Waylon Wyatt on getting recognised in Walmart and his first childhood memory | Firsts - video Dailymotion

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Rising country star Waylon Wyatt shares his firsts with NME, from his first time getting recognised in public, his first international trip, his first childhood memory, and more.

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00:00My bad.

00:01When I was in Toronto, or when I was in Toronto,

00:04I was told that you can't pronounce a T.

00:06Like, it's super offensive.

00:08So, Toronto!

00:13Hey, y'all.

00:14I'm Wynn the Wipe, and this is my first friggin' Amy.

00:20First artist I ever fell in love with was Mr. Todd Childress.

00:23He's a modern country artist.

00:25Someone I've always looked up to,

00:26lyricism, melodies, everything.

00:28I just really love the way he writes,

00:30and I feel that a lot of the way I write

00:32is coming from his music, too.

00:33So yeah, Todd Childress is definitely one of the first artists

00:35I've ever fell in love with.

00:40First concert I ever got to go to was Mr. Wyatt Flores.

00:44Big fan of Wyatt Flores.

00:45I've always been following him

00:46since his first journey of music.

00:48Got to go to his concert in Tulsa, Oklahoma,

00:51at Canes Ballroom.

00:52It's a crazy experience, and I hope someday

00:55that I get to play that venue

00:56so I can have that full circle moment.

00:57Seeing one of my favorite artists to claim

01:00or one of my favorite artists play.

01:05First headline show that I ever played

01:06was actually my own hometown.

01:08Well, close to my hometown.

01:09I was in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

01:10I'm from Hackett, Arkansas,

01:11so it's just a hot skip and a jump away.

01:14You know, it was crazy,

01:15as I had never known how big my name was in Arkansas.

01:19I mean, I passed my people.

01:20Nobody could really recognize me,

01:21but I played there and people wanted me to sign the boots.

01:24I signed foreheads.

01:25That was really crazy.

01:27Bellies, it was really weird,

01:29but it was a great time nonetheless.

01:30So yeah, definitely.

01:31It was a Fayetteville Arkansas, the first time.

01:37First song that I finished writing

01:38was Everything in the Sun.

01:40It was actually the very first song I ever got to put out.

01:42We recorded that in the rep room in my house.

01:44We brought a producer up there

01:47and he just had a couple of mics out there.

01:48I didn't know the lyrics that well,

01:50but when we got through it,

01:51and yeah, it was the very first song

01:53we ever actually got to put out.

01:54It was the very first song I ever finished,

01:55called Everything in the Sun.

02:01First song I had awards in the recording studio

02:03was with my buddy, Mr. Baggy Blankenship.

02:06We did Jailbreak and Sunday Stuff.

02:08It was two songs we collabed on,

02:10and we did those over in Nashville, Tennessee

02:12at a friend of ours, Brett Truett,

02:14and he produced other songs for us,

02:16and it was a great time.

02:17First time ever getting exposed to the producing

02:20and like studio limelight,

02:21so it was really cool to get over there

02:22getting to witness all that

02:24and watching an artist at his craft.

02:30First time I was ever recognized in public.

02:32So what I can remember was in a Walmart,

02:35because you know, Arkansas,

02:36we're pretty big on them things.

02:38Walmart's, yeah, I mean, that's where we come from,

02:40so it's Walmart's and songs

02:41is what we're really big on the 94.

02:42So yeah, I think a Walmart, I was shopping,

02:45and I was just with my fan room or something,

02:48and two girls just run up to me,

02:50and they're like, can I help you?

02:53But they're just, you're way in the wild.

02:55I was like, that I am, let me beat you.

02:57Because you know, when you're out,

02:58I like to say when you're out in the wild,

03:00you don't really recognize or remember who you are in a way.

03:03So like, I'm just going with my family.

03:04I think I'm an old guy, which I am an old guy,

03:07but like, I forget that my name is somewhat known to people.

03:10So yeah, it was crazy.

03:12It was the first time I was over at a Walmart.

03:18First thing I'm going to do when I finish the tour

03:20is catch up on my sleep schedule.

03:21I'm pretty bad at sleeping on time.

03:23I'm really bad at falling asleep on my phone in my hands,

03:27and it does and all.

03:29So yeah, definitely catch up on a few hours of sleep.

03:31I'm definitely going to go hang out with a few friends of mine

03:33and I'll catch up on some good times.

03:35I like to keep a few good friends that are counting on my hand.

03:37That's like, that's how I've always kept it.

03:39You know, I've never really ventured out to that space.

03:42So I'm glad that I only have a few good friends back home,

03:45but yeah, it doesn't mean catch up

03:46on with two friends back home too.

03:52First, I'm always over starstruck.

03:54Honestly, I've met quite a few artists

03:56that I've always looked up to,

03:57but I've never been really starstruck.

03:58Now, if I were ever to meet Todd Shooters

04:01or if Hank Williams Sr. was to rise back from his grave

04:04and come and meet with me,

04:06that's the moment that I probably just,

04:08my jaw would drop to the floor

04:10and I'd have a heart attack, something like that.

04:12Or I'd just drop to my knees or, oh no, where are you?

04:14You know, it is just,

04:15those two are the ones I've always

04:17completely looked up to for sure.

04:23First childhood memory.

04:25First childhood memory.

04:26Climbing a 25-foot flagpole at seven years old.

04:30In my memory, it's really not the best,

04:32but I remember climbing a 25-foot flagpole

04:35to put a flag up in the pole at seven years old,

04:38which was probably not the safest thing.

04:40Now, I don't remember exactly

04:42there being any parental guidance along my side.

04:45So yeah, we really got up to no good when I was younger.

04:49So, yeah, crazy.

04:55First pet, first pet I do recall

04:57was this dog named Frank.

04:59He had the floppiest ear too.

05:01Black floppy ears and his eyes would sag.

05:03So he walked everywhere, he just looked depressed,

05:05but he had long legs.

05:07So kind of look like a skinwalker when he's running at you.

05:09It's kind of scary in a way.

05:11He was always up to no good.

05:12He would take the trash from other peoples

05:14because we didn't have trash cans back when we had him,

05:18and he would always take the trash bags

05:19and he'd just walk up and down the street

05:21and drag it along, and then a hole would bust out of it,

05:24and he'd just, it's trash,

05:25and we'd spread out across the street.

05:27Other people hated us.

05:28That dog's long gone.

05:29I think people are blah-blah-blah-blah,

05:30but I ain't really blah-blah.

05:32He was a good dog, man, the best.

05:37First text that I sent this for him,

05:39I don't really quite remember if I sent any texts.

05:41Oh, well, I did.

05:42There was something about food.

05:43I'm a big bag.

05:44We had a photo shoot earlier,

05:46so there was something about,

05:47is there going to be food on the side for us?

05:49So, yeah, definitely.

05:51Always hungry.

05:56First international trip.

05:57First place I've been,

05:59like the furthest from my home state was Canada.

06:02Or when I was in Toronto,

06:04I was told that you can't pronounce a T,

06:06like it's super offensive.

06:07So Toronto, I was in Toronto.

06:09Had a headline show there.

06:11It's about 800 people.

06:12It was probably one of the biggest

06:13item on the show to date.

06:14So, yeah, it was awesome there.

06:16We got to catch a hockey game,

06:17which I'm not the biggest in sports,

06:18but it was a great time nonetheless.

06:19And it was the Maple Leafs hockey game.

06:21And apparently they're known for like losing,

06:23but they're also known for their fans

06:24just always be encouraging.

06:26Like they know that they're going to lose

06:27at the end of the night,

06:28and they still are just up and at it the whole time.

06:32So it was a really great time.

06:37My first dream job was a baseball,

06:40a professional baseball player,

06:41and which was a horrible first dream job.

06:44Cause I am not athletic whatsoever.

06:46Don't like, I'm somewhat in shape.

06:49And don't let that fool you.

06:51I was not good at sports whatsoever.

06:52I played basketball, football, baseball, and track,

06:54but I sat benched in every single one of them.

06:57Track, I was always left to do the mile and track.

07:00Like everybody else would get to do the cool ones.

07:02And I was there just out of breath at the very end of it.

07:04It was not fun whatsoever.

07:05I put that pretty early on.

07:07Football and baseball were probably my favorites,

07:09and I absolutely sucked those up too.

07:11Professional baseball player was definitely a problem,

07:13of course, dream job.

07:15Thanks for watching my first enemy.

07:17I'm Willie Y.

07:17God bless y'all.

07:18Thank you so much.

07:19I hope you enjoyed it.

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