oh thomas rhett right there singing
about finding his way home in his new
song
country again the multiple award-winning
four-time grammy nominator
artist joins us right now that's only
part of the awards
thomas exactly thomas we are so excited
to talk to you today scott
tell thomas what you just said about his
music okay here's the thing and you
you and i have had this conversation
before but listening to his music makes
you want to be
close to somebody it there's like a
there's like a feeling that you get like
you want to hold
hands yeah exactly you have this light
man and it oozes out of your music it
makes you feel good
man thank you so much for saying that uh
like i've told you earlier that's like
the best compliment anyone's ever given
me so
that's what i strive that's what i
strive to be you know so thank you for
saying
that it's real like okay so for example
country again there's part of the song
says
i traded sunsets with my wife for hours
on my phone
and even when i was right beside her i
really wasn't
home it was like a reminder that like
while we're all this is going on
we're stuck we're steady here talking
about where we're we're present
what was it like for you to actually get
that down though on a track
yeah you know i mean i feel like all of
us can relate to that in some form or
fashion you know i mean i think for the
last i've been doing this for a decade
now
and there's been so many times over the
last decade where it's just been like
something cool happens okay let's go to
the next thing something cool happens
let's go to the next thing and i wasn't
like i wasn't taking time to like
celebrate
awesome stuff does that make sense yeah
um and
sometimes i'd come home off the road and
even though my body was
technically at home my mind was still
somewhere else you know thinking about a
show or thinking about a song or
thinking about what's coming next and
like
there was something about 2020 that like
really it just kind of hit me one day it
was like
man if i could just stop and slow down
for a second and like really recognize
what is in front of me and realize that
this
is the priority my family my babies you
know like and really just kind of soak
in these moments
um and for you know just kind of change
my perspective on life and
that's kind of where country again the
concept of that song came from it really
just meant
how do i live simply again you know what
i'm saying like how do i just slow down
and take take the time to do the things
that i love and the things that i love
or you know my wife
my babies and my family so that was a
really kind of in the moment song
that i think can can resonate with quite
a few people talk about the track on the
album called to the guys that date my
girls
you better buckle up boys they're still
little right now
but what's coming yeah it's crazy
because i think you know as a dad my
kids are
five three and one and even just like
thinking about them being that old now
it's like man
15 or 16 years old is coming real quick
you know and thank you thinking about
that moment when someone comes to my
house and they're like
you know mr aikens i'm ready i'm here to
take your daughter one of your daughters
out on a date
like what which which version of dad am
i gonna be am i gonna be the guy that's
like
you know you know what are your
expectations with my daughter or is it
gonna be like hey come in for coffee
let's get to know you
you know i i don't really know which
version of that dad i'm gonna be but
this is kind of like a rough draft
letter uh to those kids
you know it's kind of like hey you
better make sure my wife likes you
because if she doesn't
you're screwed anyway you know or uh you
know just
just respect them you know treat them
with kindness treat them with love and
and uh and we'll be and we'll be all
good but um that's one of my favorite
tracks off this record
but i'll tell you they'll choose the
love that you've shown them so they'll
find a great guy because you're setting
the example
on that one right now as a as a white
man
right in country music married to a
white woman raising a black daughter
from uganda
with all that's happening in our world
and in our country in particular right
now
how are you making sure that she stays
connected to her
her culture that she stays connected to
where she comes from
you know it's kind of an ever going
conversation man and uh you know i think
any time willa gray brings up anything
like sometimes
my wife has some friends that are
actually in uganda right now and any
time we face time with our friends from
uganda like willa grey's always running
to the phone saying are those my friends
or those my friends
and it's really sweet man um you know we
really want to take willa grey back over
to uganda in the little town of cindy
where she's from
because she asked about it so often you
know and it's something that we want to
make sure that she is completely
dialed in with you know with her culture
and the place that she was born
and hopefully one day we can we can go
back over to uganda and i think that
would be a very sweet moment for her
yeah man
do you think you're going to add any
more kids to the family come on
look yeah is that a yes
yeah for sure man i mean my my wife has
always wanted five kids therefore we're
probably gonna have five or six you know
um it's just when you hit the number
three it's just like
what's another one you know it's just
kind of like adding to the chaos
grab as many as you can thomas rat keep
adding to that family
is it true that you and your wife
actually met in elementary school
first grade we no we really did that's
not that's not a lie um we we both went
to the same school since first grade
i don't think we really knew each other
until about fifth grade
um like i had i had braces
and like i i remember i dyed my hair
black in fifth grade and lauren was like
you know a whole foot taller than i was
or the picture of us at church
but uh but that's when we started to
become friends around fifth grade and um
always were just great friends our
families were good friends and
they gave it a chance at dating when we
were like 15 or 16 and then broke up for
a very long time
and uh both dated other people and got
back together when we were about 20
years old
and uh that's just celebrated eight
years of marriage last year wow
pretty wild but going oh that's a good
one thomas rhett when you go back do you
remember your first
kiss with her like what grade was that
in i remember it vividly because it was
so embarrassing
i remember we were laying on my
trampoline in our backyard
and um and i leaned in to kiss her and
my mom
opened the door of our back porch and
she kind of freaked out i kind of
freaked out and she we both
she sat up while i leaned in and we just
clanked teeth and like
you know i had braces i'm sure i put
like an indention on her lip or
something but
it was uh it was not the most romantic
of first kisses hey it worked
i bet you different that's good that was
a double bounce right there that worked
that worked huge
double bounce tell us about the tour
we just put our our tour on on sale in
august
which will be a bunch of amp theaters
across the country and
me and the band are back in in
rehearsals and knocking the rust off i'm
like relearning words to my songs
remembering how to contain a crowd and
uh but i could not be more excited it's
it's something
you know when you go without it for a
year and a half i don't think i realized
how much i was going to miss it
and it's it's one of those things that
you just can't describe that feeling of
walking out on stage in front of people
and having them sing your songs back to
you and just watching a crowd just
connect with what you're doing it's just
it's just so special man you've been
doing it for a long time you'll be doing
it for a long time
more it's great every time we see you
yeah we're so happy for you excited for
the new tour
yeah and to add more babies to that
family yeah i love
all your family pictures kid will wish a
baby
they're so beautiful thank you all so
much thank you all so much for hanging
out with me today it's always a pleasure
to talk to you all
country again side a will be available
this friday
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