Adam Doleac on Dad Life, Writing for Dan + Shay and Lainey Wilson

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00:00 So how has that been?

00:00 How's dad life?

00:01 How are you feeling?

00:02 Really great.

00:03 Like, people get mad at us, we feel so good.

00:06 Because we're sleeping-- we're almost sleeping more now

00:08 than we did before.

00:09 Because for about a month-- he's 11 weeks old today.

00:13 And for the last month, he slept from 8 PM to 7 AM every night.

00:16 You are so lucky.

00:17 I know.

00:18 Because I've heard Horace-- even my little brother just

00:20 didn't sleep for three years.

00:22 And so he's happy.

00:24 He's had a personality since the first week we brought him home.

00:27 He smiles all the time.

00:28 It's been really great.

00:29 Your parents lost three years of their life.

00:31 They'll never get it back.

00:32 100%.

00:33 That kid was away.

00:34 They're just zombies.

00:34 That's just a blur.

00:35 You've got your own career up being a front man.

00:39 But then you also-- you're a writer.

00:41 You've written for a while.

00:42 Like, Darius Rucker, Kane Brown.

00:45 Give me just a takeaway from working with those guys.

00:48 You know what?

00:49 It's actually been more so--

00:51 a lot of people ask that-- working with them.

00:53 And it's more like, they got the song.

00:55 Yeah.

00:55 Because I basically go in every day--

00:57 I've never had any luck saying, you know what?

00:59 I'm going to write a Dan and Che song today.

01:02 I'm going to go in and try to get a cut for Dan and Che.

01:04 But I got one on their last record.

01:06 Me and Dan are buddies, and Che too.

01:07 And so he hit us and was like, any songs

01:10 that you feel great about?

01:11 And I sent them a folder of songs

01:13 that I had written for me, but that weren't something

01:15 that I was about to use.

01:17 And they ended up cutting one.

01:19 Same with Lainey Wilson's last record.

01:20 There's a song called "Live Off" that I had a vocal on first.

01:23 And then she ended up hearing it, and then she

01:25 put a vocal on it.

01:26 And we all kind of agreed, like, that fits you even more.

01:28 You know, it had-- just the lyric

01:30 was a little more country and a little more

01:32 lainey than it was me.

01:33 And that's how everything's happened.

01:34 Same with Darius Rucker, Gabby Barrett.

01:36 A lot of these cuts have just been--

01:38 Gabby, someone actually got to write it with in the room,

01:40 which is cool, because I love female voices,

01:44 and especially hers.

01:45 It's so good.

01:46 And so on those rare times that you

01:48 can write these melodies that normally I

01:50 can't write for myself because I can't get way up there,

01:53 you know?

01:54 That's fun to be able to aim at a voice like that.

01:55 - Yeah, so creatively you get to explore things.

01:57 - Yeah, it makes you write a little bit differently.

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