Parker McCollum Talks New Deluxe Album, Almost Quitting Music and "The Limestone Kid"

Zach Sang Show

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Music, Tv & Film

4.6 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Austin’s latest country star is no overnight sensation. He’s five albums deep and it’s his latest eponymous album that he’s joining us to discuss. A record that was banged out in NYC in just seven days. A record he thinks is his finest work yet and a record that restored his creative mojo. He’s been touring nonstop since he was 22 so no wonder he was feeling a little burnt out.

We talk about the his process and this album’s genesis, his origin story, his workout regimen, how he met his wife, his love of John Mayer, why he was determined to sign a record deal with a zero dollar advance and so much more.

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0:00.0	Hi, beautiful human.
0:06.4	I'm Zach that's Stanley.
0:07.4	Welcome to the studio, an icon, Parker McCollum.
0:10.4	Yo.
0:11.0	Icon.
0:11.7	Yeah, how's that sound?
0:12.5	Icon.
0:13.0	That sounds good.
0:14.0	Thank you.
0:14.6	An icon who likes himself caffeine.
0:17.2	What's your main source of it?
0:18.9	Where do you consume caffeine from?
0:21.4	Pre-workout.
0:22.5	Really?
0:23.2	Yeah.
0:24.1	I like it.
0:25.0	I like it.
0:25.9	I'm trying to, like a scoop of crack is what I would like to feel like I'm putting in a bottle of water in the morning.
0:32.8	And that's kind of almost what it is.
0:36.0	Like I can't.
0:36.8	It's got, I've never done crack.
0:40.2	It's got to be a lot better.
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