Riley Green Talks Being On The Luke Combs Tour
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00:00Joining us now is a man from Jacksonville, Alabama.
00:03He is a Division I quarterback at Jacksonville State.
00:05He was, I should say.
00:07He was a contestant on CMT's reality show, Redneck Island.
00:11He will be here on Saturday at Pig Jig with Brad Paisley.
00:14Dude is absolutely jacked.
00:15Hair flow is unmatched.
00:16Ladies and gentlemen, it is Riley Green.
00:18Riley!
00:19I'm going to take you on the road with me, man.
00:23That's the best intro I've had in a long time.
00:24Here we go.
00:25I wanted it to be ever, but you can say a long time.
00:27That's fine.
00:27Well, I did have one really good one at a fair in Cincinnati one time.
00:34Apparently I've got to go to that fair.
00:36Wow.
00:37Well, first and foremost, how are you?
00:40I'm good, man.
00:41This is a pretty exciting time.
00:43The new single with Luke Combs, it's been good.
00:46Yeah, well, new single with Luke Combs, which is on your new album that's out now,
00:52Ain't My Last Rodeo.
00:53And, of course, you just wrapped up dates with Luke Combs at stadiums.
00:57Was there any things that you had to adjust?
01:00I mean, you played Ray J here, but was there any things that you had to adjust
01:03to play these bigger crowds and these bigger venues when it came to your set?
01:06You really do.
01:07I mean, it's a different show.
01:09You know, it's, I mean, obviously it's the same fans and there's just more of them.
01:13But to really try to fill that stage up, it's, there's a little learning curve.
01:19It was, it was cool to get to kind of experience that the first time.
01:22I think we were at AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
01:25And, uh, it's, it's, it's awesome though, man.
01:28It's, um, it's a bunch of folks that are really happy to be out.
01:31And obviously Luke's doing so well, but, you know, we kind of have the same type fan and
01:36then they're, they're showing up and they're loud and they're, they're rowdy.
01:40Well, you know, that's a good point.
01:41Riley, how would you describe like your, your fans?
01:43Uh, is the word redneck the right way to describe it?
01:48No, no, not at all.
01:50But I like the fact you were on a show called Redneck Island.
01:52So he might as well, yeah, we could do that.
01:54You always got to throw that in my intro.
01:55That's your favorite thing to bring up.
01:57I love it.
01:58That or it's not easy being green.
01:59One of the two is always going to happen.
02:01He probably watched it last night.
02:04Talking to Riley Green right now.
02:06Going to be a pig jig on Saturday.
02:09So this song that you do have with Luke Combs called Different Round Here.
02:12Tell me how this kind of came about.
02:14Was this something that you guys kind of discovered you wanted to do while you were on tour together?
02:18What's the story behind this?
02:20I'd like to tell you some big story about how it went through the chain of command and then his management.
02:25But I just texted him and said, hey man, you want to be on this song?
02:27He's like, yeah.
02:29That works.
02:30That's the way to do it, man.
02:31Yeah, it's easy.
02:32You know, Riley, one of my favorite moments from the show when you were here with Luke Combs
02:36is when you came out on stage and you were singing Eric Church's part on the song Does
02:41To Me.
02:42I love that.
02:43Yeah, a lot of pressure to sing Eric Church's part.
02:45No, no, no.
02:46I mean, I had to bring the...
02:47He's got a little thing with the words on it.
02:50You can read a teleprompter.
02:51It's a teleprompter.
02:53He's got a thing with the words on it.
02:55A little karaoke session going on for Riley Green.
02:57He's got a little bouncing ball on the words.
03:00Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
03:03I love that, man.
03:04You know, is there something...
03:05You know, you guys are kind of...
03:07I know you guys are close friends.
03:08Is there anything that you've learned from Luke when it comes to not being an artist,
03:12but playing at this level?
03:15Well, you know, even back when my first major tour that I got asked to be on was Brad Paisley
03:20and we've done Dierks and Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean.
03:25I mean, we've been on several big tours now and you can't help but learn something from
03:28any of these guys, especially those guys that have been doing it forever.
03:31It's just bringing that same amount of energy every night, you know, because we play the
03:36same show every night.
03:37We play, for the most part, it's the same set list and just remembering that there's
03:41somebody that'll be hearing you for the first time and bringing that same energy is something
03:46that I always try to be mindful of and Luke does a great job of that and it's just a
03:50great show.
03:51Well, we're looking forward to a great show with you and Brad Paisley on Saturday at
03:55Pig Jigman.
03:56Always appreciate you hanging out with us, giving us some laughs and thanks for coming on
04:00today.
04:00Thank y'all, man.
04:01Look forward to seeing y'all too.
04:02All right, dude.
04:03Take care.
04:03See you.
04:04Bye, buddy.