Chords for Hardy on His 10 Number 1 Songs & His Friendship With Morgan Wallen and Ernest

_ _ Artie is here with us right now.
I mean to have your life you're writing hits
yeah do you last time I looked it was ten number one is that still accurate
because I know you're about to have another one yeah it's ten okay could you
I'm not gonna ask you but could you name them all quickly yeah okay well here we
go I am gonna ask come on okay let's hear your ten number one song as go okay
up down simple I don't know about you God's country one big country song some
girls more than my hometown one beer single Saturday night Santa my boots
that's pretty good yeah that's pretty impressive man and what he just said
there's worth _ yeah pretty cool pretty cool so I had a earnest over at the
house yeah we were talking about Shane and so you in my mind you earnest and
Morgan run pretty tight is that yes how did that relationship come about _ _ _ it's
through Big Loud our record label um earnest had written for Big Loud for
forever Morgan was a Big Loud artist and I met them through FGL because I
before I was affiliated like professionally with Big Loud I was out
on the road with FGL for a long time writing and so there was a lot of Big
Loud people in and out Morgan was on tour with them earnest would be out
writing and and it just kind of happened organically we just started hanging out
and realized we had a lot in common and we loved writing songs and you know I
just sort of happened you won the songwriter of the year for 2022 yeah
that's pretty significant because you're also an artist yeah it's pretty wild man
like you're starting to blow up as an artist why you're still killing like
where do you have all the time to do this I just I try to make time and I
_ just I write during the week like we you know typically summer times a little bit
different but we tour you know Thursday Friday Saturday I take Sunday off and
sometimes Monday and then I try to write Tuesday and Wednesday and try to
write on the road it's just I've tried to to balance [B] them both at the same time
it can be tough sometimes but you know I give it everything I got and I mentioned
that at the same time he's got a top 15 song that's his give heaven some hell
which we're gonna play right now and then we're gonna come back in a second
so here is Hardy give heaven some hell [F] and then my favorite song of yours that
should have been a single that I mean I could probably just start playing it and
I think I'd be fine too but I don't want to take away from give heaven some hell
so let me play this first and we'll come back with Hardy in a second _ _ yeah hit it
again I'm curious to know what it is _ _
_ [B] Hardy is here he's got ten number ones
he was a songwriter of the year in 2022 I mean he as an artist he's on
everything like you're wildly and widely respected in this town it's and I see
you as a guy who's you know I mean you got tattoos you got the look like it's
hard to see Hardy the complete successful songwriter people are dying
to work with on a professional level and then the artist that gets out there and
just goes absolutely ham on stage like that's that's a it's quite the
juxtaposition there do you feel like you're two different people _ definitely I
mean you're are if you're like a lot of people have the philosophy of like your
artist is like your your artistry is your art you know and that's so Hardy is
is in a lot of ways different than Michael Hardy I feel like on stage I'm a
lot more animated a lot less chill _ it's just like an outlet for me to kind of
get everything out [Abm] and you know as a songwriter [N] just a dude I feel like I'm
pretty still pretty normal I guess what do your friends call you they call you
Michael Hardy they do everyone that's why I went with the artist name is I have
like one friend that calls me Michael and then like my fiance and like my
family but everybody since like high school most people have just called me
Hardy my favorite song of yours and I don't know if you remember I messaged
you a few days ago yeah that he went to Jared yeah and I it's such a funny song
but it's also so catchy and that line he went to Ole Miss I went to work yeah
like anyone that grew up like me in a rural town sure like you just hate the
other one to Ole Miss like I mean it's like the rich it was a privileged
college for sure and my fiance went to Ole Miss but _ _ I grew up a state fan I'm
my parents I moved here when I was 19 so I reluctantly didn't go to state but but
I grew up to not be a fan of Ole Miss and so it was a it was a nice
opportunity to for a little slam for sure so let me see if I remember the
lyrics I don't have him in front of me but I've listened to that song so many
times he went to Ole Miss I went to work he's pushing paper I'm pushing dirt _ _
right keep going he's got what's got a clean cut driving him a clean truck I'm
just sitting here drinking beer with my jeans tucked and then he went to Jared
you went to the bar yeah he went he went to Jared I went to the bar that song is
I'm gonna play it in a second but that's the song I could ball and you have a
your body at work and not just things that you saying that that's and when I
saw you perform that it's my favorite performance I mean it was so good
awesome man I appreciate it ever been a talk about that one being on you know
one of the one of the big radio songs or is that beyond that was that was on that
that record of the collab record the first one I did called Hick's tape and
and at one beer actually did come off of that record and we ended up putting it
on my record as well but no it was just fun and it was like potent it did well
like online and stuff like that but we never really talked about going to radio
with it's just a fun fun song to play live and how'd you get Morgan Wallen on
it with you we're just buddies and he was he was always a fan of that song I
think at one point he _ even said like I think I might cut this and then before
he cut again before he started going back in the studio I did so I beat him
to it and I said well why don't we just do it together so I'm gonna play it in
a second there's another thing that you guys do where you _ shotgun the beer pop
boom is that legit yeah do you try to get better at it as the tour goes so
like I think I'm probably about as good as I am ever gonna get at it I've been
doing it a long time do you ever had finished that I go I'm
a little drunk _ _ like I used to but I feel like I've gotten in such a rhythm now
it's all it's always like the same every night but there's been there's
definitely been times you ever not want to do it you know we have it in the set
I gotta go yeah you're bloated and you just don't want to do it I don't drink
beer before the show because of that and like it it makes me burp and I don't
want to like be in the middle of singing and just just rip one in front
of everybody but no it's and it's it's that's my last like performance you know
of the night and so it's a nice it's almost like a nightcap of like it's like
a treat or reward you know shotgun a beer and then you're done you can go do
whatever you want you come up from the bottom of this underneath the stage out
of nowhere there's Hardy and he's going hard you're like wow what is happening
right now and the Morgan it's just funny song great song and glad you're
here give Evan some mail we just played at top 15 you also have the song with
Dirks and Breland that's top five I mean you're everywhere that's all that's all
you ever wanted I think so man just happy to be along for the ride man will
you write a song today yeah I'll write a song I'm going to write a song in like
20 minutes you have an idea of what the song will be about can you give us a
rough outline of what you're gonna pitch in the room I _ have a couple ideas
we have an idea that's kind of similar to _ great day to be alive in the same
vein that I think I might throw out today not saying we'll write that we
might everybody else might hate it but it's a very similar like _ I'm a I'm a
good old boy and these are good things that are happening to me and they might
not be important to everybody but they're important to me kind of idea
called a great night not to be dead _ have that have that on me okay it's
that's for you at Hardy on Instagram and I'm gonna play this song now even though
it's it's old the Hicks tape one this is he went to Jared which I think is such a
funny song it's such a great song and congratulations on everything man thank
you there is Hardy everybody
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