Red Dirt Road

Yes.

Yeah, I wrote the song, Pave All Them Red Dirt Roads, as a tribute to Brooks and Dunn and Red Dirt Road.

And I texted Ronnie and said, man, this is something that might be cool if you're into it.

And he said, I can sing it on Monday.

I mean, Brooks & Dunn was, in my formative teen years, it was top five artists that I listened to.

And they got up there, and they played Red Dirt Road, and I felt like I was going down the red dirt road.

It is-

The ups and downs of my whole life-

You felt all that while holding a Michelob tall boy?

[laughs]

[laughs] 'Cause I remember finding Jesus on a red dirt road drinking a beer.

Mm.

Go shake the hands.

Go let them see that you know how to play Red Dirt Road by Brooks & Dunn, that you know how to play Tammy Wynette's D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

Like go do that in the flesh.

But at the same time, maybe have a YouTube channel or an Instagram page where you're doing covers, and you're not blowing chops over s- the cov- You're playing the exact-

I'll go along with you on that.

Red Dirt Road is good.

That's probably second for me is Red Dirt Road.

But something about Neon Moon when that intro hits.

Yeah.

So let's dive into that.

Pave Them Red Dirt Roads.

We've got Brooks and Don on that one.

Were you writing it with that in mind or give us like the inside scoop into what was happening and how that all came together? Like when I heard them come in, I went, oh, it's so good.

It all just comes together.

Yeah, I had that title written down for a while and I knew the song was going to be a tribute to Brooks and Don, Pave Them Red Dirt Roads.

and, and, uh, it was right with Dallas Davidson and he had an idea that was not that, but it was something about, you know, the nostalgic, like, man, they, they, they built this where we used to do this, you know, and, and that idea for me, I'm passionate about because where I live in Pleasant Valley, there's one flashing light and one store where my granddaddies used to go play dominoes in the morning before work.

And I never want to see that place change.