Whiskey Myers talk about their favorite things about Stagecoach, their new album, being on 'Yellowstone' and more at Stagecoach 2025.
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00:00Well, Whiskey Myers has decided to come kick it with Billboard before they're set at Stagecoach.
00:05How's it going, fellas?
00:06Yeah, sir, it's going good, man. How are you?
00:08I'm good, man. But, like, you guys are pros at this.
00:10You've had your own festival for seven years, which is crazy.
00:13So how do you bring in that energy to Stagecoach for the second time?
00:16Ah, man, it's just, we're just happy to be here, man, enjoying the weather.
00:19You know, it's always great to get out here.
00:21So we'll just bring whatever we usually just try to bring to it.
00:25And, I mean, you guys clearly love festivals because you're bringing a new one, even, to Florida.
00:30So why Florida and what's that festival going to be all about?
00:32Ah, you know, the weather.
00:35We've done, you know, we've done festivals around our home.
00:38We've done festivals around, I guess, Kansas and some other stuff.
00:41So, I mean, we've never done one at the beach, so it seemed like a pretty good idea.
00:44What do you enjoy about Stagecoach specifically?
00:46Um, I mean, it's cool. It's a good setup, you know.
00:50They ain't messing around.
00:52I mean, we'll play music wherever, you know.
00:55It's always been RMO.
00:56We've always been a touring band.
00:58So we're just happy to be here and play music for the people.
01:01And, I mean, you guys are fresh off an announcement.
01:03New album coming out in September.
01:05Yeah.
01:06So tell me about the album.
01:07First of all, you've got to explain the name of the album to me and what does it mean?
01:09Whomp Whack Thunder.
01:11Yeah.
01:12We went in there and whomped on things, whacked on things and made some thunder, I guess.
01:17But it just kind of came out like that.
01:19It's a cool record, man.
01:21It's a real rockin', kind of high-energy record.
01:24We did it in Nashville with Jay Joyce and I'm proud of it.
01:28It comes out this fall.
01:30Yeah, and what are some of the inspirations you guys had behind that project?
01:34I don't know.
01:36I just go in there and write songs, man.
01:38You know, I don't necessarily have a vision.
01:41We don't have a vision when we're doing that stuff.
01:43We just, you know, get a pen and a pad and go to work.
01:47And, I mean, when you come to a festival like this, do you ever find inspiration or write in the art of, like, performing?
01:52So you go from stage to writing or is it always, like, its own separate thing, the whole writing studio process?
01:57Nah, for me, I just, like, lock myself in a room and then write a record.
02:02You know, that's just how it works for me.
02:05I can't do the, I can't switch my brain like that.
02:08Multitask and I just, nah, I gotta be, like, in that mode.
02:13It's like a weird mode for me, you know?
02:15And I'm just doing that.
02:17And, I mean, speaking of multitasking you're talking about, I mean, festivals are fun for, you know, the guests out there that are coming to see you guys.
02:23Do you get to have a good time?
02:24Is there, like, some food you walk past that you wanted to grab?
02:27Is there a drink you want to go get?
02:29Are you margarita guys?
02:30Like, what's your vibe at a festival?
02:32We usually try to drink a whole lot of Miller Lite.
02:34What's your festival go to, man?
02:38What do you need at a festival?
02:40Oh, man, if I started on tequila too early, it'd be bad.
02:42I don't know if I'd make the show time.
02:44Yeah, but usually we try to stick around Miller Lite and keep it pretty tame now, you know?
02:48Nice.
02:49And then also I want to talk to you guys about TV placements and how that was for you guys, being on Yellowstone.
02:54I think that was really cool for you guys' career.
02:56And what do you feel about kind of that mixing the world of TV and music?
02:59Yeah, I think it's probably good for everybody because it opens you and your music and your art up to a broader community that may have not heard of you or may have never seen you before.
03:11So it's always good to get it to branch out to people who have no clue about you or might not even be interested in your genre of music or whatever that may be.
03:20So yeah, it was a cool thing.
03:21And the Yellowstone was just like a kind of a random thing that we just got invited to do.
03:25We didn't know what it was.
03:26And we were flying in from, I think we were flying in from Europe or France or somewhere and we were pretty tired.
03:31And we were like, yeah, we don't want to do that.
03:33Wow.
03:34And we're like, well, Kevin Costner's going to be there.
03:37And we're like, okay, I guess we should probably do that.
03:39So it turned out to be a pretty cool deal.
03:41And you talked about picking up new fans from that.
03:43So if you go out on that stage tonight as stagecoach and somebody's there that's never seen you guys or heard your music, what do you want them to walk away thinking?
03:50Maybe just a feeling of something authentic that maybe you've never heard before.
03:55Maybe as long as it makes you feel something that you've never heard before, then we'll be pretty happy with that.
04:00All right.
04:01Well, thanks for kicking it with Billboard.
04:02I appreciate you guys.
04:03I'll see you out there.
04:04Thanks, Tetris.