Stories Worth Hearing: From Honky-Tonk Roots to Country to the Bone with Lan Law

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Welcome back to Stories Worth
Hearing.

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I'm your host John Quick, and
today's episode is 1.

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You're really going to enjoy.
I'm sitting down with Land Law,

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the brother duel of Lance Curtis
and Lawson Wayne, two young men

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who are proving that big dreams,
hard work and staying true to

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who you are can still
breakthrough in today's music

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world.
Land Law is making waves across

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the country with a sound that's
all their own modern country

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swagger mixed with the heart and
grit of classic honky tonk.

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They've shared the stage with
icons like Colin Ray and Gene

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Watson, they've had the chance
to work with Dolly Parton's own

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producer Kent Wells, and their
breakout single Country to the

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Bone has already been watched
and streamed over 30 million

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times.
But what inspires me most is not

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just the success they've had,
it's the way they've carried

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themselves on the journey.
They're grounded in their roots,

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passionate about their craft,
and committed to bringing people

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together through music.
Their story reminds us that no

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matter where you come from, if
you stay focused, keep the

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faith, and put in the work,
doors will open.

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In this conversation, we're
going to talk about their

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beginnings, the bond they share
as brothers, the stories behind

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their songs, and what they see
ahead as they continue to rise

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in the country music world.
If you want to follow along with

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their journey and hear more of
their music, head over to

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landlawmusic.com.
So let's dive in.

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Here's my conversation with Land
Law.

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Eventually throughout the years,
we I was actually doing music on

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my own and Lawson and I, we got
to doing it together.

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Probably five years into it,
just me solo.

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And I'd say for another 3-4
years it was still Lance Curtis

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featuring lost some Wayne,
right?

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Yeah, we always went out.
Lance Curtis featuring lost some

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Wayne.
Her special guest lost some

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Wayne.
It was always something, but it

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took us a little bit to actually
come up with land law to figure

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out what the vibe was going to
be and how it was going to work

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and all that.
Because not a lot of people know

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this, but Lawson is actually
four years younger than I am.

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And he's four years younger and
four feet taller.

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But no, he, so he, when I
started, I was, I was 16, I

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think, when I started doing it
solo full time.

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And at that time, Lawson was
like 12, you know.

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And so it took him a little bit
to, you know, grow up, mature,

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find love for music.
He was still doing sports during

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that time.
And so it just took him a little

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bit to catch up.
But we've been doing it hot and

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heavy ever since.
And the Lord's been blessing us

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throughout it.
That's awesome.

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So it's 16.
Were you like out there playing

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gigs and stuff or were you just
kind of playing at home?

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I was, I was out playing some
gigs, a few gigs here and there.

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You know you don't get booked
much at 16 because going through

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a lot of puberty changes some
Mexican.

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Restaurants and some other
stuff.

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My grandpa, he had a classic
country band and from the time I

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was a year old, I grew up
playing with him.

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I was playing guitar in the very
back, you know, I'd sing a few

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songs.
It was a family band, you know,

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my uncle was in it, my cousins
were in it.

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And we just, we grew up doing
that every weekend, you know,

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and I loved it.
And he passed away when I was

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right when I turned 16.
He passed away 2017.

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And that very following week I
took my first trip to Nashville.

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Man, it's been, it's been a
crazy ride since then.

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You know, we've had a lot of ups
and downs over there, but more

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so more UPS.
You know, it's a roller coaster

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ride for sure, but Lord is
keeping us on the proud of it

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all.
That's awesome.

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So what?
Tell me a little bit about when

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you've maybe when you first
realize crap like I could, we

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could do this for a living.
Like we're starting to gain

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traction.
People are watching, listening.

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You know, it's more than just a
hobby.

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Take me back to that moment
where you're like, man, we could

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really do this.
I would say like as far as

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having a solid shot and stuff
with it when Country of the Bone

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blew up, there's 2 levels to
that though.

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There is the Nashville level of
success and then there's the

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world standard level of success,
you know, And so we've been in

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Nashville for eight or nine
years now and basically started

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at the very bottom of the
barrel, work their way up.

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And right before Country of the
Bone blew up, I would say most

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of Nashville already knew who
Land Law was.

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We were having big meetings, we
were doing some big stuff and

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doing a little bit of touring
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We played the Jacksonville
Jaguars stadium, all that stuff.

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And all this happened before
Country of the Bone even took

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off.
And so there is so many levels

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know where artists is in their
career as far as us ever

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thinking, you know, are we going
to make it this?

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I think that was always going to
be 100% in our mind, you know,

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because if you're doing it to if
you're not doing it to make it

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and why you doing it?
You know, and so we love it.

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We, we do it because we
originally we started because we

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love it, but we also, we also
want to make this our career.

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And so in Nashville, I mean, we
were getting a lot of good

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traction and everything country
to the bone.

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We had it out for six months,
done nothing.

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Absolutely nothing.
We debuted to open it up for

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Colin Ray and played for 10,000
people and I mean we had hardly

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in hardly to nothing streams on
anything and it just was not

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getting good traction and it
blew up overnight.

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We put out a video and it took
off 2 million views.

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The next 1 / 1,000,000 next 1 /
1,000,000 and it's like, holy

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crap, this is happening.
And it was just a, it was a

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crazy experience, you know, and.
Kind of had the family all in a

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group chat.
What are, what's going on?

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What are we doing?
Are we?

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I would, I mean, it was, it was
a whole new ball game for us

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because I don't think we really,
really comprehended how big

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country to the bone went out
there.

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You know, it, it's got some love
on, it's got some hate on it.

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But as far as like putting us on
the map, that song put us on the

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map.
We had Blake Shelton reaching

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out.
We had Kane Brown and his team

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reaching out and so many people
and stuff.

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And it's just been, it's been a
blessing.

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That's awesome.
Who's who've been some of your

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biggest musical influences as
you guys craft your your own

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style?
I would, I don't know.

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I would say that we try.
I don't even know if we try to,

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but we get told a lot that as
we're playing, as we're going

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out it we they get a lot of the
Blake Shelton Trace Akin vibes,

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a lot of the Montgomery Gentry
vibes, some big and rich.

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I feel like whether we try to or
we don't, that's kind of how our

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sound just veers and just goes
towards.

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Yeah, And I mean, I grew up in
classic country, George Strait,

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Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn.
And so that's what that's the

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kind of music I like.
But to be marketable in today's

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society, you have to blend it
with the modern roots.

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So when we write, we try to be
like a new traditionalist.

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You know, we we bring in the old
elements but makes it with

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what's sellable today on radio.
What's that process like for you

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all too create a song?
What's your what's your kind of

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creative process to becoming up
with the next song or you know,

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getting the lyrics down?
What kind of process do you guys

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go through?
And I guess it kind of, I'd say

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it varies from song to song with
back in town, I was actually in

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my bed one night.
I was laying down, just sitting

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there, dark fan going.
I was like, I just start like,

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do you know, just humming out
some tones and some tunes.

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And I was like, wait, that could
actually be cool.

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And then I was like, take me
down or Take Me Out where the

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rear flow started doing all
that.

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And I was like, I got to, I got
to record this.

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The little voice memo woke up
the next day.

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I was like, hey, hey, we need to
do something with this.

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And then I took it to him and he
was like, all right.

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And then we sat down, had that
song written what maybe an hour

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at most do that.
But Country to the Bone, it was

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like a 5 minute song where he
went in and he just wrote it out

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on piece of paper real quick.
Came out and said hey, I think I

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wrote wrote a good song.
I'm a big melody guy, so I I

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like to start with melodies most
of the time.

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Now I've written probably 1000
Co rides in Nashville where we

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do it different every single
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There's no, there is no secret
sauce or recipe to get a good

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song.
You know, you can start so many

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different ways and end up so
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but by the songs, by the time
the song is done, you know it,

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it always comes out really good.
It's just a it's a fun process

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to be a part of, especially Co
writing because there's so many

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different elements that you're
introduced to that you don't

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normally do yourself.
So, you know, 20 years ago,

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social media didn't really
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You probably only had one or two
ways of getting big as an

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artist.
Now social media exists.

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How how does that play a role in
what you all do?

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You know, utilizing social media
as a stream to get your music

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out there instead of just
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I think it, I really think it's
made it easier for artists to

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get their music out there
because posting on social media

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is free and you know, anybody
could do it.

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You just take the time to go out
there and make a 10/15 second

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video, post that thing, get in
on the For you page or explore

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page or something and you know
it.

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It just takes off from there
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It puts the ball in your court,
it gives you the option to get

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it out, get out there and just
work hard to get to it, which.

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I mean, an artist has to be
their own record label these

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days, you know, And so you have
to have to do all the social

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media marketing, you have to do
all the funding for it.

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And so I really feel like social
media is just made it so easy

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for artists to have a platform
where they can push their music

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out there to certain extent,
where where beforehand it wasn't

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possible with that record label.
So I think you, I think I've

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read where you've worked with
Dolly Parton's producer Kent

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Wells.
Tell me about that experience

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and maybe what that was like for
you all kind of stepping into

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that realm of kind of the next
level it.

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Was it was a pretty cool
experience.

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I worked with Kent for I would
say 2 years and I think we

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recorded 12 songs with him under
Lance Curtis.

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There's a few of them that's out
and stuff and then there's a few

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unreleased songs off that album
that we just haven't ever put

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them out there.
You know, I'm around that time

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on the end of working with Kemp.
We were starting to kick around

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the idea of breaking out into
land law.

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And so there's there's several
songs that are cut ready to go

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out there that the world may
never hear, you know, but they

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might.
We may pull them out one of

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these days, redo them or
something.

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I don't know, redo them as land
law.

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But it was a cool experience.
We got to step up our game.

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We got to start writing with
some bigger artists, some bigger

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writers, guys that write for
Jason Aldean, Brooks and Dunn.

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We've written with guys that
write for Brantley Gilbert and

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Maddie and Tay and, and just,
it's been, it's been a learning

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experience, you know, getting to
sit down in a room with them

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type of type of guys and writers
kick off ideas from each other.

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It's it's a really for real neat
experience that you just don't

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get rotten with everyone you
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It's a learning process and you
can build your craft from

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sitting down with guys like
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What's been some of the maybe
biggest obstacles for you all as

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as you know, you're you're still
out there grinding away.

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I'm sure you faced obstacles,
you know, week in and week out,

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but what's been some of the
biggest obstacles you face as

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you're trying to make a music
career out of this?

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I would say, I would say the
hate that we get on social media

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and it doesn't bother us
particularly.

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We we couldn't, we couldn't care
less if we get it or not.

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And honestly, it's better
sometimes that we do get it

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because pushes it out further.
But as far as labels and booking

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goes, some of these places are
wanting to book us.

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They go read our comments and
they think ain't nobody on Come

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to these guys show.
But that's.

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Not the case if you're.
At the case, if you're at the

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show, it is completely different
than that.

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We're we've been very blessed to
be bringing out five to 700

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people with show.
It's we.

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We've got people coming to your
country, to the bone, every

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single show we've played since
that, since we looked up.

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And so it's been, it's been a
love hate relationship with all

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that.
So what I've I haven't noticed

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or what has there been just like
trolls or something that are

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like on your guys's feeds or
what?

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What's the?
Long ago that'll every single

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video since the country to the
bones ever blew up.

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He'll just get on there.
I bet these guys make a mean

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grilled cheese.
Yeah, it it's just a bunch of

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trolls, a bunch of people that
are just having, I guess what

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their quote, UN quote idea of a
good time on social media.

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And we can take it I.
Mean playing with it.

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We grew up freaking country of
the bone man.

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So comment on social media is
not going to bother us.

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We got way bigger concerns on
them people.

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So but a lot of is a lot of is
trolls.

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We got put in hater groups and
stuff like that where people get

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professionally paid to leave a
comment like that.

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And I didn't know there was such
a thing till all this going on.

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But no, it's a, it's is what it
is, you know, and whether we're

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the country version and
Nickelback, you know what?

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Hey, that's a compliment in some
circles.

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Nickelbacks, you know, then sold
like 100 million albums.

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So they're not, they're doing
pretty something, right?

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I'm telling you, man, I'm
telling you.

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And so I called all the PR team,
all the guys working with us

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when this blew up and we were
getting somewhat of a positive

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feedback from it.
We are getting a lot of negative

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feedback from it.
And I was like, what do we do

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with this, you know, and are we
on the right path?

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Are we committing career suicide
by leaving this video up?

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And they're like, you guys are
doing exactly what you need to

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be doing.
Leave that video up and.

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Post some more the more.
Hate you get, the better you're

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going to be because everybody
wishes they got what you guys

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got right now.
Because, you know, if you're

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getting if you're getting
positive comments, chances are

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it's going to be tops, you know,
200 comments, people that really

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like, you know, but with the
haters on social media, and I

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think we live in a culture where
it's just acceptable to get on

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social media and just hate on
people, you know, and you'll get

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thousands and thousands of
comments a video like that.

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Well, that boosts the algorithm
and they just keep flooding from

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there, you know?
So in a weird way, we were kind

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of grateful for all of them
comments.

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Yeah, they took time to help you
get more views.

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Really.
Right.

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So what it what, what's next for
you all?

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I mean, I'm, I'm sure you got
big plans.

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What are some of the dreams and
aspirations that you know, you

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maybe look back five years from
now and you hope you'll be where

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in five years?
Honestly, I would say for me, I

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mean, I course venues, there's
certain venues that every artist

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wants to see and accomplish the
reach and part of that for my,

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I'd say my top three would be
like the Opry Stage.

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Obviously Red rocks.
There's I mean, they're red

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rocks, huh?
It's just a cool venue just to

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look at it.
You're like, man, I want to play

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there one day.
I'd say I'd have to go back to

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the Ryman also for that third
one.

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But just playing there and
honestly just being able to

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support my wife and I mean,
hopefully five years, we have

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some kids running around and
just being able to support the

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family doing what we love to do.
That's all that we really care

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about.
We got some work to do still.

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We still have to build our
numbers up.

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We have to get more people in
the seats and stuff at the

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shows.
So hopefully in the next 5 years

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we are wearing hot and heavy and
stuff.

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You know, it's been hit or miss
since Country of the Bone blew

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up on the tour dates.
Goes how we've been doing a lot

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of stuff in Texas here lately.
Still trying to build our fan

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base.
You know, you would think with

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30 million views and stuff, the
labels and big booking agencies

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would be signing in a heartbeat.
And we, we had meetings with

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them all and everything, but
they're like, you guys still

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have to get your numbers up.
And so I'm like down 30 million

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ain't enough.
So we, we got some work to do

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still to get everything built
up.

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But you know, we're not afraid
of work.

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We're going to, we're going to
hit it hard the next couple

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years.
We're going to get more music

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out there for our fan base and
we are going to get out in the

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road to see everybody and stuff.
Hopefully get to Alaska, see you

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sometime and the kids and get to
meet, meet, meet your group, you

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know, and we would love to get
to meet you guys in person.

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That's awesome.
What what's some advice you'd

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give to folks?
There's going to be lots of

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folks that watch this and maybe
they're just starting out with

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their dreams and aspirations.
Maybe some of them have music in

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mind.
Maybe some of them have

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businesses in mind.
I think hustle and grind plays

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into all that.
But what's some advice you'd get

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to somebody that's just starting
out that you know, maybe doesn't

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realize all the work that it
takes to get to even where

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you're at?
What's advice you can give to

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folks?
I would just say to never, if

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it's your goal and your dream,
to never give up on it, never

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let anybody push you away from
it, to keep your nose on the

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grindstone.
I mean, just keep, keep trucking

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forward because the ultimately,
if that's what you love, that's

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what you want to do.
There's nothing and nobody in

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this world that can stop you
from trying to achieve it.

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So just keep, keep going at it.
Keep working hard.

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And one of the one of these
days, those dreams will pay off.

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Yeah.
And don't, don't take one no as

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a no that you're never going to
make it.

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You know, I have seen with my
own eyes, we've done American

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Idol auditions, we've done voice
auditions.

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We have watched people walk in
labels and walk right out with

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without a deal.
You know, we're one of them.

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And you know, just because it's
a no at the end does not mean

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that that's the end of your
career.

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You have to keep your head up,
you have to keep it on the

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ground stone and just keep going
because if you believe in what

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you're doing, you're going to
eventually make other people

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believe in what you're doing.
Tell me about each one of you.

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Describe to me or tell me about
your favorite show that you

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played as to you know, to the to
this date, not maybe one that

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you want to play, but what's
been one of your favorite shows

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you've played and why?
That's a good question and

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trying to shuffle through the
thousands of shows we played

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throughout the years.
We I would say one of the more

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fun shows we play for a bigger
crowd would be the Colin Ray

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show with 10,000 people and that
was a that was a good show.

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It was hot as all get out that
day, though here it was raining.

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Hot chose.
Yeah, it rained right before the

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show and it delayed our sound
check to about 30 minutes till

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Showtime.
Well, we finally got up there

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and I was in.
I was in all black, like pants,

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shirt, hat on over shirt and
everything.

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And, you know, trying to look
the part.

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Well, by the time I got off the
stage, it was like I jumped in

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the swimming pool back behind
it.

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I mean, I was stopping wet.
It was a fun show though.

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There was a lot of people there.
There was a lot of people there

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and a lot of them came for us,
but most of them came for

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calling right You know, and so
that was that was probably top

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two, maybe some of them on the
list.

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I think the most fun show we've
had is land law.

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Where people has come for land
law would be College Station TX

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we played.
College Station or even in our

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hometown after, I mean, after we
blew up our hometown, we played

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a few shows here.
There was people.

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I mean, just man, we played one
show.

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The owner called us.
He's like, I don't know what I'm

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going to do, he says.
I've turned away 200 reservation

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phone calls for tonight, he
said.

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I'm absolutely packed out.
That was just the phone calls

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that were coming.
In.

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Yeah, he said.
We got there that night.

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There was a line out the door
about two hours long, people

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waiting to get in.
And I was like, man, I mean,

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this is one of those moments
where you're like, all right,

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this maybe this can take off and
go somewhere.

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So seeing all of our, seeing all
of our friends and family, our

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friends and family at the show
and people we ain't seen in a

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long time coming out supporting
and singing word for word, that

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was pretty cool.
And it wasn't just a hometown.

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You know, at that show, we had
people drive in six hours.

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We had people coming from
Nashville, there's people that

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came from Fayetteville, I'm
pretty sure some people that

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came from Texas and everybody
was just driving and coming out

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to see us.
And so it was, it was cool.

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I mean, it was the first time in
our career where to see that big

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of a turn out and that many
people singing word by word.

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You know, it was, it was one of
them things where you're like, I

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think we're, I think we're doing
something right here, you know,

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and it just, it makes you feel
good as an artist, makes you

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feel even better as a songwriter
that you wrote a song that

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people are relating and
connecting to.

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That's awesome.
It's, you know, it sounds like

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where y'all are from your
hometown, they're very

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supportive of what y'all are
doing.

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What's that feel like to have
the support of your kind of

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hometown crowd?
I mean, it feels really good.

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I think we've worked really hard
for a lot of years to kind of

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win over the town.
Since I started so early, you

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know, I was playing shows in the
town and stuff.

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It took a took a little bit to
kind of win over the town.

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I think this year is really been
a turning point for us.

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But you know, it's, it's so
funny because when I was in high

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school playing football and
everything, country music was

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not the big thing then.
You know, I liked it, but I was

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probably one of the only few
people in school that like

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country music.
And so all my friends are like,

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why aren't you singing rap music
or anything like that?

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And I'm like, do you hear the
Southern draw on me, man?

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You know, that ain't going to
work.

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But it's so funny that now all
the kids in high school are

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these guys I went to school with
this, their younger siblings and

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cousins and all that.
And they're huge land law fans.

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I mean, they're making cardboard
cutouts of our heads and all

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that, taking them every pep
rally, they're playing our song

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at every game and stuff.
And so it's, it's really cool to

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see.
It's just a big, you know, it's

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like 1 of them comeback moments,
you know, like, hey, I, I was

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once here in your position and
now, now we're getting to come

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back and seeing some success and
stuff here.

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It's it's cool.
That's awesome.

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Does faith play a role in in
anything you all do, and if if

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so, how and why?
Faith plays a role in everything

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we do, man.
That's a we wouldn't be where we

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were without our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ first and foremost.

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I mean, I, we've been in church.
I've been in church ever since I

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was a four year old.
Our dad's a Baptist pastor, been

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at this church for going on 19
years now.

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So I have grown up in it.
I was saved when I was four

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years old is not anything that
anybody told me.

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Hey, you need to get saved right
now.

444
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,720
In fact, I was in my room
playing one night.

445
00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:57,960
I mean, I remember this like as
yesterday.

446
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,000
I was playing and had all the
toys scattered out, everything.

447
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,320
I walked into the living room.
I looked at my mom laying on the

448
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,280
couch and said, mom, my heart
hurts.

449
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,280
She says, well, well, all right.
Do you need?

450
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,400
What do you need?
Do you need this, this?

451
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,160
No, no.
We'll just go back into your

452
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,080
room and play.
Maybe it'll get a little better.

453
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,000
Well, I walked back in there and
came back out 20 minutes later.

454
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,160
Mom, my heart hurts.
Oh, what's going on?

455
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,160
We finally got to talk and she's
asking me all these questions.

456
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,200
I'm like, no, no, no.
And then finally I said, I think

457
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,800
I need to be saved.
It was, I mean, it was just one

458
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,240
of those deals where I was four
years old, but I knew.

459
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,680
And dad was going to seminary
school in Oxford, Ms. at that

460
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,600
time.
So he was already in the car

461
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,360
driving to go up to school, get
his.

462
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:51,520
He's got a doctorate in Bible
languages and he was in the car

463
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,720
with his buddies.
So she called and said, hey, I

464
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,360
think you might want to come
home.

465
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,200
And he's like, wow, what's going
on?

466
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,400
So he turned around, drove back
home, they dropped him off and

467
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,240
he we sat here in the living
room for about two hours.

468
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,480
And I mean, they're hounding as
much as anyone can hound A4 year

469
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:14,280
old about what asking me all
these questions on is this is

470
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:16,240
what you're feeling this, this,
this.

471
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,800
And I'm answering every one of
them.

472
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,400
I'm like, yeah, I know what I
need.

473
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,960
I need Jesus as my Lord and
savior.

474
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,400
I need him in my life.
So at four years old, I knelt

475
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,760
down in the then our living room
at the coffee table and prayed

476
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,440
and ask God to come into my
heart and to live in me.

477
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,760
And I believe that I know that
he's still living in me today

478
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,600
just as much as he was then.
So I carry from everywhere and I

479
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:46,200
tried to try to show him through
the the way that I live my life

480
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,440
because like I said, without
him, man, we're we're nothing.

481
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,320
That's awesome.
That on the way he said, you

482
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:57,280
know, I feel like with our
music, you know, the Lord has

483
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,040
helped us so much and without
our faith, you know, we, we

484
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,560
wouldn't be able to make it
through what we make, what we

485
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,120
get through and stuff in the
music business without him.

486
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:10,880
Man, there's so many, so many
good people out there that just

487
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,440
don't know the Lord.
And they, they have a hard time,

488
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:18,560
they struggle, you know, and
we're not here on this earth to

489
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,000
force anybody to come across,
but we are here to tell them

490
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:28,280
about Christ and show them how,
tell them how better their lives

491
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,800
can be through the way you live
your life.

492
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,080
And I think that's a big staple
of what landlord music is about.

493
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,440
That's why we write the way we
do.

494
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:43,160
We write about values, family
values, Christian values and,

495
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:49,600
you know, Southern values.
And with that said, you know,

496
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:55,080
when we, when we go out play the
show, we, we take the Lord with

497
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,120
us and everything we do, you
know, if we're in a, if we're in

498
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,240
the smoky bar, we, we got the
Lord right there with us, you

499
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,520
know, and we're singing country
music in there and they're

500
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,720
seeing Christ in the example
that we set in that setting.

501
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,920
And so.
You can ask any guy that's ever

502
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,920
played a instrument for us in
our band.

503
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,280
I mean, even even if they're not
used to it, we'll pull them up,

504
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,120
say hey guys, we're going to
pray y'all and jump on in this.

505
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,480
Let's let's pray before we get
up on stage and we'll sit there

506
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,800
on the corner stage and pray and
then go on up player show.

507
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,960
And I, I think a lot of times it
helps kill the nerves and it

508
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,640
helps the show be a little bit
better and tighter, you know,

509
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,840
and you know, the Lord just
helps you out when, when you got

510
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,040
the Lord on your side.
That's awesome.

511
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:52,160
Does does your thoughts of your
grandpa keep you guys going as

512
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:53,480
well?
I know that he was a big

513
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,040
influence in your life.
How much does that play into

514
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,200
kind of keeping you going
because, you know, do you think

515
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:05,320
he's looking down proud of what
you guys are accomplished so

516
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,000
far?
Talk to me a little bit about

517
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,840
how that legacy.
I don't know.

518
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:14,760
He is he.
He had the most solid chance to

519
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,720
make it in country music when he
was down here.

520
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:22,080
During this time he had a, he
had a voice like Don Williams.

521
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,840
He could play guitar like
nobody's business and he could

522
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,080
play piano like Jerry Lee Lewis.
And that's cool.

523
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:33,720
During the during the rockabilly
times and stuff, he would, he

524
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,160
would have done some really big
things and he did do some big

525
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,640
things.
He he was really good buddies

526
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,280
with Marvel Felts and they done,
done a bunch of shows together

527
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,520
and all that.
But as far as getting the label

528
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,800
in Nashville, he never got the,
he never got to see that.

529
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,800
He went over to Nashville a few
times.

530
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:58,440
He made some records and he was
going through a divorce and then

531
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,920
some family things and it just,
it kind of put a halt on him and

532
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,440
stuff as far as that.
And he continued the rest of his

533
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,440
career and stuff playing,
playing shows down here in

534
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:16,280
Arkansas, but never forgot to
take it out on the road as big

535
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,160
as he wanted to.
So I think with us, the last

536
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:24,160
show he got to see me play was
a, we did a Gospel award show.

537
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:31,040
It was in Missouri.
And he came out to that and man,

538
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:35,280
he was proud then if I thought
he'd be proud now, because, you

539
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,240
know, as far as we've taken this
as big of a reach as we have now

540
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,520
and as me shows that we're
playing all across the country,

541
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,680
you know, we're we're getting to
live out his dream through us

542
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,720
and our dream too, and getting
to accomplish it.

543
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,560
You know, I know how he's
looking down proud.

544
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,440
That's awesome.
So what's next for Land Law?

545
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,080
Tell me about what's next on the
horizon.

546
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:02,560
Do you guys have the tour coming
up?

547
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,080
New songs dropping?
New album dropping?

548
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,520
Tell me all the juicy details.
Absolutely, man.

549
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,440
So we've got a new song called
Over Yonder that we wrote with

550
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,680
the Swan Brothers.
They were on Blake Shelton's

551
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,760
team of The Voice, and they do a
lot of stuff now with Blake.

552
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,840
They just have a new song that
they wrote that got on Blake's

553
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,040
new record.
Recreational.

554
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:30,080
Use that album and it's a it's a
great song.

555
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,600
So if you guys get the chance,
they are watching this to go

556
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,840
check that album out, listen to
that song.

557
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,600
I know they would.
All of my love.

558
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,280
That's the one they wrote back.
I think it's #9 on there 8 or 9.

559
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,960
We we wrote that with them boys
and we just signed a

560
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,760
distribution deal with the
label.

561
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,520
We're still independent artists,
but we've got a deal that

562
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:54,400
hopefully pushes the music out
bigger and further than what we

563
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,200
ever could.
And so, but we've got that deal

564
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,080
going.
And so as soon as the label sets

565
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,240
up the date, we're hoping they
start getting that new single on

566
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,600
Spotify playlist on the
editorials like today's country

567
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,560
music and all that stuff and
just take it really big.

568
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:17,440
So we're hoping that the year of
2026 is our year that really

569
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,120
skyrockets everything from where
we're at now.

570
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:25,000
We've got that going on.
We've got some ending tour dates

571
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,480
that we're we're going to be
finishing up this year.

572
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:34,280
Playing Texas, I know two or
three times, man, we, we just

573
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,120
got back from Texas, met some
nice folks over there.

574
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,680
I know this is a little post of
stuff that we've been doing, but

575
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,000
we were supposed to go down to
Texas for two shows in Lubbock

576
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,960
and then ended up hitting a
coyote on the way there.

577
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,160
Broke our fuel pump.
We got stuck in days.

578
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,600
I feel like that's a country
song right there.

579
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,560
Yeah, that's right.
We were out in the middle of the

580
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:02,280
Four Sixes Ranch, 200,000 acres
had no like absolutely.

581
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,360
There's not a gas station, not
nothing around, no cell phone

582
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,840
service, anything.
But we got stuck in Lubbock for

583
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,440
10 days, had some people pick us
up, take us there, tow truck, We

584
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,120
got the vehicle.
We we hitchhiked an hour and a

585
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:21,360
half to Lubbock.
While we were there, we ended up

586
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,239
playing the shows in Lubbock and
then met some really nice folks

587
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:30,360
from Carlsbad, NM.
So we got to go down to New

588
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,320
Mexico and play some shows and
actually I believe we're going

589
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,560
to be playing some pretty good
stuff coming up down there too.

590
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,480
So we've got some got some stuff
cooking.

591
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,679
This up this year we got a few
Arkansas shows, we got a few

592
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:50,719
College Station, TX shows, a few
Texican Court shows, which is an

593
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,840
urban Texas.
We got some shows in Lubbock, TX

594
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,880
to finish out the year.
And then we are booking up real

595
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:03,040
hot and heavy for next year 2026
and hopefully getting some big

596
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,520
Rd. shows coming out that we're
going to be doing some big

597
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,520
festivals and all that.
That's what we're looking

598
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,600
forward to hopefully booking
those.

599
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:17,520
And we are in the process of
trying to find some sponsors as

600
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,600
well.
So if anybody knows any

601
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,080
companies that are looking for a
tax write off, help us with some

602
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,200
gas or something and we would
love to talk to you about that.

603
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,440
Nice.
Well I appreciate you guys

604
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,040
joining us here. 40 minutes has
gone by in a flash.

605
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,640
Do you guys have any last minute
thoughts before we head off?

606
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,840
And.
I appreciate you.

607
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,880
Having us and we would love to
love to come out to the Alaska

608
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,880
Place show for you guys and
stuff, get to meet you and the

609
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,120
kids.
Maybe go?

610
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,840
Get some fishing also also we
need we're going to need you to

611
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,200
send us some information because
we're going to get your get your

612
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:58,480
kids some stuff some landlord
yeah we have merchandise as well

613
00:35:58,480 --> 00:35:59,920
month.
Are they in there right now?

614
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,600
We got merchandise on our shop,
our website, it's.

615
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,520
Land Law.
Music.

616
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,800
And so we, we got all that
stuff.

617
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,400
We got T-shirts, hats, hoodies,
winners coming in and Alaska,

618
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,680
man, you can't go wrong with
hoodie, right?

619
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,360
So, but but no, we, we got all
the merch and stuff.

620
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,640
We've got new music coming out.
We've got, you know, just a lot

621
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,480
of big things in the works for
this year.

622
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:31,200
So but man, thank you.
Thank you again for having us.

623
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,720
We have really enjoyed talking
to you today.

624
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,720
Yeah, I appreciate you guys
coming on.

625
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:40,120
For folks listening in, I'll put
all the links to the website and

626
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,240
the merch and all that kind of
stuff in the description.

627
00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:46,200
So feel free to check that out.
And thank you so much and

628
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,320
landlord for joining us.
You're welcome back anytime.

629
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,600
I hope you have a great rest of
your day.