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The Singing Mailman's Rise: Preston Cooper's Journey to Country Rock Stardom
He comes from a small town, a mail route well, not really from a small town mail route to center stage under the big lights. Today's guest is rewriting the story of country rock with a voice that has to be heard to be believed. He's only 22. Preston Cooper is already drawing comparisons to legends like, for example, bob Seger, chris Stapleton and many others, thanks to his soulful blues-driven sound. That's equal parts grit and grace. I heard him back in February and that is absolutely true.
Speaker 1:Once known as the singing mailman in Fredericktown, ohio, preston's journey has been anything but ordinary, and now, with his debut album, toledo Talk, and due to drop in the near future, he's teaming up with country powerhouses and stepping into the national spotlight. He's teaming up with country powerhouses and stepping into the national spotlight. We talk his humble beginnings. I love this, can't you believe me? It's going to be good Viral moments, musical influence and the raw studio sessions behind his explosive new sound. Now you're going to want to watch this whole thing. You're going to have to, you know, put your ears and your eyes on this video. All right, this is one you don't want to miss. Preston Cooper, cooper, cooper, hey, yeah, sounds like a town?
Speaker 2:yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:You're from Cooper, yeah all right, preston Cooper, and this is one obviously you don't want to miss. He is here, he is hanging out. Country rock may never be the same and a Preston I finally got through it. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 2:I'm doing great, just traveling and doing the music business. Yeah, really.
Speaker 1:It says you're only 22.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Obviously, that's correct, but you were a mailman. I was, yeah, and you were known as the singing mailman.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I would walk around on my route it was like 14 miles roughly and I would sing and deliver people's mail.
Speaker 1:So you would sing like between houses, or you would just continue to sing as you dropped the mail in the mailbox and walked away.
Speaker 2:A little of both. I would write a lot of songs too on my route, because it was just something that kind of took me to another place, you know, and I kind of almost forgot I was working, you know so you worked for the government, so the United States Postal Service yeah, so you gave that up to go and chase your dream, your passion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, was it hard to do that? Or did you just?
Speaker 2:say, oh, this is what I want to do, and I'm young and I'm gonna do it there was a little bit of doubt, you know, for a while, but eventually I was just having so much fun playing gigs. I was just like, wow, I can make money doing this. So I was like I'm gonna do what I love. So how did you like?
Speaker 1:the singing on the, yet your roots. How did you just started doing that?
Speaker 2:because you always wanted to sing yeah, well, I love this thing too. I just, I don't know. There was never a time where I wasn't singing, I guess you know?
Speaker 1:And when did you realize that people were paying attention to you?
Speaker 2:I started playing bars and restaurants around my hometown in Ohio, and that's really when I started getting a lot of phone calls from other places Like, hey, can you come play our venue?
Speaker 1:When did you first pick up the guitar?
Speaker 2:I was a freshman in high school just a couple of years ago. Yeah, yeah, it was a guitar class. It was more like a study hall because, you know, we just kind of did whatever we wanted. But I actually was interested in playing the guitar, so met my best friend, eli. He taught me how to play crazy guitar player.
Speaker 1:And, yeah, I just started singing shortly after you know, when I talk to a lot of artists and I asked them about playing the guitar, how they learned, a lot of them will say they're self-taught and what they do is they go to YouTube, yeah, and they bring up, you know, guitar lessons on YouTube, or, and that's how they learn to play, and they bring up guitar lessons on YouTube and that's how they learn to play guitar.
Speaker 2:That's what I did, and I would like hear songs and I would just like match what I heard on the guitar. You know, that's cool. Just have a sense of rhythm too.
Speaker 1:So it's fun. What about Chris Stapleton and Bob Seger? You're influenced by them, but how does that affect your sound?
Speaker 2:Well, I grew up listening to them, okay, no, ever since I was little, in the backseat of my mom's car. I'll never forget the time I heard Tennessee whiskey come on by Stapleton and it just kind of changed my whole experience musically. And then, obviously, bob Seger love him, listen to him constantly, really Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and old blues. I was super into the blues. I'm trying to think of some great Bob Seger songs. Oh, of course, old time rock and roll which you hear at every wedding Legendary, it's legendary, but Night Moves and. Against the Wind. Oh yeah, Was there Fire Lake?
Speaker 2:Yeah, fire Lake, fire Lake, Fire Lake, that's a good one.
Speaker 1:Yep, definitely good stuff and of course you mentioned Stapleton, and why not?
Speaker 2:Yola Company is actually another great Seager.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go. Do you play any of those in your set? I?
Speaker 2:do I play Night Moves? Every now and then I'll be like hey guys, let's play Seager and they're like gotcha and we just switch up, right there I was going to say you switch up on the go. Oh yeah, it go. Oh yeah, like okay, yeah, turn around to your bed and go. You know what? Screw this, get setlist. We're gonna mess with it sometimes. Sometimes we got to be careful with that every now and then I'll get a little crazy on them and I'll be like alright, we're playing this song, so you know?
Speaker 1:alright, switch over. We talked about your setlist and we talked about you playing, but you're on tour in the Riley green yes, yeah, in June, dude and you're like in between well, that's coming, but you're on tour right now with, is it Cameron? Cameron Marlowe yeah. How cool. It's been a lot of fun with him. Yeah, definitely a great artist.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, both of you together. He's probably one of the best singers in Nashville.
Speaker 1:And I heard from a little birdie that you're going to be playing Red Rocks down the road.
Speaker 2:Yeah, august 25th be there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm really excited. I'm trying.
Speaker 2:You know, my first well, actually my second tour with Riley Greene playing Red Rocks is absolutely mind-blowing.
Speaker 1:You know, I've never been there obviously, and I see the pictures and the artists being up on that stage. You can feel it just by watching the videos of what kind of place that is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man.
Speaker 1:And to be able to play on that stage. And it goes back what? At least 100 years.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 1:It's wild. I gotta sign the wall.
Speaker 2:Yes, you know the rock wall in the backstage.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, Don was telling me that they have the tunnel that goes from your dressing room to the stage and everybody that's anybody signs that wall.
Speaker 2:Sinatra, all those guys.
Speaker 1:How cool is that to have Preston Cooper, Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Wow, what a change though. All those years right, all those years. And so you kind of grew up on that classic rock sound, as well as the, of course, like the Chris Stapleton who we all know was such a great songwriter for a lot of years before he got his voice actually on the radio, right, yeah, yeah. So, um, it says here songwriters round in toledo yeah, man do you tell us about those songwriter rounds?
Speaker 2:yeah, um, so I was. I just quit the post office three months before this songwriter corporate event in toledo and I got a call and they're like hey, we want you to open up for some Nashville songwriters. So I drove up and it was at a Holiday Inn in the middle of nowhere. I think it was. Yeah, it was in Toledo.
Speaker 1:Well, if you stayed at a Holiday Inn, you're good to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, right. What's that commercial? Oh no, I should have stayed at a Holiday Inn last night. Mm-hmm, that was not meant to be a plug, but so, yeah, we drove up. It was two hours from my hometown and I played 45 minutes and I noticed the Warren brothers were there and JT Harding Love all those guys.
Speaker 1:Oh, Brett and Warren, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they're amazing Best songwriters. And they kept coming out of their Huge ballroom in this holiday inn and after I was done they wanted to meet me. So I went back as they were eating dinner, I opened these double doors and they're like dude, like who are you and why are you still here in Ohio? You need to be in Nashville. So three weeks later they called me out of the boil and they're like dude, you want to come to Nashville? And I'm like sure. So I dropped my stuff. And it was funny because we met the one time at this Holiday Inn, you know. But there was such a connection there, you know, we just really got along. And my mom's like are you sure they're not serial killers, you know?
Speaker 2:in a white van you know, but I'm like now they're cool. So I drove down, stay at their place and we wrote week, the first day I went down first radio single. Just a wild experience. And then, right after we wrote it, we drove straight to the studio Curb Studios and recorded the song Wow, the first day I was ever in Nashville. Were you like.
Speaker 1:I was on cloud nine. Yeah, exactly Like. Is this really? Did I wake? Am I dreaming, I guess? Yeah, yeah, am I dreaming? It was that feeling I must be sleeping. I'm sorry, I thought I was gonna wake up and be like, oh, this is not real.
Speaker 2:It was really cool. And then the next day we played the Bluebird cafe Together. It was just, and to play the Bluebird is like absolutely a huge honor. You know the legends. How is it just not to stop you?
Speaker 1:mid-person here but playing the Bluebird. That is so one-on-one with those that are there, those that are in the audience. You could hear it For one. I've never been there, I've seen it, you should go. You should take a trip. It's on my bucket list. You can hear a pin drop and everybody listens to what you're singing and how you're singing it, and how you're playing.
Speaker 2:Everybody's got an ear on you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how does that make?
Speaker 2:you feel as an artist. It's like holy crap, well nervous as hell. The first one especially, you know. You know I played it four or five times now and it's just a lot of fun. But yeah, it was a crazy experience and that's how I got to Nashville. Nine months later, after I met the Warren brothers, I moved. They got me to to move there. Yeah, just really, really cool.
Speaker 1:What is your hometown, your actual hometown?
Speaker 2:It's Fredericktown Ohio. It's about 45 minutes north of Columbus.
Speaker 1:Is it a big? Okay, so it's kind of a small town.
Speaker 2:Small, super small, maybe like 2,000 people, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So if I was to drive into your hometown, what would be the first thing I would see? Let's say, I come in on the main drag.
Speaker 2:Well, the main drag is basically a one lane A lot of dirt roads, lots of Amish around the area, lots of farms yeah, yeah, man, but the Amish, that's good, they build great.
Speaker 1:Oh, they do, I, they do.
Speaker 2:I mean I actually built a barn at my mom's place. Exactly yeah, and they do good work super fast workers.
Speaker 1:So did you grow up on a farm? Yeah, I did, you did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my grandparents are the main farmers. They had cattle, baled hay, corn beans, goats, chickens, the whole nine yards Did you do all that yeah.
Speaker 1:I helped a lot. Yeah, were you on the big tractor? Yeah, the big green tractor, the big green tractor, big green tractor, yeah Well, that would have been a deer Shout out to Jason Aldean, I think it was Jason, no it was it was yeah, good stuff, man Cool.
Speaker 2:So and you had the.
Speaker 1:Massey Ferguson and all that. You know they have all the what the Dooley's on the tractors and all that. That's pretty cool. But now look at you. So you're mailman, you quit, you move to Nashville. Where abouts in Nashville do you live?
Speaker 2:you don't tell me exactly where I live around the Berry Hill area, okay what's. The Berry Hill area is near what you know, it's like 10 minutes southeast of Nashville. Okay, downtown looks like down there. Yeah, down there. Yeah, well, if you're looking at the map would be down there. But yeah, okay, my first place, though is in Antioch. Oh yeah, first place, though, was in Antioch.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Everybody's got to live in Antioch for their first year or so I've heard that so often.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly. And when you first moved to Nashville, what was that like for you? Were you like, oh my God, scary, I am really here, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, I moved to Nashville in February of 2024.
Speaker 1:Okay, so a year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a year and three or four months ago, so you moved there when you were 20, 21 years old. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you were all alone and now it's like what do I do? It was that way, but you had those. Yeah, I had the Warren brothers.
Speaker 2:They were my friends there. Well, that could be good or bad. Well, good now. But but I know the Warrens Maybe 20 years ago it might have been, you know, a little different, but props to them too. They're so great, they've been very good to me. But yeah, I was alone and you know it was scary. It really was scary, to be completely honest, I went to every open mic I could find Absolutely you.
Speaker 1:I went to every open mic.
Speaker 2:I could find. Absolutely, I tried to meet as many people as I could meet and I met some great people. But then the Warrens and I just started writing a lot. They introduced me to some people.
Speaker 1:Oh, they know people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we made a record Toledo Talkin' and we just were having fun, we were just making music that was cool to us. And then I don't know if you want to get to the the record story, the record deal yeah, let's go, let's write, let's go right into it yeah.
Speaker 2:so we wrote all these songs. I think we wrote like 20 songs or whatever. And they're like oh, let's pick 12 and just go record him. A week was already recorded, you know, at this time, and we just kind of knew the potential, the sound, it was cool. So we took 11 more songs, we went in the studio and cut them. And then we're like, well, let's go to a record company.
Speaker 2:And so the Warren Brothers called Allison Jones, head of A&R at Big Machine. I went and met with her. We met for like two hours. It was amazing, it was a great meeting. And I think she was more impressed by the fact I walked 14 miles a day than you know sing. It was really funny. She's like I can't even get my own son to go get the mail out of the mailbox, but that's besides the point. So she called Scott Borchetta, which is the head of Big Machine, and she's like you have to hear this kid. And so a couple weeks later we went in Scott's office, sat down with an acoustic guitar. I played three songs off the record and he goes that's enough. And we're like, oh my gosh, you know, the chest is like beating. And he goes when do we start and I was like wow, and it was the oh frick moment.
Speaker 1:I think I said oh frick yeah, I'm sure it wasn't oh frick.
Speaker 2:But uh, you know what I?
Speaker 1:mean, but um being in that office with Scott yeah. I mean that's like playing at the bluebird, that's like playing at the. You know places like that where you got to be so nervous I was. I was like this is the guy that made.
Speaker 2:Taylor Swift. I was like oh my gosh, you know and um, it was such a cool experience I think after the fact when I left. I was like, oh my gosh, you know, and it was such a cool experience I think. After the fact, when I left, I was like, did that really just happen? You know that I really just sit in the same seat Steven Tyler did, and you know it was amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1:And so you're on the, you're under the Valerie umbrella.
Speaker 2:Yes, big machine, which is cool. I know you're a TR, thomas red.
Speaker 1:Rhett, yep, and and others. What Justin Moore as well. How cool is it? You're on the. You're on the label. You're on the same label as these stars now it's pretty cool, man. Yeah, label mates and being out on tour yeah, label mates being out on tour with Raleigh and all that that's coming up being out with Cameron. Now is there a particular city that you think has been your favorite so far?
Speaker 2:That's a good question, man. Well, they're all good. The most beautiful so far has been Salt Lake City, utah.
Speaker 1:The mountains are right there.
Speaker 2:It's just surrounded by mountains and that's probably the coolest one I've been to so far, because I'm super into the outdoors. I love to hunt. I was gonna ask.
Speaker 1:That was super cool to me. It says you love to hunt, you love to hike, yeah, yeah. So how often? How often do you get out and just go for a walk, take a hike? Is?
Speaker 2:there other places where you are, in natchville yeah, there are, you know, not a whole lot, but um, one of my favorites is down near Brentwood um, but yeah, whenever I get time.
Speaker 1:Uh, right now I do not have time to go hiking or hunting, I think, uh, I try as much as I can.
Speaker 1:We were chatting before we went out with the camera and the lights and all that and the several different takes. But you were saying your tour schedule. Right now You're on what they call a radio tour, as well as being on tour with Cameron, which means you know I was talking to a Don your man here this morning from Valerie Saying. I said so what's next? Because we go to Rochester, we go to Buffalo, then we go to Akron, akron.
Speaker 2:Cleveland. This is all the way back down to DC and then fly to Miami and then do all of Florida radio tour grind it is the grind. I'm gone for the next I don't know two and a half weeks, but you're single and you don't have I'm not single, well you know what.
Speaker 1:And you don't have I'm not single, well, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:You're not married. I'm not married. Yeah, I'm not married.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you've got a beautiful girlfriend, so you're doing all that. I understand, but you don't have the family to worry about. Yes, you worry about her, I get it, but at least at this age to get in, yeah, oh my God, I might as well do it now.
Speaker 2:I'm 22.
Speaker 1:Yeah, show up at six in the morning for a morning show. Right, you know I mean I you know been there, done that, Something like that, tomorrow, I think Tomorrow morning actually yeah, awesome, do you get to enjoy, like, but did you get to enjoy anything around here? Did you go out at all?
Speaker 2:I think I got to enjoy the Starbucks at the hotel.
Speaker 1:That's about the extent of it.
Speaker 2:And the grilled chicken sandwich I had last night Did you tell them?
Speaker 1:Did you say I'm Preston Cooper?
Speaker 2:Sometimes we do that, but not much.
Speaker 1:No, and I get that, but just say, hey, do you listen to country? Yeah, that happens a lot when I'm at the airport.
Speaker 2:I make friends all the time on the plane and stuff you know they listen to my stuff so cool, awesome. If you don't do that, your label rep will go. You know who this is. Yeah, yeah, exactly yeah. They're not doing that, then they're not doing a good job.
Speaker 1:You need to get his music, you need to buy it, you need to download it, you need to go see him.
Speaker 2:By the way, if you want a couple of tickets.
Speaker 1:Here you go. We'll see you tonight at the show. Is that how it works now. Yeah you said pretty much, that's cool, very cool. What was your first concert?
Speaker 2:You as Preston Cooper. My first big concert, John Mayer.
Speaker 1:I went to see.
Speaker 2:John Mayer at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus. That was a life-changing experience. Why was it life-changing man? When I was watching him play, I just felt like I was supposed to be up there on stage with him. You know, I just felt off. I was like, man, I need to be up there playing with him and singing. There was just a sense of like I need to do that someday. You know, it was really cool and you look at everything that's going on on stage, like who's doing what.
Speaker 1:See, when I go to a concert, I probably look at it from a little different angle than you, you being an entertainer. I'm a geek and I think I like a lot of other radio guys. We look at that stage and we look at the production of the event the lights, the sound, sound. Who's doing what? Who's running around with the camera? Right, you know, it's just amazing how they put some of these shows together. Yeah, it is, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah I pay attention to all that little stuff. Really. You know the band, what this guy's playing. You know, oh, there's a banjo playing in the back. Like it's like.
Speaker 1:I need to get one of those. Yeah, exactly, you know I need to. I wonder who that is.
Speaker 2:Maybe he's got some friends yeah, well, it's so cool because, like keith urban and stuff I've, I um got to go to hawaii with his base, but well, used to be bass player. Jerry flowers, oh okay, and um, it's just so cool getting to meet those guys.
Speaker 1:You know that play with these stars, it's, it's really cool and they're the nicest guys you know I love when I do a lot of these type of interviews, it's not only the stars like yourself, but I love to talk to the guys that are behind the artist, behind the scenes. Behind, you know, it could be the drummer, yeah, or it could be a guitar player, you know just to find out from their perspective what it's like to be in that position.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man.
Speaker 1:So it's pretty cool, it is cool but now we get to find out what it's like to be in your your yeah, so as as preston cooper. It's cool. What is your? Do you have a guilty pleasure song, something you go to when you want to feel?
Speaker 2:good a song, yeah, or or an artist, maybe you know let's say, you know, you just have one of those days.
Speaker 1:I know for myself, if I want to feel good, I'll go into youtube and I'll pull up something that you know I haven't heard it in a while, but I need to hear it. Once I put on the headphones and I crank up the volume, it's like okay, I feel good now.
Speaker 2:I mean right now it's the Foo Fighters If I like to listen to it. You know, if I'm like man, I need to listen to some music, I pull up the Foo Fighters If I'm wanting to play something live that I'm wanting to feel good about. It's probably Stapleton. I got you.
Speaker 1:So do you like the slower Stapleton, or you? Know, we have Tennessee Whiskey, which is that's a classic.
Speaker 2:Both. Yeah, parachute is amazing, One of my favorite ones to sing.
Speaker 1:If you could collaborate with anybody, would it be Stapleton? I'm just saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would love to do Stapleton, to collaborate with him, but Bob Seger would be a huge one. Actually, vince Gill's maybe on the books for coming up in the future.
Speaker 1:You know, I would bet I did write some songs with him recently. Yeah, okay, all right, I would bet that if Vince watches this interview, that he's going to call you and say let's do it. Yeah, maybe Because he's that type of guy he is.
Speaker 2:He is one of the nicest guys I've ever met. I mean, I pulled up to his house. He just like invited me in. You know, let's write some songs. Just such an amazing human being. You know what's cool about him. And a Christian guy, yeah, no exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:And what I love about him is he's so real, so down to earth he is. He's like you and I he's like Don over there he's, you know, just the real thing. Yeah, and it's. I was chatting with him a few years ago it must have been the Country Radio Seminar and he told me you know what I'm saying, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, he told me two things I'll never forget. He said man, I just want to let you know. If the music business doesn't work out and sometimes it doesn't, he's like you can always go back to the post office.
Speaker 1:I was like all right, thanks, I just love how honest he is, but then he's like, then he's like man.
Speaker 2:This is a huge piece of advice. He's like you know, when you're making music and you're just in the music business, if you're not having fun doing what you're doing, then you need to ask yourself why you're doing it.
Speaker 1:So that was really important to me and I hope this never happens. But would it be easy for you to go back to the post office? No, you know, because isn't that you have to take a test to get that job?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, oh yeah, and it's a great thing. Yeah, I went through like five background checks. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:So if you weren't, if you were not a mailman, you weren't doing music. What do you think you would be doing? Do you have?
Speaker 2:anything else. I mean. A mailman is one thing, I don't have a plan B man, no, no, it's music all the way.
Speaker 1:Well, you're young enough to say that it's performing. Yeah, it is when I'm on stage.
Speaker 2:there's nothing else like it, so tell me about your on stage. Lots of energy. I feed off the crowd. I love the crowd interaction and my band. When my band and I are just meshing, it is the funnest time ever.
Speaker 1:You mean like jamming, jamming you, you know, or?
Speaker 2:feeling, feeling it, yes, you know, somebody does one little lick and I look over and they're like yeah, that was cool, right?
Speaker 1:I'm like yeah, do it again. Yeah, that's cool. So what's in your tour bag? So what do you always have with you when you hit the road? Besides underwear, shorts, socks, you know what else?
Speaker 2:Shorts, socks. You know what else is in your bag. You know my guitar, obviously. What's?
Speaker 1:in your tour bag.
Speaker 2:Chargers, tons of chargers. Beef jerky there you go. Sweet tea, there you go. And water, oh, extra gum, spearmint gum is a must for me. I'm actually chewing gum right now. I'm always chewing gum. Even when I sing live for some reason, I just love to chew gum.
Speaker 1:At least it's not the other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what I mean. At least it's not the other type of chewing gum, yeah, no exactly Good for you.
Speaker 1:You're staying healthy. You're trying, man, yeah, trying. And, like I said, I cannot stress enough that Don's phone is going off over there. But I cannot stress enough is it my, is it my bird feeder? No, did you look to my bird feeder? No, he says no. But the funny thing about that, we were, we've been. I had to throw my watch over to the producer down, uh, from Valerie, and said, dad, because it kept going off. And it kept going off because you're gonna think I'm such a geek, it's all good, I have a smart bird feeder oh my god, ai so really time.
Speaker 1:Yes, dude, especially probably where you live, you can use one of these probably. It's very cool.
Speaker 2:So it's like does it tell you like what kind of bird?
Speaker 1:it'll tell you what kind of bird, how many times it's visited the bird feeder? Uh, it's, it's crazy, I didn't know they made something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, it's ai that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:Actually it's. Yeah, I think it's very cool. The scary part is it's ai, and we all know that it can be good, it can be bad, and you, as an artist, somebody could take your voice and put it on something. There's something that somebody like you needs to think about, or your management, or whoever. However, whoever, all that works. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Cool man.
Speaker 1:I'll send you the link. Thanks, man, because they're on sale right now on amazon yeah, that'd be interesting.
Speaker 2:I'm not kidding, check that out it's very, very cool.
Speaker 1:So what's next for you? Of course, you got the single coming out uh, single may 19th hits radio week.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited for it. Um wait till you hear it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I I heard it. I heard it at what we call the country radio seminar and that was back in february and I know maybe you didn't they didn't tell you that you're going to be singing in front of all these radio executives and label executives and people that make big time decisions yeah, they didn't scare the crap out of me, they just told me act like it's a real show and you're with your band and just jam out.
Speaker 1:So you go out there and you sing that your voice in the beginning. It's like crap. Listen to this. And then when he got into the chorus you could hear the cheers and everybody going wow. And then afterwards I was talking to your people and I said you know, we need to get him for a show in Syracuse. I mean, it was immediately after we were sitting at the same table and I turned to your guy, don, and I said, don, we need to get him in town.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, let's do it, man. Yeah, the single's coming out. We got tour coming up. You know we're finishing up the tour with Cameron Marlowe, starting the tour in June with Riley. Green do yeah, in the near future.
Speaker 1:So all right. What we're gonna do is, of course, preston.
Speaker 2:Thank you for coming by it's so cool to see you chat with you.
Speaker 1:I was one of those that was screaming when I heard your voice saying this is so awesome.
Speaker 2:Thanks, so yeah, I hope everybody else feels that way.
Speaker 1:No, no, and I will say one thing as a radio programmer and then somebody that's on the other side and you've given us great music like that makes us who we are. That, um, you don't sound like others. You know. You have your own unique sound. Thank you.
Speaker 2:My feeling is is that's the way you have to?
Speaker 1:be. You have to own unique sound. Thank you, I appreciate that. My feeling is that's the way you have to be. You have to be unique. You've got to be Preston Cooper. You don't want to sound like you know as much as you love Chris Stapleton.
Speaker 2:You don't want to sound like Chris Stapleton? No, you've got to do your own thing, man, exactly Well, I want to say have you play a couple of songs?
Speaker 1:Okay, and we're going to get that posted. We are going to put the single up underneath this interview so you hear the full produced version with the full band in the studio. We'll do that, but you'll come back here in just a moment or two and play another song.
Speaker 2:Sure man, let's do it, Okay.
Speaker 1:Thanks for watching everybody and stand by.
Speaker 2:See you later. Watch the next video.
Speaker 1:All right I need to get some water, yeah, yeah. We'll take care of you. I don't know what to do you good, because I'll light it. I'll light up the thing, that's all good. End screen. Ah. I know you don't know, it's all good.
