00:00Talk about big shows, man, you broke a record at Rodeo Houston, 80,000 tickets.
00:05What was that show like, like playing in such a large crowd?
00:08Man, that was about five years in the making.
00:12I was there the night I saw George Strait set the record.
00:16And everybody in the suite was having a good time and dancing and drinking.
00:22And I was too, I was having a great time.
00:23But I remember watching that show, and it was just like this voice in my head of like,
00:27there's the goal.
00:28That's what I'm after.
00:30And so I've been striving to get to that point.
00:34And that day I knew, like, this is the day we do it.
00:38This is the day we go in there, set the record.
00:41And I truthfully hope that what George Strait does is come back and shatter my record.
00:46Not only because I want to be there to see it,
00:49but to give me an opportunity to go back and have something else to strive for.
00:51I'm a very goal-oriented person.
00:53I've always got to have some mountain to climb.
00:56And today, stagecoach is another one of those goals.
01:00I mean, the night I opened for Luke Combs, I was watching from the side, getting ready
01:03to go sing Brand New Man with his Brooks and Dunn reboot cover.
01:07Of course.
01:08And I remember walking out on stage, and I just looked at the crowd, and I went, I want
01:11this.
01:12Like, eventually I'm going to get this.
01:13And because of Luke so graciously opening doors for me, here we are.
01:18I mean, I need your manifestation skills because your full circle moments, you're freaking killing
01:23it, man.
01:24Because even with this, like, you've played stagecoach, but this is your first time playing
01:27the main stage.
01:28Yeah.
01:28So what are you bringing to that tonight, and how excited are you to get up there?
01:30Man, I text Noe off camera over here before we left.
01:35He said, are you ready?
01:36I said, I'm going to burn Indio, California to the ground.
01:40It's in a good way.
01:41Okay.
01:41Because I was going to be out there.
01:43I don't want to hear about the lawsuit.
01:44It wasn't me.
01:45But no, just the energy of, like, I take a very, like, fighter mentality to everything
01:50I do as far as music.
01:51And I'm the kind of guy, man, I'll give you the shirt off my back.
01:54I'm very humbly in check with my ego.
01:57But once we go to the stage, I'm here to dominate.
02:00I'm here to win.
02:01And that's the guy you're going to see tonight when I flip that switch.
02:04Dude, can't wait.
02:05And of course, we broke the news about your album, and it comes in June 26th.
02:09You said you wanted to be, like, showing another side of you.
02:12So what is it that you want people to get to know about you?
02:14I don't know musically that I did anything differently, but some of the lyrical content
02:19kind of lets you in on how I was raised, like Banks of the Trinity.
02:22Everybody looks at me and assumes, oh, belt buckle, boots, and hat.
02:25He grew up on a ranch.
02:26I didn't.
02:27We were not poor, but we weren't the rich kids.
02:30And we had to work our tails off, and my parents had to work their tails off for everything
02:35that we had.
02:36So growing up in that small, rural town in America, like one church, one bar, and a
02:42grocery store.
02:43That's it.
02:43No school.
02:44You had to drive 30 minutes to go to school.
02:45That's crazy.
02:47Growing up like that, I learned everything in my work ethic from my parents and watching
02:51them grind it out and making sure that we always had enough.
02:54But there were things like catfishing and white bass fishing and deer hunting and squirrel
02:59hunting and rabbit hunting and stuff like that that taught me a lot about life.
03:02But we had to do those things because it was putting meat in the freezer.
03:04And that's one less thing you've got to buy from Walmart at the first of the month.
03:07And some of the lyrical content kind of takes you back to where I'm from and how I was
03:13raised.
03:14And I really think this is probably the best group of songs I've ever had.
03:18But the day after Leather got Album of the Year, I called Trent Willman and said, time
03:22to get to work.
03:23Okay.
03:23Like, let's go to work.
03:24You get inspired and then you go for it.
03:26I like that vibe.
03:27And of course, you were talking about Luke and you have him on the album, a show called
03:31Shoot the Bull.
03:32So why Luke?
03:33What's the song about?
03:34What can you tell us?
03:35Drew Parker and Josh Phillips took a very, very bold move as songwriters.
03:39So if you and I were to write a song, right, and it's two artists talking to each other,
03:43maybe it's a male, female, maybe it's male, male, female, female, whatever it is.
03:47But if they don't like it, we can always go to these two, right?
03:50Right.
03:51If they don't like it, we can always go to these two.
03:52They wrote this song so specifically about Cody Johnson and Luke Combs.
03:56I was like, that's bold because if we didn't like the song, like it dies, like it doesn't
04:00go anywhere because nobody else can cut it because it's specifically, it talks about my tattoos
04:04and him and Basio can resist all and, you know, Rodeo and him being from Appalachia.
04:10Like, it's very specific, but it was so good.
04:12Like both of us agreed we have to cut this song.
04:15So hopefully Luke decides that we can release it as a single.
04:19There you go, Luke.
04:21Well, thank you so much for hanging out and please don't burn the whole place down tonight.
04:25It was a metaphor.
04:26I just want to be safe.
04:28Thanks so much.
04:28You bet, bro.
04:29Appreciate you.
04:29Appreciate you.
04:30Appreciate you.
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