BOBBYCAST: Matthew Ramsey on the Origin of Old Dominion & Why a Band Member is Left Out of Photos + Turning Down a Chance to Play with Taylor Swift - Twice! + Meeting His Hero Bruce Springsteen + Locking Eyes with Tim McGraw in the Bathroom + His Favorite Old Dominion Song Ever
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4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In this episode of the BobbyCast, Bobby sits down with lead singer of Old Dominion, Matthew Ramsey. Matthew tells Bobby the origin story behind the band and why one of their band members gets left out of pictures. Plus, he tells the story of being offered to play guitar for Taylor Swift twice but turned it down because he moved to Nashville to write songs and didn't want to defer from that. The guys also talked about the night Matthew met his hero Bruce Springsteen while sitting next to one of Bobby's idols, Adam Duritz. Matthew then went on to tell the story about the time he locked eyes with Tim McGraw in the bathroom during warmups, and what his favorite Old Dominion song of all-time is!
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| 0:41.0 | I was offered playing twice to play for Taylor Swift. |
| 0:44.9 | They needed an acoustic guitar player and a background vocalist, and I was super broke and |
| 0:50.1 | needed the money, but ultimately decided that's not why I moved here. |
| 0:57.5 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode 536 with Matthew Ramsey, lead singer of Old Dominion, |
| 1:04.3 | really artsy guy. Second time we've been able to sit with him for an extended period of time, |
| 1:09.3 | and I know him from random coming |
| 1:11.3 | on the show we've been out on some of the same like music festivals like we'd play some shows they were |
| 1:16.7 | playing so I got to know them a little bit but it's always fun to sit with somebody because you learn |
| 1:20.4 | different things about them when you just sit with them for an hour so really cool guy you know the |
| 1:25.4 | fact that he went to college and studied illustration like he he draws, like paints. He's that kind of artist as well. So he went and he studied the illustration at Virginia Commonwealth University before pursuing music full time. Thought he'd do that, thought he'd paint, be an illustrator. He's done a lot of the band's early artwork, piano, guitar, all that kind of stuff. And we do reference |
| 1:45.3 | his health later on in the episode. In 2021, he had a bad ATV accident, broke his pelvis, |
| 1:52.0 | played shows on a, like a throne. Remember that? Yeah. Yeah. So really like them, |
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