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Zach Sang Show

Zach Top Talks "I Never Lie," Covers, Grammys, and Album ‘Ain’t In It for My Health’

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Music, Tv & Film

4.6685 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The winner of the inaugural Grammy for Best Traditional Country Album for his third album, ‘Ain’t In It for My Health,’ Zach Top didn’t come up through the usual Nashville machine. Born in Sunnyside, Washington, he was fronting his family’s bluegrass band at seven, dropped out of college in Colorado, posted covers of country legends on Facebook, faced label rejection, and somehow wound up opening for his hero George Strait.


We talk about keeping traditional country alive in a modern industry, the tension between career ambition and settling down, heartbreak, touring, virality, and whether success changes your relationship with the art itself. Plus: cold plunging, getting home schooled, building houses, making swords, ‘Lord of the Rings,’ and so much more.


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0:00.0

Hi, beautiful human. I'm Zach. That's Dan.

0:07.0

Zach Top is here.

0:09.0

Yo!

0:10.0

You just said you get a lot of looks walking through LA with your hat on, looking like that.

0:15.0

But I gotta say, you have one of the greatest quotes I've ever heard of all time.

0:18.0

You can wear this hat because you have spent enough time sitting on a horse

0:22.4

staring at what? A cow's ass. That's correct. Barely enough. I'm not a cowboy, but

0:29.0

like I said, I put in just enough time to be able to wear the hat, I think. You've definitely

0:34.9

clocked your hours. By the way, thanks for being here, man. Thanks. Thank you all for having me. Glad to be here. Are you kidding? You're very cool.

0:41.6

Like, I'm, you, can you explain this to me? Like, it's not every day that in our generation,

0:48.7

in our lifetime, that we exist where we meet somebody who is the first person ever to win a Grammy in a

0:56.8

category well it helps they they made a category for goofballs like me so i i happen to be

1:04.3

the first one along um now that was yeah it was cool um that was yeah obviously very exciting

1:10.6

really honored to to have won that.

1:13.4

And obviously, I mean, everybody knows the Grammys are cool because it's all the creatives

1:17.5

and, you know, the people really making the music that get to vote on that.

1:22.4

So it means just a little extra, you know, then even, it's always really nice to get any type of award. But

1:29.6

that one's really cool because it's everybody doing what you're doing that says, hey, you

1:34.9

did it good enough. We want to give you a trophy. And especially being up against, you know,

1:39.2

shoot, Willie Nelson was in the category. So it felt kind of sacrilegious that I, that I won that one. But

1:45.6

anyway, I'll take it. I'm very thankful. The category, best traditional country album.

1:51.6

That's right. Can you define what traditional country is? No. It's, I don't know, it's,

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