Episode 37 - Greylan James

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This was for the home team. [00:00:14] Speaker B: Well, hey, welcome to Tailgate Beers. Ryan and Austin here. And today we're here in. In West Peoria Cruisins Farmington Road. And we've got Grayland James here joining us today. Grayland, thanks for joining me, bro. [00:00:28] Speaker C: So stoked to be here. [00:00:32] Speaker D: If you think some go bad fast and some people drive too slow Tattoos are no big deal Week expiring milk ain't old if there goes my life Just another song on the radio and if your mom and dad were crazy Waiting up till you got home Wait till you have kids and they look in your eyes Wait till you're there, Superman Wait till they. [00:01:04] Speaker B: So, first time in Peoria, bro. [00:01:05] Speaker C: This is, I think my third time here. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Third time. [00:01:08] Speaker C: My third time. [00:01:09] Speaker A: I learned that just a few minutes ago. I did not know to set me. [00:01:13] Speaker B: Up for that one. [00:01:13] Speaker A: I. I'm sorry, bro. [00:01:16] Speaker C: To be fair, I don't remember the last few times I played here, bro. Every time we're here, we. We have a great time. [00:01:21] Speaker A: Well, based on your def. Drummer, it was two. Oh, yeah, Two Halloweens ago. [00:01:25] Speaker C: Oh, that was two Halloweens ago. [00:01:27] Speaker A: That said you guys dressed up and everything. [00:01:28] Speaker C: Yeah, I can't remember what he was dressed as, but I was a. I think it was a cop. We might. We might have done the. The shared thing. I can't remember, but we ended up hitting a club in downtown Peoria. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Oh, you guys went to Saddle Up? [00:01:41] Speaker C: I think it might have been Saddle Up. And I think that was. That was my first week of having my drummer out with me, who has been with me now for. Yeah, three years. Two or three years. And that was like one of my first weekends having him out. And I was like, oh, this guy parties. Like, we. We ended up at that club down there. And I'm like, where in the hell is Brian? That's my drummer's name. And we're like trying to look around the bar trying to find him, and he's up on stage with his sunglasses on, just with a bunch of college kids just going like that. So, I mean, we're pulling in here. He's like, oh, I'm getting drunk tonight. So, I mean, I know this podcast is going to air later, but drunk. [00:02:17] Speaker A: Drummer, I don't know. [00:02:18] Speaker C: Hey, tour man, he sweeps title. But every time we're here, we have a great time, so we're excited to be here with Ashley. [00:02:26] Speaker B: You guys got anything tomorrow? [00:02:27] Speaker C: We do. We're playing in Minneapolis tomorrow. [00:02:29] Speaker B: Got a little bit of travel time to get there. Then we do early early call time. [00:02:33] Speaker C: It's a very early call time. So, you know, a lot of people think we tour in a bus, and we don't tour in a bus. Ashley gets to tour in a bus, which is awesome, but we're in a. A badass. I think that this weekend we're in a Toyota Sienna minivan. [00:02:47] Speaker B: Nice. [00:02:47] Speaker A: Shout out, Toyota. [00:02:49] Speaker C: Oh, dude, we just got the mom vibes so high on the. Anytime after shows, people like, oh, like, can we see the tour bus? We're like, oh, I mean, you can see it. It's gonna be a very, very fast tour for you guys. [00:03:00] Speaker A: You want the third row or the second row? [00:03:01] Speaker C: It's gonna smell like farts and whiskey, I swear to God. [00:03:06] Speaker B: You mentioned Ashley, so, you know, how did. How did that come about? Or how does that even work from a fan perspective? A lot of us don't know. I mean, how does that connection, you know, to get to go out on the road with her? [00:03:18] Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely. So it's kind of funny story. So I. I met Ashley about eight, nine years ago. She was actually in a duo with her sister. I think they were called the Lockets or something. And I played a songwriter round, which in Nashville is just where a couple songwriters get together at a venue and they play songs that they wrote, either songs that are cut, songs that are unreleased, whatever. And it's a thing that goes a lot out a lot in Nashville. And so I was just playing this random. This random night down there, and Ashley Cook was playing with her sister, and I was like, these girls are great. And I just never forgot that. And we follow each other on Instagram, and just through that, I saw her career just blow up. I mean, seemingly overnight. But I knew her before the tick tock stuff, back when she was just writing songs and doing the whole thing. And now, like, to be on tour with her, open for her, and seeing her having number one, all this crazy going on is. It's badass. I mean, she's. She's crushing that these shows have been electric. So we're. We're excited to be out here with her. [00:04:17] Speaker B: So she, you know, has a. Gets a tour scheduled and is thinking about, you know, her opening and supporting, and she kind of looks through her Rolodex and says, hey, let me call up Graylin and see what he's going on. [00:04:29] Speaker C: Yeah, I hope it was a lot of good things that were pitched to her. I think it's just like having that connection from. From back in the day, I think. And also, you know, I've written Some songs that she. For some people that she's really close buddies with. So it's just been really exciting to shoot some content with her. And I mean she. She always has really exciting access open for her and she's been really good to him. And those acts have gone on to do great things. So it felt like a really exciting opportunity. As soon as we got the phone call, it was an easy ass. So we're pumped to be out of here. [00:04:57] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:04:58] Speaker A: So what is your background with Nashville and like kind of that route where. I don't know. I don't even know where you're from originally. [00:05:04] Speaker C: Well, I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I grew up in east Tennessee and so I'm far. [00:05:09] Speaker A: Not a far travel. [00:05:10] Speaker C: Not. Not far from. Not far from Nashville and a little bit further from here. But man, growing up there, I just grew up around a lot of country music. I just happened to be growing up right when Kenny Chesney was blowing up. And Kenny Chestney was from like five minutes down the road from where I was from. And so I just heard a lot about this. This country star that came from my hometown. And my grandfather got me a little toy guitar for Christmas when I was about five or six years old. And story goes I just played the shit out of it when I was a kid and they started taking me to guitar lessons. They're like, if you're going to keep doing this around the house and at school, like, you need to at least be good at it. And so my parents took me guitar less singing lessons and I just never stopped. It was just a hobby gone too far. And now I'm here in Peoria and. [00:05:54] Speaker B: There'S a lot of Kenny connections along the way too that I've heard some of the stories about. The picture that you put on that guitar. [00:06:02] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. [00:06:03] Speaker B: I think it was his mom maybe cut your hair or something along those lines. [00:06:07] Speaker C: She did. [00:06:07] Speaker B: So a lot of. A lot of kitty connections and then, you know, several years down the road and you end up, you know, cutting a song for Kenny too. [00:06:15] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right, man. So I met Kenny briefly when. 11 years old. 10 or 11. And I was in a bluegrass band back in my hometown and we were playing a show for like a benefit or something when I was 11. Yeah, I was. I was the mandolin player in the Cider Mountain Boys. That was our band, dude. It was. We were awful. But we were playing this. This little benefit for a. For a buddy that of Kenny's that had passed away. And I was Just playing up on stage and, you know, it's just a random gig that I was just used to playing. And then all of a sudden, the crowd just went from the stage all the way to the back of the ve. They're just huddled around this one little tiny figure. And that's come a lot for me. I was 11. I was tiny, too, But Kenny Chesney's a little guy, and people just huddled around him, and everybody's like, that's Kenny Chesney over there. That's Kenny Chesney. And so my dad snuck me through the crowd, like, after I got done playing, and I got to have a brief moment with Kenny, and I asked him for any advice he could give me, and he was just like, stay in school and learn how to write songs. That was all he said. And I took that advice like crazy. Seriously. I started writing songs. My grandmother passed away a couple months later after that show, and I wrote my first song about her, and. And I just became addicted to writing songs, playing guitar. And then, yeah, I got to Nashville, and I'd written songs for about two or three years on a publishing deal there, and trying to write songs that Kenny Chessing would sound like he record, and he heard one of the songs that I wrote and recorded it on a whim, and it became my first number one. It was insane. So the fullest of circles on that one. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:07:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:47] Speaker A: That's insane. So what age did you just make the commitment that you're like, I'm living in Nashville full time, writing. Like, this is my career. [00:07:55] Speaker C: I mean, in my mind and in my heart, I think I was like, yeah. I mean, middle school, I was like, I'm moving to Nashville as soon as I turn 18, I'm booking it over down 40 west and getting to Nashville, and it all kind of, like, fall into place for me. I'd had doors open up for me all through kind of middle school and high school, and then they kind of stopped opening. You know, I was getting older, and I wasn't just a cute little kid that was playing around my home hometown. Like, I needed to take it seriously or go to college. And I made the commitment that I was going to skip the college part and just move straight to Nashville. And the day I turned 18, signed a publishing deal in Nashville and moved there and was writing songs for a whopping $12,000 a year. So I was rich. It was crazy. [00:08:37] Speaker A: Yeah, that makes it. Makes it about, what, three weeks in Nashville? [00:08:41] Speaker C: Oh, literally. Yeah. I mean, to talk about commitment, I mean, my dad A shout out to my dad. I know he'll probably watch this. My dad quit his job and got a job in Nashville, and he's still married to my mom. I think they've been together. They just celebrated anniversary a couple weeks ago, but I think all together, 50 years they've been together. [00:08:59] Speaker A: And he quit just. [00:09:01] Speaker C: He quit his job just to move to Nashville, get a shitty apartment. My dad, who had, you know, worked for this company for, you know, 15, 20 years, just quit and worked part time in Nashville and worked part time in Knoxville just so I could live there and not have to live with a bunch of random roommates. He made that sacrifice for me, so I couldn't have done it without him. [00:09:21] Speaker A: That's. That's crazy. [00:09:22] Speaker C: Yeah, it is. [00:09:24] Speaker B: Go ahead. [00:09:25] Speaker A: I mean, so as you. So you get this publishing, so you start off really more on just the writing. You just. You're coming into Nashville as the writer. [00:09:34] Speaker C: I mean, not really, man. I got there and I was like, I'm gonna figure this out. I'm gonna get a record deal, like in six months, eight months, and then I'm gonna be on tour, gonna be playing here, you know, headlining all that shit right off the bat. Obviously did not happen. Figured out pretty quick that the songs I was writing were ass. They were not good songs, bro. They sucked. One one was called lol. It was terrible, dude. It was a horrible song, bro. I'll play that one, dude. My guitar boys right here. Like, lol, dude. It was awful. [00:10:02] Speaker A: So where were you playing at? And around that. What was your gigs like then? As far as the playing the music. [00:10:07] Speaker C: Side, they started to dry up. I mean, again, when I was a little kid, it was like, oh, we're booking this little kid. It's gonna be kind of a just like a funny thing. Funny, cute little thing to watch. And then, you know, when you're 18, 19 years old, it's like, all right, it's not cute anymore, and it's kind of cringe. And so I just. I've never really written. Yeah, bro. I'd never written songs with other people in my life. And so, like, it was a wake up call. I got to Nashville, and that's what people do. They co Write. And I started to write with people that were just riding circles around me. And I wasn't saying anything. I was a deer in the headlights. And I was like, I'm terrible at this. And I did that for about two years and I realized, like, this is not what I thought it was going to be. And. And then I got dropped from that publishing deal that I signed, which is basically just fired, and they let me go. And I applied for a job at Home Depot, and I'd gone through the training. I was about to kick it off, and then I had a buddy reach out to another publishing company, and they signed me, and I was like, all right, this is pretty much my last opportunity. And so for $15,000, I got a raise. I started writing songs for them, and I. I was like, I've got to get better at this. So I just started, like, writing songs 24. 7. I was up all night, every night, just trying to get better, studying my ass off. And one day it clicked, and I just fell in love with songwriting, and I kind of gave up the shows and forgot about the artist thing. And I was like, I'm not gonna do that again until I'm great at this. And it took, you know, four or five years to really hone the craft, but kind of figured it out. [00:11:39] Speaker B: And it wasn't another artist that. That. That was taking some of music that you have written and kind of forced you to sing on some of those cuts as well. [00:11:51] Speaker C: Just. [00:11:51] Speaker B: Yeah, because he believed in you as an artist, bro. [00:11:53] Speaker C: Absolutely. Cole Swindell. Cole Swindell was a guy that. So fast forward through that. That time that I got that second publishing deal, I kind of started to figure it out and met some other artists. Parmelee being one of the first people that took a chance on me that I'd never heard. I'd never written with somebody I'd heard on the radio before until Parmelee and started writing songs with them. They connected me with Cole and started writing some songs with Cole Swindell. And he was like, man, like, what if. What if you sang this demo instead of me? He's like, I love your voice. Like, you need to, like, really pursue that. And I was like, oh, I kind of forgot about it. And so we started writing more songs. Me and Cole probably written 60, 70 songs together. And then, you know, he was one of the first people that took me on tour when I started putting out my own music and really sign on. And, you know, fast forward now a couple years. I've got a song out on my own that's got Cole featured on it. So it's. It's pretty. It's pretty dope to. To see that come to fruition. [00:12:48] Speaker B: What's. What's going on in. In 2025? Got anything exciting happening, bro? [00:12:53] Speaker C: Yeah. So we're wrapping up this Ashley Cook tour. This is the Last weekend. We'll play Minneapolis tomorrow night, then we're done for a little bit. But, uh, I've got a song going to radio, which is super exciting. It's my first time going, uh, to radio, and. Yeah, so we got that going on. [00:13:06] Speaker A: And Middle of March here coming up. [00:13:07] Speaker C: Like, middle of March? Yeah, March 17th. Yeah. So call your local radio station, y'all. It's. Dude, it's. It's exciting because it's been really cool to hear my songs I've written for other artists on the radio, but, like, to. To hear my voice is gonna be insane. So I'm super stoked about that. We're playing a ton of festivals, radio shows, and got some cool tour stuff coming up in the fall that I'm really excited about. [00:13:29] Speaker B: Can you. Can you talk to us about the. The radio thing? Because I know that that is a big topic within the industry, certainly, but something we talked a whole lot about on the podcast. But I mean, how does that work? I mean, what. What goes into that? I know that's. It's. [00:13:42] Speaker C: Oh, it's a big deal. I mean, there's. The charts are 50 slots, so you got one through 50, and so there's really only 50 artists that are on the radio at a time, especially in a week. So, you know, that's. That's a coveted position when you've got about. I mean, you've got tens of thousands of people in Nashville trying to get on the radio. And also the radio, they still. They pay songwriters, they pay the artists. What. What we should be paid. And also, the outreach is just crazy. I mean, a song doesn't really stream. I mean, if. If you told me that a song streamed 40 million times in a week, you'd be like, holy, that's got to be. It's either Shaboozy or nothing at that point. But a number one at radio streams 40 million times in a week, so it makes 40 million impressions. So it's just a massive outreach, and it's bigger than anything else. So to have that kind of outreach, for me, as a young artist, I've seen how it's changed Ashley's life. You know, going to radio and now selling out shows. I mean, it really changes everything. It goes hand in hand with social media, and it just elevates the game. To me, it's like having the blue check mark by your name on Instagram. It just kind of verifies your hard work and the art that you've been putting into it. [00:14:50] Speaker B: Yeah. So I have a quick question. I Told my kids are in the room. Cambria and Brecken are over there listening the first time, witnessing the podcast live. But so I'm curious on how your. Your parents came up with the. The name James. Yeah, my middle name's James. [00:15:11] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:15:12] Speaker B: And I didn't know how they came up with. With. With the name James, so. [00:15:16] Speaker C: That was my grandfather's name. My grandfather's name was James. James Clevenger. And it's. It's so fitting, you know, when I was growing up. So my real last name I'm going to expose myself right now is my real last name is Egan. And obviously, Grayling does not really go great together. Sorry, dad. But it just. It never. You never heard an announcer be like, gray Line. You can come to the stage. You know, it sounds like, dude. And so, I mean. I mean, very early on, and my parents kind of made a decision, you know, when they were entering me in contests. They're just like, all right, it's gonna be easier. Just Grayling. James Grayland's already hard enough to say. And so. But it just so happened, you know, my grandfather, again, was the guy that got me my first guitar. He drove me to every guitar lesson, singing lesson, every little show I was playing on Mexican restaurant patios, and, you know, every fruit festival you can imagine in East Tennessee, I was playing it. My grandfather was standing side stage. The first time I'd ever been out of the state to play shows. My grandfather drove his truck. So to be out here still representing him and his name on my records and on my shows and the banners and to see it on marquees, it's. It's. It's so cool. If you don't believe in God, man, I mean, I. I don't know how you. How you don't. Because just seeing something like that come together, I mean, he. I wouldn't be here for one for him, so to keep continuing his legacy is pretty crazy. [00:16:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Just paying tribute to him every single time. That's a. [00:16:33] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:16:34] Speaker A: That's a good one. As opposed to just a fake stage name. [00:16:36] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's true. [00:16:38] Speaker B: So I. I will admit, on the way over, when I was talking to my kids, I didn't know that that wasn't your last name. So I was jokingly gonna ask, you know. [00:16:49] Speaker C: I'm not related to LeBron, dude. I know. Like, I'm so tall and athletic looking. Yeah, but. [00:16:55] Speaker B: But no, that. That was a better story than even what I thought I was trying to get. [00:16:59] Speaker C: What was the story? You're Gonna tell. Was it LeBron? [00:17:01] Speaker B: No, actually I was just like, you know, that's. That's my given name. You know. I thought it was your last name. Oh, yeah, well, they didn't like to come up with it because it was given to them, you know. [00:17:09] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Ancestors and, and so on and so forth. [00:17:12] Speaker A: But we've got a lot of people on here, though. Where, I mean, we just had Sterling on. We just had. I mean, Lily has been on. We've had several people. It's like, all right, come on. It's just the real name. Stage name. [00:17:22] Speaker C: Yeah. But dude, Jason Aldean's last name's not Aldean, which is crazy. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:28] Speaker C: It's not Coles one day. I mean, it goes on. Yeah. [00:17:30] Speaker A: I didn't know Jason. [00:17:32] Speaker B: Maybe I need a sexier stage name. I need to come up with. [00:17:36] Speaker A: I feel like we both should come up with podcast names. [00:17:40] Speaker B: There you go. [00:17:41] Speaker A: No, it is, it is interesting to hear like that, that side where again, whether it's the history of your grandfather who got the guitar and we've had several people where again, it was that family member. Somebody hooked them up with that. [00:17:53] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:17:54] Speaker A: And it's really cool to see, you know, that continue. So what outside of music are you doing, you know, as far as your free time? Are you big into any hobbies? Any. [00:18:06] Speaker C: Bro, I love golf. I love golfing. Not great at it. Golf does not love me back. But me and the boys, we try to. We try to golf a good bit. Now that spring's coming up before shows, we're going to try to try to get out there and lose some golf balls. Do that. I've got a beagle back home. So he, he's. He's my dude and so just hanging out with him, walking him. But man, I stay pretty busy with the music thing. So, you know, I'm doing the. Doing the artist thing, touring a lot. But also, you know, I produce my own records and I'm about to produce my. My first record coming out. My first whole entire album. So it's gonna be a busy ass summer for me. Just crank down in the studio. It's gonna be crazy. [00:18:43] Speaker A: What do you think of that's dropping, bro? [00:18:45] Speaker C: They're talking about late summer. [00:18:47] Speaker A: Okay. [00:18:48] Speaker C: So it's. I'm gonna be. I'm gonna have no tan from the summer, dude. Just a studio tan. As. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be busy. But they're. We're working on it and I'm so stoked about it. The songs are Great. And I'm pumped for people to hear them. [00:19:03] Speaker B: So are you still writing for others as well? Are you primarily doing your own writing? [00:19:08] Speaker C: Yeah, dude, I'm kind of doing all of it, honestly. Like, I. My writing process just comes down to. I just want to write great songs. Don't really think about myself. Don't really think about other artists. I just try to think about the fans, as corny as that might seem. But, like, you know, I really value what we. What we mean to the fans and the audience that we're writing songs for. And so just trying to write songs that they would care about. And then I figured. I figured the rest kind of figures itself out. And, you know, if other artists don't record them, I'm like, fuck, I think people need to hear this. And that's kind of the process. [00:19:39] Speaker B: So I know Austin here has a burning question. He asked all of our artists as they come in. But one question I've got. So who do you kind of look up to in the industry? And then also, who is someone you're kind of, you know, bringing on your. Your. You know, your wing as well, Getting to the point you're even at today? [00:19:59] Speaker C: Oh, man. First answer, first question. I would say Kenny Chesney still, man, he's. He's really changed my life. So, you know, he recorded my. My first number one, which was badass. And. But even then, like, we really hadn't connected. Never really got to talk to him and tell him the kind of. The. The story of, you know, how I' kind of chasing after him since I was a kid. And. And then after that, he gave me his phone number after the number one and was like, you know, send me songs, like, whatever. And then I was like, instead of sending him songs, I sent him the picture of when I met him when I was 11. And he was like, that is the first time this has ever happened. Nobody has ever had a picture from that long ago where they met me. And then now they're in the industry doing this. Then we kind of just became homies. And it's kind of the same thing with Cole. So he heard some more of my songs and was like, bro, you need to be doing the artist thing. You need to tour, put out your own music. And he hooked. He hooked me up with his management company, who inevitably signed me, and then that management company got me my record deal, which is, again, a massive part of why I'm here. So everything kind of leads back. All roads kind of lead back to Kenny with my career. So I Look up to him. Obviously, he's a great artist, somebody that would love to follow that blueprint, you know, play stadiums one day. And he's just brilliant. He's a great songwriter, too. So if my career can look just like a quarter of what his looks like, I. I'd be proud of it. So I would like in him. I'm gonna give a shout out to my. My guitar player over here. Dude, he's not listening, I don't think, but talk about taking somebody under your wing. My guitar player is a great songwriter and great songwriter, producer, and he's talented as. And it's. It's really cool to watch him kind of grow into. Somebody's about to get cuts and get songs on the radio and, uh, you know, that's. That's the path I took first getting here. So watching him just grow through that and come. Come up through the ranks is exciting. [00:21:45] Speaker B: What's his name? [00:21:45] Speaker C: His name's Parker. Parker Daniel. [00:21:47] Speaker B: Parker Daniel. You're looking out for Parker Daniel. Absolutely. [00:21:53] Speaker A: How long have you guys been together? [00:21:55] Speaker C: Too long. Two years. Yeah, about two and a half years. [00:22:00] Speaker A: Have you checked that one? Sorry. [00:22:02] Speaker C: Obviously, that is also my longest relationship I've ever had is with my guitar player and my drummer. [00:22:09] Speaker A: With a guy. With a guy. Or within it. [00:22:12] Speaker C: Without with it. With any sex with any of them. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Big burning. I mean, so there wasn't room in the van for the dog? [00:22:21] Speaker C: You decided there wasn't, man. And he. He also just has just crippling anxiety. So he is. He's just. Yeah, just terrified of everything. But he. You know what? We took him on the road one weekend, I think, and. But it was in a sprinter van, so it was like a little bigger version of the van. So. But we're kind of stuck in the minivan right now. [00:22:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:44] Speaker C: So. [00:22:45] Speaker A: Yeah, mom and dad still keep him. [00:22:46] Speaker C: Mom and dad still keep them. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Okay. [00:22:48] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, they keep them. And they've got a old ass dog, he's like 18, that he's. The only reason he kicks is for my. My dog. So they just prance around Knoxville right now. [00:22:59] Speaker B: Love it. Yeah. [00:23:00] Speaker A: So, yeah. So my burning question. So we have surfside. We'll do our kind of Surfside moment here. [00:23:07] Speaker C: Hell, yeah. [00:23:08] Speaker A: So, you know, as you get to that Kenny Chesney level. I don't know if Kenny Chesney has a private jet or not, but I. [00:23:14] Speaker C: Think he has three private jets. [00:23:16] Speaker A: All right, so one of your private jets, you get to that level, you're heading from one show, maybe down to the islands to see Kenny. [00:23:25] Speaker C: Yes. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Plane starts going down. You know, a lot of that in the news right now. So you have a parachute, planes going down. You can you just so happen to bring every album known to man with you. What five albums would you take for the rest of your life? [00:23:41] Speaker C: Five albums. [00:23:42] Speaker A: You'll never listen to any. Any other albums but what you grab. [00:23:45] Speaker C: All right, I'm gonna go ahead and just lock in the first version of Kenny Chess's greatest hits. He had. He had a first version, I think it was like in 2006. So I'm gonna lock that in. A lot of Kenny chassis content you guys are about to have. [00:23:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I was gonna say he doesn't have a restraining order or anything. [00:23:57] Speaker C: You know what I had to tell him. I was like, bro, you don't have to stop me because I'm about to. I'm gonna lock that one in. Heartbreak Warfare. Lock that one in from John Mayer. That one. I love that, that record. Songs about Jane. Maroon 5 is a goeded album for me. I mean, pretty much any Eagles record, man, that they. They. My parents grew me up on the Eagles. Uh, lock that one in. I feel like I'm missing somebody. Uh, hey, Brian, what's the. The new Sabrina Carpenter record? [00:24:29] Speaker A: There's no phone. A friend here. [00:24:31] Speaker C: Oh, Chapel. Real Midwest Princess. Locking it in, dude. Midwest Princess Chapel Round. Yes. No skips. There's no skips on it. There's no skips. [00:24:42] Speaker A: No. [00:24:43] Speaker B: That's a good record right there. [00:24:44] Speaker C: That's five. And that's. That's a solid five. Honestly. Yeah. No shame. Honestly. Thanks. Thanks. [00:24:49] Speaker A: It's a great five. I don't know if we've heard pretty. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Quick many of those, if any, previously. [00:24:55] Speaker A: I asked. I asked a boss of my job today, one of his top fives. [00:25:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:25:01] Speaker C: Top five albums. That's tough. But I feel like I really locked it in. [00:25:04] Speaker A: You need to think about it because then you start thinking of like, you know, honorable mentions. No, you start coming up. Well, no, you'll start thinking of like, depending on the time where you're at. You're like, oh, this one could creep into my top five. [00:25:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I feel like I really. I mean, I didn't really put in older country, so I'm probably gonna. [00:25:19] Speaker A: How long is Sabrina gonna stay in the top five? It's gotta be probably pretty long. Really? [00:25:25] Speaker C: And probably pretty long. [00:25:26] Speaker A: Emotional pick, just. You don't think that's an emotional pick? Just cuz the plane's going down. You're like, I gotta take this. I'll be on an island. I need to bring a little Sabrina. [00:25:34] Speaker C: Oh, no, I mean, just for the album cover alone, dude. Island by myself. [00:25:39] Speaker A: Discount. [00:25:43] Speaker C: I gotta have that hot girl down there, bro. [00:25:47] Speaker A: That's amazing. Crazy. [00:25:49] Speaker B: Oh, so you're opening up for Ashley Cook tonight here in Peoria, Farmington Road Cruisins and kind of one of the last questions that we've got here. First of all, let me say thanks for. For taking the time and it's great to. To meet your. Your team here and. And good to work with them over the course of the week, prepping for. For you guys. Yeah, stay here. What. What. What can people look for on stage from you tonight? [00:26:16] Speaker C: Oh, man, we're just gonna be up there having a good time. You know, we're playing acoustic, so it's just gonna be a lot of banter and just kind of feeling the crowd out. I mean, it's exciting to be here at Cruisings because the crowd's always just electric and they're always just participating in the show just as much as we are. So we're, we're excited to be up there. And. And Ashley's show is fantastic. So we're just gonna be honestly trying to warm him up for her and, uh, giving a little. Little taste of what's to come to hopefully a Grandlin James show here, headlining. [00:26:45] Speaker B: There you go. There you go. Next few months or a year, you do it. Nicer weather, we can go out golfing. Take it to golf. [00:26:50] Speaker C: Oh, dude, I would love that because we were talking about it earlier. I think every time I've been here, it's been cloudy, so we need to see Peoria. [00:26:57] Speaker A: So much fun going golf. We went. Lily's a big golfer. We've golfed with her a ton of times. We went mini putting with Atlas, and that was kind of a shit show, really. [00:27:10] Speaker C: I can imagine. [00:27:11] Speaker A: I didn't realize that every hole you go on. So there's a really cool place here in town called the Putt Club. It's a nice outdoor thing, but every hole there's a QR code that you just scan and order a drink and they'll bring it out to you. And so we did shots and we did shots and we did more drinks. [00:27:29] Speaker C: Oh, dude, we don't do shots in this band. [00:27:32] Speaker A: Really? [00:27:32] Speaker C: Fuck. [00:27:34] Speaker A: Well, thanks for doing this, man. [00:27:35] Speaker C: That hit. [00:27:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Tailgate Beers here. Want to thank Surfside for the sponsorship. Also, White Oak Brewing out here in Normal, Illinois. They the Ripping Lips. This isn't Ripping Lips, but certainly one of our favorites too. So shout out to them. Thanks. For the sponsorship. [00:27:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, cheers, man. [00:27:53] Speaker C: Cheers, fellas. [00:27:53] Speaker A: Appreciate you. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:27:55] Speaker C: Thank y'all so much for listening to these guys. Appreciate y'all.