Triston Marez
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Whiskey Riff
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Rising star Triston Marez talks the not so glamorous world of cutting your teeth on Broadway, performing underage and sneaking beers in a guitar case, throwing panties on stage, Texas vs Nashville, recording a song with Ronnie Dunn, battling hangovers, the legendary Larry Joe Taylor Fest, his upcoming self-titled album, influences like Cody Johnson and Aaron Watson, staying true to his Texas roots, Garth Brooks burying bodies, our '90s country festival and more.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here with Tristan Maras. How you doing, man? You're in Texas. You're playing |
| 0:18.2 | a show tonight. Yes, sir. You're from Houston, right? From Houston, Southwest. And but |
| 0:26.7 | you hurt me if I'm wrong. Did you just move to Nashville? You know what? It's actually, I |
| 0:32.4 | actually moved. I dropped out of high school. It's a long story, but I dropped out of high school |
| 0:36.6 | and moved to Nashville at 18. And I stayed there for about four years. And then I met my |
| 0:42.3 | manager, kind of had some stuff in Texas recorded and I put out and kind of moved back to Texas |
| 0:48.0 | for about a year, to Houston, hit the scene a little bit and then COVID hit. And I moved |
| 0:52.8 | back. It's kind of short story, but yeah. Long story short story. How like what for a guy, like, |
| 1:04.1 | because to me, you like strike me, you're a Texas artist. You kind of look like a Texas |
| 1:08.4 | artist. You're not like one music fits in the Texas space. You and then you moved to Nashville |
| 1:15.6 | to kind of pursue country music. Like what was kind of the thought process there? You know, |
| 1:21.0 | I just wanted to be in a place that, well, I guess when I first moved, I didn't think of |
| 1:27.8 | anything but to move to Nashville. That was always been the goal. It's always been the vision. |
| 1:32.9 | You know, I was working with Roger Craigler's bass player. He has a studio in Houston and he's |
| 1:38.6 | the one who kind of led me to Nashville. He's a man. I think you should just move to Nashville. |
| 1:42.2 | Don't move to Austin. I think he's just tried out. You're young. You can play the bars, |
| 1:45.7 | the tutsies and rippies and that whole circuit learn, learn the way Nashville does it and you |
| 1:50.6 | know, meet some songwriters and that's kind of what I did. That was just really the vision from the |
| 1:55.0 | start. I knew who I wanted to be as an artist and I knew that wouldn't be here towards any kind |
| 2:02.4 | of Nashville way or anything like that. I just wanted to learn the Nashville way. So it's |
| 2:07.3 | interesting. On Instagram, just a few hours ago, I posted this old clip of a couple of years ago. |
| 2:13.1 | Cody Jinks is like, we said, fuck Nashville. We started our own club and I love how that resonates. |
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