Dylan Scott stops by to talk with Katie Neal at our new Audacy studios at the Hard Rock located in the heart of Nashville!
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00:00I'm Katie Neal and my co-host is Dylan Scott. How are you?
00:04I'm great. I'm glad to be co-hosting.
00:06Yeah, I'm happy to have you here.
00:08We've got, like, getting back in from the holidays, full swing.
00:10Spring's started. Did you get to do any hunting?
00:13I did. I did quite a bit of hunting this fall.
00:16Mostly just deer hunting, but it's almost turkey season.
00:19So looking forward to that here in a couple of weeks.
00:22Do you do, like, a big trip?
00:24I used to. I used to go to Missouri.
00:26But now that I've been in Tennessee for almost 15 years now, which is crazy,
00:31I have acquired several farms in the Tennessee area.
00:35I've got one that I own, but other ones are just permission farms.
00:38So I've got plenty of places to hunt in Tennessee now.
00:40And so there's really good turkey hunting.
00:42So I just, all my buddies come here.
00:44So this is the trip.
00:45This is nice.
00:46I don't have to go anywhere.
00:47Speaking of these farms, you mentioned when you came in that you and your wife were building a house.
00:51Yeah.
00:52Talk about that.
00:53You know, my whole life, all I wanted to do was sing music and make money to buy a farm and build a house and raise my kids.
01:02And we bought the farm two years ago right outside of town here.
01:06And so we just started building our house almost a year ago.
01:09It's almost done.
01:10And, yeah, it's like, I don't know, all your dreams come true.
01:14And I get to raise my kids on some land and a forever house.
01:19And I don't know, it's kind of old school, but we like it.
01:22We want it.
01:23Yeah.
01:24That's the dream.
01:25Have you hit the point of, like, decision fatigue?
01:26Because I feel like if you're almost done, you're probably picking out cabinet pulls and all that stuff, right?
01:31Yeah.
01:32I mean, we're getting to that.
01:33I've got an easy part of this whole deal.
01:36It's just whatever my wife wants, I just say, yes, ma'am.
01:39And it's a little more stressful for her, but she's got her girlfriends that she runs stuff by.
01:45And then I'm like the final say, all right, what do you think of this?
01:49And it's like, babe, I love whatever you want.
01:52Good man.
01:53Your current top five is This Town's Been Good to Us, which you were one of the writers on.
01:58Talk about this song a little bit.
01:59Yeah.
02:00You know, it's my favorite town song I've ever written.
02:03And there's some heat writers on this.
02:07So I knew going into this ride, it was going to be a good day.
02:11But, yeah, it's an ode to my hometown.
02:15I love where I'm from.
02:16I love the people from where I'm from.
02:19And I don't mean this in a bad way, but I don't think I would ever go back there to live there.
02:24But I love going home to visit, and I love the people in the town.
02:28And so it's just, hey, thank y'all for being a part of who I am and why I am who I am.
02:35And This Town's Been Too Good to Us.
02:37Been way too good to me.
02:38You mentioned some heavy hitter writers on this song.
02:42Talk about those writers.
02:43And then talk about was this an idea that you brought to the right or one that came up once you were there?
02:46Yeah, I mean, first of all, Ashley Gorley, Taylor Phillips, John Byron, Charlie Handsome.
02:52I mean, that right there is like, that's some heat.
02:55That's some heat right there.
02:56And so I did not bring this idea to the right.
02:59It was more of, hey, guys, I need a song.
03:02I want a song like this, right?
03:04And so those guys, man, they're just, I don't know what it is.
03:07They're just geniuses.
03:09And so, you know, they had the idea, This Town's Been Too Good to Us.
03:12And I was actually a little bit late that day.
03:15So they kind of got started before I did.
03:17And so when I walk in, they were already vibing on this.
03:20I was like, I don't know what y'all got going on, but this is it right here.
03:23Like, let's keep going.
03:25Love it.
03:26And then one of the lines in the song, God gave us them girls that stole our hearts, which I'm guessing is this a direct reference to your wife, Blair, who you've known since you guys were kids?
03:35Yeah, I've known her since seventh grade.
03:37And then we started dating sophomore in high school.
03:40So I was 15.
03:41She was 16.
03:42So, yeah, she definitely stole my heart.
03:45Still has it.
03:46Thank God.
03:47Thank God she hasn't got rid of it yet.
03:48I don't know why she's put up with it this long, but she has.
03:51But yeah, you know, I feel like so many people can relate to this song, whether you're from a small town, whether you're from a city, whether you're from a middle of nowhere, not even a town like it doesn't matter.
04:03There's there's so much in this song that I feel like everybody has experienced wherever you're from.
04:08And, you know, whether it's like I said, a city, the city has been way too good to us, whatever it is, you know, I think it's everybody can relate to it.
04:15Absolutely.
04:16And I think whether you still live in your hometown or you've moved away, you can both ways.
04:20It like is so relatable.
04:22Yeah, I agree.
04:23So you said that you met Blair in seventh grade.
04:25So from seventh grade to sophomore year, did you guys have like a friendship?
04:29Did you never spoke?
04:30Never spoke.
04:31And let me let me let me preface this real quick.
04:34She came to my school in seventh grade.
04:37All right.
04:38So there was only like twenty five kids in the class.
04:41It may have bumped to thirty when her school merged with mine.
04:45So it ain't like this is a big school where everybody's like we didn't really know each other.
04:49Like everybody knows everybody.
04:51Thirty kids in a class.
04:53Yeah, I don't I don't know what it was.
04:55We just we didn't really talk at all.
04:57Seventh grade, eighth grade, ninth grade.
04:59I went to a separate high school than she did.
05:01And then I don't know, sophomore year.
05:04I don't know what happened.
05:06That's almost like you want it.
05:07Like she might have been trying to not speak to you all of a sudden.
05:10Great.
05:11Like, no, what did she said?
05:12I had a little girlfriend and she wouldn't.
05:14She didn't.
05:15Wasn't about it.
05:16Blah, blah, blah.
05:17I was like, I was we were so young.
05:18Like that stuff don't even matter back then.
05:20But you know what?
05:21I got the girl.
05:22You got the girl.
05:23And in the video, you actually went back to your old high school and church.
05:27And what I wanted to ask about, there's an actor playing you in the video that has like
05:32a little bit of a beard.
05:33That's my nephew.
05:34Is it really?
05:35That's my sister's son.
05:36Yeah.
05:37How fun was that?
05:38It was in this video.
05:39Oh, so cool.
05:40It was so cool.
05:41I mean, the whole video going back to my hometown, that was my high school.
05:46There's a there's a part where they're on the it's a baseball field.
05:50They're playing football.
05:51So we used to sneak in and break into that baseball field at night and turn the lights
05:55on and play football.
05:56That Walmart parking lot, we all hung out there.
05:59I mean, everything to a T you see in that video is basically a flashback.
06:04The house was my old house, the house where my nephew's kissing the other girl.
06:09That was my wife's house where that's the first place I ever kissed her was right there
06:13in that video.
06:14So we went back and just pulled all the exact moments and stuff that we actually did as
06:18a kid.
06:19A literal trip down memory lane.
06:21Exactly.
06:22And your nephew has to be like the coolest kid in school right now.
06:26How old is he?
06:27Oh, he's out of school now.
06:28Oh, he is.
06:29OK.
06:30But I mean, all of his buddies and everybody.
06:31I mean, yeah, he's.
06:32Yeah.
06:33I'm sure he's got, you know, Thomas Rhett put his younger brother in his music video
06:38and he was saying he's like, he's got a couple hundred Instagram followers now.
06:41He's having a nice time.
06:42And see, my nephew's such he's such a shy kid.
06:45Really?
06:46He doesn't talk very much.
06:47So the fact that he even did this was shocking.
06:49And so if he was to walk in right now, he could probably get barely get a word out of
06:53him.
06:54That's how shy he is.
06:55So, yeah, I was pretty cool.
06:56That's awesome.
06:57How did you talk him into doing it?
06:58I just said, man, I really need you.
07:00Like, you're you kind of look like me in a way, you know, so just just do it.
07:05And he's like, yeah, I'll do it.
07:06No problem.
07:07It's like, I can't believe you just said that.
07:08A couple months ago, you were part of Luke Bryan's 10th annual Crash My Playa in Mexico.
07:13How was it?
07:14It was good.
07:15It was our second time doing it.
07:17And I mean, anytime you can go to Mexico with Luke Bryan and company and play music, it's
07:24a good time.
07:25It's a good time.
07:26This is your second time.
07:27So was this like the trip that you bring wife and kids or are there any children at Crash
07:30My Playa?
07:31No, no kids at Crash My Playa.
07:32I did take my wife the first year.
07:36It was it was great.
07:37It was awesome.
07:38This year, when we went, we got a new addition.
07:42So we've got a little boy, seven, a little girl's five.
07:46And now we got a little over a year old baby.
07:48So that kind of throws some complications into it.
07:51So no wives this year.
07:52It was just us and me and the band.
07:55And it's a long trip.
07:57I'll put it that way.
07:59I mean, because it's still a work trip.
08:01Yeah.
08:02You know, it's not like, oh, we're going to go to the resort like our wives think it is.
08:05Oh, you're just going to go hang out a resort and have a good time.
08:08Like it's still a work trip, you know, but it was a good time.
08:12I was going to say, I don't think anyone leaves Crash My Playa without at least one drunk Luke
08:17Bryan story.
08:18Oh, any that you've got that are acceptable for broadcast.
08:24I mean, this year it wasn't even Luke.
08:26It was Bailey in the pool.
08:29Bailey had the time of his life, you know, Bailey had the time of his life.
08:34And so good for him.
08:36It was we had a good time.
08:38He rallied, too, which was very impressive.
08:41Right.
08:42Well, last time you were in, you did say that you were going to stop at Dustin Lynch.
08:45Lynch's annual pool party, I believe.
08:47Went to Jamaica a few years ago with my wife and some friends.
08:51And there was a foam party in the pool and we had a really good time.
08:55It was a great foam party.
08:56Right.
08:57Music's going awesome.
08:58We were supposed to have a foam party at Crash My Playa during my pool party this year.
09:03And let's just say it wasn't really foaming.
09:08No, there was a technical.
09:10I don't think I don't think it was a technical difficulty.
09:13I think whatever foam cannons they have in Mexico are just terrible because I'm on stage
09:18expecting suds and people raging.
09:21And there's literally a six foot by six foot spot of the pool.
09:27That's a huge pool.
09:28That is nothing but just suds and people's like you're you're losing them.
09:33It's going over their head in this one spot.
09:36And so there's just a six foot by six foot spot of people just having an awesome time
09:40suffocating with suds over their heads.
09:43I'm like, man, this is not a foam party right now.
09:45One cannon.
09:46Just one cannon.
09:47And it was kind of embarrassing, actually.
09:49Kind of embarrassing.
09:50So maybe round three Crash My Playa won't be a foam party.
09:54I can take that.
09:56And you are about to begin the Country Till I Die tour.
09:59What are you planning for this as far as bells and whistles?
10:02Yeah, it's going to be.
10:04So this is the biggest headline tour I've ever done.
10:06We're moving up in room sizes.
10:08So I'm excited about that.
10:10I've got George Burge coming out with me.
10:13Dasha.
10:15It's it's Graham Barham, who's from my town as well, Louisiana.
10:19But it's going to be it's just going to be a good time.
10:21I love all these guys.
10:22They're a lot of fun.
10:23And, yeah, just excited to, I don't know, bring more energy to a bigger room.
10:31And we got more lights and just more stuff.
10:34I don't know.
10:35It's just it's another day for us playing music.
10:37But it's also at the same time, it's like the biggest we've ever played ourself.
10:42Has there been anything as you're planning new production?
10:45Like you mentioned new lights and stuff that you're like, I want one of those.
10:48Yeah.
10:49I mean, there's a lot of those.
10:50I want one of those moments until you see the price tag on it, you know?
10:54And I'm like, yeah, I think I want one of those.
10:57Maybe the next time we bump up, you know, but we've still upped it a little bit.
11:02And I think it's still going to benefit what I need to.
11:07I went to Disney World in November.
11:09And that's a bad place to be when you're brainstorming for a tour and production.
11:14Because I'm texting my guy going, hey, do we need something like this and like this and like this?
11:18And he's all about it.
11:19He's like, oh, let's do it.
11:21So he's getting prices and this, this and that.
11:23And, yeah, by the time I got that back, it was close to 200 grand.
11:28I was like, all right, bud, scratch that.
11:31Not happening.
11:32Not the Disney money yet.
11:33Just get a couple bar lights that are, you know, a couple hundred bucks and we'll see what we can do there.
11:37We'll call it a day.
11:38Yeah.
11:39What does your day of show look like?
11:41Do you have a routine that you do every day?
11:43Is it different every day?
11:44It's different.
11:46I don't know.
11:47I used to wake up, eat breakfast, go straight to the gym, come back, sound check, chill out, maybe take a nap.
11:54But that started wearing me out, the routine stuff.
11:58And I'm kind of a routine kind of guy, like especially when I'm home.
12:02Like I do my thing.
12:03Like it's kind of what I do.
12:04But on the road, it started wearing me out being in a routine.
12:07So now it's just wake up and see how I feel and do what I want to do.
12:13You know what I'm saying?
12:14Yeah.
12:15Do you ever bring the kids out on the road?
12:17I am this year.
12:18Yeah.
12:19I brought them a couple of times last year, but I've been one bus this whole time.
12:24I could have gone to two maybe last year or the year before, but they're so expensive.
12:28I'm like, man, I got better things to spend my money on than a bus.
12:32We're going to do it this year just because, like I said a while ago, my kids are at an age now where it's like they need to experience this.
12:38They need to come out on the road with dad.
12:40And so this summer we'll go to two buses and I'll have the whole family out and we'll see how it goes.
12:49They love it, though.
12:50They love coming out.
12:51I was going to say, it's got to feel a little bit like camping for them.
12:54For them.
12:55Yeah.
12:56Yeah.
12:57As the shows have grown and gotten bigger, have there been any artists that you're friends with or anybody that you've toured with that you kind of go to for advice?
13:06Not really advice.
13:09I haven't really gone to anybody for advice, but I do watch.
13:13Like I'll watch what other artists do as far as, you know, on stage and how they do this and do that.
13:22I mean, some of the best advice that I've gotten was from Luke Bryan when I was on tour with him a couple years ago.
13:27He just said, hey, have fun.
13:29That's all.
13:30I mean, just have fun.
13:31It's not rocket science, you know, and it wears me out when you walk on stage and somebody's like, oh, this is a closed stage or, oh, this is this.
13:38Like all the rules.
13:39Like, man, let me tell you something.
13:40We're playing music and we're to have fun.
13:42I understand if we're tight on room or there's a ton of people backstage.
13:47And it's just what?
13:48But at the end of the day, we're playing music, having a good time.
13:51So I just I watch what other people do and I go, OK, we're going to do that or we're not going to do that, you know, but I just follow my gut and do my thing.
14:03I think putting it through the filter of just have fun is great because then you're never taking it too seriously.
14:10You can't.
14:11It's like it's not rocket science.
14:12It's not right.
14:13Yeah.
14:14We're not doing heart surgery here.
14:15We're fixing to go strum guitars and sing music and bring a party.
14:18Yeah.
14:19Bring a party, which you will on the country till I die tour.
14:22All those dates are posted at Dylan's got country dot com.
14:25Now, when you're not busy with music, you also have a couple of different business ventures.
14:30Let's talk about latest one, which is drips coffee shop right outside of Nashville.
14:34Talk about that.
14:35Yes.
14:36So my little brother's my lead guitar player in the band and left high school, didn't go to college just to follow my footsteps.
14:42And so after a while, I'm like, man, I kind of need to do something.
14:46My little brother, like give him some ownership other than his title of, yeah, I play lead guitar for my big brother in a band.
14:53Like, come on now.
14:54Like, which is great.
14:55It's all good.
14:56But so he loves coffee.
14:58Him and his wife know, like the back of their hand.
14:59And so we opened this coffee shop and it's rocking and rolling.
15:02Drips coffee shop in Hendersonville.
15:04That's where they live.
15:05And it's really, really doing great and looking at expanding to other locations.
15:11Wow.
15:12That's very fun.
15:13Are you a big coffee guy?
15:15I like coffee.
15:16I usually drink a cup or two every morning.
15:19But if you start asking me like crazy questions about coffee.
15:23Yeah, I don't know.
15:24This is your brother's area.
15:26This is my brother's area.
15:27Yeah.
15:28And it's interesting.
15:29I mean, I've enjoyed learning it, you know, watching what they do and whatnot.
15:33Like, it's really cool.
15:35But no, I'm still put a Keurig cup in the deal and press start.
15:40And here we go about our day.
15:42I'm the same way.
15:43Like, I drink cold coffee out of a jug.
15:45And when somebody starts talking to me about coffee and the beans, I'm like, what?
15:48Yeah.
15:49Yeah.
15:50Where they're from.
15:51The origin.
15:52You've also got, in addition to the coffee company, the Trash Guys.
15:57Trash Guys.
15:58Talk about this because this is also growing.
16:00Yeah, this is growing massively.
16:03So the Trash Guys is exactly what you think it is.
16:06When you was a kid and you would set your trash can out by the road and the
16:11trash truck would come.
16:13What would you call it?
16:14The Trash Guys.
16:15Oh, the Trash Guys come to dump our trash, you know?
16:17And so when COVID hit, couldn't play music, I had a buddy who was working
16:21offshore.
16:22He was laid off.
16:23And so we started talking about his trash and where he's from because we're
16:27from the same place and how it was just a disaster.
16:29I said, dude, maybe we should start our own company.
16:32He's like, man, I thought about it.
16:34So anyway, long story short, we did.
16:36I bought a dump trailer for $11,000.
16:38He pulled it with his pickup truck during COVID.
16:41And long story short, now we have 11,000 residents.
16:46We have nine, I think nine garbage trucks, like the real deal.
16:51We're into front load commercial dumpsters.
16:54Like the big dumpsters you see at restaurants or convenience stores that
16:57they flip over the top of the truck.
16:59Into that now, we got almost 600 of those.
17:01So it's turned into a massive company since COVID.
17:07Really just because of my buddy.
17:09He's just a go-getter, but it's great.
17:12I talk to him every day.
17:13We're making business deals and trying to figure this out and figure that out.
17:16So it takes my mind off music for a little bit.
17:19You know, I kind of feel like I'm an entrepreneur doing something,
17:22which is really cool.
17:23And I love it.
17:25A little side hustle that's turned into this empire.
17:27Pretty much.
17:28Pretty much.
17:29What have you learned about trash or the trash business that you did not
17:33know going in?
17:34Oh, it is cut throat.
17:36You got to be easy.
17:37Tread lightly.
17:38People don't, people in other departments, they don't,
17:41they don't want you doing too great, but no, it's, it's been good.
17:46And I was just joking about that.
17:48It's it's it's the customer service business.
17:52And we knew that going into it.
17:53Right.
17:54But since we've done it,
17:55we've realized like people want their trash picked up on time.
18:00Don't make a mess when you do it and make sure the can is standing up and
18:06not laid over.
18:07When you leave there, it's kind of crazy how much that matters,
18:11but I don't know.
18:12I've just I've, I've enjoyed it.
18:14It's really been a, it's been fun so far.
18:16That is so wild.
18:17As you were saying that I was like, yeah,
18:19my trash guys missed today because we had like dusting of snow.
18:22And I'm like, when are they?
18:24You get so worked up over it.
18:27It is one of the, cause it's,
18:28you expect it to be the same thing every time.
18:31All right.
18:32So when you aren't on stage, you aren't managing a new business.
18:34You aren't on dad duty.
18:35What are you, what are you doing to relax?
18:37Oh, to relax.
18:38What is relaxing?
18:39What is that?
18:40I'm constantly going, doing something nonstop, whether it's, I mean,
18:45if it's hunting season, I'm hunting somewhere.
18:47I mean, it's just kind of the way it is.
18:49I love, I love racing.
18:51I love dirt track racing.
18:52So I'm usually, if I'm not hunting,
18:54if I'm not playing music or baseball and with the kids or gymnastics,
18:59I'm hunting or racing somewhere.
19:01So if there's ever a moment that you plop down on the couch,
19:04are you watching anything?
19:06Like do you have a favorite show that you binge?
19:08No, no, no.
19:09Well, if I'm watching TV,
19:11it's usually after the kids go to bed with my wife,
19:14whatever series we're watching.
19:17So right now we're watching, is it 1923?
19:20Is that the name of it?
19:21Yes.
19:22So just, just started that.
19:24I'm just not a big TV guy.
19:27I'll watch sports.
19:28I'll watch a football game.
19:29I'll watch a baseball, basketball game, whatever.
19:33But I just never watched TV.
19:35I never sit on the couch.
19:37Are you the guy that like Blair turns on the TV and you're asleep instantly?
19:40No, I'll watch it.
19:42Yeah, no.
19:43And she's, but she has to tell me, she has to say, Hey, come watch this.
19:46Come watch this with me.
19:47And I don't ever hesitate.
19:48I'll yeah, let's watch it.
19:49But it's never the first thing on my mind.
19:51Like, Oh babe, we got to watch 1923 tonight.
19:53Like, I don't know.
19:54My mind don't go there.
19:55That's great though.
19:56I wish you would though.
19:58Well, in a way, and then in a way it wears me out.
20:01Cause I'm nonstop just thinking about something.
20:04Okay.
20:05What do we need to be doing here?
20:06Doing there?
20:07I wish I could just cut that off and just sit on the couch and be like,
20:09Hey, let's watch TV.
20:10Do you have a place to slow your mind?
20:12Like, I think you're a big sauna guy, right?
20:13I feel like I've seen.
20:14Yeah, we have a sauna.
20:15I mean, even there, I'm thinking when I'm hunting,
20:18That's when I stop, which is kind of crazy.
20:20But think about it.
20:21I'm sitting in the tree for hours in nature.
20:26I mean, it's really, it really is a reset for me.
20:29That's where I really stop and go.
20:31Okay.
20:32I can relax a little bit.
20:33Let's go back to your most recent number one boys back home with Dylan.
20:37Marlo.
20:38Love that dude, man.
20:39Gosh, he is such a sweetie.
20:42Oh, just, well, I wouldn't say he's a sweetie.
20:44Good dude.
20:46We love you, Dylan.
20:47Marlo.
20:48You're such a sweetie.
20:49Such a sweetie.
20:50Is this song going to go in your set list for the country till I die tour?
20:54Yeah, it'll be in there.
20:55We've been playing it from the beginning.
20:57I just love this song.
20:58You know, it's such a, I don't, the, the melody is, what's the word?
21:02Infectious, I guess.
21:03I mean, it's just, I don't know.
21:04It sticks with you and it just feels good.
21:07And I just remember the first time I heard it and calling him and talking to
21:11him.
21:13I said, dude, this song right here, like, what are you going to do with it?
21:16You know?
21:17And I'm the type, I didn't really, when I moved to town,
21:22I never really had that artist that was like, Hey man, come on.
21:25I'm gonna help you out.
21:26Like we're going to do this, do that.
21:27And I just, I don't know.
21:29I always told myself like, dude,
21:30if I ever make it anywhere in this business, have any clout at all.
21:35I was like, I just want to help a younger artist.
21:37And he didn't have a record deal.
21:38And I believed in him so much.
21:41I just, and I still do.
21:42I think he's a superstar.
21:43And I was like, man,
21:45how cool would it be to have two Dylan's on a song and dude don't even have a
21:49record deal.
21:50And we just go out there and just break the rules and do it the non Nashville
21:54way, you know?
21:55And what's crazy is we did go in and record it in the first time,
21:59kind of got shut down like, eh, we're not going to do it right now.
22:03Kind of, it was my label.
22:05I'm not throwing them under the bus or anything, but,
22:08but then Dylan gets signed to Sony and it's like, okay, yeah,
22:11we can do it now.
22:12So it's like turning to the Nashville way, but it's all good.
22:15It needed to work that way.
22:16I'm glad it did.
22:17And yeah, I got a number one out of it.
22:19There's a lot of business that goes into it.
22:21Collaboration too much business.
22:23I hate the business aspect of it because it takes the creativeness away,
22:26but I understand it and understand why there has to be that.
22:30I'm just saying I love the creative part, not the business part.
22:34No, I totally agree.
22:36You hear all the time about collabs that have been sitting for two years
22:39because somebody else has got another collab out.
22:42You can't have two collabs at the same time.
22:44Why can't you?
22:45Why can't we just do what we want to do?
22:47You know?
22:48Exactly.
22:49So I want to talk about, we mentioned earlier, you've got three kids.
22:52Talk about what ages are they?
22:53Beckett, Finley and Baron.
22:55Yeah.
22:56So Beckett is seven.
22:57Finley's five and Baron is a little over a year and a half.
23:00You are dangerously close to being out of diapers.
23:03Oh yeah.
23:04I can't wait.
23:05I can't wait to be out of diapers.
23:10So much milk goes through my house and milk is expensive.
23:14Gosh.
23:15Between the kids and their cereal and then Baron just down in milk still.
23:20I'm like, man.
23:23How about Beckett?
23:24Is he, he was playing baseball.
23:26Is he still playing?
23:27He's still playing.
23:28Yeah.
23:29And he's, I mean, I know he's my kid, but I don't know.
23:32He's a rock star.
23:33He's, I mean, I'm like, dude, where'd you get these baseball skills from?
23:36Cause I didn't play baseball growing up.
23:38My dad was the type.
23:39He was like, you sure you want to waste your whole summer, son?
23:43Yeah.
23:44In other words, I really don't want you to play, but I don't know.
23:47I just, the kid's seven years old and I don't know where you got it from,
23:51but I love it.
23:52He also feels like he has such a big personality.
23:55Whenever I see you guys post little videos together,
23:57like Beckett's always doing something funny in the background.
24:00He's a mess.
24:01He is a mess.
24:02Every, everything he says, I'm just like, where did this come from?
24:05Where'd you learn this from?
24:06Kids are smart these days.
24:08Way smarter than I was back in the day, the things they say and do.
24:12But, um, and Finley look, Finley is too.
24:16Finley's a little more shy, but when you get to know Finley,
24:19she is a cut up as well.
24:21So, and that's what I want.
24:22I was a shy kid growing up and I always told myself like, man,
24:25when I have kids, I pray to God,
24:27they're just like outgoing and go getters.
24:30And it took me a long time in life to, to, for that to come out.
24:34I always had it, but there, uh, yeah, there's something else.
24:37I imagine that Finley being the middle child in between the two boys,
24:41she rules the whole house.
24:43Yeah.
24:44Yeah.
24:45And being the girl.
24:46Yep.
24:47Yeah.
24:48She rules the house.
24:49No doubt.
24:50And you know, she's the,
24:51she's the child where you look at her and go Finley.
24:53I said, don't do that.
24:54And she'll look at you and give you that little green like, okay,
24:57well I'm going to do it anyway.
24:59And she still does it anyway.
25:00And you can't get really mad about it.
25:02No, you can't.
25:04Have you heard Cain Brown's, uh,
25:06his new song backseat driver about little girls?
25:09I have.
25:10Yeah.
25:11What did you think of that song?
25:12That one get you?
25:13Yeah.
25:14I mean, no doubt.
25:15Any, any song about a little girl will get you,
25:17especially when it's about your little girl.
25:19Right.
25:20So, um, yeah, it's a good one.
25:23You were at crash my playa earlier this year.
25:25Uh,
25:27you were also a part of Luke Brian's,
25:29the Luke Brian and friends concert.
25:31So it was Jason.
25:32Did you just stick around and spend any time with Jason?
25:34Yeah, we hung out for quite a bit, uh,
25:36after that deal and you know, it's crazy.
25:39I got to tell Jason a story.
25:41So when I was, gosh, I think I was probably 14 or 15.
25:44I was at my local mall where I'm from and I was with my mom and we
25:49walked into Hollister cause that was the big thing.
25:52I can smell it.
25:53I can smell it too.
25:54Yeah.
25:55And I see this dude, I'm like, man, I know this guy from somewhere,
25:58somewhere.
25:59And so we leave, I didn't,
26:00I couldn't figure it out and walked into American Eagle and he comes
26:04walking into American Eagle.
26:06And I was like, hit me.
26:07I said, that's Jason Aldean.
26:08And he was just getting going.
26:10Like, I think it was Hicktown was the big song then,
26:12which I think it was his first one.
26:14And I was too shy to go talk to him.
26:16So my mom was like, go talk to him.
26:18I was like, nah, I can't.
26:19So my mom did.
26:20My mom walked up to him.
26:21She's like, Hey, I'm such and such.
26:23I know you're Jason.
26:24This is my son Dylan.
26:25And he's going to move to Nashville and, you know,
26:27try to be a country music singer too.
26:29Kind of like yourself.
26:30And so I met Jason, um, an American Eagle.
26:33And so I got to tell him that story.
26:35I was like, man, you're in, you'll will never remember this,
26:38but I just want you to know,
26:39I met you when I was 14 or 15 American Eagle.
26:41My mom, uh,
26:42walked up to you and said this and said that.
26:44And so, yeah, he's just such a good dude.
26:46He's so real down to earth.
26:48And we sat there and chatted for a long time.
26:50What did he have to say about that?
26:52He just thought it was a cool story, you know?
26:54I mean, I get it.
26:55That's the way I would have been too.
26:56If somebody walked up and said the same thing, but, um,
26:59he's like, man, that makes me feel old, you know,
27:01but that's the first thing he said,
27:03but it's just kind of a cool story.
27:04It's a kind of a full circle deal, you know?
27:06For sure.
27:07And I feel like things like that will happen more often here in
27:11Nashville,
27:12but the fact that it's kind of like very serendipitous that Jason
27:16Aldean would have been at your childhood mall in Louisiana.
27:19He was playing a show that night at the civic center.
27:21And we're in Hollister.
27:22Yeah.
27:23Yeah.
27:24Apparently I feel like you are always working on new music.
27:28So what can you say about, you know,
27:30where are you at in the process of the new album?
27:32Yeah.
27:33New album is done.
27:35Okay.
27:36I can say that.
27:37And I can say that it's going to be out sooner than later.
27:40Uh, we should be,
27:42I guess announcing when that is pretty soon.
27:46I don't know.
27:47Once again,
27:48that's the business part from the creative part,
27:50because I just,
27:51I would just be like,
27:52yeah,
27:53it's coming out at such and such time,
27:54you know?
27:55But,
27:56um,
27:57that being said,
27:58there is a new album done.
27:59And then once the album's out,
28:00we're already started recording for more music.
28:02So really?
28:03Yeah.
28:04It's just not gonna,
28:05it's not gonna ever end.
28:06And that's the way I like it.
28:07So you're not one of those people that maybe needs to like,
28:10you know,
28:11write,
28:12write,
28:13write,
28:14record the whole thing and then take a break.
28:15No,
28:16I'm just constantly either writing or somebody sending me
28:18something.
28:19And as soon as I go,
28:20man,
28:21I love this.
28:22I go in and record it.
28:23And we may sit on it for months forever,
28:24release it.
28:25But we went through so many years of just recording an album and
28:29then putting a single out.
28:31And that was it.
28:32And then as soon as we said,
28:34you know what,
28:35let's release more music.
28:36More often,
28:37everything started growing.
28:38The fan base started growing rapidly.
28:40Um,
28:41numbers started growing rapidly.
28:43And it's like,
28:44this is kind of the way we need to do it right now.
28:46You know,
28:47just keep releasing music.
28:48Cause I mean,
28:49look,
28:50we're not a superstar.
28:51We're not some crazy playing stadiums and big arenas.
28:54I mean,
28:55I want to play arenas,
28:56but I think the only way for me to do it right now is just to
28:58keep grinding and put music out and grow in it.
29:01Absolutely.
29:02Do you want to say when the album will be out?
29:04Um,
29:05I don't honestly,
29:06I don't even know the exact day when this album's released.
29:09I think it's the end of may sometime,
29:11like may 20 something.
29:13Uh,
29:14this album comes out,
29:15it's called easy.
29:16Does it?
29:17It's kind of where I'm at in my life right now.
29:19I'm in that easy.
29:20Does it phase of just look,
29:22I'm in my,
29:23uh,
29:24early thirties.
29:25I've got my kids,
29:26got my wife.
29:27I've I'm living my dream with my dream is not no longer the
29:30dream.
29:31It's how I put food on the table for my kids.
29:33And I don't know.
29:34I went through my whole teenage years and all through my
29:37twenties,
29:38just worried about this and worried about that.
29:40And I just don't really worry about it no more.
29:42The only thing I really worry about is,
29:44all right,
29:45I gotta wake up and make sure I keep on keeping on.
29:46So these kids can have what they need in life,
29:49you know?
29:50And so I'm in that easy.
29:51Does it phase?
29:52Isn't it funny how you turn 30 and everything kind of like,
29:55I'm so thankful for it though.
29:57I wish I wish I could have had this mentality through my
30:00twenties.
30:01I really do.
30:02I mean,
30:03I know you have to go through it to get to where you
30:05are, but I don't know.
30:07I was such a worrier and stressed so much in my twenties,
30:10just over crazy stuff,
30:12what I was wearing,
30:13what this person thought.
30:15Why does this person do?
30:16Why do they have this?
30:17And I don't,
30:18it's like,
30:19as soon as you can just realize,
30:20man,
30:21live your life and don't worry about it.
30:23It's so much easier.
30:24So much easier.
30:25I want to talk about one of the new songs that you got
30:28out.
30:29I hate whiskey.
30:30Talk about that.
30:31Yeah.
30:32I hate whiskey.
30:33I have had this song in my back pocket for two
30:36years now,
30:37probably been recorded for two years now.
30:39We've changed a couple of things up along the way,
30:41but it's just such a clever song.
30:44To me.
30:45I mean,
30:46it's such a simple song,
30:47but it's such a clever song and it feels good.
30:49And my kids,
30:50even though I know it says I hate whiskey,
30:52but they don't know what whiskey is,
30:54but they're singing it back to me because the melody is
30:57so good.
30:58And I didn't write this song.
30:59It was sent to me,
31:00um,
31:01by some buddies.
31:02And I don't know.
31:03I'm just,
31:04I'm so excited about it.
31:05And the response so far has been awesome.
31:07So once again,
31:08just,
31:09just trying to keep on keeping on with the,
31:12with the new music and building the fan base one person
31:15at a time.
31:16It's funny.
31:17The songs that kids will gravitate towards Thomas Rhett and I
31:20have talked about this,
31:21like how he'll kind of test how catchy a song is
31:24based on what the kids are asking.
31:26Usually when the kids,
31:28when it's catchy and the kids are singing it back,
31:30it's usually a pretty good indicator of what you got.
31:33And that's so funny.
31:34There are people who get paid probably hundreds,
31:36if not millions of dollars in this town to be able
31:39to tell you what a hit is.
31:40And usually a seven-year-old kid knows that we get so caught
31:43up in what's a hit song and this,
31:45this,
31:46and that.
31:47And it's really,
31:48it's,
31:49it's ways.
31:50It's way more simple than what we make it,
31:52you know?
31:53And that's a test right there.
31:54The kids,
31:55the way they gravitate towards whatever it's like,
31:57it's a simple,
31:58it's a simple thing.
31:59Make it simple.
32:00Just make it fun and simple.
32:01Earlier.
32:02We talked about the country till I die tour.
32:04And you mentioned that you've got George Burge coming out on
32:07this show.
32:08Such a good dude.
32:09Known him for several years,
32:11several years.
32:12And I'm just looking forward to having him out there.
32:15And,
32:16you know,
32:17I know he's,
32:18I think we've talked about a little bit,
32:20how,
32:21how great of a golfer he is.
32:22So good.
32:23Yeah.
32:24And I'm not,
32:25I suck.
32:26So I really hope he doesn't ask me to go golf,
32:28but he probably will.
32:29And I'm going to tell him I'm going one time.
32:31And if you can't make me a better golfer this one time,
32:34I'll never golf again.
32:35So it's up to you.
32:36What is it?
32:37That's hard for you about golf?
32:38I'm such a competitive person.
32:39And I wouldn't say that I'm great at sports,
32:41but I feel like I can hold my own.
32:43Like I can at least not like an idiot and do what I need to do
32:46and be competitive.
32:47And when it comes to golf,
32:48I look like an idiot.
32:49I'm not competitive.
32:50I can't keep up.
32:51And as a man,
32:52there's nothing worse.
32:53Well,
32:54hopefully George can maybe give us a few lessons.
32:56I would love that.
32:57In real life.
32:58Yeah.
33:00I mean,
33:01I don't have to be that competitive.
33:02Just kind of keep up.
33:03It would be great.
33:04George Burge joining you on your spring tour this year.
33:06Also on there is Dasha,
33:07which that girl just happened.
33:08A huge year.
33:09Have you seen her live yet?
33:10Oh,
33:11yeah.
33:12Electric,
33:13electric.
33:14She's,
33:15but her personality,
33:16I don't know.
33:17I don't know.
33:18I don't know.
33:19I don't know.
33:20I don't know.
33:21I don't know.
33:22I don't know.
33:23I don't know.
33:24I don't know.
33:25I don't know.
33:26I don't know.
33:27I don't know.
33:28I don't know.
33:29I don't know.
33:30I don't know.
33:31I don't know.
33:32I don't know.
33:33But,
33:34but her personality is electric to like,
33:35she's the first time I met her at like we'd known each other for years,
33:36just how she comes across.
33:37She's just,
33:38she's just there to have fun and be a buddy and that's what it's about.
33:41Like she wasn't to like,
33:43you know,
33:44you meet some people sometimes they're just like,
33:45Oh yeah.
33:46I'm,
33:47I'm searching.
33:48So it's like,
33:49nah,
33:50none of that with her.
33:51She's just there to chill and hang out.
33:52And I'm looking forward to it.
33:53She's she's crushing it.
33:54Yeah.
33:55and she's gonna get that crowd all pumped up.
33:58Yeah, no doubt.
33:59You've also got-
34:00♪ Dancing baby. ♪
34:01Yeah, I'm already fired up.
34:03And then you mentioned you got Graham Barham
34:05coming on the road with you.
34:06I did not realize that he was from your same hometown.
34:09Same little town.
34:10So it's the same, in Louisiana we have parishes,
34:14not counties, so think the same county.
34:17So I'm from a little town called Bastrop.
34:19He is from what's not even a town that's connected to mine,
34:23but they call it Marooge, but it's the same thing.
34:25Like he has to come to my Walmart, you know what I'm saying?
34:28So yeah, he's a little bit younger than I am,
34:31but I've known him, gosh,
34:32I've known him pretty much my whole life.
34:34You know, just being around the same people.
34:36We all grew up around the same people
34:38and he's crushing right now.
34:40I mean, he really, he's doing great over the socials
34:43and streaming and just proud of him.
34:46You know, he's grinding, no doubt.
34:48It's gonna be great.
34:49George Burge, Dasha, Graham Barham,
34:51all joining Dylan Scott on the road,
34:53the Country Till I Died Tour.
34:54You can grab tickets right now, dylanscottcountry.com.
34:57So your name actually came up a few months ago
35:00when Nate Smith was here.
35:01Nate and I, we've played a couple of shows together
35:04since we met, but never really just hung out or anything.
35:08Like, so we don't really know each other that well
35:12other than just through text messages and FaceTimes,
35:16which is very, it's different for me because I mean,
35:18usually before I'm FaceTiming somebody
35:20or sending them weird videos through text messages,
35:23like, I know this person.
35:24I can say that I do know Nate,
35:27but it's not like we just went fishing last week
35:28or something, you know?
35:29Like, I don't know him on that level.
35:31We just hit it off and he was just such a good dude.
35:34It's like, man, once again,
35:35it's like, I feel like I've known this dude for years,
35:36you know?
35:37And so, yeah, we have a pretty,
35:41I don't know what you'd call it.
35:42Our relationship is, it's video text messages
35:47of just the most random thing you've ever seen.
35:50If the FBI went through our text messages,
35:52they'd be like, what is wrong with these dudes?
35:55I was gonna say, what did he call it?
35:56Your creepy videos that you send?
35:58He said that and then he called you a good guy right after.
36:00Yeah, I mean, pretty spot on.
36:03Pretty spot on.
36:04Good job, Nate.
36:04Thanks for telling the world about our creepy videos.
36:07As we head back to this week's chart,
36:09up next is Cole Swindell,
36:11who you have the same management team as.
36:13You also toured with him last year.
36:15Last summer, yeah.
36:16We had a good time.
36:17I'm sure you saw him and Courtney are expecting.
36:20I did, so happy for them.
36:22They got to it quick.
36:24We just got married and said, hey, it's time.
36:26I mean, good for them.
36:28Good for them.
36:30I'm so happy for them.
36:31I mean, they deserve nothing but the best.
36:34Cole's such a good dude.
36:35Had a great time on tour with him.
36:38Yeah, I mean, what can you say about the dude?
36:42Besides he's just such a good dude.
36:44Do you have any advice, like fatherly advice
36:47you would share, especially because, you know,
36:49you and Cole have jobs that not every dad has,
36:53which presents different challenges?
36:55Yeah, good luck, Cole.
36:56There's your advice.
36:57No, I don't know.
36:59I'm not the best on advice.
37:01I mean, look, I'm figuring it out every day,
37:03just like everybody else is.
37:04But I guess, I mean, and I work on this every day
37:09at my own self, so I'm not like a professional,
37:11but patience, patience, and just enjoy it.
37:16Enjoy every stage of it,
37:18because it does go by really quick.
37:19And, you know, one second you're like,
37:22gosh, are we still pooping our diapers?
37:24Or why are we still crying?
37:26Can you sleep through the night?
37:27And before you know it, you wake up
37:29and they're not sleeping,
37:30or they are sleeping through the night,
37:31and you're like, man, I kind of missed that phase.
37:33So just enjoy every stage and patience.
37:36Fellow Louisianan, which you guys are growing
37:39in numbers rapidly, Jordan Davis.
37:42Another one who's expecting.
37:44I'm sure you saw he and his wife
37:45got baby number four on the way.
37:48I did see that.
37:49As a father of three,
37:50can you imagine adding a fourth child?
37:52Could I imagine it?
37:53Yes, I could imagine it.
37:55Will it ever happen?
37:56No.
37:57One, it's pretty much impossible,
37:59because I took care of that problem.
38:01Two, we were not going to go.
38:02I mean, we were always the type.
38:04My wife comes from a family.
38:06There's six of them, her siblings.
38:08I'm from a family of, I think there's four of us.
38:12She's like, oh, we're always going to have four or five kids.
38:14Let's have four or five kids.
38:16Yeah, no.
38:17We are done at three.
38:18No more.
38:19We're outnumbered as it is, and it's perfect.
38:23What is the saying?
38:24One is one, two is 12.
38:26Yes.
38:27And then like anything beyond that.
38:28100%.
38:29You've lost your mind.
38:30But great.
38:31I'm glad they're having,
38:32if they're having more,
38:33that means that everything's great.
38:36They're good.
38:37Jordan, also from Louisiana.
38:38You guys, you didn't know each other growing up, right?
38:40I think it's a two hour drive from where you're from.
38:41Yeah, he's two hours from where I grew up.
38:43But I did meet him early on in town,
38:46before him and I had anything going on.
38:49We were just here dreaming and scheming and writing
38:52and such a good dude.
38:54I mean, he's from Louisiana, why wouldn't he be?
38:56So we've talked about the Country Till I Die tour
38:59this spring, biggest headlining tour.
39:01What's the rest of this year look like for you?
39:03Yeah, a lot of fairs and festivals this summer,
39:06all the big festivals.
39:07I didn't do them last summer.
39:09Was out with Cole doing that.
39:10So we'll do them this summer.
39:12And then we're going to continue some headline tour
39:16into the fall.
39:18Kind of the same size rooms we're gonna do here
39:20in the spring.
39:21So we'll be announcing that here in the next
39:24couple of months, I would say.
39:25So yeah, looking forward to that and just playing shows,
39:30doing the deal.
39:32I saw that you also have one show in July with Brad Paisley.
39:34Have you ever played with him before?
39:36No, I haven't.
39:36I'm really looking forward to it.
39:37Cause I mean, I remember when I was a kid, obviously,
39:40I mean, Paisley was, he was Paisley.
39:42He was on top.
39:43He was doing his thing.
39:44And so I always thought it'd be cool to either go on tour
39:47with Paisley or just meet him and do the thing.
39:50And I've never met him.
39:50So I'm really looking forward to having the opportunity
39:53to open for him, direct support and hopefully meet him.
39:57And I don't know, just say what's up.
40:00I have a little story about him.
40:02When I was dating my wife one Christmas,
40:05I pulled the guitar, the same little house in the video.
40:09This sounds a little too good to us,
40:10right in front of that house.
40:11I pulled my guitar out of my truck and I sang,
40:14She's Everything by Brad Paisley.
40:17And I'm pretty sure that sealed the deal.
40:18So thank you, thank you, Brad, for that.
40:22That is a fantastic story,
40:23which I think he will really enjoy.
40:26I feel like you and Brad are similar in that,
40:29both very funny.
40:30Like Brad really has a good sense of humor.
40:33Yeah, I heard he's really good at his pranks,
40:35his tour pranks.
40:36So yeah, I don't, I don't know.
40:40I don't think I have a great sense of humor, but.
40:42You don't?
40:43I feel like you're very funny.
40:44Oh, thank you.
40:45I appreciate that.
40:46No, I mean, yeah.
40:48I was just laughing at your videos where you posted
40:51where you were gonna be in each state.
40:53And like for Massachusetts, you came out like Paul Revere.
40:56That's what I'm saying.
40:57Like, I feel like, is it funny or is it cheesy?
41:01There's a fine line.
41:02And I usually have to ask my wife,
41:04hey, is this funny or is this cheesy?
41:06And a lot of times I'm deleting videos
41:08because I'm on the cheesy side.
41:10Really?
41:11Yeah, I don't want to come across too cheesy.
41:13Like even the tour announcement, like it was a little cheesy
41:16but I will say with something like that,
41:17I'm trying to catch people's attention.
41:19So they'll be like, what is this?
41:20And then they'll be like, oh, he's coming to our town.
41:23Let me buy a ticket, so.
41:24When you're talking about deleting videos,
41:26how much of like your own social stuff that you're doing,
41:30like, how do you handle that?
41:31Like, are you good with it?
41:32Or are you like, just like really struggling
41:34coming up with something, posting it, deleting it?
41:38Or do you just throw it out there?
41:39These days, I'm pretty much just throwing it out there.
41:42I used to do that a lot.
41:43And then somebody's like,
41:44no, you just got to post and forget.
41:46What I'm having trouble doing these days
41:48with just everything going on in life with my kids
41:51and everything is finding the time to post.
41:54You know, it's like, gosh, cause I really need to.
41:56I mean, that's part of the whole deal is social media.
41:59But, and I do a lot of it on my own.
42:01Like I have a great team, but you know,
42:03they're just posting like, oh, merch bundles,
42:06giveaways or whatever, whatever they do.
42:09Like I'm posting the organic stuff behind the scenes
42:11and I'm having a tough time keeping up and like,
42:14oh, I got to post something today.
42:16And then I'll forget that and do it the next day.
42:18It's just, it's a lot.
42:20It's a full time job.
42:21Like it is a full time job.
42:22Let's talk about Drew Baldridge, this new song,
42:24Tough People.
42:25Talk about your relationship with Drew.
42:27So I've known Drew from the beginning of coming to town
42:30and I've played so many shows with Drew.
42:33And so the fact that he's not only coming off of number one,
42:36but he's got another song sitting at 14 right now,
42:39no record label, doing it all himself.
42:41That is incredible.
42:43I don't, it's kind of unheard of, to be honest with you.
42:47You know, and I'm just so proud of him
42:49and I'm really happy that it's worked the way it's happened.
42:53Like he has done this.
42:54I know he's got a team of people,
42:56but the dude's done it himself and that's inspiring.
42:59It is.
43:00And the songs have been great.
43:02Yep.
43:03This song is amazing.
43:04Like to follow, you know,
43:06his last number one up with Tough People,
43:08the first time I heard,
43:09no matter where you are, the first time you hear this song,
43:10it just kind of like hits you right in the chest.
43:12No doubt.
43:13I mean, it's a, it is that song.
43:15I'm Katie Neal and my co-host Dylan Scott.
43:18The Country Till I Die tour starts in a couple of weeks.
43:21Where can folks see you?
43:22Yeah, we're going to be starting the tour in Boston
43:25on April the 3rd,
43:26and then in Wallingford, Connecticut on the 4th,
43:28New York City at Terminal 5 on the 5th,
43:31Cincinnati, Clovis, California.
43:35We'll be at Stagecoach, Henderson, we're everywhere.
43:37You got to check it out.
43:38Go check the dates out.
43:39I'm sure we're coming to your town.
43:41Dylanscottcountry.com.
43:43The current hit is This Town's Been Too Good To Us.
43:45Best of luck with that.
43:46Thank you, Katie.
43:47I appreciate it.