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Ep. 245: Luke Combs on the B-Side of Hunting

Published: 2020-11-02 10:00:00
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Steven Rinella talks with Luke Combs, Reid Isbell, Dan Isbell, Luke Thorkildsen, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: being on the tour bus; the Fatvian Seagulls; organic vs. assembly line song writing; ten cents per song on one of the best selling albums of all time; on being a lunch pail song writer; where country music and the outdoors intersect; on maintaining country music street cred in the outdoors; dudes that are actually like the dudes in country songs; letting the chickens out in your undies; when Northerners speculate on the lives of Southerners, and vice versa; turkey hunting as the poor man's elk hunting; country fried antelope; pronouncing the words, "pecan" and "crappie"; Steve's new hit song lyrics: "you gotta work with what you got, not with what you wish you had"; retreating to write; leave it to Stever; the definition of a hook and the Johnson motor; if Steve were a trout...; shit as fertilizer; the grizzly bear vocalist; and more.

 

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Referenced Books

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Steve Rinella mentions reading a book about Nashville in the sixties, saying 'A couple of years ago, I read this book I wish you could remember the name of it. It was about Nashville and the sixties.' He discusses how it covered Willie Nelson, David Allen Coe, and the music scene of that era, including details about drug use and pinball playing that wasn't portrayed in the music.
Referenced at 00:00:08
Great Plains
by Ian Frazier
Steve mentions 'There's a great book about the great planes called Planes in the Great Plains. The writer Ian Fraser describes a redtail hawk sitting on a power line' (likely referring to Ian Frazier's 'Great Plains'). He discusses how the author uses a beautiful simile comparing the hawk fanning its tail to someone working a deck of cards.
Referenced at 00:00:08
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
Referenced in a discussion about story endings and narrative structure. Steve mentions 'Remember at the end of No Country for Old Man?' when discussing how the antagonist checks his boots for blood. Earlier, Cormac McCarthy is discussed as a writer who 'does his homework' and gets details like firearms exactly right in his work.
Referenced at 00:00:08