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Jake Owen Says Morgan Wallen May Have Too Many Songs? · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Uh, excited to have this guy in studio. He just put out a
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  brand spanking new album. But we're just catching up on life with Jaco and
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  how you've been. What's up, man, I've been really good. I've
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  been busy and been good. Though. I gotta say you look well rested,
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  like do I Yeah, Oh that's good. I appreciate it. Here
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  I am my buddy told me last time, he said that he thought I've
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  had a good energy. He was like, dude, your energy is good
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  right now. You like you feel good? I was like, I feel
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  I feel really good. Yeah. Having pro for the summertime is um is
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  fun for me because uh yeah, she's in school all year, so to
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  spend some time on the road with her and UM and yeah, I just
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  enjoy it. I just think I feel better anyways in the summertime. It's
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  kind of what I grew up loving. So yeah, at one, let's
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  be honest, Jaco and music, for some reasons, has always screamed summertime.
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  It was better in the summer. Yeah, right, I want to
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  dive into the new album in a second, But what what have you been
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  up to outside of music, Because obviously, dad life is fantastic but but
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  what else to catch people up on all things Jake Owen, Man, I've
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  been doing all kinds of stuff outside of the music, um, trying to
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  be you know, I like to be a good friend of people. So
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  I just always like being there for my friends and doing things where I don't
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  come across as a guy that always is the center of attention, you know.
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  I try to do things for others. So I've been doing that.
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  I've been playing golf. I'm playing a lot of golf. I've got some
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  golf tournaments coming up. I'm gonna play in this celebrity Tahoe thing out in
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  Tahoe. I played that last year, so that's coming up in a couple
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  of weeks. And other than that, just playing shows on the road and
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  stay busy. Well, I gotta ask you, it's I'm gonna come back
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  to the charitable Jake Owen, who's doing stuff for others. But I gotta
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  ask I see on social media you golf with our our morning guy, Bobby
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  Bones. Yeah, we see the pictures and we see some videos every now
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  and again, but we never get the outcome shared with the outcomes. How
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  do how does Jake versus Bobby Pan out. We never play, We never
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  play like against each other. Just go out and play some golf and have
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  fun. But uh, Bobby, Bobby's getting a lot better. Actually,
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  he's a he's a good athlete. He's got a good golf swing. He's
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  lefty, so it's hard to kind of correlate, like this is how you
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  do it from my side of the fence. Yeah, but he's he hits
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  a good he hits a good. God, I gotta get out there.
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  I can't tell you the last time if you gotta get out there. If
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  you were like, hey, let's go golfing, I'd be like, can
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  I use your Let's go golfing, But like I don't even have clubs?
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  Can use yours? Yeah? Yeah, you can't take me through A show
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  happened not long ago that Darius Rucker has put a lot of time and efforts
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  over the years his annual Darius and Friends show for saying Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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  Uh, obviously, country music and saying jud go hand in hand together,
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  So duh if if they invite you. But when it comes to working
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  with Darius on something that he's really put his his heart into it. For
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  the last thirteen twelve thirteen years. Yeah, what was that like to be
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  a part of the lineup that lineup? And what do those shows mean to
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  you? Because you get to enjoy him as a in a little bit too,
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  right, Yeah, there's so many others that you look forward to seeing
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  here and playing. Um and I did that night for sure. But as
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  I mentioned a little bit ago, um, you know, doing stuff for
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  other people is always what is more gratifying than than just being selfish doing things
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  for yourself. And I think in our business a lot of us as artists
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  can be un can ride the line of sometimes being a little selfish and it
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  always being about us and what we're doing. So to help a friend out
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  who's he's helped me many times before too with my foundation and friends. Helping
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  friends raise awareness and money for a great cause is always is always what I
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  would rather be thought of as down the road because those are the things people
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  remember well. So let me ask you that is that something you because you've
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  had I don't want to say a long career because it sounds like I'm calling
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  you old and I'm definitely not doing that, but but uh, the length
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  of time you've had in country music and creating music is a charitable side,
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  something that you learn as you go, because obviously you don't. You get
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  into this because you love it. You want to make music, this is
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  what you want to do for a living. At what point your careers are
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  like, Man, I could I could do more than just write the music
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  and create the music, Like, I can make a difference outside of that.
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  Well, I bet I've had a record deal now for you know,
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  sixteen years maybe, and I bet for a little over ten or eleven of
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  those we've had the foundation. So I think like the first five years of
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  my career, I was kind of trying to, you know, figure it
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  all out. And that's understandable for a lot of young artists. But I
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  think it's really important to also let people know that the sooner the better to
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  start. You have a voice and you can do anything. You can help
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  anyone any place. It's just a matter of using your passion and your voice
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  and your platform to the best that you can outside of music, and I
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  always encourage people to do that. I know it's been really fulfilling for me
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  and my family in my hometown, and the people we've been able to help
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  that have been affected by are not not my help. I mean, I'm
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  just a piece of it. But our community comes together and we do great
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  things every year, and I do and I wouldn't be able to do without
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  good friends like Darius And we've had Jimmy Buffett, I've had Florida, Georgia,
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  Line, a little, big town, you name it. I'm forgetting
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  people that Tracy Lawrence last year, Alabama, Randy Owen. I mean,
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  those people have given their time for free to come and help to raise money
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  for better and bigger calls. And uh, I just man, I feel
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  like I want to do the same for other people. On top of that,
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  And I'm influenced this by the fact that your daughter is hanging with you
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  today. How important is it for you to Obviously you want your children to
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  see like you work hard and you're out there creating a living and creating a
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  life, But how how important is it for you artists aside just as a
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  dad, for for your kids to see like, Hey, this this part
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  is nice and it's cool to have a record deal in place shows, but
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  like making a difference is a big deal. Yeah that I think she knows
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  that she's seen me talk to her about the importance of being good for other
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  people. She's really kind too. For all, I talk about her like
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  she's not sitting here, But even when her teachers write up her reports and
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  talk about how she's the one in the class who's kind and looks out for
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  others and takes care of people. I think that character, trait, and
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  quality is something that no matter what you do in your life, whether you're
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  a singer or whether she decides to do whatever she wants to do. No
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  matter what you do or you may be defined as by a profession, that
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  doesn't mean that you can't be defined as like a kind human that takes care
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  of other people. And so that's the first thing that I think that I
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  try to teach her as a as a child and um, and she's been
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  great. She's seen us do a lot of really good things for other kids,
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  UM, and and people that she knows that she's really fortunate to grow
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  up this way. UM, so it's important for us to help those that
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  aren't as fortunate. Uh. Let's jump into the new album just came out,
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  Loose Cannon. What are some of the songs that that fans are gravitating
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  to more than others? Are some that are like you scroll to social media.
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  Yeah, I got a really good response from a lot of people about
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  Um about the record, which is really flattering for me. Um scrolling through
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  social media, it's funny you say that. Uh. The other day I
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  asked some people about like what they were digging on, like what they like,
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  and there's been a lot of really consistent reviews. Um. Just reading
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  right now, it's a lot of people like it don't he Won't You Do,
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  which is kind of a slower, real country song, which is surprising
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  for me. Um. But the ending is getting a lot of credits.
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  Somewhere South with Rum, which was written by Jordan Davis, a really good
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  friend of mine. He sent that to another great golfer. Yeah, good
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  golfer, but man, a lot of them. Hopeless is one that's really
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  good. Hearts and habits on the Boat Again. People like on the Boat
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  Again too, So but no, I've got great reviews and it's really really
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  fulfilling and flattering to know that, because it's really nervous to put out an
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  album that you know, you don't know people are gonna like it or not
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  so and people always judge you based off your last record, like is it
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  gonna be as good? As the last one. So when people told me
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  that they were getting like Barefootblue g Night vibes off this new record, I
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  was like, cool, then we did our job. I'm cool with that
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  because I made a couple of bucks off of Barefootblue Ga Night Zone go Forth.
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  Yeah, I don't even know if it's about the bucks as much as
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  it was about, you know, just getting great momentum from an album that
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  people genuinely like, lived with, they loved it, they identified with it.
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  And that's what you try to do when you make an album, do
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  you when you go in the studio you say that people are getting vibes off
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  of a song that's been massive for your career. That's not a goal though,
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  right, Like, hey, we need to get in the studio and
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  make another Barefootblues Unite or this needs a feeling. Yeah, now, we
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  don't even even reference that as much as it's just about like great songs.
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  Like I was telling someone this earlier, like I wrote an incredible amount of
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  songs that I did not record for my album, and they're good, but
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  they're not as good as the ones I put on my album. So I
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  always will put the better song at the time when you put them all together
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  and you read them out, the best songs win. And I think that
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  is what has helped me in my career throughout all these years is I've really
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  tried to record great songs and they don't always work. Not everyone everyone loves
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  everything, but that's art in general. But if you can consistently just put
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  out a great song and a great lyric, a great message, I think
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  people resonate with that. There's sixteen songs on the new album, which is
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  available everywhere including the iHeart Radio app. Yeah, thank you guys, by
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  the way, But why sixteen? Because I feel like everybody there's artists that
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  are like, here's one hundred and seventeen songs, I'm a new project.
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  And then there's some artists that are like, hey, here's eight, here's
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  ten. Why what? Why sixteen? Yeah? I took the seventeen fulle
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  off? That makes sense? Did you? But do you have a target?
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  Like an odd number? You know? So why not? Do you
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  don't have a goal though? Right? You're like, hey, we're just
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  gonna throw all these songs together and whichever one stick they stick. I don't.
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  I mean, I always have a goal of putting the best album together
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  possible, and I probably had another five or six that I could have put
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  on there. But at some point, too much, you know, too
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  much music's too much music, you know, people just have enough time to
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  like for instance, like, um, the other day I was listening in
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  Morgan Wallen's album is so great obviously and everyone knows, everyone's talking about it
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  and whatever. There's a lot of songs on it, and the other day
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  I heard a song was like I even heard this song yet, and that
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  album has been out for a while, you know, so it's like taking
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  me this long to digest it. And I think people have lives, people
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  have and then less you're Morgan Wallen with like that type of attention span on
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  you. I thought like sixteen was a good and good number where it was
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  more than usual, but not like too much where you know, you got
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  to sit in the car for three days for an extra a few days.
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  So I just thought, hey, I can I can give them more,
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  you know, in another six months or so. Well, that's the thing
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  when it comes to it. People. It feels like EPs are coming more
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  popular now. Old Dominia just put on an EP the other day that kind
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  of let them rest in between an album cycle. But also deluxe editions are
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  a big deal now. So if you got like an extra five song sitting
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  around, boom, we got a deluxe edition. Yeah, man, I'm
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  just again. I'm about putting out good songs. If it's four of them,
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  cool, put out four of them. If it's forty of them,
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  I doubt that you can have forty awesome songs all that once. But if
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  you can put them out, but just make sure it's quality, make sure
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  people are going to dig it, and make sure that it's about the music
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  and not just like trying to put something out there. And I'll tell you
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  there's something versus the last time we talked to you, which you were aunt
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  about your music. I feel like you're in a different headspace career wise.
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  I mean maybe you feel like you're thinking more clear or I don't know,
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  it feels like you're you're really enjoying every step more than ever unless I'm way
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  off, uh no, I mean I guess you're attentive, which is cool.
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  And I don't know when the last time I chatted with you where it
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  may have seemed different. It's probably like a year maybe a year probably year
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  ago. A year ago. It is definitely in a different place in my
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  life. You know, I've just worked. I've gone through this business from
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  the kid that no one knew who he was to people knowing who I was.
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  And then then once you get to be known and you've had a good
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  career, then the rest of your career is about like like maintaining it right.
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  So I've gone through is like a lot of things that a lot of
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  artists like you cannot go through unless you go through a long, extended career.
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  So yeah, I would say I'm for sure fired up to be where
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  I am in my life right now, and I'm grateful more than anything,
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  I think for what I've done. So I'm just trying to be happy man,
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  just make good music and enjoy my family and realize that like this is
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  pretty awesome, pretty awesome life. Last thing I want to ask is the
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  album is out. People are well consuming, digesting however you want to talk
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  about music, they're doing it with your sixteen songs. Do you get to
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  enjoy the work that you've put into these? Are you kind of thinking down
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  the road already, like, Hey, I know there's more songs I got,
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  I know I want to get them out. Are you already thinking in
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  the future. Are you kind of like I'll get to that when I get
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  to that. No, no, no, I'm already to that. I'm
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  already yeah. Yeah, Like I did what I needed to do for this
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  album and get it out in the timeframe that you know, it's a business,
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  so like people, there's all people involved things that we're all trying to
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  work on. But we did it and we put it out there and now
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  people have it and they can listen to it. So I'm now I'm on
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  what's next? Right, Like, I don't just say I'm not sitting around
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  right now going cool. I got some time to just chill. I you
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  only have a window in your life to like be the best and put out
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  the best stuff you can. So I gotta work. I gotta get back
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  to work. Now you swung the club. Now you're watching the ball fly
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  getting ready for the next. Well, it's kind of like with golf.
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  You use that as an analogy. Um, you know, if I went
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  out today and played golf and I shot sixty four, you know, like
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  eight under apart or something like career round. Like I don't think I could
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  just like put my sticks down my clubs and be like, well, I'm
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  good for another year or so, like I because this is what I this
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  is all I've been wanting to do is shoot the best score I've ever shot.
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  Yeah. No, I think like what it makes you do is is
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  like you're like, I want to play tomorrow, you know, I want
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  to Like I can't wait to what's next? Like what am I gonna do
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  tomorrow? And usually what you do next isn't Now you're gonna be as good
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  as what you just did the day before. But it's the chase that like
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  keeps you coming act And that's that's what I'm doing. I love it,
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  Jake, And thanks for stopping by, brother, Yeah man, see you guys,