Riley Green At The 2023 CMAs

Beasley Digital

4/23/2025

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00:00It's Jeff Kirkshen and Justin live at the CMAs with Riley Green.

00:03What's up?

00:04How you doing?

00:05I'm good, man. This is fun.

00:06Saw you crushing it at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

00:11You did an amazing show opening up for Luke Cobbs.

00:13Appreciate it, man.

00:14That was a really easy tour to be a part of.

00:17Obviously, you're playing in front of 50-something thousand people,

00:19and they're so fired up to be there.

00:21I'm such a big fan of Luke, too.

00:23It was great, man.

00:24Learned a lot.

00:25Very different than playing clubs and even arenas to do stadiums.

00:28So it was a really good tour to be a part of.

00:31Do you take a moment out on stage in a stadium to just totally absorb it because it's so different?

00:36I think if you take too much of a moment, you'll get nervous.

00:39For me, it's like I go out there, and as soon as that first chord hit,

00:42it's like the fans are so rowdy.

00:45I mean, that show in particular, I remember the crowd was just really into it,

00:48and it was just a lot of fun to be out there and play in front of that many people.

00:51I got a bone to pick with you.

00:52Okay.

00:53You make me party when I watch you,

00:55and then you make me cry with I Wish Grandpa's Never Died, just like that.

01:00I think it's really awesome for an artist like yourself to have such range.

01:03That's pretty special.

01:04I don't know if anybody's ever said that about me.

01:06I think I kind of live in one little place.

01:08No, I think you have more range than you think.

01:10Well, the thing is, I think I tend to write from a place that has some kind of emotion.

01:14I like to write about things I grew up and values that I learned as a kid and my family especially.

01:23People aren't going to walk around and cry all day,

01:25so you've got to write some stuff that's a little more fun

01:26and some things people can kind of roll the window down and enjoy.

01:29So I try to do a little of both.

01:30Congrats on the new album.

01:31It's awesome.

01:31Appreciate it, man.

01:32I front to back it.

01:33You've got to listen, because I know you put a lot of work in selecting where it's going to go.

01:38So it's a lost art sometimes, and it's great.

01:42We listened to it on the way down, which is we drove 14 hours to get here.

01:44Well, you've got to listen to it three times.

01:46Actually, on the way back, it's about three, Riley Green.

01:47You probably hate it right now.

01:49If that's all you listened to were 14 hours, you don't even want to talk to me.

01:52Well, we listened to the album on our way down.

01:55We listened to Megan Maroney's new album on the way down, too.

01:58Is there an album you're going front to back or recently went front to back on that you love

02:02or an artist that you love listening to these days?

02:04I'll tell you what I did the other day is I downloaded

02:07Alabama, 51 number ones or whatever.

02:12That's crazy.

02:13And just because for me, I'm a pretty good buddy of Randy Owen.

02:15He's an alumni of the college I went to and played ball at in Jacksonville, Alabama.

02:19And I just got to thinking about that of like 50-something hits to have been doing it that long.

02:25And I think for me in my career, like from a learning standpoint,

02:27that's what's really impressive to me because there is a lot about this that gets a little monotonous.

02:31You play the same songs every week.

02:32And to think about bringing that same energy and to really think about it as somebody's first show to hear you, maybe.

02:38You know?

02:39And for those guys to have a career like that, it was awesome.

02:41So, yeah, that album.

02:42What position did you play?

02:44I was the quarterback.

02:45Look at that.

02:46Is there a quarterback you grew up watching that was kind of an influence on you?

02:50Oh, yeah.

02:51So, in Alabama, you're either an Alabama or Auburn fan.

02:53And mine was Damian Craig at Auburn.

02:57And it was him and Freddie Kitchens was kind of against each other.

02:59And I picked Damian Craig, so I became an Auburn fan because of that.

03:02That's awesome.

03:03Riley Green on with us.

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