{"id":18949,"date":"2019-10-01T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812570"},"modified":"2019-10-01T10:41:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:41:32","slug":"cole-swindell-is-having-a-full-full-circle-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/cole-swindell-is-having-a-full-full-circle-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Swindell Is Having a Full, Full-Circle Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">14m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>We all know the Cole Swindell backstory, right? He met Luke Bryan through their Sigma Chi fraternity at Georgia Southern University, and then when Swindell moved to Nashville to chase his neon rainbow, one of his first jobs was selling the merch at Bryan\u2019s shows.<\/p>\n<p>So in 2008, when Bryan put on his very first farm concert in Claxton, Georgia for about 2,200 people, Swindell was there on the sidelines selling t-shirts.<\/p>\n<p>But by 2012, Swindell was on the stage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"d974d45f\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/IMG_66341-1569947777.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/IMG_66341-1569947777.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/IMG_66341-1569947777.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/IMG_66341-1569947777.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/IMG_66341-1569947777.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/IMG_66341-1569947777.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/IMG_66341-1569947777.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/10\/IMG_66341-1569947777.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"IMG_6634(1)\" class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image portrait p3x4\" alt><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI remember that first show, because it was just me and Joel (Hutsell) on guitar. We did \u2019Chillin\u2019 It,\u2019 but that was my only song and it hadn\u2019t been released yet. I didn\u2019t have a record deal or a band or anything. Me and Joel just played cover songs,\u201d Swindell told me before he opened for Bryan at the Marshall, Wisconsin Farm Tour stop on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this whole thing has come such a long way. I never dreamed of playing in a town this small, but this is so unique because being out here is one of those things where I feed off the crowd. Always. And I know it\u2019s special to Luke and it\u2019s special to me that we get to do this together.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VKy69sE4VY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VKy69sE4VY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAnd this part of the Midwest has always been so good to us. These are some of our best shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also another perk for Swindell: The Peach Pickers. Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, and Ben Hayslip always come out to the Farm Tour shows to warm up the crowd with their extensive setlist of country songs they\u2019ve written for stars like Bryan, Blake Shelton, Brooks &amp; Dunn, Josh Turner, Joe Nichols and more. So during the downtime on tour, Swindell has the chance to write with the Pickers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s crazy for me because those are The Guys. They wrote the songs that made me want to move to town,\u201d he told me. \u201cAnd tonight, they\u2019ll play all the songs I wish I\u2019d written.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t explain how much I wanted to write songs, before I even thought about getting a record deal. I looked up to the Peach Pickers and I fell in love with the songwriting thing. Now it\u2019s full circle for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Farm Tour continues on Oct. 3 in Louisburg, Kansas, with additional stops scheduled for Douglass, Kansas on Oct. 4 and Norman, Oklahoma on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>While Swindell didn\u2019t grow up farming, he was all around it when he was a kid. Cotton, peanuts, corn, soybeans: you name it, they farmed it. And he estimated that his family\u2019s convenience store had a customer base of about 90 percent farmers. He even went back to that small town of Bronwell, Georgia to film his brand new video for \u201cRight Where I Left It.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/REwLmMmreL4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/REwLmMmreL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812570\/cole-swindell-is-having-a-full-full-circle-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 14m ago We all know the Cole Swindell backstory, right? He met Luke Bryan through their Sigma Chi fraternity at Georgia Southern University, and then when Swindell moved to Nashville to chase his neon rainbow, one of his first jobs was selling the merch at Bryan\u2019s shows. So in 2008, when Bryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 20:25:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}