Dave Cobb

I came to a place in my performing career where I was thinking about what other avenues could be open to me.

My band at the time had done a record with a producer named Dave Cobb.

Dave, while he's doing this, I don't know what you'd call it exactly.

We weren't quite extremely punk, but it was like, Clash meets Nirvana or, you know, something in that mashup.

Was that something that you really put a lot of work into?

Yeah, we deliberately did it this time because the albums before that you're familiar with, Bagger Bones with Kevin Shirley, we did with Dave Cobb, we did War of Kings and Walk the Earth.

And these legends and these geniuses, they work fast.

So we got used to that, getting into doing records fast and, OK, this is cool.

But yeah, so yeah, I was here, but we recorded this time in Sweden.

Last time we were in Abbey Road and I could get the guys over to London because I thought it'd be great to record so I can go home at night, you know.

And the only way I could get everybody here was to say, I got two weeks in Abbey Road, you know, and then Dave Cobb was like, yeah, I think I have to do that.

So it was great.

But the new one is... we had all this momentum and all this buzz and excitement going so it was very easy to to feel inspired

yeah and you changed producers dave cobb produced your first album uh new producers on the second intentional or just um yeah haphazard i mean i don't really understand that process how that works where you you select a producer to work on an album

it's intentional I think it's all you know you want them to be enthusiastic about the music so if people reach out you're curious to see what that what is inspiring their enthusiasm and sometimes it doesn't make sense and you don't use work with that producer in this case uh Lawrence and Eve Rothman, the duo, siblings, they made a lot of sense because they got the music and I had a few phone calls with them and they said all the right things.

Yeah.

How's all that going and how did you land your deal?

So I'm with MCA and Lucille, and Dave Cobb is a huge part of that.

Yeah.

And Dave Cobb, as you know, Chris Stapleton, you know, he's producing.

And who's the other Dave Cobb artist that we had on here? Wheeler.

Yeah, Wheeler Walker Jr., which is an extreme left turn.

Yeah, you'll have that.

Great country singer-songwriter and great publisher.

I absolutely love it.

You ever have a conversation or meet Chris Cobb, the big producer? Dave Cobb, sorry.

He's basically like the Nashville Rick Rubin now, man.

He's just doing all the killer records.

It's certainly the most – I think there are people who have picked up where he has left off in recent years.

There's Dave Cobb, who was Chris Stapleton's original producer and then worked with Jason Isbell and some others.

There is – I think his name is Alex Farrar.

It's no relation to Jay Farrar, who does the MJ Lennerman records.

So...

Aaron Ratier calls me out of the blue one day and says, hey, man, Dave Cobb has me working at MCA Records.

Do you want a record deal? And then his next sentence was, I think Dave Cobb should do your record.

And I just never, it just all hit me completely out of the clear blue sky.

And here we are.

Obviously, just like I said, it wasn't a hard decision.

Because I'd always dreamed of that.

Never thought in a million years I'd get to go in the studio with Dave Cobb, who made a lot of the records that were pivotal in my very formative listening years, you know, in high school.