Digital Social Hour
The Country Star You’re About to Know | Justin Andrews DSH #1255
Fri, 21 Mar 2025
🔥 Justin Andrews on Country Music, Life on the Road & Staying True to Your Roots 🎸🌾 In this heartfelt and hilarious episode, we sit down with Justin Andrews, an up-and-coming country artist with an old soul. From growing up in a small town and singing gospel with family, to touring across the U.S., Justin opens up about music, food, faith, culture, and chasing your dream no matter what. We dive into: ✅ The power of music, community, and storytelling ✅ Why country music is booming & how Nashville changed his life ✅ His wildest tour stories, favorite foods, and upbringing ✅ The grind of being an artist and lessons from the road ✅ Basketball, moon pies, and how old-school values still matter This episode is packed with genuine stories, southern wisdom, and good ol’ country charm you don’t want to miss! 📲 Follow Justin Andrews: 🔗 Instagram: @JustinAndrewsMusic 🔗 Spotify / Apple Music: Justin Andrews 🔗 Website: JustinAndrewsMusic.com ⏱ CHAPTERS 📌 00:00 – Justin Andrews on Why He Left a 10-Year Job to Chase His Dream 📌 04:50 – Growing Up in a Tiny Town & Singing Gospel Music 📌 08:30 – His Love for Food, Music & Full Circle Life Moments 📌 13:00 – Crazy Immune System, Avoiding COVID & Living on the Road 📌 18:25 – Country Music, Southern Food & Performing Across the U.S. 📌 24:15 – Small Town Life, Family Values & Why Simplicity Wins 📌 30:10 – Music as an Emotional Memory & Why It Matters 📌 34:20 – From Moon Pies to Moonpie Sponsorships 📌 38:50 – The Importance of Respect, Integrity & Old-School Parenting 📌 44:10 – Full Circle Moments, Reputation & Being a Good Human 📌 49:25 – Basketball, Growing Up Athletic & Nashville’s Secret Hoopers 📌 54:40 – The OKC Thunder, Dream Team Jerseys & Sports Fandom 📌 01:01:00 – What’s Next for Justin & Why Music is the Universal Connector 🔥 Apply to Be on the Podcast & Business Inquiries: 🎙 APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application 📩 BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #JustinAndrews #CountryMusic #Nashville #SouthernLiving #MusicJourney #DreamChaser #RoadLife #SmallTownStrong #DigitalSocialHour #Podcast #OKCThunder #BasketballAndBeats #OldSoulNewSound
Chapter 1: Why did Justin Andrews leave a 10-year job to pursue music?
I invest in people. I love people. And when people see an artist, an up and coming artist, they're like, oh, he just wants to be the next thing. Well, everybody wants to be the next thing. But my purpose and my reason for why I do what I do, I left a great job for 10 years to just chase a dream. And I enjoy people and people make me happy.
you know like when when we can share stories about food or you know like I really enjoy people and and so that is why I would love to be out in the world and doing these things because people make me happy yeah you know and music makes me happy and then food or whatever that people vibe with I'm like man just do what you love and damn everything else sucks I love that living man
All right, guys, Justin Andrews, country artist up and coming and about to make his name known, I think, soon. Thanks for coming on, man. Absolutely. It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me. Yeah, you've been traveling a lot lately, huh?
Yeah, I've been moving here and there and trying to make the dream happen like everybody else. I mean, honestly, it's been an exciting start to the year so far. We've got a lot going and looking forward to all the shows we're going to do. To me, growing up in the middle of nowhere, you never thought you'd be where you're at right now.
Chapter 2: What was Justin Andrews' upbringing like in a small town?
Yeah, must be a big change for you, huh?
It is. Yeah. I mean, I grew up in a little, in a little small town and, you know, there was 16 of my graduating high school class. What? Yeah.
That was the size of like my gym class. Yeah.
Yeah. There was, well, I think there was supposed to be 22, but some of them didn't quite.
Okay. Six of them didn't make it.
Yeah. So, but yeah, I mean, it's just, just trying to make it happen. I mean, I don't, sometimes you think about it in your brain and you're like, man, I don't know how to make this work, but I'm just going to keep doing it and see what happens.
Did you always have these big dreams even when you were young like that in high school?
Man, honestly, I always wanted to be a musician. I knew that. My grandparents raised me when they were in their 50s, and they had a traveling gospel band. And so, you know, it was more like, you know, them saying, hey, you know, get up and sing a song, you know, me and my sister. And then it kind of turned into I was watching movies with George Strait in it and stuff like that.
And then I kind of got that hunger to where I was like, man, I want to be George Strait.
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Chapter 3: What are Justin Andrews' favorite foods and how do they relate to his music journey?
I don't know if there's anything that makes me more happier than food. You're talking to the right guy about this. It's weird because I'm a foodie.
Yeah.
And I like everything. There's really not anything that I don't like.
Yeah, I like pretty much everything. There is a tier list for me, but yeah, most food is really good. So what is your favorite thing you've discovered here recently? Oh, in Vegas or just overall? Just anywhere. I didn't eat pho. Have you tried pho? I have. I didn't eat that for like my whole life. I just had some last night, some short rib pho. Oh my God.
That's what I had. I had that about two weeks ago.
Fire, right? Yeah. So good. I didn't really eat Indian growing up. Indian food smacks. Oh, yeah. Like some good curry.
I mean, I don't really like too spicy. Yeah. And so it's like kind of right there in the sweet spot for me.
It's that balance. Yeah. Sometimes it's way too spicy. Yeah. And you're screwed for the rest of the night, you know? Mm-hmm. Yeah. You got to be careful with certain Indian curries are, oh, my God. Searching for the perfect job can be overwhelming. You know it's out there, you just don't know how to find it. The good news, you don't have to do it alone.
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Chapter 4: How has Justin Andrews managed to stay healthy while living on the road?
Yeah. Yeah, you're so locked in, right? Yeah. That happens to me. I'll be just filming nonstop or working on preparation for the guests and it'll be like 2 p.m. I'm like, I didn't eat yet. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point, man. Sounds like you're working hard.
I've been really big into like yogurt parfaits here recently.
Ooh, I like yogurt.
Greek yogurt. Just chop up some apples, chop up some raspberries, some blueberries and grapes and put them all in there and drizzle it with honey and put some smoked almonds on it. That sounds good. Smoked almonds. Wow.
Yeah, I love me some fresh fruit. I'm a big fruit guy growing up in New Jersey. Oh, yeah. Known as the Garden State. Man, got some good fruit out there. But now I'm in Vegas, dude.
Well, I mean.
I'm in the desert.
I don't hardly eat at all when I'm in Vegas, and that's horrible for me. Because, I mean, there's all the fast food places, and you have the really nice restaurants where you want to go sit down with signature chefs and all that stuff, and the Michelin stars and all this.
But I never find myself eating at a lot of those because I'm like, I need to get from point A to point B, and that would require me to leave the casino to go do that.
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Chapter 5: What are some lessons Justin Andrews learned from his grandparents?
No, really? From coughing so hard?
Yeah. Coughing up a lung is what they say. I literally almost did that.
Oh my God.
And that would suck for someone like you. You need your lungs.
Man, it's you never realize, you know, and I never realized it until, you know, like after you have like because I'll get like really bad allergies, you know, or a small case of, you know, an upper respiratory infection, like either in the spring or the fall of every year. And it's not anything major. But you never notice like how much you're using your lungs until you get like a small sickness.
Yeah.
And then you're on stage and you're singing and you know that like a quarter of your air is gone. Wow.
It's not noticeable. Oh, yeah. From a little cold.
Yeah. And just having like a stuffy nose or whatever, you know, when you're when you're up there singing, you can tell how like one side of your nose clogged up, how much the notes change.
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Chapter 6: How is country music expanding globally according to Justin Andrews?
And I was like, I did a lot of things like that, like every day. It's a hard physical labor. Seeing people get injured and some people losing their life and, you know, all this. I mean, I did it for that long, you know, and every single day is hard work. Like it's everything's heavy.
Yeah. I respect people like that and construction workers and stuff. That shit ain't easy, man. Physical labor. You can't catch me doing that personally, but I respect those guys for sure.
I mean it's that's how the world was there the United States all these other countries you know I mean you have the people that that will do the stuff that you don't want to do yeah absolutely and a lot of it they get paid that good because it sucks no it sucks but listen plumbers are making 100 150k a year but it's needed man you know toilets clog and people need skilled people like that yeah yeah that's cool dude where are you performing next
I think we're doing Isla Mujeres in Mexico next.
Wow, Mexico. So country's big out there?
Well, there's a lot of festivals that go on around the country and around the world and stuff like that. I mean, I was talking to a gentleman the other day about going to Denmark. And they're a big country music loving family over there. But we're doing Mexico. We're doing Fremont Street in Vegas.
That's going to do well there.
In March, we're doing, I think we're going down to do Monday after the Masters. I think we're doing that, but. We're just trying our best to get out there in the world and just hoping people love it and hoping people love it as much as I do. Yeah.
Country's blowing up, man. It's amazing. Great timing for you, too.
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