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Wade Bowen

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51K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Wade Bowen returns to the podcast to talk dive bars, Eric Church canceling a show in Texas, playing with Miranda Lambert, Rangers baseball, the 'Hold My Beer' project with Randy Rogers, he reveals plans for his new album and more.



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0:00.0

Wait, Bowen, one of our favorites. Two-time podcast guests. Well, the last time with Randy,

0:20.0

and we were just talking about artist bars and Randy owning some, but isn't that like

0:25.7

a stage of a career? Don't you see this even in Nashville? It's like you get so respected,

0:31.4

so well-known. You're just like, what else do I do? I'm going to go open a bar, right? Is that on your

0:37.9

radar? Yeah, absolutely. I've actually owned a barbecue restaurant, a bar. My wife opened an ice cream

0:49.9

sandwich shop. I mean, I've tried it all. The ice cream sandwich shop and the barbecue restaurant,

0:55.3

both unfortunately suffered because of COVID, so we shut those down. But my bar, Papa Jacks,

1:02.8

was in Kyle, Texas, which is just south of Austin and back in the first part of February,

1:10.4

it burned down to the ground. Oh, wow. Yeah, the bar business is crazy. What do you look for in a

1:21.6

good, if you're going to like a dive bar, whether it's Texas or anywhere, what are you kind of,

1:28.4

you're like, we've had some of these conversations about what makes a good dive bar, a good dive bar.

1:33.9

Maybe your bar wasn't a dive bar, of course, but just in general, those like places you can go and

1:40.1

there's a silence and you can drink. Maybe it's cash only. Maybe the juice box. That's it. Yeah.

1:48.1

Maybe a little 30 year old TV singing on a piece of plywood.

1:54.8

Yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean, mine wasn't exactly a dive bar. It was pretty, I could say on the

1:58.7

smaller side, but we tried to make it a little more high end, but my favorite dive bars are the ones

2:05.7

that have the coldest beer. I mean, like the kind of, I mean, it's a different kind of cold beer

2:10.9

walking like, oh, yeah, that's a beer now. And then, you know, obviously, great music on the

2:16.8

juice box. I would always love a good juice box as well. And nowadays, they're like digital. You

2:22.9

have to like, you know, you can like play it on your phone. I feel like it doesn't have the same

2:26.9

kind of thing as like putting in cash and flipping through the albums like you used to and it like

2:32.1

would roll up and then like drop down like, there's something cool about that. I mean, I don't know

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