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Mental Health, a Near Break Up and Now, NEW Music as we Catch Up With Dan + Shay · Inside Country with Wayne D

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Your favorite and just check your MIC's check one two. Hey, hey,
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hey Shay check one two. Yeas, all right, let's rock. I
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gotta tell you, it's been two dang long since these boys rolled through,
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and right now we only know of one song. But there is a lot
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to talk about with Dan and Shay. What's up, boy? Come on,
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what's happening? Man, good to see it. Listen. First thing
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I want to say is, Shay, I appreciate you being on time.
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I'm kidding, he's actually working. I was wide open. I was like,
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I'm not doing anything today. It's crazy. Releasing music is hard.
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There's a lot of stuff. It's like, hey, we need this,
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uh this photo for like this media based this like trade ad industry thing.
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I'm like, all right, I gotta do it. I'm texting and driving
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very dangerous, slowly slowly. It was very slowly. Yeah, all the
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tourists down here on Broadway slamming on the brakes. You guys, you guys
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have this awesome way of releasing music. And we'll get to the song and
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it's so much I want to catch up on. But you have this way
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of releasing music, like it just feels like an event, right, like
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you. It's almost like you hold it for the right moment, the right
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time, you space out your singles, and then all of a sudden,
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it's like a new gift from Dan and Shay. What like, do you
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do this on purpose? Yeah? I feel like times have changed a little
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bit. We like to be very dramatic about it, like this very strategic
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timing. It's got to be posted at a certain time. And we're just
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cooking up a little teaser to reveal, you know, some of the visuals
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and the aesthetics for the first single on the record. And I was like,
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man, like, should we be like doing TikTok stuff or like,
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you know what everybody does, Like I'm surprising my dad in the car with
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a demo for the first time, or like whatever the TikTok strategy is.
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I feel like we totally missed out on that. Maybe we're too old,
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but yeah, I don't know. We're just kind of do it in our
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way and we like the dramatic, cinematic stuff, and we got some crazy
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visuals coming for this one. We're excited to hear about that. And obviously
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a song usually means an album is coming. We'll get to that part in
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the second Connor, calm down. I'm not going to corner and get dates
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and help names or nothing. I do want to bring up this documentary.
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I mean, it's like a documentary. It feels that that hit everybody's inbox
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and YouTube lately on the was it Sunday night? Ye? Wow? First
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of all, were there tears when you recorded this thing? Because it felt
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like the emotions were like, we're really high. Emotions were high for sure.
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Um, you know, Dan and I through this process over the last
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you know year, There's just been a lot of of amazing things that have
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happened to us personally in a way of kind of just you know, figuring
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out where we're going. You know, with our band, we got to
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this place where we're just super you know, burnout. I mean we talked
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about it. You can watch the drive and I don't want to cry here
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this morning, but it was you know, there was just a lot that
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we had to kind of work through, and you know, being in a
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duo is hard. You know, we always talk about this in a band,
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in a trio, there's one tiebreaker. Duo is kind of the hardest
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format because it's kind of fifty fifty. You know, and if you're not
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really working on that communication, you know, things can kind of fall to
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the wayside. And we wanted to make sure that, you know, moving
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forward, that we were doing it in a healthy way. And you know,
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in that video, we just we wanted to sit down and talk kind
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of like we had been doing. I mean, Dan and I had wed
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these conversations like an hour long, two hours sometimes on the phone, and
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one time Dam was like, man, I wish that someone was recording all
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of that because it was just it was so authentic in the way that we
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were just kind of working through stuff and kind of talking about the future,
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and we were just so excited about you know, new music and all this
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stuff. And I had this idea, I was, I mean, let's
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just go drive around, like let's get let's get in a car, and
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let's just do exactly what we're doing right now, and we can call it
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the drive and you know, just right around and kind of talk things through.
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And we wanted it to feel very authentic in the way that this whole
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process has been. You know, we started you know, writing for you
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know, this new project on acoustic guitar and just really taking it back to
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basic basics and you know, telling stories and writing about where we are in
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our lives right now, and we wanted to just kind of sit down and
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to be able to just talk and not have an agenda. Just let's talk
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through the last year and over the last ten years. Really. I mean
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there's probably three hours of actual footage that we just had. Kind of given
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that to our team and you know, find find the best spots because we
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just talked for ever, you know, and really talked a lot of things
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out and had another long conversation and it was just it was very healing.
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It was another kind of healing point of just being able to talk things through.
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And I think that that shows and the authenticity because it was very authentic
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and came from a very uh you know, deep place from our hearts,
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and that's what we want, you know, from this project. In these
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songs. We can feel our closeness you know, in the music. I
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think it translated, and uh, it's just a really exciting, you know
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place to be, to truly feel like we are authentically ourselves and writing the
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music that truly reflects who we are and it's just uh yeah, man,
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we're super excited. Well and let me ask this because mental health is on
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the forefront of things more than it ever has been, and obviously this this
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you hit on that a little bit on the drive. You talk about your
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your relationship at home and in real life away from Dan and Shay. Why
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was it important to do that out loud? Though? Why was it important?
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I mean, you guys have an amazing connection with fans anyway, and
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you can tell like every interaction you guys really ca about, whether it's you're
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on stage or you're meeting a fan or you're sitting here doing an interview and
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hanging out like you love every moment you're in. But why was it important
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to pull the curtain back on this? Man? Yeah, we felt like,
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you know, it's a through line when you listen to the album,
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When you listen to the album and all this new music, I feel like
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you can feel that closeness in it. And we wanted to kind of explain
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that to our fans. But you know, we were going through this and
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it's not unique to us, man. We've noticed it. When we posted
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this video. The comments that we got, we got so many more comments
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than we've ever gotten on a post, and it was just it wasn't just
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like come to Chicago or like love you guys sing tequilo, you know whatever.
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It was just it was real, real stuff from real people saying like,
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thank you so much for sharing this, thank you for being vulnerable.
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I've gone through this situation. It was people type in six seven, eight
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nine sentences, you know, like how this video affected them. And I
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feel like that really meant that it connected in a big way, and I'm
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glad we did. I'm glad we posted it and put ourselves out there because
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we've never really put ourselves out there like that. It's usually like when you're
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doing this artist thing. You go out and you got your hair done and
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you got the cool clothes that the stylist for you, and you know,
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everything's picture perfect and shiny. But I felt like a moment to be human
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like that was important to kind of set the tone for this music. And
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the music is very human. It feels like us. It feels authentic and
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genuine, and I think when people hear it, they'll connect those dots and
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drive was kind of a perfect way after being quiet for a long time.
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I think people were kind of wondering where we were if we broke up or
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what we're doing, and I feel like it kind of explained that kind of
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absence from social media, and I think, you know, we all really
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went through it during COVID. That was a really tough time, and you
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know, that was just kind of a little story of what we went through
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during that period and shortly after. You know, it's like just from the
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outside, you never know what somebody's going through. You know, we were
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from the outside it was like the highest high as we sold out a freaking
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arena tour and we're winning awards and whatnot, but you know, deep down,
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we were struggling and battling with some stuff. And I feel like sharing
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that with people lets them know that they're not alone. Is there Before I
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ask this next question, is there a second part of the Drive? Or
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is there more to the Drive we're going to see, because I don't want
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to ask this next question if it's going to be if there's more coming,
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there's probably bloopers. We haven't like I have it yet, but uh yeah,
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there's there's definitely a lot of footage, so we'll probably post clips.
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You know, you in the Drive, which if you haven't seen it yet,
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go check it out. It's on YouTube. You guys got it on
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Instagram. Um, you touch on. You didn't know if Dan and Shape
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would exist after that break, right? Why was it important for you guys?
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Because any group, any band, goes through it. We're like,
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I'm gonna use in sync as an example, not that either one of you
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is justin timber Lake and the others JC, but follow me, every group
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has our band has a point where like, hey, I'm gonna try this
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thing. Hey I'm gonna try this thing. There's something very special about the
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music you guys make, in the relationship you have. Why were you like,
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we're not done yet. I mean, I think, for for one,
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there was you know, magic in the writer's room when we began.
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There was something about our band that made it special. You know that was
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greater. You know that the sum of the parts was greater than you know,
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each individual alone. And I think you know, both of us know
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that, and I think that it's really important. I think, just speaking
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for myself, I feel like, you know, one thing through this band,
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like Dan made me a better singer, you know, I mean,
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I went from good to great throughout this process, and I've gotten better over
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the years because he's pushed me, and he's one of the most talented but
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also hardest working people in the music industry. And I think that we recognize
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what Dan and Shay is and I think that it's really easy when you're in
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a band or in a duo especially to kind of be like, well,
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I mean this is maybe I could do this kind of on my own,
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or maybe I could do this, And I'm not saying that that can never
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happen, but in our situation, I think that there is just there's power
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in the two and I think that when done right a duo especially, there's
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something magical about that that we can bring to the table together that we can't,
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you know, separately. I mean you look, it's happened hundred times
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over the years. I mean you look at duos that we love in country
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music and Brooks and Done for examples, like what they were doing together was
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so special. And it's not that Ronnie Dunne was not an incredible artist on
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his own, but there was something magical when they came together, and we
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felt that as a band, it was like, man, I know that
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it's what I ever want to go do a solo project now, Like from
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one thing it's it's no fun to do that for me specifically, I don't
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want to go out and have to go, you know, do these radio
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shows at five in the morning and go on radio tour without my best friend.
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That would be no fun for me. And I just think that what
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we've created with Dan and Jay and what our fans have, you know,
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gotten from that, I think it's important that we continue to make music together
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and in a healthy place, you know, and I we just I think
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one thing that really helps is like seeing all the stories you know, through
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this, even from artists and people in town, through posting the drive or
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even over the years. You know, we've gotten so many stories how our
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music has affected people, you know, in their lives, and it's just
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amazing when that translates so hard you read those stories and you're like, you
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know, my son, I mean, we have crazy stories of these amazing
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things that people have gotten from our music. And it's just when you read
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that and then you meet those people in real life, you see what your
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music has done and how it's touched them, and I think that it's just
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what we've built together is worth continuing for the rest of our lives. And
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I just know in my heart that you know, doing something alone would never
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you know, compare to the magic that we found with Dan and Shay.
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And that's just the reality. And it's important that we do this for you
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know, we have responsibility to our fans and to people and to keep doing
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this in a healthy way. And it's the greatest thing that's you know,
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besides my kids and my wife. I got to say that, you know,
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it's the most it's the most important and incredible thing that I've ever been
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a part of. And I hope that we can do this until we're one
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hundred and thirty years old. It's a blast. That's some good content right
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there. Last thing about about the Drive I want to ask is was this
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maybe a starting point or a reset point? And I want to seg that
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into we've heard the single and how it sounds, was this almost like Dan
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and Shay two point zero is what we're getting moving forward? Like like refreshed
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because the song sounds like something we've never heard from you guys before. Right,
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So is the Drive kind of the kickoff to like not that you needed
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a clean slate, but like, hey, we're we've erased the board and
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we're starting over. Yeah, I think so, man. I mean ten
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years, we went through a lot, you know, we tried a lot
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of different things, a lot of different collaborations, different sounds, and I
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feel like it is a good reset, fresh start to cut my hair.
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We got our you know, it's a different look, it's a you know,
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it's a it's a fresh opportunity for us, and we're excited for that,
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you know. And I feel like with the Drive, it was us
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just at our essence, you know, being human, who we are.
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And I feel like that's what this music is too. It's we recorded all
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live, organic instruments, you know, live band here on music row and
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no frills to it. I feel like it's just country music that we wrote
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on acoustic guitars here in Nashville with our buddies and took it back to basics.
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And I feel like that's that was really important for us to do.
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You know, after ten years, you get all these hits and successful songs,
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you're like, where do we go from here? It's it's a lot
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of pressure. I mean, I can't even imagine the guys who have twenty
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or thirty number ones. It's like, all right, we've said this We've
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done this chord progression, We've done this tempo. It is tough, and
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I feel like we came to a place where it's just like, let's be
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ourselves, let's put ourselves out there. Let's make an album that we truly
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love. You know, this first single, I've never been more proud of
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a song that in our career, like we feelish it. And it was
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like my heart was racing. I was like, man, I was like
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in my bathroom in front of the mirror, playing air guitar. Imagine I'm
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playing into the show and you know, we're not really on the road right
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now. We're gearing up to do some promo and release some music. We're
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gonna be busy next year. But it was like, dang, I wish
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I was playing a show tonight, because you know, I'm excited. I'm
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excited to play this new stuff live. When it comes to the writing and
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recording, did you know that, because this probably wasn't the only song you
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did right there was probably a handful or maybe even the full album was ready
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to go. Did you know that this was the first one? Like this
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was almost like the re interduction, like, hey, here's some new stuff,
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but this is this is At first, I think there was a yeah,
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unanimous, especially with Dan, and I was like, this is the
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one you know, how to find your text me like the first I lost
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my mind. I was dropping I was either picking up my little boy,
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I think I was picking him up from school and I was in kind of
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the pickup line at his school. And Dan had sent me the first,
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like you know, the first mix of this song. And I mean,
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I honestly this whole project, this you know, this album that we've been
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working on as it's my favorite project we've ever done. It's very cohesive,
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I mean because it came from a place, a you know, very genuine
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place. And I just remember though, hearing that first one and when you're
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thinking about you have to think about this stuff, what comes first, you
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know, And I just remember hearing that first mix and I literally I was
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like screaming. I was like, oh my god, lost, I'm like
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losing my mind. I'd send him like thirty texts of like this is the
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greatest thing I've ever heard, and it was just I felt like this song
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is so unapologetic, and you know, we've put in so much work and
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you know, I've been trying to keep up with this guy, and I've
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finally gotten, you know, my life together in so many ways mental and
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physically. And I think that it was just like this moment of hearing that
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song, it just finally clicked of like, yeah, this is what I
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want. This is the battering ram that I want to bust down the door
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with. And it just I've never been more excited. I mean, it
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literally gave me chills the first time I heard it, and it was like,
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We've been doing this for a long time. We've heard a lot of
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songs, We've written a lot of songs, and for whatever reason, this
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one, like, I mean not that we'd had a several of those moments
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that kind of reinvigorated us and excited us again for music over this process of
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kind of getting back together and writing these songs. But I this song in
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particular was just very unapologetic. It was just like here it is, man,
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I'm not you know, I'm not asking you if you like it.
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I freaking love this song and if you don't love it, get out of
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my way, dude. I don't care if you don't like this song.
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I love this song and I'm so proud of this and I can I can
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die on that hill, And I think that's important to feel that way with
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your music of like, you know what, somebody might hate it, but
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I freaking love it. I love it more than you hate it. And
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I feel like that's gonna translate. And I don't think a lot of people
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are gonna hate this song. I think that it is just is genuinely us
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and it's so much fun. It has so much heart, and it pushes,
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you know, the boundaries a little bit. But I think that it's
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just, you know, it's everything that we love about music and it's just
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kind of wrapped up with a bow right there in this song. And it's
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gonna be really exciting to play live. I feel like we always think about
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that, and this was just the first one. It was a no brainer
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for me. And I'll tell you it's I've been lucky enough to talk to
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you guys a lot over the years, and there's something about this conversation about
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this project, like I almost feel like I'm talking to two brand new artists
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like you. It just feels like you're more You're you've always been into your
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career and your music, but there's something right now. Do you guys agree
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with that, like definitely. I was texting with my buddy Andy Albert shout
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out Andy. We moved to town together in twenty ten. We lived in
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a very very bad house, no heat, no AC. That's the house
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of Shay and I'm at But we still right with Andy, you know,
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we uh, we've been at it for a long time. You know,
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a good buddy of ours. And he wrote a lot of songs on this
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album. And he texted me after we posted the drive. He's like,
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man, beautiful video, Like that's that's really brave you guys, super vulnerable,
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whatever, just congratulating us on that video. And I was like,
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dude, thank He was like the first person that we wrote with, you
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know. After we had that conversation, I was like, thank you for
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being the first guy to take a chance on us. Back in the room
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and he was like, I remember that feeling when you guys walked in the
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room. There was a different energy than there has been for like the last
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seven eight years. And he said the boys are back, is what he
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said. You know, Yeah, that's what he texted me. And I
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was like, man, that's pretty cool that he could feel that, you
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know, just being in the room writing songs with us. It gives me
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goose bumps. Man, So this this will play when the song's already out.
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It's a Nihart Country World premiere. So I want to ask being able
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to drive around Nashville the songs on the Big ninety eight all day, to
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know that you've gone from I hope somebody listens to this song to taking over
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a radio station. You guys have listened to in town for years the entire
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day. Is that like a full circle moment for you? Or like,
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how do you how do you feel as you sit in the car, maybe
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on your way to the studio, and you're like, dude, inscribable.
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It's the first place we heard our song on the radio. We had a
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friend who was playing the song in the morning show and she texted us and
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she said, about to play nineteen you in me and Shay and I ran
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out. It's like six thirty seven am or whatever, ran out and blew
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the speakers out of his jeep. And I'll tell you what, hearing our
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song on the radio to this day still feels just as incredible as hearing it
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that first time. When it comes to your relationship with your fans knowing that
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this song will now be out there. The Drive doesn't didn't tease that that
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something was necessarily coming, but it's like, hey, Dan and Shay are
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here, Like, get your playlist ready, you might have to free some
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spots up here. Um. But with that how it, fans reacted not
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necessarily to the drive, but but the buzz that something's coming. They know
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that that's something's coming for sure. And I think there was a pre savee
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link that that went out that a lot of people had picked up on.
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And I you know, we've kind of done this over the years. They
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kind of our fans know us really well. They're like, all right,
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the guys are getting going again. And I can feel just different energy and
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the excitement. And I think that, you know, just as artists like
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you just learn over the years to truly and there's I feel like country music
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does it the best to truly appreciate their fans, and we've had that relationship
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with them from day one, but I feel like it just feels different.
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Obviously, you know, we've been so busy over the last eight years,
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and not that we didn't always try to super serve our fans, but I
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just think that with time and with a little bit of earned wisdom, that
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you you truly get it where like, man, we genuinely wouldn't have a
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career without people like you playing our songs and getting it out to those people,
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and without the people that have all of those stories that personally relate to
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this music. You know, you have to think about those people because you
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don't have a career without those people. We can get in a room together
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and have a therapy session all we want and write about what we're going through,
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but if there's no one there to receive that, it is just that
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as therapy session. And I feel like we kind of came into this being
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like, if this needs to be just kind of us talking through that's okay
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too. But we know now over just our experience of the years that when
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you are able to be vulnerable and write music from that place, it just
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is going to naturally translate to the fans in that kind of way where they
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believe what you're saying because you believe what you're saying. And I think that
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our fans just kind of feel that on this record, and just from the
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little bit that we've been out and kind of talking to us and kind of
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filling that new energy. Yet they know that you know something is coming,
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And I think there's a new excitement of fresh excitement because we have, you
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know that that energy. We're excited as ever, you know, to do
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this thing called life and get to do the greatest job in the world and
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to be able to create music for these people. And I just have a
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new appreciation of what we get to do and for the people that we get
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to do it with, you know. And four and yeah, I think
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that there's they know something's coming for sure, do you? And this part
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will get clipped because this song comes out Friday. Our album details. I
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just don't want to air this and have are we holding that's Wednesday? This
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will air Friday and Saturday. Yeah, okay, there will be album details.
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Oh yeah, okay Thursday late night. So Thursday late night. What's
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the date do you have it? Are you going date? September to be
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announced? Yeah? Are you sharing the title? I don't know? Bigger
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houses, Bigger Houses? Yeah, So knowing that we have the new album
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coming, which by the way, I almost I was contemplating getting a janitorial
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job at the label just so I could like look through computers to find it
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early. It's fine, it's fine, they're not hiring. I guess their
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WiFi is difficult to access. We can't even access it. Is it exciting
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to know that there's this full project people are going to get more than just
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this song. And then second half of that is why why the title?
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Yeah, And we're so fared up every single song on this record. You
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know. I know it's kind of the era of putting out a million songs
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and that's totally cool, but I feel like for us, it was just
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we wanted it to be concise. We wanted it to be enough songs so
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our fans felt like they got something new, something fresh. But I feel
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like Dispatch, it's a twelve song album, really tells the story of where
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we've been, where we are, and where we're going. And just so
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proud of every single one of these songs. No stone left unturned on these
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We wrote a ton of songs for this record. We overcut, there were
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a bunch that might come out at some point, but this is just this
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is what we wanted to say right now and felt like everything was cohesive,
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kind of for the first time in our career. There's always been like you
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know, even our successful albums, it's always like there's one or two songs
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that like it kind of doesn't fit. And for us, it was like,
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we want to make something that you can listen to front to back and
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it feels like it was recorded at the same place, with the same musicians,
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the same singers singing the songs. And it really is that this album
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so special to us, you know, we we feel like there's a lot
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of songs that could go on country radio. We've ran around playing it for
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folks and everybody's got a different favorite. But I think the unanimous decision save
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me the trouble. First single is is Off to the Races. We're rocking
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on that one, but yeah, Bigger Houses is it's the last track on
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the album. It's super special. It's close to our hearts and I think
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it's one of your favorites on the records, one of my favorites on the
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record man. And this, to me, I feel like it just made
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sense to call the album Bigger Houses because with an album, especially one as
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cohesive as this one, I feel like we wanted to have a title that
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really encapsulated what this not only this album is about, but where we're at
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right now, and the song Bigger Houses is really about you know, we
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talk about you can't find, you know, happiness with a bigger house.
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You don't find your joy and money and all these things and things that we've
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learned the hard way. You know, you get caught up in this business
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and you know, you start chasing after things that you know that this next
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high, you know, there's always going to be a higher high. And
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I feel like we got to those places where we were on a really big
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high of like winning Grammys and selling out arenas, and that was some of
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our lowest times, which is kind of mind boggling to think about from the
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outside of like, how are you guys going through a hard time? You
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know, you guys are? I mean, if you were like you guys,
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you got y'all have to worry about money, you have to worry about
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this, like and I feel like everybody can relate to that because it doesn't
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matter. There were times that we had zero money, but we're happier than
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we ever were, and I think that just that wisdom comes with time and
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we know now that you can only find enjoy you know, and the people
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around you, you know, and making sure that you put stock into things
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that actually matter, and this song talks about that. And from the very
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first time that I heard this song, it was just like, this is
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this says everything that this is exactly where we're at in our lives right now,
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and it just really translated to me and being able to cut that one
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and just means so much, and it exactly says, you know, exactly
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what I want my life to be and kind of my mantra really and I
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feel like it just fits so perfectly as the title of the album. And
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even though all the songs aren't about that specifically, you can feel that,
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you know, in the music. I just feel like that overall overarching theme
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of just gratefulness and just appreciating where you're at in this moment. I think
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it just kind of reaches over every single song. And even when the song
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like Save Me the Trouble is not necessarily a love song or about, you
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know, appreciating life, I feel like you can feel it in the energy
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of where we are, you know, because we're singing from place like we've
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all been through these things, And even when the songs aren't specifically about that,
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you just feel it. On the album and I think it comes through
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you know, music is a magical thing, and I can't explain all the
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intricacies of how it touches someone's spirit, you know, and how people feel
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that emotion. But over the entire album, I think it's cohesive because you
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feel that overarching you know, gratitude from us and kind of the wisdom that
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we've learned over the years and these lessons that we've learned, and I just
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it is the perfect song to kind of encapsulate where we are in our lives
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right now. God, that's well. I got goose bumps for you guys
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right now. Man, it's a busy day for you. New album details,
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new song. Thanks for carving out time to hang with us. Boys,
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dude, you're the best. So good to see you. Man.
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Thanks for as having us and showing love on these songs. Absolutely