Nick Hexum
speaker
521 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Nick Hexum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Just following my curiosity.
I mean, that to me is the ultimate way to stay creative is that when you get a scent of something that you want to follow, you go towards it.
And that's always, you know, being from Nebraska, that's always been around me and my mom's from Nashville.
So, that influence has always been there, but maybe I was kind of denying it or avoiding it.
So, it just felt really natural to do that.
And it just happened naturally.
not through a conscious decision, but just by like meeting people like my buddy Kenny from the band Water Tower who were backing me up tonight.
He and I just kind of, he gave me mandolin lessons and then we started writing songs and it's just kind of one thing led to another.
And it also came from reading Rick Rubin's book about creativity, which is about that you need to take a lot of chances in your art and have frequent releases so you don't get caught up.
Like writer's block is basically where...
Anybody can write a song.
Writer's block is when you don't like it.
So you need to keep just putting out music and having the courage to keep doing that.
And then another book I read called Saved by a Song was about going into vulnerable parts, exploring the deep, the dark caves of your psyche because that's very cathartic and people really relate.
So going into...
kind of tough stuff that I maybe didn't feel comfortable singing about before that lent itself towards this kind of Americana.
So I know he's going tonight.
I'll be telling some stories about like the different songs about what.
You can't actually write a good song based on a focus group.
It does not work.
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