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Riley Green talks with Katie Neal at the 2024 CMA Awards Radio Row!

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00:00I was feeling inspired after we were all at the Boot Barn fashion show last night to wear

00:06these fun boots.

00:07Listen, I felt like everybody there was looking at me for my reaction.

00:11I wish I could have seen you.

00:13I could.

00:14It was like trying.

00:15Are we standing up?

00:16Yeah, we're standing up.

00:17Okay.

00:18I was trying not, it was like not laughing in church.

00:19You know, I was like, cause it was, it was fun, but it was fun, but I was like right

00:24there.

00:25And the lady came out and she was doing the, there was a lady doing acrobats and she was

00:28like interpretive dance and they were all staring a hole through me when they were walking

00:32down.

00:33I didn't know where to look.

00:34Is that the first fashion show you've ever been to?

00:36It won't be the last though.

00:37It's a fun time, right?

00:38I enjoyed it.

00:39I wish it lasted about three hours and I was drinking.

00:44Yeah.

00:45That would have been fun.

00:47It's very quiet when it's happening.

00:48Here's what was tough when it started and that girl was doing that dance thing where

00:51she was spinning on her head and stuff and it was real quiet.

00:53I wanted to clap.

00:54Miranda had to like stop me because I was like, you don't clap for, that was awesome

00:58when she did.

00:59Oh my God.

01:00It's a different setting than I'm used to.

01:01I can't believe that Miranda Lambert like reached over and stopped you.

01:03Don't do that.

01:04Don't embarrass me here.

01:05That's incredible.

01:06All right.

01:07CMA Awards.

01:08That's what we're here for.

01:09You are performing with Ella Langley, correct?

01:11Do I have that right?

01:12That's right.

01:13All right.

01:14Um, this song, when she sent you this to write the second verse, did you like, what was your

01:18thought about it?

01:19Did you imagine that it would get the reaction that it's gotten?

01:22No, this song is proof that I don't know what's a hit cause uh, I mean it was, it was very

01:28organic how it happened, which has been like a lot of the collaborations I've done.

01:31You know, I took Thomas Rhett, Duck Cotton and we came out with half of me and I was

01:34on tour with Luke Combs and played him different around here and that ended up being a big

01:38hit for me.

01:39So, uh, Ella was out on tour with me, heard the song.

01:43I don't think they really know what they were going to do with it.

01:44I don't know if they were going to release it.

01:45Yeah.

01:46Cause it's so different.

01:47It is.

01:48And I, and I said, well, I mean, I wonder if, you know, the second verse was kind of

01:50more of the first verse.

01:51What if I wrote it from like the guy's perspective when we did it and, and they liked it and

01:55uh, yeah, I thought the talking verses were probably a little too traditional, right?

02:01But how awesome is it to see a song that's that country that's really that big of a hit?

02:05We were just down in Florida at a show that was at a casino and when I left one of the

02:09nights I was like walking past the bar and they were blasting that song at like 1am everyone's

02:14like dancing to that song, which is, I was like, this is the last place I ever would

02:18have expected to see that.

02:19But they loved it.

02:20It's uh, yeah, it's crazy.

02:21It's kind of a phenomenon.

02:23It really is.

02:24I've never had a viral hit, I guess, you know, and that was like kind of an overnight

02:27thing and you picked your phone up the next day and you couldn't get away from it.

02:31It was on everything, you know, so it's cool to see that I'm super happy for her success

02:35with it too.

02:36It's been awesome to watch.

02:37Great.

02:38And you guys are going to perform.

02:39Is this your first time performing on the CMAs?

02:40I think so.

02:41Yeah.

02:42You don't know?

02:43I feel better for not knowing.

02:44Yes, it is.

02:45It is.

02:46Okay, great.

02:47Are you nervous at all?

02:48Let's just do two answers.

02:49No, it's not.

02:50Okay.

02:51So now we got both.

02:52Um, who are you most like, who do you want to not make eye contact with?

02:53I didn't even think about that till you said it now.

02:55I feel like Dierks Bentley.

02:56I saw where everybody's sitting at, so if I look at him.

02:59Don't look Dierks in the eye.

03:00It'll be all over.

03:02And then Damn Good Day to Leave, your current single, obviously doing really well.

03:05Talk about this song.

03:06Yeah, it's a fun breakup song if there is such a thing.

03:10I love the thought of, you know, the girl left and you're sad, but the fish are biting

03:15and the beer's cold, so it'll be all right.

03:20And it's a fun song and it makes you want to roll the window down and turn it up.

03:23So I love to see that song and it's always great when a song's climbing the chart because

03:26you get to watch the crowd sing it louder every week.

03:28Yeah, which is always fun.

03:29And then you're going out on the Damn Good Day to Leave tour in 2025.

03:32Uh, that would be a good name for it.

03:34Wait, no.

03:35It does have damn in it.

03:36It's the Damn Country Music Tour.

03:37Damn Country Music Tour.

03:38That was close.

03:39So close.

03:40You can't throw damn in too many things and confuse all of us.

03:41Anyway, what are you excited about for the tour?

03:43My new damn tour.

03:44Damn it, Riley.

03:45Riley's damn tour.

03:46Damn Country Music Tour.

03:47Ella Lange is going to be with me.

03:49I kind of can't get away from her at this point.

03:52You guys are glued together.

03:54Drake White, Jake Worthington, a bunch of up-and-coming artists that I'm a huge fan

03:57of.

03:58And you know, it's really exciting to have a, you know, my album Don't Mind If I Do just

04:01came out.

04:02So I'll get to play a lot of these songs I haven't even played live yet, which is always

04:04a lot of fun.

04:05Good.

04:06Well, I'm very happy for you.

04:07I can't wait to see this performance.

04:08It's Friday night on the CMA Awards.

04:09Riley Green, thanks for coming by.

04:10I'm looking forward to it.

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