Raymundo

Yeah.

It was the first time in my life, uh, in my adult life where it's like, what do I, how am I, how am I going to make any money?

New baby, new baby.

Yeah.

It was, it was brutal.

So, uh, shopped around, tried to get any work that I could worked at a motorcycle shop, worked at a pavement company and, uh, just kept taking it.

We sold our house in Dixon, Tennessee, and, uh, we made like $60,000 on that house.

and when when the world started finally opening up in um early 2021 really texas kind of opened up earlier than the rest of the world maybe not florida but uh not tennessee either yeah yeah yeah so uh i was the only gig that i had was playing at a taco shop in lewisville texas and i was just i was doing that for like 50 bucks and free tacos you know and um but i just i had to do i had to play somewhere like i just i couldn't not play it just was like

for me and uh yeah i mean we just kept we took that sixty thousand dollars and in 2021 we were losing like one or two thousand dollars a night opening up for randy rogers and josh abbott we were getting paid like 250 bucks and obviously you got to pay the band and uh we we rode that money all the way down to within a thousand bucks and then wild dessert came out and it it changed everything

So when you say Wild As Her came out, what do you mean?

Like you just put it up on streaming and then it popped?

In a way.

So we had been putting out songs like every six to eight weeks just religiously.

And then at the end of that, we put out eight or nine songs and it was like the end of 2021.

And we were like, well, we kind of accidentally created a record.

So we packaged it.

We called it 21.

and it kind of it did really well for us especially in texas um we were starting to see people show up at these shows and we were kind of transitioning from the like the desired opener to like oh we can sell our own tickets now and then i had this next song wild as her just like in the can ready to go um but the record had just come out in december like late december and

And I remember talking to some people that I look up to and respect, and I'm like, what do you think I should do next?

Like, I have this song, should I put it out?