2022 Guitar Pull Artist Ernest

Beasley Digital

4/22/2025

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00:00It's now time to announce artist number three.

00:03QIK guitar pole artist number three.

00:06Please reveal yourself.

00:08It's Jelly Roll.

00:09I'm just kidding.

00:10It's Ernest.

00:10Yeah!

00:11Yeah!

00:13Mr. I'll take your roses

00:16If you cut off the thorns

00:21You can't take no more

00:24Bad day for love

00:27But a good day for flower shops

00:32Ernest! Awesome!

00:35What's up, Ernest?

00:36What's up?

00:37Hey, man. It's good to talk to you.

00:39I mean, for people that don't know Ernest that well,

00:42you should love this guy

00:43because you have been hearing his songs

00:45over and over and over again

00:46if you like the Morgan Wallen Dangerous album

00:48because he wrote a ton of songs on that album.

00:51And you just heard his song with Morgan Wallen

00:52called Flower Shops.

00:53Dude, you are a talented guy.

00:55Hey, I'm so glad now you're out

00:57and in the spotlight doing your own thing.

00:59But it's had to be a pretty fun ride for you so far.

01:02Yeah, it's great.

01:03I'm happy to get out in front of people

01:05and play my songs.

01:06I've always wanted to do that.

01:07You're like, you know what?

01:08Here's the real talent.

01:09All right, Morgan, sit back.

01:10Here it is.

01:11Here's what I got.

01:13Yeah, just like that.

01:15Well, you know, man.

01:16Again, I also appreciate you taking the time today.

01:18I know you were taking care of your kid this morning

01:21and doing all that.

01:22So thanks for carving out some time for us.

01:24No problem.

01:25He's got some teeth coming in, so it's extra fun.

01:27Did my mom put, like, whiskey or something on our gums?

01:30I believe your mom probably did put whiskey on your gums.

01:33Yeah, probably did.

01:34I need to put some whiskey on my gums.

01:37No, no, no.

01:38Ernest, this is a conversation for off the air,

01:40but we don't want to follow the parenting of Laura.

01:43Okay.

01:44All right, so, Ernest, obviously you've written a lot with Morgan,

01:48but then you wrote Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s, too, for Sam Hunt.

01:54Is there a song out there that you had a good hand in but didn't get credit for writing?

02:00Other than Friends in Low Places.

02:03Yeah, no, that would make things very awkward if that really happened.

02:08I don't think that happens much.

02:10But I will say, just in general, I don't think there's any songs that I've written with other artists

02:16or given to other artists that, like, I wish I had kept just because maybe I will have that regret one day.

02:22But so far, I've done pretty good with just, like, love them enough to let them go.

02:25And especially if I'm making money off of them, what am I going to complain about?

02:29Talking to Ernest right now, our third QYK guitar pull artist,

02:33I'd like to ask this question.

02:35For you, when you're in a theater that has great acoustics and it's made for, you know,

02:39like, you know, theater plays and whatnot, so it's designed to sound great,

02:43what are the advantages for you acoustically versus a full band show?

02:48Well, I always have felt comfortable with just me in an acoustic,

02:51because that was me, middle school and high school, sitting in the hallways,

02:55in between classes and whatnot.

02:57I've always been, me and my guitar have always been a thing.

03:00So I love sitting on a bar stool and playing to a theater-type setting,

03:06because you can kind of, you don't have to stick to a click track tempo.

03:10You can just make the songs more intimate.

03:13So I look forward to doing that.

03:14That's a good point. I like that.

03:15And then what would you say your hardest song to sing live is?

03:20Did It With You is a lot of words, but I did that to myself.

03:23At least you're honest.

03:26I always remember, I'll always be, like, halfway through that song,

03:29like, damn it, why could you not have just said less, man?

03:34That's what I was saying, when you play it acoustically or anything,

03:37you can just say less.

03:38We don't know, right?

03:39Yeah.

03:40Hey, I probably won't be playing that one acoustic.

03:43Exactly.

03:44Anybody listening right now, do not hope to hear that song at QIK Guitar Pool.

03:48Go stream it all you want, but I probably won't be playing it on acoustic.

03:51There you go.

03:52Well, you're such an amazing songwriter.

03:54Is there a song out there that you didn't write,

03:58but you absolutely love and wish you would have written it?

04:01I would say The Chair.

04:06Oh, yeah, that's a good point.

04:07Pretty good.

04:07Yeah, never hurts to go with a George Strait song.

04:10It's one of the best country songs of all time.

04:12I got to write with Dean Dillon last week, and it was a dream come true.

04:16That's awesome, man.

04:17I love that you're a historian of country music,

04:20and you really come from a real place,

04:22and I think it's really cool,

04:22and it's going to shine through November 6th at the Mahaffey Theater.

04:26Ernest will be at the QIK Guitar Pool.

04:28Yeah.

04:29Woo!

04:29We'll see you soon, brother,

04:30and good luck with the kiddo with the teeth coming in.

04:33Whiskey on the gums.

04:35Whiskey on the gums.

04:36See you all in Tampa.

04:37All right, later.

04:37Later.

2022 Guitar Pull Artist Ernest

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