We recently connected with Adam Warner and have shared our conversation below.
Adam, looking forward to learning from your journey. You’ve got an amazing story and before we dive into that, let’s start with an important building block. Where do you get your work ethic from?
When you grow up in a family of farmers work ethic is instilled at a very young age, both my parents and my grandparents were very hands on in that! I grew up in Lawrenceville IL. and both sides of my family were farmers, together farming over 5000 acres. I was driving a tractor long before I was driving a truck! That discipline carried with me when I enlisted in the United States Marines, in fact, it intensified it! If you want something you have to work for it, it’s just that simple.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I am an aspiring Country Music Rocker that now lives just outside of Nashville in Gallatin Tn with my beautiful wife, our dog and cat and come October our FIRST child, we can’t wait!
My interest in music started very early in my life. I first began playing music with some buddies in a metal band while in high school. I was by far the youngest one and was hanging out in bars and clubs while most kids my age were playing Jr. High sports! Of coarse I had to work on the farm but once that farm work was finished it was off to the electric guitar! I may or may not have been a bit of a handful when I was younger! My mom says I gave her a few gray hairs! I did play a little football also but music just really captured my attention.
I enlisted in the Marines after I quickly realized that I wasn’t gonna cut it at the local community college. I truly can’t tell you what a life changing experience that was and to this day I highly encourage younger people to not rule the military out as a career option! It’s a great way to get your life together, develop lifes skills and basically just make you tougher for this sometimes cruel world!
The areas that I find most exciting about the music industry are the songwriting, the production and the performing! There is no time better spent than with your buddies collectively creating songs! I often go back to my hometown to my grandpa’s home to have writing retreats. It’s great just to get out of your environment with some friends and relax and write. Next, taking those ideas into the studio and hearing those words come to life is just so satisfying. I’ve been fortunate to work with some of Nashville’s best and that always makes the process even sweeter. And we can’t leave our the performance. Man, what a rush! Being able to go out on stage and as you are walking out you see your bandmates there, the guys that have your back night after night, ready to rock that audience and give them an experience that was more that they were expecting!!! I can tell you this for sure, the livelier the crowd the liveliver the show. So when you attend an Adam Warner show bring it on! It’s such an amazing feeling to absorb that crowds energy, process it and then send it back out over the mic and into the room!
2023 has been a great year for all of our team. We’ve grown, our social media has grown, our show has grown and at the end of the day that is the name of the game! If you are growing you are making progress to the next level. We have released several singles this year and plan to release a couple more. I’m also writing songs, performing at shows and preparing for the arrival of our child! We are also in regular meetings about planning for 2024. That’s one thing that some people may not realize about the music business….there are LOTS of meetings, LOL!
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
I would say 3 of the qualities or skills that have been most impactful to this day are
1) My relationship with God
2) My wisdom and relationship I had with my Grandpa Freddie whom passed on a few years ago
3) My wife whom encourages and inspires me!
And as for advice to folks in your journey
1) Don’t give up
2) Don’t stop believing
3) Surround yourself with one or more people that believe in you and your journey!
Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?
The number one obstacle or challenge I currently face would probably be social media. As for what I am doing to try to overcome this is educating myself more about the process. Knowledge is powerful. About 6 months ago I just immersed myself into social media. I had been reluctant to do that because I had this thought process that I was going to have to live on the phone and on the computer and that’s just not me. So I have had to learn how to do a method of social media that worked for ME!
It’s sort of a sad state of affairs that in some way people’s level of success is presumed great if they have lots of followers and engagement on social media, and yes, in a way that is true so what I’m trying to do is achieve those followers and monthly listeners on streaming platforms by simply being authentic, honest and real. I’m just a guy. I am not a superhero, lol. I’m pretty laid back and some would say I’m boring when not on stage, and that’s ok because I may be boring to some, but to me, I like it. In my downtime I enjoy time with my wife, family and friends, I enjoy fishing and sports and I may or may not play a mean game of XBox!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.adamwarneriscountry.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adamwarnermusic/?hl=en
- Facebook: adamwarnermusic
- Twitter: adamwarnermusic
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Co0E_pOUadKeqTmRTZlfA
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/adamwarnermusic?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
- Other: TikTok; https://www.tiktok.com/@adamwarnermusic
Adam Warner Music; https://songwhip.com/adamwarner
Image Credits
Photo Credit; Michael Gomez
