Singer, songwriter, guitar player who fronts a band called Whiskey Bent, which will celebrate its eleven-year anniversary in March. He was previously a guest on this show way back on Episode 118 in May 2016. Since that time, he and his band have opened for several national acts, including Jake Owen, Sawyer Brown, and Jimmie Allen. This spring and summer they are already booked for fairs and festivals that will see them on the bill with the likes of Luke Combs, Toby Keith, Diamond Rio, Trent Tomlinson, and more.
"Sometimes you write songs about things that are serious and important. And sometimes you write songs that are just kind of fun."
"I've created a lot of relationships through playing music and the people that I get to meet during my day job. So, it's kind of helped me in my music career working in the industry of radio."
"It's really cool when you get to meet people that you aspire to have that type of success as they have, and you realize you can still be a good, normal person and have success."
"When you go out and play some of these bigger shows you might not make tons of money doing 'em, but you're building your fan base, which increases your social media presence, which increases your attendance at these other shows. Then you can start to snowball and kind of gain some momentum to where you go into these venues and you're the headliner and you're pulling in 400 people, you can kind of increase your value, so to speak."
"As an opening slot, in the ten years that we've been playing music, it's been anywhere from 'We're gonna give you a hundred bucks and a couple drinks' to four thousand dollars."
"If you're not sales savvy, then definitely it would be a good idea to take a look at having a booking agent that does it, or if you're not comfortable doing that or you don't want to do that, then having a booking agent or a manager that takes care of that for ya'."
"When everything kind of started shutting down, it was a very uncharted territory for everybody in the music industry, and everybody in the world for that matter. And we had shows booked for -- we lost over 45 full band shows between March and July, end of July."
"Clubs are great. It's just that if you have a club that has a capacity of 200, they can't afford to pay you the rates that festivals and street dances and fairs and things like that can pay."
"Shotgun"
"Fireflies"