Aaron Watson: Texas Country Legend, Timeless Style & Tailgate Talks
Whiskey Riff Raff
Whiskey Riff
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Texas country legend Aaron Watson stops by the podcast to talk about coming up in the Texas music scene and how that shaped his perspective of country music and the Nashville machine, dealing with record executives, being self-sufficient and taking a unique approach to his career, current country music beefs, how he started his tailgate talks on social media and the success that the videos have had online, playing the American Rodeo alongside Post Malone and what that experience was like and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Whiskey Riffraff. I'm Shelby. |
| 0:17.4 | My name's Quinn. |
| 0:18.3 | And it's been a while since we've actually been behind the mics. |
| 0:21.5 | I know we've been releasing some episodes, but we haven't talked, caught up, talked about what's going on in country music. |
| 0:28.2 | Right. |
| 0:28.5 | And there's a lot going on. |
| 0:30.6 | And we've experienced firsthand a lot of different country music and concerts and such. |
| 0:35.6 | So we're finally getting an intro before our interview with |
| 0:40.6 | Aaron Watson. Yes. So a couple of things that we also got to experience together. Well, |
| 0:46.3 | that's true. While we didn't experience Colorado together, we both were in Colorado like back-to-back |
| 0:50.7 | days and saw Red Rocks concerts back-to-back days. Yes, I was there for the debut, headlining debut for the Red Clay Strays at Red Rocks. |
| 1:00.4 | So I think they did two shows. |
| 1:01.9 | I was there the first night, and it was remarkable. |
| 1:04.6 | My first Red Rocks concert. |
| 1:06.4 | So I can't say enough good things about the Red Clay Strays. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm a huge fan, and they did the Red Rock's debut justice for sure. And then you were there a couple of days later for Sturgle. |
| 1:17.2 | Yes, Sturgel, who, this was not my first time at Red Rocks or saying Sturgle, but it was definitely one of my most memorable concerts there, as it was three hours and 45 minutes. |
| 1:26.4 | Wow. |
| 1:26.7 | Nonstop. Yeah, no openers is right. No opener. He talked a |
| 1:30.3 | lot, not a lot, but just a lot of jam band played a lot of covers and like it was just a good time. |
| 1:36.0 | I love that stuff. There are some people that would maybe be turned off by oh, he's just, he's |
| 1:41.4 | still playing. But man, I mean, you get a good jam band up on stage. I'm there for it for sure. |
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