We opened - my first show ever - for Dylan Scott. We ended up putting this band together, practiced for two weeks and learned 5 or 6 songs. Well over the course of this thing, all these frat brothers came out saying 'well I can play drums', 'I can play guitar'. I didn’t really know what I was doing, I hadn’t been singing for long. It was for a good cause and they wanted me to perform but I kind of pushed away from it. A few weeks after that, we had a philanthropy event in memory of one of our brothers who had died from a brain tumor. Everyone would come over, I would sing and then we would go out. From then on out, for the rest of the trip, the pre-game was me playing music in the condo. I could read some of their lips and they were like 'this is pretty good', so my confidence grew. Our buddies stopped and started looking around. My fraternity brother started playing, I started singing and nobody had any idea we were going to do this. Two weeks later we went on spring break in Panama City and I got drunk enough to gather the courage to sing in front of my fraternity brothers and all these people. It was a time to practice the whole FGL Cruise album and some Thomas Rhett. We would sit in his room at the old KA house in secret, like during pre-games before going out. My buddy liked it and we wanted to jam just for fun so we went and learned some cover songs. It was Gary Allen's 'Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)'. I pulled up this acapella voice memo I had done. Since he had the guts to show me his music, I wanted to show him what I was working on. We were having a casual conversation and he played a sound byte of him playing guitar. I really fully got started when one of my fraternity brothers had to pick up some furniture and I had to go with him. I got started with music mainly because my mom's whole family loved music and always sang in church. UT-Martin is a small school, but a top party school because there is nothing else to do. We literally would have to go up to Kentucky and buy liquor because Martin is in a dry county. I went to school in Martin at UT-Martin (a smaller branch of UT-Knoxville) which is in Northwest, Tennessee, up by Kentucky. People sing songs about a one stoplight town and things like that, and we are an actual no stoplight town. I'm from a small town called Mercer, Tennessee. 'Okay, so I'm from a town in between Nashville and Memphis which is an area that is generally recognizable for people.

Desperados 3 one hell of a night