https://youtu.be/Q-uOs5r7NfQ
download, and support his music. “Over the
last six or eight months I’ve been surprised
in a really good way,” Green says after selling
out shows from Mississippi to Georgia. “I’d
only been to Athens one time, and we sold
out the Georgia Theatre.”
Green says he feels like what he’s been doing
in Alabama for so long is starting to catch
on in Georgia and Mississippi. “It’s a benefit
to me how social media has changed kinda
how things are done in Nashville,” he says.
“You don’t have to have a record label to
make a living playing music anymore.”
Green is proud of what he’s achieved so far
saying, “It’s not something that was bought
through a record label or through a radio
station. It’s just people sharing, saying ‘Hey
man have you heard this guy?’. And some
high school kid listening to “Bury Me In Dixie”
in his truck, and then he goes to college in
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Starkville and lets everybody hear it.”
With his unique and genuine country sound,
Green says he doesn’t try to model himself
after anyone else. “I don’t know anybody that
I sound like, but I don’t know if that’s a good
thing or not.”
Green says he believes people get tired of
the same sounds of pop country. He places
himself somewhere in the middle of the road
between what you hear on the radio and
powerhouses like Sturgill Simpson and Jason
Isbell. “Their music is also very, very different.
It’s so far off mainstream country that it’s
almost its own category.”
On the road, Green listens to a variety of
other music, “My band gives me a hard time
because my playlist when we travel on the
road is one song and then the next song
is just as far as you can possibly go on the
spectrum.” Of course country tracks are
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