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00:00all right all right well welcome to Vegas um how are you thank you for having me you're welcome

00:07it's my first time here actually so um but you're welcome um so tell me I mean what's it been like

00:12being here being at the ACMs performing tonight at ACM Decades you know what I'm lucky I just

00:18flew in today so I there's but in past years I've I've done the whole thing you know three or four

00:22days and it's like by the end of the deal you're just like you're wiped out so luckily this year

00:27I'm flying in today fly out tomorrow all right all right well I have to tell you roll with it is

00:33on my consistent playlist it's a feel-good song it is a good beach song um tell me why do you think

00:41it's been so long lasting I mean it was 2009 you know I think it's just a great song it's a hooky

00:46melody and then it's hooky lyrics I think people can relate to it and two like you said it's just

00:49a fun upbeat song now what are you working on these days are you writing with anyone in particular

00:54yeah we've been I've been around a ton you know in the last six months and I've been in the studio

00:58cutting new music and stuff and uh we just actually released a song called somebody's got to be

01:01country and uh you know it's one of those deals we're just in there working away yeah chugging along

01:07um and now tonight decades you said that there are several songs that kind of shaped your career

01:13artists artists exactly um who in particular for us probably for me Merle Haggard would probably

01:20be one of my biggest influences him and Keith Whitley for sure okay okay um and why do you think that

01:26these singers have kind of such a long lasting effect um and especially almost a resurgence

01:33especially recently I would say well I just think you know the music was real back then and they

01:37sung about real life and everyday life and things and those guys like that they were such stylists

01:41especially their voices and things um it was just a it's just timeless timeless stuff when you put

01:47out new music is that kind of what you are trying to achieve and you you're going for and aiming for

01:52yeah absolutely you know you you want to you know positive fun upbeat music as well but you also want

01:57the you know kind of a real life stuff story things that um that's really important I think

02:02awesome thank you so much appreciate that good to talk to you