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\n\t\t\tWyatt Flores<\/a><\/p>\n
If you\u2019re trying to figure out Wyatt Flores, you have to start long before the streaming numbers and sold-out rooms, back when he was just a kid watching his dad play drums.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think my dad really wanted me to be a drummer, especially as a kid,\u201d Flores says. But while rhythm was in the house, strings had his heart. \u201cWhat most people don’t know is my uncle as well – [dad\u2019s] brother – was a guitar player. So, growing up, what I wanted to be was a lead guitar player, and that has still not worked out for me to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n
That dream quietly morphed at 13 when he heard Diamonds & Gasoline by Turnpike Troubadours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor some reason, that just switched my entire process on the way I view music. From then on, I’ve just been more so focused on lyricism and storytelling. That’s what really took it all off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Fast forward a few years and he\u2019s a week out from his first ever paid bar gig when someone casually tells him he should probably try writing his own songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat night I went home, I sat inside of our barn and I sat on a little radio, and in 30 minutes I wrote Travelin\u2019 Kid. That was the first song I ever released, and from then on it just kept going.\u201d<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t even want to release it. But a friend, Wyatt Baker, started playing it at gigs purely to wind him up.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’d start playing my own song just to try and piss me off. It worked. He’s like, \u2018You have to release this song.\u2019 I’m forever grateful for Wyatt Baker because if it wasn’t for him, I would have never tried to even release my own stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
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And as for that first recording? \u201cI recorded that song for $100 inside of a trailer house there in Stillwater, and here we are today in Sydney.\u201d And that is definitely not lost on him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a lot of times I have to find a moment during the show to take a deep breath and realise where we are and how far the music has gone. I’ve been telling the fans every single night \u2018thank you for getting my music out of the Oklahoma state lines,\u2019 because I never thought that it’d reach this far.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
His 2024 album Welcome to the Plains digs deep into where it all started. After two years trying Nashville on for size, home hit differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a time in my life where I moved to Nashville for two years and I started trying to get away from, you know, everything that I ever knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now I’ve traveled the world multiple times and I’ve come to find out that the only place that I truly want to be at is back home. There’s something there that I can’t find anywhere else in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t romanticise it either.<\/p>\n
\u201cTruthfully it’s the people. And that’s what that entire album is about is definitely where I come from. It’s not beautiful by any means, they call it a flyover state for a reason; but man, you miss so much when you don’t go there.\u201d<\/p>\n
That transparency runs through everything he writes – even when it scares him.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing from Oklahoma and being raised in the Bible Belt, when I released the song I Believe in God, I was honestly scared for my life.\u201d he laughs. He worried people would misread it entirely. \u201cI figured people were going to hear that and go, \u2018This song’s about the Antichrist\u2019 or something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead, a fan approached him with: \u201cGod does believe in you, brother.\u201d Flores laughs recalling it: \u201cBrother, I promise it’s just a song. It was just about a feeling of not being worthy enough for the love that God has\u2026 I thought everyone was going to hate me for saying that, and luckily it didn’t go that way and everyone kind of caught on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sad songs, though? Those come easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the most part, I’ve tried to find a good happy medium of having my sad songs even have tempo, because I like disguising it, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut yeah, sad songs are always like the easier ones to write\u2026 the sad ones are always the fun ones to write all day long.\u201d<\/p>\n
Except when they\u2019re brutal. Losing Sleep nearly broke him.<\/p>\n
\u201cLosing Sleep was one of the toughest ones. I rewrote those verses at least 10 times. The truth of it all behind that song is I never fully told the full truth about that song. Pretty much what happened was there was a girl that I was really into and she ended up going for my best friend\u2026 that’s betrayal times two.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s Australia, which he absolutely did not expect to fall for this hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as we got off the plane, the hospitality y’all gave us is far and above beyond anywhere else we’ve ever been to. My first time coming here, I was not expecting me to leave feeling that I was going to miss this place.\u201d<\/p>\n
So much so that he\u2019s manifesting his return. \u201cThe next tour I come on, I’m going to call it The Dual Citizenship Tour. Because seriously, I love playing for Australians more than anyone else in the entire world. I’m not saying that because I’m here, I’m dead serious.\u201d<\/p>\n
This current run? The Bucking Bin Chicken Tour, inspired by a mildly traumatic ibis encounter near the Opera House. \u201cI’m not questioning God, I’m just saying what was God thinking giving a bird this long of a beak?\u201d<\/p>\n
On stage, Aussie crowds are matching his chaos. \u201cThe greatest thing is that they’re so down to be singing along with the song that all I have to do is just ask them to sing and they sing it back.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been running through the crowd during Oh Susannah, watching fans bounce during Don’t Want to Say Night, and laughing at the sight from stage. \u201cThey kind of look like Mii’s\u2026 Like the Nintendo Wii.\u201d<\/p>\n
And then, just when he thought Australia couldn\u2019t top itself, he got a surprise video from Robert Irwin. \u201cI looked like a teenage girl flopping her feet up on the bed talking to a boy -that’s how it made me feel. I fan-girled so hard over that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the best day of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
From muddy Oklahoma sunsets to quokkas off Perth and packed Sydney rooms, Wyatt Flores isn\u2019t just touring he\u2019s fully present for each and every bit of it. And if he has his way, that Dual Citizenship Tour might not be a joke for much longer.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe next tour I come on, I’m going to call it The Dual Citizenship Tour. Because seriously, I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-500052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}