Kolby Cooper
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Fresh off a record deal, Kolby Cooper discusses his new single "Excuses," writing heartbreakers as a happily married man, blacking out with Koe Wetzel, playing private shows (AKA some rich guy's house), George Brett's phenomenal landscaping, Alan Jackson, "Cannonball," performing at bars underage, beer-drinkin' foreign exchange students, high school football, the struggles of being a Yankees fan, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | All right here with Colby Cooper, long overdue, long overdue. I feel like we've been talking about you, even just at the office |
| 0:22.2 | and for a long, long time. And I actually wanted to start with that. One thing we would always talk |
| 0:26.7 | about, we've talked about us on the podcast a bunch about mainstream artists who actually can't |
| 0:33.3 | quite sell tickets. Yeah. You got you guys out of Texas who can definitely sell tickets. |
| 0:40.5 | And you're young as hell. |
| 0:42.2 | I just turned 22, I believe. |
| 0:44.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.8 | And we would compare your streaming numbers within the last few years, even when you were |
| 0:48.6 | still technically a teenager, probably. |
| 0:51.1 | You were a young spring chicken. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.8 | We were comparing these numbers to a lot of big names, |
| 0:57.3 | a lot of people that have major labels for a long time, and you blow them out of the water. |
| 1:01.6 | And I think that's a testament to your fan base and just how passionate they are about your music. |
| 1:06.4 | It's got to be kind of crazy to see those numbers on streaming these days, right? |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, I mean, so a couple years ago, yeah, we released our first song when I was 18. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, so I was 18, and then we released Volume 1, like, two months later. |
| 1:23.1 | And, I mean, even from the get-go, like, the numbers weren't crazy, but for us, just starting, it was like, holy shit. |
| 1:29.1 | Like, we'd seen a lot of our buddies release music, and we kind of expected this, and then we got just this huge organic push. |
| 1:37.9 | And then luckily, Spotify jumped on when they saw it doing well, and it's just been like since then. |
| 1:43.5 | And it's been, it's been really cool since then and uh it's been it's been |
| 1:44.9 | really cool to watch and i'm very very fortunate yeah got you a record deal |
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