Speaker 1: All right, welcome to episode one thirty six to the
Speaker 1: Bobby Cast with my buddy John Party. And sponsors are
Speaker 1: Dollar Shave Club and Life Block, and you're go ahead.
Speaker 1: It's like every time we talked, we we we talked
Speaker 1: about kind of human stuff. But I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up, man, And You're like, I've been painting all day.
Speaker 1: Paint pain is not fun. Wait, but what are you painting?
Speaker 1: And I think most people would think that John Party
Speaker 1: guy with you know, multiple smash country hits, we'll be
Speaker 1: having someone paint for him at this point. I had
Speaker 1: somebody paint for me the last time, and uh, we
Speaker 1: did a better job than me and my dad. But
Speaker 1: we're painting. The decks, have three decks and who just
Speaker 1: remodeled the house, so they're pretty trash from foot foot,
Speaker 1: you know, foot in and out and carrying stuff and
Speaker 1: dry wall and white stuff paint that just we know
Speaker 1: when they're fixing stuff up. So it looks great now.
Speaker 1: So you go back and forth at home Debot, lots
Speaker 1: of home Depot trips and loves. They know you when
Speaker 1: you walk, not by John part of the artists, but
Speaker 1: by the guy who comes in a lot. They know
Speaker 1: me by both. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, you always like
Speaker 1: places that you enjoy going to enjoy you being there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well they always ask, you know, doing with your house yet, Man,
Speaker 1: it's been a long time. I'm like, yeah, well it
Speaker 1: has been a long time. We're playing at the Bluebird.
Speaker 1: You and I we put that charity event. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: having got I got a dumpster out. We're tearing out
Speaker 1: the house. Still got the dumpster. Still the du dumpster
Speaker 1: still there. Yeah. It was kind of like it's a
Speaker 1: three story kind of cabin house that we started in
Speaker 1: the center of the house and then we moved to
Speaker 1: basically just remodeling the whole thing, like new windows, new
Speaker 1: a c and heating and and sand in the floors,
Speaker 1: a new kitchen, knocked down, three walls. You like that?
Speaker 1: Do you like that? You like the house? Well, I
Speaker 1: didn't do I helped. I helped, you know, get kind
Speaker 1: of planed out. And because I'm on the road a
Speaker 1: lit if I could do with my schedule would be
Speaker 1: like four years. We'd still be talking about from all
Speaker 1: in my house four years from now. But you know,
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. It's a good released from music. This
Speaker 1: whole week, I've kind of just not really done anything
Speaker 1: with music until like today I picked up a guitar
Speaker 1: practicing a song I gotta play for a c monitors
Speaker 1: and and then we got the podcast and just kind
Speaker 1: of taking off. Tomorrow I go back on tour. But
Speaker 1: it's good to like do something like paint a deck.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of satisfying. You know, you can get
Speaker 1: a hate painting walls. That's not my thing. It's just
Speaker 1: so like even like you ever pay in your house,
Speaker 1: did a good job, but like I did that, you
Speaker 1: did that a like, oh yeah, I'm great. I'm the opposite.
Speaker 1: When I could, I could hire someone to paint again.
Speaker 1: I never painted again. Yeah, I know. I messed up
Speaker 1: a lot of ceilings with my paint jobs. But the
Speaker 1: deck was easy because it's it's kind of it's like
Speaker 1: but it's more like sweeping kind of mindless. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you and you see, I could a dirty go to
Speaker 1: like super clean. You ever watched the stuff on Reddit
Speaker 1: where they do you ever get on Reddit? Because they
Speaker 1: have to have a whole like awbredded of satisfying things,
Speaker 1: AND's exactly what you're talking about. Like they'll take a
Speaker 1: power washer, it's in power washing a deck and it
Speaker 1: goes from being disgusting and you watch it just gets
Speaker 1: super Yeah. Yeah, power washing day too. That the deckster
Speaker 1: look like crap after even after the power Yeah, we
Speaker 1: needed to be painting really bad. What are you planning
Speaker 1: at a CM Honors? Do you know? Can you say
Speaker 1: it's not on TV or anything? I guess or are
Speaker 1: you supposed to be quiet about it? Um? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know it's a it's a a good buddy. I've
Speaker 1: been on tour with them and I know his song
Speaker 1: means a lot to them. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: a CM honors. Are you honoring or you being honored?
Speaker 1: I'm the hope, I'm a host. So that's right, you
Speaker 1: and Lauren are hosting it. How about that? Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: That would be good. Then reading out loud a lot,
Speaker 1: trying trying to slow down my pronunciation, you'd be good.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be you. Yeah, but you know you
Speaker 1: gotta read. I try to practice reading out loud, you
Speaker 1: know telephone? Just do you? You promptly gonna ask you're
Speaker 1: using a prompter? Probably, I imagine? Oh so are you
Speaker 1: doing any jokes? Yes? But I uh, we usually don't
Speaker 1: write it, and we usually try to help them. It's
Speaker 1: like I won't say that. I would never say that. Like,
Speaker 1: let's try to get something else and it comes back okay,
Speaker 1: we'll say that's funny. We laugh, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: kind of we try to take if if it's cheesy,
Speaker 1: you know what, kind of trying to make it a
Speaker 1: little more. Let's let let's do something with this. So
Speaker 1: I try to be hands on. That's that's what I do.
Speaker 1: I mean, Mike d and I write, we both right
Speaker 1: and new stand up comedy. But then we also I'll
Speaker 1: do award shows and I'll have writers come in and
Speaker 1: we're just sitting in a room and crank it out,
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, I don't know even uh. Some
Speaker 1: of the sketches we did, I hosted them on Fox
Speaker 1: the Heart Country Special, and you know, you go and
Speaker 1: you sit in a bus, you do all these jokes,
Speaker 1: and I go, I kind of get a little devote
Speaker 1: just because I would. I'm like, I would never make
Speaker 1: this joke. And like my integrity though, who came up
Speaker 1: with the mini Bobby Bones? That was pretty good. That
Speaker 1: was not me. I wish I could take credit five
Speaker 1: for that though. Yeah, that was a great idea and listen,
Speaker 1: I have no issue. Ever, It's like, I love great writers.
Speaker 1: I love working with great writers. I love when someone
Speaker 1: writes a joke that I use, you know for these
Speaker 1: um so yeah, a little bible is not me. There's
Speaker 1: one of the if you're that's why you got a
Speaker 1: good team and writers though where you can fantastic team.
Speaker 1: You know, you agree on things that you would we'd
Speaker 1: want to come up with, you'd want to say, and uh,
Speaker 1: that's why whenever we get so you like presentation, present whatever.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm trying to say. You give award
Speaker 1: to somebody, but you're you tell them my presentation kind
Speaker 1: of work on that one already got him words of
Speaker 1: um but you know, just little things that we say,
Speaker 1: Oh that I would say more like that, you know.
Speaker 1: And there's some there's some cheesy jokes. Well cheese is good, ess,
Speaker 1: but it's good if you know, if you don't tell
Speaker 1: jokes all the time. Cheese is good if I go
Speaker 1: out and throw out some real cheese balls. If not
Speaker 1: good because I'm suposed to tell jokes. Yeah, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be able to see good and be you're funny.
Speaker 1: You know, you're naturally a funny, warm guy to be around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got to be funny, look warm, just be warm.
Speaker 1: Well this one was like bluegrass and was talking about
Speaker 1: weed and like I just did, oh no, I get that.
Speaker 1: I wasn't like, I don't know, that's not even that funny,
Speaker 1: Like you know, it didn't feel comfortable. There's a difference.
Speaker 1: I was. I was, there's better high jokes. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna get down to like comedy, but like
Speaker 1: you you know, you're you're you c MT. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: that was when we did the Hode. It was me
Speaker 1: and Hode and we came back. We came back with
Speaker 1: like they when they like really you know me and
Speaker 1: big words, and it was they gave me this whole
Speaker 1: tongue twister and like just try to do this and
Speaker 1: it like I kind of ab live with it and
Speaker 1: it was really hard. It was like sea shores and
Speaker 1: seashells all that. I'm like, oh my god, but it
Speaker 1: were it were it was really funny. So let me
Speaker 1: tell you what song I really like. I like this
Speaker 1: new in this night shift. There's a good one man.
Speaker 1: Whenever your record came out and I was listening to it,
Speaker 1: this one stuck out to me early. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: this was a jam. I like the record. It's been
Speaker 1: out for a while at this point as we record
Speaker 1: this with us today today is the August So when
Speaker 1: when when the record come out? June sixteen? Is that right?
Speaker 1: It's sixteen, two years? Two years. You gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1: I bet you're just craving something new, like a new record.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, we've been working on it. Well, this song
Speaker 1: is a jam and we'll come back to it. I
Speaker 1: love this song. Thanksh yeah, turn it up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Not a thing between you and me and it fields
Speaker 1: so nice when you now? Is this the fifth single
Speaker 1: from the record. This is the last single off California
Speaker 1: Sunrise five singles. Pretty good it's been. It's been a
Speaker 1: great record and it's been a great time. It's brought
Speaker 1: me to a level I've never been before, and I'm
Speaker 1: very thankful for it. And uh but we're moving on
Speaker 1: next year, and you know how it is with labels man,
Speaker 1: and I was like, when's the next record? Can we
Speaker 1: get it out? They're like August? Do that night? Team Like,
Speaker 1: oh really right, but that's you know we're gonna Our
Speaker 1: goal was to turn it in in January to that
Speaker 1: nineteen and then hopefully we'll get another jum release or something.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of people on Universal. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of Yeah, because a lot of people putting out artists,
Speaker 1: I would say, putting out records. What that means is
Speaker 1: your record label. How they have a lot of people
Speaker 1: to put time and effort into investment, both money time promotion.
Speaker 1: They can't just throw them all out. They're looking for
Speaker 1: the fair slot. But basically and be almost three years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I'll say this though. I know for you
Speaker 1: that it's felt like a long process because you were
Speaker 1: in on the creation of this record. You were in
Speaker 1: on the curating of the tracks and what to put on,
Speaker 1: what to sing, you were in on the promotion. So
Speaker 1: it's probably felt much longer for me, someone who actually
Speaker 1: enjoys the record. I'm surprised it's been out two years
Speaker 1: and I've enjoyed the record since it come And I
Speaker 1: told you that when it come out, and said, wow, man,
Speaker 1: this thing sounds progressive but still still uh contemporary tree.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel as tired as you probably feel of
Speaker 1: just playing the same songs. Well, were sorry, I'm not
Speaker 1: overdriving this. We we get a lot of feedback and
Speaker 1: it's not I mean, of course fans want new music,
Speaker 1: but there's not like a super demand like they're like
Speaker 1: still rocking still and you know that and a lot
Speaker 1: of fans were happy the Night Shift was gonna be
Speaker 1: on the radio, and uh, when it comes on the radio,
Speaker 1: you know, it gives it's it's rocking and it it
Speaker 1: feels good. And I think it's got a good spot
Speaker 1: to have that kind of feel on the radio right now.
Speaker 1: I like it. I wouldn't say I did. I would
Speaker 1: just ignore it. If I didn't like it, I just
Speaker 1: ignore it and not even not even do it. So
Speaker 1: what is your your quintessential Nashville story? And everybody's got one, like, well,
Speaker 1: what what was the moment for you where it kind
Speaker 1: of went all I gotta go? And then what's the
Speaker 1: story off you're getting to Nashville to actually pursue with
Speaker 1: the career that you're in now mm hmm, well, let's see.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot before Nashville. When was it Okay,
Speaker 1: so you start making music in California about what age
Speaker 1: when you start actually performing and making some money and
Speaker 1: thinking okay, maybe I could do something musically. Well, I
Speaker 1: have a first band of fourteen and we played the
Speaker 1: Dickson Mayfair and you know, like during its kind of
Speaker 1: like rock and roll punkish, kind of like the rebellion
Speaker 1: from being growing up singing out Jackson and George Strait
Speaker 1: and we're you still doing some like Nirvana. And in
Speaker 1: the nineties we we we did, you know, we were
Speaker 1: in the linear skinnered phase and like you know, some
Speaker 1: classic rock and Tom Petty lots of Tom Petty um
Speaker 1: mom my friends jammed out like Rage against Machine and
Speaker 1: Nirvana and you know, like Blink Blink went a two
Speaker 1: and Green Day were huge at a time, and and
Speaker 1: uh and I kind of took that one when you
Speaker 1: ask the question when you start like playing for real
Speaker 1: and kind of making tips and stuff eighteen but I
Speaker 1: was singing country again, but I had this like kind
Speaker 1: of fast rock and roll vibe to it. And then
Speaker 1: when to a place called Chico, California, and has a
Speaker 1: college They're called Chico State, and it is like party down,
Speaker 1: good time and formed a country band and learned and
Speaker 1: I had a mandalin player and he kind of taught
Speaker 1: me a lot about blue grass, and so we had
Speaker 1: this up about eighteen years old here I was a
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety basically that lasted nineteen to twenty two. And
Speaker 1: then after that I moved to Nashville, and uh, I
Speaker 1: was new. I wanted to move in Nashville. I took
Speaker 1: some trips out kind of you know, realize that mash
Speaker 1: should probably be twenty one so I can get into
Speaker 1: the bars, you know, like hang out and like get
Speaker 1: up and do a microphone you get there's still places
Speaker 1: you can play it back into that out and eight
Speaker 1: you know, either that way may not. I moved here
Speaker 1: with an atlas, like I didn't have GPS on my phone,
Speaker 1: Like it's still kind of it was. It seems so
Speaker 1: like really did you have a horse and a buggy?
Speaker 1: And it seems like it's so long ago, like what
Speaker 1: would you do without your GPS now? But that we're
Speaker 1: back in the day. We had maps and it was
Speaker 1: pretty easy. Three three high ways and what's that drive?
Speaker 1: What's that drive? Like? Three days? Um, three days of excitement,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty two was excited, like I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: My mom was sad. My dad was like, go get
Speaker 1: a job, you like trying to he's such a worker. Um,
Speaker 1: but he you know, my dad, everybody pushed me to
Speaker 1: go to Nashville. You know, they always said it ain't
Speaker 1: gonna happen here, you know, And so saved up some
Speaker 1: money when I was working for my dad, and I
Speaker 1: got my dog in a p A system and I
Speaker 1: drove to Nashville, found a place to live and and
Speaker 1: was on the ground, you know, kind of hanging out.
Speaker 1: And you drove three days three three and a half.
Speaker 1: I think, so you and your dog, you're sleep in
Speaker 1: the truck. You stop at hotels that we accepted dogs. Mm,
Speaker 1: we'd he'd stay in the truck because sometimes I'm sneaking in,
Speaker 1: but we had you know, he had guitars and stuff
Speaker 1: back there, and he like he wasn't the dog that
Speaker 1: you wanted to open in the campershill people are like
Speaker 1: he would buy you and he's scary, and uh so
Speaker 1: he kind of and he was fine staying in the truck.
Speaker 1: So how do you get a place to live? Like
Speaker 1: if you're coming from California, northern California or so, and
Speaker 1: you gotta find a place to live. But well, what
Speaker 1: came a couple of trips that I've I've come out,
Speaker 1: you know, like you can easily network and you know,
Speaker 1: kind of meet people. And I just did that and
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I was excited. I don't live
Speaker 1: within you know, when you're twenty two, you live in
Speaker 1: a of a bathroom. You know, if if you had,
Speaker 1: if it was cheap enough to you know, provide and
Speaker 1: and a lot of those people I don't even don't
Speaker 1: talk to anymore, like that, that phase where it's just
Speaker 1: you know, kind of starting at the bottom, I mean
Speaker 1: the bottom learning learning the town, learning learning how it
Speaker 1: was back in the day. I mean it's totally different.
Speaker 1: Now you move here, you're twenty two, you're moving with
Speaker 1: the roommate or two. Yeah, how do you start meaning
Speaker 1: if you get here, you met a few people on
Speaker 1: some trips where you kind check it out, But how
Speaker 1: do you start making a life in music? What's the
Speaker 1: first thing that you do? Well? I had songs I've
Speaker 1: written in Northern California with my band called Northern Comfort
Speaker 1: Shoutout during the Comfort. That were fun, they were upbeat,
Speaker 1: they were different, you know, and so I always had
Speaker 1: that in my back pocket, never like really even shared that.
Speaker 1: But I just go out and mingle. I got a
Speaker 1: job as a lifeguard, and uh, and after school counselor
Speaker 1: that kind of help me get by, and um and
Speaker 1: and and uh. I gotta back up before really getting
Speaker 1: down to the nitty gritty of how I survived the
Speaker 1: long hair days. Um So, in my neighborhood, while I
Speaker 1: was living in the basement, there was a townhouse that
Speaker 1: you can get with no payment down. Yeah, and my
Speaker 1: mom was like, she was, I'll co signed with it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't you know, going from cow California in Nashville.
Speaker 1: That townhouse wasn't too bad. But I had like four
Speaker 1: rooms and their two and a half bathrooms. It was
Speaker 1: like I could totally rent this out. And like I
Speaker 1: literally rented every room at the house. And I that
Speaker 1: was I was paying my mortgage and I was playing
Speaker 1: and I had my little life guarden job. But I
Speaker 1: didn't um you know, through Mangland basically and kind of
Speaker 1: getting that one shot to get up there and play
Speaker 1: a song that at the time, you know, everybody kind
Speaker 1: of liked and it was fun and we get like
Speaker 1: get and play that song again. And that kind of
Speaker 1: happened in place called Losers and that was kind of
Speaker 1: like my home and I ended up playing substituting, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy couldn't make a gig, They'd call me, come
Speaker 1: play four hours. I knew a bunch of covers because
Speaker 1: we played in covers. And we played for four hours
Speaker 1: in northern California, like we were you know. We started
Speaker 1: tending and we ended it too, So I was like,
Speaker 1: I can do that, man, I can do that. So
Speaker 1: we just kind of did that for two years, and
Speaker 1: I landed through mingling and taking songs with publishers. And
Speaker 1: I knew Bart, my co producer. Now I kind of
Speaker 1: knew him, and he would sometimes answer my phone calls.
Speaker 1: I always make that a joke. Now he answered my
Speaker 1: phone calls. But he kind of set me up. We
Speaker 1: in with some people and and and just kind of
Speaker 1: climb the ladder. This is an old school way, like
Speaker 1: shaking hands. You know, I'm John, Yeah, I'm a songwriter. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I kind of focused on songwriting. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: go play downtown. You didn't want to go play that
Speaker 1: Broadway where all the more? Right? No, I was I
Speaker 1: did that. You know, I got that I need to
Speaker 1: learn how to write, Like what how does Nashville right?
Speaker 1: How can I put? How could I fit into this
Speaker 1: this system that that there, it's obviously songwriters, you know,
Speaker 1: and really focused on that and got a publishing deal
Speaker 1: and then got some songs and you know how to
Speaker 1: show you know, started doing. We got enough songs for
Speaker 1: a showcase. Three showcases in I got signed by UM
Speaker 1: Capitol Records with handshake deal what's kind of like, And
Speaker 1: it took a year to sign. The contract was two
Speaker 1: down eleven. We got signed, and then they're like, your
Speaker 1: first single comes out in two down twelve, so there's
Speaker 1: another year. So two years and I just kept writing
Speaker 1: and writing and writing and recording songs, even demos and
Speaker 1: kind of learning, learning, and then you know, that felt
Speaker 1: like forever though, like from the moment that your handshakes signed,
Speaker 1: you're excited and you got your wait two years for
Speaker 1: your first song to come out. I bet that was
Speaker 1: I felt like a slow two years to get that
Speaker 1: first thing out there. Well, I mean, we had a
Speaker 1: great book and agent, and we had a lot of
Speaker 1: we had a lot of through showcase. I found a
Speaker 1: band and we had a van, and we learned the
Speaker 1: South and there was a lot of places that we
Speaker 1: still talk about playing and like a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that are still I see all the time that that
Speaker 1: gave us a shot because we could play cover. If
Speaker 1: we could do this, you know, we could we could
Speaker 1: play for three hours. You know, I have no problem
Speaker 1: with me throwing some originals. Make eight hundred bucks, you know,
Speaker 1: max out your credit card, hopping a van and go
Speaker 1: you know in the van. It's great. That's why not
Speaker 1: white Everyways asked why is music in Nashville, Well, it's
Speaker 1: it's easy for a van to get around really when
Speaker 1: it comes down to because back in the day was
Speaker 1: built for Cadillacs to get around. So we I mean,
Speaker 1: the van was really hard to keep up with the
Speaker 1: tour bus. Let me tell you that was like play
Speaker 1: a show, getting a van, drive for five hours, sleeping
Speaker 1: a hotel, wake up early to go keep you know,
Speaker 1: trying to trying to catch up. But um, we were
Speaker 1: always playing. I was always writing, so it just and
Speaker 1: everything was new. You know, I wasn't from the South.
Speaker 1: I learned what college football was all about because back
Speaker 1: in the West it's not as huge as this year. Like,
Speaker 1: so I was learning all this stuff. I was making
Speaker 1: new friends and and of course you know I had
Speaker 1: a record deal. But you know, one day, it was
Speaker 1: always one day. It's still always one day, but just
Speaker 1: kept don't grind, and kept on believing still always one day.
Speaker 1: You're right about that, It's still always one day for
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Speaker 1: put this a little um head over boots from from
Speaker 1: John Party here before we get back each other. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the one here. They kind of catapulted the
Speaker 1: next level. Yeah, this was the next leveler. That's just
Speaker 1: the first one off the record. Huh. This thing came
Speaker 1: out and it was just like, oh yeah, well I
Speaker 1: felt that the record sounded sounded super super forward while
Speaker 1: still being a country record. You know, it wasn't one
Speaker 1: of these where you listen to and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: it's trying to be something new. You felt country. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounded you're using cool sounds. There are sounds that
Speaker 1: I think, am I to you? Sonically? What's this record about?
Speaker 1: Um California Sunrise? You know? It was, it was, It
Speaker 1: was kind of this is where I am now because
Speaker 1: I had a first record. I had four singles on
Speaker 1: the radio. My first record is called Rayue Song, and
Speaker 1: we got up all night on the radio. We got
Speaker 1: to number ten, and that let me get my album
Speaker 1: out and my first record. Literally once he got on
Speaker 1: iTunes and people started listening to it, We're selling out clubs.
Speaker 1: We're selling out clubs with with We're we're out selling
Speaker 1: people with number one. But and then you know that
Speaker 1: it was just kind of fun and you got that
Speaker 1: that crowd singing back with songs that were just on
Speaker 1: the on the record, you know, and and and it's
Speaker 1: still to this day we play songs about that first rick.
Speaker 1: But four years being on radio tour, you know, two
Speaker 1: down twelve January, Miss You Crazy comes out. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got it already, got it, you know, we got it,
Speaker 1: got it. We we got the whole story down then
Speaker 1: up all night and that was into down fourteen here
Speaker 1: up all night, this is the jam too. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come back to this, but yeah, this is one. When
Speaker 1: I moved to town, I think this had had lived
Speaker 1: its life and had gone away, but was still one
Speaker 1: that people were kind of in love with. Still this
Speaker 1: is this is one turn up, a little bit of
Speaker 1: the wrong baby, that's a good one. Do you still
Speaker 1: like that one? Yeah? We played, we still played. I
Speaker 1: still like what I can't put down? That was right?
Speaker 1: That was right before up all night and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is it. It's there's the one, you know, but
Speaker 1: it just it didn't you know, test well and people
Speaker 1: played it, but it got the thirty three and then
Speaker 1: we put up on I know, and uh, we have
Speaker 1: to put the album out, and which is a big
Speaker 1: deal because you have to have some momentum in that
Speaker 1: single for them to go okay, well, now put some
Speaker 1: money behind over a full album. And it was a
Speaker 1: full album, had eleven songs on it, and it changed
Speaker 1: the van life basically. And so but what my point
Speaker 1: is of California Sunrise, there's four years of writing and
Speaker 1: being on the radio. Regardless of what you know, I
Speaker 1: still was always top forty because I still have believers
Speaker 1: in country radio. No matter how high, what failures, whatever it,
Speaker 1: I still believe, like we got in. The label was
Speaker 1: always like it's not a race, it's a it's a marathon.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta take your time and like just
Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. You believe that what is happening. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I never really got two worked up about
Speaker 1: it because you know, if you did listen to what
Speaker 1: I was doing, it was kind of it was kind
Speaker 1: of different. You know, it was country, but it was upbeat,
Speaker 1: but it was the country, and um, I kind of
Speaker 1: came into my own like I'm still growing up. I
Speaker 1: was only I got signed at twenty six, and I know,
Speaker 1: I don't even know, I don't even know, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: But I was still growing up as like a into
Speaker 1: a young man, into a man, and I got to
Speaker 1: do that with the record label and kind of under
Speaker 1: the radar, you know, not not like just boom, here
Speaker 1: I am world. I kind of got to learn it
Speaker 1: all and and not be like the in the headliner,
Speaker 1: you know, where it's just like because you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: like boom, I'm here, and it wasn't like that for me.
Speaker 1: And then I kind of became this, you know, this
Speaker 1: is this is who I am. When California Sunrise came out,
Speaker 1: and I had friends on the works of radio, friends
Speaker 1: that listen to my music. People are giving me great
Speaker 1: advice and all that just through hard Word and what
Speaker 1: California Sunrise with me is like, this is what I
Speaker 1: this is the new take on that. Four years of
Speaker 1: radio touring, country fiddle steel, you know, all this stuff
Speaker 1: I love And it was just at that point. I
Speaker 1: remember you posted the Instagram video probably two years ago,
Speaker 1: and it was at a festival and the entire crowd
Speaker 1: was singing head over boots, remember messaging going good God,
Speaker 1: like it's a this is amazing like that. They were
Speaker 1: singing all of it. Watershed it was Watershed, yeah, and
Speaker 1: George Comma Washington, yeah, and it was the Gorge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Gorge. I probably spelled him wrong. It was so
Speaker 1: excit is it Gorge not George. No, it's the Gorge.
Speaker 1: I've played that. I played Watershed. I thought it was
Speaker 1: George Washington. I thought it was the Gorge and George.
Speaker 1: I mean it's cooler George Washington. I always thought that
Speaker 1: was the thing. I was like, named George Washington. Did
Speaker 1: you ever think that, my dear, Oh, it is called
Speaker 1: the Gorge. I thought it was the Gorge and George anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. But moving on, I were watching that
Speaker 1: video and going, oh, this is now arrived on kind
Speaker 1: of a macro level. No, it's not just a song
Speaker 1: that it's cool is gonna come and go like it's
Speaker 1: still the one when you have a whole thirty people
Speaker 1: singing every word of it. Give me some of that again.
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole crowd was out of their minds
Speaker 1: singing this song. Bonkers. It was fun. That was the
Speaker 1: That was the first that was probably one of the
Speaker 1: most surreal, like, wow, this is the first you know
Speaker 1: you kind of get emotional and stuff, and it was
Speaker 1: that was that was really cool. And uh I was
Speaker 1: always remember that because that here we go with him words,
Speaker 1: but that slot, um was we finally got, you know
Speaker 1: a little later on and like Merle Haggett was supposed
Speaker 1: to play either I think right in front of me
Speaker 1: or right behind me. I don't know. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, but he passed like two months before and
Speaker 1: then then came out and played before us, and it
Speaker 1: was like kind of crazy that like with that moment
Speaker 1: and Merle hagg was, you know, gonna play right for me,
Speaker 1: which probably would have been like, no, Merle not playing
Speaker 1: before me, but it's like he just passed it, and
Speaker 1: it was It's one of those things like dang, you
Speaker 1: know uh from that crowd and that kind of just
Speaker 1: that introspective me and Merle would have played together and
Speaker 1: it didn't happen. You know, It's one of the moments
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. Yeah, it's a good one, just watching
Speaker 1: it so that that hits. And then it was like,
Speaker 1: all right, what's happened next with John Party? He had
Speaker 1: head over Boots. Shirley's not gonna put another song with
Speaker 1: Boots in it? And then boy did you ever? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm taking I mean, and you raised it. I
Speaker 1: mean you saw Boots and you raised that funkier Boots. Man.
Speaker 1: What's that conversation like where you go, all right, well,
Speaker 1: you got another song that we love, but it's name
Speaker 1: is basically the same thing. What do we do? Is
Speaker 1: that a room conversation? Everybody's sitting around, Um, well, I
Speaker 1: you know, I researched a lot. I you know, I listened.
Speaker 1: You know. iTunes is great because they have like they
Speaker 1: have you know, things like playlists of like a you know,
Speaker 1: new mean artists from all the top of the levels,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm always like listening and stuff and
Speaker 1: and so like I do pay attention. And I pointed
Speaker 1: out that Keith Urban had too. He had at that
Speaker 1: year he had cop car and then somewhere in my
Speaker 1: car and I was like, well, there's there's another car song,
Speaker 1: another Boot song out, you know. And my favorite was
Speaker 1: the president of of Universal, Mike Dungan, was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't care about back back boot songs. I care
Speaker 1: about back to back hits. That's literally what he said.
Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, put it out. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: I always say that. Everybody asked me. It's like I
Speaker 1: wear boots all the time. I wear on boots right now.
Speaker 1: So it's not it's not like something that it is
Speaker 1: a just a thing. You know. I have a lot
Speaker 1: of boots. And I look at that two Boots song
Speaker 1: gonna row, you know, look at that hit after a hit.
Speaker 1: He started, So when did you go from the vand
Speaker 1: of the tour bus. That's a big step in in
Speaker 1: the life because the tour bus expensive. Yeah, well they're
Speaker 1: still expensive. Two of them are really how you got
Speaker 1: two now? Humble brack right there? Oh, it's so expensive
Speaker 1: good too? It really is it? Really? Uh? Now up
Speaker 1: at the end of the year went up. All night
Speaker 1: was was peaked and we started going in and we
Speaker 1: started selling records and kind of selling out clubs. We've
Speaker 1: got our bus. Uh it was fun. You know what
Speaker 1: the wrap is on you is that. And we have
Speaker 1: similar team members and so we have people that are
Speaker 1: close to us and they're they're work together and they're like, man,
Speaker 1: that John Party is one of the hardest working guys.
Speaker 1: Like that is what you're known for, and that's cool.
Speaker 1: I think it's cool because that's what I'm known for.
Speaker 1: Just work. That's all you do. Which but for me,
Speaker 1: like I I see the effort and I go, man,
Speaker 1: like a lot of respect. You grind, grind, you grind,
Speaker 1: and I say this as respectful as possible, Like you
Speaker 1: grind hard and then you post picture your girlfriends but
Speaker 1: on Instagram, Hey, it's too that in eighteen I mean
Speaker 1: that in all sincerity, Like you you know from one
Speaker 1: guy who just grinds it out. I think you grind
Speaker 1: with more talent than I have. But you grind it, man,
Speaker 1: You you go hard, and that's what everybody. That's the story.
Speaker 1: People love you and they go, man, we just root
Speaker 1: for him because he works so hard. He's one of
Speaker 1: these guys that doesn't take anything for granted and and
Speaker 1: you know, puts it all out there. I try not
Speaker 1: to have to mean, you know, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: what you see is what you get. And from Instagram,
Speaker 1: two songs and to working hard, it's it's all about
Speaker 1: how I was raised and and things that Joel, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think the more honest you people, more honest
Speaker 1: you are with fans these days, with social media and everything,
Speaker 1: is the more that you're gonna they're gonna know that,
Speaker 1: like this guy is real. I mean this, you know,
Speaker 1: I love like in summer was funny about the whole
Speaker 1: but thing I was like, by the way John posted
Speaker 1: a picture of his we we all both broke the Internet.
Speaker 1: I was scrolling through my pictures, right, I mean, I'm hitting,
Speaker 1: I'm scrolling and I see like a thong. But and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what one of my friends because I don't
Speaker 1: follow anything about accounts, and I was like, what's my
Speaker 1: friends post? I was like jump posting a picture of
Speaker 1: his girlfriends and I was like, holy crap, that's John's
Speaker 1: girlfriend's butt, Like right up, on the camera. So she's
Speaker 1: laying uh tanning in a bikini. Yeah, and do you say, hey,
Speaker 1: m I take a picture of your butt posting online
Speaker 1: And I was like, hey, it's cool if I posted.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, we had a little bit of vodka
Speaker 1: at the time. But it's all right, we're a day off,
Speaker 1: We're we're just chilling at the pool. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not my fault that the new high cup bait bikinis
Speaker 1: are so in style. I mean, you didn't make the bikini, don't.
Speaker 1: You don't set the trends. I'm not setting the trends.
Speaker 1: You did. So the internet starts to go all the heads.
Speaker 1: Do you get any text from your buddies or anybody
Speaker 1: at the label going what are you doing post some
Speaker 1: butts on your Instagram? No, actually got a lot of
Speaker 1: likes people and from everywhere managing in the only thing
Speaker 1: my manager was like, well, don't comment back. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like whatever, I was just messing with people.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's there, you know, regardless of what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do, there's always gonna be some negativity. But
Speaker 1: there was there was a lot of like it's somewhere
Speaker 1: we go through the commas, and our favorite was which
Speaker 1: my husband Pop pitched from my butt on Instagram. Right,
Speaker 1: and obviously you know I got a girl. I got
Speaker 1: a girlfriend. Now she's got a great butt. Like here
Speaker 1: it is, I'm not lying, right, you're being honest, honest
Speaker 1: with the people. How's that going? By the way's their girlfriend?
Speaker 1: She's great? I mean it's it's the first time that
Speaker 1: you realize you you found somebody great. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a tough that's a tough thing for a man
Speaker 1: to be, Like, I could be good when you when
Speaker 1: you're so used to being bad. But I've been super
Speaker 1: respectful to her, and we we don't fight, and we
Speaker 1: do everything together and we talk about things. That's a
Speaker 1: big thing to talk about things, to talk about things,
Speaker 1: and it's never on a high level. It's always on
Speaker 1: a very even even and like calm because she's so calm,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's been an eye opener for me. So
Speaker 1: we have fun and we live it to the fullest.
Speaker 1: And and you know, we we'd like to. We don't
Speaker 1: argue about things. Were like the same things. We're both
Speaker 1: from California and out west. You know, it's just it's
Speaker 1: a whole different kind of thing out there, and but
Speaker 1: I love the South too, so it's kind of like
Speaker 1: I said, I grew up here too, so there's both
Speaker 1: both worlds. You know. It's funny about northern California because
Speaker 1: I spend a good amount of time. I might actually
Speaker 1: wanta te This weekend, I'm doing two comedy shows, one
Speaker 1: in Sacramento, one in Bakersfield, and so I spend a
Speaker 1: good amount of time nor the California. But it's probably
Speaker 1: the closest thing to the South in form of people.
Speaker 1: The people are very similar, and I think that's why
Speaker 1: that I have embraced them and they have embraced me
Speaker 1: so much because the sensibilities are very similar. They love
Speaker 1: country too, they love country music, but they're they're real people,
Speaker 1: and the southern California is tough for me. I'm not
Speaker 1: a big Los Angeles guy. Everything feels a little plastic
Speaker 1: to me. It's a good place to visit. The weather
Speaker 1: is good, and I get I also get carsick, like bait. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like Northern California though, like the people, there's some
Speaker 1: hospitality there. Maybe maybe that's what it is. Everybody's just
Speaker 1: so aspitable it They're really hard workers out there. And
Speaker 1: and most of my my my friends and the towns
Speaker 1: that you know, my mom lives and sheets from Winners,
Speaker 1: my dad's from Dixon is two small towns and right
Speaker 1: next to each other. Most of all my friends got
Speaker 1: a jobs and they're working hard, and and they're struggling
Speaker 1: just to find a house because real estate is so
Speaker 1: higher out there, and and it's just but they're still
Speaker 1: working and they work hard, and they chase their dreams.
Speaker 1: And I feel like like any you know that blue
Speaker 1: collar red neck you know, not even you don't have
Speaker 1: to be ready to work at a bank. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's still like in all involved in that area is
Speaker 1: it's like let's you know, go get it, you know.
Speaker 1: And I feel like the South is a lot like
Speaker 1: that too, and and there's nice people and and uh
Speaker 1: the only thing with Nashville now is it's like you
Speaker 1: gets spoiled here with food. So care food. Yeah it's
Speaker 1: too good a food. You go back, you go back home.
Speaker 1: I was like, where are we going? Babble Bees? Like
Speaker 1: you know, but there's and great, that's some great little restaurants.
Speaker 1: Said I go to back home to you and what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but it's funny because back in the day
Speaker 1: when I moved in Nashville was like the Longhorn Roots
Speaker 1: Chris was we were going out, you know, that was
Speaker 1: we were going there. Wasn't you know Caine Priyan or
Speaker 1: Jeff Rubies or like all these like independent restaurants and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how I'm talking about restaurants, but
Speaker 1: I used to go to a place called Bonanza and
Speaker 1: um Hot Springs, Arkansas. That was town from Mountain Pine,
Speaker 1: seven hundred people. We had to go to town to
Speaker 1: get town stuff like Walmart and Bonanza. It's got a
Speaker 1: place called Bonanza. And the art of the salad bar,
Speaker 1: I feel has been lost a bit lately. At nice restaurants,
Speaker 1: they had the greatest salad bar. I crush a sala bar. Hey,
Speaker 1: when I moved to Nashville, if you would have asked me,
Speaker 1: what what's your idea of a great night and a
Speaker 1: great restaurant all garden all day, I just still me
Speaker 1: too super well. I think my car got busted into
Speaker 1: Memphis Alive Garden like eight months ago, but I stopped
Speaker 1: All Garden. I wanted it so bad. The super and salad,
Speaker 1: the bread rolls, everything is good at Aden I think too,
Speaker 1: the thing birthday dinner at all. I think the things
Speaker 1: that we liked and that we found were special when
Speaker 1: we were growing up are still special to us. For example,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's simple stuff, you know, but it was great,
Speaker 1: uh red lobster to me once a year my family,
Speaker 1: you know, poor family. We we went to town have
Speaker 1: one dinner a year, and it was a red lobster
Speaker 1: every year. And because of that, I still drop out
Speaker 1: red Lobster and go. I love that place just because
Speaker 1: of that. That was That's a special place for me,
Speaker 1: and so I still go. But I think samething with
Speaker 1: Alive Garden, like, I really don't even know how good
Speaker 1: Alive Garden is anymore because I still go and I
Speaker 1: just enjoy it because what it used to tastes like
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's good anymore. If I went
Speaker 1: into it today, it's still pretty good and I still
Speaker 1: eat it today, but I wouldn't know if if I
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Speaker 1: I want to bring up this story about you getting
Speaker 1: I did. I didn't know. Um, I feel like I
Speaker 1: knew everything about you already. I'm stalker, a big John
Speaker 1: Party fan. Yeah, but I know you got stabbed uh
Speaker 1: in the belly? Yeah five times? Oh, I didn't see.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know it's five times. So you're you're
Speaker 1: You're like a bar No. I was eighteen, so the
Speaker 1: the first two are just slices on the arm. But okay,
Speaker 1: so where were you. I was out in the country
Speaker 1: and I was at my one of my best friends,
Speaker 1: and we were two towns that we're not rivals, which
Speaker 1: just you know, you always kind of have bad kids
Speaker 1: in in your town. Man, there's always the guys that
Speaker 1: always get in trouble or fight, you know, and Uh
Speaker 1: in this town and I won't name towns or anything. Um,
Speaker 1: he got jumped by my hometown by guys I didn't
Speaker 1: even know. But he found out that I was from
Speaker 1: my hometown. And you know, we had a great time
Speaker 1: at this party. I met a bunch of new people
Speaker 1: and we were high. You know. I was nice to
Speaker 1: meet you. We gotta go. We're leaving, and uh, he
Speaker 1: was waiting outside for me, and he was like having
Speaker 1: me pinned out. And I was walking back to the
Speaker 1: to the car and he came up and asked me
Speaker 1: where I was from, and I told where I was from.
Speaker 1: I said, yes, you know, and he popped me in
Speaker 1: the mouth, knocked me down, yeah, busting my lip. I
Speaker 1: got back up and I started, you know, I started
Speaker 1: fighting him, you know. And it wasn't he said, he
Speaker 1: got scared and pulled a knife out, but he started
Speaker 1: to fight, you know, and and uh, I ended up
Speaker 1: with losing that fight. You know. He you know, he's
Speaker 1: just swinging. You know, I'm not like a trained karate
Speaker 1: man or something. You know, I was just swinging. I
Speaker 1: just it's you know, that adrenaline at eighteens like ah.
Speaker 1: And then I didn't even know I got stabbed, and
Speaker 1: um my buddy came and broke up the fight and
Speaker 1: pushed me back in his hands full of blood. And
Speaker 1: then that was like the beginning of the ride to
Speaker 1: the hospital. So what happens. So we're in the country
Speaker 1: and my my, my buddy, he's now firefire to paramedic.
Speaker 1: But he was always trying to be a firefighter paramedics.
Speaker 1: So he's like, I'll drive. We're going to hospital. So
Speaker 1: he's like he knew the back roads. So we're like
Speaker 1: screaming down his back roads. Girls are screaming and crying,
Speaker 1: calling nurses, and like the nurse through the phone was like,
Speaker 1: you know, compressing the wounds. Took my shirt off, blood everywhere.
Speaker 1: You got to have a part of your belly. Leven,
Speaker 1: it's eleven inches across the center. Oh, he stuck it
Speaker 1: and then went across and I got to right on
Speaker 1: the left side. Wow, so you're bleeding pretty hard. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: we were bleeding and we were bleeding. Um. The first
Speaker 1: hospital we stopped at didn't have emergency room. It was
Speaker 1: like an animal hospital I at the time, they didn't
Speaker 1: have emergency room. So we had to drive I don't know,
Speaker 1: fifteen miles to U C. Davis and we got there
Speaker 1: and they didn't even know what do mean that? Like
Speaker 1: there's not ever a feeling you want to go through
Speaker 1: when you're like going into like the sports e er
Speaker 1: and like just a guy in the football paths like
Speaker 1: busted arm and like you know, hold hold. It was
Speaker 1: just kind of very calm injuries and where I busted
Speaker 1: to the door, like you know, like he's dad. It's
Speaker 1: just blood everywhere. Like I couldn't imagine being in a
Speaker 1: lobby and like, oh my god, this guy comes in here.
Speaker 1: There's blood everywhere. Um. And so they kind of did
Speaker 1: some tests on me, like for visual and like asking
Speaker 1: me like you know, they wanted me to pee and
Speaker 1: try to see if there's blood in the ear and
Speaker 1: the kind of see if they caught any into an
Speaker 1: organs and I couldn't pee. I she was kind of
Speaker 1: cute nurse and was like She's just sitting there like
Speaker 1: pee and I'm like I can't pee right now, Like
Speaker 1: stop it stop, I'll be fine. Uh. And so they
Speaker 1: sent me off Sacramento and ambulance and man, I was
Speaker 1: it's and then you know, going from that like kind
Speaker 1: of sports and you're not saying that they always get
Speaker 1: anybody will get bad things in the art, but when
Speaker 1: you got to a big city like Sacramento, man, there
Speaker 1: was it was people were shot. One girls to the
Speaker 1: side of me got chopped up by a bulb appeller.
Speaker 1: One girls just grabs the curtain says how back. How man?
Speaker 1: It was like literally like I said't I was in
Speaker 1: like this is where it goes down, like what you
Speaker 1: see on you know, drama hospital movie or you know
Speaker 1: television shows, and uh and the doctor was like, oh, Victor,
Speaker 1: you know, and he like put his glove on, put
Speaker 1: like put his fingers inside of my wounds and and
Speaker 1: just kind of felt muscle. You knew you could like
Speaker 1: fill any my organs, and uh, they stitched me up.
Speaker 1: And then the next day I was out and I
Speaker 1: had to have a nurse come to the house and
Speaker 1: pack my We stitched him an inch apart so we'd
Speaker 1: pack alcohol gauze down in the wound so it grew
Speaker 1: from the bottom up, so you know, you didn't just
Speaker 1: have a big hole inside your your stomach. So we
Speaker 1: had to pack wounds for I don't know. It was
Speaker 1: a long time ago, but would you ever do that
Speaker 1: dude to get whatever happened to that dude? Um, they jump,
Speaker 1: he's still happening in town. They're still pay half on
Speaker 1: each other. Everyone. Um, you know he uh he got
Speaker 1: away with he has a phony and he got away with.
Speaker 1: Um I saw it with that weaplin a deadly weapon.
Speaker 1: And uh, two years later, you know, I was I
Speaker 1: needed some money, and there was some he he got
Speaker 1: a job and he offered to pay the restitution, and
Speaker 1: uh and all realness, like he looked at me like
Speaker 1: he messed up, Like that's I didn't talk to him,
Speaker 1: but you know, it was just kind of that moment
Speaker 1: because I'm like, you know, we're all young, you know.
Speaker 1: I I'm just thankful to be alive basically and not
Speaker 1: peeing out of a bag for the rest of my life,
Speaker 1: you know, because there was there was that option, and uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know that's what what's that option? I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: you guys terrible. You get cut cut right, you know,
Speaker 1: and your your center and your all your organs. I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's that's that's what somebody told me.
Speaker 1: But that may not even be true. But regardless, I survived.
Speaker 1: I didn't die. Nothing really bad happened. I got big
Speaker 1: scars across my stomach um, and I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I was getting ready to moving Nashville. You know that
Speaker 1: that would help out with the whole move, you know.
Speaker 1: And uh, he paid me like I don't know, eight
Speaker 1: or nine grand and and uh I got to keep it,
Speaker 1: and he got he got a little life of a felony,
Speaker 1: which isn't easy and um, but I didn't you know
Speaker 1: it was No. I think we both moved on and
Speaker 1: he's looking for better things, you know. In that guy's
Speaker 1: name at Dirk S. Bentley and that's how I met
Speaker 1: Dirk's Bentley And that's the rest of the story. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and how about that? That's crazy, huh. It happens.
Speaker 1: Happens to a lot of people around around the world,
Speaker 1: you know, and you always think, man, never happened to me,
Speaker 1: but it sneaks up on you. So what are you
Speaker 1: doing right now in musical are you? Are you creating music?
Speaker 1: I know you're writing, like, well, what happens right now?
Speaker 1: You know, you have the last single on the record
Speaker 1: that's on the radio now, and you're looking forward to
Speaker 1: a new record next year. You have some songs already recorded,
Speaker 1: you have worked out, like where are you now in
Speaker 1: the process of eight teen songs recorded? Well, you recorded
Speaker 1: like fully, fully full studio recorded. If you wanted to,
Speaker 1: you could put that album this week if I wanted to, know,
Speaker 1: I had to sing vocals, and it's been hard with
Speaker 1: touring and analogies and flaming and stuff. So they're all tracked,
Speaker 1: so they all this music, all the songs are down,
Speaker 1: the musicians recorded that, you just haven't sang on them yet.
Speaker 1: But we're you know, we're gonna have to windle them down.
Speaker 1: We're still still writing, you know, still you know, looking
Speaker 1: still kind of trying to see what the next movie is.
Speaker 1: But we're taking our time because we have time and
Speaker 1: there's no need the rush. That we don't need the rush,
Speaker 1: but our goals to get you know, at all kind
Speaker 1: of figured out by January Favruary. That way we get,
Speaker 1: we turn it into the label and like, hey, we
Speaker 1: really could use like a June you know, release state
Speaker 1: and kind of say like we're ready, Danny good or not.
Speaker 1: They're great, Yeah, they're great. Feel good about him? It's yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I feel it's guy. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a little more countrier, but if it's upbeat, and
Speaker 1: and that's the thing it's it's it's still the same,
Speaker 1: but it's it's just a little country. What are people
Speaker 1: gonna say when they hear the record? We're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this new John Party album. We'll just call it right now,
Speaker 1: John Party's Birthday, This new John Party Birthday album. It's
Speaker 1: it's blank. Whenever they finally get to hear the new stuff,
Speaker 1: they're gonna say, wait, it's blank. They're gonna say it's
Speaker 1: fun in his country is different. Um. I feel like
Speaker 1: as an artist like John Mayor just pulled. She just
Speaker 1: posted something about songwrite it was great, you know, and
Speaker 1: well I was reading it two or before we came
Speaker 1: with me. Read it was great, and it was talking
Speaker 1: about doing your own thing and being you because that's
Speaker 1: what people want to remember you for. It was something
Speaker 1: that I don't know. Yeah, it was a reminder that
Speaker 1: he posted to himself. It says songwriting reminders to myself.
Speaker 1: This is from John Mayer's Instagram. Be brave. You're not
Speaker 1: here to line up behind what's cool. You're here to
Speaker 1: share what you truly love, even if people aren't into
Speaker 1: it at the moment. Walk alone and gather a line
Speaker 1: behind you. That's pretty cool, he said. Seeing real words,
Speaker 1: even if they're nonsense, they usually hold subconscious truths. Number three,
Speaker 1: write lyrics and total silence for at least twenty minutes
Speaker 1: a day. If you're cool, your beats are cool. Everyone
Speaker 1: is beat shy. I felt like he has some real
Speaker 1: I think the rhythm on your California Sunrise super strong.
Speaker 1: There's lots of rhythm on next, a lot more so.
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people would have expected
Speaker 1: of a John Party record. I think all about grooving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's gotta groove I love. I mean, I can
Speaker 1: play the drums. I'm not good, but you know I
Speaker 1: still feel like that in your drummer. Whenever you get
Speaker 1: a good beat by a great drummer, you're like lip
Speaker 1: rises up and you want to go yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like um, but this when I saw this today, all
Speaker 1: you know, all my kind of like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: hard being traditional, but this record is is upbeat in
Speaker 1: it and it it's in a different like. It goes
Speaker 1: to number one on John Mayer's Instagram. Be brave. You're
Speaker 1: not here to line up behind what's cool. Here to
Speaker 1: share what you truly love, even if people aren't into
Speaker 1: it at the moment, walk alone and gather a line
Speaker 1: behind you. When I read that, I was like I
Speaker 1: needed that, thanks brother, John. Yeah, isn't it too. Whenever
Speaker 1: you have like minded people. I find this with one
Speaker 1: of my one of my friends who does radio and television,
Speaker 1: that whenever you share your insecurities and even we'll call
Speaker 1: them problems with what you do that they often relate
Speaker 1: and you go, oh, I'm not alone, like I would
Speaker 1: like that. Walk alone and gather a line behind you.
Speaker 1: I would got I would have to think someone like
Speaker 1: you who you definitely have your own style. At times
Speaker 1: you gonna like, boy, this is it's kind of risk.
Speaker 1: But walk alone and gather a line behind you, which
Speaker 1: John Merrod, I would think you would relate to that
Speaker 1: a bit. Yeah, and and and this records you know
Speaker 1: it's more country. But we're never not thinking about being
Speaker 1: played on the radio, like there's something you know, like there,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do my own thing. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't need radio blah blah like they I've just heard
Speaker 1: that too many times. It's like, no, my dream was
Speaker 1: always be played on the radio. But I have to
Speaker 1: be me, you know, I have to you kind of
Speaker 1: have to meet that best of both worlds where he's like,
Speaker 1: this is it. This is the one that that I
Speaker 1: want to hear on the radio. Who do you call
Speaker 1: if you're like, man, I'm struggling artist wise, you're are
Speaker 1: just man, let me let me ask you some advice.
Speaker 1: Who what artists would you call that's kind of taking
Speaker 1: you under the wing or you've grown up with in
Speaker 1: Nashville where you could actually lean on them for advice. Um,
Speaker 1: Dirk Spiley, Luke Bryan. I mean, Thomas Rhett's really great
Speaker 1: because you know, he's he's a guy that that figured
Speaker 1: you know, he had started out with like that kind
Speaker 1: of redneck rock and stuff and then he kind of
Speaker 1: changed this whole world into this whole kind of almost
Speaker 1: j T a little bit, but you know, and he's
Speaker 1: doing great, but like he's still a huge fan of
Speaker 1: my music. And like we wrote together and we just
Speaker 1: kind of hung out and try to write a song.
Speaker 1: We got a verse into course and and we just
Speaker 1: kind of talked about where we were, you know, because
Speaker 1: me and Tomas went way back. We played acoustic together,
Speaker 1: both had long hair, and uh it. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just those moments that are like our release, you know,
Speaker 1: and I haven't really you know, I've had great a
Speaker 1: lot of my label I'll ask for advice from and
Speaker 1: of course Dirks and Luke and everybody, but um, I
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time just figured it out, you know,
Speaker 1: and then Instagram stuff like that's my favorite, Like when
Speaker 1: I when it was really awesome. And actually Jared Jared Johnson,
Speaker 1: he's he. I followed John and Jared he posts he
Speaker 1: reposted it and I started really, I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is great. And um so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that you kind of remember and I
Speaker 1: think that that post is something that thing will always
Speaker 1: kind of be burned in my brains. Vulnerable Luke. Luke
Speaker 1: told me a great line back in the day, and
Speaker 1: it was right when some some didn't work out and
Speaker 1: and he told me, the longer it takes more time
Speaker 1: you get to figure it out. I was like that,
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good, you know, and I kind of
Speaker 1: kept that with me and figured it out. That's another
Speaker 1: guy too, who is as country as could possibly be.
Speaker 1: He had is able to do some really progressive stuff
Speaker 1: and nobody really questions how country is and they showed
Speaker 1: it because he is. Yeah, you know, he's able to
Speaker 1: really be on both sides of it like he is
Speaker 1: who he is. Uh yeah, I mean that's I see
Speaker 1: a lot of you and that. I mean he's hutting,
Speaker 1: fishing them and every day man and that. But that's Luke,
Speaker 1: that is he and he's always fishing, he's always doing
Speaker 1: something on tour and he's working. He's a workaholic too.
Speaker 1: I mean he he has to work. He's so mean.
Speaker 1: Fifty six million dollars last year. He's doing good. I
Speaker 1: spent a much time in Luke. Ain't no different look
Speaker 1: now than was three years ago. Still goes the fly
Speaker 1: rods and and fishing trips. Look at that. I don't
Speaker 1: even know. I don't even know. It's it's fun to
Speaker 1: watch you kind of you know, take take control of
Speaker 1: this thing. And you never really have control. But like
Speaker 1: you're freaking John Party now. And I met you. You
Speaker 1: were John Party. This is other people. You've always been you,
Speaker 1: but now you're walking around people like freaking John Party.
Speaker 1: That's cool, man, It's cool. Yeah, I love it. I
Speaker 1: just respect what you do. Mom was looking for the
Speaker 1: next move and and and it is have been stressful.
Speaker 1: It has been stressful just with time being on tour,
Speaker 1: not having new new music to play and and having
Speaker 1: a bunch of songs and not being done with that
Speaker 1: batch to really start carving in your your final track
Speaker 1: list and so we're not there yet and that that's
Speaker 1: it's very stressful. But this week, you know, painting the deck,
Speaker 1: organizing the tools, getting the pressure wash your route, mowing
Speaker 1: the lawns, and just kind of doing that. It's really
Speaker 1: just kind of really helped. And and and the reason
Speaker 1: I kind of just give that advice to anybody is
Speaker 1: like I picked up the guitar to day and I
Speaker 1: had that feeling of like, man, I missed just playing
Speaker 1: the guitar by myself, you know, and just and sometimes
Speaker 1: you lose that when you pick it up every night
Speaker 1: and you you get in your singior songs every night,
Speaker 1: and you come back and you're tired and you gotta
Speaker 1: do it all over again. So it's really good to
Speaker 1: put it down and just remember that that's a special
Speaker 1: bond that you have with that guitar and songwriting, and
Speaker 1: that's that's that magic that I felt it in the
Speaker 1: day and it was awesome, Like at as we've done
Speaker 1: an hour, it's in here talking. It's very selful. That
Speaker 1: was a solful hour because how we ended on such
Speaker 1: a poignant note, poignant party. Hey, I can I can
Speaker 1: get down. I can get down. I have no doubt.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to do some self healing and talk
Speaker 1: about things. And I feel like, yeah, you know, Summers,
Speaker 1: another person that taught me, like we really have to
Speaker 1: talk about things because uh, you know, going from being
Speaker 1: single maniac single artists too, you know, trying to make
Speaker 1: things work. You know, it's honesty and talking about things.
Speaker 1: And she's she's really showed me a lot. So that's
Speaker 1: good man. You know she'll be listening. Look at you,
Speaker 1: look at your self healing. I did something I went
Speaker 1: to on site. You know that place you ever heard of?
Speaker 1: That place like a little therapy camp self field, self field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't let them. I'll let yourself love though they
Speaker 1: have to get the rules walked out six ft dollar film. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did feel good four days. I didn't know writing,
Speaker 1: no anything. I just went and do like therapy. But
Speaker 1: it was the same thing. It was like I didn't
Speaker 1: write anything while I was there. I have a phone
Speaker 1: that took my phone, took my computer, no TV. And
Speaker 1: so you do all this and you go back like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I forget how much actually enjoy like creating things.
Speaker 1: It's a good good break. Well, listen to my friend.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to you know, we'll do this again
Speaker 1: whenever you got some new stuff at night shift. Now
Speaker 1: I'm here a little more this night shift. One of
Speaker 1: my friends, co writer of the song tofer. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: proud of this. I love the song. It's a great song.
Speaker 1: Jam We're getting ray shoot the music video. Are you
Speaker 1: at Night? At Night Downtown nash alright, had John Party Picks.
Speaker 1: That's is that the name at John Party Picks? John
Speaker 1: p I c s like John Party Pictures? Is that
Speaker 1: what the inspiration? Yeah? I should I should change that.
Speaker 1: But at the time I thought it was cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, being new to Instagram, who like that? It
Speaker 1: was like when Instagram kind of first started. Who knew
Speaker 1: what was gonna be like? But it was fun. And
Speaker 1: I don't know who need to be posting the thong,
Speaker 1: but hey, there is so much booty on Instagram that
Speaker 1: that should not be an issue. All right, John Party,
Speaker 1: good to see my friend. Alright, everybody, everybody, no, no,
Speaker 1: this only record this. Let's go it back myself, no
Speaker 1: one else, Here's this just me. Hey, I've I've had
Speaker 1: a lot of friends and people in the business truly
Speaker 1: say that they really enjoy your podcast. I was excited too.
Speaker 1: I forgot because I was working. I forgot to text
Speaker 1: you that I was excited about coming over here. But
Speaker 1: I was I was covering in brown paint. All right,
Speaker 1: I want thank you very much. We'll see you next time.