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Exclusive 2025 Interview with Colin Stough
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Jul 2, 2025
Colin Stough speaks with Everything Nash about his new single, "White Trash," new music, life since American Idol and more.
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Hey guys, it's Gail with Everything Nash
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here with Colin Sty. So good to see you,
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my friend. Good to see you, man. How you
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been? I'm good. We haven't talked in a
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hot minute. We have a lot to talk about.
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What do you want to talk about first?
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New music? Don't matter to me. What?
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Whatever y'all want. Well, let's do
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White Trash because I really like that
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song. Give me the story behind it, man.
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So
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really white trash. You know, the song
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was kind of written about just kind of
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how a term my biological dad would call
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me and my mom when I was a kid. And uh I
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kind of thought about writing it a few
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times and then I I never did. And then I
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had a buddy, he just kind of kept using
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the word white trash, white trash, white
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trash. Uh not towards me, but just
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towards everything. So I kind of took it
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as a sign that I needed to write it. And
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uh we went in the next day with Jamie
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Collazo and Kenny Whitmire and uh we
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wrote the song like an hour and a half I
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think it was and uh man it just it just
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turned out to be something great
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and then we put it out. Yeah. So you
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said your biological dad. Do you mean it
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was it a bad connotation or what are
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your thoughts on that? I mean you know I
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guess a lot of people would have been
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hurt you know had their feelings hurt
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about it but you know it didn't really
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hurt my feelings. you know, he kind of
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he looked at us one way, you know, cuz,
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you know, we we're the, you know, double
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wide fairy tale and, you know, stuff
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like that. But, uh, yeah, I mean, he,
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you know, he was kind of using it as a
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hurtful thing, but I kind of took it as
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a compliment. So, yeah, you did. Um, can
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I'm going to get to new album and all of
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that, but we've talked before, but now
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American Idol is a few years past.
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You're really part of the country music
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scene. You live in Nashville. talk about
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your journey in the last couple of
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years. Uh, you know, it's been it's been
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really amazing, you know, to be how old
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I am. You know, I'm just I'm truly
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blessed to be here and, uh, you know,
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just staying motivated and, you know,
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keeping keeping my feet on the line and,
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you know, trying to walk that same line
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at the same time. You know, it's been
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amazing. Uh, you know, I've met so many
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great writers, so many great people. Uh,
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you know, I've built a brand new team.
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Um, you know, it's just insane at the
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amount of work, uh, that it takes to do
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this and, you know, really just how
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much, you know, effort, you know, we've
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put in and, um, it's it's just it's all
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been great. You know, I have zero
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complaints at all besides the traffic.
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The traffic uh, kind of sucks.
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Traffic is terrible. The traffic is
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terrible. So, has there been any
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disappointments? Because I know when we
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talked last it was such a brand new
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exciting chapter but now like the work
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is happening. So is there any downside
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that you found?
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You know not really. You know you know
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we've had you know we've had some stuff
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you know not really not go our way
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sometimes uh you know in this industry.
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But you know I don't look at that as a
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disappointment or a downfall. I look at
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it as another piece of motivation you
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know to kind of keep my head down and
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just work a little harder and work a
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little harder. Um, really there hasn't
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been any, you know. I mean, I guarantee
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you what I do for a living now is way
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better than, you know, what I used to
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do, you know. I mean, that's a very good
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point. You have two EPs out already,
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right? We're working on a new album.
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Yes, ma'am. So, you know, we got we got
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two EPs out, um, which were, you know,
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awesome. There's awesome material on
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those. And, um, we're working on an
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album this year. you know, we've kind of
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slowed down on the road, you know, just
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to get that material right. Uh because
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that's something that I've really honed
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in this year on is my sound and and
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really who I want to be, you know, and
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and I just I'm really
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I care a lot about the material and I
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want it to sound right. I mean, I've
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sent a song back to Mix uh probably five
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or six times before. I really just am in
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love with it, you know. Um, so yeah, you
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know, we've got an album coming and it's
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it's it's going to be great. It's going
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to be awesome. It's going to be it's
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definitely going to be a good year. What
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can you tell us about the album?
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Get ready to rock and roll a little bit
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cuz we're kind of we're kind of taking
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it on back to Mississippi a little bit,
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getting in them swamps a little more and
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uh I love that. So,
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okay. How about touring? I know you have
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some dates on the calendar and you've
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also opened for some like really cool
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people. I'm just saying.
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Yeah, we've uh you know on the touring
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aspect of it, man, you know, last year,
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you know, we did awesome. You know, we
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did a bunch of days. I think we were in
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Canada for 38 days and then come back
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and did 16 dates in the States and then
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me and Will Mosley did uh 11 dates. Um
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you know, and
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this year, you know, it's really, you
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know, I feel like when you get here, you
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know, you're worried about getting out
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and getting out and getting out and
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getting out and touring and touring and
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touring. And I love the tour. It's so
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much fun. I love being my band. You
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know, it's just like a big family and
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you know, meeting everybody and stuff
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like that. And you know, this year we do
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have some dates and we are going to we
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are going to add on to that. Uh and we
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are going to get more. Um but really,
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you know, just focused on the material.
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I don't I don't know why that has been
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like such a major change and curve in my
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mindset. Um but yeah, you know, this
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year uh yeah, the calendar is not as
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slam. Uh, and it's not necessarily a bad
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thing cuz, you know, I would rather take
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my time and do something right than, you
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know, rush it and have to do it twice.
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Um, and that's and that's just kind of
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really, you know, who I am and, you
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know, cuz it's what the people are going
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to be listening to. So, I want them to
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hear something that's, you know, awesome
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in my opinion. Well, anything you do, I
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think is going to be awesome. Do you
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talk do you keep up with any of your
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American Idol people? I just got to
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interview AM a couple weeks ago and I
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love him. Do you ever get to talk to
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them? Yes, man. you know, I love him to
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death. We were we were actually talking,
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uh, you know, not long ago and he was,
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you know, he was telling me and I was
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pumped for him because he just made his
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Opri debut. Um, and then, uh, I talked
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to him and John Wayne Hatfield probably
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the most. I talked to them to the most.
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John Wayne, man, he's he was on my
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season. Uh, we met at auditions. You
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know, we just we've hung out ever since.
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Okay. Well, I love that about you. I
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love what a hard worker you are. I'm
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just gonna throw that out there. I feel
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like a lot of people could learn from
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you, my friend.
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I don't know if you want to learn
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anything from me, I'll be honest with
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you. But, you know, we we we do we do
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try to work hard. Um, and you know, it's
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it's not it's not really just, you know,
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about for it's just kind of who I am,
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you know, where I come from. You know,
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you really you really got to work for
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everything you got. And, you know, I
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come up here and, you know, the first
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week, you know, it was like, all right,
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you know, you're right. You're right.
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from 11 to 3 or 4, you know, and you're
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done for the day. And I was like, man,
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you know, that's that's really easy.
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That's that's way too easy, you know.
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And uh so then, you know, that's
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whenever I started, you know, getting my
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pen and paper out and just, you know,
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I'll spend my whole entire day just
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finding ways on, you know, how I can be
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better, a better musician. You know,
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I've almost got a schedule planned out
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and I do it every day. you know, some of
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it's playing guitar, some of it's, you
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know,
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starting new music, some of it's calling
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my producer and talking about what's
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going to go on next, you know, and
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what's crazy is that I'm not really a
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big planner, but that's just kind of how
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I I try to fill my day because I would
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drive myself crazy if all I had to do is
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work from 11:00 to 4:00 every day.
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Do you now that you're in Nashville or
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even when you're not in Nashville, do
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you like when people recognize you?
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Yeah, you know, so when I first come to
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town, you know, I was hanging out with a
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lot of artists and stuff like that. And,
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you know, a lot of those artists, you
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know, they were in position in positions
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that I would honestly kill to be in.
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And, you know, they kind of acted like
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it was a void to them and kind of like a
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bother to them. And uh so I stopped
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hanging out with them. And uh the reason
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for that said is I do love that, you
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know, when people come up to me, whether
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it's, "Hey man, I love your music." or
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hey man, you know, you've changed my
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life or you know that and the DMs and
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you know the messages all that stuff
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that I get. I love all that simply
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because of the fact you know you know as
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what we do for a living man we wouldn't
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have a job if it wasn't for the fans you
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know and that's just point blank and I
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don't know why uh some artists uh don't
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realize that. Um, but yeah, you know, I,
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you know, I just don't I'm not really a
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big fan whenever someone wants to come
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take a picture and, you know, or, you
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know, get a autograph or just even have
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a conversation. You know, it kind of
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aggravates him a little bit. Um, I've
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never understood that. Okay. Well, we'll
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we'll make note of that. Any idea when
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the album's going to come out?
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Very soon. Uh, we're going to we're
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going to roll out some singles. Uh, I
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think our next single is going to come
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out in August. Uh, beginning of August.
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Uh, and we're just going to keep rolling
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from there, you know. All right. Well,
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I'll chat with you anytime. Good to see
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you, my friend. Good to see you. Thank
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you so much. And, uh, thank you for
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having me back. Anytime. Have a good
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one. You, too. or pressure.
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