Bailey Zimmerman’s ‘Different Night, Same Rodeo:’ Collabs With Luke Combs & BigXthaPlug, Searching For a Wife & More | Music You Should Know | Billboard News - video Dailymotion

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Bailey Zimmerman’s takes us inside what inspired his new album, ‘Different Night, Same Rodeo,’ how “All The Way” with BigXthaPlug wasn’t supposed to be teased, why he waited a month to hear back from Luke Combs for “Backup Plan,” his search for a wife and more!  Are you excited for ‘Different Night, Same Rodeo?’ Let us know in the comments!

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00:00And then you're like, man, you look like you could be my wife, like, this is feeling good.

00:03And then you're like, oh, you've got a boyfriend out in California that I know about.

00:07How about that?

00:08You look great.

00:08Nice.

00:09Yeah, my hair, bro, it's been like, I've been sweating all day.

00:12So it's like.

00:16I call it New Chapter, Same Me.

00:23This album I've worked on for like two years straight.

00:26I almost dropped it last year.

00:28And then it didn't feel like it was good enough.

00:30I didn't love it enough.

00:30So I just did it.

00:31I canceled everything.

00:33Now I feel like, wow, this is this is telling my story.

00:43I saw that Big X was wanting to put out a country EP, a country project.

00:48And I remember sitting in my studio being like, man, how cool would that be?

00:53Well, he didn't text me, so I guess I'm not on it.

00:55Right.

00:55And then like three months later, he texts me and he's like, hey, do you like this song?

00:59And I'm like, dude, yeah.

01:01What are you talking about?

01:02Do I like this song?

01:02He goes, do you want to put vocals on it?

01:04I'm like, yeah, of course.

01:06So I put the vocals on the song.

01:07First mix we got back.

01:08It was like, dude, this is insane.

01:11I was just I knew it.

01:12I was like, bro, that's that smash.

01:15That feels so good.

01:16Like, it's insane.

01:24A little story that nobody knows, Big X wasn't supposed to tease all the way.

01:29He did it randomly.

01:30He did it with this one version of the song that was like the first version we had got

01:34back.

01:35It wasn't finished.

01:36It hadn't been produced.

01:37Like nothing was done.

01:38Puts it out.

01:39And we're all like, all right, let's go.

01:41Let's go.

01:42So then I start pushing it.

01:43He starts pushing it.

01:44The reason it took so long to come out was because it wasn't done when we teased it.

01:49We weren't supposed to tease it.

01:50And now I have a freaking song on the rap charts for freaking Big X, dude.

01:53Whoa.

01:59I would say what inspired Different Nights, Same Rodeo is how my life has been like the

02:04last like three years, four years, kind of like I've been looking for a wife and I say

02:10it like looking for a wife, but it's kind of like, I'm just looking for my person.

02:12Cause I want kids.

02:14I want a family.

02:14I want, I want that life, you know?

02:17And I feel like I've been, you know, I'd meet a girl.

02:19Oh, she's got boyfriends.

02:20She's cheating on her boyfriend with me now.

02:21The girls always got underlying red flags that you don't see.

02:25And they're like, man, you look like you could be my wife.

02:28Like this is feeling good.

02:29And then they're like, Oh, you've got a boyfriend out in California that I know about.

02:32How about that?

02:33That's kind of what inspired Different Nights, Same Rodeo is just like continuing to meet

02:37these girls and think something is going to come out of it.

02:39And then all of a sudden red flags and it's like Different Nights, Same Rodeo, dude.

02:45Religiously was stories from kind of my teenage years and feelings that I'd felt through there.

02:50Now Different Nights, Same Rodeo is really kind of what my life has been like since famous.

02:56Girls on the road and touring all the time and feelings of that.

03:00And it's a new project.

03:01I call it new chapter, same me.

03:09I got the song a long time before I texted him the song.

03:13But the first time I heard it, I was like, dude, Luke would crush this song.

03:18Like, I love it, but I feel like Luke would crush it.

03:20But again, don't have his number, so I don't know what I'm going to do.

03:23You know, I'm not going to text his manager and try to get his number, you know.

03:26So I was like, ah, you know, God's plan.

03:27And I'll just let it flow, see what happens.

03:30And he ended up inviting me to Concert for Carolina.

03:33We became really good friends that day.

03:36And then at the end of the night, we played the show, just had an absolute night together.

03:40He's like, hey, man, like, here's this envelope.

03:42And I opened it and it was like this huge thank you so much, like handwritten note from Luke.

03:47And at the bottom, it had his number.

03:49And I'm like, holy crap.

03:51So then I still didn't text him because I was nervous.

03:53One day I'd woke up and I'd been wanting to send it, but I was like, nah, not feeling it.

03:58And then one day I was like, send through my phone.

04:00I was like, whoa, okay, send it.

04:02Holy crap.

04:03Paced around my phone, you know, for a second, like waiting for a reply.

04:06No reply, so I just quit.

04:07Took him a month, a month.

04:09He didn't reply for a month.

04:10But I had heard that from people on the inside, they were telling me like, hey, man, Luke's been jamming that song.

04:16He really loves it.

04:17Like, don't, don't think he's saying no.

04:19Like, he hasn't texted you back yet.

04:20He hasn't said no.

04:21Like, keep hanging because I think he's going to do it.

04:23And I'm like, all right, all right.

04:24One day he texts me, this song rips, I'm in.

04:27And I just like looked at my phone.

04:30I'm like, I got chills right now.

04:32Like, just that moment was like, like, holy crap.

04:37Like, I'm about to have a song with Luke freaking Combs.

04:39Let's go.

04:40And now we're like good friends.

04:41It's top 20 on country radio.

04:43Like, crazy, dude.

04:44Another one unexpected.

04:46Definitely didn't think it would happen.

04:47God is good, dude.

04:48You never know what's going to happen, man.

04:50Let's go.

04:50If you got something to prove, go on and prove it.

04:54Don't let nobody clip your wings.

04:56You could never imagine shooting a music video on Stagecoach stage, headlining Sunday night.

05:03Crazy crowd.

05:04Insane energy.

05:05Me and Luke Combs.

05:06Like, you couldn't even imagine that.

05:08And he's like, hey, we should do the video at Stagecoach.

05:10And I'm like, let's do it, dude.

05:12Like, he didn't have to do that.

05:13He didn't have to, like, let me come on his stage to sing my song.

05:16Like, you know, so, man, dude, shout out Luke Combs, bro.

05:19Like, that guy is an absolute dog.

05:21Has shown me so much love when I hadn't really earned it.

05:24Great, dude.

05:24Yeah, back up playing, baby.

05:25Let's go.

05:28I would say when we get in the studio, we just, like, flow.

05:32Like, I don't like having a thing we're, like, kind of chasing.

05:36I kind of just like to get in and then start riffing on a guitar.

05:39Start riffing on something.

05:41Like, get a vibe going.

05:42And then what does that vibe feel like?

05:44What are we feeling?

05:44And if we don't like it, switch something else.

05:46Like, I hate being locked on something.

05:47So, studio day could start out and get a song quick.

05:51Or I could start out and it goes till 2 a.m.

05:53Because I haven't found nothing I like.

05:54And then we quit and we go do it again the other day.

05:56So, it's, like, random.

05:58I love, my ADHD just loves getting in the studio and going,

06:02I don't know what I'm going to do.

06:03Because I feel like that's when I make my best stuff is when I don't know what I'm going to do.

06:06And all of a sudden it just comes out, you know, so.

06:08Ain't a thing change around here but the money.

06:11You try to mix it up but let me tell you something.

06:14When New to Country came about, it was kind of a song that was sitting in my notes folder on my app, notes app.

06:20And I didn't know what I was going to do with.

06:21I didn't know if I was going to put it out.

06:23I didn't know what to do with it but I always loved it.

06:25And I always caught myself turning it on and jamming it.

06:28So, I started thinking, man, I don't really have that party song, that fun one that kind of tells who I am.

06:34The whole thing around New to Country is kind of like the funny thing that I'm not.

06:39Like I may dress like I'm like not country and I dress like I'm in the city but I grew up in a village of 800 people in southern Illinois.

06:47And as country as you could possibly be, I was farming my whole life, baling hay, stacking hay my whole life, cattle, grain, everything, man.

06:56I was doing all the country stuff, man.

06:57And up until I got famous or whatever, like started doing music, I was, I'm still that kid.

07:04But I just dress a little different.

07:07But I'm still that same kid.

07:08And that's what I wanted New to Country to be, was just like, listen, you may think you know me, but this is how I grew up.

07:13This is how I was raised.

07:14This is how we do it, where we're from.

07:16I'm anything but new to it.

07:24Every single stop on the tour, I'm so excited for it.

07:28The first stop's in Indianapolis, Indiana.

07:30And that's like three hours from my hometown and it's sold out.

07:33You know I'm bringing the energy there, man.

07:35And St. Louis, Missouri, that's only two hours from me.

07:37You know I'm bringing that energy.

07:39Honestly, every single show on the New to Country Tour, energy filled.

07:43That's who I am, though.

07:44Like, I can't just stand.

07:45I'm having a hard time just standing here, man.

07:47I'm like, I just, I've got, I've got ADHD so bad that I've just got energy constantly.

07:52Like, so, yeah, bringing the energy every show.

08:00You are country.

08:02You can't be country.

08:03You are country.

08:03I am country.

08:05I just dress a little different.

08:07You are country.

08:08You are country.

08:09You are country.

08:10You are country.

08:11You are country.

08:12You are country.

08:13You are country.

08:14You are country.

08:15You are country.

08:16You are country.

08:17You are country.

08:18You are country.

08:19You are country.

08:20You are country.

08:21You are country.

08:22You are country.

08:23You are country.

08:24You are country.

08:25You are country.

08:26You are country.

08:27You are country.

08:28You are country.

08:29You are country.

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