Speaker 1: What's something. You're out in God's Country with Breed and
Speaker 1: also known as the Brother's Home when we take a
Speaker 1: weekly drive to the intersection of country music and the
Speaker 1: great outdoors, two things that go together like Jamie Davis,
Speaker 1: soul Grave.
Speaker 2: Boys, Bumpy Roads in the State of Mississippi, brought to
Speaker 2: you by iHeart and Meetied Podcasts.
Speaker 1: We've got a brother from another mother on the couch today.
Speaker 1: We go way back. Dan and Jamie were in a
Speaker 1: band together for a bunch of years and and some
Speaker 1: of my first road experiences were on a van with
Speaker 1: these guys, going and watching them play gigs and figuring
Speaker 1: out cutting my teeth on stage and let me sing
Speaker 1: some songs every now and then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, there was anybody there to watch us for
Speaker 2: the first couple of years, but that that changed, so uh.
Speaker 1: And man has just been there with us and through
Speaker 1: our whole journey through Nashville and we we you know,
Speaker 1: we have some success with him, wrote our my first hit,
Speaker 1: his first hit together, kind of Love, We mate with
Speaker 1: lou and just getting to chase the stream together. It's
Speaker 1: been awesome. We're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 2: If you want a deep dive on on how songwriting
Speaker 2: works in the pursuit of it. You're gonna get it
Speaker 2: in this in this episode.
Speaker 1: Uh, he's a hit songwriting stadium guitar.
Speaker 2: Playing slinger, A bit of a guitar slinger.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Mister Jamie Davis from Mississippi, al love this one.
Speaker 2: Good hair, good hair, that's right.
Speaker 1: That's right. Thanks for hanging out with us. Go follow,
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Speaker 1: hopefully knew Guy Ray got this all recorded. He didn't
Speaker 1: get our last intro recorded.
Speaker 2: One was better.
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out Guy's Country. I hope you enjoyed
Speaker 1: the podcast. You kick this off, bro, you this is
Speaker 1: this is your boy, brow your boy. This is absolutely
Speaker 1: my boy. But I can live with you for college
Speaker 1: and you usually started this guy has molded part of
Speaker 1: your life. Yeah you so you started, mister Jamie Davis.
Speaker 1: We're all out of swords this morning where it's like
Speaker 1: nine forty five, we're supposed to be here. Now, what
Speaker 1: time do you get here?
Speaker 2: We were here, me and Jamie were here.
Speaker 1: How did you miss all that traffic?
Speaker 2: I went right through it. I thought you were ahead
Speaker 2: of me.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure that I know how I beat y'all.
Speaker 2: Here Jamie Davis on the couch in case we didn't
Speaker 2: intro him fast enough. Your listeners out.
Speaker 1: There, Mississippi. Boy, Yeah in the state, brand on the chick.
Speaker 3: Y'all like it takes me forty five minutes to get
Speaker 3: here or whatever. I'm like, it takes me three hours.
Speaker 3: Not today, but because I stayed I stayed closer to
Speaker 3: town last night.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you're still commuting, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I lived here for a while. We
Speaker 3: came up we moved to Nashville together kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And and when Marie and I got pregnant, we we
Speaker 3: went back home. All our families down there, you know.
Speaker 3: So it's all our all of our safety needed is
Speaker 3: right there in North Alabama, North Mississippi. So yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I come up here and work do the thing like
Speaker 3: y'all do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're well, we'll we'll get into that, man,
Speaker 1: j D. And both of us go Me and Dan
Speaker 1: both go way back. But Jamie was was one of
Speaker 1: your first literally first friends, and in college that gave
Speaker 1: you the fastest way.
Speaker 2: I know how to run this down is that I moved.
Speaker 2: We both had music scholarships at a at a community
Speaker 2: college there in North Missississsissippi. That was actually Jamie's hometown.
Speaker 2: I was an hour from my hometown. So when I
Speaker 2: moved in.
Speaker 1: Out campus country campus country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh we did intros. Do I remember intros?
Speaker 2: What song? I remember you playing a song and being
Speaker 2: like that, dude is cool?
Speaker 3: I think I did, like Toby Key, sorry, try out?
Speaker 3: Was it when country comes to town?
Speaker 2: Is that? Tobe?
Speaker 3: That's when country comes.
Speaker 1: Any questions, it's almost I remember the first time I
Speaker 1: ever saw you in those first those first the first
Speaker 1: days you had the it was almost like and this
Speaker 1: is not a shot at you, this is just I'm
Speaker 1: just telling a great hair.
Speaker 2: I don't care, but but it's like, yes, great hair.
Speaker 1: He had long, long hair, but it's like he put
Speaker 1: a hat on his lowsy cuts swooping and then like
Speaker 1: hair dried and like blew it around. It was like
Speaker 1: it was like the sweep.
Speaker 2: The bats, the baseball hat, sweet swoop before it was cool,
Speaker 2: it was cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was the rips up before your your
Speaker 3: hair stuff catches up with country music. You know, It's
Speaker 3: like you were was still in high school baseball player mode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know the pearl snap you have the
Speaker 1: pearl Snap, the faded you know, faded jeans with the
Speaker 1: rips and cowboy boots. Man he was, he was. It
Speaker 1: was country cool dude.
Speaker 2: So we both got it scholarship to go there and
Speaker 2: do this uh class, which is actually really cool. You
Speaker 2: would get college credit for basically gigging, Yeah, singing and
Speaker 2: playing and uh. Jerry Reins came to Savannah where all from,
Speaker 2: and presumed me with the scholarship there. It was awesome.
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't know this is happening, went northeast,
Speaker 2: but it's still kind of nervous, like just because I mean,
Speaker 2: I didn't know anybody. I didn't know he sold it
Speaker 2: not a soul. One other person from my town was
Speaker 2: in the group, so I guess I knew them. But
Speaker 2: immediately me and Jamie just kind of it came friend.
Speaker 2: You know what's really funny is the other day, Jordan
Speaker 2: goes to Costco. We don't have a membership, so we
Speaker 2: cheated so Jordan will pick up like, they have these
Speaker 2: these chicken nuggets that my kids love that are way
Speaker 2: better than anything you can get at Kroger. It's the
Speaker 2: exact ones that your mom used to cook us. You
Speaker 2: remember we used to go to your mom's chicken jocks.
Speaker 2: It is the.
Speaker 3: Yeah they're still good.
Speaker 2: It's still really good. Yeah. I had to back off, man,
Speaker 2: instead of cooking like ten, you had to cook at
Speaker 2: four otherwise I'll smoke them. Anyway. That's how long me
Speaker 2: and James go. Do you remember any of our first
Speaker 2: like hangouts, Like I remember that class we ran.
Speaker 3: We had a class together, and then I'm gonna be honest,
Speaker 3: I don't think it was like I remember a month
Speaker 3: or so in the end of the thing us writing
Speaker 3: a song on the table at my mom's house.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not so perfect, man, Yeah, but that was
Speaker 3: like we were we were in eighteen or nineteen. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember that we had been we hadn't been friends
Speaker 3: probably really that was the first song with a month
Speaker 3: where we wrote a song.
Speaker 2: I just remember it being pretty immediate, Like it wasn't
Speaker 2: like I remember us fishing, like we were fishing your
Speaker 2: grandass pond, like I mean first week of school or something.
Speaker 2: It was quick.
Speaker 3: I got a fishing story. I tell a lot about
Speaker 3: y'all's dad. Do you remember us going to catching? I
Speaker 3: guess y'all probably done this a bunch where we caught
Speaker 3: like some crawt baby crawfish or something. We're catching stripes. Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you probably you were there, but you took me. We're like, man,
Speaker 3: I got this spot, we can go catch a much
Speaker 3: fish whatever. So we get We went and got the
Speaker 3: stuff from your dad's house and he was like, now y'all,
Speaker 3: don't catch but one bucket of fish that'll feed all
Speaker 3: of us or whatever. And you and I went and
Speaker 3: we caught crawfish. We went down there and started fishing,
Speaker 3: and we were it was like by this old restaurant
Speaker 3: maybe or something. Yeah, and we were on the rocks
Speaker 3: and we started smoking them and we just kept.
Speaker 2: Just kept were supposed to do, not fish.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the limit was. I'm sure we
Speaker 3: got we just had one limit apiece, I'm sure exactly
Speaker 3: either whatever it was, whatever it was, we didn't stop.
Speaker 3: However many crawfish we had we caught, which was a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you rip them up, so you one crawfish
Speaker 1: was pretty much to fish, dude, the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: But I remember we end when we long that, and
Speaker 1: you were like, I mean, I was like, we finish
Speaker 1: catch him, and you're like, I mean, if you can fish,
Speaker 1: you can catch.
Speaker 3: Them, and I was like, who is this if I
Speaker 3: can fish? So he started sticking. Oh dude, we started
Speaker 3: sticking with always like respect. He was like, he started ripping.
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, so he can fish and I started.
Speaker 3: He was like, oh he can fish a little bit too,
Speaker 3: So we start.
Speaker 2: When you take guy fishing, yeah, absolutely, But dude, we
Speaker 2: brought back two or three buckets of fish and your
Speaker 2: dad was hot.
Speaker 1: He was like, he was like, boys, I told y'all
Speaker 1: one bucket of fish, defeat us, have fish for us.
Speaker 3: After or something. And we but we, uh, he's gonna
Speaker 3: clean all this. Oh he made us, he said. So
Speaker 3: now he said, now y'all sit here and clean every
Speaker 3: single one of these.
Speaker 1: It's like taking a guy fishing is kind of like
Speaker 1: like playing golf with the guy for the first time,
Speaker 1: Like you like you see a swing and your leader
Speaker 1: like this guy knows what he's doing, like he's played before,
Speaker 1: or man, it's gonna be a long day because we
Speaker 1: about it. He's about a hacking around the course.
Speaker 2: Man. I always say this, it's like an immediate like
Speaker 2: you know where you stand with somebody when he's got it.
Speaker 2: When you're throwing a spin, care cast and he's got
Speaker 2: it flipped over doing that.
Speaker 1: You're like, hey, man, if you if you're fishing with
Speaker 1: spin cast out there, flip flip it.
Speaker 2: A buzz bait. If you're throwing I mean, uh sorry,
Speaker 2: bake casting, bait caster. You're throwing a bait caster. You
Speaker 2: real with your left hand.
Speaker 1: Well some of them real with the right. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can flip.
Speaker 2: Oh that's true, that is true. Yeah, I have one
Speaker 2: that does that. Yeah, but anyway, spin cast is on
Speaker 2: your left, well some some go with right. It's on
Speaker 2: your left though, but you can switch. You can splitch.
Speaker 2: A spin supposed to be under either way.
Speaker 1: Its supposed to be honest, it ain't all right.
Speaker 2: Spin Yeah. If you see a guy doing this with
Speaker 2: a spind.
Speaker 1: It correcting, man, flip it over.
Speaker 3: Te him.
Speaker 2: It was that day.
Speaker 3: The respect thing was like again, we were uh cleaning
Speaker 3: those fish. It was like your dad was told us
Speaker 3: come over and he came over and checked on this
Speaker 3: and we were slapping and he's like, well, these guys,
Speaker 3: this guy's just wasn't a very good punishment. These guys,
Speaker 3: these guys clean all these fish in ten minutes.
Speaker 2: They like fish and people hate them stripe. But if
Speaker 2: you get them good and clean, and they're good fish. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not it's not a stripe. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: like a it's like a white mass, is what it is.
Speaker 2: Like a hybrid?
Speaker 1: Yeah, rock bass.
Speaker 2: I heard them call so many different things.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Those days, Man, some of the best days of fishing
Speaker 1: in my life. We're on that bank ripping those fish out.
Speaker 2: That was a particularly good and you can catch.
Speaker 1: It when that eddie was coming around that turn, and
Speaker 1: that that just that bait ball was sitting there spinning.
Speaker 1: Bro throw out the legs and you throw it deep,
Speaker 1: pull it up that lead and you better so you
Speaker 1: better get ready.
Speaker 2: There's some dudes in Savannah and Corn that are.
Speaker 3: Like, I can't believe they're putting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's well.
Speaker 3: I was like, dang, I gonna have to show now.
Speaker 3: I got to show this guy fishing spot. Yeah you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. Yeah, gave up one for me
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, I've never been back. That's
Speaker 3: the only time I ever been there.
Speaker 1: Showing brush pile and base springs probably probably or just taking.
Speaker 3: Them out of the basketball.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that we used to do that. I mean,
Speaker 2: I used to live for that. Time of year to
Speaker 2: go do that. But now it's like, I don't even
Speaker 2: know if you so. The way the whole setup, which
Speaker 2: is really fun, it's kind of it's kind of an event,
Speaker 2: which made it fun because like you had to get
Speaker 2: this crawfish rake, then you had to like kind of
Speaker 2: trespass onto these river bottom places.
Speaker 1: To they're kind of like roads.
Speaker 2: It was really now we were absolutely on someone else's
Speaker 2: land without permission. But it wasn't really trust.
Speaker 1: But everybody rake crawfish out of those, and everybody knew
Speaker 1: that the holes you went down to.
Speaker 2: And man the good ones. To me, the size was
Speaker 2: about the size. If you could get a crawfish about
Speaker 2: the size of your fingernail, dude, you could murk.
Speaker 1: The small of your fingernail.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, the smaller crawfish the better, if you want
Speaker 2: to know the truth.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean if you could use a whole one, if
Speaker 1: you could stick a hole one on there, you're definitely
Speaker 1: If it was.
Speaker 2: Big, we were just terrible half just tail you a head.
Speaker 2: I mean, god, that was some.
Speaker 1: It was fun. We used to I mean, even living
Speaker 1: up here when it was when it was right, we
Speaker 1: would drive down and spend.
Speaker 2: The night night, so we would do it. We did
Speaker 2: it a couple of times. I hadn't done it in
Speaker 2: ten years.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm not saying. I mean we should definitely
Speaker 1: go do that. Our lives have come way way farther
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, household days, dude, Jordan looked. Last night, she showed
Speaker 1: me a video of like this, like this, it was
Speaker 1: like this influencer. She was like, come check out the
Speaker 1: houseboat I live on. Of course, it looks like a
Speaker 1: million dollar spread in this house boat. And she's got a.
Speaker 2: Tough the size of yeah.
Speaker 1: And she she was and Jordan was like, yeah. She
Speaker 1: sent Dan's wife a text and said, I bet this
Speaker 1: is what house bowl. I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: pull up hype in Google nineteen eighty nine, thirty seven
Speaker 1: foot Carver and she did bro and she started flipping
Speaker 1: through there and man, it was nostalgic.
Speaker 2: Dude, it's crazy, that's been ten And I told you,
Speaker 2: I was like.
Speaker 1: She was like, I was like, we lived in I
Speaker 1: was like, that was my room, the the hole of
Speaker 1: that boat was my room for four years. And she
Speaker 1: pulled up a picture and there was those little bitty
Speaker 1: kubbies under the thing and there was a little ass
Speaker 1: claw like little it was like I called it a closet,
Speaker 1: but it was like it held a fire extinguisher, like
Speaker 1: literally that that was the purpose of it.
Speaker 4: And I stay on the several nights I cut down
Speaker 4: a rod for a for a hanging up and I
Speaker 4: had like seven things in there hung up as tied
Speaker 4: and everybody it was crazy.
Speaker 2: It must have been so fun, and there were times
Speaker 2: when it was fun, but everything kind of always smelled
Speaker 2: like diesel or our old or mold or sewage. It's
Speaker 2: like you just couldn't get away from the boat stinky.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I told Jordan. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I was like for four years, that's fourteen hundred days
Speaker 1: almost that we lived on that boat. And I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I really I loved it till I didn't love it
Speaker 1: like I loved it up until the day like I figured,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, man, I gotta do something different.
Speaker 1: At that point, it was like, all right, we got
Speaker 1: to get.
Speaker 2: Off this boat. I'm glad we got off the boat,
Speaker 2: but man, good days. Jamie spent some nights out there, dude.
Speaker 3: I spent some nights on the songs on that thing. Sure,
Speaker 3: I have to have some direct TV up out there
Speaker 3: one day and something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have you put the DIRECTORV in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I help y'all put a directory or something.
Speaker 3: It never worked while I was there, but that's probably
Speaker 3: because I used to find hook it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I used to pull Like if you saw a
Speaker 1: better direct TV box on the side of the road
Speaker 1: that somebody fell out of somebody, just a look and
Speaker 1: grab and go there and put it on the boat.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, we get mad sometimes, JD. We get mad
Speaker 1: and glad.
Speaker 2: This morning, I can go either way.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm I'm I mean, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Mad, but I got a thing.
Speaker 1: What too mad?
Speaker 2: Just tell us what it is?
Speaker 1: What's you mad?
Speaker 3: Is it you in lost? Kids?
Speaker 1: Might be your boss man? Oh your neighbors care?
Speaker 2: Tell us what you mad?
Speaker 1: A I wasn't. I'm not like mad these days, but
Speaker 1: I'm just a little chippy. I wanted to look at
Speaker 1: trail camera pictures this morning. Got on my trail camera app.
Speaker 1: Three of the cameras of the seven cameras, I got out.
Speaker 1: Need firmware updates and quit taking pictures. And that's what
Speaker 1: I'm just a little bit like, dude, do one firmware
Speaker 1: update and then when it's working, just leave it. Just
Speaker 1: leave it alone. Just leave it alone. Cell Phone cameras, man,
Speaker 1: because you want I mean, and right now you know
Speaker 1: deer growing into your you can kind of tell what
Speaker 1: they're going to become. And but you can't if your
Speaker 1: cell phone cameras don't work. And then you got to
Speaker 1: go out there. Most of them some like highalute cameras
Speaker 1: that cost seven hundred dollars. You can hit the firmware
Speaker 1: update on your phone. It'll update on the thing real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no update from like the next connection, but nothing on that.
Speaker 1: I hear the fourteen, the fourteen ones I got. You
Speaker 1: got to go out to the I think.
Speaker 2: We as a podcast could probably get a heavy consensus
Speaker 2: on try real cameras to to kind of dwindle it
Speaker 2: down to the ones that really work. So if you're
Speaker 2: using a camera that you love and it's awesome, just
Speaker 2: drop a little comment or something. Man.
Speaker 1: Everybody says the reveal is really great. Tax cam, Yeah,
Speaker 1: attack cam, I've heard that too.
Speaker 2: They're getting good reviews. I'm mad at deodorant that doesn't
Speaker 2: have the aluminum stuff in it. Okay, and here's why,
Speaker 2: because I don't like the I'm not like the old spots.
Speaker 2: Cat dude, it rips my armpits up right, So you
Speaker 2: had to puie the more expensive stuff without all the stuff.
Speaker 2: I remember you had some sensitive pits.
Speaker 3: I'm doing something. All this they got all this new all.
Speaker 2: I don't. I mean, they don't work, dude. They work,
Speaker 2: but they work for like an hour.
Speaker 3: Like I'm not going to die from the aluminum, but I'm.
Speaker 2: A sweaty dudevy stinky or like what you know. Native
Speaker 2: is what I get and the like eight twelve dollars
Speaker 2: a stick and it don't know, you gotta pay for it. Oh,
Speaker 2: don't do it. It doesn't I mean we're talking about it.
Speaker 1: Don't do it. We're talking about it.
Speaker 2: Don't do it.
Speaker 1: It just makes your pitts look like this. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I keep been wearing gray shirts.
Speaker 2: On this podcasts. Dude, you got ways. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: I'm mad at. I'm mad at paying fifteen dollars a
Speaker 2: stick for supposedly good you've if you found one of words.
Speaker 3: That's I'm on the native train right now. That's that's
Speaker 3: what everybody's doing.
Speaker 1: I don't know, well, I mean, the alternative is to
Speaker 1: not wear is go, Matthew McConaughey, is Jami. You don't
Speaker 1: play Jamie Jamie, said Matthew McConaughey. Earlier, he's like, he's like,
Speaker 1: I ain't got the home. Now everybody knows he's nowhere
Speaker 1: on Well, it's okay, I mean does he stick. No,
Speaker 1: he's not yet.
Speaker 2: It's early, but it's hot. Yeah. Yeah, I literally forgot
Speaker 2: to put together one. Well, you can put my fifty
Speaker 2: dollars stick on the charging five dollars of swat mad anything, Jamie.
Speaker 3: I started to get mad at the traffic this morning
Speaker 3: because I'm not used to that. I forget how terrible
Speaker 3: that driving into town sometimes is, because like said, we
Speaker 3: we ride at ten or eleven. I'm driving over Mississippi.
Speaker 3: In Mississippi, if it's five miles, it's five minutes, you know,
Speaker 3: even in high traffic areas. It seems like So I
Speaker 3: started getting mad at that. But that's kind of a
Speaker 3: common thing here right now. I am mad at whatever
Speaker 3: is going on with my road at my house.
Speaker 2: Oh what's happening? Like this is a good one road work.
Speaker 3: Our road's terrible. It's been terrible. You know. We we
Speaker 3: bought land there and built a house there, my wife
Speaker 3: and I and and it's just like I feel like
Speaker 3: it's eating my truck and vehicles to death, just going
Speaker 3: to home every day all the time. You know, the
Speaker 3: road is so terrible. So you know, I think whatever
Speaker 3: the supervisors we got now came by the house, you
Speaker 3: know when they're politicking and you know we're going to help,
Speaker 3: and I was like, dide, I just I just want
Speaker 3: good roads, want better road before we paid, we paid
Speaker 3: a lot of taxes, a lot of taxes, and oh man,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it, and I'm sure they are. But
Speaker 3: they came. They they worked on it the other day
Speaker 3: for however long, came by and it just like graded
Speaker 3: the road and it's like a I'm assuming they'll probably
Speaker 3: come to fix it, and I'm probably mad at nothing,
Speaker 3: but it just after a couple of rains made it
Speaker 3: worse than it already was.
Speaker 2: This is what this section is for.
Speaker 3: So now not only not only do I need a
Speaker 3: new alignment every ten trips back to my house, now
Speaker 3: my truck's getting really dirty. It was just you know, rough,
Speaker 3: but pavement, yeah, you know, like now a dirt and dust.
Speaker 3: Now they've graded it and it and the rains washed
Speaker 3: out a couple times, so the holes are worse, and
Speaker 3: now that the vehicles are nasty every time you drive down.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, man, I you know, I have a money.
Speaker 3: I have a money, muddy dirty, full war drive cool whatever.
Speaker 3: But it's like, what are you'll do?
Speaker 2: What do y'all do?
Speaker 3: I mean, hopefully they're setting up to fee. It looks
Speaker 3: like they're setting up to do it.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: But if they don't do the classick enough, if they
Speaker 2: don't do it quick enough, it starts getting bouncy and
Speaker 2: holy and yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to be mad at it, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if if maybe maybe my guy comes through,
Speaker 1: I know the guy, maybe he comes through, and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, not mad anymore.
Speaker 2: But as of today, they got some backwards payment stuff
Speaker 2: going on in Mississippy, Like for his electric bill, he
Speaker 2: has to deposit a check to the bank.
Speaker 3: Of my water bill.
Speaker 2: Water bill.
Speaker 3: They don't know.
Speaker 1: They ain't got.
Speaker 3: Direct the line, ain't no website, bro, it ain't know nothing.
Speaker 3: You you you have to your water bill. You take
Speaker 3: a check and deposit it into their account.
Speaker 2: They have a gal that comes say who deposited.
Speaker 1: It's not like I don't even know. I don't even
Speaker 1: know they know it can't boom. It's the only bill
Speaker 1: that I have in my life. It's like somebody it's
Speaker 1: like read, It's like somebody's said.
Speaker 3: For twenty twenty four. It's the only it's the only
Speaker 3: thing that I know of that you can't like pay
Speaker 3: a line or with a card or something. You know,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like you can't you do
Speaker 3: everything on your phone on your phone with Apple pay.
Speaker 2: Now you probably have to order checks just to pay
Speaker 2: your water bill. Yes, because there ain't nobody else you're
Speaker 2: writing checks.
Speaker 3: Too, yeah yeah. And then if you pay with cash,
Speaker 3: there's no record of who deposits.
Speaker 2: You gotta pay with check. Yeah, y'all got state tax
Speaker 2: down there in Missippi? Oh yeah, yeah, what is it?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know. You know, state text Tennessee. Man, Pretty great,
Speaker 3: there's a Mississippi buddy. Well, they want to fix those roads.
Speaker 1: They're gonna fix them.
Speaker 2: Jamie Davis is an accomplished songwriter, an accomplished musician, and
Speaker 2: accomplished vocalist himself. He is all around, I would say,
Speaker 2: triple threat musician.
Speaker 1: Accomplished outdoorsman. Throw it back to like your earliest memories
Speaker 1: of like of country music in your life. Obviously from
Speaker 1: North Mississippi, so I mean, oh yeah, oh was that
Speaker 1: your daddy was at your granddaddy was your grandmama? I
Speaker 1: introduced it to it.
Speaker 3: My parents loved music. They didn't they didn't like play
Speaker 3: music or anything, and but they they were both country fans.
Speaker 3: They listened to country music. George Strait, you know, it
Speaker 3: was my mom's guy for years and years I'm sure
Speaker 3: still is. My dad was more like funky R and
Speaker 3: B soul stuff, but they both liked country music. So uh.
Speaker 3: I remember they took me to see George Strait when
Speaker 3: I was nine.
Speaker 2: That was your first show. First show was George Strait,
Speaker 2: had this, had this.
Speaker 3: Guy, had a guy opening for him named Garth Brooks.
Speaker 2: Decent.
Speaker 3: He did okay, And I.
Speaker 2: Saw that show.
Speaker 3: Garth just stood there the entire really time they dropped
Speaker 3: the thing. He stands at the mic, sings the thing,
Speaker 3: they do the thing. I'm like, you know, you sell
Speaker 3: this crazy wild stuff in him part you know at
Speaker 3: his show, stood there and did the thing and uh
Speaker 3: and then George Tray came out and played a course.
Speaker 3: It was awesome. I was nine he's I gave George
Speaker 3: Tray my boot, I think he signed it, and then
Speaker 3: I have no idea where that is now. But some
Speaker 3: guy put me on his shoulders down there and he
Speaker 3: grabbed my boot and son and I thought, man, I'm
Speaker 3: that's what I'm gonna do one day. I want to
Speaker 3: I'd like to do that. But how cool is that
Speaker 3: guy up there, you know, singing his songs?
Speaker 1: But what a first show to see the king?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I saw a thing later on where I never really
Speaker 3: thought anything about it, but I saw I think an
Speaker 3: interview with Garth later on that where he was like,
Speaker 3: that was his first big tour and Georgie's show was
Speaker 3: him just standing there playing so out of respect for him,
Speaker 3: he didn't go crazy on stage and do his normal
Speaker 3: one thing. He just stood there and did own that
Speaker 3: one tour. I think that's probably the only one is
Speaker 3: never because shirt.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't know how how much of an idol
Speaker 1: George Strait was to Garth Brooks until we started reading
Speaker 1: the History of Country Music book to my two year
Speaker 1: old daughter, and it talks.
Speaker 2: About earlier for that. But I'm with it.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, Well, it's just like it's a
Speaker 1: kid's book. It's not it's not it's not like the
Speaker 1: history yeah uh, but it's like it's like, George Straight
Speaker 1: is king. I can't remember what it says, and then
Speaker 1: the next page is like and George Straight was g
Speaker 1: was was another country music Superstars idol. That's the reason
Speaker 1: why he wears the cowboy hat and all this stuff
Speaker 1: is George. It was a huge George George Straight fan.
Speaker 2: Garth was, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: My My My first show was that show, and I
Speaker 3: just we dug in after that. I mean, they listened
Speaker 3: to country radio. The Wizard one O six was the
Speaker 3: country radio, the big radio station around my area, the
Speaker 3: biggest one, and it was country. So you you know,
Speaker 3: the clear the clearest one that came through on the
Speaker 3: radio was was country music.
Speaker 1: So when'd you When did you pick up a guitar?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: It was around that time whenever I after that show
Speaker 3: inspired me, like I came back wanting like I'm gonna
Speaker 3: learn to play guitar, you know, And I was nice.
Speaker 3: I wasn't very driven with it. Couldn't hold my attention.
Speaker 3: So I started, like, I learned a couple of chords then,
Speaker 3: but I didn't I didn't put any I just learned
Speaker 3: the chords and I was done, you know, I was
Speaker 3: on the baseball or something. And then my granddad worked
Speaker 3: with a guy, mister Harold, that played bluegrass, and so
Speaker 3: when I was about twelve or so, he started taking
Speaker 3: me over there, getting guitar lessons from him, learn from
Speaker 3: a bluegrass player, from bluegrass picker guy, and he the
Speaker 3: first thing I learned was whyd wood flower, you know thing,
Speaker 3: and so we did that. I probably took ten lessons
Speaker 3: from him, and lessons from him was him. And through
Speaker 3: these three or four bluegrass cats got together and just
Speaker 3: played and you could either play along with him or not.
Speaker 3: That was his and he would stop and show you
Speaker 3: bit of stuff movie your finger. But it was like
Speaker 3: they just loudly played and you could. You just sat
Speaker 3: there and played with them until you figured it out, which.
Speaker 1: Is probably I mean taking lessons and learning one on
Speaker 1: one from somebody. And and I'm watching YouTube and playing
Speaker 1: like that. But but I've always heard and I'm not
Speaker 1: a guitar player, I know enough to write a song,
Speaker 1: but like I've heard the best way to play it's
Speaker 1: just like freaking learn how to swim like throat, throw
Speaker 1: them in the pool Man and started kicking, like, get
Speaker 1: in a circle of guys that are playing and figure
Speaker 1: out where you can step in, step out and play
Speaker 1: with guys. Just jam, just jam with cats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was the first guy that made you
Speaker 3: like he you know. I used to say, he showed
Speaker 3: me how to play the Wildie Flower thing and then
Speaker 3: they would play and then he would be like, all right,
Speaker 3: you gotta step in like you're turning and.
Speaker 2: Do your thing.
Speaker 3: It's like you you fumbled through it. It was awful, you know.
Speaker 3: And he was like, all right, we're gonna go around
Speaker 3: the thing. And the next time it comes to you, you know,
Speaker 3: you play the yeah and you and it was great.
Speaker 3: He was great. But yeah, So around twelve, I did
Speaker 3: probably ten went over there with him ten or ten
Speaker 3: or twelve times, and then and then started digging into
Speaker 3: all the information. It grabbed me then and I started
Speaker 3: trying to find out all the guitar stuff. I can
Speaker 3: learn all the songs, but I wasn't really like trying
Speaker 3: to play notes or solos. I just wanted to learn
Speaker 3: how to play guitar so I can stand there sing
Speaker 3: like George.
Speaker 1: Strait, what was the first song you could play and
Speaker 1: sing it the first time.
Speaker 3: Oh god, it was a want me catch your fall
Speaker 3: like Blessed You and the soul.
Speaker 2: That's a damn dude.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've seen it all. Whatever that was, I
Speaker 3: don't really I don't even know the name of the
Speaker 3: song now, but that was it.
Speaker 2: Because it was like, ye, did you play the beauty Reviews?
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe probably I remember this. Uh, it
Speaker 2: was a very clear distinguishing moment in my mind of
Speaker 2: when Jamie and I had our band and we were playing,
Speaker 2: and I mean we were living together. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 2: we lived. We lived a lot of different places, but
Speaker 2: I remember there was a time where like, like you're
Speaker 2: hunger or for learning more about guitar. Uh, it just
Speaker 2: passed mine as to where I was just like I
Speaker 2: kind of learned guitar in order to to to put
Speaker 2: it two words. But Jamie like was in he wanted
Speaker 2: to be a better he wanted to get better. I
Speaker 2: did not want to get better. I was kind of
Speaker 2: like whatever gets the job done. But I remember you
Speaker 2: like wood shedding, and there were years in there where
Speaker 2: you really wood shedding, and I think it put you
Speaker 2: on a level to where when this opportunity with Loop
Speaker 2: popped up, like, not only could you contribute as a
Speaker 2: singer and as a songwriter, but like, I mean, you
Speaker 2: can hold your on on freaking stage in front of
Speaker 2: eighty thousand people too. That's got to feel pretty cool
Speaker 2: to know that work that you put in got you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, who would have thought? I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess that was the kind of the plan. Uh was,
Speaker 3: Like I said, I don't want to be George straight,
Speaker 3: but just to get up on that stage.
Speaker 1: Let's not skip to the best part of the story
Speaker 1: that les.
Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, I mean, I like, uh, I all I
Speaker 3: did was the same thing as you. I mean, I
Speaker 3: learned just chords. I didn't after a while with Flower.
Speaker 3: I don't think I picked out a melody on a
Speaker 3: song on the guitar like you were probably doing. When
Speaker 3: I met you. You're already doing like licks and stuff.
Speaker 2: We were both ear driven.
Speaker 3: I mean, but you were already doing licks on the
Speaker 3: guitar and I didn't. I didn't even know what a
Speaker 3: lick was because I played widle with Flower. Didn't tell
Speaker 3: me that was a lick. That was just the melody
Speaker 3: to the thing. But I just learned, of course, I
Speaker 3: was till I'm till I met you until I met
Speaker 3: uh was it Dustin Nunley was the first real guitar
Speaker 3: player that we saw that in Camus Country, which he
Speaker 3: plays with Loot now too. But uh, but we we
Speaker 3: walked in first day, saw him ripping nothing I have
Speaker 3: ever seen, like nothing I had ever seen before. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so he mad. I was like, oh, you can do
Speaker 3: that on the guitar, like I thought, you just you
Speaker 3: learned the guitar to strum and sing, like to put
Speaker 3: my you know, moybe to write songs or cover songs.
Speaker 3: But I needed I couldn't. Nobody else in the house
Speaker 3: was playing guitar, so I had to have something to
Speaker 3: make me some music to sing too. I didn't learn
Speaker 3: a liquor of guitar until I met all y'all kids, dude,
Speaker 3: and then I started learning. Then I started diving into okay,
Speaker 3: well you can do this. Oh well this is this.
Speaker 3: He's a guitar leagues, these are scales, these are this
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: He saw he's referencing the guy that is, I mean,
Speaker 2: arguably top one percent in the world pickers, which is
Speaker 2: Dustin Ny and he just he was always like shrad dude.
Speaker 2: I remember walking in that room here. I thought these
Speaker 2: guys only existed in like eighties hair metal music videos,
Speaker 2: and here's this country. I mean, I'm talking about Turnip
Speaker 2: Green Country absolutely ripping a guitar about with a part
Speaker 2: with a mar I.
Speaker 3: Remember you and I said they were watching him play
Speaker 3: one day and they did the Devil went down to
Speaker 3: Georgia but about ten or twelve bpm, faster than it
Speaker 3: than it is, burning it and he played it on
Speaker 3: that been here Telly.
Speaker 2: Though. We were like and everything was I'm never gonna
Speaker 2: make it man showing me thinking about you know what
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 3: But I was like, we look, we looked like, damn
Speaker 3: we sucking. What this guy ain't that much older than us?
Speaker 3: What happened? What happened?
Speaker 1: Who showed him?
Speaker 2: What? What do we how do we learn?
Speaker 3: How do you do that? You know? It's like you
Speaker 3: don't you know. I've been trying to I've been trying
Speaker 3: to chase that guy for years. I had. We had
Speaker 3: another guy in the band that played in the band
Speaker 3: with Dan and I.
Speaker 2: That was Jerry Carna thing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and he's a monster guitar player. There's differences
Speaker 3: between the two, like Dustin. But but I remember one
Speaker 3: time we were Dan and I had the big head.
Speaker 3: We'd learned some licks and our solo.
Speaker 2: I always we crushed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he crushed the solo at the show, you know,
Speaker 3: like we had a forty songs. We got two solos
Speaker 3: right right that night between the two of us, you know,
Speaker 3: playing forty songs at night, and we were we were
Speaker 3: highing ourselves and we're like our guitar player, Jerry Carthan,
Speaker 3: who absolute monster players on the level, was like us,
Speaker 3: that's good boys. You know, y'all getting better.
Speaker 2: They were like.
Speaker 3: Thanks, man, He's like, but I'm getting better to you
Speaker 3: never gonna catch me, And he was right, but he
Speaker 3: was like, you know, that guy was already playing like
Speaker 3: that when we saw him, you know, and it's like,
Speaker 3: I mean, I've been striving to catch those guys for
Speaker 3: the rest of my life and it's made me tons better.
Speaker 3: But they're all chasing those guys, but it's like they're
Speaker 3: getting better too the whole time. You know, you never
Speaker 3: you can't catch them.
Speaker 2: But there's a level of existence in those guys that
Speaker 2: like it's all they want to do, man, Like it's
Speaker 2: all they want. I can't even explain it, Like it's
Speaker 2: all they want to do, Like all Jerry Canarthin wants
Speaker 2: to do is work on cars and play guitar, and
Speaker 2: all the other ones to do is it's smoke cigarettes
Speaker 2: to play guitar. And I mean, he look, he's a
Speaker 2: great dad, great husband, not all that I'm just saying
Speaker 2: as far as.
Speaker 3: Everything, but I think I think it probably goes for
Speaker 3: y'all too. But once I hit once, I played that
Speaker 3: insane that first too. Dude, all I ever wanted to
Speaker 3: do was play guitar, sing fish deer hut. That's it.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't think about anything else. I haven't
Speaker 3: thought about it. We went to college because that's.
Speaker 2: What we were. It was beating my head to do. Bro,
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. We went to college to have a
Speaker 2: band and play music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what I'm saying. But that was
Speaker 3: the thing that they were showing you.
Speaker 2: All Right, you go to high.
Speaker 3: School, you do this, you go to college, you get
Speaker 3: a degree, and that's what you do.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: But but even though we went through the motions of that,
Speaker 3: and I loved every minute of it of our college experience.
Speaker 3: But like man, I never want to do anything but
Speaker 3: just play music. So I get like those guys is
Speaker 3: like that's all they want to do. Every time you
Speaker 3: see them, there's a guitar in their hand.
Speaker 2: That's all they want to do. But y'all get it too.
Speaker 2: All you've ever wanted to do, Really.
Speaker 3: That's all I was make up some songs and get
Speaker 3: to fish and hunt.
Speaker 2: Totally thousand percent. I mean we we started when I
Speaker 2: remember telling my granddad, uh Ernest Paul you which you knew,
Speaker 2: I remember telling him when he asked me what I
Speaker 2: want to do when I grew up. I was I said,
Speaker 2: I want I want to be Garth Brooks. And that
Speaker 2: was I was nine years old. And and really I
Speaker 2: didn't know you could write songs. I don't think we
Speaker 2: really knew we were writing songs, but we didn't know
Speaker 2: you could really commercially professionally do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk about your introduction to Nashville and and and
Speaker 1: and coming to Nashville a living by playing music.
Speaker 2: I'll get to that, but let me say this. While
Speaker 2: we were he was in the college mode there for
Speaker 2: a second. And the and the thing that Jamie's real,
Speaker 2: like real humble about is that he's like a damn genius,
Speaker 2: like like mathematical genius, like smart guy. It is the
Speaker 2: craziest and the way he talks, and so all this
Speaker 2: to say, dude, you are a math. If I ever
Speaker 2: have any kind of like percentage question, I called Jamie like, hey, dude,
Speaker 2: just tell me the percentage of this, and he'll and
Speaker 2: then I will hang up. I mean it'd be like
Speaker 2: three minute conversations. He's like, all right, what'd you making
Speaker 2: your a CT? Dude? Yes you do, I know thirty one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I mean a twenty two. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I mean, like the kid's smart, right, and he's real
Speaker 2: humble about that anyway, So it's good at taking tests.
Speaker 3: Man, you are well.
Speaker 2: You just even prove my point even better. So we
Speaker 2: are in our single wide trailer in Mississippi State and
Speaker 2: I have the biggest example it. Listen, every class I
Speaker 2: ever passed, I had to work my tail off to
Speaker 2: get a sea. Right. This dude don't even go to class,
Speaker 2: rolls up in there, it comes out with B plus
Speaker 2: time about I can't believe it didn't make an A
Speaker 2: in there. It's just that it's just that's it's always
Speaker 2: been that way in my life.
Speaker 1: So y'all, y'all road dog it for a while. You
Speaker 1: got soul gravy. What was your like, Hey man, let's
Speaker 1: let's take this from North Mississippi to Nashville and try
Speaker 1: to try to make it happen.
Speaker 2: We actually, they came call. They called us. I mean,
Speaker 2: we were just kind of doing our thing down there
Speaker 2: and doing like a a Southern circuit, right, but we
Speaker 2: played Georgia. I'm leading you into the story, but this
Speaker 2: is to me, this is what it was. We were
Speaker 2: playing that that South South circuit SEC school, yeah, and
Speaker 2: and having some some good success and a couple of
Speaker 2: songs that were doing great. There was no streaming really
Speaker 2: back then. It was we were just making hard like
Speaker 2: discs and people were buying CDs at shows and it
Speaker 2: started spreading like crazy. You take from there, and then
Speaker 2: we started and then the next thing we know, we
Speaker 2: started getting calls.
Speaker 3: I mean, the we were we come up here and
Speaker 3: made a record because that's where everybody was doing that.
Speaker 3: You know, It's like there's not any uh, not a
Speaker 3: lot of working studios, I guess down the Mississippi, you
Speaker 3: know at the time. And so we did that and
Speaker 3: then once those records got popping, out here. I think
Speaker 3: it was just the general you know rule of any
Speaker 3: musician in the South was if you especially where I'm
Speaker 3: from and and West and West Tennessee, where you guys
Speaker 3: are from, it's like, man, you just went to Nashville.
Speaker 3: If you did music at all, it didn't have to
Speaker 3: be country.
Speaker 1: Try to take so if you wanted.
Speaker 3: A proper record of which of your song that you've
Speaker 3: made up, you you took it to Nashville and hired players,
Speaker 3: or if you could play ourselves. I mean we weren't
Speaker 3: good enough to be playing on our stuff ourselves then
Speaker 3: I guess we did. But yeah, but yeah, I think
Speaker 3: we it got going so well in in the Mississippi
Speaker 3: Alabama area that we, uh we thought it would be like,
Speaker 3: you know, doing ourselves, uh an injustice if we didn't
Speaker 3: try to come up here. Yeah, because it was like, well,
Speaker 3: I mean, ain't that what people do? It was like
Speaker 3: you build a following down here and then do all
Speaker 3: that and then you take it up there and somebody
Speaker 3: replicates that nationwide. You know who I remember doing that
Speaker 3: right before we tried was Zach Brown. You had a
Speaker 3: CD of that Chicken Fried song, and that was like
Speaker 3: he was.
Speaker 2: Just popping and then Brantley. We played shows with Brantley
Speaker 2: and then he kind of popped off and got into
Speaker 2: the Nashville thing.
Speaker 3: I remember one we were playing on a Fraturny road
Speaker 3: maybe at Ole, Miss one night in Mississippi, and it
Speaker 3: was like Zach Brown band our band and somebody else
Speaker 3: that hit yeah or somebody like at three three Houses
Speaker 3: in a row thing and it's like, you know, those
Speaker 3: two guys made it, Well, we can go do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were.
Speaker 3: It wasn't two years ago. We was all playing on
Speaker 3: the road down there on a thing. When they can
Speaker 3: do it, I can do it. I don't see what
Speaker 3: the fuss is about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we had some help again talking about that
Speaker 2: little I always talk about it little, that little North
Speaker 2: Mississippi brotherhood that came through lucky for us. A buddy
Speaker 2: of ours, Jonathan Singleton, had kind of his band had
Speaker 2: started popping off. He had watching airplanes with Gary Allen
Speaker 2: and uh something else don't don't. It was a big
Speaker 2: one man, And that's kind of you can hear those
Speaker 2: kind of uh soultry R and B inflected tones in
Speaker 2: kind of what we do too, because I feel like
Speaker 2: if you're from that area, there's there's a bit of
Speaker 2: what you talked about earlier, where your mom loved country
Speaker 2: music and your dad was into you remember what was
Speaker 2: that Superman song? Used to play me that Uh what
Speaker 2: was that guy's guitar? Watson there? It was just funky
Speaker 2: man And so it just a meld of those cultures.
Speaker 2: And you also have the Showals right there, which was
Speaker 2: forty five minutes from I mean, we were influenced by
Speaker 2: some of the greatest Looking back now, the greatest was exact.
Speaker 3: That was another thing too that that took us up
Speaker 3: here was Jonathan uh Nonely and these guys Jonathan had
Speaker 3: already moved to town had the watching airplanes thing on,
Speaker 3: So that helped us.
Speaker 2: Like, oh we can, we can Like he was.
Speaker 3: It wasn't some it wasn't just stories we had heard.
Speaker 1: He was in campus country before yall.
Speaker 3: He was in the campus country before us, and he
Speaker 3: came up here and he got the deal.
Speaker 2: So I got the cut and we was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we know this guy. Yeah, we're one degree from it.
Speaker 3: He did it, yeah, you know, And turns out he
Speaker 3: was a nice enough guy to kind of like take
Speaker 3: us under his wing and show us around. He's like
Speaker 3: you know, we we took it to Nashville when we
Speaker 3: did our thing. We were doing stuff and it was like, man,
Speaker 3: we got to get better songs. Well, in order to
Speaker 3: get better songs, we're gonna have to write them ourselves
Speaker 3: because nobody's gonna write him for some no name band
Speaker 3: that nobody, you know, nobody gets making any money with.
Speaker 3: It's like, so Dan and I are gonna have to
Speaker 3: write the material. Well, in order to write the material,
Speaker 3: we need to write better songs. We already writing songs.
Speaker 3: We need better songs. So it's like we got to
Speaker 3: go up there and get into the Nashville songwriting one
Speaker 3: on one. Well, then it was like okay, well Dustin
Speaker 3: takes us over to meet Jonathan and it was like, well,
Speaker 3: y'all want to get in song right. You know, it's
Speaker 3: kind of like, well, oh you want to get into
Speaker 3: some song, right, Well I can get you into some
Speaker 3: song right, and just come up here and talk to
Speaker 3: this person. You know, only introduce you to people. The
Speaker 3: next thing you know, you're you're booking rights and then
Speaker 3: doing the thing and then it just you know, the
Speaker 3: whole thing. But that was another big reason why we
Speaker 3: came up. He just I don't know that if if
Speaker 3: we had to know them help or not from him,
Speaker 3: if we had had to witness it happened, we might
Speaker 3: still be sitting there there going man, what if we
Speaker 3: should have trust them? Guys up there probably are doing crazy,
Speaker 3: but we didn't have. We not known a guy that
Speaker 3: you know from from around home that that actually did it.
Speaker 2: How bad would that hurt? Man? If I was stuck
Speaker 2: in costsuit watching and you were down there and Cupil
Speaker 2: or something working some bang job, knowing we were writing
Speaker 2: music and wanted to do music and our buddies were
Speaker 2: doing it and made a career out of Man, Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, I'm glad we tried it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and then you just get stuck in it,
Speaker 3: I mean not stuck in it. Like I wanted to
Speaker 3: be in it. I wanted to stick myself in it,
Speaker 3: try to make try to get in and dig my
Speaker 3: claws in so that I could be up here or
Speaker 3: at least work up here. And we, I say, for
Speaker 3: several years, And like I said, I moved back to Mississippi,
Speaker 3: but I still work out of Nashville. There's there's not
Speaker 3: a lot of songwriting and recording going on in Mississippi.
Speaker 3: There's some good there's good studios down there now, but
Speaker 3: and and people come down there to make some music.
Speaker 3: But the majority of my business and work comes up here.
Speaker 3: So you know, although I don't live here, you still
Speaker 3: gravitate here to if you want to write songs and
Speaker 3: play music, this is where you got it. I think
Speaker 3: you still have to kind of yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it's present. When I do, I think.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I'm having to drive up to be present.
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not getting it done solely from Mississippi.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm getting at those like, even though I
Speaker 3: moved back to Missippi, I'm still having to drive up
Speaker 3: here and be present at a right to you know
Speaker 3: that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: That's what we were talking about earlier too. It's like
Speaker 1: if you want to learn how to play the guitar
Speaker 1: from really good guitar players, getting a group of guitar players, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing I feel like with writing songs,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, man, you can stay wherever you're at, and
Speaker 1: if you've got a little group of guys that are
Speaker 1: gonna write songs in your hometown, you know, that's great.
Speaker 1: But like, if you want to sharpen the knife if
Speaker 1: you want to if you want to try to get
Speaker 1: better and be able to hold your own with the
Speaker 1: best songwriters in the world. Man, you got to get
Speaker 1: in the room with the best song and I believe
Speaker 1: that's in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 3: You somebody out there may be that guy that you
Speaker 3: know don't need any help and write. Sure it happens
Speaker 3: the masterpiece every couple of years, every time he sits
Speaker 3: down by himself. Sure never comes to nash I'm not
Speaker 3: saying that, but but you know, I just thought you
Speaker 3: had to be here. I wanted to get better. I've
Speaker 3: always wanted to get better. I still go to rites
Speaker 3: daily trying to improve how I do whatever. Whether whether
Speaker 3: it's working or not, I don't know, but I still
Speaker 3: learn your tar stuff daily. I mean, I just think
Speaker 3: that you should come up here and want to be
Speaker 3: getting better.
Speaker 1: So you're writing songs during the week on weekends, though
Speaker 1: most weekends, you're standing on stage with an acoustic or
Speaker 1: electric and you're singing harmonies, some lead on on a
Speaker 1: on a tune to thousands, Yeah, your own songs. Watch
Speaker 1: them being played at this point, hundreds of hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousand peoples on weekend.
Speaker 2: We try to.
Speaker 3: We we tried to think about the other day, like
Speaker 3: how many gigs you and I played to say, like
Speaker 3: five hundred people in the bar, and we thought that
Speaker 3: was packed, like people you know we put we put
Speaker 3: five hundred and three hundred and fifty cap room though,
Speaker 3: and it would be squeazed in there with man, this
Speaker 3: is we're going to do the rest of our life. Yeah, sure, yeah,
Speaker 3: it will never get better than that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then we were putting them in a thousand people
Speaker 3: rooms and we're like, man, it will never get better
Speaker 3: than it will never never And then we're an arena
Speaker 3: and it's like it will never get better than this.
Speaker 2: You're going three hundred to a thousand. You start off
Speaker 2: with two man's in a quarter of a chicken booth.
Speaker 3: Chicken yeah, a Mexican but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like you said, remember hundred fell a couple
Speaker 1: of times we had two hundred, three hundred and four person.
Speaker 3: Are in one thousand and then.
Speaker 2: Ten thousand, and how much do arenas hold ten five
Speaker 2: to fifteen twenty so the ego sheds, which is getting
Speaker 2: bigger twenty five, twelve twenty five some of them I
Speaker 2: don't know. And then arenas now you're in stadiums and
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean Dallas was sixty eight thousand.
Speaker 3: It's a lot, dude. It's overwhelming if you stand up
Speaker 3: there and let it. If you let it, it's it's overwhelming.
Speaker 2: Oh I trust me, I know it is. Are you
Speaker 2: you're out there with us? I know it's over. You're
Speaker 2: out there with But I wasn't playing, dude.
Speaker 3: But still walking out there is intimidating, even if you're
Speaker 3: carrying a guitar about which I did that for a while.
Speaker 1: To take us through for the listener. Like what because
Speaker 1: everybody sees your life, everybody sees you on stage, and
Speaker 1: they see you for that two two and a half
Speaker 1: hours that you're playing. But like, what, what is what
Speaker 1: Wednesday to Sunday for you? What is like coming to town?
Speaker 1: And if you're writing like Wednesday, so like I no Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Like if he comes to town before bus called button
Speaker 1: to coming back? What is that like for a touring
Speaker 1: musician and one of the if not the biggest band
Speaker 1: in country music right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So usually I'm coming up, say I'll drive it
Speaker 3: Wednesday morning, write a song for Sony and then and
Speaker 3: then you get on the bus Wednesday night and we
Speaker 3: get on there, try to go to sleep. Roll when
Speaker 3: you wake up the next day, you're at whatever venue.
Speaker 2: You're making the most venues in the in the night.
Speaker 2: If they were within the States.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. Most of the time, you know they'll take
Speaker 3: the if it's over so many miles, you take a
Speaker 3: couple of drivers, and then they just stop and swap
Speaker 3: and keep rolling. But driving we're asleep most of the time.
Speaker 3: And then we're on the bus at the stadium. The
Speaker 3: band is Thursday, you're going over stuff. They're checking gear
Speaker 3: and doing all this stuff set up, and then sound
Speaker 3: check Thursday night, and then it's sit around all day
Speaker 3: Friday till showtime. Sometimes we have rehearsal. We've got a
Speaker 3: rehearsal rig that's set up in the green room a
Speaker 3: lot of times, and we'll run songs in there something,
Speaker 3: or I'll try to sit around and rite. Most time
Speaker 3: we're once we get up and around, we got a
Speaker 3: guitar in our hand, doing something until showtime, and then
Speaker 3: it's me and Tyler King and Luke did a little
Speaker 3: warm up at eight pm and then show at nine.
Speaker 3: You over eleven try to come down from the adrenaline rush.
Speaker 3: It takes you till about one.
Speaker 1: You still get nervous, You still get like is it
Speaker 1: adrenaline or is it nerves?
Speaker 3: And it's straight adrenaline. Now it's it's a little farther
Speaker 3: removed from like the club thing that we were. We
Speaker 3: come up and get used to where the people are
Speaker 3: right in your face, and then as the venus get bigger,
Speaker 3: the people get further away, barricase further away, stage is larger,
Speaker 3: they're further away.
Speaker 2: So it's like I always did better like that.
Speaker 3: Where they're not up in my grill in my face.
Speaker 3: It's like, it's it if you can like clear out
Speaker 3: all that mechanism and and just focus on the stage
Speaker 3: and what you got going on, then I don't have
Speaker 3: any like super nerves. But no matter how you try
Speaker 3: to control whatever, you can't you can't control the adrenaline
Speaker 3: of walking in front of fifty thousand people. No, ain't
Speaker 3: nothing I figured out how to do, like to like
Speaker 3: you're shaking your bodies. It's a drug, dude, your body, Yeah,
Speaker 3: your body is in a yeah, like this is amazing
Speaker 3: right now thing for a couple of three songs, and
Speaker 3: then then it then it comes down. That's still it's
Speaker 3: still pumping. You can't tell as much, you know, but
Speaker 3: but for me anyways, that's how money is. Yeah. But
Speaker 3: but yeah, I still I mean, I'm still nervous. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're if you mess up, it's in front of fifty
Speaker 3: thousand people, not having not sixty people. Yeah, first year,
Speaker 3: what's your worship's first first? I mean I got the
Speaker 3: worst mess up by the way. First, get Jamie guitar
Speaker 3: tech for Luke for a couple of tours.
Speaker 2: So I did.
Speaker 3: I did about a year taking for UH Rob Williford
Speaker 3: and Kurt Ozon and the keys player.
Speaker 2: And UH for about a year.
Speaker 3: And then they put Luke's tech in the band, which
Speaker 3: was destiningly and then I became Lukes tech and I
Speaker 3: did that for I guess three and a half four years. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was Luke's tech. And then when Rob took some
Speaker 3: time off the road, I stepped into the band Slide
Speaker 3: all right, first gig, so the first So so they
Speaker 3: called me in the They told me to come to
Speaker 3: Luke's dressing room one day and they're like, hey, Luke's
Speaker 3: got talked to about something. I was like, all right, cool,
Speaker 3: So as I'm going in him and Tyler King are
Speaker 3: in the dressing room and they're like whispery, you know stuff.
Speaker 3: And I walk in there like, oh, could you give
Speaker 3: us a minute?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm bad dog. Y'all told me
Speaker 1: to come here.
Speaker 2: I fall do whatever.
Speaker 3: And I saw go I like to take a walk around.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking like, hey, I'm chacking. I'm like double checking himself.
Speaker 3: What do I messed up on to day? I meant,
Speaker 3: did I jack a guitar? So you had no clue? Really,
Speaker 3: you're gonna pick to be asked? No, no, no, no idea?
Speaker 3: What was going on? And I finally walked back. I
Speaker 3: gave him tow or three minutes while we up there,
Speaker 3: and Tyler comes out the dressing room and shakes my hand.
Speaker 3: He's kind of grinning, and I'm like whatever. And I
Speaker 3: had just seen Rob at somewhere down the hall and
Speaker 3: he was like, Luke talked to you yet like kind
Speaker 3: of like he was real stern, not like mad, but
Speaker 3: you know, and he Rob yeah, Rob, and he was
Speaker 3: he was cool. He was like, Luke talked to you.
Speaker 3: And I said, no, man about what he was like.
Speaker 3: I just went on and I was like, man, I'm
Speaker 3: getting fired. I don't know what I did. I don't
Speaker 3: know what I said something to somebody. Finally finally came
Speaker 3: out and finally came out and said something to somebody
Speaker 3: that I shouldn't have or something. I don't know, And
Speaker 3: but I walked back in there, and Tyler come out
Speaker 3: and walk in there, and Luke asked me something like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: what what I I want you to come in here?
Speaker 3: I like, what song should I do on the acoustic
Speaker 3: thing tonight? I was like, I don't know, this is
Speaker 3: your show. I quit being an artist several years ago,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of kind of do that. I'm not
Speaker 3: telling you what song to sing to do. If I
Speaker 3: pick something whack and you go out there and sing it,
Speaker 3: it's on me. I'm out there and crazy. He's like, no, man,
Speaker 3: but what's something cool? I could do whatever? So starts
Speaker 3: kind of getting like he knows what he wants to do.
Speaker 3: He ain't never asked me or anybody.
Speaker 2: Else, so he yeah, he knows what he wants to do.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, this ain't right, yea, this is super fishy.
Speaker 3: And I was like, dude, I don't know.
Speaker 2: As I and he sat there.
Speaker 3: For a minute, he just like awkward, stairs like that,
Speaker 3: you know, And I'm like, what's something man, Because most
Speaker 3: of the time we're buddies. Everybody's buddies out there loose
Speaker 3: one of our boys. But at that moment, when he
Speaker 3: was giving me the awkward stairs, like damn, he went
Speaker 3: to super.
Speaker 1: Sauce man mode real quick. I was like, dude, I
Speaker 1: don't finna get fired, and he was like.
Speaker 3: And after a few minutes and just offering us, I
Speaker 3: was like, all r dude, if you don't want it,
Speaker 3: it's that's that's all you need Before I'm out, bro,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking like, nah, man, the real reason I needed
Speaker 3: you come in here is like, I need somebody to
Speaker 3: play guitar.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh cool.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, who's who's got to miss a show?
Speaker 3: Is it Kurt or Tyler or Dustin or right? Who's
Speaker 3: missing the guy? What? You know? Whose part do I
Speaker 3: need to learn for the thing or whatever? He was
Speaker 3: like no, I mean like like I needed you to
Speaker 3: play guitar in the band. And I was like, what,
Speaker 3: Who's which guy's missing? That's all I could think of.
Speaker 3: Somebody can't get the flu or still. I was like, well, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm like, well if somebody gotta take some time offer somebody,
Speaker 3: you know, somebody pass away or their wedding or you
Speaker 3: know anything. And he was like, no, man, I'm like,
Speaker 3: you want to play guitar in the band. And immediately
Speaker 3: I was like, hell, yeah, yeah, I think. I was like, man,
Speaker 3: my eyes cheered up, I'm sure, and gave him a
Speaker 3: big hug and it was it was over. I was like, man,
Speaker 3: I've done it. Yeah, you know, this is where I
Speaker 3: wanted to be at the whole time. That's why he
Speaker 3: took the guitar tack gig in the first place. Was
Speaker 3: to so sick, be there, be present to win. You know,
Speaker 3: wasn't Nashville, but I but I was in camp and
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, if I had never done, if
Speaker 3: I had never taken the guitar tak job, my name
Speaker 3: wouldn't even have been in the house. They wouldn't even
Speaker 3: known who I was. Nobody knows them, wouldn't have been
Speaker 3: friends of all them guys. You know, Rob wouldn't recommend
Speaker 3: me for the job.
Speaker 2: I like to uh too, I like to take a
Speaker 2: little credit, you know, no big two big shockers. I
Speaker 2: just happened to be on the bus the night that
Speaker 2: Loop decided he needed a new he needed another tag.
Speaker 2: He was like, I was, I was there. We were
Speaker 2: in Alabama. Uh, we're an Alan Dolphin. No, not Dolphin Alabat,
Speaker 2: what was it. Dolphin Island is down there somewhere the
Speaker 2: wharf in Alabat, Southern alban We were down there and
Speaker 2: he said, yeah, I need a new guitar. I need
Speaker 2: another guitar. Tak it's just getting so big.
Speaker 3: And uh.
Speaker 2: I was like, second, I went, I found I called
Speaker 2: I found Dustin and I was like, hey, dude, we
Speaker 2: gotta get Jamie on this, like that's the guy. And
Speaker 2: he was like, oh, man, for sure, for sure we'll
Speaker 2: get Jamie. He said that. I was like, he said,
Speaker 2: he's going to hire a new tag. I called Jamie
Speaker 2: me like, hey, dude, Loot needs a guitar.
Speaker 3: Attack.
Speaker 2: He was like so. I was like, so this is it, dude,
Speaker 2: Like you got to take this thing. It'll get you
Speaker 2: up here. He's like, man, I'm doing pretty good on
Speaker 2: these gigs down there, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, no, I'm fishing.
Speaker 2: I was like, this is the intro into the door, dude.
Speaker 2: And man, he took and it was I'm not saying
Speaker 2: it really has nothing to do with me not only
Speaker 2: would have clearly got him in, but it's just fun
Speaker 2: to have like the boys in a spot where we
Speaker 2: can all kind of, hey, you should try this guy,
Speaker 2: you should try this guy. You should try this guy.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you know, take credit or not
Speaker 3: I take credit. I mean, it's definitely all I mean
Speaker 3: you Norly, I mean, Jonathan, all these guys in your
Speaker 3: friends dude. Yeah, out of all the people I met
Speaker 3: up here, and all the songwriting I've done, and all
Speaker 3: the artists we've written with, played with, picked up gigs with,
Speaker 3: done everything at the end of the game, not the
Speaker 3: end of the game. Hopefully we're not at the end yet.
Speaker 3: But I mean saying like it eventually ended up just
Speaker 3: being my buddies that helped me get where I was at,
Speaker 3: Like the people that I had invested in my time
Speaker 3: in relationship wise, you Dustin Yea, and these people that
Speaker 3: were my friends.
Speaker 2: It was like that was the guys that got me.
Speaker 3: Put my name in the hat. We may you and
Speaker 3: I got to go write a song here in a
Speaker 3: little while. It's like we may meet this I don't
Speaker 3: know the guy we're writing with the day, but it's
Speaker 3: like you, we may meet him, become friends with it,
Speaker 3: you know, and that and if we do cool, if
Speaker 3: we don't cool. But it's like, man, if you invest
Speaker 3: in that, the rest of it seemed to come along.
Speaker 3: Maybe not as quick as you like it sometimes, but
Speaker 3: I think my entire career is based off of my
Speaker 3: buddies helped me out, you know, reaching reaching out and
Speaker 3: me too for sure, and lending a hand once they
Speaker 3: once they got to where they could help. It's like
Speaker 3: I remember having a conversation with you years ago. You
Speaker 3: had no big cuts, no thing. You were in the
Speaker 3: writing deal and stuff, and it's like, man, I'm trying
Speaker 3: to do this and I'm trying to do this, and
Speaker 3: you're like, hey, man, I I.
Speaker 2: Can't help you yet. I can't do anything because I.
Speaker 3: Mean, like he already cares about what you're Yeah, you're
Speaker 3: already anything though, And I'm like, I'm sure I was
Speaker 3: annoying at the time because I was like, well, you
Speaker 3: got a deal already. I mean I got to come
Speaker 3: there and get a deal, like you can help me now,
Speaker 3: you know, And you're like, no, no, I can't, not yet,
Speaker 3: not yet, you know, And it's dust in the same
Speaker 3: way it was like, you know, but once once my
Speaker 3: friends started getting in the circles where they could help,
Speaker 3: we have all helped each other and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it all became a thing. But it was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's not like anybody's work can any harder than
Speaker 2: anybody else.
Speaker 3: But I bet on that. Yeah, yeah, but I didn't
Speaker 3: bet on like I still knew that. We still all
Speaker 3: know that you have to go write the damn song,
Speaker 3: or you got to sing the train, or you just
Speaker 3: play the lick or whatever, like you have to go
Speaker 3: do the work obviously, But I never had any worries
Speaker 3: about it. I was like, well, I just keep playing
Speaker 3: my gigs and do the thing. Man. It's like I
Speaker 3: don't feel like going to chasing down these one hundred people.
Speaker 3: I know this guy is going to be successful at
Speaker 3: some point in time. I just knew. I knew that
Speaker 3: from the first time I met you. I was like that,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, like, whatever this guy decides to do,
Speaker 3: he's gonna do it. If he wants to be the
Speaker 3: top insurance salesman in the United States, that's what he's
Speaker 3: gonna do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I knew that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, almost like you know, good at everything you try,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? So it was like, I
Speaker 3: can't help you yet, but one of these days I'll
Speaker 3: be able to bet on that.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet on all my friends working out on
Speaker 3: their dreams, just like I was chasing mind, and we
Speaker 3: were all chasing it, and then when it started working out,
Speaker 3: it just starts working out.
Speaker 2: For it everybody together, which is yes and creating it again.
Speaker 1: I mean that this conversation puts puts us in a
Speaker 1: room in your house in Mississippi one Saturday morning when
Speaker 1: it's raining and we're supposed to be turkey hunting.
Speaker 2: And that ties in hunting too, which is great.
Speaker 1: Segue and uh Dan picks up a guitar and plays.
Speaker 2: A lick man. We got to talk about the guitar first.
Speaker 2: That was the most interesting thing to me. We had
Speaker 2: planned this turkey hunt. We were going to Mississippi hunt
Speaker 2: and it starts. We get there and it is I
Speaker 2: mean buckets due, Like we couldn't have hunted that morning
Speaker 2: it was rain.
Speaker 1: I think we all zoomed different co writes the day before,
Speaker 1: like that's how bad we wanted a turkey hunt. We
Speaker 1: went down there, zoomed on Friday, went to sleep. We're
Speaker 1: gonna wake up in Australia, didn't I really y'all into that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like yeah, yeah, we'll do it, but we're zooming. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I made y'all do it.
Speaker 1: I was zooming in White's room with my co ride.
Speaker 2: I did a double that.
Speaker 3: You wrote in the whites room and double and then uh,
Speaker 3: and then we zoomed with yeah yeah Australian go Brad.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And so like seven or eight at night and it
Speaker 3: was daytime for him.
Speaker 2: Was nine in the morning, so it rains. We're like, well,
Speaker 2: we can't go hunt. We might as well write a
Speaker 2: song or do something. And uh, your wife, Maria, who
Speaker 2: was also an unbelievably talented individual, her dad passed what
Speaker 2: probably thirty years thirty forty years I in a while
Speaker 2: when she was very young, Yeah, and left her a
Speaker 2: guitar and which eventually got moved some to your house
Speaker 2: or given to you or something.
Speaker 3: It's hers, but yeah, it stays at my house, right,
Speaker 3: and uh, I just literally we didn't have anything else
Speaker 3: to do, and I reached over and grabbed the guitar
Speaker 3: and sat down and the first thing was that.
Speaker 2: It just and I was.
Speaker 3: Like, I remember, I remember you played the Little River
Speaker 3: for the six month or one thing back and forth
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 2: This thing, so the.
Speaker 3: One something like that, but a couple of passes through
Speaker 3: and we were like, what's that.
Speaker 2: I had no idea.
Speaker 1: First, we were like, bro guitar on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 3: It was the very first thing you played. It was
Speaker 3: played very it was the first.
Speaker 2: Thing I played. And obviously tell that that.
Speaker 5: But it's but even that that.
Speaker 2: That feels like everything that we're about. I mean the
Speaker 2: three of not me and and that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Naturally did that. I felt like I was just a vessel.
Speaker 2: Though I don't feel like I didn't have that lick contrived.
Speaker 2: I didn't like I feel like that guitar wanted that
Speaker 2: lick to be written on it that day. And I
Speaker 2: mean no, literally, thank god. I feel like Maria's dad,
Speaker 2: who was also an accomplished Uh, there's another North Alabama,
Speaker 2: North Piss musician that gigged and played did the thing.
Speaker 2: I mean just kind of slid us a little bonny.
Speaker 2: And I've told Maria that that's no secret, man, I mean,
Speaker 2: you almost but he was a co writer on the team.
Speaker 3: I think that's a nineteen sixty eight y'amaha. One of
Speaker 3: those red labels things.
Speaker 2: It's great. It's my favorite guitar. That's a great record,
Speaker 2: acoustic stuff. It was cool that that that that's what
Speaker 2: led us into the I mean, that's all y'all's melody
Speaker 2: is get a verse of course.
Speaker 3: Go. We been burning booth and keeping the light song.
Speaker 3: So I've been thinking we need a little time along.
Speaker 3: What see we cancel our place tonight the morning, gonna
Speaker 3: be your man, get some can little burning and some records,
Speaker 3: turning all the lights down, taking night saying so the away,
Speaker 3: your body moving, keep doing what you do to me
Speaker 3: off nine riding out love so, oh god, I haven't
Speaker 3: left the bass, and take us to a high bay
Speaker 3: making kind of m weeding me.
Speaker 2: How I can go in to that? Sorry, I'm kid,
Speaker 2: go right.
Speaker 1: There ain't no way baby to give me out this high.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I know.
Speaker 2: You. Look, that's good work.
Speaker 1: Could I even think of bout.
Speaker 6: Besides turning around and locking the door, watching your red
Speaker 6: dress falling floor. Let's get some candles burning, some records,
Speaker 6: turn in all the light spell taking that say so
Speaker 6: they bodies moving, keep doing.
Speaker 1: What you're doing to me out, riding out love.
Speaker 6: So girl, I want it kind of handle that passion,
Speaker 6: take us to a.
Speaker 2: High place.
Speaker 1: Making that candle.
Speaker 2: Right we're doing I'm just trying to remember the thing.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, How cool is that? Man?
Speaker 1: How cool is that? I mean, just like it's it's
Speaker 1: a full circle moment, our.
Speaker 2: First number one together man. Yeah, the three of us
Speaker 2: from the I mean from the boats and the trailer
Speaker 2: parks and the gigs and no people showing up two
Speaker 2: gigs to hear in. Uh, you're in fifteen seventy five
Speaker 2: thousand people send that song back to you every night.
Speaker 2: It's gotta be pretty cool, dude, one of the with
Speaker 2: our best buddy dude, I mean, and that's our that's
Speaker 2: that's our guy. Man.
Speaker 3: All those guys man have are have become some of
Speaker 3: my best buddies in the world. And and to get
Speaker 3: to write around play music with them, it's crazy crazy,
Speaker 3: so that many people is even crazier. And then it's
Speaker 3: just I mean, on half the nights I get to
Speaker 3: walk out there and open the show with that lig Wow.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm playing guitar to a song we wrote
Speaker 3: in front of that many people like every night looking
Speaker 3: up like man.
Speaker 1: That is allowing, Yeah, that's allowing us to pursue and
Speaker 1: continue to pursue this dream.
Speaker 2: As mad as you get at it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Music absolutely, I mean it's what brought us all here.
Speaker 2: It's what brought us together. It's what I mean helps
Speaker 2: feed our kids. You know, it's pretty pretty incredible story. Man.
Speaker 1: We usually talk about hunting, fishing, you catching, you catching
Speaker 1: hogs on brush piles.
Speaker 3: Yet I honestly have not been in the boat one
Speaker 3: time this year. I've been taking I've been untangling bird's
Speaker 3: nest from bait casters and getting that time, getting baits
Speaker 3: h out of chess. My my fishing is getting baits
Speaker 3: out of trees, out of weeds, pulling moss off stuff.
Speaker 3: That's three times, you know, getting fished off the hook.
Speaker 3: That's what my fishing consisted.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna out here, my little my little guys are
Speaker 2: doing it. So that's where I'm at. I'm gonna out
Speaker 2: here right here. So uh with the with the climb
Speaker 2: of that song, A particular instance, uh circumstance happened where
Speaker 2: your granddad was ready to sell his place right and
Speaker 2: you bought that ship.
Speaker 3: Dude, straight up, that is awesome.
Speaker 1: That's such which was a dream you've always.
Speaker 3: I think I told I think I told my granddad
Speaker 3: when I was when I was tiny, man, I was like,
Speaker 3: one of these days, I'm on this because I thought,
Speaker 3: you know, when you're little, you think that your granddad
Speaker 3: just gives it to you.
Speaker 2: Everybody just gives you everything.
Speaker 3: You know, like that one day, one day you'll give
Speaker 3: this to day and one day Daddy'll give it to me.
Speaker 2: And then my dad has six kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like if I had gave it to you,
Speaker 1: if they gave it to you, and he gave me
Speaker 1: my piece down the line, it ain't gonna be in
Speaker 1: this whole place.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be a sixth though it, you know. Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: But I told him that I was gonna buy it
Speaker 3: when and I think he was like he kind of
Speaker 3: like snickered, like you know, cool. And then time goes by,
Speaker 3: man Land goes up. Things things don't happen til you're
Speaker 3: gigging up. Until I took the job with Luke, you know,
Speaker 3: I was, I was playing four or five nights a week.
Speaker 3: I was either playing guitar with other artists or doing
Speaker 3: my shows and stuff like that gets further and further
Speaker 3: from reality, you know, It's like it starts becoming sad
Speaker 3: because I'm like, man, I put all my eggs in
Speaker 3: this basket. Dude, sure I put all maggs in this
Speaker 3: music basket. Here, I'm, you know, nearly forty years old,
Speaker 3: and I don't have a hit. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 3: make I do make a lot. I was making a
Speaker 3: full time living playing guitar. I'll get it wrong, but
Speaker 3: my family wasn't prospering. We were surviving, and so the
Speaker 3: saying you're gonna buy that when you're little, and then
Speaker 3: when I turned fifteen, I was like, yeah, I'm definitely
Speaker 3: I'm gonna buy this form one day. And then we're
Speaker 3: twenty in your dreaming, I'm still sitting out there on
Speaker 3: it fishing, doing everything. Man, one of these days is
Speaker 3: not gonna be mine. And then twenty five you're like, man,
Speaker 3: that's expensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: At thirty, I'm like, well, damn, I'm just playing in bars.
Speaker 3: And then you know, thirty four, thirty five, I've got
Speaker 3: a wife and kids, and it's like, man, these I
Speaker 3: ain't never gonna be able to afford nothing buying all
Speaker 3: these damned diapers. Yeah, yeah, you know, the lands out
Speaker 3: of the question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, baby food's expensive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so so all they kind of like, you know,
Speaker 3: in a sad way. I'd like, I'll never be able
Speaker 3: to buy his place. They'll get old and have to
Speaker 3: sell it before I'll ever make anything, you know, and.
Speaker 2: Which was getting ready to happen, I mean got to
Speaker 2: that point.
Speaker 3: I mean they're in their eighties, dude. Yeah, that's their
Speaker 3: life saving. He worked his whole life to pay the
Speaker 3: pay that place off to so one day his plan
Speaker 3: was to for them to get old there and then
Speaker 3: once they get old enough to go to nurse on,
Speaker 3: sell that place. And that's his that's there, that's the
Speaker 3: rest of their existence. And so they told he told me,
Speaker 3: I don't know, a couple of years from it was
Speaker 3: before we ever wrote that song. I mean, I go
Speaker 3: with there. One day we're doing something, don't if we
Speaker 3: were hunting, fishing or something. It was like, well, Son,
Speaker 3: I might have to sell the place. And I'm like, dang, yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, dude, I'm.
Speaker 2: I just got a cut.
Speaker 3: I think I just got it. We just got my
Speaker 3: first cut of my kind of folk. Yeah, I just
Speaker 3: we just got that. And I was like, dude, this
Speaker 3: ain't gonna this ain't gonna an album cut. It's not
Speaker 3: going to pay enough to get it done.
Speaker 2: I was like, a good one. But we're in the door.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm about to sign a song, right deal. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't know a high school work cut, but I
Speaker 3: promise I'm gonna give one hundred percent to try to
Speaker 3: get something going to get money either either yeah, horse
Speaker 3: or something. I don't know how we're gonna. I don't
Speaker 3: know what's gonna go on or what you gotta. He
Speaker 3: didn't tell me a price or it was just like,
Speaker 3: you know, well, all right, well then you know, a
Speaker 3: year goes by or so, and I think we wrote
Speaker 3: kind of Love at that wind, maybe written kind of
Speaker 3: Look we wrote kind of Love at that point, and
Speaker 3: it hadn't made a record it or something. It was like,
Speaker 3: hey man, it's getting it's getting time of white to
Speaker 3: sell the place. I'm like, dude, you got to give
Speaker 3: me six more give me six more months or a year.
Speaker 3: I got something cracking on a song right now that
Speaker 3: may do something. I don't know. Yeah, it still won't
Speaker 3: him on the record. Yet we were still trying to
Speaker 3: talk uh luke and a singing Yeah, like I guess
Speaker 3: he had he had he had written, he had he
Speaker 3: had written a song with us that it was like
Speaker 3: talking him into doing it. Yeah, right, we felt like
Speaker 3: it was a hit. I felt like we felt like
Speaker 3: it was a hit that day. I did. I think
Speaker 3: y'all did too. On some of the tapes I have,
Speaker 3: it's like us were like, hey, man, this real, this
Speaker 3: is a real thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I might have done something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And but it was like trying to get him,
Speaker 3: talk to him to do it. But I was like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm telling my granddad. I was like, but if you can,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's something in my mind, like
Speaker 3: if you can give me six more months, well then
Speaker 3: then then finally he did. He's he holds off on
Speaker 3: ceiling and it was like nothing happened to you.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh god, yeah, he's.
Speaker 3: Gonna sell it. I know he's gonna say that. My
Speaker 3: luck is I'll have the hit. I'll have a hit
Speaker 3: after if I have one over at all. Yeah, two
Speaker 3: years after his song or something not that I'm telling you.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm, i'm, I'm I'm writing all this. I'm writing
Speaker 3: a hundred songs in a year. Pope out one of them
Speaker 3: is gonna pop. But I got one in the works
Speaker 3: right now that I that I swear it's gonna do something.
Speaker 3: He and it was like, I don't know if I
Speaker 3: played him a song or anything like that, but but
Speaker 3: but he he like he believed me.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Had a neighborhoods that was trying to like hounded him,
Speaker 3: trying to buy that he he had done some big
Speaker 3: trade or some land and sale or something and made
Speaker 3: of this guy made a bunch of money, sold some
Speaker 3: land to a pilot gas station or something. And it
Speaker 3: was like, I could pay for it. And my Granddad's
Speaker 3: just putting him off and put him off, and I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: you ain't got to put him off anymore, dude, So
Speaker 3: it sell it, dude, you got to do it. And
Speaker 3: he was like, nah, he gonna buy it any time, dude.
Speaker 2: Always He's like I can, I can wait? Wow, you know.
Speaker 3: So he gave me enough time to get it going.
Speaker 3: And finally the song gets on the record. Still didn't
Speaker 3: know if it was, you know, single, but it's on there,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, dude, please, just just if Papaul will.
Speaker 1: Hold out just a few more thinking about this land
Speaker 1: the whole time.
Speaker 3: Oh God, that was it thinking.
Speaker 2: It is thirty.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's beautiful, hell yeah, long story short of
Speaker 3: the song they released sung as a single. It smokes
Speaker 3: the charts, and you bought it. We bought the.
Speaker 2: And now your kids will always be able to go
Speaker 2: to that bank and catch fish out of that pond
Speaker 2: on the backs of something that came from your brain. Man,
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: I coffee there when I was I learned a bass
Speaker 3: fish in that pond for my dad and my boys
Speaker 3: learning from the bass fish.
Speaker 1: Awesome, what do we do?
Speaker 2: First grader? Oh yeah, I'm sure that was born that thing.
Speaker 2: You had to say. It's a part of the shoe
Speaker 2: for the one that.
Speaker 1: Got o one that got away for you, JD. Could
Speaker 1: be a fish, my dear, what comes to my.
Speaker 2: Song?
Speaker 1: A few of those probably I got a cold.
Speaker 3: I got a couple of ones that got away necessarily
Speaker 3: on the hunting thing. I think, I guess. I guess.
Speaker 2: My biggest one that got away was a deer story.
Speaker 3: I don't know when this would have been, like twenty ten.
Speaker 2: He called, and is it? I can't even remember what
Speaker 2: you're it was.
Speaker 3: My dad had killed a giant uh in one of
Speaker 3: our in one of the fields we hunt, one of
Speaker 3: the least we have. That's the top typical from my
Speaker 3: county still to this day. That's it's the top, it's
Speaker 3: the top scoring typical. What was it buck from my county?
Speaker 3: What what is scored? Oh that's one fifty ish something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just shit.
Speaker 3: One fifty right at it. Maybe it's a big wide
Speaker 3: team anyways. But but I was sitting in that same
Speaker 3: deer stand. This was two or three years everything, I
Speaker 3: will say twenty ten ish, and I had it was
Speaker 3: the last day of season. I had hunted probably three days,
Speaker 3: the last three days season in that field, and I
Speaker 3: had hunted the other side of the field for two
Speaker 3: evenings and this big deer had come out on me.
Speaker 3: I hadn't didn't have him on camera to know anything
Speaker 3: about him, just seeing him and got eyes on him
Speaker 3: at like six hundred yards two three evenings before, watched
Speaker 3: him for forty five minutes of the binoculars. I was like, man,
Speaker 3: he's a stud. Too far to make him. I couldn't
Speaker 3: make a move or anything. So I went back the
Speaker 3: next evening. I went halfway. I sat halfway down, I
Speaker 3: set up halfway down the field, split the distance from
Speaker 3: me and him. He came back out again like five
Speaker 3: hundred yards stayed in that four five hundred yards in
Speaker 3: a different spot of the field. He was with a
Speaker 3: couple of days that were regular to that field, I'm assuming,
Speaker 3: and but I couldn't get it was just too far.
Speaker 3: Third evening, last day of season, I went sat in
Speaker 3: the stand. My dad shot that deer out of which
Speaker 3: he had been telling me if I want to he
Speaker 3: told me, it's for two minutes in a row. If
Speaker 3: I want to kill that deer, to go site that stand.
Speaker 3: And I hadn't done it. If I'd have been in
Speaker 3: that stand both those evenings, i'd had a seventy five
Speaker 3: yard kind of kind of deal. But anyway, I sat there.
Speaker 3: Probably it's probably forty five minutes for dark before it
Speaker 3: was four no shooting light, something like that four thirty
Speaker 3: four forty five here in Mississippi at the time, and
Speaker 3: probably a one ten one fifteen eight point comes out.
Speaker 3: I'm like this last day, you know, And he said,
Speaker 3: dear man, it was an old enough deer. It wasn't
Speaker 3: wasn't no baby. But he's probably one hundred and ten inches,
Speaker 3: three year old, something like that. And I he comes
Speaker 3: and stops broadside. He comes from six hundred yards out
Speaker 3: fast walking and takes him just a couple of minutes
Speaker 3: and just broadside stops it about eighty yards. I like
Speaker 3: clicking the rais fronts like eight eight eighty eighty five steps.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I get prod. I clicked the safety off.
Speaker 3: I was like last day due, sorry, sorry, sorry, my guy.
Speaker 3: I mean like, I love jerky and dang right and
Speaker 3: snacksticks and they.
Speaker 1: Especially with the halapinion cheese.
Speaker 3: And I was about to squeeze off on this deer
Speaker 3: and and I caught something, a flash of something in
Speaker 3: the corner of the feld out of my eye, and
Speaker 3: I looked and it was like six hundred yards coming
Speaker 3: out of the corner that I had sat in the
Speaker 3: first evening, the very where I sat, And this deer
Speaker 3: comes out, and all I saw was the how wide
Speaker 3: he was. And I was like, that's the that's the
Speaker 3: differm came out on the this n that I'm sitting
Speaker 3: on today for tunes in a row. I swapped it
Speaker 3: this in he comes out O there he's making the
Speaker 3: same line at this eight point, just made so I'm like,
Speaker 3: I clicked safety back off, sat down and got up
Speaker 3: a binoculars and I watched him he's slow feeding through
Speaker 3: this cut bean filled. It takes him till thirty or
Speaker 3: twenty thirty minutes of light left to see to get
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty two hundred yards. He took a
Speaker 3: curve that the eight point didn't take and goes out
Speaker 3: and when he stops, I dotted him at like one
Speaker 3: eight five, which I can do, Yeah, surely with the
Speaker 3: two seventy.
Speaker 2: So I get.
Speaker 3: I get he's standing there looking. I don't know if
Speaker 3: he was he had finally got in my line a
Speaker 3: wind or something, and he's clearly an older deer, older deer,
Speaker 3: but he was something. He had stopped and he was feeding.
Speaker 3: He had stopped feeding, was either looking at some doze
Speaker 3: or he had my wind was going crossing ways. I
Speaker 3: think he had maybe catching me. Anyways, I put the
Speaker 3: gun on him, squeeze trigger, boom, he drops. I was like, oh, yes,
Speaker 3: this has been at the time, my biggest year by far.
Speaker 3: He's probably I'm guessing here, mid thirties, one thirty five
Speaker 3: somewhere in that range.
Speaker 2: Nine point could have been one forty five you.
Speaker 3: Maybe, yeah, but he uh, it's I mean, I watched
Speaker 3: him for thirty minutes with the monoculars to get him
Speaker 3: to one one hundred eighty five yards or so, and
Speaker 3: so I knew he had he was a nine point.
Speaker 3: I was guessing him at say, I'm gonna guess, say
Speaker 3: nineteen and a quarter inside.
Speaker 1: That's how long I had to just say, you know,
Speaker 1: like I was looking at him like a man through
Speaker 1: a corner.
Speaker 2: My man gonna be he's gonna be like eighteen twenty.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking nineteen and a half.
Speaker 1: I done decize him up like big time, like ticle
Speaker 1: to death because I know if he stepped with.
Speaker 3: Him to smoke it. Yeah, you know, I was in
Speaker 3: a good prop situation. I mean, like he had no
Speaker 3: idea I was there.
Speaker 2: So he dropped.
Speaker 3: I shoot, he drops. I look, he just stands back up.
Speaker 3: And I was like, gosh, dude. So I chambered another shell,
Speaker 3: put it on him. Shoot he drops. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's over two in him right, still still plenty of
Speaker 3: light just see him and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, but just getting dark. And I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, So I just I put the scope on
Speaker 3: him and just look, I can see white belly on
Speaker 3: the ground toward me. Man, that's something of his feet
Speaker 3: flinched about twice. I was like, no, I chambered another round,
Speaker 3: just centered his belly and put another one in him.
Speaker 3: He jumps one again. He done. I called Dad. I
Speaker 3: was like, hey, you have you at the house. He
Speaker 3: said yes, and man, come down, come down. That told
Speaker 3: him where to come down the creek. I was like,
Speaker 3: I just smoke the giant, my biggest butt.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He was like, that's the one you've seen yesterday to
Speaker 3: day for yep. Got him. He's done. He's I'm looking
Speaker 3: at him on the ground, been watching him for five minutes.
Speaker 3: He's out. Hung up with him. I think I called you.
Speaker 3: He was like, my voice is still shaking, dude, don't
Speaker 3: take that scope off. I just killed the big stair
Speaker 3: that I've shot shot and uh, it got dark. I
Speaker 3: waited till I saw Dad's headlights coming down on the
Speaker 3: other side of the creek, a little wolf creek or whatever.
Speaker 3: And I so I got down the stand when I
Speaker 3: saw them coming and started walking towards the deer. I
Speaker 3: probably was like I was close enough to it that
Speaker 3: it dark. I could see the a dark mass where
Speaker 3: he was laying at but it was dark. You know.
Speaker 3: I didn't have a flashlight or any time that I
Speaker 3: could find. And I was probably fifty seventy four yards
Speaker 3: and when Dad's headlights turned towards the field and shine
Speaker 3: on him, all you see was the sillo of deer
Speaker 3: and he just got up round on.
Speaker 2: I can't even laugh at that. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I put three two semi rounds in this guy, right,
Speaker 3: And I thought, well, he's not going far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean laid that belly Dad.
Speaker 3: Outside the truck. We come over there, I go to
Speaker 3: where he was laying at it. It's just a it's
Speaker 3: just a pool of red. Yeah, you know, I'm like,
Speaker 3: he ain't far. And so we looked with what flashlight
Speaker 3: they had, me and him and my granddad I think
Speaker 3: was with him, and we looked for thirty forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: We go back to the house. You don't know this story.
Speaker 2: Did We go back to the house.
Speaker 3: Got a beagle that well, my little brother had a
Speaker 3: bagel at the time that was that would track deer.
Speaker 3: And we went and got I think got his dog,
Speaker 3: and and one of my cousins went down there with me.
Speaker 3: There was five of us, and we got the dog
Speaker 3: on the blood and followed it all the way, probably
Speaker 3: four or five hundred yards to UH. A guy named
Speaker 3: Duane Ryan Hart was his name. He was a game
Speaker 3: moredenan to his property and.
Speaker 2: That should we cut us out? Are we good on that?
Speaker 3: He was one of my grandad's friends lived up there.
Speaker 3: He's passed away now, but all right, yeah, no good.
Speaker 2: He's cool with that.
Speaker 3: Some some of my UH friends out there. But he
Speaker 3: he knew the guy and was friends with him though,
Speaker 3: and he he owned the property that had joined where
Speaker 3: we hunted at. And so we got to the fence
Speaker 3: where the deer had crossed and went over this guy's
Speaker 3: property and I was like, I'm I don't see y'all,
Speaker 3: I'm across, I'm crossing the fences. Yeah, yeah, my deer.
Speaker 3: And my Granddad's like.
Speaker 2: Nope, mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Is it as big as you say it is. I'm like,
Speaker 3: it is my biggest buck. He was like, don't do
Speaker 3: anything illegal trying to get that thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna do it. Was like, let's just go
Speaker 2: the house.
Speaker 3: It's midnight at this point. Yeah, he was like, let's
Speaker 3: just go the house and called you ain't in the morning,
Speaker 3: and uh, and he's not gonna carry for us to
Speaker 3: go in and looking for this deer on his place.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna call him in the morning and we'll go.
Speaker 3: So I mean like I went home, didn't sleep the
Speaker 3: whole night or whatever, and uh in daylight the next morning,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm getting the truck driving back out to my
Speaker 3: grandparents house, like, hey, get him on the phone, let's
Speaker 3: go get that deer whatever. And uh so he calls,
Speaker 3: uh calls a guy or something, and this guy had
Speaker 3: grand kids. It's time.
Speaker 2: Some boys are there.
Speaker 3: I guess they deer hunting and stuff too, but they
Speaker 3: uh he told him the deer was there, and we
Speaker 3: got permissioned. I had to wait on somebody to wait
Speaker 3: on Dad or somebody to do something.
Speaker 2: For a wee could go.
Speaker 3: We couldn't go to about lunch, and Dad wanted to
Speaker 3: go with me to be with me. When we walked
Speaker 3: up on the deer whatever it was, we knew it
Speaker 3: was dead. It was poor, too much blood and we
Speaker 3: so we went down there and looked nothing. We just
Speaker 3: came up to a barber fence. We trailed to a
Speaker 3: barboar fence, so nothing, just to pool of nothing, hair
Speaker 3: and different stuff. I was like, man, is it right?
Speaker 3: And one of that guy's grandkids was there. I guess
Speaker 3: when my granddad called that morning, told him we had
Speaker 3: a big one down and they went and got it
Speaker 3: and the colties that ate it up. I guess because
Speaker 3: it was dead. It was dead that night. The grandkids
Speaker 3: went't got it, yes, and they I don't know if
Speaker 3: they skull matter or what it was. The the guy
Speaker 3: took it to work with him. One of my cousins
Speaker 3: worked with him, becausein Brent worked with the guy and
Speaker 3: he was like, man, it's a nineteen and a half
Speaker 3: inch inside spread nine point and I was like, he's
Speaker 3: like it's a monster. He's like it looks like something
Speaker 3: that don't even bend come from around here. And I
Speaker 3: was like, oh god, dude. And my little brother was like,
Speaker 3: I go steal it out of the back of his truck.
Speaker 3: It's in the back of the truck at work right now.
Speaker 1: I will get it right.
Speaker 2: My cousin was like, he brought it to work this morning.
Speaker 2: Oh I heard.
Speaker 3: My little brother was like.
Speaker 2: I's gonna get out of the back of his truck
Speaker 2: right now. I don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: And I was like, no, I don't do it. We'll
Speaker 3: call him and ask him. So we I don't know.
Speaker 3: Somebody that knew the kid or whatever. We called him
Speaker 3: and asked him, but they were like, oh no, we
Speaker 3: didn't find any bullet holes in this year.
Speaker 2: He was eight byck Coties. He wouldn't give the deer back.
Speaker 1: Let's get that deer back, man, Hey, dude, let's get
Speaker 1: that deer back. Guess what this is the best far
Speaker 1: the story.
Speaker 3: The guy who has the deer built a house next
Speaker 3: to me is my next door neighbor. Now, really, I'm
Speaker 3: assuming he probably still has the school at his house.
Speaker 3: I've never seen it in person, but would he.
Speaker 2: Like to trade some tickets? I mean, I think, but
Speaker 2: just ident the deer.
Speaker 3: It's about a nineteen inch inside.
Speaker 2: With a really light color.
Speaker 3: Now, but y'all that they found whatever, and I don't
Speaker 3: know they made. I guess they probably didn't believe us
Speaker 3: that we killed or something. I don't know how it
Speaker 3: goes what their reason was, but he wouldn't let it go.
Speaker 1: Man, Maybe we get that dear back. Maybe get that.
Speaker 2: I'm not giving you a choice on favorite, because I
Speaker 2: think you've probably got a bunch of songs that are
Speaker 2: your favorites. But I can't leave. I can't leave the
Speaker 2: podcast out here and you sing this, or just to
Speaker 2: give us the first chorus.
Speaker 3: I keep the habit, the smoking back sometime.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I tried the heart stuff, but I had to let
Speaker 3: all that go. The toughest thing I ever gave was
Speaker 3: today m hm. Smoothing old habits lacking.
Speaker 2: You are hard hard to bread.
Speaker 3: Old habits lacking. You are hard hard to bread love
Speaker 3: with someone new. It's so hard to me and I
Speaker 3: have grown so steel, and all of your an old
Speaker 3: habits a lacky.
Speaker 2: You are a.
Speaker 1: Man, mister Jamie David.
Speaker 2: Everybody I know. It's a long one. Brother, your brother,
Speaker 2: you don't know. I love you, proud of you, great dad.
Speaker 1: Great, this is a family man.
Speaker 2: He ain't say I didn't see this part. Covid which
Speaker 2: part this part? Oh? I think I like we all.
Speaker 3: Bet on the writing songs and the singing. I thought
Speaker 3: Reid would be big artists.
Speaker 2: Lamp, so did I. I thought we were just right for Reid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I thought we'd be writing reed songs.
Speaker 1: But turns out I wanted to hunt all the time.
Speaker 3: God same.
Speaker 2: But I didn't see the podcast. I didn't see the podcast.
Speaker 2: Well it has to do with Jordan. It's great. No,
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying I bet on the rest of it.
Speaker 1: And and well, it's like we said earlier, man, it's
Speaker 1: it is. It's it's awesome catching a dream, chasing a dream,
Speaker 1: catching a dream, but the fact that you get to
Speaker 1: chase it and catch it with your brothers and your
Speaker 1: best friends, and you get to do it and have
Speaker 1: success for hopefully the rest of our lives in Nashville,
Speaker 1: in Mississippi and Tennessee and wherever in the Midwest hunting
Speaker 1: big deer man like, I'm just grateful and thankful we
Speaker 1: get to do it together.
Speaker 2: So don't drop your dreams.
Speaker 1: You can kill that they bet on your body.
Speaker 2: And a half inch wide. Dear, you can write that
Speaker 2: number one song and bet on your buddies. Dude, I
Speaker 2: was rot that. That's right there. Thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 1: With us, hang out with us. We'll see oll next time.
Speaker 2: Peace.