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Walker Montgomery

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Walker Montgomery talks his new single "She Don't Know," his country music lineage with dad John Michael and his uncle Eddie Montgomery, moving to Nashville, managing hangovers, Matthew McConaughey, the passing of Troy Gentry, relatability in country music, looking up to Luke Combs and Randall King, getting back on the road, his Rolls Royce, drinking bourbon, the Kentucky Derby and more.

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0:00.0

I'm doing well, man. Really well. Thanks for having me on. And you're in Kentucky, right?

0:25.0

Yeah, right now I'm in Kentucky, but uh, but I've been living in Nashville. Yeah, how do you,

0:29.8

how do you like Nashville, Nashville? I love it. You know, I was, I was blessed enough to move

0:36.6

down there before COVID. So I got about a year in a regular Nashville before the virus hit.

0:43.0

And, uh, but it's, it's still good, but it's a little bit different. Are you a Broadway guy?

0:48.2

Do you go down to Broadway? I was for, for about a week, for about three, yeah, maybe three

0:54.9

months at max. And then I was like, all right, I've, I've got this little burger joint that I hang

0:59.4

out there now and drink Budweiser. So I'm, I'm, I'm done with Broadway. Is, is it, is the

1:06.8

Tennessee just like open up again? Did I see that right or no? Is it one of the states that's right?

1:11.8

I really don't know. Be honest, it kind of seems like it's been open. Yeah, but, which I'm fine with.

1:19.5

Well, that's a, that's a hard thing with Broadway, especially Broadway. That was back in the day

1:24.6

before Whiskeyriff. We've said this story, but like, we frequented Nashville, maybe, would you say,

1:30.8

was once or twice a year at least once a year, sometimes twice. And it was just to go to get

1:36.5

fucked up. Like that was, yeah, that's basically that's the point of it. That was it. And

1:41.7

four days of it. Nashville drunk is a different kind of drunk, man. But it's changed so much. I feel

1:47.6

like the last like seven years, the areas, the pockets, the commercial, um, you know, elementary,

1:53.4

of some areas. And you miss a little bit of that. Like you come from a music family, obviously,

1:58.7

we'll get into this because it's like such an interesting part of your background. But did you

2:03.6

have experience as a much younger, you're obviously a young guy, but in the past, going down

2:08.6

in Nashville back in the older days, when you were a kid and kind of, do you have any recollection

2:12.8

of that? Yeah, I did, but, you know, it might be surprising, but we, we stayed up in Kentucky

2:20.2

most of the time, you know, mother, mother and my sister and I. But, uh, you know, I would always

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