John Rich
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1,309 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jul 2022
last heard 6 Jul
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And instead of going to college, I went out and played about 200 nights a year in a van pulling a trailer all over the US playing holiday in lounges and county rodeos and off-brand casinos and basically anybody that would hire us.
because I wanted to be on the radio, I wanted to play the Grand Ole Opry, and I wanted to write number one songs.
And I couldn't understand how college was going to make that happen.
Fair.
It can't.
I mean, it just can't.
So I said, I'm going to just go do it.
And so that band became a band called Lone Star, which we got a record deal a couple of years after we started, sold four or five million records with them, wrote my first number ones with them.
So in those moments...
where you gambled to that level and then you win and then everybody loves it.
It is just a constant high five.
I mean, it's just a constant celebration because that is so hard to do.
It's like an Olympian winning a gold medal.
That's what it's like to write a number one song or to step out on a stage and there's 30,000 people that know the words to your music and you've never met any of them.
And it's that way all over the U.S.
You can imagine that feeling, especially in your 20s.
Yeah.
I mean, there's no better physical feeling I don't think you can have than just, it's just massive adrenaline.
And so...
throughout the course of the next years, here comes Big and Rich, which is, you know, my singing partner, Big Kenny.
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