Dustin Lynch On His Fan Base and Keith Urban Advice To Him

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00:00From the time I first met you maybe five years ago till now, your fan base has exploded.

00:04You've got this incredible loyalty.

00:06What's one thing your fans have taught you or maybe something that you've learned about all your fans?

00:09I will say to trust my gut when it comes to songwriting.

00:11It seems like even if I don't tell the story about how a song came to be or what it means to me,

00:16they always pick out the ones that mean the most to me.

00:19Whenever we're getting to do meet and greets and stuff like that or getting to play like a stripped-down acoustic thing,

00:23they're always requesting the songs that mean the most to me.

00:25So I think that's probably what they have taught me through the years.

00:28You are your own artist. You're in your own lane.

00:30But you're kind of in this interesting class of maybe some fresh country faces.

00:34Kelsey, Carly, Jelly Roll, Morgan, you, and all these guys.

00:37Is there anyone that you connect to or maybe confide in the most in this class of country?

00:41In this class of country right now, it's Jelly Roll just because he and I are racing up the charts together.

00:46But you know, I grew up, I think I tell all the young artists and writers that moved to Nashville,

00:49find your clique. And you mentioned a bunch of them right there.

00:52Kelsey and I started about the same time.

00:53Thomas Rhett, Kip Moore, John Party, Cole Swindell.

00:56We all were kind of like on radio tour doing the thing, trying to get our songs heard for the very first time at the same time.

01:02And it's just so much fun to have friends around that experience the same challenges,

01:07you know, and the ups and downs of what music business is.

01:09It's so fun, but it's also very frustrating to put an album out and then you start back at zero every single time.

01:16And you got to build that mountain again, but it's a fun process.

01:17That makes sense. You'd have to have community around.

01:19And I wonder if there is a piece of advice some artist gave you early on that you remember who it came from, what it was.

01:24You know, it was Keith Urban is the first tour that I ever got to go on.

01:27He was the first guy to ever believe in me.

01:29And I don't know if he ever said it out loud, but I observed it just how how in the moment,

01:35how present he was, but also how regimented he was with his days and with his time in a great way to where he kept it healthy.

01:41And I think that was a blessing, probably a God thing.

01:43The reason I got to go out with him first, because then after that, it was Luke Bryan and the wheels fell off.

01:48I'm kidding.