#552 - Mae Estes on Why She Thinks Her & Bobby Might Be Cousins + Country Music Being the Perfect Genre for Her Because of Her Own Struggles and Tribulations in Life + The Best Advice She Got from Ashley McBryde + Touring with Luke Bryan
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, up and coming country music singer/songwriter, Mae Estes sits down with Bobby to connect all the dots: from a possible family tie between the two of them, to the small-town, big-dream path that makes her life story pure country music. She opens up about the best advice she’s gotten from Ashley McBryde, what really happens behind the scenes while touring with Luke Bryan, and why she’s more focused on longevity than viral moments. It’s a deep dive into one of country music's most authentic new voices.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | My heroes like Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were not making that stuff up off the cuff. |
| 0:15.9 | They were living it. |
| 0:17.3 | And when I try to figure out why my story has gone the way it has, I think God was like, well, you got to have something to write about, sis. Welcome to episode 552 with May Estes. You can follow her on Instagram. Even just to see what she looks like, M-A-E-E-E-S-T-E-E-S-T-E-E-S-M-E-E-S-T-S-E-E-C-E-T-E-C-E-C-E-E-C-E-E-C-E-E-E-E-C-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-B-E-E-E- two colors of it. Yeah, at the end, she was like, hey, I brought you a couple hats. |
| 0:57.3 | And people do bring stuff sometimes. And most stuff, |
| 1:02.2 | it just goes in the pile. But she actually made some really cool hats. So I've been wearing those. And for no other reason that I think she just designed some really good merch. So |
| 1:06.5 | she's really been like showing up in things |
| 1:10.8 | meaning you just see her name popping around like |
| 1:13.7 | she's an artist that's elevating big time now she's doing bigger shows |
| 1:16.7 | you're seeing her as part of like events in town and so she's kind of been on the |
| 1:21.0 | radar a little bit and so to me someone was like hey do you want to interview me |
| 1:25.7 | estes and i'd known her music a little bit but i was |
| 1:29.0 | like i don't know if we're there yet and then i kept seeing her name and then i was with george |
| 1:33.3 | and i talk about this and george is a close friend of mine and he was like she's great and then he's like |
| 1:38.2 | you know she's like you and i was like uh completely neurotic and he's like no like she went to this Henderson State |
| 1:47.3 | University she's from a small town like near you and I was like really she's from Arkansas he's |
| 1:51.4 | like yeah all that and so did a little digging obviously I like what she's doing artistically also |
| 1:57.2 | sometimes don't want to like get ahead of it and put somebody on before they really have something there but no this was good i was glad we did this then |
| 2:04.8 | and then she's also just a really cool artist and i hope everybody checks her out uh so this is may |
| 2:09.6 | estes anything you want to say mike it's like meeting you in the multiverse a little bit yeah if i |
| 2:14.0 | agree if i was born a girl yeah or not i mean it could also be just me now. Here she is. |
| 2:20.7 | Episode 552. You know what? Get you a Mae Estes hat like I often wear. There you go. That's it. Here she is. May Estes. |
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