#484 - Marcus King on His Worst Drug Experience & Meeting His Wife Post-Drug Use + Meeting His Heroes Who Turned Out To Be Jerks + Why Someone Dying Led Him To Start Singing
Bobbycast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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On this episode of the BobbyCast, Bobby sits down with singer/songwriter, Marcus King. Marcus discusses his worst drug experience, why he quit doing cocaine, and meeting his wife post-drug use. Plus, Marcus and Bobby talked about meeting his heroes in the industry and who turned out to be jerks, and why a death of someone important to him at age 13 led to him to start writing songs and singing.
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| 0:00.0 | When I was 13, the girl I had a crush on died in a car accident, and I had all these abandonment issues anyway, and they all just kind of like came to a head, and I was really not able to find a way to comfort myself. |
| 0:23.9 | That's when I decided to start writing and start singing. |
| 0:28.7 | Episode 484 with Marcus King. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm a fan. |
| 0:33.2 | Mostly popped up on my algorithm on TikTok, |
| 0:35.3 | and I knew I'm from seeing him around like award shows and stuff, |
| 0:44.9 | but like, man, the guy just plays and has got like a blues rock soul voice that is just insane. |
| 0:50.7 | He's got an album called Mood Swings that came out in April. He did a song with Brooks and Donan on reboot two. |
| 0:54.3 | Rock My World Little Country Girl. I was opening for Stapleton in 2025. And I'm going to say this, because I think Stapleton's the greatest. But Stapleton is extremely |
| 1:00.2 | secure to put Marcus King in front of him. Yeah. Because that would be like a dude. It was like when |
| 1:05.7 | Zach Brown was playing in front of Chesney. Oh yeah. And I was like, there's no way I'd put Zach Brown in front of me. |
| 1:12.1 | I don't care if Chesney or not. |
| 1:14.3 | Like, Stapleton is the greatest. |
| 1:16.0 | And that's how secure he is. |
| 1:19.4 | Because Marcus King is like that dude. |
| 1:21.4 | So, not country. |
| 1:24.0 | But, like, he grew up in the country. |
| 1:26.6 | How would you, what is it like Soul Blues? |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah, like Americana. |
| 1:32.2 | I don't know. Marikana makes me feel like it's acoustic, but man, he goes hard. |
| 1:39.7 | Born in Greenville, South Carolina, musical family, his dad, Devin, blues guitarist and songwriter, |
| 1:45.1 | his grandpa he talks about. I watch him on TikTok all the time playing. |
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