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00:00um all right you guys ready to jump first thanks for getting up early i know we were
00:04trick-or-treating probably just a few hours ago oh yeah yeah i'm still in my costume
00:10did you go as brad tercy from moldominium yeah so we were talking uh we were talking
00:16in our green room just a few minutes ago we think it was 2014 but in tampa lana and i are at this
00:24show with the dallas bull this is before i would say it's before people spent half their life on
00:31youtube and which you shouldn't do radio is very important we have kids to feed so cut it out
00:37but but this is before all that and that show we were standing with uh pam newman who's a mutual
00:43friend of yours and ours and um walking into that show pam goes i will never talk to you again if
00:49you don't fall in love with this band you are you are not gonna believe what you're about to see
00:53that's awesome and so lana and i are watching that show and the crowd it was just a different
00:58thing you know like we've been to hundreds of shows there different thing they knew every word
01:03you didn't have 40 songs on the radio it was a different energy so going from there to now did
01:10you think this thing would get that big because i know it's probably been a long journey to you but
01:14it is gigantic now yeah it's uh i mean it's on some level yeah we had to i mean you probably hope
01:20you probably hoped yeah yeah we thought that we didn't think and now we're like yeah we totally
01:24thought that yeah and we told ourselves it wasn't going to you know but um just to kind of you know
01:31self-preservation and you know but for you know we were trying to at that point hoping that that it
01:38would get to that point we knew we were excited about the music that we were creating so um and then
01:44like you said that the energy was was special and that happened at a lot of shows we could feel it
01:50and you could feel it so it gave us a fair amount of hope that yeah i mean there's a lot of bands
01:56that have fans but we just knew very early on and then like one song on the radio two songs on the
02:02radio and it just kept getting louder and louder and louder and so like i i can't imagine what it's like
02:08now i mean you guys are arguing there's a strong argument that you're the biggest band we got right
02:12now wow you know and and that's an argument that i could probably easily win if we wanted to
02:18statistically look at it ticket wire sales well but it's true like i know i know you guys are humble
02:24but look at the landscape of it i mean you you literally are gigantic so like when you guys are
02:29maybe this is i grew up in colorado so like even when we're sober we sit around and go yeah man this
02:36thing's really big like do you guys ever pause to think about how big this thing is or are you just
02:41rolling down the road yeah i think there are definitely moments uh i think that's kind of
02:44the magic of being in a band is that all it takes is one of us to notice that moment and go hey everybody
02:50stop and notice what's happening like and and in that same vein so i had a bartender call me yesterday
02:58that said i got your credit card at the bar
03:00more likely that my kid with a fake id was using it than me these days but um so she went through
03:08divorce and my heart is a bar is the song that healed her and she called yesterday and said look i
03:15tried to win my way in i couldn't make it i have to work tomorrow but will you tell them that that
03:19song healed me and so there's songs that aren't even the number ones that heal people cheer them up
03:26like you you will never truly know the effect your music has on the masses on that same vein of you
03:31sit around thinking about do you guys ever pause and think about that sort of thing i was going to
03:35say i mean those are the moments that make me realize that this thing has gotten to a big level
03:40because you know like winning awards and things like that our little litmus tests those those give
03:45you i you know little eye openers but when you hear something like that that reminds me that these
03:51aren't just songs we're creating in a room these are songs that go out into the world and people make them a
03:55part of their lives like i'm man enough to admit it i was literally tearing up when i was listening
04:00to her story because she has been through a horrible thing and you know she works at a bar and you know
04:06she loves you guys but for whatever reason that song connects and heals her you know that's that's an
04:10amazing thing that is an amazing thing especially since on this album in general you know a lot of it
04:16was pretty healing right for us you know and i think we kind of dove into that world a little bit more
04:23than we have in the past so to to be that like vulnerable which is an overused word these days
04:30but you know it fits here you know and then be rewarded by seeing it actually help other people
04:37is pretty special i think part of the appeal too is we have a lot of creative types that write a lot
04:43of songs for not just old dominion but a lot of people so is there a system this is one of the
04:49the questions that came from online is there a system that you guys use to either settle disputes
04:54i thought this was a pretty good question actually um to either settle disputes or you guys are riding
05:00together and you're like hell-bent on no it needs to go this way and you're like uh is there a system
05:05you guys use because it doesn't seem like you guys hate each other you're still on the same bus
05:08rocks rocks paper scissors yeah in the writing process there's no real dispute you know um we we've done
05:18it long enough that i mean there may be differences of opinion or different ideas but we respect each
05:26other so much and our abilities and you know our successes that every idea is worth listening to
05:35right and chasing down so then it just becomes a discussion of where do you want the song to go
05:41we have we have a couple roads we can go down here and what's the end game here and let's let's figure
05:46out because we all want the same thing at the end so it's just a matter of talking it out figuring out
05:52which road to go down and that's too like how we end up sounding like us you know it's like if i made
05:59if i wrote songs by myself and made an album it would be different if you really like to hear that
06:04actually hey there's something i need to tell you yeah we that's the thing too we don't want this band
06:12to break up so if we don't have a system let's get one you know because well there is this is where
06:18when it starts to get huge this is where unfortunately stuff happens where you get like
06:23hey man i'm the cadence i'm wit without a drummer you ain't nothing hey i'm the lead singer well without
06:27guitars like that's where yeah this stuff goes bad for some so that's i mean there there is a uh when
06:34we first started we had like a lawyer was like you guys need to write a you know there's a green so
06:39there are different levels like certain decisions need a majority or a unanimous decision or so there
06:46actually is a legal way to make i mean we don't ever really consult it it comes down to things like
06:52those are usually things like artwork or right you know or like a show that has been presented
06:59to us that some people want to do and some people don't want to do that there's like you can be
07:04outvoted on some things and some things it needs to be a unanimous decision yeah my kid that plays
07:10drum would say the drummer should make all the decisions by the way so yeah we would be finished
07:15is there i think we would have we would not have signed our record deal if wit if wit was at the
07:23helm if um we would be keeping it real still though yeah yeah we i know keep it at the realest i know
07:31the touring schedule is a lot because you guys are still on the road a ton and you have families now
07:36and you know you have nights where you were trick-or-treating then you're hopping on a plane to get to
07:39tampa florida to hang out you know other than those sorts of things is there a downside
07:45to all this fame like what would be the downside that somebody may not know about that was another
07:49question that came in online i think it's just exhaustion and being spread a little thin you know
07:55i think and you know it can kind of just mess with your head a little bit you know you can kind of
08:02you can kind of be you can kind of wish that you had a little bit more of a normal life at times but
08:09then you realize how amazing your life is and that feeling doesn't last that long so
08:14there's not there's not any real downside yeah right yeah just the time away from the families
08:22is really the only downside but we get to do a lot of cool things with them too they get to let
08:28come along sometimes i mean i look at other celebrities and i go man that must suck like for
08:33us it's not too bad yeah if you like couldn't walk around and stuff yeah that would be really annoying
08:37yeah i actually hope that never i'm sure it never will happen to me but i make it a point to try
08:45to like anti-do that like just anti-do that i do that you know what i mean fourth album
08:53and i do that you know what i mean
08:59so you know next question you just threw the whole damn thing off if we're being honest
09:05um so there's obviously been some success here and so with success comes money what is uh and we
09:13can go around if we want to what is the coolest thing you bought with some of this old dominion
09:17money that you got i bought a lake house like a cabin on the lake okay and i dig that for sure i
09:25threw the boat in too so yeah well can't have a lake house without a boat so i got a boat and a lake
09:30house have you bought anything that was great with the money i just bought an rv because because
09:35you're not in a bus enough i was you know i was also we were looking at a lake house and i'm like
09:40i'm never going to be home to use this thing but i could take the rv on the road
09:45okay i mean that's great lives on an rv i know i'm amazed by that kind of because you're on
09:50i have too much you know yeah yeah that's cool though he's an amazing cat trevor
09:56meow uh i don't know i just i just bought a new house i guess so that counts with the money
10:05wit buy anything about a tree from my front yard nice is it like a full-grown tree
10:12no it's rather small it's small those are the trees are expensive though
10:15trees are pricey but nothing nothing oh i'm a wash guy i've become a wash guy now that uh
10:22and there's a little success so it's interesting like i'm good it's cool to hear those type of
10:27answers but like i think about this is probably why i'll always be poor like if i had old dominion
10:32money i'd be like i'll take that firework stand and that truck as a matter of fact we do need that
10:37liquor store and like right i mean and a rather expensive piece of art right i got invested in a
10:45restaurant too yeah you did see that's the one you got to look out for because the ones that start
10:49making investments they start getting distracted so let's get rid of that i don't like that at all
10:55we're depending on you to keep making the only time i've ever had a plan b yeah there's a lot of
11:00stuff in this format that you know i'm kind of a traditionalist and so there's a lot of stuff in
11:04this format that i know you guys love it i could do without it but love you guys so we need you to
11:09keep making music so yeah let's not mess this up don't worry it ain't like we got 10 bands that are
11:14great you know we got like two or three right now which is that's actually our motto don't mess this
11:18up right well let's do that um so i think do we want to open up to the audience do we want to take
11:23a couple of questions sure don't be shy this is your chance life is about living you ain't gonna never
11:29have another chance to ask a question life is short make it a good question don't be regretful later
11:33today ask your questions all right thank you guys um tour with kenny chesney a lot right yes
11:40is he your favorite artist to tour with and you got any good stories you want to tell us
11:47we have good stories that we don't want to tell you or we'd love to tell you
11:54but no he is amazing to tour with for sure and i guess that's why we keep coming back we're coming
11:59back again next year because we learned pretty much everything we know about touring from touring
12:05with him well and he's the one too like i know you can't say it but i'll say it like there's a lot of
12:10bands when you're on those type of tours where it's like cool old dominion come out with us but we're
12:15going to turn your sound down and you can use a third of the stage and you can't use any of this
12:19he doesn't do any of that like i've never heard an act complain about chesney or eric church in that
12:23regard as far as they seem to be like cool use everything do everything you know and that's a big thing
12:29it's much appreciated yeah that's a big thing see i can say the things you can it's all good all
12:34right who else uh um who do you guys is there a particular band or artist that you guys kind of
12:43look up to or kind of model a little bit after or look at as like an idol um to help you guys or
12:48inspire you guys i mean kenny's definitely one of them um i think the foo fighters come up a lot in
12:55our conversation yeah i was gonna say pearl jam the eagles i think yeah it's a big one
13:03um um yeah as a as a as a band i think those are the ones for sure
13:13good morning guys thanks for taking the time to come out we really appreciate it uh since you're on
13:16the road a lot you're away from your families a lot what do you guys do to blow off steam do you have
13:20hobbies on the road do you do you kind of do a few of us golf yeah yeah we play golf we're playing uh
13:27sawgrass tomorrow in uh st augustine or jacksonville so we play like pretty much every day we're on the
13:34road so it's it's it's a nice way to get out of it that's one thing i bought i bought golf clubs the
13:40other day and i already had some all right let's go like some new ones are you good golfers uh we're
13:47pretty good i mean you know well you tell you talk to them like when they're leaving to play golf they're
13:52pretty good when they come back from golf they're not so good yeah we're always like we were almost
13:59good that day yeah we would have been good if this this list of six things happens we would have
14:04all right fair enough fair enough that course is kind of hard too by the way yeah my mom lives
14:11over there i met a lot of neighbors last time we were on it i'm gonna stock up down the street golf
14:15balls yeah it's uh it's hard hi hi um how did you guys meet uh well some of us uh matt and wit they met
14:26and they grew up together like middle schoolish they grew up in the same town uh and then with jeff and i
14:32uh went to james madison in virginia so we met in college and then uh everyone kind of moved down to
14:38nashville separately lastly met trevor here uh yeah so you know we've known each other for for a while
14:52did any of you uh consider any other careers before music i went to art school and i was i have
15:00a degree in illustration so for a long time i was gonna be an illustrator and then as soon as i
15:09graduated abandoned that degree i did a lot of different things but i when i growing up i always
15:17wanted to i played hockey through college so that's all i ever wanted to do was play in the nhl
15:22i didn't by the way i didn't play in the nhl i don't know if you knew that yeah like my thing
15:29was soccer that was i was pretty far along in that but i never really did anything else besides being
15:35a band but that's kind of kind of wanted to do that forever so i uh i got a degree in music so i
15:42early on thought for sure that's what i wanted to do but i never thought i would get to so i have like a
15:48a huge laundry list of uh like uh joe jobs like name tag jobs uh i'm trying to think of my favorites
15:56i was um i was an auto parts delivery guy for a little bit the truck with the big hat on it is that
16:02uh it wasn't it no no that was the competitor it's a strong look yeah it was a good look
16:08but uh yeah i think the only one i didn't do was pizza delivery
16:11so of course you worked for the knockoff not all parts yeah i did
16:19oh boy nothing what i'm lucky i never wanted to do anything else
16:25a man of few words hey who's the who's the best drummer in all of music all time i don't know you
16:30don't even have a top two or three we have this argument in my house almost weekly by the way
16:35it's i could never pick one or two about three who makes the top list in your house the argument
16:42usually you know because my kid is young and plays the drums so dave grohl is the man but then i go old
16:48school and start talking about like uh you know jason bonham and uh you know then travis barker always
16:54comes but my kid's young so right you know the same argument happens over and over and over um also
17:01same argument about the allman brothers are way better than little wayne that argument happens in
17:06my house almost daily also wow that's a that's a tough one to compare it's a tough one for either
17:13side but i was hoping you would arm me with some new information to argue with this evening so just
17:19tell them tony williams oh yeah and neil perk comes in that conversation sometimes you know but
17:26it's same stuff all right sorry i didn't mean to derail it we have more questions
17:31oh the date girl is really good yeah i'm a fan ringo's underrated hi i have a um what is your
17:39favorite song on the radio right now and also can you say hi to my friend annalise she loves you
17:43i was like are you reading your question are you filming us are you taking a selfie hey what was her
17:49name annalise annalise what's up thank you and that's a real friend there's a song on the radio right now
17:57called um one man band that's pretty good i uh i've just gotten into it i was just talking to brad
18:08about it because he he's the one that i think got me into it but uh leon bridges uh his album that
18:14what's the song forgive uh is it called forgive which one the the the big ones beyond yeah i know
18:20that's the big one but the it's the one at the track after that i mean it's my favorite song right now
18:24i don't really know the thing it's called forgive it's my favorite song right now i don't know the
18:29name of it it's brand new for number three it's the track after the one he's talking about hi guys
18:37um so one uh one man band is one of my favorite songs but some people do is actually my favorite
18:43song so can you tell me where that came from because it means a lot to me yeah um without going into too
18:50much uh tear-jerking detail uh that was a song i wrote with shane mcnally and jesse fraser and thomas
18:57rhett actually um yeah we wrote that together one day um we none of us could look at each other because
19:04we were all teary-eyed um but it's just you know it seems to be resonating with a lot of people because
19:10i think a lot of people have either been hurt by someone and wished they would change
19:16or have been on the other side unfortunately and hurt some people which you know is the side that
19:23personally i wrote it from so um we we get a lot of feedback on that song because it does mean a lot
19:30and help people so we're very proud of that one thank you for listening to it
19:37hey guys um just want to ask real quick for her because she doesn't want to ask the question
19:46it's her niece's birthday her name is avery do you mind wishing her a happy birthday you don't
19:53you don't know her oh i know her i know her but i gotta ask on her behalf happy birthday avery happy
20:00birthday avery all right we probably have time for a couple more all right really quick i know some
20:07rising artists in tennessee right now that they're kind of feeling down and out what would you say to
20:13them to encourage them to keep doing what they're doing because they love what they do but sometimes
20:18there's a roadblock well that's just it if they still love what they do then they should keep doing
20:22it i mean as as there's no shortcut in this as as cheesy and cliche as that sounds there is absolutely
20:30no shortcuts and if you love it you should keep doing it and you know it might not happen but it might
20:38you just gotta keep after a solid advice there yeah might not happen but it might that is the key
20:45though yeah we we did it for a long time without all the big success because we enjoyed each other's
20:51company and we loved playing music and so this eventually you know worked so they have to love
20:57it first and foremost yeah if you give up you know the result you don't give up what if right yeah
21:03all right where do you get your inspiration for writing about the stars writing about the stars
21:15because because we've uh because we've mentioned stars and songs a lot or yeah
21:22that's a good question
21:24i watch discovery channel a lot science channel specifically about this i've learned the last
21:30couple years how stars form and it's very interesting and then they explode and that's
21:33how we have all the different elements that we have come from some star that exploded you know
21:38millions of years ago they have a nice sorry i keep going no i have a whole lot more to say but go
21:44ahead bradden you know i think they have a sweet and sort of mystery about them you know uh which
21:53not for trevor not for trevor well he knows it's very science-based yeah he's behind the curtain now
21:59the star curtain it's really gravity and go ahead
22:04i don't know that's a good question stumped i don't know how stars are very poetic
22:09yeah yeah
22:13what did you say they were stars are very poetic oh i thought you said polite for some reason
22:18they might be we'll never know i was out they're actually very violent if you
22:23all right so in our effort to uh end awkwardly and and wrap this up to make sure that we still have
22:32some time for everybody to say hey to you guys the final question would be so i'm sure there's many
22:37things you've accomplished but is there a list of things left that if you can write the script what
22:43happens is it awards bigger shows like so if you can write the script and it plays out exactly how you
22:49guys want it what happens in the next five years yeah uh i think uh
22:57just um the growth that we've that we've had we would just like to keep going you know i think
23:04when we play with kenny chesney we stand and stand there and watch him play stadiums i think
23:10that's always been in our head from the from the minute that's a good one that we started on tour
23:15with him we were like well how do we do this so that's definitely in the back of our mind yeah
23:21it's also with one man band too it seems like that song has sort of reached a new level for us even
23:27outside of country we love being in country music but it's nice we've only we set out to make music
23:33in general that we love and it seems like some of the music now has permeated cross genre so that that's
23:39a pretty cool thing it's not straight too far no disrespect to anybody watching no we like style i
23:44here i hear an old dominion song with justin bieber i swear to god i'll never talk to you
23:49i'm just telling you right now i'm just telling you and i know they didn't i said it they didn't say
23:55it they didn't say yeah it's probably in heavy rotation yeah no we we never plan on changing what
24:04we do personally and we never will it's just glad because it's nice that we've done it our way have
24:09you ever heard of lil wayne before i have that argument every night we're doing a collab coming
24:15every night every night all right well thank you