Episode 19 - Preston from LoCash (11-7-16)

Because Chris and Preston, I actually talked to you, simike. We talked every week at least, and so I was like, well, let's ask Preston and then if it's not cool, we'll just wait six months and they buy us in the microphone. And so it's weird for me that you're here by yourself in a professional setting. Is that weird for you to be by myself? You know, Chris and I never do interviews without each other, but just because we're kind of a unified voice, and uh, that's just how it's

always been since day one. And um, you know, I called Chris and I told him the situation and he was like, dude, you know, um let's do this' it's it's awesome. I mean you have been such a life changer for us and on and off the air, you know, with your words of encouragement off the air, with what you've done with us on radio, and uh, and we just knew that this was one of those situations where if we were gonna make an exception, this is the

exception right now. Because mikee I talked about it too, was like, I want to get a mom but we don't have a microphone. So, uh, Chris, I know you're listening right now. I miss you, buddy. I'll see in the studio, in the big studio soon. That's right. Okay, So we got lots to talk about. First of all, I got a little turned on a minute ago, and you know, it's just a little personal story. I drove up and it was like half an hour before so the start. I Preston was sitting out in front of

the house. I get excited on people are early, and I was like I shouldn't. I was kind of feeling a little bit. I pulled up aside him and I was like, what I do to go? Just chilling? Wait, and I was like, dang, I love earlier people. So hopped in the shower after the workout and uh, it's good to go. Um you got yeah, so much talking about but you have on these shoes right now. Yes, these are gray Nikes and there's I'm a shoe guy. I so I noticed the immediately. They're they're great nikes.

They're high tops. There's low cash on the back of them, and I said, they knew or do you just keep up with them? Very okay? So yesterday we went to do a fundraiser for Adam with Adam Jones of the Baltimore Orioles. So we went to Baltimore. We did this tailgate party that he does the book, like before the

Baltimore Ravens football game. And uh so we get out there, we're having fun and we're raising money for the Boys and Girls Club in that area and Adam walks on stage with these two boxes of air Jordan's and we're like, I thought we were going to give him away or something. I was like, all right, here comes a cool giveaway and he grabs the microphone. He says, around here we do gifts and I was like, well, that's awesome. We're

gonna gift these you get nobody. And I was like, we're just gonna give these away, you know, And then he goes Presty and Chris, I secretly got your shoe sizes and I want to give you each a pair of Air Jordan's and that are low cash, limited edition. And so he gave this toal us yesterday. That's awesome. And I just posted a picture of him today and he had actually taken a picture in Camden Yards with the shoes before he gave them to us, so we would have that picture. See, I didn't even know you

were such a sport. I'm a die hard sports fan. Yeah, Like I did a national sports show for years on Fox Sports Radio, so like that's my passion music and sports and so until recently. And I'm a die hard Cubs fan. Yeah I am too, Like my whole life. I was trying to get you to go to game it was and we'll get to that in a minute.

But he's the press is a terrible influence, by the way, because I go to Game four and I'm there and Lindsey and I go up and we're we're at the game and process like we're coming up for Game five. He said, if you want to ride home, we'll take you. I said I can't because one, if they lose, I could not take watching Cleveland celebrate on that field regular I couldn't do it for my psyche. I couldn't do it. So I caught wind that they weren't going to allow

them to celebrate. I don't know if this is true or not, but they were going to get us out of there early and get us back, like off the premises, just in case they won. But we were on a role we were winning that. Yeah, listen, I don't know if regally could have handled. I couldn't have handled the celebration, and I think people would have been so I think that's what it was about. It wasn't anything towards Cleveland. I think it was more towards I think they just

didn't want to rub it in anyone's faces. But the thing is too, it would have been a disservice to Cleveland for them not to be able to celebrate wherever they won, and they probably would have allowed them, like a semi celebration or something. If I'm Cleveland, I'm but I'm dog Piline. I don't care where it is anywhere it's been since the forties. I'm dogs, but I personally

could not take a Cup's loss. And as much as I appreciate, and I was like, present, I appreciate it so much, but we just lost seven to two, and I was like, I can't. I can't. I was feeling for you because you're at that game, and I'm going, oh, it's crushing me. That three run homer was just I was just like, oh, no, we'll see okay. So game one, we lose. Game two and they sing and sing and so we sing the national anthem. We're watching the game and they tie it up. They win that game, so

it's one to one. So Chris and I are kind of like, hey, we're kind of joking around. We're like, maybe we were good luck tonight, you know, so whatever, we come home. Then they lose three and four, and I literally texted Chris. I was like, Chris, the Cubs need us, We've got to go. He's like, press, and I gotta be home with my family. I need to do this. It's like, Chris, bring the family, Let's go

to Chicago. We need to be there. Were there rabbits foot and so he was like I don't know, man, and so we went and the next thing, you know, we win. You did. So Hendricks won game two and you were there for that, but then you saw Lester win Game five. So I'll do this because I knew you guys were singing game to the national anthem in Cleveland, and I was like, that's weird. I know their cup bands.

How do they get invited to sing in Cleveland? Well, MLB actually invited us, and so MLB handles all of the anthems during UH, during the series and probably the playoffs two. But they called us assets if we were

saying we said yes and UH. And I played it very neutral that day because out of respect for yeah, I'm not gonna walk out there wearing cups stuff, you know, and so you know, in my heart, I might have had some cupies on these on but so here's a little bit of them during the national anthem World Series game too sick and you see by Thenswerdly, I gotta wonder when you're singing this. It's the World Series and you're probably singing it a hundred times and every time.

And I talked about this a lot of artists because everybody sings the ant it's that it's an honor to sing it, but there's no win because if you do it perfectly, like goes on next minute, nobody cares. You know, it's over. Nice job. If you do it in a bad way, the world is over and they're waiting for you to mess up. Some people out there, uh, in the basement of their mom's house on the computer, just waiting, you know. But for Chris and I, it was such

an honor. I mean, there's so much stuff going on with the national anthem right now, with the flag, with the election, with it just in our country period. So Chris and I were like, this is our opportunity to walk out on the field, take our hats off, put our hands on our hearts, and sing this song, look directly at that flag, and sing it for our country, sing it for everybody who's ever died for our country, sing it for the USA. And it was like the

most proudest moment of my life. And we just walked out and in the middle of all this stuff that's going on in the news and just singing it. You know, it felt clean. It just felt that way to me too. And well, I got a text message from my mom right before we walked out, you know, to keep you underground. You're inside the stadium and there's a lot of like energy,

you know, the players are walking by and stuff. And so I get this text message from my mom about Timmins before we walk out, and she said, I know, you guys are probably excited and maybe a little nervous. She's like, but I'm gonna be standing in front of my TV with my hand on my heart and just walk out there and sing it so I can sing along.

Make me proud. And I was like, that's it. I mean, we already sing it traditional, but that was just a real clear reminder that, you know, we were just gonna walk out there and just hand on our hearts and uh uh. There's a lot of lyrics. There's a lot of words in that song that you can easily mess up the gleamings and the streamings and you know, all

those things and misplace them. But I just knew that if we kind of had tunnel vision and just looked at that flag and just remembered why we were all there, that we would get through it. And it was a big stage, a lot of a lot of viewers, but yeah, viewer, uh yeah, a lot of viewers game too. You go the Cubs when you sing the national anthem, listen, that's a nice night. I gotta lie. It was amazing, I'll

tell you. Um. We were walking out of the tunnel and they were like, all right, in uh sixty seconds, you're gonna be singing. So they bring you out right behind home plate. You come out the gate and uh, I got this uh guitar tuner and that's where I get the key for the song. So I'll show you what this. This is my life right before we sing the national anthem every time, so I'm uh kind of keeping the key because we sing it acapella, so oh, I think my volumes down, So I do this over

and over. I'm like mmmm, and I'm like okay, and then I started an octave under that, so I'm like trying to keep that key in my ear. And then I'm like and they're like sixty seconds. So I popped my ear and we're ready to go. I've got the key. I'm humming it. You know. I'm like, nobody at this key going out of my head. I've got it in my head. And we walk out and somebody walks up and gets in right in front of us. He says hey, and and his mouth is moving, but I can't hear him.

We got my ears popped in, so I was like, I don't want to take my ears out because I've got the key pop my ear out. And they're like, Hank Karon wants to meet you guys. Karen wants to meet this right now. I can't believe this is so cool, and so I let the key go obviously because it's gonna be awesome to meet Hank Karen. So we meet Hank Karen and Big Poppy from Boston is with him.

We take a picture together and they're like, you're twenty seconds from going on and I'm like, okay, I'm like trying to hurry, and I'm like, here we go again. I'm trying to put my ear back in and uh. And then they had us walk out, so it all worked out. But looking back on it, I think the Hank Karon thing kind of took the edge off a little bit and made us forget how nervous we were and just let us walk out there and do it for those aren't sports fans. Tak Care at home run

later before a Babe Hank Barry that order. Yeah, so before our day. But we know, if you're a sports fan, you know Hammer and Hank, and I mean and I didn't think we would ever get a chance to meet somebody like Hank Karen. But then all of a sudden he's right there like one of the most one of the coolest moments in sports history that we did not get to see what we've seen on the internet or

TV hunter times. And when he hits the home run that breaks the record and the guy runs out of the crowd and circles the basis with amazing and gives and nobody goes to attack the guy. It was a friendly her time. Then in imagine if someone broke a record now and then circling the basis and someone comes running from the snipers taking down people watching. But if you if you don't know sports, look for Hank Aaron's home run when he breaks the record, and you'll see

a guy start running the basis with him so excited. Okay, so World Series, we got you something. We're at the World Series and we were They don't sell World Series memorabilia at the World Series. You have to get online to buy it and stuff. But down in our dressing room. They had a few extra little things that were kind of cool. So we got you something you don't to meet. Let me finish this right about the world. We can, we can, we can wrap this part of it with this.

But so pressing I find out that we're both die hard Cubs fans, and and here's the thing about Cubs fans, we don't care if band wagoners come on because we only care about our hearts. Like I hope the whole world a Cubs fan because I know what I've been through my whole life, so more than Merrier and the people you see gripping about bandwagoners, they're not real Cubs fans because we just know what we've been through and we're happy for our own heart to people. We don't

care if anybody else enjoyed back. It's just from when Lee Smith from For me, my hero was Mark Grace growing up, and so I wrote in my book even about him, and he sent a copy back. I'm just a huge sports the Cubs nerd. And you know, I like the whole eighty nine National Legue East team that won the East, Like you know, I idolized Grace and Sandburg and Dunston. It doesn't matter which third base when you go, if it's Vance Law or Matt Holiday or

any of those guys. Dawson, even I remember pal merrow out in the outfield, even the backup scrubs like Doug Descenzo or Jerom Walton, DWIGHTE. Smith, like all those guys, Dude Maddox when when he won eighteen, when he won sixteen, it was insane for back then people to know. Joe joh we're nerded a big time right now. But Joe Girardi was Damon barry Hill's backup with the Cubs. The catchers like Girardi, it was the backup catcher for the

Cubs with Damon Barry Hill was the catcher anyway. Huge Cup fans, all right, So I don't know Preston was either. And one thing a Cup fan knows when they're around another real life Cup fan. And so we're talking and I couldn't go to five, and I was like, oh my god, I would love to go to seven. And he's like we're going to seven, and like like I'm happy for him in my heart, but I'm like he's like,

just come with us, and I can't. I literally couldn't because I was doing the c m A Red carpet and I was doing it on television and I couldn't back out, and it was killing me too. I wish you would never offered it because it was killing me, like all night. But here's where I got. I didn't get in trouble, but here's what got me right. So the c m A Right carpet I did. I couldn't go to the game, but I was like, I'm not staying for the c m AS, straight home to watch it.

I don't care if it's the fiftieth anniversary. I don't care if it's the hundred. I don't care if every legend that's dead comes back to life and they have them all. I'm watching the cover anniversary of a second But my girlfriend played at c m AS and so it was I know it was. I still chose the TV and home. She was cool about it in her heart, and she's a keeper. Then that's perfect. Do you think she's cool about really? I think she has too. But

here's the thing about women. Now, know I don't have much because you're Mary, and I don't know because she seems like a good one, but they always tended to they keep score. Man, you know what I think, Well, I know, I know her, and I know she's sweet in the heart, you know, and so I think you're good. You're good. I think I'm good. Girl would be keeping score, but I think you're good. I've just known her for years.

That's how i got met her two months ago, because she's the Instagram model that I was like, you know, hitting a d M A right, you know, yeah, it's real, and she knows your love for the Cubs is real and she does get she knows much freaking tickets to So um, I should do this commercial real quick. Okay, let me do this. Commerce you ever try blue Apron, you can say no if it's if you haven't have

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some people just never leave. They're just there forever. Eventually it will go away. Yeah, sadly. Yeah, like my town. Wait, I want about this present where at the present time. I've tried to give this to him five times. This is I'm so excited to get. I'm so uncomfortable getting complimens and gifts. I'm just telling you that I do too. I hate getting gifts from people. But okay, here we go. Alright, give us that they give us these um these World

series bags. So you're getting one of these bags, these World serious world and this isn't a huge deal, but it is something from the World series. So we got you an official because they have the balls back there that they were taken out, and we got you one of the official World series balls. That's cool. I appreciate them. They're and they're very protected. They keep them in on the it's super tight too. Yeah, and it says it opened it up. That's pretty cool. I don't want to

open it up. I can read it through it. I don't. Oh, it's in gold righting. I'm also I don't know, hopening up, screw it, open it out now. I don't know if this is true or not. So this is what I want to talk about. Is there a hundred and eight stitches in a baseball? If that's true, that's weird. I'm not going to count them. I heard there's a hundred and eight stitches in a baseball. You have Google, Google out of there. It's a really cool world they have.

I don't know this they have. It's all gold. Everything on the ball was gold. I appreciate that kept so I don't get going, thank you very much. But these little bags are awesome. Can I tell you what the worst is because I actually like this gift. It's like a little jim bag. This is why I don't I gifts because a lot of times I'll just talk honestly. I'm a single guy and I can buy myself whatever I want. I worked hard. I have a pretty good life, except for the whole never having a girlfriend or a

relationship or any family for a long time. You know, I can buy. I buy all the crap on one so people get me stuff. I was like, oh, you know, I don't. Yeah, So I don't like to get gifts. It's tough because I have everything that I like one and I have all the fake like faces for when I get again. Don't even do that, well, I don't. I don't do well either. But I'm just like, I appreciate that. So great, that's really cool. I appreciate that.

Thanks man. I we just wanted you to have something that from the from game two, you know, And they had this box of official game balls, and they still wanted we took them. They had them all sitting there and I posted a picture and I was just being funny, but we posted a picture on Instagram that said it takes a lot of balls to sing the national anthem at the World Series game. We laughed and I was like, maybe we should take a couple of these for ourselves,

you know. And no one was really counting, and so I was like, yeah, let's do this. And they gave us the bags anyway, so then uh we cleared it. At the end. We're like, okay, we're not very good takers. So we were like, um, in our bags, we have, yeah, we have these World Series balls and MLB was like totally fine, totally fine, cool. Yeah, they were nice. Let's uh there, I heard that the other day, so that makes it even more perfect. That's crazy, Okay, So let's play.

Let's talk about some music and some live and what I can do is we like to start now and kind of work our way all the way back around. So let's start with the song right here. This is the last song, and I just went number one for you guys, wait to get if you're ready with the little yeah. As I know, somebody your first ever number one never gets tired of hearing that I got it? Like have you you haven't had a number one party yet,

like your official nothing? Nothing? I mean, we have like little individual parties every day when we see each other. We're like after being because listen, I know artists who come to town and they're that point one percent to get lucky immediately and it's like you got right place, right time, everything boom you have a number one. Then I know artists like you, guys that have been grinding it out for a long time. When you have finally hit a number one, I mean, do you still have

a twelve oh one? And look and make sure it's official? Do you wake up? Do you got to know? The race was with Billy Currington, and what a great song he had. I mean, I'm a big fan of that song, and it was already number one though it was. And then so we're neck and neck, and we're so neck and neck that we're losing by a lot going into the final hours. And as the final hours wrap up, we're so close that they called us and said, we can't tell you tonight. We're gonna have to reconcile all

the spins. It's like the recount, dude, it was like a total election recount. And I was like, and you know, for low cash, we never get the good into the stick, like it just never does. Your last song was number two of all things, right, and we're and you're sitting here thinking maybe it's meant to be a number two or something. I don't know, but you're trying to keep your energy right and you're trying to think, no, we're gonna get this. We're gonna get this. And the entire

industry rally behind us that night. I mean, other ladies. I wondered if you knew that, because I knew that other labels were calling Radio stay and this is how weird this is. You don't let me say this because I don't want you to say thing. It's gonna put anything weird, So let me say. Let me tell you

what what I heard happened. So there was first At first there were three songs that they were trying to that we're going for number one that week ended up being a two horse race and Billy Currington it Don't Hurt Like It used to, which by the way, is a fantastic song and was number one already, And so here it goes. It's going down to the last hour and they're pushing for a second week, and everybody didn't know that we're gonna push for a second week. It was kind of a last thing. And you know, I

if you follow protocol, you don't do that usually. Now I'm a guy that says you shouldn't follow a protocol, like you should just go balls out and everybody should just fight for number one every week. That's not how this format works. And I think that's a crappy part of this. That's why they don't say anything. Let me just handle this controversial subject um. I think it's a crap I think pop radio has the right idea. If there's a song that's good enough to be number one,

for seven weeks. It should be freaking number one for seven weeks. Country radio at times is a piece of crap because all they do is go, we'll make a deal. You're number one here, We're gonna let you have number one here. And that's stupid. It's really stupid, and it's really a bad part of our format. That and of the best format, by the way, because the people are the best, but that's a really bad part of it.

So that being said, belly carctone Sudden is going for a second week and number one, and I'm like, huh, like I'm and I'm pulling for you guys hard. And so then I started to get text and calls going, hey, there are other labels, other record labels. They have nothing to do with low cash, no investment in low cash. And they're calling radio stations going you got to spend lo you gotta play this song. And I'm like, I'm like, I've never heard of this before, Like this is the cover.

This is like the Cups coming back from three one a second series in a row and winning the whole thing. So I called I called my boss and said, where is this low cash song? Because I hear and he is not acknowledging anything. He's like, listen, I don't know what's happening right now. I don't know if he did or didn't. But he's like, I don't know what's happening right now, as he said, but there's no answer. He said, I don't know. I don't know who the number one

song is. No one did because I wanted to go on and tweet, and you know what, I texted you too, and I texted you so vaguely and I was like, dude, you demand because I knew at that I just knew it was at number one at that point, and he wouldn't. He responded, Hey, thanks, And I didn't want to even say congrats in the number one in case more song track. We were so nervous, man. So you finally hear it

the where do you hear that? Your number? So we were in Baltimore, Chris's hometown when we're pushing for number one that night, and somebody walked out on stage and said, low Cash just hit number one, and I was like, did we were one? We weren't. We had just finished.

We got off stage, and I think Little Big Talent was getting ready to go on stage and the radio personality walks on stage and says, low Cash just hit number one, but what they did, I mean, we did hit number one, but it would flip flop back and forth. So the news they got was accurate. It was not written in five minutes. Yeah, it was gonna keep flipping and flopping all night long. And so and you gotta go by West Coast time, so it's gonna go till

because they had the last day midnight, midnight? Is it until three o'clock? Yes, Eastern, And so we're like, ah, so we're in Baltimore. We're sort of starting to hug, but we're not sure yet and we don't want to jinx it. So we talked to the record label that night and they said, we can't give you any kind

of confirmation. We're gonna have to wait till in the morning because they reconcile these spins, and each label has a chance, has like two hours to reconcile fine lost spins, miss spins kind of thing, lost votes kind of thing. And so I finally just went to sleep, and I had my wife and my kid with me, and Chris had his wife and his two kids with him, and uh,

we're staying it like a holiday in or whatever. We're just waiting and about nine o'clock in the morning, we get a phone call and the label is like, can we get on three way? Real serious voice, and I was like, oh boy, here we go. We got number two, you know, and uh And so I get Chris on the phone and Gators are Gator Michael's is ahead of our radio team, and he says, he says, guys, after the reconciliation came in, you got number one. And I

mean I just lost it. Man. I was with my wife and my kid and my daughter's ten months old, and like, that's the first real hug I think I ever like felt her give me and she just knew, you know, it was awesome. Okay, let me ask you this. Let's go back a step and let's go over to I Love This Life because this song hit two. And the weird thing about this, man, it was such a long process because and I don't want to go through the whole where you're like, oh, thank you, thank you,

thank you, You're welcome, okay. And I didn't even do it. I didn't even know you guys. I didn't even do it because I was like pressent there my boys. I did it because of such a positive song. It was insane what you did, it was incredible. Blah blah blah. I played the song, then everybody got this is the key. I get too much credit for breaking artists and songs because all I do is go, hey, everybody, look at this. That's what I do. I don't make them number one.

I just take them and go, hey, everybody, please pay attention to something that I think is good. I don't I don't write the song, all things songs, and I don't do anything. I just say everybody, please pay attention. But your voice is so big, and your voice is so and when I say big, I mean it reaches so many people. And and that's what you know. Chris and I have just been out there grinding, like you said, just you know, like we felt like we never had a fair shot at radio. We just felt like we

never did and and that's what kept us going. We could wake up in the morning and say, hey, we haven't had a fair shot. If we get a fair shot at radio and it doesn't work, we can walk away and say we gave it our best and we

had our best shot, but we just never did. And then all of a sudden one morning and laying in the bus and I'm a lead and it's like I don't know, maybe seven o'clock, eight o'clock in the morning, and Chris runs on the bus, throws open the curtain to my bond, shakes me and says, pe you gotta wake up. And I seriously thought something really bad at happened. I thought somebody got hurt. I didn't know, you know, you wake up scared to death, set up, hit my

head on the bunk ahead of me. You know, I'm like, boom, and I'm like, what's going on? He goes, I think Bobby Bone is just played I Love this Life. It was, and like you said, it was just honestly like one of those things we had never talked before, and here and all of a sudden, in all of America, I Love this Life is on the air, and it was just like that moment. It was like VH one. Behind the music, it was like boom, it just changed for me. I heard it and I was like, man, this is

such a positive song. And then it's also gotta be good, like there are two levels to it, like got I don't have to like the message. The message has to resonate. It is. There are songs that I'm just like, man, that's it's kind of a gross message, but growth messages are part of life. And does this, you know, does it resonate? And then is there a good song? I was like, this is a good song and nobody's playing it and it's a positive song. So I throw in the dance party and then I kept playing it and

then just other people it just opened eyes. Like I didn't do anything, I mean open the world's eyes. And then you guys are on a small label. It's not like you guys have a million dollar budget to go out and promote all this everywhere. And I've never seen a tiny little team scramble like they did that morning. Phones were ringing everybody, and then all of a sudden, they were like, I think Bobby wants you to call

into the show. And we were like, because then had climbed so much on the on the iTunes, that's we're trying not to like sound too crazy, like we're like screaming, and then we're like, okay, we gotta play it cool man. We're about to be on Bobby Bones show. We're like trying to get together hear you say that now, because they buddies. It's so weird to even think that in your head. We were in a gust of Georgia. I know right where the bus was parked. I'll never forget it.

And so we're sitting there on my phone on speaker phone, and you're like, guys, do you live on Bobby Bones Show? So don't cuss, don't say anything crazy, And I'm like, the morning you have to say that, because in the morning, most artist it's not time to wake up yet. And in that moment, we just want to yell all kinds of words. We're just going crazy, like this is wild. I'm so glad you said that, and so um, and the phone call was over, and I'm like Chris and

I are looking at like did we talk? I don't know if we did. We just talk on the air. I don't know if we did. Did we And did we say the right things? I don't even know. We're like hugging and high fiving. And that was just the beginning My only point of that whole call too, because I remember going, hey see if we can get those guys on the phone, like find their number. At the point,

this guy the only time we had ever spoken. You may not remember this because I have a story about when we first met to But the only time we've ever spoken is when I first moved to Nashville. We did Oklahoma City Relief and you called into the show when you guys were toil LoCash Cowboys and you were like, hey were doing did the guitar? And I was like, who the crap is? Honestly, like, who the crap is? LoCash Cowboys? And who's gonna been on this guitar? But they,

you know, thank you for sending the guitar. That's so I was like, hey, get them on the phone because I want to see, like how they feel about this song, like like what did they write it? I don't think about it and then wouldn't do anything they write it? What's the message? It's climbing up the charts right now? Do they know this? Like do they know that people now like this song? It was just happening so fast, it was so cool. And then we watched it and

then I remember you guys. Someone called goes Hey low Cash was gonna sing about you on a CMT commercial and I was like, I don't know what this means. So all of a sudden on CMT, it was like, hey, low Cash, you got a new song called I Love This Life, and it's like, you know, and I love the Bobby Bone Show. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, what

was happening right now? And we still hadn't met. And to be honestly, I don't even know what you look like at this time, at this point in my life, I had no I was just like, it's a great song, it's a great message. That's what I'm here for. Keep playing it didn't know what you look like. I didn't. I can't get too invested, especially earlier. I can't, And so I didn't even look. I didn't look you guys up. So I'm walking. I don't know if I told you this,

but I'm walking. Maybe it was CRST at the Omni Hotel and this guy comes up to me and he's a little bit emotional, and I'm like, somebody's gonna stab me or give me a big old hugs. I don't know what it's gonna be, but something, and Nada was with me. We were going in and he goes, dude, I just want to thank you. And I'm like, I wonder, like what what charity. I mean, really, this is what I'm thinking. I'm like, yeah, my words probably weren't coming

out right because I'm emotional. And that's when I was the first time we had met and you were like, I'm pressed it from low cash and I was like, oh, dude, congratulations. You know, it's really great to see and you were liked, and it was just a really cool moment. I'm pulling this bag, My bag falls over, it hits like somebody. You know, it's a total train wreck. But I have to get the bobby and thank him. And I'm like, no matter what, I got to catch him for he

gets on the escalators. We're about to walk on the escalator. When he goes up, it's over. He's gonna be busy and I'll never catch him, and then I'll really look like a stock or flying up. That's got who's running up the opposite side of the escalator. That was a really cool for me because it was so freaking organic. I'm glad because once again I walked away like did I just freak I don't know, because I just wanted to say things like I happened to. There was nothing

planned about it. I just happened to walk in. You were right there. I didn't know who you were. And then I was like and I walked up and I was like that was really cool, Like that was really cool. And that was one of those moments where I'm like, this is why I do this. And sometimes you don't want to interrupt somebody, and that's how I was feeling.

I was like, he's on his way towards something, a meeting in the show or something, and I didn't know if I should, you know, should even run up and interrupt, but I was like I have to because this is the guy that that turned America onto us on the air. And I was like, no matter what this comes off, like, no matter if my bag falls over and I'm a train wreck, I gotta go over there and say thank you. And that was, you know I. So let's go to this song. So it it hits a number two before

this song? What was your highest charting song? Uh, well, we had we were on a record label called Strout of various years ago, like oh, eight oh nine, two thousand ten right in there, and we had a song called keep in Mind that got to number thirty two, I think, and the record label that's it. That's the song. What song, so keep in mind and the one that I love the song. So this song OFFENSI story. I just wanted to play it while you were telling it.

Jeffrey Steele and Shane Miner wrote that song. Jeffrey Steele was and still is a huge like mentor big brother everything to us, and he believed when nobody did it way back in oh eight, you know, and Uh took us to his studio and we started writing songs together, and he just kept telling us, through all the highs and the lows, you gotta keep writing songs no matter what. Just keep writing throughout all the good, throughout all the bad, and and your and your little diamonds will be at

the end of that. You know, you'll have this little pile of songs. Some of them will suck, you know, like a lot of them will suck, but there'll be this little handful of songs that will be special and real and they'll be the ones. And so, Uh one day we were at his studio and we overheard him say that Rascal Flats might be recording and keep in mind, and we just looked at him and we said, nobody's ever given us a song like this or giving us a shot to record it, and we feel like we

could record this, will you give it to us? And he kept it and took it off hold from all the other artists and let us record it. And I mean, that's the number one for anybody, a multi week number one for anybody, but for low cash. Uh, and this little label we were on, it was a shot. It was it was a chance, and it got us to thirty two, and um, it could have went a lot higher,

but the record label closed at thirty two. And while we had a bullet and we're going up the charts, the record label shut down for other budgeting reasons and we got left hanging right there at thirty two. So thirty two was your highest to that point ever And so once I love this life hit stop twenty Is that a celebration? Oh my gosh, everything was a celebration like forty was. And I'll tell you what when I'll

tell you what was a real celebration for us. We were going down the highway and uh and Gator Michael's was driving the car and he looked back and he says, hey, guys, your song just went to thirty one. For me, that was that moment, that was that threshold, and it was like, Okay, it's a new world. It's a new shot at thirty and then and then twenty, and like you said, you know, it's a celebration that every tier. You're like, okay, the new goal is you know, ninet, and then fifteen and

then ten and all bets are off at ten. But I mean it's like Nascar. All these cars are just zooming as fast as they can. They've all made pit stops and and and when I say cars, I mean songs. But here we here you are on the top ten and you're up there with people like Luke Bryan and Kenny Chesny and it is legit, it's real, and everybody's gunning for that number one slot and you don't know what's gonna happen. You're just like praying. So whenever it doesn't hit number one and it's a two, is there

a disappointment there? Um? I think there was a disappointment and die happy. Man just didn't die quick enough. You got The timing was awful. The Song of the Year was out at the same time, and we were number one on Monday, and then he moved in it on Tuesday and never left for like weeks, and we stayed at number two the entire time, which is a huge success for us to just remain right there with him, but we couldn't overtake him. It was a powerful song.

It was a song or the year. And so at the Cmas, which we didn't watch because we're watching the game, it was one. But here's the thing, and this is you're funny you talked about two. I was doing the story about Olympians when they win medals, and so I'm only the psychology of sports as well. The gold medal people are always happy or they're not, you know whatever for me. For me, I don't like to win. I just hate losing. So I'm I'm a nut case anyway.

But what they found was the gold medal winners were happy, the silver medal people were very unhappy, and the bronze medal people were super happy. And now here's why the gold medal people won. The silver medal people felt like I was so close to winning that I should have won if I would have just worked harder, So they didn't have that in their heart of like what I did.

And the bronze was like man, I'm happy to be here, like I wasn't gonna pitch first, and so just being on the stand as an honor, and they found that it was gold, bronze, silver in that order in happiness. I mean that in our world, that's kind of like top five too and one. Yeah, like I can see how somebody would achieve a top five and say we did it top five when we roll out, but for us, we got so close. I mean it was right there. And but you know what, I Love his Life feels

like a number one song. To me. It's the most powerful song in our set every night to this day when we go out and we sing, I mean, it's the last song of the show every night. There's no other place for I Love this Life to sit because it's the one that you know, that introduced us to America as well as it's still has this thing that

changes people's day. Like it's just a smile. So that's how I just said, like it makes you smile, hands go up, smiles come over the faces, and uh, and we leave the stage feeling like we've you know, you know, kind of gave him a really positive message. Who'd you write that song with? Chris Danny Myrick was there, and I'll tell you what. We were trying to write an anthem for Garth. We heard he was cutting. We're like, let's write an anthem for Garth. What would Garth say?

And we're like he'd get out there with a fist and and be like, I love this life, you know. And so we started. We made a laundry list of all the things we loved, and we're like, let's keep this simple, let's just not even think about this. What are the things we love? And we just made a list and then we sort of formulated and it in versus and named it I love this life. And we're like,

when you finished, okay. So I know a lot of artists were writing for Garth at the time when he was It was like he was taking emails like you just take the song and you get to him, and they would listen to everything. So did you what are you disappointed that Garth didn't? Yeah? First, I was like, dang, I thought maybe we had something there, And and we were already doing it live and Chris and I take songs onto the stage and just sing them just to

see what the reaction is like. And uh, we were watching every night and the crowds were like, already going crazy. I've never ever heard it on the radio, and their hands are up, they're feeling good. And our tour manager was like, I'm telling you guys, there's something special about this song. And I kind of blow it off and

go to the bus. So I was kind of disappointed when I heard that Garth, you know, um didn't cut it, and I don't even know if he really heard it, who knows, but another artist supposedly had it on hold, and it was on a stronghold, and um, you know, as songwriters, we were all banking on that to be good for us. We're all like, that could be good

for us. We all get a paycheck. And so when we got our record, we didn't have a record deal, and so when we got a record deal, all of a sudden, the record levels is we want to make I Love This Life the single, and we were like, Chris kind of looks at me, He's like, maybe you should take it off hold, And I was like, well, if it's gonna be for another artist, it's probably bad form, but maybe with a shot for us as the songwriters, you're gonna take it off hold from artists A to

give it to artist B. That's probably not cold. Yeah, if you're taking it off, hold for yourself when you wrote it, because you have a new project that's a little more excut. That's a little different because now it's like, wait a minute, we sort of have the trump card on a on a song that we write, and so when we you know, we had to call Jansen and we had to call Danny and say, guys, I think we're gonna keep the song for ourselves, which a bit

for them is gonna be disappointing. Yeah, you never know, they want a big artist to have it because listen, just playing here, it's gonna be me for a second, like I want little cash cutting a song a big artist can cut at the time, you know, would you Yeah, I mean I've been there. I mean it's like, oh gosh, what do we do? But you know, man, Jansen is one of our brothers. He's like, he's our best friend

in music. And uh, those guys after after we talked it out, everybody understood we just wanted a shot, and so we all kind of rolled with it. And I think everyone send it up big prayers and cross some fingers and toes and uh. Now you look back on it and you're like, wow, what a great decision we all made. That's awesome, dude, dude, and here you are praying the guards. You know, wise man once said some of God's great it's gifts, and guards said that. Alright.

So I love this life goes the number two. It puts you by the way. I'll say this now with I love this life and I know somebody, you guys are now real players in the game. With one song, you're not a real player. You're okay, cool the head of song. With two songs in a row, you automatically get that third. Everybody gives you the benefit of the down the third song. Just don't make the third song suck yet, you know. I mean, that's the goal. But

the first make the first song amazing. Yeah, that's what the plan is on. The second song is okay, cool, we have a little ans, let's follow it up. The third one is we're going to get the benefit of the doubt. Just don't song. Do you feel that? I feel that, and it's like, just don't mess this up. This is the moment, and you know, everybody, I feel like we have a really um solid album. We're getting

a lot of feedback on different songs. People are like, I think this should be your third song, about playing a different song I shouldn't have played. Hey, I don't even care what you play because I'm all about I love it that you went deep into the album and found a cut that is important to us. That song is so important to us, and who knows you may have willed it into being a single eventually. Who knows the one that I played before we played the next single?

I heard this song, Oh I no, no. Before I heard it, I just looking at the tracks and I was like, God Loves Me More. I don't even know what this is, but I have to hear the song because I don't know. My mind as a creative goes, okay, how would I make this a song? And what's with the angle? What's the angle of God Loves Me More?

Because it sounds like the most arrogant song I've ever heard of my It sounds like a terrible song and its yes, And so I go and I listened to the song right, And so it's called God Loves Me More because he gave me angel And I'm like, I got it. Now I'm gonna tell you this. And I haven't said this on the air, and I won't say it on the air because it'll put our bait in.

We were placed, but I took this song and I and the head of my heart Country, the biggest company, in the biggest format is the guy that was the guy who moved me to Nashville, like is my number one like friend confidante, he punched me in the face, he congratulates me. Um, And I sent him this song. I was like, dude, this this song of the year, Like if it's ever, if it's ever a single, it's

this this song of the year potential. I mean, it feels like I remember sitting in the back of the bus with Matt Alderman, Uh, Phil Barton, Phil Eric Passley and I wrote when I Grow Up, the number one kids song together. He's awesome and uh and so is Phil, Matt, Chris and me and we're sending back to the bus and I'll never forget Matt Alderman had the idea and he goes guys because this idea, and he's just he's

a big old country boy, you know. He's holding his guitar and he says it's called God loves me more than you. And I was like, just like you. I was like just stunned. And then he even said this, and so before I said yes or no, and I just said okay, sing sing how this should go? And he kind of had this twist that God loves me more than you because he gave me an angel hold onto and that's all he kind of had. And I was like, oh boy, this is this could be amazing.

And so then we just backed up and said, it's a redneck love song. It's a country boy who has no other way to say it, but just like this, and so we just started. You know, I drank too much, you know, I fined, I cuss that kind of thing. And it worked and I played it on the air and it went like number forty one. Yes, I was calling everybody's like new single, guys, let's go. I felt bad that I played it because I didn't know what

the new single was. And I was just like, guys, I heard this low cash song and you have you have to just hear it. It's just that good. And I played it and I talked to I guess he owned your label. Uh. He was like hey, and I was walking out of the the stupid c M. As I was walking out of the um the interviews of that day and he was like, hey, God loves me more went up like five thoent when you pay they do. It's a good song. I didn't write it, I didn't

sing it. I did nothing except go, hey, everybody check this out. It already exists. I mean, I love the song so much. It could be the single right now, and I'd be fine with that. But the single right now is ring on Every Finger, which I have to admit never heard it. Like, as I'm about to play, I've never heard it. You've never heard it, never heard the first time. I've never heard one note from this song. Because here we go. Now this isn't gonna account because

it's not the right environment. I have my environment to hear that's not the right environment. But I've never So here's a little something about ring on Everything, or a little backstory. Um Thomas Rhett wrote it with Josh Ker and Jesse Frasier his team, and they write great songs. And we got pitched this song after he had cut his album, so I don't think he had it done in time for his album. We heard it and we

were like, this is amazing. So the guy that beats you at number one right with die Happy Man we just talked about it, has now given you a song that's gonna be ay this whole World's dad wrote I know somebody, that's right. Rhet wrote I have somebody. Yeah, So we're all excited, going, is this gonna be a true store? I mean this is crazy, you know, dude. This is like a freaking lifetime original CMT combination. All

here we go ring. This is the hook Mike, So I'm not gonna get the full effect, which doesn't matter. This is our ring on every finger. This is the new Locust single thing my last name just seeing in the world. Oh that's a cool I like that. That just just melodically speaking. Yeah, because I need to hear the all song and it's got the Thomas Hrett energy for sure. I can hear the Thomas in the Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's okay. That's the new single. Don't a lot about it. I'm not gonna talk a lot

about it. So that's the new single. I'm sure what we're talking about that a lot in the future. Yeah, let's let's go back. So I want to go back to whenever people that have been around town a long time talking about you guys, and I'm talking about long timers. They're like, you know, no, President, you just do. He's to teach dance classes. And I'm like he did. I didn't know this. I'm like, president us yeah. And then he was like, yeah, we go. He teaching like it

did dancing with the Wild Horse really yep. So when I first moved to town, I heard that everybody would hang out with the Wild Horse, and so I was like, I didn't know anything about Nashville. So I went down the Second Avenue, went to the Wild Horse, walked in and it's kind of buzzing. You know, this is two thousand two. I'm in there and the buzzes, you know, rocking. There's people dancing, there's lights. It's a big, big nightclub. And I'll look over in the DJ hanging out, you know,

having fun. He's got some girls in the DJ booth. He's having fun. Hands up, Chris. So I walk over right. So I walk over to the DJ booth and I'm like, it looks like you got a cool job. That's how you met him, And that's where we met. And he goes he goes, yeah, what are you doing in town? He's like, you seem like a new guy around here. I said, yeah, man, I just moved here. I don't even have a job. And he's like, well, first things first,

you're gonna need a job. And I was like really, because I saved a little bit money and I'm just gonna Songwright every day, so focused on Songwright. And he goes, you're gonna need a job, dude. It takes longer than you know, than what you think. And so I was like okay. So he says, why don't you work here? He says, you have any dancing like background, you could teach line dancing here. It's a fun job, pays well. Dancing background. Yeah. So so Chris and I both have

dancing background. So, um, like viacom and like v H one and MTV would fly us to New York City and have us do like hip hop clinics and all kinds of stuff. Where did you learn to dance? Because it sounds like you've been trained to dance, but I never had to dance lesson in my life. But um, dancing just one of things down right, I mean, throw some cardboard down with the boom box man, we're good to go, So no dance lessons, but you were really that good that you would go dance. And Chris was

the same way, coming from Baltimore. He had breakdancing, and so the two of us hit it off. We're like, wait a minute, we both like can dance and freestyle and have fun, and and we come from the same background. We listened to the same music growing up, and so we started working together. And they had two microphones, and so I would DJ and he would walk out and and like being m C and welcome everybody to the

Wild Horse. There'll be like three thousand people in there, and be like hey everybody, and I'll be playing background music on this and then on this machine called the Instant Replay. So I'm like dropping like Magnum p I music or whatever, like thank Chris is out there talking

and it's the show. Two man show. And then the next break, I would go out with the mike and Chris would be the DJ, and he would put on, you know, like the music to Three's Company, and I'd go walking out and we had this little thing going. And then one day we got bored and we're like, you know what, there's two mics. Well, let's just press play on the instant replay and then we'll just walk out together and we'll just start you know, hosting together.

So we walked out together, and the jokes got funnier and the timing got better, and we started picking on people in the crowd, and then one of us would save the person the other one was picking on. You know, we kind of had this little team thing going and it was a lot like almost like a rat pack kind of comedy. It was just fun and Costello, right,

it was like the Smothers brothers. So we go out and just have a good time, and then we would teach a line dance lesson at the end of the night, and people learn a line dance lesson, and we would make the line dances because we came from like hip hop breakdancing, we would make the line dances a little extra cool, so you weren't doing the old you know, the old school thing. Just give it a fresh edge. And so it worked, and the numbers started growing and

the wild Horse was just exploding. And then we made eight by tens with like two of a picture of us. Oh, just a sign, like a picture of just like like a head shop two guys on it, the guys from the Wild Horse. So we gave the merchandise store the pictures what was the name on the bottom of the christ and pressing. I mean that's all we had. We know, nothing else, like you couldn't come up. But then right, the boys anything and so well. And then at one

point we're like, we should call ourselves nash Vegas. And because at the time that was like the term around here, they were like, no, that's kind of dumb, and so we didn't do it. So we just wanted Christen Press and we gave the merchandise store this eight by ten and uh they sold out or like, well, that's kind

of cool, and so we ordered more pictures. And then we were like, I wonder if like we were already starting a song write with people in town, because we knew we wanted to be a duo, but you know, you kind of gotta learn. And so we were writing with people and stuff, and we wrote the song and

called an Unordinary Day. Nobody's probably ever heard it. And so we take this song, we write this song, and we record it, we demo it like over on Demo Hill, you know, so we demo the song and we burn CDs on our MacBook, on our laptop in the DJ booth and we're selling them. We make up a line dance to it, and we're like, dude, I think we can sell these for like four up your own line dance to see that's what I'm talking about. That's how you do it. We made up our own dance to

our own song. Unting of Nashville. You created your own to The line was out the door for these CDs. I couldn't burn them fast enough. I was like pop a CD in and then just to be like, in thirty seconds, your CD has done. It's like a microwave. And they were hot in my hand while I'm like writing on it. We didn't have a picture on them. I would just write christ and Preston on ordinary day and hand it to him for five bucks. And and it was happening so fast. I was taking the money

and throwing it in a drawer. I wouldn't even look. And at the end of the night I would open up the drawer. Room was just full of five dollar bills. I mean just full. And that stuff adds up quick when you're living on I can tell you when I weighed tables. Does one dollar build that up quick? I mean we needed that, you know. And then some nights I would work alone or Chris would work alone. We

called you a bit. Do we selling the CDs and night? Yeah? Man, like three packs from Walgreens, you know, like we're selling packs. That's how we just yeah, and so we so we're selling pictures, were selling CDs and then dream Works calls and says we want to sign you guys, and so we go to dream Work. Did you have a name at this point, Christen prisses. So we go to DreamWorks and we sit down with them and James Stroud was the head of the label, and we were so nervous.

The night before we learned nine songs to be ready to audition because we didn't know what to expect. We didn't have a demo other than this one song. So we go to DreamWorks and we walk into the office and uh, and the general manager of the whole label says, you know what, I've seen enough. I was at the Wild Horse the other night. I saw it. I'm ready to sign you guys, and I was like, well, what can we sing for you? But we worked up some songs.

It's the opposite of what happens in every room ever, right, And so I said, um, it was a guy named Wayne Helper. I said, can we sing a song for you? Because we worked a song up and I'm kind of proud of this and we're ready for this moment. We set up all night and he says, no, I don't need you to sing a song. I've seen enough and we'll take this in and we'll we'll, you know, find some songs for you guys, and will make this happen. I said, Wayne, Uh, we would like to sing for you.

And so he's like, and he looks at our manager at the time. He says, I would highly advise they don't sing right now because they could mess this up actually, And so she was like, I say, let him, saying they they're determined they want to sing. So we're saying like five songs and he listened to all of them and he still gave us a record deal and it was awesome and uh, but then Steven Spielberg sold uh DreamWorks before we could ever get in the studio. So, okay,

did you come up with the name then? Though, no, it was just a little bit after that deal. We lost our deal with DreamWorks, and uh, it was like Tracy Lawrence, Shelley, Tennyson, Emerson Drive. All of us got cut the same day, and we're like, Okay, that's all right, We'll just go get another record deal. We're just gonna go do this again. But it wasn't that easy the second time around, and we were knocking on doors and we were begging, working hard and doing showcases and all that,

and it just wasn't working. So that's when we realized we needed to pack our bags, pack up the cheap Cherokee and put the U haul on the back and just go to shows and and and learn earn, yeah, how to how to be a duo. So you go, you go play? Are you Christen? I'm so enamored when with them in the name? Who came up with the

name and when it came out? Okay, So back in the day in Cocomo, Indiana where I'm from, it was me and my high school buddies we had this thing called Low Cash Money Boys, and um, we call ourselves l c MB, Low Cash Money Boys, and you had to be like initiated. You had to get a nickname, and it was like a little fraternity high school fraternity, and we low Cash was kind of a figure of speech, if you could, because none of us had very much money.

So if something really cool would happen, we'd be like that was so low cash, high five and be like that's awesome. And so that's how low Cash kind of came to be. So while we're out in my jeep Cherokee with the U haul, I tell Chris, I said, man, you know up in Cookemo, I want you to meet my buddies when we when we play Cookemo. He says okay. So he meets everybody and he says, um, uh, these guys are pretty cool. This is pretty cool little crew of dudes. And I said, yeah, you should be in

the low cash family with us. We'll give you a nickname everything. So we give him a nickname and everything. Chris says, he gives the you know, the light bulb. He's like, we should be the country boys of Low Cash. And I was like, because the meaning is just never forgetting where you're from. It's not about being poor. It's about cool stuff happening for next to nothing, best things in life for free kind of attitude. So Chris says, we should be the country boys low cash, and I

was like, I love that. So then we were like, let's be a little cash cowboys. And we came back to Nashville and we told our management. We're like, we got a name, weren't called ourselves low cash Cowboys. And they're like that will never work, and we're like, okay, well then that's it. We're going with low cash cowboys. If you say it will never work, at least it's polarizing, it's making you feel something right now, So we're gonna go with it. And so we did. So you're low

cash Cowboys and you don't have a deal at this point. No, okay, So when did the next deal? And what was the first song that you guys tried to hit with? Here Come Summer was the very first song that ever came out two thousand and ten and uh, and it raced up to like forty this is it and a lot of and a big fidd up the cooler and become the girls and giving meet and get her jump up in my g drive. After the lay day after every

loving day after day, here comes. So you put this out word at the end the fall in the one in ten weeks and you felt how about that. We were we were so excited. I mean, getting the forty one in ten weeks is unheard of these days. And we were like, this is unless you're a superstar artist. And we were like, this is it. It's gonna happen. Here comes Summer's going up the charts. And uh, the next thing, you know, the record label decided to put

out another act. They started feeling, you know, like, oh, this is going so well, we'll put it on another act and a lot of the focus for you messed everything up. Who was the other act? It was a knack called Houston County. So they never did anything. I love those guys. They were from Houston County, Alabama. They're now a little big town. They changed their name to Yeah. So when did it go from? And why did you drop cowboy? Because when I heard of look ash Cowboys,

I thought a real cowboys. Yeah, and you guys aren't really you're not You're not cowboys? No, So when did they go from we need to pull the cowboys off our name? You know, we were we had just gotten a new record deal with Revival Records. The guy you met and we knew, I love this life was gonna be the single. We and um, we just did a photo shoot and we're feeling good about like everything is

new energy, knew everything. And so I was sitting in the front lounge of the bus and I was doodling, and I'm a little bit of a graffiti artist, and so I was just kind of messing on a napkin with a sharpie, messing around. And I always liked the zz top logo and Chris like that too, so like the on top of each other, the letters, like they

just really cool rock and roll looking stuff. And I looked at Van Halen, I looked at Montley Crue, and I'm looking at all these other stuff that had a lot of energy and was really slick and smooth and fun, and I was like that, man, it's easy top things pretty cool. And so I sort of started working on a new logo and I just had done low Cash. I didn't even put cowboys on there yet. And Chris wakes up, walks up to the front lounge. He goes,

what are you doing. I said, yeah, I'm just kind of working up that new logo like we talked about, and he was like, dude, I love it, just like that. Don't even put cowboys on there, and I was like really, and so we were kind of like like a logo for a ball cap or something, We're like, we'll just leave it at this. So we turned it in and everyone's like, oh my gosh, you changed your name or like not really, I mean not really kind of. I don't know did we because we just turned into new logo.

I know, like, is this is this you want like we did and if you don't, we didn't. That's how it was. And they were like, we love it, We're just gonna go with this. It's just low Cash and we're like okay, and so we went with low Ash and everything just sort of lined up. I mean, everything just worked. How long you're Crispin together from the day you met him at the wild Horse two thousand two, Holy crap, I met him in two thousand two, so and I know, weeks after I moved to town I

was twelve. I know that there were times in your career where as a band, you guys thought, Okay, well, we're not gonna able to do this anymore. I mean they're hides and lows over that period of time thousand and eleven to that was the year it comes right in two thousand and eleven. That's when what happened January, Um,

keep in minds going up the chart. I don't even know where we were in January, but we were made making a really strong mood keep in mind, And all of a sudden in January, Chris stadd passed away suddenly, I mean suddenly, no uh, no signs of it happening, and it just happened, and it devastated Chris, devastated both of us. That devastated our whole team, our whole camp.

I mean I remember going to the funeral in Baltimore and our record label showed up, and I mean it just really hit us hard because you know, um, Jack was Chris's dad, and he was Chris's you know, best friend, biggest fan, and he was like a dad to me too, you know. So all of a sudden, we're singing this song keep in mind, it's kind of the charts, and

we lose Jack. And then two weeks later, literally almost to the day, Uh, Chris's aunt, who's a big supporter, a big fan of ours, sweetest woman in the world, passes away suddenly and we're like, whoa, whoa, what's happening? You know? And then a few weeks after that, the record label shuts down and we lose keep in Mind at thirty two on the charts, and we're like, okay, a song is not even nearly equal to a life.

But it's all of a sudden, it's just lost. Hit after hit, his coming and it's Chris's dad, then his aunt, then a song, and we're and then all of a sudden, the label shuts down and we're stuck. I mean, if you if you think it's hard to get a record deal, try to get out of a record deal that is that's twice as hard. And so we're sitting here going, okay, we're stuck on a label. We lost our song two very close to loved Ones, and then our fiddle player gets sick and we just continue to do shows. We're

trying to stay positive. And our fiddle player gets sick and he dies. He passes away, and he'd been with us years and so now the hits are just they're starting to pile up on us, and it just seems like I remember feeling like it was as dark as it could get, Like this is it like we've we've hit the wall. I mean, our wheels are spinning. We're just sinking in this one spot and we can't get out, like we're just gonna have to throw the talent we're and that's kind of what's on our mind, but nobody's

saying it. Chris and I are looking at each other like what are we gonna do? And I guess around. Well, in the fall of that year, we get a phone call and it's Keith Urban and he's guys, the song he wrote called You're Gonna Fly. I'm gonna make it my next single, and uh, that changed our lives. I mean even the song what the song is about? Dude? Again, there's not a day I don't think about it as I and it's awesome. Keith Urban picks a song and goes, hey,

you guys, but again, what the freaking song? The message? Everything? I mean, it was like it blows my mind to this day when I think about it, and and how Keith Urban. I remember being at the Wild Horse and being the DJ and playing songs like you know I Love someone like You and all these huge hits, and I remember thinking, what is how do you even get a Keith Urvan cut? Like how does that even happen?

Like will it ever happen. I doubt it, Like, but I'm here to try, you know, and but You're like it seems so out of reach and then all of a sudden, in that moment, that's when it happens. And I have to pinch myself to this day, I mean, he saved us, he got us back on track. So how does he hear your song? Though? You know? It's still a bit of a mystery. Um. We well, I'll tell you. We wrote You're Gonna Fly with Jaren Johnston from From and it's the only song we've ever written together.

And to this day, Karen, we need to write more songs. Um, but we write this song, we turned it in and we get a phone call from Sony a TV. We're all signed to Sony eight TV as songwriters, and um, they said, but we love this song and turn in called You're Gonna Fly and we think it's going to be a single for someone. We're like, somebody's gonna record our song. They're like, yeah, Jimmy Wayne and I was like, oh my gosh, he just had that song. Uh do

you believe me? Now? Just went number one and Jimmy was awesome, and we're like, this is great, We're all high five. We gotta Jimmy Wayne Cut coming. He's gonna maybe making a single, and I'm not just supposed to talk about all this, but it's years past now, so I don't care. So we get this phone call one night and it's the president, the head guy of sony A TV Publishing, Troy Tomlinson, says, I need to see you in my office tonight, and I'm like, Okay, we're

in trouble. We did something wrong, and because you're supposed to write so many songs as a quota, and I'm like, Chris, if you've been turning songs in and he's like, um, only as song as you probably turned in. And I'm like, I haven't turned the many in. I've been kind of stacking him up for us. We're we're gonna turn mom. It was like, okay, we're in trouble, like we haven't turned enough songs. That's why he wants to meet with us. So we're of like freaking out. I said, Chris, let

me do all the talk. And we walk in here. So we sit down with him and he says, guys, do you know why you're here? And I was like, before you say anything, Troy, we have a bunch of songs written and a promise we're going to turn him in and he's like, that's not why, and I was like, I'm just joking, Troy. I was just joking. Has nothing. Why do you want to talk to about? You know? And he says, he says, what I want to talk

to you about is something very rare. And it's funny that you brought this up earlier in the show about do you take a song from you know, artists A and give it to artisp and so he says, never do we normally do this, but we have a unique situation. Jimmy Wayne has your song on hold and he's possibly gonna make it a single. But we just got a phone call tonight from a very high level artist that

they really want this song. It wasn't you didn't know, and they're like, they're willing to record it immediately to prove to you that they loved this song and they want it now. And as Sony a TV, we're making

the decision for you. We're going to take it from artists and give it to artists b And I was like, I mean, my breath kind of got taken because I was like, this has gotta be somebody really big, because I'm over here partying about Jimmy Wayne, you know, And I'm like, and he says, who do you think it could be? And Chris and I remember it got real quiet, and I was like, man, Alan Jackson, maybe, I mean maybe Tim McGraw. I mean, I'm running these downs like

no way, no way. And I actually said outlies that Chris or me, one of us said Keith Urban or like, no, Keith writes all of his own hits. And when he said it's Keith Urban, I'll never forget, just like looking at him confused, like are you serious? And man, it was Keith Irban. Nowth cuts it, but it takes a while, dude, it took He he likes the song two thousand nine, he says. So Troy says, if you want him to go in the studio right now, he will, he'll record

it right now. But he's not going to the studio for a while, so it's up to you. We could just put it on hold and leave it on hold until he's ready. We're like, yeah, let's just leave it on hold and let's just see what happens. But yeah, we'll just we'll just trust him. He says, Okay, that's April of two thousand nine ish right in there. So

two thousand ten rolls around, still hasn't cut it. Two thousand eleven rolls around it still hasn't really cut it, and we're going, what's happening, And then the flood hits. He's supposed to go in the studio. Sony calls and says he's going to the studio to record your song. We're like, awesome, and they were like, it's gonna be on one of three days. He's recording his whole album in three days. So the first day he starts recording it,

starts raining, and we're like nothing. At the end of the day, you're supposed to get a phone call and they're like nothing, he didn't record it, and we're like okay, okay, maybe tomorrow. So the next day it's raining harder still and literally raining outside in Nashville, harder and harder, and he doesn't cut it, and they're like, okay, he's gonna cut it on day three. But now the storm is getting out of control in Nashville. And what I'm talking about was the flood, the hit and the flood hits

so hard that night. They canceled the third day and I was like, that's it, guys, we lost it. That we're never gonna get the song cut because he's going to hear another song that's gonna be better, and who knows how long it's gonna take before he goes back in again. And I just don't think we're gonna get it now. And it just seemed like the luck of

two thousand and eleven, you know. It was just like the hits just kept on coming that year, you know, and Uh, all of a sudden, out of the blue, I got a phone call one day and we're like, he just cut it where I was just like I was driving, where where did he cut it? And in the studio real he just want to didn't even tell anybody. So I went in and cut the song. Was it the first thing o from the record? It was supposed to be, and so he was like, it's gonna be right.

It was supposed to be the first single, and we're like, we got the first single, and then they took it away and they went with put you in a song, and um, we didn't even know if we were going to get a single. And then the second single came out and it was without You, awesome song, and they're like, uh, maybe you have the third single. And then the third single comes out and it's long Hot Summer, and I'm like, guys, I don't think we got it. But Keith kept reassuring

everybody through emails. He would send these emails and he would say, guys, it's going to be a single, It's going to be a single. He he was the steadfast guy in all of it. And sure enough we got the fourth single, and man in I mean what it was like Game seven rain delay, here we go. You know, big things happen. It just takes a while. But you guys, I know right. It was so nerve racking, but we got it. And then four months after that we got

Truck Yeah, which with him you guys wrote with Chris Janson. Janson, dude, the whole world is just like jackson at all. I saw you guys on stage on the Instagram and it was YouTube and christ I guess you guy just played together somewhere. Yeah, we were doing shows in Jacksonville at the same time, but different parts of town. And he texted and he goes, are you guys over at Mavericks.

We're like, yeah, are you over at the fair? And he was like yeah, and so he said, you guys should come over here, and so we literally grabbed a car and drove over to the fair and jumped on stage with him and sang with him a couple of songs. So what songs have you guys written together with with Jansen? He wrote truck Yeah, truck, Yeah, we had UM, we had I Love his Life, UM about sixty more. Nobody's ever heard what songs? Songs? We heard that a bunch

of stuff. Chris and I have a song called UM back in the day on Parmelis record, the old record. It's it's uh not the new one. UM. And then we have a Joe Nickels song that he just cut really called I'd Sing About You and it's to me. It's a smash. I hope Joe's listening makes it a single, but if he doesn't, we will if you'll take it back and do it again. If he doesn't make this single,

that's what passed. Passley was in here, and you know Passley the song writer all these hits first, and his whole thing was he got three and he never had any and they got three in one year. Was like and then he got that Triple Play Award and he was like, I had nothing forever, and then it was like boom, boom boom. And so for him, he wrote Friday Night and Lady Annebell and picked it up. They kept saying we're gonna put it as a single. They never did. He said, can I have it back? Got

his own song back number one? Boom. So that's right, that's cool. So what of all the songs you guys have written, what's the most lucrative one for you guys so far? I would say probably I Love This Life, yeah, because that's the one that changed um. That's the one that changed our show guarantee as well, pouring money everything

changed merchandise. Uh, life did. Like I said, whenever I look at you and I say it changed our life, changed our life in every respect, you're able to say, that's a good T shirt too, I Love this Life, Yeah, I mean it really is that. I mean you have to think about that stuff too. That's a good teach. And I look at this store called Life is Good and they sell all this product and I'm like, maybe we should have I Love this Life t shirts in life is good or something you know or something. I

mean this, the opportunities are endless. Congratulations, man, Thanks dude, and tell Chris one day with another microphone. We're both going to get in here, Chris, I hope you know. It's just the the story of and it's on a on a much bigger level. But I was talking about Maren Moore is who I've become close with um and just it's one of those that I was like, Wow, it's so good and she was talking and I forgot

I did this. But I had her on the air plane before you can even buy her songs, which is kind of a weird thing to do because you come on the air to sell your songs. But I was like, you have to just come play, and she had reminded me of it. She was like, hey, you were having me up before you can even buy my music. But so I'm such a big Marion Morris fan and I didn't know her that well at first. I don't let the relationships really culminate personally because I just don't want

to be invested in a personal level. I'd like to just present and say, hey, here's here's the thing. So with Mary, she got up once you wanted to see amazing. And I watched the speech back and she said, one year ago, I was watching this at a bar across the street, and tonight I'm up here on stage winning this award. You gotta be freaking kidding me. So, but you can, because this is what I'm gonna say. Marin is a microcosm of low Cash, because it's the look

where you are. You just had a number one. Before that, you had a number two. You're now you're out. You guys are real now it's it's hard to be real. And you started and you went from teaching line dancing through struggles, ups, downs, ups, downs, and here you are today, hwelve thirteen eight. I don't know. I mean, I don't do math. Why don't you guys meet oh to fourteen

years later? So and like Mike here, who's producing the show, my class over a hundred pounds, because that's amazing the same thing with men like you, just take a step, you take another step, like low Cash, take another step, keep taking steps. When you can't take any more steps, take another freaking step. Yeah, and there's always tomorrow. The phone could ring and change everything. I lived it. I was in my bunk when Chris shook me and said, dude, baby,

Blone's just played our song. And I mean those kinds of moments I'm telling you did. I mean, it's it's real. The day that they sat me down and I had built my own company with in Austin, and I did it with my own paycheck, and I was broke, like we all are in any creative business. You're broke until you're not, basically, and so broke. It's taken invest in all my own money into building this thing and instead started to have a pretty successful run. And it was

doing no music. We don't playing any music. It was a weird thing. And so we were just an all talk show for five hours. And I've been talking to Row, the guy who runs out of country. It was like, man, I really want to do country, but there's no national. There's nothing national about the format. There never was. I was the first guy who coming to do a national and he was like, man, I think this could work. He was the first one to tell me like what

you want to do can work. And so I remember that was a year before they flew me to Nashville tricked me. They were like, hey, you're coming in to meet these guys because you're taught for each picking up and they set me down and go, we want you to move to Nashville and run the whole format. And I remember that moment at that moment where I was like, oh my god, that's like you're serious, Like this has

never happened before. You're way different people. It's gonna be a struggle because you're way different than anybody that's ever done this, and people are gonna hate you for a long time. And you're also pretty polarizing, so you obviously know people are gonna not you. But they said this to me. You obviously know people are never ever always gonna be on you, but that you're the guy to take and take the format in the direction that the people are already in, just the radio is not in.

And I was like, I may I remember the moment. I remember exactly what I was setting. I remember the whole every person sitting around me. There were three of them, John and kiss at them, Rod Phillips, Clay Honeycut who used to be the head of the thing of the format, and it was just like that. I had no idea that day that moment was about to come and boom, there was that moment and it freezes in your mind.

You remember all the details moment. I don't know what to have for breakfast this morning, but vividly I can tell you four years ago when they said this. Yeah, so dude, this has been one of the and we do these a lot, Mike. Have I ever told anyone this is like one of the best ones you've ever done. No, never think it has been one of the best ones like I've this has been. I mean that you thanks

for pulling up all this music. Oh dude, we got like that means we wrote this about Chris Stay that's my grass from the We're at the Grand ol Oufry and uh for the very first time, and we made our debut and we walked off stage. We lost his dad in January, and it was May. It was Mother's Day weekend and our moms were there and they gave

our mom's roses and stuff. It was real special. And we walked off stage and we were taking a picture with the Gatlin brothers and and it's like surreal, way here we are at the Opery and Chris isn't in the picture, and I said, wait, we can't take this picture without Chris. I've got to go out. I know it's Larry Gatlin. I've got to go find Chris. So I look over and I see Chris in the shadows and I walked over to him and I said, Hey,

what's going on? And he kind of had tears in his eyes and he said, man, tonight was perfect, but it wasn't perfect perfect because my dad's not here. And for whatever reason, I just looked at him and I said, your dad is Your dude's got the best seat in the house tonight. He's right there looking down over the opery. He saw everything, and we just kind of looked at each other and we're like, maybe this is so we wrote it and who knows, maybe it'll come back someday.

That crazy like like three times you I'm emotional during this thing. I don't even have emotions and emotional dude, Chase a little love. This is a jam. I like when people said their own song from the jam everything This is a Jamn. I love this song. It was such a fun video too. We had our cars and it was a black you know, we got Kendra Wilkinson and Girls next Door to be in our video. Wow was she uh Kendrew before Hank and Kendra liked with Hank. Okay,

and he's awesome. And he wasn't there, but he called and like speaking from he's like, all right, boys, now, don't put your hands on the girl now. He was a really cool dude, are yeah, dude, we're ready for you. This is incredible ready for I pressed him from low Cash new song ring on everything my last name. I can't wait to see what you really think about the song, yeah, because I don't know yet. Yeah, you get just to show the world show shot. Thanks for hanging dude, Thank

you appreciate that. What's the great night? What do you guys have going on this week? Anything? Well, we just got home from Baltimore from that thing, so we have today and tomorrow and then we leave tomorrow midnight for Pittsburgh, Columbus and since which, by the way, and we won't go into the story here because I think it's maybe the long how long we havet Mike? Okay, Um, you

did propose you post your wife on the operas? They didn't? Yeah, yeah, in the circle right there and uh and I don't know how I got the words right, but I kind of thought up in my mind. I said, Okay, how am I gonna do this? What am I gonna say? I'm gonna have a microphone in one hand and I have a ring in the other. It's like in my pocket. I don't have the box. I just have the ring in my pocket. And I'm like, what am I gonna say? And I thought of this thing, like you know, like um,

I brought her out. She stepped into the circle and and I told Chris, I said, I might or might not do it here. I'm not sure. And so he stepped where people are there? Yeah, it was. It was real. And I always forget how many people are there until they kind of flip the lights on and off and then you see like ten million people. And I and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm nervous. I never get nervous, and I'm nervous because I'm about to do

something I've never done in my life. And I hit my knee and I just said, you know, standing in the most coveted circle in country music, I want to give you the most coveted circle. And I thought I would mix all those words up and get them wrong, but they came out right. For yourself, the circle that's awesome, dude, and that I was nervous man, and now you gotta a little kid. Thanks every time I see that things

going like your weed. Yeah, And we just put an offer on a house, the first house we've ever lived in. I mean, I've never lived in the house in my life other than than my house I grew up in. You know, It's always been apartments and little places, and so it's it's we're exciting, they're happy for you. Thank thank you. Well, there you go. Pressing from Lowkash Mike are probably a time. Uh my, this is this is this Honestly, sometimes I'll cut him early and then's all, well,

that's along as I've ever done. And that's a good thing. That's like getting nast place second song in the morning show, because sometimes I alnot to come in. Will be like, all right, I'm a good night. I appreciate the time. Thank thank you very much. Means a lot that you've done this. Check out fighter, uh low cash, lots of lots of stories here, holyycount and we'll see you. I'll

see you guys next time. Don't forget right now. It's on the Bobby Bones Show on demand channel, but it will all be moved to Bobby Cast and just a couple of episodes, so I hot radio search Bobby Cast. All right, thank you guys, we'll see you next time.