Waylon Wyatt recorded songs like 'Everything Under the Sun' in his parents' kitchen; it landed him a record deal.
sings in his song “O.D.” And for good reason: The Hackett, Arkansas, native is all of 18. But Wyatt also understands exactly who he’s singing to.
“They started reaching out to me through Tiktok. And I’m like, ‘This has got to be a scam,’” he says. Until one label — Darkroom Records, the home of Billie Eilish — got creative. “I was wearing my dad’s construction cap in the video, and they called the number that was on it and scheduled a Zoom meeting with us.”
Since inking his deal, Wyatt’s been cutting his teeth on the road opening for artists like Dwight Yoakam and Drayton Farley. He’s also played shows with, another Red Dirt-adjacent songwriter who first popped online a little over a year ago. Wyatt’s been savvy enough to join forces with his peers too: He and Bayker Blankenship, a 19-year-old from Tennessee, dropped the collabLike with many country artists his age, he’s a huge fan of Kentucky songwriter Tyler Childers.
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