Bailey Zimmerman takes us inside what inspired his new album ‘Different Night, Same Rodeo,’ how his Hot 100 hit “All The Way” with BigXThaPlug wasn’t supposed to be teased, why he waited a month to hear back from Luke Combs for “Backup Plan,” his search for a wife and more.

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Bailey Zimmerman:

This album I’ve worked on for, like, two years straight. I almost dropped it last year, and then it didn’t feel like it was good enough. I didn’t love it enough. So I just did it. I canceled everything. Now I feel like, “Wow, this is telling my story.” I saw that BigX was wanting to put out a country EP, a country project, and I remember sitting in my studio being like, “Man, how cool would that be? Ah, well, he didn’t text me, so I guess I’m not on it, right?” And then, like, three months later, he texts me. He’s like, “Hey, do you like this song?” And I’m like, “Dude, yeah, what are you talking about? Do I like this song?” He goes, “Do you want to put vocals on it?” And I’m like, “Yeah, of course.” So I put the vocals on the song. First mix we got back, it was like, “Dude, this is insane.” I was just, I knew it. I was like, “Bro, that’s a smash that feels so good.” Like, it’s insane. A little story that nobody knows: BigX wasn’t supposed to tease “All the Way.” He did it randomly. He did it with this one version of the song that was like the first version we had got back. It wasn’t finished. It hadn’t been produced, like nothing was done. Puts it out, and we’re all like, “All right, let’s go. Let’s go.” So then I start pushing it. He starts pushing it. The reason it took so long to come out was because it wasn’t done when we teased it. We weren’t supposed to tease it. And now I have a freaking song on the rap charts with freaking BigX dude, whoa. 

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