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🗓️ 21 November 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Tennessee Jet goes deep into the songwriting industry with "track guys," coked up "hype guys," pub deals and more, Sam Hunt, nice guys that make sh*tty music, escapism, artists vs singers, writing with Cody Jinks, old school outlaws vs the social media microscope of today, cancel culture, and more.
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0:00.0 | The All right, we're here with Tennessee Jet. |
0:15.0 | Where are you coming to from a, where are you coming to from a, |
0:19.3 | where are you coming to, where are you at? Where are you at Tennessee? |
0:24.0 | Are you at Tennessee? |
0:25.0 | I'm actually in southeastern Oklahoma, |
0:27.0 | Hugo, Oklahoma, right in the border of Oklahoma |
0:30.0 | in Texas. |
0:31.0 | I moved back, my wife and I moved back from Nashville about four years ago. |
0:36.4 | So we've been out here enjoying the country living. |
0:39.7 | How did the name Tennessee jet come about then? |
0:44.1 | I was, so I started playing, there was a one man band, I guess about six years ago, and when I started doing that I wanted to separate it from what I was doing before which |
0:57.0 | is like a lot of people playing in different bands and doing a solo but solo acoustic shows and I didn't want people to come out and request songs that I'd done with other bands I just kind of wanted to turn the page on that and so I wanted to come up with something that would kind of separate me from the art. |
1:16.0 | Because I think these days a lot of times the people get so hung up on the person making the art as opposed to actually like listening to what the art is telling them. |
1:26.3 | And so I kind of dig the idea of having a moniker and so I was living in Tennessee at the time and so took that as the first part and there's this movie called Giant |
1:37.0 | It's just an old James Dean and Rock Hudson Elizabeth Taylor this old movie |
1:43.2 | It's old Western that takes place in Texas. |
1:45.9 | And so I took the jet from the, |
1:48.8 | from James Dean's character in that, |
1:50.3 | and then the, and put them together as kind of a there's a lot of reasons. |
1:55.7 | Tennessee I see is a very kind of old classic sounding country name and then jet |
2:00.4 | being like moving forward and fast and and metal and so it was all kind of like it kind of made sense to have a name like that. |
2:07.2 | Plus there's a it's always good that you have a name that a that you don't have to |
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