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Country artist Trey Pendley stops by 92.5 XTU in Philadelphia to chat with Jeff Kurkjian from The Andie Summers Show about his music, songwriting, and the stories behind his songs. From life experiences to what inspires his sound, Trey opens up in this in‑studio interview at Philly’s country station.

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00:02so trey you know before we got started here we talked a little bit about parenting right and
00:06obviously as a songwriter and an artist so much of your inspiration probably comes from your three
00:12kiddos right when it comes to what you're singing about especially one song in particular that
00:16really blew up back in 2021 or 2022 i think it was uh and now still to this day i
00:22mean it's just a
00:23smash hit tell us a little bit about how your kids inspire your music uh yeah um
00:30well it seems like a lot of y'all have kids too but um they uh kind of when you
00:34have kids there's
00:36nothing really else in your life going on you know what i mean absolutely yeah you don't sleep anymore
00:41and you don't uh go anywhere anymore and uh every time you have a thought it's something about them
00:47so i think they's kind of hijacked it more than anything i totally get that trust me even even
00:53today i was like well my wife has a busy day at work she works from home i was like
00:56maybe i can
00:56run home after the andy summer show pick her up run back in time to chat with you but it's
01:01like a
01:0248 minute drive home i only have a two-hour window like this is really pushing it my wife's like
01:07you're
01:08crazy i said i've got a couple moms in the sales department who are here to help me out and
01:12so i
01:12didn't end up pulling it i know you would have loved to have a kid running around here but it
01:16would
01:16feel like just like you're rehearsing at home with the kiddos you have a five-year-old a four-year
01:20-old and
01:20a two-year-old right right that's a fun household ain't it it's a wild one it's a wild one
01:26and then
01:26you know and then me i'm the oldest kid in the house right and my wife has to take care
01:30of all
01:30this i love that well let's talk a little bit about your kind of blue collar background let's put the
01:36kids aside for a second talk about your upbringing tell us a little bit about where you're from
01:39what you grew up doing how long have you been playing music um yeah i grew up in uh toad
01:46suck arkansas
01:47all and um i didn't know there's anything wrong with that name until i left and people actually
01:52like y'all do about it and um it was a town of 300 i was uh working on a
01:58farm uh started drinking too
02:02young yeah yeah thinking a lot well in a town of 300 what else are we gonna do you work
02:06and you
02:07drink and be sad right and then eventually leave if you're lucky did you play any sports growing up
02:13i did not i uh i raced some dirt bikes for a while and i've got uh i think i
02:19got pretty happy in the
02:20skeet shooting wow play pigeons i did that for a while is that something uh you get to continue to
02:27do on days off which i'm sure you don't have many of but uh not yet i think when my
02:31kids get old enough
02:32we'll probably all do it together my wife's actually really good at it really yeah she closes her eyes
02:36every time she shoots because she's scared of the noise but every time she does it turns to dust so
02:41before meeting you had she ever done that before i highly doubt it but she's just got a knack for
02:47it just a knack and was that a prerequisite for your forever partner was like gotta be a decent ski
02:52shooter no i don't think i don't think i thought about it too much probably wouldn't find very many
02:57of those out there so well trey this is really great because you're going to bless us with your
03:01incredible incredible music your great voice and i did notice before i let you sing a couple
03:07uh the bootleggers little tailgate tour with luke combs you posted about it on instagram so luke
03:13combs he's doing his uh his big tour this year on saturday nights i actually went to the opening
03:18in las vegas it was so incredible but he does these incredible shows with artists who are up and coming
03:23before and trey you were asked to be a part of that that's really neat it was neat it's really
03:27nice
03:27yeah so were you in in that kind of environment everybody there is a massive country fan so they're
03:34gonna take to your music i mean it's not like you're playing on the side of the street where
03:37anybody could walk by i mean everybody loves country music yeah that's that's that's very true so when
03:41you get that country audience in front of you what song do you start with oh well either uh i
03:49have one
03:49called country war friday night and i also have another one called podunk shit so it really i was
03:55hoping you would say that it depends well let's hear a couple of those songs everybody trey penley on
04:01the stage at the x lounge let's get after it
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