Question: Just kicked off the tour.. what prep goes into planning the tour? Morgan Wallen: “Yeah. I mean, I think at this point, you know, especially when you get into stadiums is mostly just about production. You already have a good idea of what songs are going to play. At least I do for this, you know, for these tours is because of. You know, what the tours called or whatever. You know, you kind of know, you kind of have an idea of what you’re going to do as far as that goes. But the production, the stage, how where are you going to put the stage? How many tickets go on sale? What’s the theme? Are you going to do themes? Just all kinds of stuff like that. So that that takes the that takes the most time. I think, you know, just a quite a few zoom calls and things like that. A lot of people behind the scenes working on that, you know, working a lot harder than I am on that. I kind of just give my $0.02 every couple weeks, you know? But a lot of people really do work hard for that. And then, you know, once we get within a month or so, we start rehearsing a couple days a week, figuring out, you know, the set list and which ones, which songs go good together, which ones don’t. What moments are we going to have? All that kind of stuff. So it’s a lot of work for a lot of people, not just me.”
Question: When did you start playing piano? Are you writing more songs on the piano? Morgan Wallen: “Yeah, I started playing piano when I was seven years old, and I learned to play it classically and played for a few years, and then I kind of just, just didn’t really play any instruments for a while because I was so focused on on baseball. But I guess I don’t know, once I got to be a I mean, I was in high school and I kind of started picking it up again, just messing around with it. I didn’t really take it serious or anything. But I started playing it and writing songs and stuff on it when I was 19 or so. So I’ve been playing it a long time. Yeah. I mean, I don’t I don’t necessarily think I have written anything specifically for piano, because I know that sand in my boots probably is not going anywhere in my state for a long time. But if if a song, you know, comes to me and I and I and I write it on the piano, then I think it would be cool. But I don’t I don’t really know. I think it’s in my boots. Kind of just has got I got that spot held down for now. “
Question: Who all have you worked with with your foundation? Morgan Wallen: “We’ve partnered with the Boston Red Sox, We’ve partnered with the Chicago Cubs, The Atlanta Braves. You know, and we’ve partnered with the city of Nashville and Major League Baseball. It’s a lot of baseball fields right now because baseball is such near and dear to my heart. And there’s been a lot of opportunities that have have that have came up because of of the knowledge of, you know, people knowing of my love for baseball. So it’s just been a natural fit. And, you know, we’ve done some music things as well. Especially back home in East Tennessee. So it’s it’s been cool to see all of the opportunities that we’ve got to take so far. And I’m excited to see what we do in the future.”
Question: Have you been playing the piano for a while? Morgan Wallen: “Yeah, I started playing piano when I was seven years old, and I learned to play it classically and played for a few years, and then I kind of just, just didn’t really play any instruments for a while because I was so focused on on baseball. But I guess I don’t know, once I got to be a I mean, I was in high school and I kind of started picking it up again, just messing around with it. I didn’t really take it serious or anything. But I started playing it and writing songs and stuff on it when I was 19 or so. So I’ve been playing it a long time.”
