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Takin’ A Walk Nashville: Tyler Nance on His Journey from Farmer to Music City Artist and Viral Sensation · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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  Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: Hi everyone, this is Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking
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  Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville, and today I am here with Missouri
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  Speaker 2: native and Nashville artist Tyler Nance. His first single, bad News,
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  Speaker 2: went viral last year and his debut EP, Wasted Chances
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  Speaker 2: has amassed over four million streams. Today, we are here
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  Speaker 2: at the Creator Studio in the Gulch area to talk
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  Speaker 2: about his new music and what's ahead. Tyler, thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much for being on Taking a Walk Nashville today.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we have the CMA Awards tomorrow. I saw
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  Speaker 2: last night you were playing at Whiskey Jam. What else
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  Speaker 2: do you have going on during this crazy CMA week?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I I played keeps Me Saying or Saying Keeps
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  Speaker 1: Me Saying with the Castello's last night at their Skydeck appearance,
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  Speaker 1: and then later Thursday I'll be playing Whiskey Jam at Derk.
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  Speaker 2: Spentley's fans can definitely look forward to this Friday when
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  Speaker 2: they can hear the recording new recording of it Keeps
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  Speaker 2: Me Saying with the Castellos. So what was it like
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  Speaker 2: working with them on this new version of your song?
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  Speaker 1: It was honestly pretty simple. I mean, I didn't recut vocals.
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  Speaker 1: They just came in to brit mccholo's studio and did
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  Speaker 1: their thing and worked their magic, and it got done
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  Speaker 1: pretty quick. And then next thing you know, we're doing
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  Speaker 1: a music video together for the song. So yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a great mashup. I
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  Speaker 2: love the song and I can't wait to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk about how you got started and music.
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  Speaker 2: You were raised in a small town as a fourth
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  Speaker 2: generation farmer and later employed as a welder before you
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  Speaker 2: made the move to pursue music full time in Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: So what made you fully made the decision to move
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  Speaker 2: to Nashville and just do music full time.
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  Speaker 1: So I was I was working in South Dakota at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and I just signed my distro deal with
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  Speaker 1: sant Ana Almo, and then bad news blew up and
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  Speaker 1: whenever I came to Nashville for the first time and
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  Speaker 1: I flew back, and then I was offered a publishing
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  Speaker 1: deal through Platinum Grammar, and so I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: might as well quit my job. So my twenty first birthday,
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  Speaker 1: I quit my job and moved back home for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months and then pulled my camper out to Franklin,
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky and stayed there for a little bit til I
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  Speaker 1: moved out to into Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: And welders have such early hours, So what has the
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  Speaker 2: transition been like from waking up so early to now
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  Speaker 2: playing late night gigs?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was it was kind of late nights
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  Speaker 1: and early mornings whenever I was whenever I was welding.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean it's kind of the you know, same
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  Speaker 1: sort of idea with music, you know, I was, I
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  Speaker 1: was playing last night with the Castlows and had to
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  Speaker 1: wake up at five o'clock this morning to five point
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  Speaker 1: thirty this morning to meet people with the radio.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, and it's worth it for the dream,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, you know, it's it's tiring, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, you just got to take it day by
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  Speaker 1: day and that's all you can do.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And who have some of your influence has been
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  Speaker 2: growing up.
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  Speaker 1: Keith Willie, you know, Elvis, you know, rock and roll, country,
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  Speaker 1: old country, just all of those genres really influenced me
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  Speaker 1: with writing and my creativity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely something I can hear in your music
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  Speaker 2: and you're currently working on your first full length album.
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  Speaker 2: What has the process been like working on your new album?
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  Speaker 1: You know the reason? I mean, there's seventeen songs on
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  Speaker 1: the album, but that's I've been writing like non stop
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  Speaker 1: since I since I uh moved to this area, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we were like trying to pick out which
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  Speaker 1: ones were the best. And I have so many songs
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  Speaker 1: that I've written that were like, why not just make
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  Speaker 1: it a seventeen song album, Like what's might as well?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we got the we got the material, so
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  Speaker 1: it's it's been it's been pretty good. You know. We've well,
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  Speaker 1: I've been I've just been writing and then in the
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  Speaker 1: studio in and out and working with these guys make
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  Speaker 1: sure it's how I want it to sound.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, very cool. Will that be released next year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Next year in the in the spring.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. And you co wrote or wrote all of the
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  Speaker 2: songs on the album.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I usually just try to at least go in
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  Speaker 1: every single time into a room with some sort of
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  Speaker 1: idea to write about. And that's what these songs started
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  Speaker 1: all started to be was just a thought and thought
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  Speaker 1: while I was driving or in the shower in bed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then I just take it, take it
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  Speaker 1: to some great writers to help complete that thought.
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  Speaker 2: You know, do you ever have song ideas from your
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  Speaker 2: welding experience?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, no doubt maybe not like just talking
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  Speaker 1: about welding, but you know a lot of my earlier
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  Speaker 1: written songs were a lot about working on the road
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  Speaker 1: and road dogging. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very cool and very authentic. As far as touring,
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  Speaker 2: you have shared stages with Justin Moore, Baker Blankenship, and
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  Speaker 2: now you're going to be support on Ian Munsei's upcoming
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  Speaker 2: tour in twenty twenty six. Are you excited to go
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  Speaker 2: on the road next.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm super excited to start getting in front of
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  Speaker 1: fans and also just you know, growing my audience and listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a certain stop you're looking most forward to
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  Speaker 2: or just the whole tour.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to mostly just the whole tour, like
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  Speaker 1: the some of the locations I've never been and I've
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  Speaker 1: been looking forward to seeing that in my life.
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  Speaker 2: So well, fans can purchase tickets now for your twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six tour and look forward to your new album.
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  Speaker 2: Since we are on taking a walk Nashville, I always
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  Speaker 2: love to ask my guests this question, Tyler, do you
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  Speaker 2: have a favorite place you like to take a walk
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  Speaker 2: in Nashville or just a favorite place in Nashville to visit.
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  Speaker 2: It's like near Franklin, like the downtown. It's Franklin area.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that area is pretty and I
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  Speaker 1: just don't wherever there's nature, just walk walk around there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so many great parks in Franklin too, there are.
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  Speaker 1: There's just it's a pretty area in general, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, is the music video the full music video
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  Speaker 2: for keeps Me Sane? Is that coming out on Friday
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  Speaker 2: as well?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, same same time as the song drops.
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  Speaker 2: I believe so wonderful. Well, we are looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: hearing the new version with the Castellos. Tyler. I hope
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  Speaker 2: you have a great week with the CMA Awards. We're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward for everything that's ahead for you in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. Thank you so much for being on Taking
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  Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for listening to Taking a Walk Nashville with
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