2024 Guitar Pull Artist - Corey Kent
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00:00the qyk guitar poll happening november 17th cannot wait it is time for artist number two
00:06now kevin is the one who has booked this artist so launa and i do not know who's on the phone
00:12right now but kevin let's hear this intro and i cannot wait to find out who is coming to the
00:16qyk guitar poll all right here we go this guy he is from bixby oklahoma he started touring with a
00:24band when he was just 11 years old 11 at one point he was pulled up on stage and got to join
00:31willie nelson i mean who can do that all right good resume so far you do know his song wild as her
00:39his bandana game is on point ladies and gentlemen qyk guitar poll artist cory kent
00:46that is awesome i love it cory kent gonna be at the qyk guitar poll this is gonna be sweet man
01:08man looking forward to it that was a that was a heck of an intro i didn't even know you were
01:12talking about me so halfway through yeah cory this is gonna be great man i have not seen you
01:20acoustic before is this something that you enjoy doing kind of just breaking it down and stripping
01:24it down a little bit absolutely man i mean to me that's where that's where it all starts um i have
01:30a misrespect for the artist that can you know step up there with nothing but a guitar and a song and
01:35deliver a great you know experience for the fans and you know i like kind of like the intro alluded to
01:40i got started pretty young doing this and and uh what made me fall in music fall in love with music
01:45was the live performance of it and uh yeah so i mean this is a super important aspect and it gives
01:51me a chance to deliver these songs in a way and repackage them in a way that fans get a unique
01:56experience yeah i was gonna ask you that you just said repackaging them and doing them in a different
02:00way when you do acoustic so there are like not maybe not a different version but there's a different
02:05way to kind of present these songs when you're doing it acoustically yeah absolutely you got you
02:10got the freedom to change it up um because when you're playing with a band you know you've got it
02:14rehearsed you've got a kind of an outline to work off of but when you get to play acoustic in the way
02:20that i approach it is i kind of get to read the room like sure i can i never even pick what songs
02:26i'm gonna play before i play acoustic oh i love that yeah and based on you know maybe maybe this
02:32this crowd specifically is a little more traditional and like the kind of throwback country and that'll
02:37inform what i'm going to play next or maybe they're really liking the rock and roll kind of side of
02:42country and so that informs what i'm going to play next and how i'm going to play it the dynamics of
02:46it and it's just um there's no there's no blueprint whenever you get to play acoustic you just kind of
02:51get to feed off of the energy of the crowd and it's also the blueprint kind of for a guitar pool
02:57because when you're opening up for jason aldean like cory did jason aldean is a star of the show
03:03and we all know that going in but when you start a guitar pool it's crazy because people that you
03:09don't think that are going to become the stars of the show end up becoming the stars of the show and
03:14it's anybody's game because we've got five of you on stage at the same time and it's unbelievable
03:22some of the stuff that we hear and we're like holy cow i'm a huge fan of that person now you know so
03:27that's what i love about the guitar pools yeah it kind of puts everything at an even playing field i
03:32think you know like with you're on tour without being for for six months and we can't match pyrotechnics
03:39and the amount of crew and band and all this stuff like it's just us and some guitars up there right
03:43but you put jason and i on a guitar or on a stool together with nothing but guitars there's there's
03:49really uh even playing fields right and there is just listen to a song and how how does that person
03:56deliver that song and luckily jason's great at both of those things but i mean it's just one of those
04:01things like you were talking about sometimes the people you don't expect to surprise you surprise you
04:06yeah yeah you know i think and i say this a lot is as much as this is for our audience and qik
04:13listeners going and enjoying the show it's a show for the artists as well because you guys
04:18not always don't get to see each other that often or maybe don't know each other that well and so
04:22when you guys get to sit down on a stool and you talked about even playing field and like going
04:26okay i want to see what this guy can do and it's kind of it's kind of cool to watch you guys
04:31really get involved in it and uh and kind of just enjoy yourself so much seems like a lot of
04:36pressures off of you yeah for sure well and for me you know i live in texas which i'm one of the
04:41probably rare non-nashville based country artists that's on the radio and for me this is a it's a
04:49great way for me to reconnect with a lot of my friends you know we're all touring all the time
04:53and we don't get to see each other that much right and uh so this is it's a nice like family reunion
04:58style feel to it love it man well we appreciate you doing this we're excited to see you november 17th
05:04at the qik guitar poll ladies and gentlemen cory kent
05:08thanks brother we'll see you soon man all right we'll see y'all there