
Speaker 1: the artist or multiple of the band up there talking
Speaker 1: about where the inspiration comes for this song or where
Speaker 1: the sound comes for this song. So is that something
Speaker 1: you enjoyed to do as well? Yeah, I mean, especially
Speaker 1: when I'm on on stage. Uh, even the live show
Speaker 1: when I got the full band behind me. I mean
Speaker 1: it seems uh my TM gets mad at me. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm almost try to tell the story to every song
Speaker 1: just because I want I want people to hear it.
Speaker 1: But uh, but yeah, I do really enjoy hearing the
Speaker 1: stories and and telling the stories of you know, when
Speaker 1: when the song was written, or if I didn't write
Speaker 1: the song, where where it came from, how I found it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is a cool little thing. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean me as a listener, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: play anything but musician, but me as a listener, I
Speaker 1: enjoy it. And when you sit down to write a song,
Speaker 1: do you have something a process in your head or
Speaker 1: does something just hit you that day? Because I know
Speaker 1: you guys have these scheduling writer writer meetings, So what
Speaker 1: what goes into writing a song for you? Well? I write.
Speaker 1: I write about two to three times a week, and
Speaker 1: that's just because I'm on the road on the weekends. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, get get a one day break or something
Speaker 1: before we go on the road. But I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: melody guy, so I'm always kind of thinking of melodies.
Speaker 1: And obviously I got a bunch of titles on my
Speaker 1: phone and everything. But it, uh, the process, it almost
Speaker 1: goes back to once you find a group of folks
Speaker 1: that you really like writing with. For me, at least, uh,
Speaker 1: you can kind of hone in on everybody's strengths and
Speaker 1: weaknesses and stuff, and and uh, you know, I've got
Speaker 1: a few guys that are really good with words, and
Speaker 1: and I hate words. I just want to do melodies
Speaker 1: and and everything. And then I've got some good some
Speaker 1: really great track guys and everything. So it uh, it
Speaker 1: takes time to figure out your process and kind of
Speaker 1: learn how to do it. But once you once you do,
Speaker 1: you can kind of get into groove and that sound
Speaker 1: that you look for. I'd love to play a song
Speaker 1: um of yours on here, but we're not legally allowed
Speaker 1: to do some one here anymore. So I do want
Speaker 1: to talk about, you know, some of your sound and
Speaker 1: where your background comes from. Do you do you feel
Speaker 1: like that nineties country is a sound that you've kind
Speaker 1: of grown up and it's just naturally into you or
Speaker 1: is that something that you're trying to get away from? No, God, no,
Speaker 1: I think Uh, I think you you awarded it perfectly. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just kind of naturally what I gravitate towards.
Speaker 1: And uh, it didn't when I moved down down here.
Speaker 1: It didn't take me long to figure out that my
Speaker 1: voice doesn't sound good on a pop track. And uh,
Speaker 1: and I'm not dogging on that because there's so many,
Speaker 1: you know, pop country songs that I love listened to
Speaker 1: and everything. But it it naturally just the way my
Speaker 1: voice is and the way I hear things. Definitely, the
Speaker 1: nineties influence has has more, has has more kicking into
Speaker 1: my songs. Is it just me? I don't know about
Speaker 1: you being an industry, I feel like the nineties sound
Speaker 1: is kind of coming back a little bit. Oh, I
Speaker 1: think absolutely, And I'm I think it's a good good thing.
Speaker 1: It's yes, it's storytelling telling music and uh and just good.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm glad the steel's come back, fiddles come back. Uh.
Speaker 1: That steel guitar is my face. Oh, it's just awesome.
Speaker 1: I wish I could play it, man, but I've I've
Speaker 1: seen some boys that can that can play, and there's
Speaker 1: just so much that goes into it. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna I'm gonna stick to guitar, man, like I'll
Speaker 1: let you do. Yeah. Yeah, you had to EP come
Speaker 1: out earlier this year speaking of sound, and there's a
Speaker 1: couple of songs on there that I like, and I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta say this just a title alone gets
Speaker 1: me A bad day to be a beer? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think that's me every Saturday and watching college football,
Speaker 1: and every Saturday is a bad day to be a beer.
Speaker 1: So I talk about this EP a little bit. They
Speaker 1: came out in March of this year. Is that correct? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was March of this year, and uh, EPs called
Speaker 1: Russ but bad Day to be a Beer? U. It
Speaker 1: is my favorite song on there. It's just and I
Speaker 1: recorded that actually maybe two and a half years ago.
Speaker 1: And even how my voice is now, I can kind
Speaker 1: of I can tell that my voice is either I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's gotten deeper or whatever, but I've
Speaker 1: or just matured a little bit. But man, it's just
Speaker 1: a fun song. And in my glorious nine weeks in college,
Speaker 1: we'd wake up on Saturdays. Of course we call him
Speaker 1: catter days, and uh almost saying my brothers, would you know,
Speaker 1: they say it's a bad day to be a beer.
Speaker 1: And then I didn't write that song, but uh, a
Speaker 1: great man named Dallas Davidson actually wrote that song with
Speaker 1: a couple of good buys of mine, Ray Fulter, Cole Taylor,
Speaker 1: and uh but as soon as I heard that, I
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta cut it. I gotta cut it.
Speaker 1: I mean we can all relate to that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah. I gotta say, by the way, real quick,
Speaker 1: my first SEC game I went to a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: You're probably not gonna like this, but it was Tennessee
Speaker 1: and Kentucky. I'm sorry but I had to bring that up.
Speaker 1: But I will say, I'm just saying a guy from
Speaker 1: California going to my first SEC game is unbelievable. It's different, man,
Speaker 1: I mean it's an experience. Yeah, it was. It was great.
Speaker 1: I had to throw that little nugget it well, but
Speaker 1: I was on the road when that happened, and you
Speaker 1: probably didn't watch much of it. Well, I put on
Speaker 1: a good face for the show, but but uh, I was.
Speaker 1: I was pretty mad. Yeah. I'm a big sports fan myself. Man,
Speaker 1: So I've been there. We've all been there. There, the upstand,
Speaker 1: the downs, right. I know you don't really do the
Speaker 1: Broadway anymore, but you still play some shows. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we do a lot of cover songs. Like cover songs
Speaker 1: is a huge thing out here in Nashville, right, if
Speaker 1: you get the tourists in there, twenty bucks, play this,
Speaker 1: play this. Do you find yourself enjoying more of like
Speaker 1: the old school and nineties covers, even like your dad
Speaker 1: or whoever. It may be just because that's kind of
Speaker 1: what you grew up in and that's where you feel
Speaker 1: like you're more comfortable with every cover. So we might
Speaker 1: do maybe three cover songs during our set if it's
Speaker 1: a long If it's a longer set, we might do four.
Speaker 1: But every song that, uh, that we cover is I
Speaker 1: think it's two thousand three and before. Yeah, so uh
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's but that also goes back to that's
Speaker 1: just what I gravitate towards. And uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: always say to the crowd, you know, if if it's
Speaker 1: all right with y'all, it's, uh, every cover we do
Speaker 1: is gonna be nineteen nineties, and they all go crazy
Speaker 1: and stuff, what's your favorite? Well, we always do sold
Speaker 1: and and it gets them every time. Man, But it's
Speaker 1: it's just a fun song to play. But that's definitely
Speaker 1: my favorite. But yeah, I mean, it's it's just what
Speaker 1: I There's no really reason why I do that. It's
Speaker 1: just what I grab gravitate towards right. It's just a
Speaker 1: natural thing for you. Well, Walker, what I'll have to
Speaker 1: close this out here? What else you got coming up? Um?
Speaker 1: Shows songs album? Well, I guess you EP earlier is here,
Speaker 1: But what else is on the books for you? Right now?
Speaker 1: We're really planning for three, you know, trying to get
Speaker 1: on the road and everything, and uh, I gotta got
Speaker 1: a new producer, Mr. Bart Butler, and we're doing some
Speaker 1: some really fun things, you know, finding songs, writing songs
Speaker 1: and uh, just trying to uh, trying to keep honing
Speaker 1: in on that sound and uh. But yeah, we'll be
Speaker 1: in the studio hopefully hopefully in December or something like
Speaker 1: that January. And got some new music coming out next year?
Speaker 1: Can you can you say any of that are just
Speaker 1: it's still in the works. It's still it's still in
Speaker 1: the works. I got a few, I got a few
Speaker 1: songs that I know we're gonna cut, uh and we're
Speaker 1: and we're playing we're already playing some of them on
Speaker 1: the road and everything. But yeah, it's I'm excited. I'm
Speaker 1: excited for for next Every year is almost a new
Speaker 1: chapter man. And uh and after COVID it's it's just it. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just great to be in full swing and is
Speaker 1: gonna be even better. That's awesome. That's awes gonna check out.
Speaker 1: His EP came out earlier this year called Rust Walker.
Speaker 1: Where can the find you on Instagram or Twitter, TikTok,
Speaker 1: whatever you're on? Yeah, man, I do the TikTok. I'm
Speaker 1: not very good at TikTok. But you just anything, you know, anything,
Speaker 1: uh at social media? Just Walker Montgomery, at Walker Montgomery.
Speaker 1: I think on my Twitter it's at Walker Montgomery. If
Speaker 1: you want to see, you know, I'll have a few
Speaker 1: cocktails or something while watching football and you want to
Speaker 1: see some some mad football tweets, go follow me on Twitter.
Speaker 1: But there you go. That's awesome, man, Walker, I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks for coming in. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: fun and best luck for everything that the future holds
Speaker 1: for you. I appreciate you, man, Thanks for having me
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