QUESTION: Tell me about your openers on tour?
HARDY: “Okay. So let’s see, there’s a bunch and a lot of them are like trading off. But, uh, the, the constant is McCoy Moore, who’s gotten to be a good buddy of mine. He’s a younger artist, but he’s really great. Um, he’s got a great voice. He’s got really good songs and, uh I just, I have a lot of faith in him, man. I think he’s going to be, I think. He’s going be a star one day. And he’s also just a great human being and a really great person to tour with. He’s, he is going and we, we, he opened for me last year and he got to ride in on a bus. Cause it was just him and an acoustic guy, but he’s got his whole van this year. And so he’s going to be in the van and man, he’s gonna be, he is going to be tired. I love, I love watching people like kind of earn their, earn their keep a little bit or, or earn their stripes rather. And, and cause we’ve all been there and anyway, but okay. So McCoy, we’ve got Mitchell, 10 penny long friend of mine. He’s doing some dates with us. We’ve got muscadine bloodline, which they’ve had like a crazy, like I would call it like a resurgence. Cause they were really big, like 10 years ago. And this grassroots, you know, kind of thing. And, and I would never say that they went away, but I just didn’t hear anything from them for a long time. And then Post Malone has shared an interest with them. I’ve been seeing them on like social. Anyway, they’ve been going crazy. Then I have Tucker Wetmore, who’s everybody knows Tucker. He’s blowing up right now. I’m really excited about that. And then Cameron Whitcomb, who is a Canadian guy who is like killing it right now and he’s doing some really cool stuff that I don’t know much about him. I don’t really know him. So I’m excited to get to know him some.”

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