All right, well, we just watched Dirk Spently prepare for his gravel and gold tour with a couple

songs and we are backstage at his rehearsal spot and here in East Nashville to talk about the

tour that kicks off in Fort Worth on June 7th. Now you've been touring for some time now.

How does touring look now compared to how it used to?

You know, well sonically, my biggest thing about country music is always just the music, you know,

and we have a big stage set up and the video wall moves and actually sing a song from behind the video wall which is crazy and we

put a lot of time in the production of the show but just sonically I feel it's

changed a lot and that sometimes I feel like I'm the last like I'm not last one of the

last one he he gets as far as like the band goes you know like heavy still guitar

a lot now Ben who just walked by one of the best guitar players in this town

Not only acoustic, but also electric guitar guitar I mean just shred a telly sometimes I'm

up there playing them I was like I really feel proud of what we do because it is a lot of

there's a lot of musician I really features musicians in our show and they're up front with me they're

not hidden backstage they're not wearing like you know black clothing and all hiding they're

like right there with me it's like a I remember watching Pearl Jam play back

in the day and it's like, you know, five distinct

individuals across the stage all doing something unique and you didn't know where to

keep your attention and I try to bring that to our show. So it's changing that I feel like

what we do is a little more like a

a country, old school country band set up and sound.

A lot of emphasis on the music and the parts and the playing.

So I guess that's, you know, I like representing that kind of that

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