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Tyler Hubbard Has A New Side Hustle, New Music Too · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Tyler Hubbard has been a minute, my dude, I was life treating you.
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  Man. I'm so good, buddy, I'm doing awesome. How are
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  you? I can't complain, I can't. Honestly, life is good.
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  The weather's turning the corner in Nustville here, so we will take it.
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  This is the time of year. Yeah, dude, spring is here.
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  Fantastic music news coming from you. But I want to start with how crazy
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  has this ride been for you since kind of the relaunch of your career,
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  because literally, you didn't It's like you haven't missed a beat. Does it
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  feel that ways, buddy? In some ways it does, Man, it
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  feels really good. I feel like I found my rhythm. I feel like
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  I'm re energized. I'm remotivated and inspired, and I got to really give
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  that up to the fans. You know, I've been out all last year
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  after putting out my debut album. I was out on the road kind of
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  getting to you know, meet my fans if you will, for the first
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  time and just really feel the connection, feel the support for the love.
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  And so yeah, man, I'm in a great place. I'm excited about
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  this next album, and you know, life is good. Family, is
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  good. Music is music is good. So yeah, I just feel like
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  I'm kind of in a rhythm. Man, I'm thankful for it. Uh,
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  collaborations are hot in country music, and man, you're you're a part
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  of really what helped them come back to life, right, and whether it
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  was Nelly, Tim McGraw, Luke Bryant, Jason Derulo, right, yeah,
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  yeah, is there Have you thought about the collaboration pool and dipping your
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  toe back into it? And yeah, I have. Man, you know,
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  I've been very intentional with these my debut album and now my second album
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  to h to do no collaborations, you know. But it was hard for
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  me because I love I love that process. I love making music with friends.
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  But I just felt that it was really important because technically I've made I've
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  always collaborated my whole entire career. You know, if it wasn't with another
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  artist, it was with BK. And that's kind of what I was used
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  to. So I felt like it was important to really figure out who I
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  was on my own and make music that reflects that. But now, dude,
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  yeah, I'm really to a to a spot now where if I'm not
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  there, I'm really close to wanting to get back into the collaboration game.
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  And uh, you know, it's got to be the right song, the
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  right artists, and the right team. But when that time comes, I
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  think I'm ready. Who are not saying you have the song sitting there waiting
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  now. But when you listen to country radio, or when you're you know,
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  scrolling through like some of the new songs coming out, or watching an
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  award show, who are artists that you're like when I'm ready to hop back
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  in the deep end. I'm not to hit you. Jack Harlow, He's
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  not a country guy, but I love Jack Harlow. I love what he's
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  doing, I love his music. I'm a big fan. I'm kind of
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  kidding, but I'm actually not kidding at all. I'd love to work with
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  him at some point. But as far as as far as uh, the
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  country music community goes, you know, there's a lot of people that I
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  really respect and love what they're doing. You know, I got a big
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  heart for Jelly Roll. I love his I love who he is. I
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  think he'd be fun to work with at some point. I think Hardy.
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  I've loved Hardy and you know, as a creative for a long time and
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  as a person. I think he'd be great to work with in some capacity.
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  I mean, the list goes on and on, dude. I mean,
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  honestly, there's a lot of people I really love. I know,
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  we've worked with Morgan before, I do something with him again. I think
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  he's uh, he's come a long long way, and if the song was
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  right, I think that could be a lot of fun. But uh,
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  but yeah, I mean there's there's there's a lot of incredible talent right now
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  in country music, you know, and uh, even the Bailey Zimmerman's and
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  I mean Corey Kent. I really love what Corey Kent's doing and had the
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  honor of meeting him recently and connecting with him and chatting and he's just an
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  awesome dude. So yeah, I could continue, but I think those those
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  artists are probably at the top of my list. Back to the Jack Harlowe
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  thing, you have this way and you have since since country radio first embrace
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  y'all. You have this way of bringing an artist too who isn't country right,
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  maybe doesn't fit what what somebody calls country. You have a way of
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  pulling that man and almost like people forget does that makes sense? I'm sure
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  you've heard that before. I'll take that, man, I'll take it.
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  Yeah, it's uh, you know, as far as Jack's concerned, I
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  mean, he's a Kentucky dude. I feel like he's probably he's probably a
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  little more country than he leads on. I think if we got in the
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  studio, it'd probably be pretty fun. But uh, I think you'd fit
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  right in. But uh, but yeah, that's the beauty of getting out
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  of our comfort zone, getting out of our box, getting out of our
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  Nashville bubble, and and and expanding and growing as an artist and a writer.
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  And a lot of times, you know, I have a lot more
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  in common with with other artists and other genres than I then you know you
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  think you will. And I think that's just part of part of the beauty
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  of it all, and just getting together and uh and and really getting created
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  in the same room and finding the common ground something I don't think. I
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  mean, you get credit for it, but I think you're dang near at
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  elite status when it comes to the type of songwriter you are, because Bud,
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  you have what you create as an artist. But if some people saw
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  your name tied to certain songs, they'd be like really he did that.
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  One of those is a song that I was lucky enough to hear a couple
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  of weeks ago, and it blew my mind to hear that Tyler Hubbard is
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  a writer on a Chris Jansen song. Oh yeah, those are not same
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  format, right, but there's something like so different about how you approach what
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  you do and he does what he does. But like to hear y'all come
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  together. Tell me about how that collaboration happened. Well, bro, that
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  wasn't even that was a throwback song. That's a song that I wrote twenty
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  twenty sitting on the bus in my driveway when I had COVID. I co
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  wrote that one on over Zoom with ray Lean seven twenty boys and kind of
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  does it up. I was going through old demos and I do this occasionally
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  on flights or something. I'll just go through my phone and just listen to
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  just songs from back in the day. And I ran up on this song
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  and thought, man, this song feels really cool and it's like, man,
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  this is a jammer. And there was a line in it that made
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  me think of Chris Jansen. It was I originally had a line in there
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  something about pouring out a diet due just to have a spit cup. And
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  I thought, man, there's not many people out there that could pull this
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  off. But I do know one guy, and so I send it his
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  way and he loved it. He tweaked a few things and kind of made
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  it his own. But but yeah, that was a fun. Occasionally that
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  works out where I'll just be listening to old demos, and that's one of
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  my favorite things, is to just try to think outside the box. Think
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  where can this song live a life, you know, because it's obviously deserves
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  to live a life further than just my cell phone. And so that was
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  one of those songs, and I was glad he dug it, he made
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  it, he made it his own. It's really cool and I'm excited for
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  him. How does that fulfill you versus the artist side of things, to
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  write, create and then kind of hand it off and let somebody else,
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  you know, bring it to life. Yeah, I just think that's the
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  songwriter in me, you know, and the publisher, you know. I
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  love the process. I know how difficult it is, especially this day in
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  time, to get an outside cut. So it's a lot harder to get
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  an outside cut than it is for me to go record a song and put
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  it out. So I consider that just a huge honor I really do as
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  a songwriter. You know, in another artist records a song that you were
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  a part of writing. It just it's just fulfilling, man, it's validating,
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  it's cool, and uh, I just it's something that never gets old.
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  It's one of my favorite parts of the game. So I keep doing
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  it. When it comes to album titles, it feels like we've hit this
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  era where people are more purposeful on on what they're going to name their albums.
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  Right, It's not just like, oh I like track five, call
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  it dat or you know, you pick three words out of a Fishbowldy Johnson
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  leather Right, that's very meaningful and purposeful to where he's at in his life.
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  Kenny Cheeszey's about to put out Born, where he said he feels like
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  this is almost like a new version of him in this album more so than
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  ever. So why does Strong fit for you and where you're at right now?
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  All these one word titles? You know, well, Strong just kept
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  coming up through the process and making this album. You know, we referring
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  to a lot of the pieces of the puzzle as being strong. Whether it
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  was a song, a mix, a take, you know, an edit,
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  or a you know, photo shoot. We just kept saying that,
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  man, that's a strong that's a strong picture for the you know whatever.
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  And so as we were really trying to nail it down, we decided we
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  kind of bounced some other ideas around, and we just decided, I think
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  strong feels appropriate. And you know, for me, I'm really I'm proud
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  of this project. I feel like it's one of the strongest pieces of work
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  I've put together, you know, so far in my career, and I
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  can confidently say that. So I just just like, yeah, let's just
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  roll with strong. It feels good and I loved it that song has or
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  that that word has some depth to it, you know what I mean.
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  It's it's it's very multi dimensional. If you will, you know, when
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  you when you talk about strength, you know, you can think about physical
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  strength obviously, but mental, emotional, spiritual strength, And if you listen
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  to the song, I'm really referring to relational strength when it comes to my
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  marriage and my relationship with my wife, which, uh, the more life
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  I live, the older I get, the more value that I really put
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  in relationships in my life that are strong, you know, that take that
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  take work, that take investment, that take time and energy. Whether it's
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  my kids, whether it's my friends, whether it's my fans, all these
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  relationships that I would consider strong that are really valuable to me based on the
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  work that we've put in. When it comes to that, obviously, back
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  then right now is another. It almost feels like it can have more than
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  one meaning. When you hear the song and when you see the title as
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  well, why did that fit for where you're at in this we'll call it
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  chapter two of your career? Yeah? Back then? Yeah, yeah,
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  it just felt appropriate sonically, it felt appropriate. You know. Concept wise,
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  I feel like we're in a season as a culture to where a lot
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  of us are really wanting to simplify a lot of us are wanting to reminisce
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  on how things used to be and you know, the good qualities of ways
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  of life maybe when we were growing up or things like that. So for
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  me, it just it struck a personal chord. It really hit close to
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  home, and you know, I can really relate to that where I'm at
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  right now in life. And I guess my hope was just that everyone else's
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  hopefully feeling the same way. And the more I talk to people, the
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  more I gather that, Yeah, everybody's kind of on this, you know,
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  this wave right now of wanting to you know, be nostalgic and be
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  classic, be vintage, and you know all that's kind of in So it
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  felt very timely, but also just a song that meant a lot to me
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  and reflected where I'm at mentally right now, and and so yeah, I
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  just just went with it and it felt it felt right when it comes to
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  what you have accomplished career wise already before and now, you know, with
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  with your solo efforts, you also have done a lot of awesome stuff away
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  from the music that some artists haven't gotten to do. Uh, you know,
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  seeing your name or or picture on a bar downtown, Uh, being
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  a part of the the wolf Moon stuff. Not wolf Moon, but the
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  old camp old camps. Sorry, when you're sitting now, Dean's Bar was
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  part of it. Yeah, No, that's it. With knowing that you've
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  already had your hand in that type of stuff. What are I'm gonna,
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  for a lack of a better phrase, call them side hustles. What are
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  some of the side hustles that you still maybe maybe related to music or not
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  related to Nashville or not, that you hope to put your hands inside.
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  Oh yeah, I think there's quite a few. Man, this is kind
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  of silly, to be honest, and this is nothing of any of any
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  substance. But I'm actually excited. If you see what hat I'm wearing right
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  now, I'm gonna drop a hat line I'm called Hubcaps, and I'm just
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  gonna start releasing hats. Why not, you know, I wear hats all
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  the time. I was like, man, I need to just come up
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  with my own hats, and so, yeah, hubcaps is a thing that's
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  happening and it's gonna I wanna start dropping caps on y'all pretty soon. But
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  that's pretty that's just fun, you know, something, just something to kind
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  of be a creative outlet in a way. The funny thing about that is
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  I can't I can see hub but I can't see what it says underneath that.
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  So I was about to be like, what's the deal with the hat?
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  Because I'm my hats and jays in my closet outweigh anything. I love
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  it, and so you let me know on that hat. When that hat
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  game rolls because I'm gonna be one of the first to hitch. I gotta
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  get you one. I'll sing you some hats for sure. I'm in brother.
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  Hey, good luck on the rest of the way to number one with
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  this one. And we can't wait to hear the album and hopefully we'll catch
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  up sooner or later, my man. Yeah, Wayne, thanks, Buddy,
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  good good to talk to you always and we'll see soon. Likewise,
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  next see you