-Luke, welcome back. How are ya?
-Good to see ya. How is your life?
-My life is all right. A little strange.
I assume it's a little strange for you, as well.
I imagine a new album, the way you would expect
to be promoting it is on the road in front of adoring fans,
and yet, here you are Zooming with me.
-[ Laughs ] Hey, that's as enjoyable.
I mean, but we -- Yeah, I mean, we originally had the album
scheduled to come out in April,
and we had all these tour -- this big tour that was gonna
set up the album, but obviously, as you know,
a lot of stuff has changed. But, hey, you got to --
When, you know -- You got to do what you --
You got to play the hand that's dealt.
But we're excited to have the album out.
I've had a lot of these songs completed for some time now.
So I'm tired of riding around listening to 'em in my truck.
I'm ready for the fans to hear 'em.
-Well, one of the things you had to make do with the situation,
the hand we're dealt, you had dealt yourself acres and acres
of farmland, and you actually planted sweet corn.
Is this the first time you've planted corn there?
-I have had small little patches of sweet corn,
but when I got -- When we started quarantine,
I had my nephew,
two of his buddies that were going to college with him,
and then two other boys that we were quarantined with.
And I totally -- I was like the old dad that runs in on 'em
like, "All right, boys. You're not laying around all day.
Let's start a garden."
So, I told 'em, you know, I got on the phone and I started
ordering all of these tomato seeds, cantaloupe, watermelon,
sweet corn, and we just -- I went and bought us a tractor.
We started tearing up all this -- You know,
I've got some land around my house.
We were out there working.
The boys built this unbelievable greenhouse,
so we grow all this stuff, we plant the corn.
The corn is like the prettiest patch of corn I've ever seen.
And then all of these boys go back to college
and they leave -- essentially, they abandoned me.
They used me, they used me, and, yeah.
My -- You know, I left the farm to chase music,
and then I go back to the farm, and now, yeah,
I need to stick with music.
I can grow stuff.
Now, marketing the corn and selling the corn
is a whole different deal. -This is very like you
to involve your family in your endeavors.
Your music video for "One Margarita"
had the whole gang.
We have a photo of your mom.
Whose idea was that?
-Well, the funny thing is so we filmed the video in Mexico
at Crash My Playa back in January.
You know, my mom calls me that morning.
You know, she is like, "Oh, I'm under the weather.
I'm tired. I don't want to come down here and do the video.
I'm tired." So she shows up,
and when the lights, camera, action -- when the cameras roll,
you know, she's dancing on barstools, table tops.
You know, getting on people's shoulders.
I mean, so she knows how to turn on the charm.
-Hey, I want to ask about this, as well, because the song
"One Margarita," it's a little bit misleading,
because it's about three margaritas and a shot.
When you write a number-one song like that,
that has a drink order in it,
and you are recognizable and you have fans,
the kind of fans that you have, I imagine that this is --
and I have heard that this is a drink order
that will be sent over to your table?
-Yeah. So, here where we're from in South Nashville, you know,
the restaurants are open at half-capacity.
So, you know, my wife and I,
we'll roll out and sit at a little table,
and then someone will send us three margaritas and a shot.
And they're like -- and then I'm like,
"Well, guys, I appreciate the sentiment and the gesture,
but, you know, I mean, I don't --
I don't really need to black out here."
-Right.
-At me and my wife's go-to restaurant.
They are like -- and then two -- like -- it's like becoming
the thing where, yeah, I mean,
people expect me to just down three margaritas and take a shot
of tequila, and just, you know, hop in the car and start,
you know, ramming cars as I fly out of the parking lot.
So I've got -- you need to help me develop a letdown line.
-Yeah. -We got to --
-I think a letdown line is better,
because my other idea was -- it just doesn't seem
very country to record a song called like
"Half a Glass of Pinot."
-[ Laughs ] -Right? You can't do that.
-Half a glass of pinot. Full glass of pinot.
One and a half glass of pinot. Syrah, syrah.
-There you go. You are getting there.
Hey, last thing. This has been recirculating.
This happened a while ago, right, because people
throw things on stage, and here is video of you
getting hit with a beer can.
Obviously, not the most ideal place.
When you saw it, did you remember when that happened?
-Well, I remember it happening, and then I saw it.
Somehow it got shared of me
taking the beer can to the privates, to the junk.
-[ Laughs ] -And, you know, it's like fans
are, you know -- fans get caught up in the moment, you know?
But, yeah, I mean, throwing a beer can right at my crotch
is -- And you can see my reaction.
It's -- I held it together, though.
-That's what I was going to say.
You had to walk a narrow line, and I was very impressed.
And, hey, very excited you are going to stick around
and do a song for us. Thanks so much.
It's always so great to see you, Luke.
-Hey, thanks for having me. Thank you.