Ben Rector
American singer-songwriter and record producer
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Jun 2, 2026
Ben Rector Celebrates Life As It Is
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Ben RectorGUEST
But if you were like, "Let's go deep and talk about your favorite movements," I'd be like, "I can't really do that." I think I probably more appreciate music that has had classical influences.
Ben RectorGUEST
You know, like the leaning into the orchestral stuff when The Beatles did it, that kind of stuff.
Ben RectorGUEST
I'm not like, "Yeah, dude, that's my jam." Basically, a good friend of mine, his name's Cody Fry, we played music together for a long time.
Ben RectorGUEST
He was like, "Hey, we should do a symphony show together." And I love orchestral arrangements, and I was like, "That sounds like a dream.
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Ben Rector on Independent Touring, The Attention Economy & Burnout | Ten Year Town Ep. 91
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Ben RectorGUEST
I think even people that are like, "And now they're selling out shows," I'd be like-... we should, we should really open up the hood and be like, "Are you, are you really making any money though?" Because, like, the reality of what it takes to make money touring is it's an inc- it's a treacherous landscape, and it's really hard to get everything to where it needs to be, to where it's like, "Yeah, dude, this is for real, like, crushing it lucrative." Even people that, like, y- you can do an arena tour and lose money-
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Ben RectorGUEST
I would've been like, "Oh, I only wanna play 10 markets." And they were like, "You should play more than that." It started...
Ben RectorGUEST
We started to diverge there a little bit where like, you know, as I started taking out like real production and like all that kinda stuff and the shows were big, bigger.
Ben RectorGUEST
Um, the shows were bigger than I expected them to be, I started to be like, "Okay." And this is...
Episode 91: Ben Rector
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Ben RectorGUEST
I think even people that are like, "And now they're selling out shows," I'd be like-... we should, we should really open up the hood and be like, "Are you, are you really making any money though?" Because like, the reality of what it takes to make money touring is it's an inc- it's a treacherous landscape, and it's really hard to get everything to where it needs to be to where it's like, "Yeah, dude, this is for real, like, crushing it lucrative." Even people that like, you can do an arena tour and lose money-
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Ben RectorGUEST
'Cause I was like, you know, I would've been like, "Oh, I only wanna play ten markets." And they were like, "You should play more than that." It started, we started to diverge there a little bit where like, you know, as I started taking out like real production and like all that kinda stuff, and the shows were big.
Ben RectorGUEST
I started to be like, okay, and this is, I mean, I've, I've really started refining a lot more in the last maybe like six years.
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