We got Jake Worthington here. We were just chatting about the big night last night. Marty Stewart kind of gave you the surprise of your life it sounds like if you want to talk about the the

Opry and all that and what it means to you real cool moment. We captured a few people haven't seen it. It's on our Instagram and Twitter and whiskey rift. I kind of was kind of enough to video that moment man. I mean it's everything to a guy like me you know I mean there's only there's only two stages in this world that ever I ever you know when when you're worth a damn you you you play the rhyming out of

bathroom or or the Opry or the Houston rodeo and and I got to do one of those things last night. You know with just some of the most incredible musicians on the planet. That was you know shit man I didn't think everything not like that ever happened for me you know I mean I I'm so used to playing songs and music people don't want to hear

you know and so that was you know what man I sat and I tried to figure out what song I was going to write or sing or you know I still I can't put it in words and I couldn't find it any words in the moment but you know my brother I say that video you all posted and man I I've watched quite a few

whiskey rift podcast and and I've watched a lot of everything I'll share man and and I know y'all like to listen to music and and I know y'all respect and appreciate it and I'm grateful that there's something like a whiskey rift out there spreading spreading good news.

I'd like to hear that. Appreciate it. Yeah absolutely. So how did you kind of get your starting country music and what kind of brought you into this world,

this kind of neo-traditional sound that is quite frankly pretty rare in the industry right now just like straight out of the 90s essentially is kind of the vibe I get from a lot of your music just real true blue country music how do you kind of get started in that what kind of is kept your your heart in traditional country music versus kind of adapting to some of the more pop sensibilities that might make you more popular might get you on a radio a little bit more like you said you're not used to people wanting to do that.

Listen to your music so kind of what is kept you stubborn in that sense. Oh man I mean it's my experience has been a combative effort every step of the way you know I never thought man I just wanted to make country music you know when I did that voice stuff I was having to figure out how I'm going to sing a real country song on TV I know that term is so

used and and maybe not always understood you know I think real country music is something that comes from your heart and and sounds country you know you ain't nothing you got I don't I personally don't believe you anything you got to tell somebody y'all you just do it and you know

man since I was 12 or 13 years old I was probably 13 years old when I learned you know when I when I got my first real guitar and I was going to learn you know I was going to figure this shit out and I still am trying to you know I'm still trying to figure it out but you know my granddad he was my papa I call him papa guitar you know every Christmas he

he pulled out he pulled out his fender like it was a down you know he had a fender accoustic guitar and and I've got it now

and then he pulled it out like it was a got like it was a DeGaum you know 1940s Martin or something you know

you know what I mean I get a word of appreciating good things I appreciate that fender good to him and I appreciate my ball ball singing me a song that a grown man would understand you know I and for me being a kid you know a Christmas time we're singing bottle let me down you know that was that was my childhood and so you know I could

just not something I googled her or you know don't get me wrong I have taken advantage of of I mean we live in a generation where we can find all of it anything that ever was somebody went and posted that shit somewhere and and we can find it and you know I'd be a liar if if I said that none of that had any

didn't have no influence on me you know I'll you know there's there's so many shows that I wish I could have witnessed an experience but I never did and early on in my you know getting in the bear joints and really like you know getting in a band and get a band together and I'm all

do this for a living early on in that I got to work I got to work some dates with Darryl Singletary and and that's that's the greatest singer who ever sang a country song that I personally witnessed and maybe it wasn't just his records that made him special you know it was it was it was what he did

who he was but in a singing obviously but man we sitting there in this we sit there in mace also learn and south side of Houston and you know it's just the club it's the bear joint and Houston you know a club consists of some type of dance floor two to three bars and a stage in some places to see it you know but

I was we got to watch Darryl Singletary play live with with with I'm pretty sure six piece man fiddle and steal no keys no nothing you know just fiddle and steal and his base man feel fried Ricky playing guitar

Tyler Hall playing steel and a guy named Andy Barnard playing fiddle I can't remember the drummer's name but I felt like I was I watched that sound check and me my band did and at the time and it was like holy cow this is what country music sounds like it can be done and you know that was a big motivator for me to try to find out what I was doing

and the way to be able to sing country songs that I love and that I understand and that I believe and do them well but do it with a band you know that it could it's not just it's not something that happened in the 70s and 80s and 90s it's something that's going on right now and and it's happening in so many ways and more

ways and just that I'm a part of you know so many of these catch right now that are getting elevated off for lack of better terms are making their own music and and and that's pretty inspiring for people like you whiskey riff to get behind that and y'all got a y'all got a pretty strong pull on that road you know people listen to y'all

we love we love when we heard that hear that stuff um Joshua Ray Walker was one guy that talked about his uh

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