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Cody, Canada, is it safe? Do you like, you probably don't like the term legend, but

you can, I think a lot of people consider yourself a legend in that red dirt scene.

When you hear that, you just laugh it off, like you just did, or do you kind of appreciate

kind of some of the road you paved for all these young guys today?

Hey, I pretty much laughed at it. No disrespect, but it, I don't know. I don't know. I'm not used

to stuff like that, but I appreciate it, you know. I really do appreciate it.

Who are, who are some of your influences that kind of got you started? Because I feel like

we can look at kind of the red dirt scene, or even some of the Texas rock guys, and every

single one of them will call you an influence. So who are the kind of people that got you

started?

Within the scene, it was definitely my course. When I was probably 16, I think I was 16,

I went to see the grid. I actually would be Chris will do in Stillwater, Oklahoma. And

this band was up there playing a Bob Wilson, but they were playing it with like Eddie Van

Haylon Ritz. And I thought it was sacrilegious. I don't know who these guys are, but I don't

know if I like it. I don't know if I hate it. And I loved it. I think it was just it shocked

me to see, you know, one thing that I knew, and it was close to that was Steve Earl, you

know, and he was extremely untouchable at the time of my life. And so I actually got

to see somebody play country music with, oh, how do I put it? I mean, it was a country

rock thing, you know, but it was just like, reckless, you know, they, it's like they cared

but they didn't care at the same time, you know. And that was really what I was looking

for. I didn't know that I was looking for something. I knew that I was going to be a musician,

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