I like to get out and play golf sometimes. We usually try to ride to the gym or play basketball every now and then, something to get active and be off the bus for a little while because you’ll go crazy sitting on a bus all day. Swindell: Typically, when the day starts off, we don’t have a lot going on until sound check. Can you describe the things you need to do, before you hit the stage? We’re not having to juggle two schedules.īC: You’re in North Carolina as we speak. I do write on the road, but usually, it’s with a songwriter from Nashville, and that’s what they’re out here for.
I don’t think you can get in the right head space. You think you have time out on the road, but between his schedule and my schedule, it’s hard to write when you have to focus on meet-and-greets or I’ve got an interview in a couple of hours. I think we have to have that on the books, on the schedule, and maybe do it back home. Here’s the video of Cole Swindell’s hit single, “Middle Of A Memory.”īC: I know you and Dierks have a lot going on, but do you ever have time to do any songwriting together out on the road? The past three years being on tour with Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, now Dierks-I can’t imagine anybody better way to learn from than those folks. It’s like we’re part of the family.Īs a support act, hopefully, I’m learning for me and my guys, if we ever get to that point, which is our goal, to headline someday. He’s amazing on stage, but he’s also an amazing person off the stage…how he treats his people, how he treats me and my crew and band. Swindell: Amazing! He’s always been one of my favorites, and to be out there and see things behind the scenes. It wasn’t just performing on the ACM’s-it was performing with somebody that I look up to.īC: You’re opening up for Dierks on tour too. It’s one of those moments that was a lot of years in the making. Thinking back to those days, and here I am at the ACM’s about to perform a song I wrote with a guy that made me want to write songs. That must have been a special night.Ĭole Swindell: I think back to my college years when I was just getting started playing in the bars, and before I even started writing songs and Dierks Bentley’s first album came out. In this new interview, Swindell spoke to us prior to one of his shows opening on the Dierks Bentley’s What the Hell World concert tour, a few days after the two artists performed together on the ACM Awards.īC: You performed your new single “Flatliner” with Dierks Bentley on the ACM Awards. This is our second interview with him–three years ago we interviewed him about his earlier successes for a 2014 article. We are pleased to do this new interview with Cole Swindell. During that time, the 33-year-old performer also came up with the idea for his current heart-stopping Top 20 hit, “Flatliner.”
Records, he was a hit songwriter for Sony/ATV Music, where he co-wrote an impressive list of hits for Florida Georgia Line ““This is How We Roll”), Luke Bryan (“Roller Coaster”), Thomas Rhett (“Get Me Some of That”), Craig Campbell (“Outta My Head”) and Scotty McCreery (“Water Tower Town”). Then with his second album called You Should Be Here, he had two more hits with the title cut “You Should Be Here” and “Middle of a Memory.”īefore Swindell even had a label deal with Warner Bros. Three years ago (in 2014), Cole Swindell was just beginning to break out as an artist with the #1 country hit, “Chillin’ It.” Since then, the singer/songwriter has been on a non-stop winning streak with several chart-toppers: “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight,” “Ain’t Worth the Whiskey” and “Let Me See Ya Girl” from his self-titled debut album, which led to Swindell being named ACM New Artist of the Year in 2015.
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