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This is Shelby and Quinn, backstage of the Grand Ole Opry with Gavin Hadcock.

Congratulations on the new album, first of all. Your first song I ever heard by you was I've been a stranger, and I think that

one really stuck out as like, I like this guy because it was such a strong voice. And then you

definitely have that Georgia twang, southern twang in it, but I really respected. And that was probably

early 2023. It's now mid end of

2024. So much has happened since then. Can you kind of give us the rundown of exactly what

has happened in your life and career and how you find yourself sitting backstage at the

Grand Ole Opry with us? Yeah, well, I've been a stranger was my second song of 2023.

I think I had around 250,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.

I like let out a song about every six to eight weeks.

I like to say every month, if I can.

Shortly after that, I let out Deep End, which is just an unapologetic rock song. It's just a big sing-along.

It took me up a notch. Let out my first album, which was basically just a compilation of a bunch

of different songs I let out over the past year before that. And then November come along,

I played a handful of shows, sold them out. I was really excited about them.

And I let out a song, cigarette that I wrote on an airplane, headed to open up for Parker McCullum.

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