Riley Green joins us backstage at Audacy's Stars and Strings to answer all of Rob and Holly's burning questions like, "can you do an Australian accent?" And it turns out, his accent is pretty good!
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00:00Have you ever thought about shaving your mustache and auctioning it off for charity? Because
00:07I keep a mustache in one piece. You can a Ziploc bag. I've seen, I've seen. So there's
00:12this guy, what's the name of that dude from Michigan? He's got with the huge, but the
00:16does no, he's got Matt, you know what I'm talking about? He's like, it's a social media.
00:20Oh, what's that guy's name? I know what you're talking about, but I can't remember his name.
00:24Social media thing. This guy's got a bajillion followers and he, he shaved his mustache off
00:29and then he had a headshot of himself and he glues the interview. He glued the mustache
00:33back on and he's so, and he sold it. You could do this, right? I'm sorry. I apologize. You
00:39could do that. Okay. Yeah. I think, I think this is a lot of good think tank options here.
00:45So as soon as you walked in, it's kind of funny. This table's wet or did I draw myself
00:48with this silver Sharpie? It's wet paint. I think. No, I get, I get excited. There was
00:53a lot of stuff to sign and I was going on and just moments ago. Yeah. Okay. When you
00:57first walked up, there was a conversation about gluing Holly's bangs to her forehead.
01:01Cause you know, we're like, okay. And then turn around and laugh. And I go, look, this
01:09is Riley and ours relationship. It's always, people think that it is, that it's weird,
01:13but this is just how it probably comes off. It's like, I don't like y'all. It's how we
01:17connect. That's actually what we think. But I, but I really, I like y'all a lot. We like
01:21you having fun right now. Oh, we are too. We want to talk about Australia though. Can
01:25we talk about Australia? Yeah. Okay. This is your show. I don't even know why I'm having
01:32a weird day today. Australia. Yeah. Australia down under, down under. Did you get the accent
01:36yet to talk in the accent? These are me mites. Oh, see, you did good. Yeah, it is good. Did
01:42you have to do a shoo-wee on stage? I cheated. First off, I did have to. They, you don't
01:48have a choice. They'll like, they would chant and then I'd kind of like let it fizzle out
01:52and I'd go to the next song and then they just chant again. And they're not letting
01:55it go. No. So I, I put, I got a, I brought a new boot. This is smart. And I put a cup
01:59in it. Yeah. Oh, that's even, that's even a step further. Yeah. Wait a second. He's
02:04pretty smart. We heard about new boots. This is one step above. Well, you know, I'm pretty,
02:10this is what show business is. I feel like I'm giving you show business. But man, you
02:13should see my face. I was like, oh, so gross. Like I sold it. I do think you're a pretty
02:19good actor. We've talked about this before because you can never, they don't watch this
02:22down there anyway. Right. They won't see it. They'll never see it. They might. No one
02:26listens to our show. Let's be honest. I always go back and watch them after to see if it
02:31was like I thought it was. Really? Every time. Every time. Yeah. Every time. Huh? It was
02:35exactly the same. It was. It was great. Last time we saw you, it was faster horses. Yep.
02:41I remember that. Yeah, me too. Have you ever seen Michigan? Have you ever seen the guy
02:45with the big butts from what you're talking about? Clint Eastwood. This is a Holly is,
02:50is Chris Farley in the old SNL skit. Do you remember this? Where he's like, she lives
02:55in a van by the river. No, he's interviewed. He's an interview person like us. And he's
02:59always real nervous. Do you? And he's like, do you remember that time, Riley? Yeah. You
03:03went to Australia, Australia. That was cool. That's what's happening. John Lennon or somebody
03:10in this skit. Yeah. Yeah. Do you feel like that's how our interviews are with you? That's
03:17great. It's a good interview. Well, y'all really get it. At some point we'll talk about
03:21the music. What music? I don't know. You do music. It's so mean. What? You have questions.
03:33I want to talk about duck blind Nashville because thank God, this is the new, it's the
03:37new venue. Everyone's doing the Broadway thing. You're like, no, I'm doing, I'm doing Midtown
03:43because that's like, that's, that's the cool place to be. That's the new. See, he's always
03:47on the cutting edge. Okay. Seriously. Uh, I think it's cool that it's not on Broadway
03:54to me. Like that's where I, that's where I hung out at when I started going to town used
03:57to play at whiskey jam, which was in winters, which is where that bar is now. And, uh, it's
04:02cool to like, see a lot of like up and coming artists come in there and kind of get their
04:05start playing in the same stage. I did. We left that stage pretty much the same, but
04:09upstairs is a good place to like watch ball games and think about shooting ducks. So as
04:13loser, it's still losers. So losers is connected to, it's connected. Yeah. Okay. Cause I like
04:19that you did, you made sure to keep like the integrity, like it does. I mean, cause that's
04:22a, that's a special place to a lot of people. And you know, Nashville's growing so much
04:25that you can't help but have all these, you know, old historic venues and bars getting
04:29torn down and big, really nice stuff getting built. But like, you want to keep that kind
04:32of like a hole in the wall, honky tonk, local hangout kind of feel. I really appreciate
04:37that. Cause so, so many times you're like, no, why would you change it? I do remember
04:43going to winners and losers back in the day, you know, 10, I don't know, probably more
04:47than 10 years ago and going to whiskey jam on a Monday night. And now whiskey jam has
04:53gotten so huge that it's now it's downtown. Yeah. Uh, did you play there when it was?
04:59Oh yeah. Yeah. Several, several times. I think, I think everybody did. Honestly, everybody
05:03played at winners at some point. And that was, you know, you had to get there early
05:07or you couldn't get in. And, uh, they're still doing Ray's Rowdy's doing some stuff there
05:11now, but it's still the same kind of thing. A lot of up and coming artists and songwriters
05:14get to go in there and tell their story about their songs. And that's, that's what drew
05:17me to Nashville. I guess when I started going up there was the songwriting and the stories
05:21of, you know, how they came up with the stuff they did.
05:23Do you think as Nashville expands and it's like, you know, Broadway, that, that crowd
05:27keeps getting bigger and now it's getting out to midtown. Where's the next spot that's
05:31like the spot where people, not a lot of people know about yet, but I'll find it. I'll find
05:36it. I think that midtown is always going to, it's going to be a while before that gets
05:40like a Broadway feel to it. Cause Broadway is like, it's a spectacle and it's something
05:44you got to go see. Everybody's got to go down there a time or two and, and experience it,
05:47but it's a completely different vibe over there in midtown.
05:49I don't think you could walk down Broadway anymore, especially with all the bachelorette
05:54parties. Yeah. The women are just insane for, if you walk down Broadway, the bachelorette
06:01parties will, they'll not be able to handle this.
06:04One time before I bought my place in Nashville, I stayed at the Graduate. Y'all know about
06:08that place? No. Well, I didn't either, but I came off the elevator and it was like, I
06:11could hear, it was so blonde and bright. It was just like all these girls in pink. It
06:16was like thousands of them down there. And it like, it made me nervous. I just shut the
06:19door and went back up to my room and I called my buddy and I was like, dude, what's the
06:22deal? What's going on? And he said, that's like the bachelorette spot. That's where they
06:26stay. And I just didn't know that.
06:28Brian, I don't think you could get through a Broadway bachelorette situation without
06:32being accosted. I don't know if I'd want to. Right. You know, sometimes you want to get
06:37accosted. Sometimes you don't. True. We just, uh, well, let's talk about the damn country
06:44music tour. Why not? Yeah. That's going to be great. We touched on it because you were
06:48just in Australia. Yeah. This is your tour. Yeah. Y'all should come out. I think we were
06:53going to. Okay. We're going to get a little taste of it at Stars and Strings. Just a little
06:57bit. Just a little bit. It's going to be fun. We're taking Ella back out, Drake White,
07:02Jake Worthington, several up and coming artists that I'm a big fan of. And, uh, I mean, this
07:07year has been great. All the shows are great. You know, it's nice to have a new album out
07:10when you're going on tour. So it's going to be a lot of fun to see kind of the fruits
07:14of our labor this year. We went all over the place, a lot of new places. And, uh, I just,
07:19that's the one thing I never get tired of is playing country shows. I love that Drake
07:23is back out because, you know, if you don't know his, his story, he, he had a stroke,
07:29right? Yeah. And I don't know if it's a common knowledge, but I'm sure there'll be like his
07:32story coming out at some point in a place where people can find it. But it's really,
07:36really inspiring. And, and, you know, I was a fan of him from when I was a kid. He grew
07:40up 10 minutes from me in Hooks Bluff, Alabama. So, uh, really, really enjoyed him for a long
07:45time and now we're really good friends and it's great to be able to take him on the road
07:48and see him kind of back at it. Now, do you think that you'll have music, like you'll
07:53write music with him while you're on the road maybe? Because I find it interesting
07:56that you have songs with Ella, but maybe... Well, I haven't been on tour with Drake yet.
08:00Okay. You know what I mean? I got a song with Luke Combs when I was on tour with Luke. Ella
08:04was with me. So we ended up with two songs from that. And now I'm sure I, one reason
08:07I like to take people out on the road with me is for that reason. First off, people I'm
08:10a fan of, people I want to hear play live, but also people I can write with. Yeah.
08:14Where do you feel the most inspired to write a song? Is it, is there, is there any particular
08:19place or is it just kind of random? It never happens the same way twice. It doesn't seem
08:24like, but I definitely get most of my inspiration from being back home, you know, on my farm.
08:29Life just seems to move a lot slower down there. And you know, my family's in a lot
08:33of the songs I write and those values in a small town. And between that and sitting in
08:38a tree or in a duck blind, that's kind of where I get most of my ideas. There's been
08:42a lot of hunting talk so far because we're, we're like, we're in hunting season. We're
08:46big hunters. We're in a season right now. Yeah. I don't hunt, but my husband hunts.
08:50So it's, I hear a lot about the hunting stories for him. It's like Christmas. Yeah. What's
08:54your, uh, what's your bucket list hunt? Have you had it yet or is it still, you still thinking
08:59about something? Well, I, I spent me, it took four years for me to get an elk with my bow
09:03of Montana and I got one this year. So that checked a big box for me. That was a lot of
09:07fun. And that's a, that's different than any other kind of hunting. Cause it's so physical.
09:10You're hiking in and having to hike out with this big giant animal and everything. Plus
09:14elk's delicious. Uh, at this point, I just like to get about four days to sneak off
09:19somewhere and hide. I don't care what it is. I don't care what I'm doing. Interview's over
09:23and the show's over. Yeah. Fair enough. All right. Well, we'll let you, we'll let you
09:26get to the show and get you out to the hunting blind. Appreciate y'all. Ride the green at
09:31Stars and Strings with Odyssey.