Justin Wells

That was really a special year, too.

That had, um, Jason Eddy, Justin Wells, Cole Chaney, uh, uh, Wes Ship, Addison, um-

Mm-hmm

... shoot, uh, Tony, Sydney Adams, Chase Turley.

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if my tickets are gonna be affordable and my camping's gonna be affordable, I need everything else to be affordable.

And, and that's why I think Justin Wells, who I absolutely love, and I know you guys, uh, appreciate, um, he made a video and said that, uh, he thinks in years, in a few years we're gonna look at places like North Springs, and not just me individually, but there's several people like myself that's doing this.

And he said that the do-it-yourself festivals out in the field are gonna be one of the ones who change the game on people saying, "Screw Ticketmaster and Live Nation and all the high ticket prices and the $20 beers" and all that.

I don't know who I've got that relationship with.

I feel like I have that relationship with Justin Wells.

I'm friendly with Edie.

I don't know that I would say, like, I don't know if Jason would say Dustin Kennedy's my friend.

And so they gave me a lot of confidence to not stop and to keep doing it.

And so, you know, and through that, I met people like Cole Chaney and like Logan Halstead and Justin Wells and, um, just that whole circle of that music family up there.

And, and, uh, you know, WB Walker, uh, he's like earliest supporter ever, you know, like, man, he's, I've got a lot to, um, and his story and the way we connected was crazy, but, um, he was a railroader and I didn't know it.

I just, I knew, I knew about him because of like the culture wall EP.

Who am I with today?

This is Justin Wells out of Lexington,

Kentucky.

Justin, thanks for joining me, man.

And I think it's hard to do as a very young person, but find your voice and refine that.

And you want to learn all the modes or you want to be able to hit all those Aretha notes.

Cool, man, but like, um try not to do it like aretha did it because aretha already did it bro like it don't matter you know you know towns already did it man george jones has absolutely already done it so what are you gonna add to what are you gonna add to this kind of like patchwork quilt that we're all a part of you know what i mean if if justin wells's little square is this big well i want that to have meant something and, and have some reason to be on there and not just be me trying to be George, you know?

Yeah, I think that's very real.