Logan Mize joins The Ty Bentli Show for an interview on Apple Music Country to talk about his new song It’s About Time, how living close to his hometown has led to interesting discoveries with his wife, and how the collaboration with Willie Jones on I Ain’t Gotta Grow Up happened. Listen to the interview with Logan Mize here.
Logan Mize on his wife Jill being inspiration for “It’s About Time”:
“Jill and I grew up in the same area, we grew up 45 minutes apart, an hour apart from each other. Our schools played each other in sports. We were captured in some of the same photos together that we didn’t know about back in high school. There’s a picture where she’s cheerleading on a track and I’m on a football field and we’re in the same picture. It kind of makes this place seem a little bit more special to our relationship. Home is where the family is, but this is where we had been within 10 feet of each other before and didn’t know it. So, there’s an extra level to it there.”
“Jill and I grew up in the same area, we grew up 45 minutes apart, an hour apart from each other. Our schools played each other in sports. We were captured in some of the same photos together that we didn’t know about back in high school. There’s a picture where she’s cheerleading on a track and I’m on a football field and we’re in the same picture. It kind of makes this place seem a little bit more special to our relationship. Home is where the family is, but this is where we had been within 10 feet of each other before and didn’t know it. So, there’s an extra level to it there.”
Logan Mize on “I Ain’t Gotta Grow Up” with Willie Jones:
“The original version that I sang was already there, but we were like, “We got to add his version.” So, we recorded his rewritten second verse and he had some ad lib stuff, and so both versions of the song are on the previous album…Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins, and you go, “Hey…” Those guys are top of their game and Kyle, they don’t need the money so that’s kind of nice. But, if you’re calling a writer and you’re going, “Hey, that one third chunk you had coming your way as a paycheck, it’s down to a quarter now.” I didn’t do it… Honestly, I got word right away that they were cool with it. I’ve always had a good relationship with those guys, because my first publishing deal in Nashville was when I was 21 years old. I was fresh to town and I was writing in the same house that Rhett, Ben Hayslip, Dallas Davidson, Jamey Johnson, Randy Houser, Jerrod Niemann, all of these guys were coming in and out of every day. So, I would see these guys and I was kind of like this [inaudible 00:05:09] little punk kid to them. They really were extremely nice to me and showed me the ropes. Jamey Johnson treated me like a friend. He was always this intimidating figure to me. And so, when it comes to something like that, I think everyone could see Willie’s star rising and they were like, “Yeah, this is a great idea. If Willie wants to do it, absolutely.” He was super excited about it. To have his enthusiasm there, it was just a no-brainer.”
“The original version that I sang was already there, but we were like, “We got to add his version.” So, we recorded his rewritten second verse and he had some ad lib stuff, and so both versions of the song are on the previous album…Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins, and you go, “Hey…” Those guys are top of their game and Kyle, they don’t need the money so that’s kind of nice. But, if you’re calling a writer and you’re going, “Hey, that one third chunk you had coming your way as a paycheck, it’s down to a quarter now.” I didn’t do it… Honestly, I got word right away that they were cool with it. I’ve always had a good relationship with those guys, because my first publishing deal in Nashville was when I was 21 years old. I was fresh to town and I was writing in the same house that Rhett, Ben Hayslip, Dallas Davidson, Jamey Johnson, Randy Houser, Jerrod Niemann, all of these guys were coming in and out of every day. So, I would see these guys and I was kind of like this [inaudible 00:05:09] little punk kid to them. They really were extremely nice to me and showed me the ropes. Jamey Johnson treated me like a friend. He was always this intimidating figure to me. And so, when it comes to something like that, I think everyone could see Willie’s star rising and they were like, “Yeah, this is a great idea. If Willie wants to do it, absolutely.” He was super excited about it. To have his enthusiasm there, it was just a no-brainer.”
Logan Mize on touring with Willie Jones:
“That was a fun tour we did with Willie. First time we sang that on stage together was in Hamburg, Germany. It was just so cool. Yeah. It was called Next From Nashville Tour, I think. And so, he like, “Hey, I wrote this part for that song Ain’t Gotta Grow Up,” and then he got up on stage and sang the second verse. It was a blast, man.”
“That was a fun tour we did with Willie. First time we sang that on stage together was in Hamburg, Germany. It was just so cool. Yeah. It was called Next From Nashville Tour, I think. And so, he like, “Hey, I wrote this part for that song Ain’t Gotta Grow Up,” and then he got up on stage and sang the second verse. It was a blast, man.”
