Ashley Cooke – Tour bus

Ashley Cooke – Tour bus

 

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Question: Congrats you just got a tour bus!!
Ashley Cooke: “I love her. We named her Pearl. She’s just like a big white bus. It kind of looks like the the whale from SpongeBob is. We named her Pearl. But I my own little bedroom in the back, and it’s it’s a really good time. And it’s a good way to rest on the road, which, you know, we basically live on the road at this point. So it’s like our home on the road.”

Larry Fleet – Health Nuts

Larry Fleet – Health Nuts

 

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Question: Tell me about this Health nut kick..
Larry Fleet: “Well, the health nut thing is a it’s a movement, really. I started me and my bass player Crazy Legs. If you’ve ever been to one of my shows, you know, my bass player, he’s. He’s got his own fan group over there. He’s. He looks like Gumby out there and around. His legs are all over the place. He dances. He’s he’s a he’s a right. I love him and he’s been with me the longest of anybody. And back when I was playing bars and I could barely afford to pay him at all anything. He was with me and he’s been with me through the whole thing. And so. The health nuts come from me and him sitting around, I guess around, you know, Covid times and maybe a little bit before that. And I said, hey, look, we need to go exercise or something. Let’s get out and do something. So he had a mountain bike and I went and got me one, and we just decided we were going to go round trails around Chattanooga. I was living in Chattanooga at the time, so we, met up and there was a parking lot, and it was a Whole Foods. Neither me or him have ever been into a Whole Foods, but I was like, let’s just meet there. It’s a good parking lot. And so I did an Instagram story and I was like, look at those health nuts hanging out the Whole Foods. And, you know, here we are. And so we. That’s how it began. And then we we get on the bikes and we rode around and we were just kind of being goofy at first and. Both of us are really out of shape and and Eric go crazy legs. He will have to pull over and smoke cigarets to catch his breath, you know, from time to time. But, it became a thing and we started doing that almost every day.”

Hailey Whitters – Growing Up

Hailey Whitters – Growing Up

 

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Question: Tell me about growing up..
Hailey Whitters: “I grew up in a cornfield in the middle of Iowa. We have lots of corn in Iowa. In fact, my fans have named me the corn Queen, which I think is hilarious and absolutely love. I’m proud to be their corn queen, but I grew up in a small town and, you know, everybody knew everybody. Everybody had everybody’s back. And I’m so grateful to have grown up that way. You know, maybe a little bit slower. A country kid, for sure. But to be able to grow up that way, I think, is so much a part of the reason of who I am today and why I am the way that I am.”

Morgan Wallen – Order of songs on album

Morgan Wallen – Order of songs on album

 

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Question: here also seems to be a cadence to the order of the songs. Was that intentional?
Morgan Wallen: Yeah, we you know, we would do like two more traditional country sound songs then we do like an alternative sounding song to two traditional sounding songs, a beat driven song. And then because there was more country, you know, sounding songs on the album than there was anything else, and they’re all they all have a country, obviously, to them. But the others, the songs that were influenced more by other genres, we try to sprinkle them in, you know, in between all the country songs. So I feel like it worked out fine. We just we kind of went into Seth’s office one day and had a big, well, actually, we just put them on the floor all the, all the papers of the songs, and we just started sliding them around and like, making a little puzzle kind of. And just then we just that’s how it ended. It took about an hour probably, You know, like, all right, this works.”

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