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This is Behind the Rose, where Bachelor Nation meets country music and everything in

between. Here's your host, Blake Horsman.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Behind the Rose podcast. I'm your host,

Blake Horsman, here with my buddy as usual Eric Bradley. And today's episode, we have special

guests, country singer-songwriter, Chris Bandi. We talked to Chris about how a college relationship

failure gave him his current single, how a Kenny Chesney song put him on the path he is on now,

and how he has a song coming out with his hometown hero, Nelly. But first, Eric, let's chat a little bit about a blended fest this weekend in Nashville, man. What a weekend. We were out there for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, seven days? Five days? Yeah, until Monday. Five days. There's a lot. Two days too long for Nashville. Eric didn't go out on Sunday, stayed in, which was a good decision because I, I slept all day yesterday. I was dying. As did I, but I also stayed out until four or five in the morning, Friday night where you did not. Thursday night. Yeah, Thursday night. Yeah, Thursday night. Yeah, I went bed at like midnight that night. But overall, successful weekend. Aggressive. Yeah, aggressive weekend. Very fun weekend. Shout out to Blended Fest. Black artist, Calica. Everybody with the blended fest family put on a hell of a show. And it was fun, man. It was such a cool, eclectic. Yeah, it's not every night where you could go catch a couple country artists, legendary rappers and legendary EDM, artists all on one lineup.

Not only one lineup that night, Saturday night.

It was Ernest, Matt Stel.

To ludicrous, to cascade.

That is literally like, yeah, you're right, that's country into like hip hop and one of the biggest EDM stars on the planet right now.

So like I said, it's said, and there's good food,

good wine, good people. It was a good time. Amazing music. Lots of great talent every hour of the day. Yeah, fantastic talent. I got to play. It was got to play the side stage. Unfortunately, the rain kind of moved everything back on the main stage. So I didn't get to play on the main stage, but played on the side stage for the nice little crowd. And it was fun. It was a lot of fun.

It was just, it was good. It was a lot of fun.

It was just good energy, good vibes that whole weekend.

Yeah, what was your favorite part of it?

Honestly, ludicrous blew my mind. Ludicrous blew my mind, man. I mean, other than me playing was super fun. Don't get me wrong. But as far as like an artist, I've never seen Luda before.

I didn't know what to expect, but the man is very good on the mic. He's an entertainer at heart.

I mean, he was making Fast and Furious. I've never seen Luda before. I didn't know what to expect, but the man is very good on the mic.

He's an entertainer at heart.

I mean, he was making Fast and Furious jokes. He was like, this crowd don't even know me. This crowd knows me from Fast and Furious. Like, let's play one of my old school songs. I think he played one of his first drops. Then the whole crowd going nuts and they all knew it. He's like, oh, okay, okay, I see you.

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