Johnny Owens

Yeah, give me some thoughts on also, too, you look at some of these new acts that are coming out now, too, and I'm sure you've probably heard of a few of these guys.

I mean, obviously, Zach Topp and the ride he's been on, too, and a little bit of Randall King, who I know from Texas down here, too.

And then you look at these guys, Matt Geiger from Australia, I should say, out there, too.

But so many of these guys kind of bringing back the sound.

It's resurfacing a little bit.

Talk about that for me.

Yeah.

I'll tell you one of the – But one of the hardest things is mine's a little easier than what these guys are doing.

I don't do it for any kind of fame.

You know, I'm older now and but my voice is stronger because I haven't sung all these years, you know.

And so I have a pretty powerful voice and stuff.

And so, you know, I get to do this as as more of a.

Not charity, but, you know, a legacy and a tribute to my dad and stuff like that and Merle and the Bakersfield Sound.

These guys have been playing in bars and, you know, little beer bars and, you know, tiny casinos at the bars and casinos.

And they've, you know, played anywhere and everywhere that they can, you know, and they play seven days a week and sometimes even two shows a day and stuff to try to.

to get to the right thing.

I think nowadays these guys have to have help because you got to have songs behind you.

You got to have the songwriters.

You got to have the management company behind you.

I don't know if it's as much record companies anymore.

as much as it is uh uh promoters and and people that uh believe in you and stuff like that uh you take somebody and you mentioned it zach top uh you know he he played for years and um i I think that uh especially is wonderful you know he can play the tar out of the guitar and uh but he's he's found uh that center of traditional country music and uh and he's put his uh voice to it and he's got uh writers behind him he's got people behind him he's got management behind him and um And look how good he's already doing.

I mean, he's phenomenal.

And and I think it started back.

I think this evolution is trying to turn again.

And I think it started back even when like Eric Church was was coming up and stuff.