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Flatland Cavalry

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Cleto and Jason from Flatland Cavalry joins us to discuss their new album, 'Welcome To Countryland,' how the band got started in West Texas, Cleto's work with the Panhandlers, having nightmares about missing class, comparisons to Turnpike Troubadours, moving to Nashville, opening for Luke Combs, Crocs, meeting your heroes, and more.

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0:00.0

All right.

0:14.8

We're with the guys from Flan Cavalry.

0:16.2

We're super pumped for this one.

0:17.5

Huge fans.

0:19.0

I got to say one thing, though, because I realized I was mispronouncing your name wrong Cletto. I was saying Cleto. That's not correct. Well, no, that's all right, man. I mean, it's been, since kindergarten, it's been mispronounced my whole life. You know what I mean? I think somewhere along the way I figured out how to enunciated or whatever to tell people to remember it. I would tell them cletto like a meadow grass. That's been the easiest way. Clare like a meadow. I have a last name that teachers can never pronounce. But we just had on Pekis in the rooftops or Picos or he was saying it's Pekos. And I was like, I I can't I'm not going to be able to keep saying

0:55.5

that this it was just like we're from I'm from Indiana West is from Illinois some of these

1:00.8

the Texas lingo is kind of tough for us at times but I don't want to mispronounce

1:05.7

Kledo like meadow yeah and then we got Jason here, plays drums.

1:11.7

So super pumped to have you guys on.

1:14.7

The album, Welcome to Countryland.

1:16.6

It's one of our favorites of the year.

1:18.2

Absolutely incredible.

1:19.3

Been listening to it nonstop.

1:21.2

That album will get to, but I kind of wanted to start because you guys buy you on your website and some other spots.

1:26.9

It doesn't really give a little bit of the background story of how you guys truly

1:31.8

formed, where the name even came from.

1:33.7

I always find that interesting.

1:35.0

People ask us all the time, how'd you come up with Whiskey Rift?

1:38.5

Can you give people like a quick background on how the band was formed or when it was formed

1:42.8

and then kind of how you guys came up with the name as well

1:46.0

yeah totally uh i was mentioned to you earlier you know getting a mispronounced name

1:52.3

you know throughout my whole life i did i never you know i never thought that that would go well

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