Parker McCollum

But I don't know when I'm, even when we play, like when we're on tour, we just did a festival in South Texas and Gonzales this past weekend.

Yeah.

and uh just I rode my bus from my house like I never do that anymore you know um back in the day I'd get in the van or get on the bus or whatever and we were playing Texas and Oklahoma stuff you're always coming home very rare that you do that now and uh I don't know I just I told the crowd I was like when we play here I just did a little more pep in my step it's just you know you're these are those are your people so um it's just that Texas pride thing um

She was in high school.

No, my granddad, her dad was, I mean, I've always said he's one of the greatest cowboys to ever live with.

Just old school, I mean, just red, white, and blue American Texas cowboy.

Bobby Yancey.

And I've got his initials tattooed right here.

But he's just a great, great man.

So my mom and her siblings, my uncles rode rough stock.

My mom and her sister rode race barrels.

And then my dad's side of the family, they all went to one high school in my hometown.

So like all of my mom and her siblings and my dad and his siblings all went to high school together.

And so it's just, it's a- Like some small town lore.

It's kind of, it is.

I've tried to explain to people sometimes and they're just like, wait, wait.

what this person who was married to who, but it's, uh, they, I kind of had these two very different worlds.

My dad's family was mostly in the car business and, and super, super, um, crazy hardworking.

Um, and my mom's side of the side of the family is the same way, but you know, it was more like my grant, my mom's side of the family owned a concrete company.

My dad's side of the family, they sold cars.